Diversity Research
As part of a demonstration project
on how to infuse diversity into a psychology course, Dr. Brestan's fall
2006 undergraduate Health Psychology course hosted a diversity poster session
on December 5, 2006.
Five groups of students from Dr. Brestan's PSY 4080 course volunteered to
present their diversity-relevant information to the department as part of
a diversity poster session. Students followed the format of a conference
poster session and they reported learning a great deal from the exercise.
The following topics were presented
in poster form:
Diabetes, Gender, and SES
Julie L. Conway, Byron C. Williams, Heather M. Frank, Meredith C. Dixon,
& Joshlyn R. Bush
Autism and Gender
Laura Brasfield, Kimberly Ciocca, Erin Peacock, Melissa Yarbrough, &
Melissa Auen
HIV and SES
Mandy Pittman and Rachel Kizziah
Cystic Fibrosis and Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Ciarra Keel, Ashley Smith, Alan Tate, Lauren Leopold & Cicely Cannon
Pain Perception: Men vs. Women
Whitney Kimble, Brandon Freeman,
Shannon Reynolds, & Chris Schneider
The list below contains titles of published works or completed theses/dissertations related to gender or ethnic diversity since 2004:
Martinique Alber:
- Ethnic group differences in structured interviews for restricted and unrestricted samples. (I/O PhD, 2005)
Kanika Bell:
- The effects of collegiate demographics on the racial and feminist identities of black female students. (PhD Clinical, 2004)
Jeshmin Bhaju:
- A cross-cultural comparison of emotional experience: Does culture matter? (Masters, 2006)
Dr. Roger Blashfield:
- Gender bias in the diagnosis of personality disorders: The roles of base rates and social stereotypes.
- Gender acts as a context for interpreting diagnostic criteria.
Dr. Bryan D. Edwards:
- Examination of factors contributing to race differences in tests of cognitive ability.
- Increasing diversity through recruitment and selection.
Meenakshi Lambha:
- Reports of child conduct problems and parenting styles among Asian Indian mothers in the United States. (Masters, 2006).
Dr. Alejandro Lazarte:
- Graduation, before and beyond.
- Mental health practitioners: The relationship between white racial identity attitudes and self-reported multicultural counseling competencies.
Amanda Mulfinger:
- Comorbidity of obsessive and anorexic behaviors in undergraduate females. (Clinical PhD, 2007).
Dr. Steve Shapiro:
- An exploratory study of the influences on response stability/change of the Interactive Dominic Terry Questionnaire.
- Physical discipline and child behavior problems: A study of ethnic group differences.
Ryan Siney
- Attributions and depression across cultures (Masters, 2005)
Dr. Daniel Svyantek:
- Meta-analysis of diversity and organizational effectiveness.
- Diversity and employee retention.