Accomplishments: Department of Psychology
Matthew Schurr and Brenna Renn (Psychology) published "Relation Between Executive Function Test Performance and Treatment Outcomes During Brief Psychotherapies for Later-Life Depression" in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Open Science, Education, and Practice. Schurr, an alumni of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program and Renn's…
Kara Christensen Pacella and graduate students Hoor Ul Ain and Rosha Feizilighvan (all Psychology) presented their work at the International Conference for Eating Disorders in San Antonio, TX. Ain and Feizilighvan presented their posters, "Fasting Motivations in Muslim Women" and "ED-Motivated Sleep Behaviors are Associated with Higher ED-Related…
Graduate student Shannon Sagert and faculty mentor Kara Christensen Pacella (both Psychology) published a new study examining the association between imposter syndrome symptoms and eating disorder pathology in the Journal of American College Health. Sagert found that as imposter syndrome symptoms increased among college students, risk of…
Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) and colleagues from University of Illinois Chicago and University of Kansas recently published "Ecological momentary assessment of between- and within-person sleep quality as a predictor of disordered eating behaviors among young women with disordered eating" in Appetite. This project stemmed from an honors…
Graduate student Mattea Pezza and faculty member Nicole Short (both Psychology) recently published a manuscript in the APA journal Traumatology titled Examining cross-sectional associations between anxiety sensitivity, trauma exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in university students. In light of decades of…
Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and colleagues recently published a paper, "Problem gambling in the crypto era: A study of gambling motivations and cognitive distortions amongst cryptocurrency traders," in the Public Health​​​​​​. Their research examined the prevalence of problematic gambling behaviors among…
Tiange Xu (Hospitality), Shane Kraus (Psychology), and colleagues recently published a paper, "Beyond Sports Betting Legalization: Comparing Problem Gambling Risk Patterns in Legal and Illegal States," in the Journal of Gambling Studies. Their research examines how problem gambling risk factors differ between states with legalized sports betting…
Steve Pace (Criminal Justice), Stephen Benning (Psychology), Logan Kennedy (Criminal Justice), and Jade Laughlin published an article, "Predictors of Successful Resolutions and Avoidance of Harms in Crisis Negotiations: An Analysis of the FBI’s HOBAS Database from 1982 to 2023."
Crisis negotiation incidents can be emotionally charged events and…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Sexual Assertiveness Across Cultures, Genders, and Sexual Orientations: Validation of the Short Sexual Assertiveness Questionnaire (SAQ-9)," in Assessment.
Faculty member Nicole Short, graduate student Mattea Pezza, and research coordinator Rachel Weese (all Psychology), along with an external collaborator, Michele Bedard-Gilligan (University of Washington Department of Psychiatry), recently published a systematical review in Behaviour Research and Therapy entitled, "Anxiety sensitivity and…
Daniel Allen (Psychology) was awarded $672,779 from Nevada Department of Health and Human Services for the Nevada Rural Communities Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP) and $186,909 for the RHOP Expansion program. RHOP provides telebehavioral health counseling services to adolescents living in Elko and Humboldt counties. RHOP Expansion provides…
Kaelyn Griffin and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published three works as part of ongoing research collaborations through the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Behavioral Addictions Lab.
The first paper, "An examination and validation of a short form of the Spiritual Abuse Questionnaire," was published in Spirituality in Clinical…