Accomplishments: Department of Psychology
Brenna Renn (Psychology) recently published two manuscripts related to mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, appearing in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
The first paper, entitled "Telemental Health After COVID-19: Understanding Effectiveness and Implementation Across Patient…
Renato M. Liboro, Sherry Bell, and Brandon Ranuschio (all Psychology), and academic colleagues and community partners from Toronto recently published their article, "Protective Factors That Foster Resilience to HIV/AIDS: Insights and Lived Experiences of Older Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men" in the International…
Stephen D. Benning (Psychology) has been elected director of clinical training.
Renato M. Liboro, Sherry Bell, Brandon Ranuschio, and Lianne Barnes (Psychology), along with other members of the CHAMPION Mental Health research lab of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, recently published their article, "Barriers and Facilitators to Promoting Resilience to HIV/AIDS: A Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of HIV-Positive, Racial and…
Shane W. Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published five papers this summer. The first paper "Attachment insecurities and body image self-consciousness among women: The mediating role of pornography use" was published in Computers in Human Behavior. "Reliability, Validity, and Unidimensionality of the Korean Version of the…
Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) received the 2021 Anastasi Graduate Student Research Award: Early Graduate Student for the APA's Division 52 (International Psychology). This award, named for Anne Anastasi, is for outstanding graduate student research, with priority given to research that focuses on psychometrics and differential psychology…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) is giving an invited talk (Latest Developments for Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder for ICD-11) at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation 2021 Online Global Summit on July 22.
Aldo M. Barrita (Psychology) was awarded the Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity Grant (CHANGE) of the American Psychological Association Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) that will fund his research project, Latinx experiences with racial and ethnic microaggressions: The construction and validity of a new…
Rochelle Hines and Dustin Hines (both Psychology) were awarded an NIH R15 grant through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) for a project, Early Mechanisms Mediating the Organization of the Axon Initial Segment Impact the Formation of Axo-axonic Synapses.
The $431,046 grant will fund research to advance our…
James Hyman and doctoral student Lauren Crew (both Psychology), along with Herb Covington of Tufts University, write in Current Biology about the anterior cingulate cortex's role in mediating aggression. Violent behavior is the product of a diverse network of neural structures. A new study shows that the anterior cingulate cortex is…
Shane Kraus (Psychology) published five papers this spring.
The first paper (The Role of Impaired Control in Screening Problematic Pornography Use: Evidence from Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies in a Large Help-seeking Male Sample) was published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
The second paper (The Influences of Religiousness/…
Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology) and co-authors Paul A. Shuper (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada) and Lori E. Ross (University of Toronto) recently published an article, “Scaling Up Information Sharing on HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder: Raising Awareness and Knowledge Among Key Stakeholders," in SAGE Open journal.…