Psi Chi Member Research

Psi Chi members are often involved in research. Here are some recent Psi Chi member projects:

Michael Allman
Music to my mouth: Evidence of domain general temporal processing in adults and children

Wesley Barnhart
The influence of math anxiety on behavioral decision making tasks
Reward processing and risky decision making in disordered eating
Auditory stimuli slow down responses and first fixations: Support for auditory dominance in adults
Heart rate variability associated with divided attention in children and adults
Exploring modality dominance in children and adults: An eye tracking study
Identifying the costs of auditory dominance on visual processing: An eye tracking study
**Senior Thesis Student

Barnhart, W.R, Buelow, M.T., & Trost, Z. (2019). Effects of acute pain and pain-related fear on risky decision making and effort during cognitive tests. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 41, 1033-1047.

Barnhart, W.R., Rivera, S., & Robinson, C.W. (2018). Different patterns of modality dominance across development. Acta Psychologica, 182, 154-165.

Barnhart, W.R., Rivera, S., & Robinson, C.W. (2018). Effects of linguistic labels on visual attention in children and young adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-11.

Buelow, M.T., & Barnhart, W.R. (2018). Test-retest reliability of common behavioral decision making tasks. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 33, 125-129.

Buelow, M.T., & Barnhart, W.R. (2018). An initial examination of performance on two versions of the Iowa gambling task. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 33, 502-507.

Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2017). Assessing impulsivity: Relationships between behavioral and self-report measures in individuals with and without self-reported ADHD. Personality and Individual Differences, 106, 41-45.

Barnhart, W.R., & Buelow, M.T. (2017). Risky decision making in college students as a function of self-reported eating behaviors. The Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, 7, 1-7.

Buelow, M.T., & Barnhart, W. (2017). The influence of math anxiety, math performance, worry, and test anxiety on the Iowa gambling task and balloon analogue risk task. Assessment, 24, 127-137.

Robinson, C.W., Barnhart, W.R., & Rivera, S. (2015). Auditory stimuli slow down responses and first fixations: Support for auditory dominance in adults. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2009-2014). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Brittany Barnett
Music lessons are associated with increased verbal memory in individuals with Williams syndrome
**Senior Thesis Student

Dunning, B.A., Martens, M.A., & Jungers, M.K. (2015). Music lessons are associated with increased verbal memory in individuals with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 36, 565-578.

Amber Blaine
Factor analysis of performance on three decision making tasks

Buelow, M.T., Okdie, B.M., & Blaine, A.L. (2013). Seeing the forest through the trees: Improving decision making on the Iowa gambling task by shifting focus from short- to long-term outcomes. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 4, 1-10.

Buelow, M.T., & Blaine, A.L. (2015). The assessment of risky decision making: A factor analysis of performance on the Iowa gambling task, balloon analogue risk task, and Columbia card task. Psychological Assessment, 27, 777-785.

Wyatt Bowman
The perception of research quality based on institutional esteem
**Senior Thesis Student

Kurstie Bevelhymer-Rangel
Improving decision making
**Senior Thesis Student

Okdie, B.M., Buelow, M.T., & Bevelhymer-Rangel, K. (2016). It’s all in how you think about it; Construal level and the Iowa gambling task. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 10, 1-10.

Chuck Cayton
Buelow, M.T., & Cayton, C. (2020). Relationships between the big five personality characteristics and performance on behavioral decision making tasks. Personality and Individual Differences, 160, 109931.

Cayton, C., Crook, T., Runyon, M., & Buelow, M.T. (2019). The influence of induced anger on risky decision making. The Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, 9, 27-32.

Krysten Chadwick
Examining the relationship between music training and verbal memory using a novel melody
External influences on risk-taking behavior
Examining cardiac and behavioral responses in a modality dominance task
**Senior Thesis Student

Buelow, M.T., Jungers, M., & Chadwick, K. (2019). Manipulating the decision making process: Influencing a “gut” reaction. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 41, 1097-1113.

Robinson, C.W., Chadwick, K.R., Parker, J.L., & Sinnett, S. (2016). Examining cardiac and behavioral responses in a modality dominance task.

Anita Santamaria Cohen
Shape bias vs. color, texture or size bias.

Coryn Coleman
Buelow, M.T., Hupp, J.M., Porter, B.L., & Coleman, C. (2020). The effect of prosody on decision making: Speech rate influences speed and quality of decisions. Current Psychology, 29, 2129-2139.

Coleman, C., Hupp, J.M., & Buelow, M.T. (2019). Examining rate priming on information processing. The Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, 9, 13-19.

Ashley Cooper
Psychophysiological correlates of video games
**Senior Thesis Student

Buelow, M.T., Okdie, B.M., & Cooper, A. (2015). The influence of video games on executive functions in college students. Computers in Human Behavior, 45, 228-234.

Cooper, A., & Buelow, M.T. (2014). Psychophysiological and affective correlates of video game play. The Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, 4, 1-9.

Karissa Cooper
Beyond words: Comprehension and production of pragmatic prosody in adults and children

Nikki Cotton

Tom Crook
Robinson, C.W., Moore, R.L., & Crook, T.A. (2018). Differential effects of multi sensory presentation on auditory and visual processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-10.

Cayton, C., Crook, T., Runyon, M., & Buelow, M.T. (2019). The influence of induced anger on risky decision making. The Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, 9, 27-32.

Julia Depaoli
Narcissism and interpersonal transgressions
Narcissism and mate-poaching
Why narcissists don’t deserve our admiration

Sara Dickerson
Cross domain priming of language and music
**Senior Thesis Student

Jungers, M.K., Hupp, J.M., & Dickerson, S.D. (in press). Language priming by music and speech: Evidence of a shared processing mechanism. Music Perception.

Brittany Elgersma
The influence of birth order and number of siblings on decision making
**Senior Thesis Student

Cora Evano
Music and decision making
**Senior Thesis Student

Lauren Evano
The effects of auditory distractors in a word learning task
**Senior Thesis Student

Nicole Ford
Word learning and attention allocation based on word class and category knowledge

Brittany Franz
Music to my mouth: Evidence of domain general temporal processing in adults and children

Vogel, E.A., Rose, J.P., Okdie, B.M., Eckles, K., & Franz, B. (2015). Who compares and despairs? The effects of social comparison orientation on social media use and its outcomes. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 249-256.

Mary Gingras
The role of gesture meaningfulness in word learning across genders
**Senior Thesis Student

Hupp, J.M., & Gingras, M.C. (2016). The role of gesture meaningfulness in word learning. Gesture, 15, 340-356.

Jamee Gresley
Conceptions of everyday heroes.

Staats, S., Hupp, J.M., Wallace, H., & Gresley, J. (2009). Heroe’s don’t cheat: An examination of academic dishonesty and students’ views on why professors don’t report cheating. Ethics and Behavior, 19, 171-183.

Staats, S., Wallace, H., Anderson, T., Gresley, J., Hupp, J.M., & Weiss, E. (2009). The hero concept: Self, family, and friends who are brave, honest, and hopeful. Psychological Reports, 104, 820-832.

Anna Hagley
Perceptions of past and present attachment relationships
Honesty and heroes: A positive psychology view of academic heroes
**Senior Thesis Student

Staats, S., Hupp, J.M., & Hagley, A.M. (2008). Honesty and heroes: A positive psychology view of heroism and academic honesty. Journal of Psychology, 142, 357-372.

Kelsey Hall
Beware the company you keep: Emotional contagion on Facebook

Larissa Hall
Self-disclosure on Facebook
**Senior Thesis Student

Andy Hawthorn
Robinson, C.W., Hawthorn, A.M., & Rahman, A.N. (2018). Developmental changes in filtering auditory and visual distractors across the lifespan. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-14.

Heather Jones
Examining the relationship between music training and verbal memory using a novel melody

Joshua Kaffenberger
Maternal education and language development
Parental education and language development

Hupp, J.M., Munala, L., Kaffenberger, J.A., & Hensley Wessell, M.B. (2011). The interactive effect of parental education on language production. Current Psychology, 30, 312-323.

Lyndsi Martin
Beyond words: Comprehension and production of pragmatic prosody in adults and children

Erin McKenna
Attention bias reduction in Williams syndrome
**Senior Thesis Student

Jason Mehringer
Speech priming: An examination of rate and syntactic persistence in preschoolers

Tracey Miser
Variations in SES, home environment, and childcare on child language abilities
**Senior Thesis Student

Miser, T.M., & Hupp, J.M. (2012). The influence of socioeconomic status, home environment, and childcare on child language abilities. Current Psychology, 31, 144-159.

Robert Moore
Robinson, C.W., Moore, R.L., & Crook, T.A. (2018). Differential effects of multi sensory presentation on auditory and visual processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-10.

Chukwukwesiri Njoku
The effect of threat of pain on working memory

Kayla Palmiter
Cross-domain priming of language and music in children

Jessica Parker
Effects of auditory input on a spatial serial response time task
Effects of irrelevant sounds on a serial response time task
Examining cardiac and behavioral responses in a modality dominance task
Inverse effectiveness and aging in multisensory integration
**Senior Thesis Student

Parker, J.L., & Robinson, C.W. (2018). Changes in multi sensory integration across the lifespan. Psychology and Aging, 33, 545-558.

Parker, J.L., & Robinson, C.W. (2017). Examining cross-modal facilitation and interference using the sound induced flash illusion task. Proceedings of the 39th annual conference of the cognitive science society (pp. 2858-2863). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Robinson, C.W., Chadwick, K.R., Parker, J.L., & Sinnett, S. (2016). Listen to your heart: Examining modality dominance using a modified oddball task. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-23.

Robinson, C.W., & Parker, J.L. (2016). Effects of auditory input on a spatial serial response time task. Proceedings of the 38th annual conference of the cognitive science society (pp. 2237-2242). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Robinson, C.W., Chadwick, K.L., Parker, J.L., & Sinnett, S. (2016). Changes in heart rate and heart rate variability in a modality dominance task. Proceedings of the 38th annual conference of the cognitive science society (pp. 2201-2206). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Brandy Plunkett
To gesture or not to gesture: A study in meaningful gestures and word learning in children

Hupp, J. M., Jungers, M. K., Porter, B. L., & Plunkett, B. A. (2020). The implied shape of an object in adults’ and children’s visual representations.  Journal of Cognition and Development, 21, 368-382.

Brandon Porter
The effect of prosody on decision making
**Senior Thesis Student

Hupp, J. M., Jungers, M. K., Porter, B. L., & Plunkett, B. A. (2020). The implied shape of an object in adults’ and children’s visual representations.  Journal of Cognition and Development, 21, 368-382.

Arisha Rahman
Robinson, C.W., Hawthorn, A.M., & Rahman, A.N. (2018). Developmental changes in filtering auditory and visual distractors across the lifespan. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-14.

Lindsey Rike
The cross-domain priming of language and motor rate
**Senior Thesis Student

Rike, L., Hupp, J. M., & Jungers, M. K. (2016). The cross-domain priming of language and motor rate. Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, 6.

Bonnie Rinato
The influence of music tempo and lyrics on decision making
**Senior Thesis Student

Joshua Rhodes
Narcissism and interpersonal transgressions

Joshua Robison
Narcissism and mate-poaching: An experimental analysis
**Senior Thesis Student

Meisha Runyon
Cayton, C., Crook, T., Runyon, M., & Buelow, M.T. (2019). The influence of induced anger on risky decision making. The Journal of Undergraduate Research at Ohio State, 9, 27-32.

Runyon, M., & Buelow, M.T. (2019). Risky decision-making and delusion proneness: An initial examination. Heliyon, 5, e02767.

Michaela Sadur
Music to my mouth: Evidence of domain general temporal processing in adults and children

Cara Stinson
Beyond words: Comprehension and production of pragmatic prosody in adults and children

Alexandra Swearingen
The effect of speech rate and implied motion in an object recognition task

Laraine Tumblin
Volunteering for the United Way: Narcissism and volunteer motivation
Narcissism and motivation to engage in volunteerism
**Senior Thesis Student

Brunell, A.B., Tumblin, L., & Buelow, M.T. (2014). Narcissism and the motivation to engage in volunteerism. Current Psychology, 33, 365-376.

Makaila Tussing
Word learning and attention allocation based on word class and category knowledge

Heidi Wallace
Honesty and heroes: A positive psychology view of academic heroes
Improving measures of everyday heroism

Staats, S., Hupp, J.M., Wallace, H., & Gresley, J. (2009). Heroe’s don’t cheat: An examination of academic dishonesty and students’ views on why professors don’t report cheating. Ethics and Behavior, 19, 171-183.

Staats, S., Wallace, H., Anderson, T., Gresley, J., Hupp, J.M., & Weiss, E. (2009). The hero concept: Self, family, and friends who are brave, honest, and hopeful. Psychological Reports, 104, 820-832.

Martha Hensley Wessell
The interactive effect of parental education on language production