25thANNUALPACEPSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE

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Welcome and thank you for joining us for the 25th Annual Pace Psychology Conference, featuring research presentations by undergraduate and graduate students from throughout the New York City metropolitan area. This year’s conference is hosted by the Pace University Dyson College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Psychology NYC, the Pace University Chapter of Psi Chi – The International Honors Society in Psychology, and the Graduate Student Psychology Association.

PROGRAM FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017 ONE PACE PLAZA, NEW YORK, NY 10038 Bianco Room | Spruce Street Entrance | Level B 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM Registration (Free)

Presenter Check-in Bianco Room

4:00 PM – 4:20 PM Welcome Address & Opening Remarks Bianco Room

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM Brief Presentation Scientific Sessions

One Pace Plaza Classrooms

Track 1: Social Psychology, Personality, Technology and Media

Room E307

Track 2: Cognition Research and the Psychology of Creativity

Room E308

Track 3: Community, Health and Disparities Room E309

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Poster Presentation Scientific Sessions Bianco Room

7:00 PM – 7:20 PM Awards Presentation and Closing Remarks Bianco Room

BRIEF PAPERS TRACK 1: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, PERSONALITY, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA One Pace Plaza, Room E307 1A. Self-forgiveness and Perceived Stress in Indian College students

Suchun Dong, Laurie Resnick and Sonia Suchday Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sonia Suchday Pace University

1B. Impact of Media Richness on Desire for Subsequent Conversation

Mitchell Ryan and Rosemary Leo Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leora Trub Pace University

1C. HEXACO Personality Types and The Level of Stigma Held

Against Non-Heterosexual Groups Kathryn Verderosa and Kayla Carvajal Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brandon Adams Pace University

1D. Am I Attractive?: Height as a Determining Factor in Attractiveness

DaSean Young Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lisa Rosenthal Pace University

TRACK 2: COGNITION RESEARCH and the PSYCHOLOGY of CREATIVITY One Pace Plaza, Room E308 2A. Language, Culture and Creativity

Marayah Ayoub-Schreifeldt and Weihua Niu Faculty Advisor: Dr. Weihua Niu Pace University

2B. The Malleability and Vulnerability of The Human Memory System

Priyanga Jeyaseelan, Elizabeth Ukilis and Anastasia Krasnova Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brandon Adams Pace University

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2C. The Role of Enclothed Cognition: Physical Appearance in Correlation with Attention to Task Suzanne Miranda Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Godfrey Pace University

2D. Exploring the Task Specificity of Several Divergent Thinking Tasks and Their Scoring Methods Catalina Mourgues, Mansi Shah, and Danielle Saliani Faculty Advisor: Dr. Baptiste Barbot Pace University

TRACK 3: COMMUNITY, HEALTH AND DISPARITIES One Pace Plaza, Room E309 3A. Will Heterosexual Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Please Stand Up?

Examining Factors that Prevent Heterosexual Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence from Reporting Their Cases and Proving Their Need for Nonprofit Services Marianelli Agbulos Faculty Advisor: Dr. Yvonne Rafferty Pace University

3B. The Utilization of Mental Health Care Facilities amongst Ethnic and Racial Minority

College Students Saba Aslam Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kimberly Robinson CUNY - Hunter College

3C. Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): The Difference in

Parenting Stress, Styles, Behavior and Coping between Children with and without ASD Mahrukh Khan, Brielle Internoscia and Ashley Newman Faculty Advisor: Dr. Weihua Niu Pace University

3D. Globalization and its Effects on Health Zsuzsanna Monika Feher, Natasha Grujicic and Sonia Suchday Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sonia Suchday The New School (Feher) Pace University (Grujicic and Suchday)

POSTER SESSION PRESENTATIONS One Pace Plaza, Bianco Room TRACK 1: TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA 1.

Impact of Action and Cognitive Video Games on Reaction Time Medici Cruz Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leora Trub Pace University

2. Is Age The Critical Factor In Determining Therapists Openness To Integrating Technology Into Practice? Paulette Didia Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leora Trub Pace University

3. Instamotive: Gender Differences Daniella DiFabio, Annette Koski, and Imani Thompson Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leora Trub Pace University

4. Examining the Relationship Between Instagram Use and Self-Image Malina Persaud and Alexandra Small Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leora Trub Pace University

TRACK 2: COMMUNITY, HEALTH and DISPARITIES & LIFESPAN, DEVELOPMENT and AGING 5. Predictors for Self-Rated Health in Later Life using GSS (the General Social Survey)

Michael O’Kane and Jonathan Palumbo Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sunghun Kim St. Francis College

6. Examining the Relationship of Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation with Cardiovascular Health Shatima Aycock and Danielle Stein Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sonia Suchday Pace University

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7. Examining the Relationship Between the Perceived Stress and the Impact of a Terrorist Attack Akruti Patel and Hanna Verhoeven Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sonia Suchday Pace University

8. Anxiety, Substance Use & Abuse, and Attentional Bias: Is there a Correlation Krista Denaro and Thomas Valus Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Godfrey Pace University

9. Effect of Perceived Stress on Acute Illness: The Relationship Between Major, Stress, and Incidence of Illness in an Undergraduate Population Oumou Bah, Ke Ding, and Sara Perz-Hintz Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brandon Adams Pace University

10. Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): The Difference in Parenting Stress, Styles, and coping methods Ashley Newman, Brielle Internoscia, & Mahrukh Kahn Faculty Advisor: Dr. Weihua Niu Pace University

11. Globalization and its Effects on Health Zsuzsanna Monika Feher & Natasha Grujicic Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sonia Suchday Pace University

TRACK 3: CULTURE, ETHNICITY, RACE AND GENDER 12. Race/Ethnicity and Gender Gaps in Authorship in Health Psychology, 1982-2016

Camara Faira, Amanda Frobosilo, Danielle Huertas, Lauren Branigan, Lily McFarlan, Seoyoung Kim, and Paulina Minucci Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lisa Rosenthal Pace University

13. Crime Severity Perception Among Hispanic and Asian Young Adults Eliana Lopez, Rebeka Fuentes, and Cressa Vidad Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Godfrey Pace University

14. The Relationship Between Parental Education and Community Standing on Gender Discrimination Among Indian College Students Danielle Pendarvis and Laurie Resnick Faculty Advisor: Dr. Sonia Suchday Pace University

15. Do Seals (Phoca vitulina) and Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) Exhibit a Gravity

Bias? Testing Two Amphibious Mammalian Species Using the Opaque Tubes Task Afia Azaah and Candyce Paparo Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kristy Biolsi St. Francis College

16. The Relationship Between Mindfulness, Cognitive Test Anxiety, and Academic Performance Taylor Gentile, Tristan Brito, and Andre Bocignone Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brandon Adams Pace University

17. The Female Mind: The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in an Abusive Relationship Krystal Lozada Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard Velayo Pace University

18. The Role of Enclothed Cognition: Physical Appearance in Correlation with Attention to Task Suzanne Miranda Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Godfrey Pace University

19. The Effect of Monitoring Pressure on Working Memory Tasks Michael O’Kane, Matthew Marvilli, Sean McGloin, and Victor Perez Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marisa Cohen St. Francis College

20. Disfluency and the Effects of Deeper Processing on Memory Arber Sejdiu, Gina Piro, and Leyla Dereyayla Faculty Advisor: Dr. Karen Wilson St. Francis College

TRACK 5: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONALITY 21. The Effects of Attachment Style on Relationship Satisfaction in Adult

Romantic Relationships Afia Azaah, Amy Chen, and Catherine Payne-Olgeirsson Faculty Advisor: Dr. Marisa Cohen St. Francis College

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22. Correlates of Self-Esteem Emily Fullhardt, Julian Gidron, Sophia Krautli, and Danae Ramirez Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lisa Rosenthal Pace University

23. Differences in sexual harassment judgment: How childhood upbringing, adolescent lifestyle, and experiences of sexual harassment affect likeliness to report Gabrielly Goris and Olivia Van Alst Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Godfrey Pace University

24. Developing a Reliable Proxemic Scale Brielle Internoscia Faculty Advisor: Dr. K. Mark Sossin Pace University

25. The Influence of Ideal Body Image on Self-Esteem, Body Dissatisfaction, and Lifestyle Changes Jessica Jimenez and Laura Russo Faculty Advisor: Dr. Weihua Niu Pace University

26. Examining Predictors of Empathy Towards Sex-Trafficked Victims William Kammerman, Nancy Rodriguez, and McKenzie C. Szarmach Faculty Advisor: Dr. Leora Trub Pace University

27. College Student Academic Self-Efficacy and Experiences in High School Adi Khukhlovich and Alexis Quinones Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lisa Rosenthal Pace University

28. Predicting Infidelity in College Students Lucille Liotta Dr. Karen Wilson St. Francis College

29. Women's Dating Preferences: Comparing Short- and Long-term Relationship Types between Dark Triad and Altruistic Personality Types Monica Murray, Alexa Rutowska, Christine Maniscalco, Ismarie Rodriquez, and Alexandra Ottaviano Faculty Advisor: Dr. Karen Wilson St. Francis College

30. Body Image and Self Esteem Vincent Rutherford Faculty Advisor: Dr. Weihua Niu Pace University

31. Music and Its Emotional Effects

Jessica Dorsey, Maria Veliz, and Anna Yesilevskiy Dr. Lisa Rosenthal Pace University

32. Empathy and Imagination: Using Virtual Reality to Develop Perspective Taking Brianna Heuser, Dr. Catalina Mourgues, & Dr. Franck Zenasni Faculty Advisor: Dr. Baptiste Barbot Pace University

33. An investigation of the creative outcomes of parenting during adolescence: The impact of neglectful parenting Ira Lowinger, Dr. Catalina Mourgues-Codern, Kristen Piering, & Dr. Nils Myszkowski: Faculty Advisor: Dr. Baptiste Barbot Pace University

34. The Effect of Age on Functional Fixedness Wajiha Mustafa Faculty Advisor: Dr. Christopher Godfrey Pace University

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THANK YOU & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dyson College of Arts and Sciences Nira Herrmann, Ph.D., Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Richard Schlesinger, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences Christopher Snow, Manager, Online Communications

2017 Pace Psychology Conference Committee

Christopher Godfrey, Ph.D. (Chair) Lisa Rosenthal, Ph.D. � Michele Zaccario, Ph.D.�

Richard Velayo, Ph.D. � Mercedes McCormick, Ph.D. � Leora Trub, Ph.D. Suzanne Miranda � Christie Soule � Brielle Internoscia �

Presentation Session Judges

Alfred Ward, Ph.D. � John Stokes, Ph.D. � Danica Spence, MSW � Stephen Bosco � Vanessa Vitiello

Pace University Relations Staff

Jacqueline Tortorella, Assistant Director, Marketing and Account Manager

Department of Psychology Sonia Suchday, Ph.D., Chair

Florence Denmark, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor Experimental Psychology and Mentored Lab Faculty

Psychology Department Staff

Denise Moreno, Program Manager Jannette Cardona, Department Secretary

Psi Chi

Graduate Students Psychology Association

Psychology Conference Student Volunteer Team

All Program Speakers, Student Participants,

Professionals, Family, Friends and Conference Attendees.

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