* Student names are in bold.

Helweg-Larsen, M., Tobias, M. and Cerban, B. 2009. Moralization, risk perception and risk reduction: A qualitative interview study of U.S. smokers. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Tampa, FL, February 2009.

Gilroy, M. N., Rauhut, A. S., and Barber, T. A. 2008. Impaired observational learning of a food acquisition task in WKY rats. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2008.

Rauhut, A. S., and Mardekian, S. K. 2008. Bupropion blocks acquisition, but not expression, of nicotine conditioned taste aversion in CD-1 mice. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, San Juan, PR, June 2008.

Yost, M. R. and Chmielewski, J. 2008. Girls gone wild? Understanding "heterosexual" women's same-sex encounters at college parties. Poster to be presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, San Juan, PR, November 2008.

Abrams, R. L., Gleichgerrcht, E., and Gessner, E. 2007. Sentence-induced expectation enables unconscious semantic priming. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.

Abrams, R. L., Marriott, R., Schade, M., Fisher, F., James, M., and Frohman, M. 2007. Cognitive reorganization of semantically related memories during sleep. Poster presented at the Ursinus College Undergraduate Science Research Symposium, Collegeville, PA, November 2007.

Abrams, R. L., Rockman, L., Fisher, F., and Niyogi, R. 2007. Unconscious processing of visually masked words by second-grade children. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.

Grimes, S., Niblock, A., Stoyanov, A., and Abrams, R. L. 2007. Does unconscious semantic priming (from words) occur if primes are practiced as pictures? Poster presented at the Ursinus College Undergradute Science Research Symposium, Collegeville, PA, November 2007.

Hawrylak, M., Castner, A., and Rauhut, A. S. 2007. Bupropion fails to alter nicotine conditioned place preference in CD-1 mice. Presented at the 18th Annual St. Joseph's University Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, April 2007.

Helweg-Larsen, M. and Harding, H. H. 2007. Hypertensive patients and battered women: Perceived risk reduction predicts intentions. Presented at the Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN, January 2007.

Hoover, A., Shainheit, C., and Abrams, R. L. 2007. Auditory categorization enables visual semantic priming. Poster presented at the 22nd Annual Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Undergraduate Students Psychology Conference, Allentown, PA, April 2007.

Niyogi, R., Gleichgerrcht, E., and Abrams, R. L. 2007. How smart is the unconscious? Exploring the limits of unconscious cognition through the "two-word challenge." Poster presented at the Ursinus College Undergraduate Science Research Symposium, Collegeville, PA, November 2007.

Satyamurthy, Nitarah, Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel, Moreland, Melissa, Moyer, Whitney, and Barber, Teresa A. 2007. Behavioral Differences in X57BL6J and 129S1/SVIMJ mice: Contributions of the corpus callosum. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.

Tanenbaum, J., Bollwage, L., and Rauhut, A. S. 2007. Wistar Kyoto and Wistar rats differ in nicotine-induced conditioned taste avoidance. Presented at the 18th Annual St. Joseph's University Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, April 2007.

Yost, M. R., Haywood, A., and McCarthy, L. 2007. Girls gone wild? Understanding "heterosexual" women's same-sex encounters at college parties. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Indianapolis, IN, November 2007.

Young, A. and Barber, T. 2007. Ginkgo biloba ameliorates scopolamine-induced amnesia in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 2007.

Abrams, R.L., Ilieva, I., Niblock, A., Niyogi, R., Shainheit, C. and Stoyanov, A. 2006. Unconscious semantic priming in the absence of partial awareness. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, 2006.

Bettencourt, A. R., Helweg-Larsen, M., Hoover, A., Kimmel, S., and Volpp, K. 2006. Predicting self-rated health from perceived and actual cardiovascular risk among hypertensive patients. Presented at the Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY, May 2006.

Kimbrough, T., and Barber, T. 2006. Memantine increases memory formation for observational learning: implications of the U-shaped curve of arousal-attention. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD., March 2006.

Mardekian, S. K. and Rauhut, A. S. 2006. Effect of bupropion on nicotine-conditioned taste avoidance in CD-1 mice. Presented at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) poster session held during the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, October 2006.

Skelton, J. A., Taylor, M., Winoker, M., and Israel, E. 2006. Gender differences in symptom frequency ratings do not reflect speed of responding to rating items. Associate for Psychological Science, New York, 2006.

Stancioff, S. and Helweg-Larsen, M. 2006. Acculturation matters: Risk perceptions of smoking among Bosnian refugees in the U.S. Presented at the Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY, May 2006.

Abrams, R.L., Bissell, K., Kang, E, and Musso, M. 2005. Evolving automaticity versus the action trigger hypothesis: A direct test of two theories of unconscious semantic priming. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2005.

Abrams, R.L., Todhunter, L., Boghossian, L., and Fraser, K. 2005. Similarities in transient unconscious priming from old and new words. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2005.

Grinspan, J., and Abrams, R.L. 2005. Preliminary evidence for unconscious category priming by words in the absence of practice. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2005.

Helweg-Larsen, M., Peterson, L., Bettencourt, A., Kimmel, S., and Volpp, K. 2005. Socio-economic status and race difference in optimistic bias among hypertensive patients. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, MA, March 2005.

Helweg-Larsen, M., Harding, H., and Kleinman, K. 2005. Optimistic bias in dating violence among college women. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, MA, March 2005.

Helweg-Larsen, M., Meloni, A., Gurmankin, A., Kimmel, S., and Volpp, K. 2005. Worry and risk perceptions about heart attack and stroke in hypertensive patients. Poster presented at the 9th European Congress of Psychology, Granada, Spain, July 2005.

Helweg-Larsen, M., DiDominick, K., Kimmel, S., and Volpp, K. 2005. When is perceived risk related to behavior? The case of hypertension. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, Atlantic Beach, FL, November 2005.

Kimbrough, T., Lewis, K. D. and Rauhut, A. S. 2005. Effects of bupropion on acquisition and expression of nicotine-conditioned place aversion in rats. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, November 2005.

Lewis, K. D. and Rauhut, A. S. 2005. The role of the alpha1-adrenergic receptor in caffeine-induced conditioned taste avoidance in rats. Presented at the 16th Annual St. Joseph's University Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium, Philadelphia PA, April 2005.

Abrams, R.L., Knowles, M., Bissell, K., Iqbal, Z., Kang, E, and Musso, M. 2004. Unconscious processing of semantic category in visually masked words: Does category size matter? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C, April, 2004.

Abrams, R.L., and Knowles, M. 2004. Enabling of unconscious category processing by a non-categorization practice task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C, April, 2004.

Basta, K.D., Inoue, A. (co-first authors), the Psychology 201 Research Class, and Barber, T.A. 2004. Subject, driver, and environmental conditions that mediate crosswalk behavior. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC., April 2004.

Bettencourt, A.R., Bushner, S.D., Peterson, L.M. (co-first authors), The Psychology 201 Methods Class, and Barber, T.A. 2004. Increasing classroom recycling behavior: The effects of prompting, placement, and cues. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC., April 2004.

Boghossian, L., Perecca, N., Todhunter, L., and Abrams, R.L. 2004. Long-term persistence of the enabling of unconscious semantic priming by practice with visible words. Poster presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C, April, 2004.

Furthman, E.L., Basta, K.D. (co-first authors) and Barber, T.A. 2004. Improving memory for observational learning in day-old chick. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC., 2004.

Helweg-Larsen, M., Gurmankin, A., DiDominick, K., Meloni, A., Peterson, L., Kimmel, S., Armstrong, K., Volpp, K. 2004. Comparative and absolute risk biases of heart attack and stroke among hypertensive patients. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Washington, DC, April 2004.

Rauhut, A. S.(primary presenter), Velluto, J. L., Lewis, K. D.;, Gardner-Kutzy, L., Lawson, M. H., Hunter, L. R., Giacobbe, S., Gower, D. M., Fiedeldey, S., and Psychology 380 Class Participants. 2004. Bupropion attenuates nicotine-induced hypoactivity but does not alter nicotine-conditioned place preference. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC , April 2004.

Rauhut, A. S., Zentner, I. J. 2004. Strain differences in the rewarding and locomotor effects of nicotine. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, November 2004.

Abrams, R.L., Knowles, Michelle '04, and Sanger, Elizabeth '04. 2003. Conscious hearing, unconscious seeing: Auditory pre-exposure enables unconscious visual processing of words. Poster presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

Abrams, R.L., Knowles, Michelle '04, and Sanger, Elizabeth '04. 2003. Auditory practice enables visual unconscious congruency effects. Poster presented at the 74th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

Barrell, E.C., Corrigan, E.R., Fleming, D.M, Furthman, E.L., Gardner-Kutzy, L., Shea, K.R., Stephens, M.K., Thomas, H.S., Wood, K.S. (co-first authors), The Psychology 380 Research Class, and Barber, T.A. 2003. A comparison of activity levels in wistar, spontaneously hypertensive, and wistar-kyoto rats. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

Basta, K.D., Inoue, A. (co-first authors), the Psychology 201 Research Class, and Barber, T.A. 2003. Subject, driver, and environmental conditions that mediate crosswalk behavior. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC., 2003.

Bettencourt, A.R., Bushner, S.D., Peterson, L.M. (co-first authors), The Psychology 201 Methods Class, and Barber, T.A. 2003. Increasing classroom recycling behavior: The effects of prompting, placement, and cues. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC., 2003.

Branham, A. L., Stangl, B., Bonneau, L., and DiClemente, D. F. 2003. How Well are You Covered? Increasing Employee Sales Performance at a Department Store Chain. 9th Annual meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis/Organizational Behavior Management, Clearwater, FL, January 2003.

Davis, J.A. and Barber, T.A. 2003. Isolation stress and corticosterone have additive effects on retention for a passive avoidance task in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

DiClemente, D. F., Pregmon, J. J., Serafin, L., Shea, K. R., Stangl, B., Bonneau, L., Stephens, M., Meloni, A., Smith, P., Jackowski, M. M., Fleming, M. L., Branham, A., Breitenbach, M., Lewis, K., Grinspan, J., Clyman, N., and Winoker, M. 2003. Improving Customer Service at a Local Supermarket. 9th Annual meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis/Organizational Behavior Management, Clearwater, FL, January 2003.

DiClemente, D. F., Furthman, E., and Nyvall, K. 2003. Are you ready for some Football? Improving the Performance of NFL and College Football Players. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

DiClemente, D. F., Inoue, A., and Diamond, E. 2003. Ornamenting for Long-Term and Short-term Mating Success. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

DiClemente, D. F., Lewis, K., Grinspan, J., Clyman, N., Winoker, M., Stephens, M., Meloni, A., Serafin, L., Branham, A., Fleming, M., Jackowski, M., Smith, P., Shea, K., Stangl, B., Pregmon, J. J., Breitenbach, M., and Bonneau, L. 2003. Increasing Student Motivation while Improving Customer Service at a Supermarket. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

DiClemente, D. F., Martin, J., and Perreca, N. 2003. Dressing for Collegiate Mating Success. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

DiClemente, D. F., Winoker, M., Leclerc, A., Gaffney, C. J., and Pente, M. 2003. Is the Waiting the Hardest Part? The Effect of Delay Distractions on Internet Shopping. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

Fleming, M. L., Shea, K. R., Serafin, L., and DiClemente, D. F. 2003. Joining the Greeting Goal Attainment Group. 9th Annual meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis/Organizational Behavior Management, Clearwater, FL, January 2003.

Furthman, E.L., Basta, K.D. (co-first authors) and Barber, T.A. 2003. Improving memory for observational learning in day-old chick. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC., 2003.

McGettigan, B.F., Oaks, M.A., and Barber, T.A. 2003. Memantine improves memory formation for passive avoidance learning in day-old chicks exposed to isolation stress. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

Oaks, M.A. and Barber, T.A. 2003. Glucose enhances memory formation for passive avoidance learning in day old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

Pente, M., Boghossian, L., Lewis, K., and DiClemente, D. F. 2003. Is it Worth the Wait? The Effect of Product Desire and Waiting on Internet Shopping. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.

Phillippi, C.M. and Thurston, E.E. (co first authors) and Barber, T.A. 2003. An investigation of spatial learning in wistar-kyoto rats. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.

Rauhut, A. S. (primary presenter), Krom, J. R., MacDonald, J. M., Burrow, G. S., Stangl, B. L., Bohn, A. M. and Psychology 380 Class Participants. 2003. Bupropion enhances nicotine-conditioned taste avoidance in rats. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, March 2003.

Skelton, J. A., Burrows, G. and Barrell, E. 2003. How do observers understand work-related injuries? Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore MD.

Smith, P., Jackowski, M. M., and DiClemente, D. F. 2003. Improving Employee Courtesy at a Beer Distributor. 9th Annual meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis/Organizational Behavior Management, Clearwater, FL, January 2003.

Stephens, M., Meloni, A., and DiClemente, D. F. 2003. Did You See the Pick of the Week? Improving Cashier Performance at a Grocery Store. 9th Annual meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis/Organizational Behavior Management, Clearwater, FL, January 2003.

Barber, T.A., McGettigan, B.F., and Meyers, R.A.  2002. The effects of memantine on memory formation for passive avoidance learning in day-old chicks. Presented at the Society for Neurosciences Annual Meeting, November 2002.

Davis, J.A, Keck, C.A., and Barber, T.A.  2002. Unilateral lesions of the Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale impair memory for sickness-conditioned place aversion learning in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2002.

DiClemente, D. F., Furthman, E., and Stavropoulos, N. 2002. Evolutionary Mating Behaviors and the Consumption of Fashion. Presented at The 27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Toronto, Canada, May 2002.

DiClemente, D. F., McGettigan, B., Perkins, D., and Pente, M. 2002. Cybershopping: The Waiting Game. Presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2002.

DiClemente, D. F., Adams, A., and Britton, J. 2002. Dress for Mating Success. Presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2002.

Keck, C.A., Davis, J.A, and Barber, T.A. 2002. Pretraining unilateral lesions of the Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale do not impair place preference learning in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2002.

McGettigan, B.F., Meyers, R.A., Barber, T.A., and the Psychology 325 Course Participants. 2002. The effects of memantine on memory formation for passive avoidance learning in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2002.

Meyers, R.A. and Barber, T.A. 2002. Memory deficits in Wistar-Kyoto rats question its use as a model of depression. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, 2002.

Pergram, A. M., Cunningham, S. J., Carrico, A., and Helweg-Larsen, M. 2002. Nonverbal communication and status: An observational study of subordination in male college students. Poster Presented at the Spring Conferences of the Kentucky Psychological Association, Louisville, KY, April 2002.

Skelton, J. A., Davis, J. A., and Meyers, R. 2002. Self-reported physical symptoms in adult and student samples: Further explorations in cognitive task analysis. Eastern Psychological Association, Boston MA.

Skelton, J. A., and Corrigan, E. 2002. Women’s Symptom Memories: More Accessible Than Men’s? American Psychological Association, Chicago IL.

DiClemente, D. F., Slater, R. L., Young, M., and McGettigan, B. 2001. Cybershopping: It’s About Time Again. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC, April 2001.

DiClemente, D. F., Slater, R. L., and Young, M. 2001. Cybershopping: Time and Time Again. Presented at the 8th annual meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis/Organizational Behavior Management, Clearwater, FL, January 2001.

Hanson, N.L., Nederostek, B.R., and Barber, T.A. 2001. Avoidance learning in day-old chicks through observational learning. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC, April 2001.

Petrie, B.J. and Barber, T.A. 2001. Effects of pretraining lesions of the Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale on memory for shape discrimination learning in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC, April 2001.

Ramotowski, N.M. and Barber, T.A. 2001. Effects of posttraining lesions of the Intermediate Medial Hyperstriatum Ventrale on memory for conditioned place aversion in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC, April 2001.

Skelton, J.A. and Griffith, C.G.  2001. Are symptom memories more accessible for women than men? Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Skelton, J.A., Davis, J. and Meyers, R.  2001. Cognitive task analysis of self-reported physical symptoms. American Psychological Society, Toronto, Canada.

Bunce, J.G. and Barber, T.A. 2000. Time course of memory formation for an appetitive, one-trial, water-reward task in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, April 2000.

Deitchman, M.M. and Barber, T.A. 2000. A study of the role of the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ventrale in place preference learning in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, April 2000.

McLaughlin, D., and Barber, T.A. 2000. Olfactory cues enhance memories of day-old chicks in sickness- conditioned learning tasks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, April 2000.

Skelton, J.A. and Deitchman, M.M. 2000. Gender differences in symptom-reporting: A method artifact? Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore MD.

Swoboda, D.G. and Barber, T.A. 2000. The effectiveness of three methodologies in increasing memory and learning in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, April 2000.

Wilcox, J.C. and Barber, T.A. 2000. Effects of posttraining lesions of the intermediate medial hyperstriatum ventrale on memory for a one-trial water reward task in day-old chicks. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, April 2000.

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