WAUKESHA – All five groups of students who submitted research papers prepared for their experimental psychology class at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha have had their work accepted for presentation at a symposium to be held in Madison April 27.
The students and the papers they will present are:
- Jenell Liban (New Berlin), Andrew Lutz (Waukesha), Michael Zink (West Milwaukee), and Sarah Stetter (Brookfield): “The Influence of Wakefulness on Achievement”
- Rebecca Jelden (Waukesha), Jessica Kube (Sullivan), Nicole Ross (New Berlin), and Meghann Wyss (Waukesha): “Should I Believe You? The Effect of Participant Religiosity and Authoritativeness of Source on the Magnitude of the Barnum Effect”
- Alison Black (Waukesha), Joseph Martin (Hartland), and Erin Visauer (Dousman): “Too close for Comfort: Introversion/Extroversion and Personal Space”
- Jennifer Fiscal (Hartland), Erica Leitzke (Waukesha), and David Walker (Hales Corners): “Who Loses the Car Keys and who Finds Them? Spatial Memory and Mental Rotation in Male and Female College Students”
- Cala Herrington (Hartland) and Jennifer Kreuzpaintner and Haley Wuerl (both Muskego): “Crammin’ or Jammin’? The Subjective, Cognitive, and Physiologic Impact of a Campus Cafeteria”
The annual Undergraduate Research Symposium sponsored by the UW-Madison chapter of Psi Chi, national honor society for psychology, solicits colleges throughout the Midwest for student papers. UW-Waukesha professor Bob Bermant each year offers his students the opportunity to participate, and generally at least one paper from UW-Waukesha is accepted. This year all five papers sent to the screening committee were accepted. A sixth group also wrote a paper but opted not to submit it.
A total of 30-40 papers, covering work in clinical/ biological, developmental, social/emotional, social, personality, and cognitive aspects of psychology, will be presented at this year’s symposium.
The symposium provides undergraduate students an opportunity to participate in the academic milieu ordinarily experienced only in graduate school and beyond. |
