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Interesting research created by our students:

• "Horror Movies and Emotional Calibration: How Revulsion Heightens Fear"
• "Designing Online Content to Involve Parents in School-Based Prevention Programming"
• "Adolescent Father's Parenting: Effects of the Mother-Father and Mother-Grandmother Relationships"
• "Deconstructing the Nerd: Visual Acuity and Need for Cognition in Adults"
• "The Effects of Meditation on Reading Comprehension and Attention"

Meet a research student:

• Megan Powell
• Mina Attia
• Bridget Armstrong
• Grace Calvin
• Cristóbal Fernández
• Negar Ghaffari (myUMBC video)
• Kevin Lin
• Megan Pejsa
• Mercedes Randall
• Abigail Rein

Meet research Alumnae:

• Tahira Mahdi
  • Watch a video of Tahira's 's presentation
• Areej Kuraishi

Benefits for Psychology students:

• Work with a faculty member
• Experience hands-on research
• Reinforce classroom learning
• Prepare for work or graduate school
• Travel to national conferences
• Receive grant funding
• Publish independent research
  • The Effects of Apparent Ethnicity in an Individual's Name on Perceived Qualifications in the Professional Service Industry.

  Doha Chibani-Talaat. UMBC Review vol.10.

  • The Gendered Asylum: Nineteenth Century Asylums Used as Tools of Female Socialization.

  Kevin Triplett. UMBC Review Vol.12.

   

So, what are you doing next summer?

• American Psychological Association
• University of Maryland Summer Research Initiative
• The Leadership Alliance
• Case Western Reserve University
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation
• National Science Foundation
• Pathways to Science
• Psychology Research Experience Program
• UMBC Summer Research Opportunities

Get started today!

For more information, check out this department's website:

Psychology

For more information:
Janet McGlynn at mcglynn@umbc.edu or 410-455-5754