Dan Wisnseki, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, and Maryellen Hamilton, Ph.D., chair and professor in the psychology department, recently attended the Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference in Chicago, which was hosted by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU). During the conference, they presented results from their research, “Using the Theory of Reasoned Action to Incentivize STEM Course Improvement.”
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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a worldwide known model in the field of Cognitive Behavioral Psychology.
For the contributions in the field of REBT including three new books and two other revised editions of previously published books within the past five years, Leonor Lega, Ph.D., professor of psychology, has been awarded the status of Life Member at the Albert Ellis Institute in NYC, and elected Honorary President of the REBT Chapter in the Asociacion Psicologica Espanola (Spain).
Dr. Lega has delivered several keynote addresses in several international congresses in psychology, the last one being the opening keynote lecture in Barcelona, Spain at the VIII Simposio en Terapia Racional Emotiva Conductual, November 8-10.
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Fourteen Saint Peter’s University students and four faculty members from the psychology department attended the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association from March 16 – 19 in Boston. They collectively presented 10 student-faculty research collaborations at the conference.
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Maryellen Hamilton, Ph.D., professor and chair of psychology, and Mary Kate Naatus, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Business Administration and director of research for the Ignite Institute, traveled to Nicaragua last week for an immersion experience as part of the Ignatian Colleagues Program. They were in a group of 24 faculty and administrators from Jesuit colleges and universities around the United States. The group met with Rev. Jose Idiáquez, S.J., (pictured center above), Lea Montes, director of Jesuit services for migrants, as well as many university and community leaders, who shared their perspectives on the country’s history, culture, economy and social issues. The Ignatian Colleagues Program (ICP) is a national program of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) designed to educate and form administrators and faculty more deeply in the Jesuit & Catholic tradition of higher education, so that they may better articulate, adapt and advance the Jesuit and Catholic mission of their campuses.
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Wisneski worked alongside Linda Skitka, of the University of Illinois, and researchers from the University of Cologne and Tilburg University to complete the study titled, “Morality in Everyday Life.” The research was conducted utilizing an innovative method that had previously not been applied to morality science. More than 1,200 adults from the United States and Canada participated in a three day study in which they received five daily signals on their smartphoness at random times throughout the day and they provided information about any moral or immoral acts that they had committed, received or noticed around them.
When:
Thursday, September 11
Who:
Daniel Wisneski, psychology professor at Saint Peter’s University
Among related topics, Wisneski can discuss:
- How often people commit moral behaviors in their day-to-day activity
- The role of politics, religion and social environment in everyday morality
- Whether or not moral behavior boosts happiness
- Whether or not morality is contagious
- Results of the study and future implications
- Technology’s role and impact on research findings
Contact:
Angeline Boyer
Saint Peter’s University
Work: (201) 761-6238
Cell: (973) 769-6833
[email protected]
From left to right: Christopher Ware, Maryellen Hamilton, Donya Green, Mahum Hashmi, Fiona Callagy, Shadman Hassan, Yanitsa Toneva, Elise Soares, Alexandra Velazquez, Shannon Daniels, Michael Greenstein, Sandesh Bhandari, Joshua Feinberg, Andrea Bubka, Frederick Bonato, Valezka Cruz, and Kayla Hanley
The psychology department at Saint Peter’s University brought 18 students to the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, held from March 1-4 at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square. Nine students presented eight different faculty-student collaborative research projects throughout the conference, such as the presentation “Repeated Color and Shape Effects in Visual Short Term Memory” by Mahum Hashmi ’14 and Maryellen Hamilton, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology.
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