2008 Psi Chi Induction

Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to graduate and undergraduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests, and who meet the minimum qualifications. The St. Olaf Psi Chi induction was held on Monday May 5th during the Psychology Awards banquet. Twenty St. Olaf students were inducted. They are:

MUPC 2008
(Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference)

The conference featured research talks and poster sessions from undergraduate psychology majors across the state. This year, nineteen St. Olaf students. Their topics spanned many psychological disciplines, from neuroscience to gender studies to clinical psychology.  Participating St. Olaf students and their projects included:

1. Ashley Allen: Priming sense of meaning may increase intrinsic motivation.
2. Ashley Bjork: Educational, personal, and organizational facilitation of social work practice in end-of-life care.
3. Kameko Halfmann and Avery Jeong: Gender differences in reaction to infidelity across emotional and sexual situations.
4. Abby Hughes: Teaching play: The effects of point-of-view video modeling on play behavior in preschool children with autism.
5. Jeffrey Hunge and Kim Hallinan: Trait emotionality predicts self-presentation tactics.
6. Sarah Kashawny: Dose-dependent ethanol-induced conditioned place preference in adolescent mice.
7. Jake Kurczek and Matt Rocklage: Evaluating the impact of spatial frequencies on the perception of gender.
8. Chris Miller and Kim Hallinan: Assessment of subclinical psychopathy and externalizing behavior in a normal sample.
9. Chris Miller and Kim Hallinan: Music performance anxiety: An experience sampling study.
10. Matt Rocklage: A declaration of intergrated morality: personal projects, values, and the pursuit of validity.
11. Matt Rocklage, Anna Johnson, Beth Fiebelkorn, Nicole Wilke, Brad Wagenaar, and Robin Andersen: Perceptions of normative drinking habits: responsible behavior and negative consequences.
12. Matt Rocklage and Jake Kurczek: Perceptual adaptation after-effects in cross-race gender identification.
13. Kelsey Thompson and Shaina Short: The effect of vocalization speed of a conversationalist on irritation level of the respondent.
14. Shannon Thornblad: Achievement goal theory: Implications for No Child Left Behind.
15. Nicole Gilbertson Wilke: Can we help adolescent mothers help their children?: An examination of child language development factors in a high school intervention program.

Congratulations to all St. Olaf students that participated; it was a great success!

Phi Beta Kappa Induction

The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States, and each year St. Olaf College elects a small number of qualified students to join.  Election to Phi Beta Kappa recognizes not just good grades but also intangible qualities that make an exemplary student, such as a questioning intellect, a disciplined mind, and a wide range of interests.  This year, nine psychology majors were inducted into the society: Janne Dale, Anya Galli, Abby Hughes, Anna Johnson, Amy Larsen, Nicole Schmidt, Liana Schreiber, Shannon Thornblad, and Brad Wagenaar.  Congratulations to these students on their accomplishments!