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2016
- Hannah Benemann successfully defended her thesis (March 2024), Disrespect Sensitivity in the Context of Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Maladaptive Personality, and Violence.
- Danna Ramirez and Nicole Shumaker won a 1st Place Poster Award at the 2024 Society for Personality Assessment conference for their poster Review of the MMPI-3 Cultural Mistrust Critical Items in Bilingual Spanish/English Speakers (March 2024).
- Kelci Davis (Kansas City VA Medical Center) and Kelsey Priebe (Western State Hospital) successfully matched for their predoctoral internships!
2023
- Kelci Davis was awarded a student research grant from the Society for Personality Assessment (December 2023).
- Kelsey Priebe successfully proposed her dissertation (April 2023): Risk Assessment Methods for Intimate Partner Violence: The Utility of Personality Measures.
- Julie Miller will be joining the lab as a doctoral student in Fall 2023!
2022
- Kelci Davis proposed her dissertation (December 2022), Gender euphoria: Exploring a potential protective factor against psychopathology in transgender and gender diverse populations.
- Nicole Shumaker defended her thesis, Exploring Potential Ethnic Bias among MMPI-3 Scales in Assessing
Personality Psychopathology (November 2022). - Tessa Long successfully defended her dissertation: (July 2022): A Psychometric Examination of the US Spanish MMPI-3: Reliability, Validity, and Comparability to the English Form.
- Stephanie Haugh successfully defended her dissertation (June 2022): Evaluating the MMPI-3’s Utility in the Assessment of Personality Disorders.
- Nicole Shumaker proposed her thesis, Exploring Potential Ethnic Bias among MMPI-3 Scales in Assessing
Personality Psychopathology (April 2022). - Danna Ramirez will be joining the lab as a doctoral student in Fall 2022!
- Brooke Tompkins successfully defended her thesis, Pathological Personality Traits Predicting Interpersonal and Functional Impairment Among College Students (March 2022)
- Dr. Anderson was awarded the Samuel J. and Anne G. Beck Award from the Society for Personality Assessment for outstanding early career achievement (March 2022).
- Nicholas Kavish matched at the University of Nebraska Medical Center for his post-doc in neuropsychology (February 2022).
2021
- Brooke Tompkins successfully proposed her thesis, Pathological Personality Traits Predicting Interpersonal and Functional Impairment Among College Students (September 2021)
- Jennifer Boland successfully defended her dissertation: (August 2021): What’s in a Name: Can a dimensional trait model reduce bias against borderline personality disorder?
- Nicholas Kavish successfully defended his dissertation (June 2021): Construct validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Self-Report and Institutional Rating Forms
- Jennifer Boland (Pilgrim Psychiatric Center), Stephanie Haugh (Oregon State Hospital), Nicholas Kavish (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center), and Tessa Long (University of Kansas Medical Center) have all matched for their predoctoral internships!
- Tessa Long received a dissertation grant from the Society for Personality Assessment for her project entitled A Psychometric Examination of the US Spanish MMPI-3: Reliability, Validity, and Comparability to the English Form.
2020
- Jennifer Boland received an Honorable Mention for the Mary Alice Conroy Award for the Best Student Paper in Forensic Psychology from the Texas Psychological Association. Her paper is titled: Pathways to incarceration: An examination of childhood maltreatment and personality psychopathology in incarcerated adults.
- Stephanie Haugh successfully proposed her dissertation (August 2020): Evaluating the MMPI-3’s Utility in the Assessment of Personality Disorders.
- Tessa Long successfully proposed her dissertation: (July 2020): A Psychometric Examination of the US Spanish MMPI-3: Reliability, Validity, and Comparability to the English Form.
- Jennifer Boland successfully proposed her dissertation: (April 2020): What’s in a Name: Can a dimensional trait model reduce bias against borderline personality disorder?
- Nicholas Kavish successfully proposed his dissertation (April 2020): Construct validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Self-Report and Institutional Rating Forms
- Kelsey Priebe successfully defended her master's thesis (March 2020): Perceived Rejection in Personality Psychopathology: The Effect of Attachment and Gender.
- Tessa Long and Stephanie Haugh won a 1st place diversity poster award from the Society for Personality Assessment for their work entitled Validity of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Short Form (PID-5-SF) in Latinx Undergraduates (March 2020). Watch their presentation here!
- Bernardo Iracheta (undergraduate RA) and Tessa Long won a 1st place diversity poster award from the Society for Personality Assessment for their work entitled Test-Retest Reliability for the English and US Spanish MMPI-2-RF in Latinx University Students (March 2020). Watch their presentation here!
- Nicole Schumaker will be joining the lab as a doctoral student in Fall 2020!
- Maddison Schiafo accepted a position as a staff psychologist at Oregon State Hospital (February 2020).
- Kelsey Priebe will be joining the lab as a doctoral student in Fall 2020!
- Emily Sorem successfully defended her master's thesis (February 2020): Personality Psychopathology and the Role of Self-Compassion
2019
- Maddison Schiafo successfully defended her dissertation (December 2019): Personality, Decision-Making, and Sexually Coercive Behaviors among College Students.
- Emily Sorem was accepted to Baylor University's School of Law with a full-ride!! (November 2019)
- Stephanie Haugh was awarded the Good Neighbor Scholarship for excellent international students in the state of Texas (April 2019).
- Emily Sorem successfully proposed her master's thesis (April 2019): Personality Psychopathology and the Role of Self-Compassion.
- Kelsey Priebe successfully proposed her master's thesis (April 2019): Perceived Rejection in Personality Psychopathology: The Effect of Attachment and Gender.
- Nicholas Kavish was named as a finalist for the Outstanding Graduate Student Award by the Office of Graduate Studies (April 2019).
- Kelci Davis successfully defended her master's thesis (March 2019): The Role of Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Personality Disorders in Sexual Minorities.
- Kelci Davis and Stephanie Haugh were awarded 1st Place from the Society for Personality Assessment for their poster presentation (March 2019). Their project is titled Predictors of animal abuse: An examination of maladaptive personality.
- Jennifer Boland and Larissa Fernandez were awarded an Honorable Mention from the Society for Personality Assessment for their poster presentation (March 2019). Their project is titled The Role of Personality Psychopathology in Social Network Site Behaviors.
- Maddison Schiafo matched at Oregon State Hospital for her pre-doctoral internship (February 2019). Big congrats!!!
- Kelci Davis will be joining the lab as a doctoral student in Fall 2019-- glad to keep you on board!
2018
- Emily Sorem received a research grant from the Society for Personality Assessment (December 2018). Her proposed project is entitled: Self Compassion and Personality Disorders.
- Nicholas Kavish received the student research fellowship from APA Division 12 Section IX for his project titled: A Psychometric Evaluation of the Add Health Psychopathy Scale and NLSY97 Callous-Unemotional Traits Scale in Two Samples (September 2018)
- Stephanie Haugh was awarded the Good Neighbor Scholarship for excellent international students in the state of Texas.
- Jennifer Boland was named as a recipient of the SHSU Graduate Studies General Scholarship (August 2018).
- Kelci C. Davis successfully proposed her thesis (June 2018): The Role of Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Personality Disorders in Sexual Minorities.
- Nicholas Kavish was awarded the Office of Graduate Studies summer scholarship (May 2018).
- Maddison Schiafo successfully proposed her dissertation: Personality, Decision-Making, and Sexually Coercive Behaviors among College Students (April 2018). Her committee was incredibly impressed with her work!
2017
- Jennifer Boland received a research grant from the Society for Personality Assessment (December 2017). Her proposed project is entitled: The Role of Personality Psychopathology in Social Network Site Behaviors.
- Tessa Long was awarded a Student Diversity Travel Grant from the Society for Personality Assessment (December 2017), where she will be presenting some of her research this March!
- Nicholas Kavish successfully defended his master’s thesis (November 2017): Life history speed as a predictor of rape and sexually coercive behavior.
- Dr. Anderson was awarded the John E. Exner Scholar award from the Society for Personality Assessment (November 2017).
- Maddison Schiafo received a research grant from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (August 2017). Her proposed project is entitled: Personality, Decision-Making, and Sexually Coercive Behaviors among College Students.
- Nicholas Kavish successfully proposed his master’s thesis (June 2017): Life history speed as a predictor of rape and sexually coercive behavior.
- Amanda Kasowski successfully defended her master’s thesis (April 2017): Pathological Personality and Problematic Attitudes towards Sex.
- Stephanie Haugh will be joining the lab in Fall 2017. Great to have you on board Stephanie!
2016
- Amanda Kasowski successfully proposed her master’s thesis (December 2016): Pathological Personality and Problematic Attitudes towards Sex.