A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Mindy Erchull
Miriam Liss
Dr. Mindy Erchull and Dr. Miriam Liss recently presented a poster, Exploring Female Sexual Empowerment: Developing the Sex is Power Scale, at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu, Hawaii.
At the recent convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), Dr. Mindy Erchull was formally recognized as a fellow of APA. Members of APA can be named fellows if they have developed a body of work that has been determined to have had a national impact on the field of psychology.
Mindy Erchull
Dr. Mindy Erchull recently presented a paper, Fathers Attitudes About and Role in Educating Their Children About Menstruation, with her collaborator Kate Richmond from Muhlenberg College at the biennial meeting of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research in New York, NY.
Dr. Miriam Liss and Dr. Mindy Erchull recently presented a poster, Conceptualizing Objectification as a Source of Insidious Trauma, with Haley Miles-McLean, Caitlin Robertson, Charlotte Hagerman, Michelle Gnoleba, and Leanna Papp, a group of psychology students with whom they conducted research during the 2012-13 acadecmic year, at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, DC.
Dr. Mindy Erchull and Dr. Miriam Liss recently presented a poster, Believing that Jealousy is Good: Scale Development and Validation, with UMW alumna T. Michele Humphries, class of 2012, at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington, DC.
Psychology faculty members and students have two papers accepted for publication in the Journal of Child and Family Studies.
“Development and Validation of a Quantitative Measure of Intensive Parenting Attitudes” is co-authored by Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology, Holly Schiffrin, associate professor of psychology, Virginia Mackintosh, assistant professor of psychology, Haley Miles-McLean, a current UMW student and Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology.
“Insight into the Parenthood Paradox: Mental Health Outcomes of Intensive Mothering” is co-authored by Schiffrin, Liss and Kathryn Rizzo, a 2012 UMW graduate.
Mindy Erchull
Associate professors of psychology Mindy Erchull and Miriam Liss’ study “Feminism and Attachment Parenting: Attitudes, Stereotypes, and Misperceptions” appears in the June 2012 edition of the journal Sex Roles.
The study, based on a survey of hundreds of self-described feminists and non-feminists, shows that attachment parenting techniques, like co-sleeping, breastfeeding and carrying a child in a body sling, are more popular with feminists than non-feminists. The study also reveals that people hold stereotypes about the ‘typical feminist,’ when in fact those stereotypes aren’t true.
Liss and Erchull’s study has appeared in various media outlets, including Buzz Feed, Science Daily and Counsel & Heal.
Miriam Liss
Psychology faculty members Mindy Erchull, Miriam Liss, Virginia Mackintosh, Christine McBride, David Rettinger, Holly Schiffrin and Hilary Stebbins will present research at the 2012 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention from Thursday, May 24 through Sunday, May 27 in Chicago.
Liss and Schiffrin, along with 2012 graduate Kathryn Rizzo, will present “The Impact of Intensive Parenting on the Well-Being of Mothers.” Liss and Schiffrin are the faculty sponsors of “Mother, father, or parent? College students’ intensive parenting beliefs differ by referent,” presented by students Katherine Geary, Taryn Tashner, Haley Miles-McLean, Kathryn Rizzo and Charlotte Hagerman.
Schiffrin, Liss, Mackintosh, Erchull and student Haley Miles McLean will present “Development and Validation of a Quantitative Measure of Intensive Parenting Attitudes.”
McBride will present “The Impact of Cognitive Stress, Social Stress, and Appraisals on Eating Behavior” with student Janet Greider. Students Erin Burdwood and Amy Newcomb also were part of the research team.
Rettinger will present “Guilt-Proneness and Fear of Being Caught Deter Cheating” with students Caitlin Brady, Megan Hess, Frank Knizner and Caroline Lupsha.
Stebbins will present “The Interaction Between Emotional Expressions of Face Targets in the Attentional Blink” with students Alyssa Dembrowski, David Levin and Chelsea Mageland.
Mindy Erchull
Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology, presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Association for Women in Psychology entitled “A Traditional Shift? Differences in Beliefs and Behaviors Among Feminist Mothers and Non-Mothers” on which Miriam Liss served as co-author. Erchull also helped facilitate two structured discussions: “Live to Tell: The Experiences of Early Career Feminists” and “ Early Career Research: Fitting it All In.”
Mindy Erchull
Mindy Erchull, associate professor of psychology, was one of 40 faculty members who attended the Institute for Academic Feminist Psychologists in San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 26 and 27.
The Institute was sponsored by the Society for the Psychology of Women, Division 35 of the American Psychological Association.
While attending the Institute, she presented a poster entitled “Own and Others’ Desire for Marriage and Children: A Comparison of Feminist and Non-Feminist Women.” Miriam Liss, associate professor of psychology, and Lauren Hartwell ’11 served as co-authors of the poster.