1st Annual Forensic Psychology Masters Graduate Student Research Conference

Friday 6th of May 2005

2200 North Hall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

 

 

The 2005 Presenters

 

 

The 2005 Organisers

 

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE

 

9:00-9:30

Breakfast and Posters

9:30-10:00

Opening

Dr. Gabrielle Salfati, and Dr. Diana Falkenbach, Conference Organizers                                              

Dean James Levine, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies

Dr. Maureen O’Connor, Chair of Department of Psychology

 

10:00-11:00

Session 1: Profiling Homicide

10:00-10:20

Steve Hoover

A Behavioral Comparison of Single and Serial Homicide (advised by: Dr. Salfati)

10:20-10:40

Jelena Corovic

Serial Homicide: Crime Scene Behavioral Consistency within a Series (advised by: Dr. Salfati)

10:40-11:00

Celia Sporer

Gender Issues in Serial Homicide: Male Serial Offenders and their Female Victims (advised by: Dr. Salfati)

11:00-11:30

Refreshments and Posters

 

11:30-12:30

Session 2: Gender and Violence

11:30-11:50

Virginia Fineran

Rate and Severity of Complex PTSD in Male versus Female Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse (advised by: Dr. Galietta)

11:50-12:10

Rachel Reed

Prevalence and Severity of Maladaptive Behaviors of Male and Female Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (advised by: Dr. Galietta)

12:10-12:30

Elizabeth Lawrence

Gender Differences in Grief Reactions Following  the Death of a Parent (advised by: Dr. Jeglic)

12:30-2:00

Break for lunch and Posters

 

2:00-3:45

Session 3: Psychopathy and Malingering

2:00-2:05 Dr. James Wulach, Director of the MA in Forensic Psychology

2:05-2:25     

Joanna Fava

Psychopaths in the Community: Do Psychopthic Traits Differ in Men and Women (advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

2:25-2:45

Sarah Manchak

The Relationship of Fear and Anger to Psychopathy: Cognitive and Emotional Processes (advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

2:45-3:05 

Marielena Tecce

Aggression and Psychopathy in a Female Sample (advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

3:05-3:25  

Shannon Egan

Psychopathic Traits and Instrumental versus Reactive Aggression in a Nonforensic Sample: Correlates of Outcome Measures (advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

3:25-3:45

Caysyn Creevy

A Survey of Attitudes and Practices Regarding Malingering (advised by: Dr. Zapf)

3:45-4:15

Refreshments and Posters

 

4:15-5:55

Eyewitness Testimony and Jury Decision Making

4:15-4:35

Michelle Giresi

Ultimate Issue Testimony and its Relationship to Juror Inferences and Information Processing in a Battered Woman’s Case (advised by: Dr. Groscup)

4:35-4:55

Jennifer Tallon

Juror Prototypes about Sexual Offenders: A Commonsense Justice Perspective (advised by: Dr. Groscup)

4:55-5:15 

Amy Hyman

Eyewitness Misidentification and Unconscious Transference: Fact or Fiction (advised by: Dr. Garcia & Prof. Penrod)

5:15-5:35

Jaclyn Ghamar

Binding Arbitration and its Perceived Fairness in the Consumer Arena (advised by: Dr. Groscup)

 

5:35

Closing

Dr. Diana Falkenbach and Dr. Gabrielle Salfati - Conference Organizers

Dr. Maureen O’Connor – Chair of Department of Psychology

 

 

POSTERS

Emily Blaine

The Relationship between Empathy, Type of Aggression, and Psychopathic-Like Traits in Juveniles (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

Ashley Caldwell

Jason Malone

Stephanie Stricklin

Differentiating Covert and Overt Sexual Crime Scene Behaviors in Homicide (Advised by: Dr. Salfati)

 

Michelle Cohen

Psychologists’ Attitudes Towards the Treatment of Sex Offenders (Advised by: Dr. Jeglic)

Lillian Collado

The Effects of Acculturation on Dating Violence among Hispanics (Advised by: Dr. Raghavan)

Ariel Del Gaizo

Perception of Emotional Cues in Individuals Scoring High on Primary Versus Secondary Psychopathic Traits (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

Marielle Falki

How is Self-esteem related to Aggression: A Specific Look at Narcissism and Psychopathy? (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

Steve Hoover

Lauren Mondshein

Mary Goodlett

The Relationship Between Homicide and Theft (Advised by: Dr. Salfati)

Jessica Kirkpatrick

The Self-Report Aggression Questionnaire (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

Shilpa Krishnan

Risk Taking and Promiscuity: Two Evolutionarily Adaptive Features of Psychopathy (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

Lauren Mondshein

Using Victim Demographics to Link Serial Crime Scenes (Advised by: Dr. Salfati)

Kimberly Sahlstrom

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Comorbid Axis I and II Disorders in an Offender Sample (Advised by: Dr. Jeglic)

Damaris Santiago

Jared Singer

Serial Homicide: Trends in Victim and Offender Demographics (Advised by: Dr. Salfati)

Tammy Trierweiler

Correlations of Adolescent Psychopathic-Like Traits And the Five-Factor Model of Personality (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

Stuart White

ADHD, Conduct Problems and Psychopathy: Interaction Effects in a Juvenile Population (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

Dorota Wnuk

Attitudes Toward the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (Advised by: Dr. Jeglic)

Daniela Yaar

Describing psychopathy and its underlying subtypes as extreme variation of normal personality traits  (Advised by: Dr. Falkenbach)

 

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