9:30-11:00

Session 1 Assessment and Psychopathy

9:30-9:45

Ariel Del Gaizo

Psychopathic traits and their relationship to perceptual accuracy of emotional cues

9:45-10:00

Daniela Yaar

Describing psychopathy and its underlying subtypes as extreme variations of normal personality traits

10:00-10:15

Marielle Falki

How are the psychopathy factors related to self-esteem: A closer look at the association between narcissism and psychopathy

10:15-10:30

Shilpa Krishnan

Risk taking as a potentially adaptive function of psychopathy

10:30-10:45

Andrea Mattan

The utility of the MMPI-2 Infrequency Criminal (Fc) scale in the detection of malingering in criminal defendants

10:45-11:00

Molly Jacobs

An analysis of competence to stand trial: Underlying constructs and psychiatric correlates

11:00-11:30

Refreshments and Posters 

11:30-1:00

Session 2 Offender Profiling 

11:30-11:45

Lauren Mondshein

Using victim demographics to link serial homicide crime scenes

11:45-12:00

Sarah Heiman

Linking serial homicide: A multidimensional analysis of post-mortem criminal behavior themes

12:00-12:15

Ashley Caldwell

Discerning homicide motivation through understanding the relationship between overt and covert sexual crime scene behaviors

12:15-12:30

Allison Guilbault

Homicide of prostitutes: An exploratory study

12:30-12:45

Autumn Frei

Behavioral consistency among single offense and serial offense rapists:Behavior evidence and its implications for rape investigation

12:45-1:45

Break for lunch and Posters

1:45-2:00

Opening of Afternoon Session - Dr James Wulach, Director of MA Program

2:00-3:30

Session 3 Sexual offenders & Intimate Partner Violence

2:00-2:15

Michael Chajewski

A self-report version of the Sexual Offender Need Assessment Rating (SONAR)

2:15-2:30

Brandy Blasko

A Comparison of Sexually Violent Predators and Sex Offenders not Meeting Sexually Violent Predator Status

2:30-2:45

Aviva Moster

U.S prison Wardens’ thoughts on prevalence, classification, and prevention of male prison rape

2:45-3:00

Rebecca Bauer

Delinquency, depression, and suicidal behaviors in an urban college population

3:00-3:15

Alicia N. Carter

Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol Use

3:15-3:30

Kathleen Gates

Effect of Injury on Victim Responses to IPV

3:30-4:00

Refreshments and Posters

4:00-5:30

Session 4   Juvenile Psychopathy

4:00-4:15

Stuart White

ADHD, conduct problems and psychopathy: Interaction effects in a juvenile population

4:15-4:30

Vanessa Novalis

Association between psychopathic-like traits, low anxiety, & patterns of antisocial behaviors in juveniles

4:30-4:45

Brigette Abercrombie

Correlations of aggression subtypes and psychopathic-like traits in a juvenile population

4:45-5:00

Emily Blaine

The relationship between empathy, aggression, and psychopathic-like traits in juveniles

5:15-5:30

Closing of conference

- Dr Maureen O'Connor, Chair of the Department of Psychology

- Dr C Gabrielle Salfati and Dr Diana Falkenbach, Conference Organisers

- Daniela Yaar and Lauren Mondshein, Student co-ordinators