Information for Presenters
Oral Presentations
The location for of Oral Presentations and Poster Presentations will be at the Rotunda. If you are using electronic media (i.e., PowerPoint) please send a copy of your presentation via email to psych-conference@virginia.edu no later than April 8. If your document is too large to email please send by regular mail to the address below. We will provide a computer and projector and have your presentation preloaded but also please bring a backup copy on CD or USB flash drive. Each Presenter should be prepared to speak for 12-15 minutes and allow 5 minutes for questions.
Poster Presentations
Sign stanchions will be provided and poster presentations should be no larger then 3.5 feet high by 5.5 feet wide.
Abstract Guidelines
All abstracts based on posters and oral presentations will be published in the Proceedings of the L. Starling Reid Undergraduate Conference. Note: This is a change from previous years in which the full papers were published. Please follow American Psychological Association style guidelines closely. Abstracts are not to exceed 120 words. Your research should be independent student research. Your faculty advisor should not be listed as a coauthor, but should be included on a separate line. See the example below.
American Children: Associations with Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors
Ellen Anderson
Advisor: Janice Zeman
The College of William and Mary
Children’s emotion regulation ability has been shown to influence psychosocial development, but this research has relied primarily on data from Western cultures. Given the important influence of culture and context on emotion processes, the current study examined emotion regulation and its associations with internalizing and externalizing behaviors in Ghanaian and American youth. Participants were 142 children from Ghana and 147 children from the United States, ages 8-15, who completed questionnaires assessing the coping, inhibition, and dysregulation of sadness and anger, frequency of emotion experiences, presence of depressed mood, and aggressive behavior. Regression analyses indicated that sadness and anger regulation do predict uniquely to depressive and aggressive behaviors in both countries.
U.S. Mail Correspondence
Stacy Sties
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 400400
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400
Email: psych-conference@virginia.edu