Psychology

Chris Leupold, associate professor of psychology and Faculty Leadership Fellow, recently delivered two presentations at Association of Leadership Educators Annual Conference which was held July 11-13 in Denver, CO.

Caregivers can face special challenges when helping clients with emotional, behavioral and learning disabilities. Leigh Ann Stutts ’11 explores these challenges and exposes gaps in caregiver training – including the need to learn forgiveness – in a recent edition of the The Open Mind, the newsletter of the Durham, N.C., chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Amy Overman, assistant professor of psychology, has been appointed as a disciplinary editor for The American Journal of Undergraduate Research.

Meredith Allison, assistant professor of psychology, coauthored a book chapter with colleagues at the University of Victoria. The new interdisciplinary book on gestures was recently published by John Benjamins.

Meredith Allison, an assistant professor of psychology, presented two papers that were co-authored with former students and colleagues at the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition international conference in New York. Both papers were included in a symposium on alibi research.

Why do sports teams perform better in their own stadiums or arenas than they do on the road? New research by assistant professor L. Kimberly Epting and Kristen Riggs ’10 suggests that it may not be the overwhelming applause that gives athletes a “home field advantage,” so much as it is the taunts that can ding their opponent.

Christopher Leupold, associate professor of Psychology and program coordinator of Leadership Studies, and Ben McFadyen, academic technology consultant from Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL), presented sessions at the annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching in Bethesda, Maryland June 3-5.

L. Kimberly Epting, an assistant professor of psychology, has published a paper in the current issue of North American Journal of Psychology that was co-authored with an Elon alumna and two graduates of Hampden-Sydney College.

L. Kimberly Epting, an assistant professor of psychology, and two senior psychology majors, Alyson Hignight and Brittany Bowers, presented research at the 37th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International in Denver, Colo., May 27-31.