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Graduate Student Committee Symposia |
This year the GSC sponsored the 1st Outstanding Research Award. Students submitted proposals for the opportunity to give a talk at this symposium as well as receive a Student Travel Award.
Overall, this program was a success with many competitive entries being sent in and numerous students volunteering as reviewers.
Please come and support your fellow graduate students as well as this exciting new award program! Our Outstanding Research Award Winners and speakers at this symposium are:
- Cognitive Costs of Exposure to Racial Prejudice. Jessica Salvatore (Princeton University) will speak about how encountering racial prejudice affects cognitive functioning among
members of different ethnic groups under differing conditions of clarity. Specifically, the research tested how Black and White participants were affected by exposure to ambiguous versus
blatant prejudice cues in hiring recommendations (with J. Nicole Shelton, Princeton University).
- The Effect of Stereotype Threat on the Solving of Quantitative GRE Problems: A Mere Effort Interpretation. Jeremy P. Jamieson (Northeastern University) will talk about how the
Mere effort account argues that stereotype threat motivates participants to perform well, which potentiates prepotent responses. Results for female participants showed how prepotency of
responses and problem difficulty determined performance on solving GRE problems and under what conditions performance deficits were eliminated (with Stephen G. Harkins, Northeastern University).
- Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict with the mass media: A field experiment in Rwanda. Elizabeth Levy Paluck (Yale University) will discuss the role of mass media in
shaping prejudiced beliefs, norms, and behaviors. Broadcasting a radio program that addressed some of the most critical issues for Rwanda's post conflict society can communicate social
norms and influence behaviors that contribute to intergroup tolerance and reconciliation.
- Does Peace Have A Prayer?: Effects of Mortality Salience, Compassionate Values, and Religious Fundamentalism on Out-Group Hostility. Zachary K. Rothschild
(University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) will explain how Terror management theory clarifies the impact of death reminders on American and Iranian fundamentalists' support for violence.
Additionally, the study examines under what circumstances priming compassionate religious values reduces antagonistic attitudes towards out-groups (with Tom Pyszczynski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; and Abdolhossein Abdollahi, Zarand Islamic Azad University, Iran and Kerman Shahid Bahonar University, Iran).
Abstracts and slides for the 2007 GSC Symposia are also still available.
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