Fall Academy 2018

University of Virginia

Date: October 12-15, 2018
Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Organizer: Steven M. Boker

LECTURES

Pamela Davis-Kean, University of Michigan
The role of self concept of ability in understanding achievement across development
Michael Eid, Freie Universität Berlin
Bifactor models for predicting criteria by general and specific factors: Problems and alternatives
Hudson Golino, University of Virginia
Estimation, replicability and falsifiability of latent factors using exploratory graph analysis
Brian Nosek, University of Virginia
Shifting incentives from getting it published to getting it right
Per B. Sederberg, University of Virginia
Tracking neuro capacity with an experiment and modeling ecosystem
Amrisha Vaish, University of Virginia
Social emotions and their prosocial functions in early development

FELLOW PRESENTATIONS

Miranda Beltzer, UVA (Advisor: Bethany Teachman)
Applying reinforcement learning to understand personalized, contextual effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies
Tania Bermudez, UZH (Advisors: Urte Scholz, Andreas Maercker)
Adjustment disorder in cardiovascular disease patients: An intensive-longitudinal study
Walter Bierbauer, UZH (Advisor: Urte Scholz)
Robot-assisted therapy in chronic stroke patients: A feasibility study looking at adherence to at-home treatment recommendations
Julia Brehm, UZH (Advisors: Anja Gampe, Moritz M. Daum)
Influence of model competency on memory and attention during word learning
Tiago Cabaço, HU (Advisor: Manuel Völkle)
Towards modeling change in cognitive processes using the COGITO study data
Brian B. Cardini, UZH (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
Age-differential effects of opportunity costs on exhaustion and recovery
Todd Chan, UM (Advisor: Oscar Ybarra)
God has a bigger plan for people without friends: Religion as purpose for the socially disconnected
Ebru Ger, UZH (Advisor: Moritz Daum)
Mapping sentences to causal events in Turkish and Swiss-German
Laura Jagoda, UZH (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
Making use of the longitudinal nature of an event-related EEG design to investigate tinnitus
Ann-Kathrin Joechner, MPIB (Advisor: Markus Werkle-Bergner)
Spotlight on the sleeping brain! The role of sleep in memory consolidation across childhood
Angela Jones, MPIB (Advisor: Azzurra Ruggeri)
Learning: Effectiveness or memory?
Jessica Kansky, UVA (Advisor: Joe Allen)
Fighting fair with parents and peers: Differential impacts of conflict negotiation processes on adolescent sexual and romantic relationship experiences
Anna Karlsson, MPIB (Advisor: Myriam Sander)
Age differences in the contextualization of memories
Marko Katana, UZH (Advisors: Mike Martin, Lutz Jäncke)
Short-term variability of future time perspective in everyday life
Caroline M. Kelsey, UVA (Advisor: Tobias Grossmann)
Infants’ brain responses to pupillary changes in others are affected by race
Christoph Koch, MPIB (Advisor: Nicolas Schuck)
How age shapes neural representations: fMRI evidence for broader tuning functions in older adults
Mario Lawes, FU (Advisor: Michael Eid)
Factor score estimation in multi-method planned missing data designs
Zita Mayer, UZH (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
Take a break from your goals? Antecedents and consequences of goal shelving
Jessica Mazen, UVA (Advisor: Cynthia Tong)
Bias correction for replacement samples in longitudinal research
Shauna L. Mc Gee, UZH (Advisors: Andreas Maercker, Myriam V. Thoma)
Factors associated with adversity-related positive development: Resilience in Irish adult survivors of childhood institutional abuse
Tabea Meier, UZH (Advisors: Mike Martin, Andrea B. Horn)
Lost in translation? How gender is expressed through language and how this affects audience evaluations in TED talks – A study protocol
Lea Mörsdorf, UZH (Advisors: Alexandra M. Freund, Moritz M. Daum)
Is it about the "how" or "why" of goal pursuit? A study on goal focus across the entire lifespan
Robert Moulder, UVA (Advisor: Steven M. Boker)
Tangle: Defining a new measure of time series complexity
Pia Neuschwander, UZH (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
Speech intelligibility in noise: Influence of hearing abilities, cognition, and brain structure
Sophie Potter, HU (Advisor: Denis Gerstorf)
Well-being trajectories in old age and health: The role of optimism and personality
Connair Russell, MPIB (Advisor: Annie Wertz)
Selective associations: Edibility and distaste in plant vs non-plant objects
Larissa Stuber, UZH (Advisor: Moritz Daum)
The influence of language on young children‘s understanding of causal relations
Lauren Tighe, UM (Advisors: Pamela Davis-Kean, Toni Antonucci)
Low-income yet highly-educated: Trajectory and achievement differences in children from low-income, highly-educated families
Sean Womack, UVA (Advisor: Mel Wilson)
Trajectories of family instability and disruptive behaviors across early childhood: A longitudinal prospective study of at-risk families
Meltem Yucel, UVA (Advisors: Amrisha Vaish, Gerald Clore)
Sentimental norms: Children and adults show greater physiological arousal to moral than conventional transgressions