Time
Spring Semester 2011
Mondays noon – 1 p.m.
Ethnic Studies and
Psychology 503
Purpose
The purpose of the Brown Bag is to have a time for SFSU
developmental students and faculty to meet and discuss
research, how to apply to Ph.D.
programs, and hear the results of current masters' theses. Guest speakers
from developmental and other related fields are
invited to present. This is a time to get to know one
another and make connections. These will be informal
meetings so please feel free to bring a lunch!
Also, if you'd like to recommend a speaker, please
contact Jeff Cookston at
cookston@sfsu.edu
Schedule for Spring 2012
|
Date |
Presenter |
|
Feb 6 |
Planning your graduate
work in developmental
psychology at SFSU - A
discussion with the
concentration faculty |
|
Feb 20 |
Gina O'Neill - MA -
doctoral student at
UC-Davis
My first semester in
a doctoral program:
The good, the bad, and
the ugly |
|
Apr 2 |
Speaker and Title
TBD |
|
Apr 16 |
Trang Nguyen -
SFSU graduate student
Cultural differences
in factors associated
with academic
achievement
Toi Sin Arvidsson -
SFSU graduate student
A cross-cultural
study of interest,
employment
opportunities, and
motivation among college
students |
|
Apr 23 |
Christina Peter, M.A.,
University of
Illinois at Chicago
(with Laurie Meschke,
Ph.D., SFSU Child and
Adolescent Development)
Hmong American
Parents' Views on
Promoting Adolescent
Sexual Health |
|
May 7 |
David Anderson, Ph.D.,
Kinesiology - SFSU
Why do
infants plunge over
drop-offs when they
start to crawl? |
Schedule for Fall 2011
|
Date |
Presenter |
|
Aug 29 |
Jeff
Cookston, Ph.D.,
Psychology - SFSU
Title: Your Brain, Yourself!
Formative evaluation
results from an
elementary school
intervention to change
beliefs about ability |
|
Sep 19 |
Jae
Paik, Ph.D., Psychology
- SFSU
Title - Early
childhood mathematical
development: What can we
take away from
cross-cultural studies? |
|
Oct 3 |
Sarah Holley, Ph.D.,
Psychology - SFSU
Title - Can't we
finally all just get
along? A look at
marital conflict
behaviors in later life
stages |
|
Oct 10 |
Developmental psychology
faculty
Tips and tricks and
traps in writing the
personal statement to
PhD programs: How to
catch the right program
and avoid snares |
|
Oct 17 |
Scot
Schumacher, graduate
student, Psychology -
SFSU
Title -
Multilingualism,
language dissimilarity,
and inhibitory control |
|
Nov 7 |
Patricia Miller, Ph.D.,
Psychology - SFSU
Title -
Children's
strategies...no, wait,
it's metacognition...no,
wait, it's executive
function |
Schedule for Spring 2011
|
Date |
Presenter |
|
April 11 |
Derek Levine,
M. A.
Threat simulations in
earliest recalled, most important, and recent dreams
Also, we hope to talk about the 2011
conference for the Society for Research in Child
Development - click
here
for a (incomplete) schedule of events by SFSU
faculty and alumni |
|
April 25 |
Karyn Riel,
M.A.
Title: Coming soon |
|
May 9
|
Mario Aceves,
Ph.D. - Clinical Research
Associate/Lecturer
Penumbra Inc./San Francisco State University
Title: Perceptions of teachers’
actions during conflicts: Evidence of a protective
role for ethnic minority adolescents attending high
conflict schools |
|
May 16 |
MA thesis conference-style presentations
Bao Ho - Being Asian, Being
American in Emerging Adulthood: Culture, Obligation,
and Family Context
Garrett Jaeger - Motivational
Sustainability of Thought Patterns During Play
Processes
Gabrielle Lai - A
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Preschoolers's
Conventional and Non-Conventional Mathematical
Competencies
Gina O’Neill - Gestures
and Executive Function Development in Preschool
Children
Ruchita Patel - The Effects
of Concrete Models on Mathematics |
Schedule for Fall 2010
|
Date |
Presenter |
|
September 13 |
Jeff
Cookston, Ph.D.,
Psychology - SFSU
Title: He said what? Guided cognitive
reframing, the father-adolescent relationship, and
concurrent adjustment
|
|
September 27 |
Patricia Miller, Ph.D.,
Psychology - SFSU
Title: Sound body, sound
mind: Effects of exercise on children's cognition
|
|
Oct 11 |
Jae Paik, Ph.D.,
Psychology - SFSU
Title: Cultural influences
on early childhood mathematical development
|
|
Oct 25 |
Tips for applying to Doctoral programs in
Developmental Psychology
|
|
Nov 1 |
Henny Bos, Ph.D., Education - University of
Amsterdam
Title: The US
National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
|
|
Nov 15 |
Tracy Farstad, Director,
SFSU Children's Campus
Title: A day
in the life of a Child Care Director
|
|
Dec 6 |
Speaker TBD |
Schedule for Spring 2010
|
Date |
Presenter |
|
April 5 |
Christine Earle
Gender-Role Development
and an Adult Marker of Prenatal Testosterone
Jason Poyner
Music Preferences and Personality: An
Exploration Beyond Music Genre |
|
April 12 |
Sarah Brunskill
Evaluations of Change: Differences Between
Partners of How Father Needs to Change
Charlie Leer
Virginity Loss and Partner
Selection in Young Adulthood
|
|
April 19 |
Hoan Luong
Giving Children a Prefrontal
Cortex: Using Environmental Stimulus to Supplant
Existing Interference
Kammy Kwok
U.S. and Korean Teachers Use of
Concrete Manipulatives to Teach Fractions
|
|
April 26 |
Adria Banihashemi
The Relationship Between
Parental Divorce, Family Context, and Obesity Risk
in Bay Area Families
Michelle Weiner
Dinnertime Rituals: A protective factor
for Children Experiencing Separation or Divorce
|
|
May 3 |
Sarah Dovi
Play and Imitation among Children with Autism
Wenson Fung
San Francisco Sate University
The Influence of Father Support on Maternal
Parenting Stress and Behavior Among Adolescent
Mothers
|
|
May 10 |
Derek Levine
Testing the Threat
Simulation Theory with Preschool Children
Garrett Jaeger
Motivational
Sustainability of Play Processes
|
Schedule for Spring 2009
|
Date |
Presenter |
| February
2 |
Charlotte Ferretti and the Gateway to
Quality team
San Francisco State University
San Francisco ECE Harms Scale Data
results and analysis - Useful data for researchers
|
| February
9 |
Susan Courey, Ph.D.
Department of Education -
San Francisco State University
Understanding Basic Fraction Concepts through
Music: Research to Practice |
| February
16 |
Carolyn Peterson, M.A.
San Francisco State University |
| February
23 |
Developmental Social Gathering |
| March
2 |
Aubrei McGinn, M.A.
San Francisco State University |
| March
9 |
Michael Hays and Manuel Gonzales
San Francisco State University |
|
March 16 |
Jae Paik, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology -
San Francisco State University
Do U.S., Korean and Taiwanese
children benefit from the brief exposure to
transparent fraction names?
|
|
March 23 |
No meeting - Spring Break
|
|
March 30 |
Developmental Social Gathering |
|
April 6 |
Developmental Social Gathering |
|
April 13 |
Amber Lowi, M.A.
San Francisco State University
Sociocultural adjustment and family context
among Third-Culture Kids
|
|
April 20 |
Sacha Bunge, Ph.D.
San Francisco Sate University
|
|
April 27 |
Thomas Schofield, Ph.D.
Department of Human and Community
Development and Family Research Group
University of California at Davis
Correlates of father involvement in
intact-and step- families across two ethnic groups |
|
May 4 |
|
|
May 11 |
TBD
|
Schedule for Fall 2008
|
Date |
Presenter |
| September
15 |
Jae H.
Paik, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title: Language, Culture, and Conceptual
Developmental: What Can We Learn from Cross-Cultural
Comparisons? |
| October 6 |
Jeff
Cookston, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title: Marital Dissolution Processes among
Diverse Families: Navigating the Lack of Data |
| October
20 |
Rita
Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title: Latino Youth's High School Adjustment: The
Risk and Protective Factors of Perceived
Discrimination and Ethnic Identity |
| November
3 |
Ezequiel
Morsella, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title: New Findings
from the Action and Consciousness Laboratory |
| November
17 |
Developmental Social Gathering |
| December
1 |
Ryan T.
Howell, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title: The Science
of Happiness: How Income, Shopping, and the
Financial Meltdown Affect our Well-being? |
|
December 15 |
Moin Syed, Doctoral Student
Psychology - UC Santa Cruz
Title: TBA |
Schedule for Spring 2008
|
Date |
Presenter |
| February
18 |
Amy Smith, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title:
Not "Waiving" but
Drowning: The phenomenon of "Volunteering"
for Execution |
| February
25 |
Amanda
Johnson, Policy Analyst
San Francisco Unified School District
Title: In San
Francisco's School Choice System, What Are Parents
Really Choosing? |
| March 3 |
Susan
Courey, Ph.D.
College of Education - SFSU
Title: Academic Music: Understanding Basic
Fraction Concepts Through Music Notation |
| March 10 |
Jane
McClure, Licensed Educational Psychologist
McClure, Mallory & Baron Educational Counseling and
Planning
Title: TBA |
| March 17 |
Devon
McCabe, MA
Title: TBA |
| March 24 |
Spring
Recess |
| March 31 |
Cesar Chavez Day |
| April 7 |
Former
and Current MA students
Title: Tips for applying to Doctoral programs in
Developmental Psychology |
| April 14 |
Julie Law, Ph.D.
Child & Adolescent Development Program - SFSU
Title TBA |
| April 21 |
Title: TBA |
| April 28 |
David
Anderson, Ph.D.
Kinesiology - SFSU
Title: TBA |
| May 5 |
Diane Harris, Ph.D.
Child & Adolescent Development Program - SFSU
Title: TBA |
Schedule for Fall 2007
|
Date |
Presenter |
| September
3 |
Labor Day
- No meeting |
| September
10 |
Jae Paik, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Bridging the Gap between Developmental Research
and Math Education |
| September
17 |
Sacha
Bunge, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Adult attachment
status and quality of parenting |
| September
24 |
Linda
Juang, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Parents and
Adolescents Acculturation Among Chinese Immigrant
Families |
| October 1 |
Jeff
Cookston, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Three things I do well as a dad and three things
I need to change: Narrative results from the Parents
and Youth Study |
| October
8 |
Marci
Hanson, Ph.D.
College of Education - SFSU
Children's
School Success Project: Preventing School Failure |
| October
15 |
Ryan Howell, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
A Meta-Analysis of the Income-SWB Relation Among
Impoverished Samples Across the Globe |
| October
22 |
Ezequiel
Morsella, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title TBA |
| October
29 |
Priya Shimpi, Ph.D. - Post Doctorate
Fellow
Psychology - UC Santa Cruz
Title TBA |
| November
5 |
David
Gard, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Workshop: Writing Personal Statement for PhD
Programs in Developmental Psychology and Related
Areas |
| November
12 |
Veterans
Day - No Meeting |
| November
19 |
Thanksgiving Recess - No Meeting |
| November
26 |
Mark
Geisler, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title TBA |
| December
3 |
Avi Ben-Zeev,
Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Title TBA |
Schedule for Spring 2007
|
Date |
Presenter |
| January
29 |
Stanford Math Project: A
Developmental Neuroscience Study |
| February
5 |
Secondary
Education
The Achievement Gap: Is it
Closing, Widening, or Staying Still? |
| February
12 |
Grace Yoo,
Ph.D.
Asian American Studies - SFSU
Breast cancer, social
support and racially/ethnically diverse communities |
| February
19 |
Avi Ben-Zeev,
Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Behind-the-Scenes: An
Introspection on Generating Re- and Me- Search |
| February
26 |
Violet
Cheung, Ph.D. candidate
Developmental Psychology, Berkeley
Ability to delay gratification and strategic
planning: A longitudinal study |
| March 5 |
Diane
Harris,
Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Trajectories leading to overweight in
multi-generational families of African ancestry |
| March 19 |
Julie Law,
Ph.D.
Child and Adolescent Development - SFSU
Reflective Supervision: Mentoring Teachers on
Awareness of Social Emotional Development |
|
April 2 |
|
| April 9 |
Spring
Break -- no brown bag |
| April 16 |
Russell
Jeung, Ph.D.
Asian American Studies - SFSU
Religion and Resilience: The Effects of
Congregational Participation on the Educational
Attainment of Low-Income Asian Americans |
| April 30 |
Ryan
Kelly and Norma Perez-Brena
Tips for applying to Doctoral programs in
Developmental Psychology
|
| May 7 |
Qing
Zhou. Ph.D.
Department of Psychology - UC-Berkeley
Relations of Parenting and
Temperament to Chinese Children’s Behavior
Problems
also, at 10am in McKenna Hall (CA 129),
Joe White, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology emeritus -
UC-Irvine
|
| May 14 |
Shinchieh
(CJ) Duh - Developmental Masters student
Department of Psychology, SFSU
Transparency of Fraction Names and
Children’s Fraction Comprehension |
Schedule for Fall 2006
Schedule for Spring 2006
|
Date |
Presenter |
| January
30 |
All
Developmental faculty - Bunge, Cookston, Juang,
Spencer
Welcome back -- planning for spring |
| February
6 |
Roger
Mills, Ph.D.
President, Health Realization Institute
Center for Sustainable Change
Releasing the Power of Health; Innate resilience
and the capacity for change |
| February
13 |
David
Mohr, Ph.D
UCSF Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology
Stress, Depression and Multiple Sclerosis |
| February
20 |
Moin Syed,
M.A.
Doctoral candidate - UC-Santa Cruz
Exploring the links between
personal identity and social identity: The sample
case of ethnic identity |
| February
27 |
Linda
Juang, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Studying adolescents in
their cultural contexts |
| March 6 |
Devon
McCabe, M.A.
Maternal Affect, Emotion Regulation
and Parenting Styles: Associations with Preschool
Emotion, Emotion Regulation and Behavior |
| March 13 |
Brian de
Vries, Ph.D.
Gerontology Program - SFSU
The Role of
Friendship in Later Life |
| March 20 |
Kyra
Bobinet, M.D.
Founder, Vision Youthz
Universal human life stages and inner-city thugs |
| March 27 |
Ethan
Remmel, Ph.D.
Western Washington
University
Social cognition in children with cochlear
implants and children with typical hearing |
| April 3
|
Spring
Break - No Brown Bag |
| April 10 |
Cherrie
Boyer, Ph.D.
UCSF Department of Pediatrics
Preventing STDs in Adolescents and Young Adults
Using Two Intervention Strategies |
| April 17 |
Neesha
Patel, Ph.D.
Counseling Department
Race-related and
gender-related stress in the lives of Asian
American female college students
|
| April 24 |
Jennifer
Arter, Jennifer Becnel, Andrea Finlay, Joelle
LeMoult
|
| May 1
|
Andrea
Finlay
|
| May 8
|
Jennifer
Becnel
Relationships among
sociodemographic factors,
IMB mode constructs, and
sexual risk factors in female military
recruits
Pubertal timing and risk
behaviors:
Parental and Peer
influences as mediators
|
| May 15
|
Mario
Aceves
Doctoral candidate - UC-Berkeley
The Development of Stigmatizing Attitudes Towards
People with Mental Illness |
Schedule for Fall 2005
|
Date |
Presenter |
| August 29 |
Jeff
Cookston, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Predicting risk among divorced families - Results
from the Dads for Life Preventive Intervention
|
| September
5 |
Labor Day
- No meeting |
| September
12 |
Tom
Spencer, PhD
Psychology - SFSU
Teaching undergraduate
students |
| September
19 |
Rakia
Bolds
COR Student - SFSU Department of Psychology
The Acceptance of
Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV in
Pregnant Women in Ghana where Antiviral
Medication is Available
|
| September
26 |
Jennifer
Arter
Psychology - SFSU
Self-Reported Attachment and Feelings About
Children |
| October 3 |
David
Gard, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
Negative Symptoms in
Schizophrenia Across the Lifespan: Emotion,
Anticipation, and Enjoyment |
| October
10 |
David
Matsumoto, Ph.D.
Psychology - SFSU
|
| October
17 |
Julianna Deardorff, PhD
UCSF Health Psychology
Program
Early puberty, stress, and related
outcomes |
| October
24 |
Kristin
Hunt
Honors Student - SFSU Department of Psychology |
| October
31 |
Scott
de Guzman
SFSU Developmental Psychology Graduate Student |
| November
7 |
Sacha
Bunge, PhD
Psychology - SFSU
Qualitative analyses of
parent-child interaction |
| November
14 |
Marina
Abalakina, PhD
Psychology - SFSU
Reverence toward mother in
Ecuador and in the United States |
| November
21 |
Terry Gutkin
Counseling - SFSU
Public Health Approaches to Mental Health Services
in Schools: A Rationale and Some Empirically
Supported Interventions |
| November
28 |
No
meeting |
| December
5 |
Katherine J. Conger, PhD
Department of Human &
Community Development
|
Schedule for Spring 2005
|
Date |
Presenter |
| February
7 |
Claire
Barnes
Kids' Turn, A Leader in Educational
Programs for Divorcing Families |
| February
14 |
Sacha
Bunge, Jeff Cookston, Linda Juang, & Tom Spencer
Submitting research for presentation at a
conference: Demystifying the process |
| February
21 |
Katherine
Herold, Moin Syed, & Sarah Wu
Tips for applying to Doctoral programs in
Developmental Psychology |
| February
28 |
David Heubner
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies - UCSF
Preventing Risk Behaviors in Lesbian, Gay, and
Bisexual Adolescents |
| March 7 |
Mike
Disch
Department of Psychology - UC-Berkeley
Perception of Object Velocity |
| March 14 |
David
Anderson
Kinesiology - San Francisco State University
The significance of visual
proprioception in motor and psychological
development
|
| March 21 |
No
meeting - Spring Break |
| March 28 |
Chandra
Ghosh Ippen
Child Trauma Research Project - UCSF
Examining the
efficacy of Child-Parent Psychotherapy: A dyadic
attachment based treatment for young children
exposed to trauma |
| April 4 |
Laurie
Meschke
Child and Adolescent Development Program - SFSU
Hmong Adolescent Pregnancy: Action Research
Exemplified |
| April 11 |
David
Funder
Psychology - University of California, Riverside
A social psychological approach to personality
judgment: How to judge personality accurately |
| April 18 |
Annette
N'Cho
SFSU Developmental Psychology MA candidate
Motivation to Succeed: An Evaluation of 4-D Stars
Academic Sports Academy |
| April 25 |
Jennifer
Arter
SFSU Developmental Psychology MA candidate
Non-Parents? Ideas about
Parenting: The Influence of Attachment Security |
| May 2 |
Kate
Herold
SFSU Developmental Psychology MA candidate
Which is more important for
theory of mind development: Language or social
interaction? |
| May 9 |
Amber
Wingfield
SFSU Developmental Psychology MA candidate
The relationships between parenting, self-esteem,
and depression:Voice as a mediator |
| May 16 |
Sarah Wu
SFSU Developmental Psychology MA candidate
Title TBA |
Schedule for Fall 2004
|
Date |
Presenter
|
|
August 30
|
Tom Spencer, Peter
Morse, & Moin Syed
Psychology - SFSU
Undergraduate teaching experience and graduate
education: Learning as teachers |
|
September 6
|
Labor Day, No Brown
Bag Meeting |
|
September 13
|
Jeff Cookston
Psychology - SFSU
Coparenting during triadic play: Results from the
Family Interaction Project |
|
September 20
|
Linda Juang
Psychology - SFSU
Mental health and Asian American youth |
|
September 27
|
Sacha Bunge
Psychology - SFSU
Intergenerational cycles of abuse: The role of
attachment relationships |
|
October 4
|
Kelly Werner
Clinical graduate student – UC-Berkeley
Neural correlates of empathy |
|
October 11
|
Judy Chu
Lecturer - Stanford - Human Biology
Learning What Boys Know: Reconsidering Boys'
Development Through a Relational Framework |
|
October 18
|
Rosa
Casarez-Levison
Secondary Education – SFSU
Trauma and Learning:
Implications for poor and ethnic minority
populations - particularly Latino populations |
|
October 25
|
Speaker TBA |
|
November 1
|
Amy Smith
Psychology - SFSU
All roads lead to death: social histories, social
context, and the death penalty |
|
November 8
|
Rebecca Toporek
Counseling – SFSU
Title TBA |
|
November 15
|
Pamela Wolfberg
Special Education - SFSU
Peer Play and the Autism Spectrum: Blending
Theory, Research and Meaningful Practice
|
|
November 22
|
Terry Gutkin
Counseling - SFSU
No Child Left Behind: The Good, The Bad, and The
Ugly |
|
November 29
|
Jessica Fields
Sociology – SFSU
Youth Sexuality
Educators and the Conflicting Social Roles of Peer
and Teacher |
|
December 6 |
Rita Melendez
Human Sexuality - SFSU
HIV Issues among Male-to-Female Transgenders |
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