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Brown Bag Meetings

Time
Spring Semester 2008
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 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	Sarah Wu, MA Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine 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	Sarah Wu, M.A. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford Math Project: A Developmental Neuroscience Study
February 5	Jamal Cooks, Ph.D. Secondary Education - SFSU 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	Richard Harvey, Ph.D. Department of Health Education - SFSU Vectors of Vulnerability in Adolescent Tobacco Use / part2
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

Date	Presenter
September 4	Labor Day - No meeting
September 11	Jeff Cookston, Ph.D. Psychology - SFSU Marital dissolution processes among Chinese and Mexican-American families: A proposed social buffering developmental study
September 18	Sacha Bunge, Ph.D. Psychology - SFSU The study of attachment relationships: Challenges of a qualitative approach
September 25	Brenden Elwood Psychology - SFSU Getting a grip on infant handing: Carrying an infant facing forward may affect early social development
October 2	Chris Reilly Mating preferences of men across the lifespan
October 9	Jae Paik, Ph.D. Psychology - SFSU Elementary students learning fraction concepts - A complex system of mappings
October 16	Kate Hellenga, Ph.D. Psychology - SFSU Evaluating juvenile justice policy and practice effects: Qualitative and quantitative approaches
October 23	Linda Juang, Ph.D. Psychology - SFSU with Jennifer Arter (UC-Berkeley) and Katherine Herold (UC-Santa Cruz) Types of Internet Use among Early Adolescents: Links to Social Anxiety, Loneliness, and Family Cohesion
October 30	No meeting
November 6	Patricia Jennings, Ph.D. Garrison Institute - Program Director of Contemplation and Education Cultivating emotional balance in the classroom
November 13	Norma Perez-Brena Peer discouragement and academic coping of Latino first generation college students Talk originally presented at the National Latina/o Psychological Association under the author list Delia Gutierez, Norma J Perez-Brena, Cidhinnia Torres Campos, Jean Phinney
November 20	Thanksgiving break - No meeting
December 4	Everyone attend job talk in EP 302
December 11	Everyone attend job talk in EP 302

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 Tips for applying to Doctoral programs in Developmental Psychology
May 1	Andrea Finlay Ethnicity as a moderator of civic behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults
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 Culture, Development, and the Development of Culture
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 Co-Parenting and Play Behaviors During Triadic Family Interactions: Findings from the Family Interaction Project Jeff Cookston, Ph.D. Psychology - SFSU Imagining the Future of Immigrant Fathers from a talk prepared with Ross Parke
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 University of California at Davis Older Sibling Contributions to the Delinquency of Younger Brothers and Sisters

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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