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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)
October 30 No meeting
November 6 Patricia Jennings, Ph.D.
Garrison Institute - Program Director of Contemplation and Education
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 
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