VAPS 2024 Award Winners
Best undergraduate paper:
Childhood Trauma, Psychological Flexibility, and Outcomes in College Students.
Ann Marie Camp, Rob Oehler, Sarah Ballif, Skyler Revutin, Cate Kelly, & Miriam Liss (advisor), UMW.
Best graduate paper:
No award given due to fewer than 5 entries
Best undergraduate poster:
The Relationship Between Childhood Attachment and Adult Romantic Attachment. Kendall Hewitt & David Szwedo (advisor), JMU.
Best graduate poster:
COVID-19 Pandemic Experiences: Relationship with Loneliness of Current College Students. Nicole Airesman & Brian Kelley (advisor), Liberty.
VAPS 2023 Award Winners
Frederick B. Rowe Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper:
Trisha Jean Holt, Alexa Windsor, Peyton Bolt, Nicole Both, Jacob Grissom, Edward Cook, & Blake Fraser (advisor). The perception of loneliness and its causes among college students. Liberty University.
and
Jiamie Pyles, Katy Rose Price, Jalen White, Kendall Wilkinson, & Virginia Mackintosh (advisor). Characters with disabilities: Content analysis of representation in children’s literature. University of Mary Washington.
Meredith Green Best Undergraduate Poster Award:
Elizabeth Poillucci & David Szwedo (advisor). The effect of early attachment on adult physical health. James Madison University.
Frank Finger Award for the Best Graduate Paper:
Autumn Wild & David Szwedo (advisor). Analysis of predictive factors for aggression within inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. James Madison University.
William Applegate Award for the Best Graduate Poster:
Christopher Johnson & David Szwedo (advisor). Adolescent Attachment Quality as a Predictor of Future Ego-Resiliency. James Madison University.
VAPS 2022 Award Winners
Frederick B. Rowe Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper:
Madison Lane, Rachel Kim, Sarah Caldwell, Krisztina Jakobsen (advisor). A face in the clouds: Attentional bias for pareidolia. James Madison University.
and
Joshua Wenger, Susannah Moore (advisor). Motivated memory: The effect of reward on encoding and retrieval. Eastern Mennonite University.
Meredith Green Best Undergraduate Poster Award:
Emily Dillon, Abigail Schmitt, & Robin Hopkins (advisor). Efficacy of delayed retrieval practice on exam performance. Mary Baldwin University.
Frank Finger Award for the Best Graduate Paper: No award issued (fewer than 5 entries)
William Applegate Award for the Best Graduate Poster:
Alison Perlberg, Karin Pedemonte, Rachel Barkey, Rachel Tapp, & Jane Flinn (advisor). Evaluating the efficacy of young blood plasma as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in hTau mouse models. George Mason University.
VAPS 2020 and 2021 Conferences cancelled due to Covid
VAPS 2019 Award Winners
Frederick B. Rowe Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper:
Megan Jacobs. Physiological Differences in Stress Reactivity between Morning and Evening Chronotypes, University of Mary Washington.
and
Kim Bui, Kara Hogue, Sidney McPhail, Corinne Rydgren, Haley Turczynski. Error-Related Brain Activity and Mindfulness, University of Mary Washington.
Meredith Green Best Undergraduate Poster Award:
Kelsey Sullivan. Adolescent Social Rejection and Early Adulthood Adjustment, James Madison University.
Frank Finger Award for the Best Graduate Paper: No award issued (fewer than 5 entries)
William Applegate Award for the Best Graduate Poster:
Charles D. Nastos, Kayla V. Brice, Morgan N. DeLong, Paige A. Fischer, Rachel Roessel, Erin S. Townsend, Adriana Turner. Reinforcer Valuation: Pigeons in a Rapid Demand Curve Procedure, James Madison University.
VAPS 2018 Award Winners
Frederick B. Rowe Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper:
Katherine Hatton, Megan Jacobs, Erin Kaila, Mollie Rhoades, The relationship between sleep deprivation, striatal dopamine levels, and impulsivity. University of Mary Washington.
Meredith Green Best Undergraduate Poster Award:
Lara Weaver, Role of Religious Motivation and Empathy in predicting Theological Ideation. Eastern Mennonite University.
William Applegate Award for the Best Graduate Poster:
Shaundra Holmes, Nathan Hager, Ekaterina Shurkova, Katherina Nako, Matt Judah, Social Anxiety Relates to an Electrocortical Marker of Cardioceptive Attention. Old Dominion University.
VAPS 2017 Award Winners
Frederick B. Rowe Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper:
Colette Gaeta, Briana Craig, Natalie Kerr Lawrence, & Jessica Irons, Using Personalized Normative Feedback to Reduce Texting While Driving Behavior, James Madison University.
Meredith Green Best Undergraduate Poster Award:
Jamie Fishman & Zahia Almajali, Impatience and Risk as Related to Fertility, James Madison University.
Frank Finger Award for the Best Graduate Paper:
Hannah Cain, Courtney Noble, Amber Perkins, Jennifer Ripley, & Everett L. Worthington Jr., Predicting Post-natal Stress from Virtues, Empathy, and Partner Attachment, Regent University.
William Applegate Award for the Best Graduate Poster:
Courtney Nishnick, Rachel MacIntyre, & Kristin Heron, Examining the Feasibility of Implementing Smartphone-based Studies with College Women, Old Dominion University.
VAPS 2016 Award Winners
Frederick B. Rowe Award for the Best Undergraduate Paper:
Jenna D. Gray, Alyssa J. Stewart, & Steve R. Hampton, Searching for Other-Race Faces: The Role of Attractiveness,University of Mary Washington.
Meredith Green Best Undergraduate Poster Award:
Hannah Davis, Effects of Video Game Graphics on Susceptibility to Change Blindness, Ferrum College.
William Applegate Award for the Best Graduate Poster:
Sarah Brown, Konstantin P. Cigularov, Enrique Cabrera-Caban, & Daniela K. Cigularova, Academic Performance, Help-Seeking, and Demographics of College Transfer Students, Old Dominion University.