Recent Publications

Recent Student Oral and Presentations

Note. *Indicates student authorship

Anjewierden*, B. &  Gaffney, A. M. (2023, April). Positive and Negative Contact Experiences as Predictors of Attitudes Toward Law Enforcement. Presentation to be given at the annual conference of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, CA.

Crocker*, J. S. & Gaffney, A. M. (2023, April). The Relationship Between Prejudice Toward Women and Gay Men and the Role of Self and Identity Threats. Presentation at the annual conference of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, CA.

Hunter*, C., Belt*, G., Evans*, Z., Gaffney, A. M. (2023, April). Former Leader Transgressions Affect New Leader Preferences. Poster session at the annual conference of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, CA.

Wilson*, A., Royer*, Z., Ross*, J., Syfers*, L., & Gaffney, A. M. (2023, April). Laying Claim to a Shared Identity: From Polarization to Threat. Symposium talk presented at the  annual conference of the Western Psychological Association, Riverside, CA.

Anjewierden*, B. J., Crocker*, J. S., Royer*, Z., Kuljian*, O., Syfers*, S., Hohman Z. P., Gaffney, A. M. (2023, February). Who Does My Political Party Want Me to Be? Political Party Identification and Uncertainty Reduction. Poster session at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA.

Conso, C., Souter, S.S., Mcdowell*, J., Syfers*, L., Gaffney, A. M. (2023, February). Harnessing grievance: How leaders’ rhetorical strategies encourage violent extremism. Poster session at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA.

Ouyang*, Y., Rast, D. E. III, & Gaffney, A. M. (2023, February). Need for a distinct identity: Effects of social identity rhetoric, group entitativity, and group identification on leader effectiveness. Poster session at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA.

Royer*, Z. G., Griffith*, Z. M., Conso, C., Gaffney, A.M. (2023, February). Soothing identity uncertainty: Identification with entitative parenting groups. Poster session at the 24th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA.

Crocker*, J. S., Wilson*, A., Gaffney, A. M. (2022, August). Examining How Uncertainty Predicts Heterosexual Men's Prejudice Toward Women and Gay Men Poster session presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Mineappolis, MN.

Wilson,* A., Crocker*, J. S., Gaffney, A. M., Hackett. J.D. (2022, August). Identification with all of humanity and empathy toward animals. Poster session presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Minneapolis, MN.

Rosales-Vijil*, E., Royer, Z*., Ashworth, L., Hahn A. C., Gaffney, A. M. (2022, July). Overriding biological defenses through self-categorization: The partisan divide over COVID-19. Poster presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Political Psychology. Athens, Greece. 

Ma*, A. C., Rast, D. E. III., & Gaffney, A. M. (2022, June) Setting the standard: Leaders changing perceived norms within groups [data blitz presentation]. 2022 Canadian Psychological Association Social & Personality preconference, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Burt*, M., Lopez*, A., Kothari*, R., Reynolds*, H., Syfers*, L., Gaffney, A. M. (2022, February). Who’s got your vote? Exploring the use of rhetoric and its impact on uncertain voters. Poster session to be presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA. 

Conso*, M. C., McDowell*, J., Ross*, J., Hackett, J.D., & Gaffney, A. M. (2022, February). Black Lives Matter: Leader attitudes, relative deprivation, and political polarization.  Poster session at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Frederick*, J. L., Wilson*, A., Pike*, J., Rast, D. E. III, & Gaffney, A. M. (2022, February). Did Republicans or Democrats change their feelings of leader prototypicality or self-uncertainty after the 2020 presidential election? Poster session at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Kuljian*, O. R., Hohman, Z. P., & Gaffney, A. M. (2022, February). Perceptions of Leaders' Prototypicality Affects Self-prototypicality and Uncertainty [Poster presentation]. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Virtual Annual Meeting.

Ma*, A. C., Rast, D. E. III., & Gaffney, A. M. (2022, February). “Our” values: Effects of leader rhetoric on perceptions of multiculturalism. Poster session at the annual conference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

McDowell*, J., Obiekezie*, C., Martin*, A., Burg*, Z., Conso*, M., Hackett, J. D., & Gaffney, A. M. (2022, February). Self-uncertainty and cultural appropriation. Poster session to be presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Pang*, J. & Gaffney, A. M. (2022, February). Ally or ‘All Lives’? Measuring voter attitudes toward social justice movements before and after the 2020 presidential election. Poster session to be presented at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Ouyang*, Y., Rast, D. E. III, Gaffney, A. M., & Razvan* H. (2022, February). Leadership preferences during uncertain times: The use of social identity rhetoric in international relations. Poster presentation at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Francisco, CA.

Souter*, S. S., Gardner*, S. E., Valdovinos*, P. E., & Gaffney, A. M. (2021, July). Identification with conspiracy groups online: The impacts of social isolation, self-uncertainty, and support for Donald Trump. Paper at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Virtual.

Estrada*, D. & Gaffney, A.M. (2021, February). Means to an End: Examining the relationship between need for closure and an extremist government. Poster presentation at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Griffith*, Z. M., Peabody, J*, Gaffney, A. M., & Hagger, M. S. (2021, February). COVID-19 health anxiety and perceptions of safety in training on campus among coaches and student athletes. Poster presentation at the Health Preconference at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Peabody*, J., & Gaffney, A. M. (2021, February). Integrating ideological polarization into the social identity model of collective action. Poster presentation at the 22nd annual conference of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.

Kincaid*, K., Ma*, A., Conso*, M., Estrada*, D., Reynolds*, H., Gaffney, A. M., & Rast, D. E. III (2021, February). That's my autocrat: Does concern for COVID-19 inoculate autocratic ingroup leaders? Poster presentation at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Ma*, A. C., Rast, D. E. III, & Gaffney, A. M. (2021, February). Uncertainty and Exclusion: Do feelings of identity-related uncertainty lead to greater acceptance of exclusionary leader rhetoric? Poster presentation at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Souter*, S. S., Gardner*, S. E., Valdovino*s, P. E., & Gaffney, A. M. (2021, February). The Plandemic: How support for Trump and self-uncertainty results in motivation to identify with conspiracy groups online. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Group Processes and Intergroup Relations preconference, Virtual.

Syfers*, L., Rast, D. E. III, & Gaffney, A. M. (2021, February). Leaders as agents of change and agents of continuity in the 2019 Canadian General Election. Poster presentation at the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.