Student Poster Award


2023

General SSCP Student Poster Award Winner - Kaitlyn Tobin, Georgia State University - Does Parental Acceptance/Warmth Moderate Longitudinal Bidirectional Associations between Parents’ and Children’s Internalizing Psychopathology?

SSCP Diversity Study Poster Award Winner Sara Albrecht Soto, Pennsylvania State University - Perceived Neighborhood Cohesion Predicts Daily/Weekly Worries Differently across Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States

SSCP Aspiring Researcher Award Winner Drishti Sanghvi, Teachers College, Columbia University - Examining the Relationship between Trait and State Emotion Regulation

Distinguished Contributions - 

  • Liga Eihentale, Florida International University - Posttraumatic Stress Is Uniquely Associated with Overgeneralization of Negative Memories in Early Adolescents with Anxiety
  • Brendan Lam, Yale University - The Moderating Effect of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Delay Discounting and Externalizing Behaviors in Adolescents
  • Andrew Ross, University of Rochester - Parent Alcohol Use Disorder Predicts Offspring Problem Alcohol Use Above and Beyond the Effects of Child Maltreatment
  • Madison Schulte, The College of William and Mary - Maltreatment-Related Risk and Attachment Security Predict Disagreement in Parent-Child Reports
  • Whitney Shepherd, Baylor College of Medicine - Examining the Relationship between Aggression and Emotion Regulation within Misophonia
  • Emma Tussey, Idaho State University - Longitudinal Associations between Sleep Hygiene Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors

2022

Aspiring Researcher Poster Winner: Tiffany Tran, BA - Vanderbilt University - Positive Concurrent and Prospective Associations between Well-Being and Self-Esteem in the Context of Father- and Mother-Child Closeness in Adolescence: A Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model

Diversity Student Poster Winner: Raksha Kandlur, MA - Old Dominion University - University Racial Campus Climate and Mental Well-Being Among College Students: The Role of Feeling Valued, Sense of Belonging, and Racial Saliency

General SSCP Student Poster Winner: May Conley, MS - Yale University - Person-Centered Profiles of Multicontextual Perceived Threat Show Distinct Patterns of Neural Activation during an Emotional Working Memory Task

Distinguished Contributions:

Grace Allison - McGill University - Pathways to Depression in Women and Girls: Understanding Neural Correlates of Intergenerational Transmission of Major Depressive Disorder and the Role of Early-Onset Maternal Depression

Aislinn Sandre - McGill University - Adults with More Severe Childhood Maltreatment Show Blunted Neural Response to and Greater Difficulty Learning from Facial Affect

Abhishek Saxena, MA - University of Rochester - Training Volitional Control of the Theory of Mind Network with Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback

2021

General SSCP Student Poster Award Winner- Suzanne Estrada, M.S., M.Phil., Yale University - Trajectories of Parental Harshness and Exposure to Community Violence across Adolescence Differentially Predict Engagement in Antisocial Behavior

SSCP Diversity Student Poster Award Winner - Karen Rosado-Mercado, BA, CGG, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus - Attention Bias and Interference of Emotional Valence Stimuli in Young and Older Hispanic Adults

SSCP Global Mental Health Student Poster Award Winner - Lily Brouder, University of Notre Dame (Undergraduate Student) - Theory Building through Generalizability: What Diverse Samples Can Teach Us about Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression

Distinguished Contributions:

Shuquan Chen, MS, Columbia University - What Predicts Resilience and Psychopathology Following Strict Lockdown in the Greater Wuhan Area: A Four-Wave Longitudinal Study

Ellie Gorman, University of Notre Dame (Undergraduate Student) - Tracking the Effect of COVID-19 on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety

Stephanie Gotsis, MS, The Australian National University - Psychosis-Spectrum Symptoms Enhance the Ability of High-Frequency Transcranial Random Stimulation (hf-tRNS) to Induce Internal Neural Noise and Reduce External Noise Filtering

Steven Kasparek, BA, Harvard University - Differentiating between Us & Them: Intergroup Bias As a Novel Mechanism Linking Childhood Violence Exposure with Internalizing Psychopathology

Delshad Shroff, MA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Understanding the Association between Spirituality and Mental Health Outcomes in Adolescents in India and the United Arab Emirates

2020

Shuquan Chen (Global Mental Health Poster Competition Winner), Teachers College, Columbia University - Stress-Induced Testosterone and Cortisol Outputs, Stressful Life Events, and Prospective Relation to Depression: A Longitudinal Study

Katherine Venturo-Conerly, Harvard University - School-Based, Lay-Provider-Delivered Single-Session Interventions Reduce Anxiety in Kenyan Adolescents: Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Julia Yarrington, University of California, Los Angeles - Examining the Dimensionality of Anxiety and Depression: A Latent Profile Approach to Modeling Transdiagnostic Features

Distinguished Contributions:

Meredith Blackwell, University of New Mexico - In Culturally Diverse Refugee Populations Chronic Stressors Disparately Moderate the Relationship between Trauma Exposure and Adverse Psychological Outcomes

Grace Brennan, Yale University - Physically Aggressive Individuals Show More Effective Post-Decisional Evidence Accumulation for Angry Faces

Viviane Valdes, Emory University - Maternal Perceived Stress, Parental Education, and Child Stimulation Are Associated with Infant Development at 3 Months in Rural Guatemala

2019

Winners:

Brooke G. McKenna; Emory University, Informing the Fetal Programming Hypothesis for Offspring Depression: HPA-Axis Polygenic Risk Interacts with Maternal Prenatal Stress

Brittany Leigh Drake, UCLA, Expressive Disclosure Among Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer: The Role of Psychological Distance

Meredith A. Blackwell, University of New Mexico, Effectiveness of Community Lay Therapists Treating Displaced Persons in Kurdish Iraq **Global Mental Health Entry

Distinguished Contributions:

Stephanie Lock Man Lung, McGill University, The Dual Facets of Cognitive Flexibility: Key to Its Paradox and Autism Assessment

Xinyi  Zhan, University at Buffalo, Decentering and Defusion As Moderators of the Association between Repetitive Negative Thinking and Social Anxiety 

Cindy  Chang, Rutgers University, Sexual Minority Status and Psychological Risk for Suicide Attempt: A Serial Multiple Mediation of Social Support and Emotion Regulation 

Emma  Weizenbaum, Boston University, Cognitive Variability in the Wild: Internal and Contextual Correlates of Cognitive Performance As Assessed By Smartphone

Sarah  Sant'Ana, University of Wisconsin, Facebook Diagnoses Alcohol Use Disorder in Undergraduates 

Samuel Cheuk Yin  Law, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Performance Goal and Academic Stress: Can Self-Compassion Help Reduce Academic Stress for College Students in Hong Kong **Global Mental Health Entry

2017

Winners:

Ema Tanovic, Yale University, Anticipatory Neural Activity Is Enhanced By Uncertain Threat

Adrienne Romer, Duke University, Structural Alterations within Cerebellar Circuitry Are Associated with General Liability for Common Mental Disorders

Brooke Slawinski, Michigan State University, The Etiology of Social Aggression

Distinguished Contribution:

Esther Tung, Boston University, Distinct Risk Profiles in Social Anxiety Disorder

Nauder Namaky, University of Virginia, Looking out or Checking out? the Differential Effects of Trait Anxiety and Depression on Frontal Asymmetry during Loss Anticipation

Lara Moody, Virginia Tech University Remote Alcohol Monitoring for Behavioral Interventions: Implementation Intentions As a Strategy to Reduce Drinking

Aliona Tsypes, Binghamton University, The State University of New York, Neural Reward Responsiveness in Children with Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

Abhishek Saxena, Rush University Medical Center, Neuroplasticity in Neural Networks of Emotion Following Targeted Social Cognition Training

2016

Winners:

Jesse Kaye - Psychometric Properties of Psychophysiological Paradigms in the NIMH RDoC: Startle and Corrugator Response in NPU, Affective Picture Viewing, and Resting State Tasks

Hilary Lambert - Child Maltreatment Disrupts Contextual Processing

Ryan Egan - Evaluating the Expressed Emotion Model in Chronic Low-Back Pain Using Observational Coding of Marital Interactions and Pain Behaviors

Charlotte Heleniak - Childhood Maltreatment Exposure and Disruptions in Emotion Regulation: A Transdiagnostic Pathway to Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology

Distinguished Contribution:

Amy M. Rapp - Resilience moderates the association of attitudinal familism and social anxiety in a sample of rural, Latino adolescents

Kathrin  Herzhoff - A Meta-Analytic Review of Gender Differences in Youth Externalizing Comorbidity

Melinda Westlund Schreiner - Heightened Amygdala-Insula Connectivity at Rest Corresponds to Rejection Sensitivity in Adolescents with Self-Injury

Derek M. Novacek - Stress Exposure and Social Cognition in Youth at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis 

Karen R. Black - Linking Anxiety With Behavior in Autism

Carolyn Davies  - Time Course of Amygdala Activity during Speech Anticipation in Social Anxiety Disorder

Katherine Leppert - Children’s Cortisol Responses to a Laboratory Stressor from Early to Middle Childhood

Adam R. Cobb - Cortisol and Testosterone Predict War-zone Stress-Evoked Depression

2015

Winners:

“The “Big Three” Personality Disorders: Rethinking the DSM’s Cluster System”

Student Author: Joanna Berg

“Assessing Clinical Complexity: Evidence for Network-Based Prediction of Suicidal Ideation”

Student Author: Diana Steakley-Freeman

“Stability of EEG Frontal Asymmetry and associations with maternal depression in young children”

Student Author: Brandon Goldstein

Distinguished Contributions:

“Reflexive Avoidance in Veterans with and without Combat-Related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder”

Student Author: Carolyn Davies

“Fluctuation in Self-Reported Motivation is Negatively Associated with Effort for Reward”

Student Author: Jessica Swinea

“Neurophysiological Evidence Linking Children's Mindset and Post-error Performance”

Student Author: Sharon Lo

“The Interaction Between Parental Depression and Parental Hostility on Preschoolers’ Cortisol Awakening Response”

Student Author: Katherine Leppert

“Investigation of the relation of atypical antipsychotic use and stress on weight gain in individuals in the psychosis prodrome: preliminary analyses”

Student Author: Joya Hampton

 “Family History in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis with Comorbid ADHD”

Student Author: Katrina Goines

2014

Winners

Krista Clews De Castella (Australian National University)
Title: Implicit Theories of Emotion and their Role in Psychopathology and Treatment

Maureen E McQuillan (Indiana University)
Title: Toddlers’ Sleep, Sustained Attention, and Adjustment

Ann Roepke (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-based Tool that Reduces Depression Symptoms

Kristin Wilborn (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Title: Appraised discrimination predicts inflammation via increased depression and blunted cortisol in Mexican-Americans

Distinguished Contributions

Kathleen Crum (Florida International University)
Title: Violent Crime Exposure Moderates Conduct Problems Among Youth Exposed to the Boston Marathon Attacks

Lisa Hecht (Georgia State University)
Title: Factors of trait impulsivity exhibit specific associations with subtypes of aggression

Juliette Iacovino (Washington University, St. Louis)
Co-Authors: Ryan Bogdan, Thomas F Oltmanns
Title: Neuroticism predicts declines in health through ongoing stressful life events

Huiting Liu (university of Illinois, Chicago)
Title: Time Course of Threat Responding in Panic Disorder

Andrea Niles (University of California, Los Angeles)
Title: Amygdala Hyper-activation During Affect-Labeling is Associated with Emotional Reactivity in Anxiety Patients

Mercedes Fernandez Oromendia (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Title: Self-Affirmation Effective at Decreasing Defensive Processing: Could  Positive Moods Be Enough?

Gabriella Quiñones-Torres (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Title: Dominance Mediates the Relation between Testosterone and Depression in Married Couples

Sarah Smith (Emory University)
Title: A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Response Modulation Hypothesis of Psychopathy

2012

Winners

“Protective Body Posture Modulates Physiological Response to Threat”
Joseph Wielgosz, Lisa M. Repshas, Lawrence L. Greischar, & Richard J. Davidson - 
University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Poorer Neighborhood Quality at Age 12 Predicts Stronger Acc Activation to Rejection Sensitivity in Young Adulthood”
Marlen Z. Gonzalez, Lane Beckes, Joanna Chango, Joseph P. Allen, & James A. Coan - 
University of Virginia


Distinguished Contributions

“Social Exclusion and Fearlessness Predict a Laboratory Proxy for Suicidal Behavior”
Jennifer L. Hames, Caroline Silva, Jessica D. Ribeiro, Nadia E. Teale, &Thomas E. Joiner - Florida State University

“Using Self- and Informant-Reported Personality Profiles to Predict Psychopathology”
Erin M. Lawton, & Thomas F. Oltmanns - Washington University in Saint Louis

“The Role of Stress Modality and Cognition in Neuroendocrine Reactivity During Childhood”
Stefanie E. Mayer, & Nestor L. Lopez-Duran - University of Michigan

“Maternal Depression and Early Child Temperament Predict Young Children’s Salivary Cortisol During Early Childhood”
Victoria C. Smith, Lea R. Dougherty, Thomas M. Olino, Margaret Dyson, Sara Bufferd, Suzanne Rose, & Daniel N. Klein - University of Maryland, College Park, and Stony Brook University

“Family Transmission of a General Risk for Externalizing Disorders: An Adoption Study”
Katherine T. Foster, Brian M. Hicks, William G. Iacono, & Matt McGue - University of Michigan and University of Minnesota

“Indirect and Direct Affective Evaluations of Unhealthy Foods”
Halley E. Woodward, & Teresa A. Treat - University of Iowa

“Childhood Victimization and Perceived Task Performance Predict Caloric Intake Following Stress Exposure”
Aimee J. Midei, & Karen A. Matthews - University of Pittsburgh

“Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia Improves Sleep Efficiency and Insomnia Severity Index in Insomnia Co-Morbid With Sleep Apnea or Periodic Limb Movements”
Leanna R. Garb, Richard Bootzin, Spencer Dawson, Jennifer Cousins, Keith Fridel, Souraya Sidani, Dana Epstein, & Patricia Moritz - University of Arizona, University of Pittsburgh, The Center for Sleep Medicine, Ryerson University, Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System, and University of Colorado Health Services Center

“Daily Cognitive Reactivity Is a Negative Prospective Predictor of Depressive Symptoms”
Stefanie T. LoSavio, Lawrence H. Cohen, & Brendt P. Parrish - University of Delaware

“Early Menarche and Later Depressive Symptomatology: The Role of Prepubertal Depressive Symptoms”
Sarah R. Black, & Daniel N. Klein - Stony Brook University

“Parental Depression, Parenting, and Cortisol Reactivity in Preschoolers”
Marissa R. Tolep, Victoria C. Smith, Suzanne Rose, & Lea R. Dougherty - University of Maryland, College Park, and Stony Brook University 

2011

Winners

A Meta-Analysis of Component Controlled Trials of CBT for Anxiety Disorders
Sacha Brown, Daniel F. Hill, Jonathon C. Gable, Liam P. Porter, W. Jake Jacobs - University of Arizona

Paradoxical Cardiovascular Effects of Adaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Amelia Aldao, Douglas S. Mennin - Yale University

Distinguished Contribution 

A Meta-Analytic Review of Mood-Congruent Implicit Memory in Depressed Mood
Melinda Gaddy, Rick E. Ingram - University of Kansas

Depressed and Anxious Persons Inhibit Positive Information:  Three Subliminal Perception Studies
E. Samuel Winer, Daniel Cervone - University of Illinois at Chicago

Emotional Go/No-Go Task Predicts Trait Aggression
Katherine G. Denny, Matthias Siemer - University of Miami

High Negative Affectivity and Attenuated Neuroendocrine Reactivity in Women with Borderline Personality
Lori N. Scott & Kenneth N. Levy - Pennsylvania State University, Douglas A. Granger, Johns Hopkins University

Is Reassurance Seeking Specific to Depression?
Nehjla Mashal, Lisa Wang, Richard E. Zinbarg - Northwestern University

Reciprocal Relationship Between Peer Relational Victimization and Depression in Early Adolescence
Elissa J. Hamlat, Angelo S. Boccia, Jonathan P. Stange, Lauren B. Alloy - Temple University

2010

Winners

Autumn J. Kujawa, Stony Brook University

Young Daughters of Depressed Mothers Selectively Attend to Sad Emotional Faces
Autumn J. Kujawa, Dana Torpey, Jiyon Kim, Greg Hajcak, Suzanne Rose, Daniel N. Klein

Theresa A. Morgan, University of Iowa

What’s in a Paper Trail? A New Document-Based Assessment of Personality, SPAN-DOC
Theresa A. Morgan, Lee Anna Clark, Peter Tyrer

Anna Weinberg, Stony Brook University

Vigilance-Avoidance in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Revealed Through Event-Related Potentials
Anna Weinberg, Greg Hajcak

Distinguished Contributions

Christine B. Cha, Harvard University

Attentional Bias Toward Suicide-Related Stimuli Predicts Future Suicidal Behavior
Christine B. Cha, Sadia Najmi, Jennifer M. Park, Christine T. Finn, Matthew K. Nock

Jiyon Kim, Stony Brook University

Psychometric Properties of the Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire in Preschool Children
Jiyon Kim, Daniel N. Klein, Thomas M. Olino, Margaret W. Dyson, Lea R. Dougherty, Emily C. Durbin

Katie Kryski, University of Western Ontario

HPA Axis Reactivity Patterns and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Early Childhood
Katie Kryski, Heather Smith, Haroon Sheikh, Elizabeth P. Hayden, Shiva Singh

Nuri Reyes, Virginia Tech

What Ethnicity Can Tell Us About Early Screening of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Nuri Reyes, Michelle Patriquin, Angela Scarpa, Varsha Desai, Kathryn Kerkering

2009

Winner: Rana Pishva, Queen's University, Canada - Neuroticism, Attentional Disengagement and the Mood Response to Stress

Distinguished Contributions: 

Stephanie Aldebot, University of Miami - Social Cognition Improvements as a Result of Computer-Based Neurocognitive and Social Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia

Nicholas R. Eaton, Washington University in St. Louis - The Identification of Personality Disorder Prototypes Through Finite Mixture Modeling

Adrienne J. Heinz, University of Illinois at Chicago - Adolescents' Expectancies for Smoking to Regulate Affect Predict Smoking Outcomes Over Time