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

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

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

2012

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

2009