Join our faculty and students
at the American Psychological Association (APA)
2024 convention in Seattle, WA!
 

Friday, August 9, 2024 
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM 
Seattle Convention Center - Arch at 705 Pike, Level 6, Ballroom 6E

New Perspectives in the Changing Immigrant Context

Dina Birman, William Martinez, Giselle Hass

There is significant growth in scholarly publication that reflects theory and methodology related to immigrant groups. Several theoretical approaches to immigrant research have dominated the last decade of scholarship. This part of the symposia will highlight various theoretical lenses used in the new APA Presidential Task Force Report on Immigration and Health, including the Socioecological Model, intersectionality, population health approaches, cultural determinants of health, decolonial and liberation perspectives, attachment theory and family systems, and trauma informed approaches.

Friday, August 9, 2024 
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM 
Seattle Convention Center - Arch at 705 Pike, Level 6, 602

Making Graduate School Sustainable: A Conversation on Self-Care and Self-Advocacy

Marah Selim

Saturday, August 10, 2024
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM
Seattle Convention Center - Arch at 705 Pike, Level 6, Ballroom 6E

Mouth Full of Blood: Black Academic Women's Call for Radical Healing & Resistance in the Ivory Tower

Guerdiana Thelomar, Laura Kohn-Wood, Joelle Dorsett, Ceewin Louder, Monique Mahabir, Pamela P. Martin, Rhonda K. Lewis

This panel discussion will create space to address the unique experiences and challenges faced by Black women in academia amidst the current landscape of higher education. Recent events involving Black women in these spaces, such as the historic appointment and shortly after, the tumultuous resignation of Dr. Claudine Gay, Harvard's first Black woman president and the sudden tragic passing of Temple University's former president JoAnne Epps, highlight the continued psychological and physical tolls exacted on women of color who have ascended to occupy positions of actual and symbolic power in the Ivory Tower.

Saturday, August 10, 2024
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Seattle Convention Center - Arch at 705 Pike, Level 4, Hall 4AB

Virtue in Action: Compassion, Forgiveness, and their Impact on Helping Behavior

Marah Selim, Blaine J. Fowers, Nona Kiknadze

This study extends previous research by simultaneously examining the effects of two virtues and their interaction with a situational factor on helping behavior. Specifically, we explore how virtues and situations jointly influence the choice to engage in helping behavior. This study will examine the virtues of compassion and forgiveness through virtue theory, which predicts that individuals high in a virtuous trait will be less affected by situational factors than those lower in virtue.

Saturday, August 10, 2024
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Seattle Convention Center - Arch at 705 Pike, Level 4, Hall 4AB

Low Plasma Amyloid-β 42/40 is Associated with Semantic Intrusion Error

Alexandra Ortega, Brooke Bosworth, Kirsten H. Crenshaw, David Loewenstein, Rosie Curiel-Cid, Rebecca M. Correa, Juliana Ortiz, Alexia J. Frydman, Nicholas W. Swansburg, Deja Smith, David Vaillancourt, Glenn E. Smith, Ranjan Duara

Semantic intrusion errors (SIEs) have been sensitive and specific to PET amyloid-β burden in older adults with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI). With the advent of plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) biomarkers such as the Aβ 42/40 ratio using mass spectrometry, it is important to determine the extent to which SIEs on cognitive challenge tests map onto these promising fluid biomarkers.

Virtual Posters

Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity and Depression Among Male High School Students

Lindsay Merenda, Madelon B. Wood, Robert C. McMahon

This study utilized logistic regression analysis of Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from 8816 U.S. male high school students to determine if variations in school and community related participation on sports teams, engagement in intense physical activity, muscular strengthening and toning activity, and levels of sedentary behavior are significantly linked with membership in groups with (26.7%) and without (73.3%) sadness or hopelessness for a two-week period during the COVID pandemic 2021 year.

Asian/ Asian American Studies in APA Journals: A Systematic Review and Critical Content Analysis

Debbiesiu L. Lee, Emily T. Bosworth, Sai Sophia Hon, Gray Wise-Masters

The purpose of the current study was to glean a historic understanding of the A/AA psychology literature since its inception and trace how the literature has evolved over time in terms of content and methods of scholarship. In order to meet this purpose, we critically evaluated the psychological scholarship of A/AA published in APA journals across all years.

Navigating the Intersection: Can Psychosocial Coping Mitigate Racism's Impact on Physical Health?

Ceewin Louder

This poster presentation seeks to consolidate current research on this critical intersection. This poster presentation begins with a brief overview of four distinct pathways of racism - individual, cultural, structural/institutional, and internalized. Next, the presentation delves into recent studies investigating the indirect influence of psychosocial interventions on the adverse relationship between racism and physical health, specifically focusing on cardiovascular health.