Associate Professor Mija Van Der Wege and students Henry Edmonds ’23, Samira Gado ’24, and Amanda Lilienfeld ’23 presented the poster This Statement is False: Labeling Lies Don’t Help at the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference at Bethel University. This work was completed with fellow student and alumni Kana Hashimoto ’24, Miriam Freedman ’22, and Jordan Navarro ’22. Amanda Lilienfedl ’23, Samira Gado ’24, and Henry Edmonds ’23 also presented their poster We’re Just Too Different: Outgroups Lead to Underestimated Conversational Effectiveness.
Suhani Thandi ’23 presented the poster “What do monkeys forget when they forget? An analysis of episodic and semantic memory in cotton top tamarins.” This work was completed with fellow students and alumni Madeline Thall ’22, Moira Rankin ’25, Madeline LoRusso ’23, Shannon Liu ’23, Ellie Leon-Moffly ’23, and John Garay Hernandez ’24.
Pictured: Front Row from Left to Right: Ellie Leon-Moffly, Moira Rankin, Shannon Liu; Back Row from Left to Right: Madeline LoRusso, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences and Psychology Julie Neiworth, Madeline Thall, and Suhani Thandi.
Madeline LoRusso ’23 presented the poster “Do dogs have an evolved and inherent advantage for social thinking? A test of cooperation between dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and humans (Homo sapiens).”
Shannon Liu ’23 presented the poster “Generalization of Attention and working Memory Skills from Cognition Training Games by Elderly Clients: Does Lumosity Really work?”
Micah Garrick ’23 presented a paper session on “Alzheimer’s disease: A deep dive into what it is and treatments.”
The conference day ended with a celebratory dinner! Pictured from left to right at the table: Micah Garrick ’23, Ellie Leon-Moffly ’23, Shannon Liu ’23, Madeline Thall ’22, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences and Psychology Julie Neiworth, Moira Rankin ’25, Madeline LoRusso ’23, Suhani Thandi ’23.