Psychology Impacts
Events and Outreach
Fall 2024 - The work of the UW Psychology Center and Wyoming Center on Aging are highlighted in the latest edition of the College of A&S Elevations magazine
July 2024 - Wyoming Dementia Together (WDT), a statewide nonprofit caregiver network offered through the University of Wyoming’s Wyoming Center on Aging (WyCOA), will offer a variety of informative discussions focused on dementia care through December. More information.
March 2024 - Dr. Carolyn Pepper participated in season 2, part 2 of the PBS series "A State of Mind", covering the mental health crisis in Wyoming and the Mountain West.
Awards and Grants
June 2024 - The University of Wyoming Department of Psychology’s Wyoming Center on Aging (WyCOA) has been awarded a $5 million grant to enhance partnerships to expand and strengthen geriatrics education for the health care workforce and to expand resources for the state’s older adults and caregivers.
April 2024 - University of Wyoming psychology graduate student Jaylan Aliev, of Boise, Idaho, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Recent research from UW Psychology
- Growth and impact of Project ECHO for workforce development in age-friendly care
- Apologizing for intergroup criticism reduces rejection of public health officials’ pro-vaccine messages
- Pulling away from the trigger: the influences of purpose in life and self-affirmation on decisions to shoot
- Focusing narrowly on model fit in factor analysis can mask construct heterogeneity and model misspecification: Applied demonstrations across sample and assessment types.
- Transitioning to college with adhd: A qualitative examination of parental support and the renegotiation of the parent-child relationship.
- Adverse childhood experiences in autistic children and their caregivers: Examining intergenerational continuity.
- Self-reported strategy use and prospective memory: The roles of cue focality and task importance.
- Trauma cognitions as intervening variables in the relation of chronic child abuse and thwarted interpersonal needs.
- Responses to bright light exposure in individuals with binge‐spectrum eating disorders characterized by high dietary restraint and negative affect.
- A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.
- The psychological and emotional impact of unintentional killing: Moral injury in a civilian population.
- Do inconclusive forensic decisions disadvantage the innocent?
- Expectancy for Adderall influences subjective mood and drug effects regardless of concurrent caffeine ingestion: A randomized controlled trial.
