Associate Professor of Psychology Carin Perilloux presented a poster titled “Update on the Parental Investment (PI) Scale” at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS) in Pittsburgh, PA. This is her latest presentation of data associated with creating a new scale to measure parental effort, inviting feedback prior to conducting the final validation study this summer in SURF.

Associate Professor of Psychology Carin Perilloux, along with psychology graduate Madeline Bollinger ’24, psychology graduate and Coordinator of the Professor John Score Learning Commons Laurel Mulkey ’24, and biology graduate Vy Nguyen ’23, have published a paper titled “Hooked on a feeling: Psychological and physiological responses to ASMR triggers” in the journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior. This article is based on three years worth of SCOPE projects and is published with open access here.

Associate Professor of Psychology Carin Perilloux presented a talk titled “The Parental Effort Scale: Creation and Validation” at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) in Atlantic City, NJ in June. The talk described the 2+ year process of designing a new psychological instrument with SU psychology capstone students.

Several psychology faculty members and students presented posters at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in Denver this past weekend. Professor of Psychology Erin Crockett, along with current capstone students Clayton Crusius ’25 and Sarah Doroshow ’25, presented a poster, titled “Self-Expanding in a Virtual Reality World,” at the main conference. Associate Professor of Psychology Carin Perilloux, along with current capstone students Samantha Gonzalez ’25, Gwen Metz ’25, Georgia Micknal ’25, and Griffin Salinas ’25, presented a poster titled “A Labor of Love (Mostly): Developing a Self-Perceived Parental Effort Scale” at the Evolutionary Psychology Pre-Conference.

Eunice Mexicano ’25 moderated the First Generation Perspectives Panel at Southwestern University, which featured panelists Riley Wolfe ’25, Elvis Marin ’26, Associate Professor of Psychology Carin Perilloux, and Director of the Professor John Score II Learning Commons Maurice Wilson as part of First Generation College Celebration Week 2024.