2025

For the complete 2025 program, including the abstracts please click here. 

1:00-1:15 p.m.  Check-in & presentation set up, Hallway outside Carter Hall

1:15-1:30 p.m.  Opening Remarks, Carter Hall 

 Dr. Urska Dobersek, Psi Chi Advisor, UPRC Chair

1:30-3:30 p.m.  Oral Presentations, Carter Hall & UC 226/227

3:30-4:00 p.m.  Poster Presentations, Carter Hall 

4:00 p.m.         Awards Presentation & Closing Remarks, Carter Hall

Dr. Urska Dobersek, Psi Chi Advisor, UPRC Chair

1:30-3:30 p.m.

ORAL SESSIONS

Carter Hall

1:30 – 1:45      Braden Ream, Ball State University

• Common Factors Theory and Defining Subjective Support Group Success

1:50 – 2:05      George Trajanoski, Ball State University

• Creating a Measure of Perceived Sexual Knowledge

2:10 – 2:25      Kaylyn Johnson, Ball State University

• Sensory Perception and Sexual Behavior Interest

2:35 – 2:50      Christopher Hill, Ball State University

• How Students Navigate Canvas

2:55 – 3:10      Madison Pierce-Holtzman, Ball State University

• Socially Sanctioned Rape: How Individual Empathy is Undermined by Group Ideologies

3:15 – 3:30      Arianna Foster, Ball State University

• The Impact of Social Support and Sense of Belonging on the Flourishing of Gender Nonconforming Individuals

1:30-3:30 p.m.

ORAL SESSIONS

UC 226/227

1:30 – 1:45      Emily Balassone, Purdue University Northwest

• Analyzing the Effectiveness of Opioid Use Disorder Treatments

1:50 – 2:05      Saif Abdrabu & Kristina Yang, University of Evansville & University of Southern Indiana

• The Impact of ACEs and First-Gen Status on Anxiety Symptoms in College Students

2:10 – 2:25      Toriana Garmon, Ball State University 

• Predicting Insomnia Using Daytime Versus Bedtime Rumination

2:35 – 2:50      Logan Doyle, University of Southern Indiana

• Examining Anxiety in College Students Who Use Substances

2:55 – 3:10      Mya Gregory, Ball State University

• The Role of Self-Determination Theory in Psychedelic Treatment Effectiveness

3:30-4:00 p.m.

POSTER SESSION