President
-- Candella Foley
Vice-President -- Jamie Beavers
Secretary -- Ashley Huffman
Treasurer -- Gary Yarbrough
Historian -- Chris Borecky
Advisors
David Saarnio, Ph.D.
Robert Johnson, Ph.D.
Kris Biondolillo, Ph.D.
The present Historian for Psi Chi is Chris Borecky. Chris has been involved in several research projects, and is still going. He presented "The effects of gender on perception of corporal punishment" (mentored by David Saarnio) at the Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas last spring. Additionally, he has done some work with Karen Yanowitz, "Information order effects and persuasion" and with Kris Biondolillo nose-poke responses of rats. Chris is from North Little Rock. Chris has decided that he really loves going to school, so after his career as a college student, he hopes to continue to attend a college or university as a professor. He plans to attend graduate school and then to teach Social Psychology.
Gary Yarbrough, the Treasurer for Psi Chi has a mind that is firmly planted in economics. His current position as a technician and salesperson of Hammond organs has kept him very busy over the semester and over the summer. However, he was not too busy this summer to miss going to Europe with a friend. Gary, who will be graduating next year, plans to go into one of the clinical graduate programs, and make lots of money as a clinician. His research experiences include working with Kris Biondolillo and her finches.
The Secretary
for Psi Chi this year is Ashley Huffman. Ashley is a senior and is minoring in
Business. Her interests in the field of Business include marketing and
consumer behavior. In addition to being
a full-time student and the indispensable secretary for Psi Chi, she occupies a
full-time position in the Hobby Lobby framing department. After graduating
from ASU, Ashley plans to take a year off from school before resuming her
studies.
Jamie Beavers is the current Vice President of Psi Chi. Although she has moved several times, she says that her hometown is Little Rock. She has been involved in research dealing with "Attachment and Recall Abilities: Using Shapes, Colors, and Numbers to Observe Memory Recall" which she and Angela Williams presented at the Arkansas Symposium for Psychology Students last spring in Searcy, AR. She is currently involved in a project looking at schemas of child abuse. She is planning for a career organizing management for a major industry, and is looking at graduate schools that offer a degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Jamie is a very busy lady. In addition to her studies, research, Psi Chi duties, and preparation for graduation school, she is holding a full-time position at Wilkerson Jewelers.
Candella Foley is the President of Psi Chi this year. Candella is from Jonesboro and is completing the requirements for both the B.S. in Psychology and the B.A. in Social Work. Candella has been involved in research concerning the influences of different types of childhood maltreatment and parent support on intimate relationships with David Saarnio. They are currently extending that research to see if the good things that parents do can predict internalizing (e.g. depressive) and externalizing (e.g. aggressive) behaviors better than childhood maltreatment. Candella has also been involved in research on "The effects of mood and race in perception of facial expressions" which was mentored by Karen Yanowitz, and on "The effects of gender on perception of corporal punishment." In addition to studying, preparing for graduate school, and research, Candella is the proud mother of two beautiful children.
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