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Pregnant during the Pandemic: Pregnancy Distress and COVID-19 Stress in Relation to Current and Anticipated Subjective Sleep Quality

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Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: While the CDC reports 1 in 8 women experience symptoms of postpartum depression, there are still concerns around deficiencies in the subjective screening procedures and underdiagnosis—leaving providers searching for a better understanding of potential risk factors and more diverse warning signs during pregnancy. High stress life events, significant prenatal … Read more

Relationship Attitude Typologies among Emerging Adults: Class Predictors and Well-Being

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Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Romantic development is understood to be a critical aspect of emerging adulthood (Furman & Collibee, 2014). Previous research that has identified romantic relationship typologies has found it to be associated with well-being (Beckmeyer & Jameson, 2020; Manlove et al., 2014; Robeson et al., 2017). However, these studies have only … Read more

“There’s Obviously Something Wrong. Let’s Fix It.”: Meaning Making Narratives among College Students from Underrepresented Groups

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Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted individuals from marginalized communities and may have presented unique challenges for emerging adults who transitioned to college during the pandemic. The goal of the current study was to document the experiences of emerging adults from marginalized communities and to examine their ability to … Read more

The Relationship between Self-Related Advantages in Memory and Attention

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Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Presenting an item with self-relevant vs. other-relevant information can produce a memory advantage, even in the absence of a task demand to evaluate the item’s self-relevancy. Termed the incidental self-reference effect (iSRE), this self-memory advantage has been assumed to arise due to automatic/preferential attention to self-relevant vs. other-relevant information. Yet, this assumption has not been empirically … Read more

Left Digit Effect in Number Line Estimation with Leading Zero Target Numerals

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Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: When completing a number line estimation task, both adults and children are influenced by the leftmost digit of target numerals, meaning that numerals with similar magnitudes but different leftmost digits (i.e. 899 and 901) are placed too far apart on the number line. This “left digit effect” has been … Read more

Learning from Statements

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Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Children learn about social groups from subtle elements of the language they hear. For example, when children hear generic statements about groups, such as “girls are good at jumping”, they assume that an individual girl will also be good at jumping. These statements can also convey information about unmentioned … Read more