2024
***Dr. Park presents research from the Self and Motivation Lab on perceptions of safety and threat cues in the environment at the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Conference in Santa Fe, NM.
***Dr. Park shares her personal experiences and research in a podcast for Momentum-Men.com!
***Congrats to Self and Motivation Lab members and collaborators from the math department for having their paper on positive feedback in STEM accepted!
Park, L. E., Ward, D. E., Moore-Russo, D., Rickard, B., Vessels, V., & Hundley, J. (in press). Positive feedback as a lever to boost students’ STEM outcomes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
***Dr. Park presents her NSF-funded research on the effects of giving positive feedback at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference in Washington, D.C.!
***Congrats to Dr. Park and colleagues on having their paper on collaborations accepted!
Park, L.E., Aknin, L.B., Gaither, S.E., Impett, E.A., & Whillans, A.V. (2024). Starting and sustaining fruitful collaborations in psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(4), 1-16.
***Congrats to Self and Motivation Lab members whose research examining perceptions of social mobility and system justification on well-being and prosocial behavior was accepted!
Park, L.E., Ward, D.E., Jung, H., & Weng, J. (in press). Perceived social mobility and system justification predict greater well-being, but less prosocial behavior. European Journal of Social Psychology.
***Congrats to Self and Motivation Lab members and collaborators whose research on financial contingency of self-worth and motivational conflict is now published!
Park, L. E., Ward, D.E., Naragon-Gainey, K., Fujita, K., & Koefler, N. (2024). I’m still spending: Financial contingency of self-worth predicts financial motivational conflict and compulsive buying. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(2), 232-252. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221119356
***Nicole and Esther present their research at the 2024 SPSP Conference in San Diego! Great to see current and former Self and Motivation Lab members at SPSP!
***Congrats to Nicole Koefler for receiving a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant from the UB Psychology Department to fund her research project on perceptions of safety and threat among people with marginalized identities!
***Dr. Park shared her research on the costly pursuit of self-esteem, motivation, and delaying happiness vs. living in the moment at Action for Happiness.
Self and Motivation Lab RA updates:
***Congrats to Rebecca Farca who has been accepted to the Masters program in Mental Health Counseling at St. John Fisher University!
2023
***Dr. Park was recognized at the University at Buffalo’s Celebration of Academic Excellence for being elected a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
***SPSP’s Character & Context blog and UB Now feature research from Self and Motivation lab members on how instructors’ responses to students’ questions in STEM affect students’ outcomes
***Dr. Park presents her research on social evaluative threat and positive effects of feedback in STEM at the International Society for Self and Identity Preconference and the European Association of Social Psychology Conference in Krakow, Poland.
***Our lab’s research on delaying happiness versus living in the moment featured in UB Now!
***Dr. Park presents her research on social evaluative threat at the 2023 Duck Social Cognition Conference in the Outer Banks, NC.
***Congrats to Esha Naidu who accepted a post-doc position to work with Dr. Sarah Gaither at at Duke University!
***Congrats to members of the Self and Motivation Lab whose research on instructors’ responses to students’ questions in STEM was accepted at Self and Identity!
Park, L.E., O’Brien, C., Italiano, A., Ward, D.E., & Panlilio, Z. (2023). “That’s a great question!” Instructors’ positive responses to students’ questions improve STEM-related outcomes. Self and Identity, 22(6), 849-895.
***Dr. Park talks about ways to improve self-esteem on WIVB News 4 Wake Up Buffalo (3.2.23)
***Deborah Ward gives a research spotlight talk at the SPSP conference in Atlanta, GA!
Ward, D.E., Park, L.E., Lin, G-X., Chang, Y-H., & O’Brien, C. (2023, February, virtual). Burning the candle at both ends: The role of financial contingency of self-worth and work-family conflict on job and parental well-being. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference. Atlanta, GA.
**Nicole Koefler presents her poster at the SPSP conference in Atlanta, GA!
Koefler, N., & Park, L.E. (2023, February). Threats to morality increase moral convictions and decrease prosocial behavior.
***Esha Naidu presents her poster with Nicole at the SPSP conference in Atlanta, GA!
Naidu, E.S., Koefler, N., Park, L.E., & Lee, D. (2023, February). Lay beliefs about social media use and frequency of use.
***Dr. Park gives talks at the SPSP Motivation Science Pre-Conference and chaired symposia on maximizing the real-world impact of social psychology and building collaborations in the field!
Park, L.E. (2023, February). Social evaluative threat across individuals, relationships, and groups. In symposium: “Maximizing the real-world impact of social psychology” (with J. Remedios, E. Hehman, & K. Gray)
Park, L.E. (2023, February). Professional development symposium: “Starting and sustaining fruitful collaborations” (with S. Gaither, E. Impett, & E. Dunn)
Park, L.E. (2023, February). Happiness as cumulative or fleeting: Delaying happiness versus living in the moment beliefs. Talk given at SPSP Motivation Science Preconference.
***Congrats to Self and Motivation Lab members and collaborators whose theoretical paper on threat has been accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology!
Park, L. E., Naidu, E., Lemay, E.P., Canning, E.A., Ward, D.E., Panlilio, Z.A., & Vessels, V. (in press). Social evaluative threat across individual, relational, and collective selves. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.
***Dr. Park was selected to be a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science! Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made “sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service, and/or application.”
***Dr. Park presents her NSF grant funded research on positive feedback as a lever to reduce disparities in STEM at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA.
***Congrats to members of the Self and Motivation Lab whose research on busyness was accepted!
Park, L. E., Italiano, A., & Vessels, V. (2023). Managers’ frequent displays of busyness predict employees’ job disengagement, burnout, and turnover intentions. International Journal of Social Psychology.
Self and Motivation Lab RA updates:
***Congrats to Zuriel Enoe who has been accepted to the PsyD program in School Psychology at Rutgers University!
***Congrats to Matthew Roehmholdt who has been accepted to the Masters of Social Work program at the University at Buffalo!
***Congrats to Anna Dzury who has been accepted to the Sport and Performance Psychology graduate program at the University of Denver!
***Congrats to Jordan Scholl who has been accepted to the Graduate Program in School Counseling at the University at Buffalo!
***Congrats to Nur-E Imam who has been accepted to the Masters Program in Educational Psychology and Quantitative Methods at the University at Buffalo!
2022
***Congrats to Self and Motivation Lab members and collaborators whose research on financial contingency of self-worth and work-family conflict was accepted!
Park, L. E., Lin, G-X., Chang, Y-H., O’Brien, C., & Ward, D.E. (2022). Burning the candle at both ends: The role of financial contingency of self-worth and work-family conflict on job and parental well-being. Personality and Individual Differences., 199, 1-6.
***Dr. Park presents her NSF grant funded research on norms and consequences of giving feedback in college STEM courses at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Summit on Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (AAAS IUSE) in Washington, D.C.
***Dr. Park presents her research on giving feedback in STEM at the 35th Annual Duck Social Cognition Conference
***Dr. Park receives the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo!
***Congratulations to former Self and Motivation lab member and psychology honors thesis student Haemi Nam, who earned her PhD in Social Psychology from Ohio State University and will be a full time researcher at Meta!
***Deborah Ward presented her poster at the virtual SPSP Teaching Preconference!
Ward, D.E., Park, L.E., Moore-Russo, D., & Hundley, J. (2022, February). Providing feedback in college math classrooms: Insights from the lab to the real-world.
***Zaviera Panlilio presented her poster at the SPSP conference in San Francisco!
Panlilio, Z.., Ward, D.E., O’Brien, C., & & Park, L.E. (2022, February). The success (or failure) of remote Summer Bridge program to improve minoritized student outcomes.
***Yahui Chang presented her poster at the SPSP conference in San Francisco! Congrats on also receiving a Graduate Student Travel Award!
Chang, Y., & Park, L.E. (2022, February). Imagining shared experiences with humans and robots boosts interpersonal closeness.
***Dr. Park is elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (Vice-President-Elect in 2023, President-Elect in 2024)
***Dr. Park participates in the Promoting Human Flourishing with Interpersonal Listening Workshop as part of the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Global Flourishing Conference in Israel. Watch the video here.
2021
***Dr. Park talks about deadlines, procrastination, and motivation on San Francisco public radio: https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884857/what-do-deadlines-mean-to-you
***Dr. Park discusses ways to boost motivation during the pandemic in the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/well/live/motivation-energy-advice.html
***Congratulations to current and former Self and Motivation lab members and collaborators whose paper on beliefs about happiness and self-regulation was recently accepted!
Park, L. E., Fujita, K., Naragon-Gainey, K., Radsvick, T., Jung, H., Xia, J., Ward, D. E., Paravati, E., Weng, J., Italiano, A., & Valvo, A., (in press). Happiness – to enjoy now or later? Consequences of delaying happiness and living in the moment beliefs. Emotion.
***Congratulations to Hector Sosa who successfully defended his psychology honors thesis with High Honors!
***Congratulations to Deborah Ward who successfully defended her dissertation and will be joining the Department of Psychology at Saginaw Valley State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!
***Welcome Nicole Koefler, who will be joining the lab as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2021!
***Congratulations to Dr. Park, a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, who received a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMgoaEqFsFE
***Congratulations to Hector Sosa who has been accepted to the Ph.D. program in Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst to work with Dr. Buju Dasgupta!
***Congratulations to Nick Gray who has been accepted into the Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology at the University of Rochester to work with Dr. Jeremy Jamieson!
***Congratulations to Chris Khudari who has been accepted into the Masters program in Psychology at Stony Brook University!
***Congratulations to Patsy Iannico who has been accepted into the Masters program in Mental Health Counseling at the University at Buffalo!
***Congratulations to Deborah Ward, Elaine Paravati, and colleagues for publishing their work on financial contingency of self-worth in relationships!
Ward, D. E., Park, L. E., Walsh, C., Naragon-Gainey, K., Paravati, E., & Whillans, A. V. (2021). For the love of money: The influence of financially contingent self-worth in romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
***Yahui Chang gave a data blitz virtual talk at the Shared Reality and Authenticity Preconference at SPSP!
Chang, Y., & Park, L.E. (2021, February). Imagining shared experiences boosts interpersonal closeness and well-being.
***Deborah Ward presented her poster at the virtual SPSP Teaching Preconference!
Ward, D. E.., & Park, L.E. (2021, February). Making cultures match: The role of dynamic norms in first-generation students’ experiences.
***Alessia Italiano presented her poster at the virtual SPSP Conference!
Italiano, A., Park, L.E., & Remedios, J. (2021, February). Activation of bicultural Asian American identity shapes evaluations of stereotypic targets.
2020
***Dr. Park receives a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to test a social psychological model of instructor feedback in undergraduate math courses:
http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2021/01/park-stem-feedback.html
***Dr. Park publishes a paper as part of a research team emphasizing the importance of women’s participation and representation in science:
Murphy, M. C., Mejia, A. F., Mejia, J., Yan, X., Cheryan, S., Dasgupta, N., Destin, M., Fryberg, S. A., Garcia, J. A., Haines, E. L., Harackiewicz, J. M., Ledgerwood, A., Moss-Racusin, C. A., Park, L. E., Perry, S. P., Ratliff, K. A., Rattan, A., Sanchez, D. T., Savani, K., Sekaquaptewa, D., Smith, J. L.,… Diekman, A. B., & Pestilli, F. (2020) Open science, communal culture, and women’s participation in the movement to improve science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (39), 24154-24164.
***Congratulations to Deborah Ward, Han Jung, and colleagues for publishing a paper on financial contingency of self-worth and income inequality!
Park, L. E., Jung, H., Lee, K. S., Ward, D. E., Piff, P. K., Whillans, A.V., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (2020). Psychological pathways linking income inequality in adolescence to well-being in adulthood. Self and Identity.
***Congratulations to Deborah Ward, Han Jung, and colleagues for their publication on financial contingency of self-worth and social outcomes!
Ward, D. E., Park, L.E., Naragon-Gainey, K., Whillans, A.V., & Jung, H. (2020). Can’t buy me love (or friendship): Social consequences of financially contingent self-worth. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 1665-1681.
***Abbie Hessler (former UB undergraduate psychology honors thesis student) joins the lab as a new Masters student. Welcome, Abbie!
***Hector Sosa completes UB’s Summer McNair Scholars program and joins the psychology honors program!
***Congratulations to Deborah Ward for receiving runner-up for the 2020 Bugelski Dissertation Award from the University at Buffalo Department of Psychology!
***Alessia Italiano presents her poster at the SPSP Conference in New Orleans!
Italiano, A., & Park, L.E. (2020, February). Effects of feedback on women’s STEM outcomes.
***Deborah Ward presents her poster at the SPSP Conference in New Orleans!
Ward, D. E., Park, L.E., Walsh, C., & Whillans, A.V. (2020, February). For the love of money: The influence of financially contingent self-worth in romantic relationships.