Graduate Students

SHERIKA CALISTE, B.S., LMSW

Sherika is in her first year of the doctoral program in Social-Personality Psychology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Howard University in 2014, and her MSW degree from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College in 2020. Sherika’s research interests are rooted in social justice and aimed at understanding the relationship between historical and social factors and attachment.

Publications

  • Jemal, A. & Caliste, S. (in press). Focus groups evaluate and inform revisions of a socio-behavioral health intervention. Evaluation and Program Planning.
  • Bussey, S.R., Jemal, A., & Caliste, S. (2021). Transforming social work’s potential in the field: A radical framework. Social Work Education, 40, 140-154.
  • Jemal, A., Urmey, L.S., & Caliste, S. (2021). From sculpting an intervention to healing in action. Social Work with Groups, 44, 1-18.

Selected Conference Presentations

  • Jemal, A., Bussey, S., Frasier, J., & Caliste, S. (2021, November). Transformative social work education bridges the liminal space between consciousness and action. Workshop held at the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

CASSIE O’BRIEN, B.S.

Cassie is beginning her third year of the doctoral program in Social-Personality Psychology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She received her B.S. in 2020 from Allegheny College, with a major in Psychology and minors in Political Science and Communications. Cassie’s research interests include understanding how different social factors, identities, and coping strategies can influence the resilience and motivations of individuals. She is especially interested in first-generation college students’ outcomes, and people’s perceptions of social issues (e.g., BLM). In her free time, Cassie enjoys hiking, drinking too much coffee, and listening to true crime podcasts.

Selected Conference Presentations

  • O’Brien, C., Panlilio, Z., Stewart-Hill, S., & Seery, M. (2022, February). Feeling harmony but not challenging the status-quo: The role of awe and self-distancing in perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
  • O’Brien, C., & Pickering, R. (2021, February). “Shoes that can no longer be filled”: Parentification as a mediator of first-generation status and family achievement guilt. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, virtual convention.
  • O’Brien, C., Pope, T., Cheryan, S., & Zou, L. (2020, February). Distinct minority group stereotypes in the labor market: Exploring the perceived cultural foreignness and status of racial minority applicants. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
  • O’Brien, C., Pickering, R., & Parenti, S. (2019, August). Go away! Examining experimenter gender and physical proximity on female performance on a logic task. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Parenti, S., Pickering, R., & O’Brien, C. (2019, August). Investigating impression management and physiological reactivity during cross-class interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Kearney, C., Pickering, R., Baker, C., & O’Brien, C. (2018, June). The positive impacts of outdoor recreation may be moderated by gender. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Pittsburgh, PA.

ZAVIERA (REYES) PANLILIO, M.A.

Zaviera is beginning her sixth year of the doctoral program in Social-Personality Psychology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research interests center on goal-motivated behaviors, which she’s examined in a variety of contexts, including: the ways goal framing influences health behaviors in response to COVID-19, moral licensing effects when responding to social justice movements, and the effects of framing one’s past sacrifice (i.e., abstract vs. concrete) on feelings of fatigue. Her dissertation investigates the experience of hardship and prosocial motivations.

Publications

  • Saltsman, T. L., Seery, M. D., Ward, D. E., Radsvick, T. M., Panlilio, Z. A., Lamarche, V. M., & Kondrak, C. L. (2021). Facing the facets: No association between dispositional mindfulness facets and positive momentary stress responses during active stressors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 1057-1070.
  • Cho, H., Dou, W., Reyes, Z., Geisler, M. W., & Morsella, E. (2018). The reflexive imagery task: An experimental paradigm for neuroimaging. AIMS Neuroscience, 5, 97-115.

Selected Conference Presentations

  • O’Brien, C. K.,Panlilio, Z. A., Stewart-Hill, S. A., & Seery, M. D. (2022, February). Feeling harmony but not challenging the status-quo: The role of awe and self-distancing in perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA. 
  • Panlilio, Z. A., Ward, D. E., O’Brien, C. K., Park, L.E. (2022, February). The success (or failure) of remote summer bridge programs to improved minoritized student outcomes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
  • Stewart-Hill, S. A., Panlilio, Z. A., O’Brien, C. K., & Seery, M. D. (2022, February). Humbling the powerful and empowering the powerless? The effects of awe on social power. Poster presented at the Emotion Preconference, annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
  • Panlilio, Z. A., Ward, D. E., Lherisson, Q., Italiano, A., Stewart-Hill, S. A., Hessler, A., Gray, N. W., & Seery, M. D. (2021, February). The role of concrete versus abstract mindsets and progress in predicting COVID-19 preventative health behaviors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
  • Reyes, Z. B., Saltsman, T. L., Ward, D. E., Radsvick, T. M., & Seery, M. D. (2020, April). Piece-rate versus all-or-none framing moderates effects of goal progress on commitment. Paper to have been presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. [canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic]
  • Radsvick, T. M., Saltsman, T. L., Reyes, Z. B., Ward, D. E., & Seery, M. D. (2020, February). Past meaning and future horizons: Nostalgia increases behavioral intentions for proximal activities, but maybe not importance of life goals. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
  • Reyes, Z. B., Saltsman, T. L., Ward, D. E., Radsvick, T. M., & Seery, M. D. (2020, February). Piece-rate versus all-or-none framing moderates effects of goal progress on commitment to a health goal. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
  • Reyes, Z., Yankulova, J. K., Yoo, S. H., & Morsella, E. (2017, May). Resilience and involuntary processing of valenced stimuli: The factor of approach/avoidance orientation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
  • Reyes, Z., & Yoo S. H. (2016, March). Behavioral patterns of resilience. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Sciences, Chicago, IL.
  • Reyes, Z., Du, F., Eusebio, E., Wagner, S., & Yoo S. H. (2016, January). Resilience and self-talk: Pathways towards regulating positive and negative emotions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
  • Reyes, Z., Eusebio, E., Wagner, S., Du, F., Tannler, M., Tan, A., & Yoo S. H. (2015, April). Positive self-talk during conversations: A buffer against negative emotions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Las Vegas, NV.
Alicia Wattie

ALICIA WATTIE, B.A.

Alicia is beginning her first year of the masters program for General Psychology, with a concentration in Social-Personality Psychology, at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She graduated from the University at Albany, SUNY in 2020 with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in History. Alicia’s broad research interests lie in relationships and their impacts on well-being, sexualities, self-esteem and the perception of self-worth, and psychology and law.