Kara Christensen (Psychology) and colleagues from University of California, San Diego (led by Brittany Bohrer, Ph.D.), University of Kansas, and Children's Mercy Hospital-Kansas published a paper on their new mobile phone app for treating eating disorders in International Journal of Eating Disorders: "A multiple-baseline study of a…

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) published the fourth edition of Psychopathology and Life: A Dimensional Approach via Cengage. This textbook presents a contemporary, science-based view of psychopathology that emphasizes the individual first. The textbook features clinical cases and real first-person narratives that help students view abnormal…

Aldo Barrita, Richard Chang, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) published a paper, "Assumptions of immigration status: A moderated mediation analysis of racial microaggressions and internalization impacting Latinx and Asian college students," in the Journal of Social Psychology of Education.

Karli Nave, Joel Snyder, and Erin Hannon (all Psychology) published a paper titled, "Sustained musical beat perception develops into late childhood and predicts phonological abilities," in the journal Developmental Psychology. Nave is a former Ph.D. student in the department of psychology and Snyder and Hannon are faculty in the department of…

Breanne D. Yerkes, Christina M. Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden, Julie F. Beasley, Erin E. Hannon, and Joel S. Snyder published a paper titled, "Acoustic and Semantic Processing of Auditory Scenes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders," in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. This work was based on Yerkes' Ph.D. dissertation.…

Kara Christensen (Psychology) and colleagues at the University of Kansas (Kelsie Forbush: PI), VA Boston, VA Eastern Kansas, and Purdue University were recently awarded a $4.23 million Department of Defense Expansion Grant for their project, "Assessment of Eating Disorder and Comorbidity Risk and Resilience in a Nationally Representative Sample of…

Aldo Barrita, Kristin Hixson, Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology), Anjala Krishen (Business) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Centering the Margins: A Moderation Study Examining Cisgender Privilege Among LGBTQ+ BIPoC College Students Facing Intersectional Microaggressions," in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender…

Nirmala Lekhak (Nursing), Tirth Bhatta (Sociology), and Joel Snyder (Psychology) published an article, "The Primacy of Compassionate Love: Loneliness and Psychological Well-being in Later Life", in the Journal of Gerontological Nursing. The study provides evidence of the beneficial role of compassionate…

Via an interdisciplinary collaboration between UNLV's International Gaming Institute, department of computer science, department of psychology, and William F. Harrah College of Hospitality, Kasra Ghaharian published "Payments transaction data from online casino players and online sports bettors" in Data in Brief with co-authors…

Anthony King, Shane Kraus, and Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt (all Psychology) recently presented their research, "Examining the role of responsible gambling in associations between symptoms of trauma, gambling disorder, and gambling motivations: Results from a nationwide U.S. sample," at the 16th Annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling. This…

Yen-Ling Chen and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) recently published two papers.  The first paper, "A Machine-Learning Approach to Assess Factors Associated With Hospitalization of Children and Youths in Psychiatric Crisis," was published in Psychiatric Services.  The second paper, "Assessing compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The…

Nicole Short (Psychology) was awarded a five-year Career Development award by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (1K23DA054299-01A1; total to be awarded $787,634). This award will allow her to test the initial efficacy of and mechanisms underlying a new digital therapeutic she developed to prevent the development of posttraumatic stress disorder…