Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) recently won the Medical University of South Carolina Zucker Institute for Innovation Commercialization Pitch Day competition for her program to support people with eating disorders on treatment waitlists. Christensen Pacella is participating in the MUSC CREW program (NIGMS) to support the development of women…

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) was awarded Fellow status by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53 of the American Psychological Association).  This honor is awarded to those who are already a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions to the…

Brenna Renn (Psychology) published a peer-reviewed manuscript detailing policy to expand the behavioral health workforce, "Behavioral Health Workforce Development in Washington State: Addition of a Behavioral Health Support Specialist," in Psychiatric Services alongside co-authors from the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and…

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been awarded a grant (R16GM153536) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her project, "Testing a Dual-Process Mechanistic Model Linking Food Insecurity and Loss-of-Control Eating." Funding of $400,000 in direct costs will support a study examining daily associations between food…

Todd Jennings and Shane Kraus (both Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper (LGBQ-affirming clinical recommendations for compulsive sexual behavior disorder) in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions. 

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Face as a multidimensional construct: Cross-cultural validation of the Loss of Face Scale in Taiwan and the United States," in Asian Journal of Social Psychology. 

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Gambling in a U.S. Census Matched Sample: Examining Interactions between Means and Motives in Predicting Problematic Outcomes," in the Journal of Gambling Studies. 

Graduate student Alexis Rice, undergraduate student Marian Espina, graduate student Tra Bui, and professor Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "The Influence of Learning Cues and Model Attractiveness on Children's Attention and Imitation," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March.

Members of the Baby & Child Rebel Lab presented, "Face Recognition and Racial Biases: The Role of Social Experience," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California, in March. Members included Kirsty Kulhanek (graduate student), Kindy Insouvanh (graduate student), Marian Espina (undergraduate student),…

Graduate students Rodica Constantine and Kindy Insouvanh and professors Erin Hannon and Jennifer Rennels (all Psychology) presented, "Perceptual Learning in Infants Across Domains," at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference in Pasadena, California.

Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published a paper, "Assessment and treatment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder: a sexual medicine perspective," in Sexual Medicine Reviews. 

Kara Christensen Pacella (Psychology) has been appointed associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology.