YSU Psychology Department Faculty
Recent Publications & Presentations


Gittis, M.M., Mace, C., & Gallagher, E. (2006). The psychology of women as laboratory. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Gittis, M.M. (2005). Easy does it: In-class demonstrations for behavioral neuroscience classes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.

Gittis , M.M. (2004). Choosing a career in psychology: Dilemmas for women. Poster presented at the sixteenth annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.

Gittis, M.M.(2003). A laboratory to accompany a psychology of women course. Poster presented at the annuall meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Gittis, M. M., & Heiman, G.W. (1998). Understanding research methods and statistics study guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Sandi, C., Woodson, J.C., Haynes, V.F., Park, C.R., Touyarot, K., Lopez-Fernandez, M.A., Venero, C., and Diamond, D.M. (2005) Acute stress-induced impairment of spatial memory is associated with decreased expression of neural cell adhesion molecule in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. Biological Psychiatry, (57), Issue 8, 856-864.

Woodson, James., Haynes, Vernon F., and Diamond, David. An intrusive emotional memory in rats can be triggered one year after the original fear-provoking experience. Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA., 2003.

Woodson, J.C., Greaves, K., Haynes, V.F., Diamond, D.M. Sex differences in rats’ susceptibility to short-term memory impairment by stress suggest that males are the fragile sex. International Behavioral Neuroscience, Key West, FL, 2004.

Flora, S.R. (2004). The Power of Reinforcement. State University of New York Press. NY, Albany.

Flora, S.R., & Poponak, S.S. (2004). Childhood pay for grades in related to college grade point average. Psychological Reports, 94, 66.

Flora, S.R., Sellers, M. (2003). `Premenstrual dysphoric disorder` and `premenstrual syndrome` myths. Skeptical Inquirer, 27, 37-42.

Flora, S.R., Wilderson, L.R., & Flora, D.B. (2003). Effects of cold pressor pain on human self-control for positive reinforcement. The Psychological Record, 53, 243-252
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Coldren, J. T. (1997). Advances in discrimination learning. Paper presented to the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Marks, K. S., & Coldren, J. T. (1998). Infants' perception of solid objects. Poster presented to the International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, Georgia.

Marks, K. S., & Coldren, J. T. (1998). Infants' perception of solid objects. Poster presented to the American Psychological Society, Waskington D. C. [Note - This poster was one of three winners of the 1998 American Psychological Society Student Caucus - Student Research Competition.]

Ellyson, Steve L. (1998) "Gender differences in facial prominence: Face-ism in amateur photographs." The 1998 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston.

Ellyson, Steve L. (1997) "Multichannel theory in nonverbal behavior research." The 1997 Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Toronto.

Flora, S. R. (1998). "The debate on prescription privileges for psychologists: an opportunity for behavior analysis." BALANCE Newsletter, 4 (1), 2-3.

Flora, S.R. (1998) "Behavioral momentum following brief and extended exposure to multiple and mixed FRI FR4 schedules." Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior XV, Winter Park, CO.

Kestner, Jane. (1998) "The effects of a money-back incentive on performance in a GRE workshop," Association for Behavior Analysis Conference, Orlando, FL.

Kestner, J.; Flora, S.R. (1998) "Are they using what we teach?" and "What are they saying about us? How are we responding?" Association for Behavior Analysis, Orlando, FL.

Krishnan, A. & Sweeney, C. J. (1997). "Asian vs. Non-Asian Differences in Achievement-Related Background Variables of Medical Students," Psychology and Developing Societies, 9 (2), 189-224.

Graf, Stephen A. (1998) "Online Standard Celeration Charting," International Symposium on Computer-based Effective Education: Questions and Answers, Association for Behavior Analysis Convention, Orlando, FL.

Graf, Stephan A. (1998) "Developing Basketball Shooting Fluency," International Precision Teaching Conference, Farmington, CT.

Gray, Beverly (1998) "Death and Dying" Legal, Ethical, and Medical Implications" Guest lecturer, Medical Law and Ethics Class, Department of Health Professions, College of Health and Human Services, YSU

Gray, B. (1998) "Blueprint for Happiness," The Buckeye Review.

Gray, B. (1998) "Our Souls, Our Spirit," The Buckeye Review.

Warren, H.; Gray, B. "The Postmodern Black Consumer: Measuring (Dis)Empowerment," Association of Marketing Theory and Practice Conference, Charleston, SC.

Stringer, Sharon (1998) "Young adult literature and adolescent psychology: Moral thinking and action," 87th Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Detroit, MN.

Thomas, J.E., (2002). "Minding the Children with Mindfulness. A Buddhist Approach to Promoting Well Being in Children."  Paper presentation at the Children at Risk Working Conference.  Dartmouth, NH, June 24-25. 

Ford, J.D., Racusin, R., Ellis, C.E., Daviss, W.B., Reiser, J., Fleischer, A & Thomas, 
J.E. (2000). Child maltreatment, other trauma exposure and Posttraumatic symptomatology amon children with oppositional defiant and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders. Journal of Child Maltreatment, Vol. 5, No. 3, 205-217.

Ford, J.D., Racusin, R., Daviss, W.B., Ellis, C.G., Thamas, J.E., Rogers, K., Reiser, J., Schiffman,j., & Sengupta, A. (1999). Trauma exposure among children with oppositional defiant disorder and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 67, No.5, 786-789.

Ford, D.J.; Ellis, C.G.; Thomas, J.E.; Racusin, R J.; Rogers, K.C.; Cunningham, M. "History of Victimization in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)." University of New Hampshire Family Violence Research Conference, Durham.

Thomas, J. E. "Marital Intimacy: Conceptualization of an Integrative Definition and Assessing its relationship to Marital Commitment," Ohio Psychological Association Spring Conference, Columbus.