Vann Scott, Ph.D. & Wendy Wolfe, Ph.D.

Research Focus:

Informed by the disciplines of social psychology and clinical psychology, this psychology research lab investigates intrapersonal and interpersonal influences on mood, cognition, perception, and physiology.

Recent Investigations:

Using benefit triggered gratitude to increase interest and motivation for a gratitude intervention

The effect of personal and general sexual objectification on body image, self-presentation, and self-regulation resources in women.

Immediate and delayed emotional and physiological effects of self-immersed, self-distanced, and distraction strategies for responding to memories of anger.

Student Presentations:

Cosima Hoetger, Wendy Lozo, Daviana Garcia, Olivia
Singleton & Rachel Hershberger (2012). Pay it Forward: Using Benefit Triggered Gratitude to Increase Interest and Motivation for a Gratitude Intervention. Poster presented at the annual AASU Student Research Symposium.

William Worrell, Amanda Herring, Jesse Moore, Wendy Lozo, Cosima Hoetger, Olivia Singleton, & Jonathan Shay (2012). Inducing gratitude intervention. Presentation given at the 37th annual Carolinas psychology conference, Raleigh, NC.

William Worrell, Jesse Moore, Wendy Lozo, Cosima Hoetger, Dujon Curtis, Brandi Hill, & Jonathan Shay (2011). Have you left me speechless? It depends…..: The effect of personal and general sexual objectification on self-presentation and self-regulation in women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologists, Johnson City, TN.

Wendy Wolfe, Vann B. Scott Jr., Jenny Bader, Amanda Herring, Todd Allmond, William Worrell, Tyson Lemka, Wendy Lozo, Megan Brannen, & Jennifer Waters (2011). The effect of objectifying videogame images on women’s body image. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Jacksonville, FL.

Wendy Wolfe, Vann B. Scott Jr., Amanda Herring, Jenny Bader, Todd Allmond, Tyson Lemka, William Worrell, Megan Brannen, Wendy Lozo, & Jennifer Waters (2011). The effect of objectifying videogame images on rape myth acceptance in women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Jacksonville, FL.

Amanda Herring, Jennifer Bader, Todd Allmond, Tyson Lemka, & William Worrell (2010). Exposure to sexually objectifying stimuli reduces self-regulation resources in women. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologists, Charleston, SC.

Sebastian Krzywanski, Caroline Eastman, Davor Zink, Adele Stevens, Wendy Yoder, & Amy Steely (2010). To reflect or distract? A comparison of self-distanced, self-immersed, and distraction strategies for processing anger-eliciting memories. Presentation given at the 35th annual Carolinas psychology conference, Raleigh, NC.

Amy Steely & Amanda Herring (2010). Does exposure to objectifying images lead to presence reduction in women? Poster presented at the annual AASU Student Research Symposium.

Adele (Stevens) Stuckey & Caroline Eastman (2010). Human judgment versus the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) Software: Comparing Kross and Pennebaker methods of analyzing emotional and cognitive content in written essays. Poster presented at the annual Georgia Psychological Association conference, Atlanta, GA.

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Students in our lab have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of the research process, from research idea development, to running participants, to data analysis and presentation of findings. The lab follows a "junior-senior" student leadership model, whereby students who have been involved in the lab for multiple semesters take on a more senior role in terms of level of responsibility (e.g., training new lab members, presenting at conferences, possibly developing their own projects). For this reason, students are encouraged to remain involved in the lab for more than one semester, receiving from 1-6 credit hours for their involvement via the Psyc 3950 (Research in Psychology) course. Lab meetings are generally held on Friday afternoons. Contact Dr. Scott (vann.scott@armstrong.edu) or Dr. Wolfe (wendy.wolfe@armstrong.edu) if you are interested in the lab.

2011-2012 Scott-Wolfe Research Lab

(Standing) Cosima Hoetger, (Absent) Dr. Vann Scott

(Seated: L to R) Rachel Hershberger, Olivia Singleton, Daviana Garcia, Amanda Herring, Britt Worrell, Wendy Lozo, Dr. Wendy Wolfe

Current Lab Members:

(2011-2012)

Amanda Herring

Britt Worrell

Jesse Moore

Wendy Lozo

Cosima Hoetger

Dujon Curtis

Jonathan Shay

Daviana Garcia

Olivia Singleton

Rachel Hershberger

2010-2011 Scott-Wolfe Research Lab

(Standing: L to R) Dr. Scott, Dr. Wolfe, Wendy Lozo, Cosima Hoetger

(Seated: L to R) Amanda Herring, Savannah Annas, Aunjae Cary, Brandi Hill, Jesse Moore, Britt Worrell

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Where are they now?

Former lab members have gone on to a variety of graduate programs:

Todd Allmond: Georgia Southern University

Dujon Curtis: AASU

Daviana Garcia: UGA (Law)

Portia Jones: University of Indianapolis

Amy Steely: University of Oklahoma

Adele (Stevens) Stuckey: George Washington University

Davor Zink: University of North Carolina at Wilmington (MS); UNLV (PhD)