Self and Social Motivation Lab News

• Here you can read about all the new and exciting events happening in the lab!

Honors and Awards:

• Dr. Crocker was awarded a spot on the Heritage Wall of Fame for the Foundation of Personality and Social Psychology!
  
• Dr. Crocker was awarded the 2014 SESP Scientific Impact Award!

New Publications:

• Dr. Crocker and Dr. Canevello have a new book chapter titled For Better or Worse: Compassionate Goals Create Good Relationships in Good Times and Bad which will appear in C. R. Knee & H. T. Reis (Eds.) Positive approaches to optimal relationship development.
• A new article has been published using the French translation of the CSW Scale, Kempenaers,C., DeBoeck, P., Dehon, C., Braun, S., & Linkowski, P. (2014) Metric invariance of the French version of the Contingencies of Self-Worth Scale. Comprehensive Psychology, 3, 22.
  
  The first author is Chantal Kempenaers contact at chantal.kempenaers@erasme.ulb.ac.be
  

Accomplishments of Lab Members:

• Postdoctoral student Deborah Holoien Takes Job At Amherst College

  According to its webpage, "Amherst College is now widely regarded as one of the premier liberal arts colleges in the nation, enrolling a diverse group of approximately 1,800 young men and women."  Congratulations!!!

Other Noteworthy Lab Activities:

• Three lab members will be presenting at SPSP this month! Below are the times of their various presentations.
  
  • Deborah Holoien will be presenting in a symposium on February 27th from 11:15 to 12:30 PM with Hilary Bergsieker, Nicole Shelton, and Jan Marie Alegre titled Desire to Affiliate and Accuracy in Understanding Cross-Race Partners
    
  • Dominik Mischkowski will be presenting a poster on February 28th from 8:00-9:30 AM titled The Physical Pain-killer Acetaminophen increases Social Pain
    
  • Pin-ya Tseng will be presenting a poster on February 28th from 8:00-9:30 AM titled The Effects of Compassionate Goals in Giving Feedback