March 5, 2026

Goucher Psychology Research at the EPA Conference in Boston

Dr. Brian Patrick’s research team members Brianna Taylor (’26), Alexandra Dzhygit (’28), Baylee Klose (‘27), Madison Quick (’25), and Anaka Steinmetz (’25) co-authored a Social Psychology poster entitled, “Parental Influences on Autonomy Relatedness Compatibility Beliefs.”
Dr. Thomas Ghirardelli and students D.J. Howell (’26), Clara Phelps (’26), Samuel Dylan (’27), Athena Savick (’27), Lilly Perron (‘28), Natasha Ramsland (’27), and Hope Verschleiser (’28) co-authored the Cognitive session poster entitled, “Irrelevant Color Singletons Do No Capture Attention in a 3-D Search Task.”
Dr. Jennifer McCabe and students Erica Adamson (’25), Naila LaPierre (’27), Julissa Trejo-Lopez (’27), Max Davis (’27), and Rebecca Siemers (’27) co-authored the Teaching of Psychology poster, “Refutation Retention: The Durability of Myth-Busting After a Memory Course.”
Dr. Katherine Choe and students Katelyn Conrad (’26), Charlie Berezney (’27), Hailly Catron (’27), and Rebecca Katz (’27) co-authored the Developmental Psychology poster, “Children’s Understanding of Good and Bad in Ambiguous Moral Situations.”

A group of Psychology Department students and faculty recently attended the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) conference in Boston, February 26th-February 28th. There were four Goucher research posters presented at the conference.

We also caught up with Goucher alums Jessica Leffers (’16), who is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland (and brought her own mentored research students to the conference) and Corinne Kahler (’16), who is now the Assistant Director for Degree Completion and Graduate Admissions at Neumann University (attending the conference to represent their new Forensic Psychology MS program).

Congratulations to all our faculty and student research presenters!