Social Psychology and Neuroscience Research Lab | Interdisciplinary research in social psychology, social neuroscience, and organizational psychology
| Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Students | ||||
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Zachary W. Petzel, MA |
Mindy Siebert, MA |
Anne M. Manwarring, BA |
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Zach is a fourth year PhD student in the Behavioral Neuroscience program. He earned his BA and MA in Psychology from UMSL. His research interests include self-regulation, implicit attitudes, stereotype activation, and heart rate variability. Current Projects: Self-Regulation mechanisms, implicit cognition, and health Current work: Casad, B. J., & Petzel, Z. W. Neurosexism. (2017). In K. Nadal (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender (pp. 1243-1246). Petzel, Z. W., & Casad, B. J. You are what you drink: Alcohol preference moderates the Casad, B. J., Petzel, Z. W., & Ingalls, E. A. Threatening educational environments and women's experiences in STEM majors: A process model. Sex Roles, revise and resubmit. Casad, B. J., & Petzel, Z. W. Heart rate variability moderates challenge and threat responses to sexism among women in STEM. Social Psychology, revise and resubmit. Petzel, Z. W., & Casad, B. J. (2018, March). Exposure to alcohol cues after exercising self-control increases approach motivation. Poster accepted for presentation for the 19th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, Georgia. |
Mindy is a third year PhD student in the Behavioral Neuroscience program. She earned her BA in Psychology from Drury University and her MA from UMSL. Her research interests include implicit racial bias, social media use, stress reactivity, and the endocrine system. Current Projects: Social media and racism, women and racial minorities role models in STEM.
Current work: Casad, B. J., Siebert, M. M., Wexler, B. R., Flores, A. J., Chavez, T., & Langston, J. L. Not all STEM fields are created equal: Educational and climate outcomes vary by gender representation in STEM subfields. Manuscript under review. Casad, B. J., Manwarring, A. M., Siebert, M. M., & Ventouratos-Fotinatos, R. United in Siebert, M. M., Petzel, Z. W., Manwarring, A. M., & Casad, B. J. (2017, April). Sexism produces electrophysiological and affective threat responses among science teams. Poster presented at the Graduate Research Fair, University of Missouri-St. Louis. *Third place winner in the MA competition Sigma Xi grant: Social media as structural racism: Effects on immune and endocrine activity. |
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Anne is a second year MA student in the Behavioral Neuroscience program. She earned her BA in Psychology from UMSL. Her research interests include implicit bias and confronting sexism and racism. Current Projects: Confronting prejudice, intergroup relations in the European Union (Brexit, Greece Economic Crisis) Current work: Casad, B. J., Manwarring, A. M., Siebert, M. M., & Ventouratos-Fotinatos, R. United in Casad, B. J., Fague, M., Sullivan, E. T., Petzel, Z. W., Siebert, M. M., & Manwarring, A. M. (2018, March). Development and validation of a motivation to confront prejudice scale. Poster accepted for presentation for the 19th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, Georgia. Manwarring, A. M., Siebert, M. M., Ventouratos-Fotinatos, R., & Casad, B. J. (2017, January). United in crisis? Greek-EU identity integration predicts positive intergroup relations. Poster presented at the 18th annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Antonio, Texas. *First Author-Winner of Graduate Student Travel Award based on abstract submission Association for Psychological Science/Psi Chi, Summer Research Grant: Effects of confronting sexism on cognitive functioning and psychological well-being. |
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| Industrial/Organizational Psychology Graduate Students | ||||
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Current Projects: Perceptions of voluntarily child-free women and perceptions of employed and stay-at-home moms and dads. Her thesis examines bias against voluntarily unemployed individuals who seek to re-enter the workforce. Casad, B. J., Howell, D., Kasabian, A., & Nakawaki, B. Evaluations of gender deviants: The case of voluntarily childless women. Manuscript in preparation.
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Alanna Roesler, BS. Alanna is a first year IO MA student. She received her BS in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. Current Projects: Stereotype threat, benevolent prejudice, and leadership. Casad, B. J., & Roesler, A. Stereotype threat among aspiring leaders. Manuscript in preparation.
Deidre Hall, BA. Deidre is a first year PhD student in the IO program at UMSL. She earned her BA in Psychology from Macalester College. Her research interests include discrimination in the workplace, women in STEM, leadership, and performance management. Current Projects: Theory of planned behavior applied to leadership, confronting prejudice, Queen Bee Syndrome among women in STEM. Jackson, W., Hall, D., & Casad, B. J. (2018, April). Applying the theory of planned behavior to leadership. Poster submitted for presentation at the 33rd annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Chicago, Illinois. Casad, B. J., Hall, D., & Cox, J. L. Queen Bee Syndrome? Same gender discrimination against women in STEM. Manuscript in preparation. |
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Austin Leone, MA. Austin is a fourth year PhD student in the IO program at UMSL. She earned her MA 
Devan Howell, BA. Devan is a second year IO PhD student. she earned her BA in psychology from the University of Minnesota. 
