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Winfield, Kan., March 7, 2002 — Several Winfield natives are among the ten Southwestern College students who have had papers chosen for presentation at the annual conference of the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago and at the Great Plains Psychology Association in Emporia.

Those presenting in Chicago include Hanna Wolcott and Emily Ledford, Winfield; Heather Robb, Mark Shrewsberry, Marla Berthot, and Tasha Doty, Arkansas City; Emily Swingle, Zenda; and Caryn Huslig, Ellsworth. The students will attend the conference in Chicago May 2-4.

Those presenting in Emporia include Mark Shrewsberry and Nathan Swink, Arkansas City; and John Hathcoat, Wagner, Okla. The regional conference will be held in Emporia March 22-23.

“In order to get into graduate school, our students need this type of experience,” says James Nolan, SC assistant professor of psychology and sponsor of the students. “This isn’t a requirement for psychology majors. They have chosen to do it for their own benefit.”

Paper titles include
: · “Influential Factors Which Influence Employee Resistance to Change”
(Robb);

· “Alcohol Stigma Prevalence Concerning Alcohol Treatment Outcomes,” Chicago; and “Gender Specific Alcoholic Stigma Perception,” Emporia
(Shrewsberry);

· “Levels of Sibling Intimacy in Adulthood”
( Berthot and Ledford);

· “The Spontaneous Eye Blink: A Gender Dependent Measure of Attractiveness”
(Doty);

· “Illumination Effects on Arabidopis Thaliana, Desmodium Gyrns, and Samanea Saman: A Manipulation of Biological Clocks”
(Wolcott);

· “Physiological Responses to Evolutionary-Induced Dangers”
(Huslig and Swingle), and

· “Numerical Long-term Memory as a Function of Color”
(Swink and Hathcoat).

For more information contact Nolan at (620) 229-6213.