The 2019-2020 School Year -- Life in the Times of COVID-19:
Here are submissions by lab members during the 2019-2020 school year. Because of COVID-19, the Association for Psychological Science convention was cancelled and the accepted poster submissions occurred online: - Abraham, M.*, & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). Network tree analyses separate interrelationships between category fluency measures based on APOE genetic status. Poster accepted for presentation at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. -- Conference cancelled, presented virtually
- Bate, G.*, Buscemi, J., Greenley, R. N., Tran, S. T., & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). Exploratory Graph Analysis uncovers tripartite anxiety and depression dimensions in college students. Poster to be presented at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. -- Conference cancelled, presented virtually
- Chirica, M.*, Buscemi, J., Greenley, R. N., Tran, S. T., & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). Network analysis of trait and state anxiety measures reveals a connected system. Poster to be presented at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. -- Conference cancelled, presented virtually
- Drandorff, L. N.*, & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). Neuroticism causally mediates the relationship between conscientiousness and social anxiety. Poster to be presented at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. -- Conference cancelled, presented virtually
- Gandelman, E.*, & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). The relationship between therapeutic intentions for MDMA experiences and use of cognitive processing language. Poster to be presented at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. -- Conference cancelled, presented virtually
- Grotkwoski, K.*, & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). Elucidating late-life anxiety: The relationship between processing speed and anxiety in older and younger adults. Poster to be presented at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. -- Conference cancelled, presented virtually
- Leib, S. I.*, & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). Latent class growth analysis identifies distinct, linked openness and intellect trajectories. Poster to be presented at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. -- Conference cancelled, presented virtually
- Obert, G. T.*, & Miller, S. A. (poster accepted for presentation, 2020, May). Bring an umbrella: Testing the predictive accuracy of affective forecasting using multilevel vector autoregressive models. Poster accepted at 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. - Conference cancelled, not presented
- Reed, B. W.*, Feldman, E. C. H.*, Greenley, R. N., Buscemi, J., Tran, S. T., & Miller, S. A. (accepted symposium presentation, 2020, May). Prediction of risk for alcohol and marijuana use in college students: Traditional and elastic net methodology. In S. A. Miller (Chair), Risk and Resilience Among Emerging Adults: Sleep, Substance Use, and Statistical Methodology. Symposium accepted at 32nd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, IL. -- Conference cancelled, not presented.
- Leib, S. I.*, Hill, S. K., & Miller, S. A. (2020). Working memory mediates the relationship between depressive symptoms and accurately recognizing happy and sad faces in bipolar disorder. Poster presented at the 48th Annual Convention of the International Neuropsychological Society. Denver, Colorado. -- Presented virtually
Midwestern Psychological Association - 2019:
Our lab presented the following posters at MPA in Chicago in April: - Drandorff, L.N.*, & Miller, S. A. (2019). Conceptualizing Perfectionism: Utilizing Class Enumeration Process within Latent Profile Analysis. Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Gandelman, E.*, Abraham, M.*, & Miller, S. A. (2019). Latent Semantic Analysis of Category Fluency in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.-
- Grotkowski,K.*, & Miller, S. A. (2019). Measurement invariance of the Negative Mood Regulation Expectancies Scale. Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Leib, S.*, & Miller, S. A. (2019). Changes in Openness Predict Changes in Intellect: Growth Curve Analysis. Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Obert, G.T.*, & Miller, S. A. (2019). Gaussian Mixture Model Personality Typology Replication via Model Based Clustering. Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Reed, B. W.*, & Miller, S. A. (2019). Negative Mood Regulation Expectancies and Negative Affect in SUD Populations. Poster presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
Association for Psychological Science - 2018:
Our lab presented the following research at The 30th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science in San Francisco: - Drandorff, L.N.*, Srnka, K. D.*, Miller, S. A., & Seidenberg, M. (2018). Epilepsy and ADHD diagnosis predict latent class membership based on neurological testing profile. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
- Grotkowski,K.*, & Miller, S. A. (2018). K-fold cross validation in latent profile analysis. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
- Leib, S.*, & Miller, S. A. (2018). Shared and unique properties of openness and intellect: Correlated latent change analysis. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
- Obert, G.T.*, & Miller, S. A. (2018). Putting ourselves out there: Mixed results for network model replicability when examining extraversion. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
- Reed, B. W.*, & Miller, S. A. (2018). Predicting emotion-level and intraindividual variability within the anxiety and depression tripartite model. Poster presented at the 30th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
Photos from APS 2018:

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| Greg | Brandon | Lab Dinner at Bissap Baobab for Senegalese Food |
During 2017, our lab is submitting several presentations to the 89th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. - Drandorff, L. N.*, & Miller, S. A. (2017). Examining conscientiousness in personality: Comparing factor analytic and network approaches. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Fowler, D.*, Miller, S. A., & Kwon, P. (2017). Understanding resilience factors in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Grotkowski, K,*, & Miller, S. A. (2017). Optimists or optimistic: Replicating and expanding a taxometric study. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Reed, B. W.*., & Miller, S. A. (2017). Conscientiousness as dimensional AND categorical: Factor analysis vs factor mixtures. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
- Weber, E.*, & Miller, S. A. (2017). Conscientious people’s profiles: Modeling latent profile covariances and factor mixtures. Poster presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois.
On May 15, 2017, we presented at Rosalind Franklin's All School Research Consortium and here are some photos:
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| Laury's Talk | Brandon's Poster | Emily's Poster | Karol's Poster | Laury's Poster
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Association for Psychological Science, 2016
We submitted a symposium about taxometrics that was accepted. We also had another poster submission. - Miller, S. A. (chair; May, 2016). Distinguishing dimensional from categorical structures of psychological constructs: New implementations of taxometric procedures using SPSS. Symposium presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois.
- Drandorff, L. N.*, & Miller, S. A. (May, 2016). MAMBAC in SPSS: A newly developed module for taxometric analysis. In S. A. Miller (Chair). Distinguishing dimensional from categorical structures of psychological constructs: New implementations of taxometric procedures using SPSS. Symposium presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois.
- Klappa, S. P.*, & Miller, S. A.., (May, 2016). L-Mode: A taxometric analysis module for SPSS. In S. A. Miller (Chair). Distinguishing dimensional from categorical structures of psychological constructs: New implementations of taxometric procedures using SPSS. Symposium presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois.
- Weber, E.*, & Miller, S. A. (May, 2016). MAXEIG: Coming soon in user-friendly SPSS form to a computer near you. In S. A. Miller (Chair). Distinguishing dimensional from categorical structures of psychological constructs: New implementations of taxometric procedures using SPSS. Symposium presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois.
- Reed, B. W.*, & Miller, S. A. (May, 2016). Discussant. In S. A. Miller (Chair). Distinguishing dimensional from categorical structures of psychological constructs: New implementations of taxometric procedures using SPSS. Symposium presented at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois.
We also submitted a poster to APS 2016
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We also took part in RFUMS's ASRC in 2016.
Photos of Our Lab's Posters at Rosalind Franklin's 11th Annual All School Research Consortium (March 16, 2016) | |
Association for Psychological Science - 2015- Azimuddin, A.*, Klappa, S. P.*, & Miller, S. A. (2015). Hope and hopelessness: Two peas from separate pods. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, New York. (handout)
- Bragg, S. R.*, Klappa, S. P.*, & Miller, S. A. (2015). Optimism and pessimism: The relationship of two constructs across cultures. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, New York.
- Drandorff, L. N.*, Klappa, S. P.*, & Miller, S. A. (2015). Support for a bifactor model of hopelessness and its relation to pessimism. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, New York.
- Fowler, D.*, Weber, E.*, Klappa, S. P.*, & Miller, S. A. (2015). Replicating and expanding investigations of the structure of the constructs of hope and optimism using an MTurk sample. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, New York. (handout)
- Klappa, S. P.*, Catanzaro, S. J., & Miller, S. A. (2015). Both interpersonal traits and average interpersonal behavior predict momentary behavior – sometimes. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, New York.
- Some of the work at this conference has led to our lab's first publication together
- Fowler, D., Weber, E., Klappa, S.P., & Miller, S.A. (2017). Replicating future orientation: Investigating hope, optimism, and their subscales through replication and expansion. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 22-28. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.04.010 (pdf)
Photo of Our Lab's Posters at the Association for Psychological Science in New York (May 21 - May 24, 2015) |  | | |
| Drew and Emily on Friday, May 22, 2015 | Lauren on Saturday, May 23, 2015 | Sarah on Saturday, May 23, 2015 | Lab Dinner at Banana Leaf (Sri Lankan) on Friday Night (May 22, 2015) |
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Midwestern Psychological Association - 2015 - Bragg, S. R.*, Drandorff, L. N.*, Klappa, S. P.*, & Miller, S. A. (2015). State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA): Stability over time? Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois. (handout)
- Drandorff, L. N.*, Klappa, S. P.*, Bragg, S. R.*, & Miller, S. A. (2015). Stability of Physiological Hyperarousal for Adults - Trait Scale (PHA-T). Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois. (handout coming soon)
- Klappa, S. P.*, Bragg, S. R.*, Drandorff, L. N.*, & Miller, S. A. (2015). Evaluating factorial invariance of the Physiological Hyperarousal for Adults Trait (PHA-T) scale. Poster presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, Illinois. (handout coming soon)
Photo of Our Lab's Posters at the Midwestern Psychological Association in Chicago (May 2, 2015) |
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Association for Psychological Science - 2014 Photo's of Our Lab's Posters at Rosalind Franklin's 10th Annual All School Research Consortium (March 18, 2015)
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And here are some pictures of the lab and surrounding area.
Looking into the lab | A view out the lab window | Another view in the lab | |
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Here are pictures of the people who have worked in the lab at Rosalind Franklin with a description of their interests.
Lab Alumni
| Emily Weber, Ph.D. completed the Clinical Psychology Ph D. program in 2019. Dr. Weber earned her B.A. in Psychology from Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL. Her research interests include stress and coping strategies, personality disorders, interpersonal violence, and resilience. She is currently working on completing her thesis on the predictive utility of life stress and coping strategies in a domestic violence offender population. Clinically, she has worked with an offender population and is currently working with PTSD veterans who suffer from moral injury. In the future, she hopes to explore her interests working with a forensic population. She presented her findings from a methods study at the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She collaborated with another RFUMS student to conduct a study that explored the error rates involved in making typology classification in a probation sample of male perpetrators. Emily started working in the lab in winter of 2014. A copy of her CV is here. She is currently a post-doc at Netcare Forensic Center in Columbus, Ohio. |
Emily on her (successful) dissertation defense day (April 19, 2019) |
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Drew Fowler, Ph.D. completed the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in 2017. Dr. Fowler received his Bachelor's degree in Psychology, with a minor in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Kansas. Drew's areas of interests include: resiliency, grit, positive psychology, interpersonal relationships, aggression, and issues related to gay and lesbian populations. Drew has worked with a variety of clinical populations and settings, including: domestic violence perpetrators, veterans with severe mental illnesses and PTSD, at-risk youth, children and adolescents, families, low SES community populations, and individuals suffering from chronic and/or severe medical illnesses. At the 2015 APS conference in New York, Drew and Emily presented a poster examining the relationship between hope and optimism in an MTurk sample. In 2015, Drew received the CRI Healthy World Scholarship for his clinical work with under-served community populations. Drew is set to propose his dissertation in August. He started working in the lab in winter of 2014. During the 2016-2017 school year, Drew completed his internship at the VA Portland Health Care System. A copy of his CV is here. He is currently a psychologist at Kansas City VA |
| Drew on his (successful) dissertation defense day (Monday, December 12, 2016) |
| | Photo Coming Soon | Dan Goldstein, Ph.D. completed the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program in 2016. Dr. Goldstein is currently a clinical psychologist at Edward Hines , Jr. VA Hospital. He completed a M.S. in clinical psychology at RFUMS, an M.A. in forensic psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, and a B.S. in Political Science at the University of Illinois. More information about Dr. Goldstein may be found here.
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Past Volunteers
| Scott Klappa completed an M.S. in Clinical Counseling. He earned his B.A. in Psychology from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona. His areas of interest include self-regulative mechanisms, personality traits, and motivation factors operating between the individual and groups. Scott's current research looks at personality and the influence of emotion on decision-making. Clinically, he is currently at a practicum placement working with clients with severe, persistent mental illness. Scott has been published in The International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society on research he has done on professional identity, resilience, and hardiness of foreign-trained physical therapists. Scott worked in the lab from fall of 2013 to Summer of 2016. A copy of his CV is here. |
Before my time at Rosalind Franklin, there was a period of time where I didn't have a laboratory. However, before that, I was an assistant professor in the Psychology Department at California State University, Fullerton; I left CSUF to move back to Chicago in 2013 . Several students (designated with an "*") were involved in presentations at professional conferences:- Hoffman, A. L.*, Miller, S. A., & Engeln-Maddox, R. (2007). Identifying classes of unmotivated participants from instructional manipulation checks and satisficing indices. Poster presented at The 19th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
- Johnson, K. S.*, Miller, S. A., & Catanzaro, S. J. (2007). The persistence of emotion: Modeling affective dimension autocorrelations using dynamic factor analysis. Poster presented at The 19th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
- Castro-Schilo, L.*, & Miller, S. A. (2008). Personality and musical manipulation of emotional states. Poster presented at The 88th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, California.
- Castro-Schilo, L.*, Miller, S. A., & Hoffman, A. L.* (2008).Mediators of the personality-affect relationship: Negative mood regulation expectancies and savoring beliefs. Poster presented at The 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
- Hoffman, A. L.*, Castro-Schilo, L.*, & Miller, S. A. (2008).Negative mood regulation expectancies and savoring beliefs form two affective regulation dimensions. Poster presented at The 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
- Mills, L. M.*, & Miller, S. A. (2008). Negative mood regulation expectancies moderate the relationship between stress and distress. Poster presented at The 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
- Ramezani, A.*, Castro-Schilo, L.*, & Miller, S. A. (2008). Physiological hyperarousal and anxiety sensitivity mediate childhood trauma and adult anxiety relationships. Poster presented at The 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
- Reed, B. R.*, & Miller, S. A. (2008). Understanding the dimensions of affect regulation: The Measure of Affect Regulation Styles. Poster presented at The 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
- Miller, S. A., & The Personality and Emotion Research Laboratory* (2008). Stable aspects of perceived physiological hyperarousal predict momentary experiences of anxious arousal. Poster presented at The 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
Even after I left California and students went on to doctoral programs, I kept collaborating with students from the lab. - Castro-Schilo, L., & Miller, S. A. (2009). Extroversion levels influence variability of affective processes in dynamic factor analyses. Poster presented at The 21st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
- Goode, T., & Miller, S. A. (2012). An application of person-specific methods to experience sampling data measuring anxious arousal. Poster presented at The 24th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
- Castro-Schilo, L., & Miller, S. A. (May, 2018). Waste not, want not: A methodological illustration of quantitative text analysis. Talk presented at the 8th Annual Modern Modeling Methods Conference. Storrs, Connecticut.
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