Marietta College students win Psychology Jeopardy again
Pioneers have won six out of the last seven competitions
Marietta, OH (04/27/2017) — Marietta College's Psychology Department claimed the Psychology Jeopardy championship for the sixth time in seven years at the Tri State Psychology Conference at West Liberty University in Wheeling, West Virginia.
The team of Daniel Carlsen '18 (Vincent, Ohio), Megan Hendrich '17 (Ravenna, Ohio), Brooklyn Howes '17 (Albany, Ohio), Micayla Hupp '17 (Lowell, Ohio), Brooke Stanley '17 (Parkersburg, West Virginia) and Emily Toppin '19 (Stow, Ohio) made up Marietta's winning team.
Five students also presented research papers and posters at the conference.
Hendrich presented her honors thesis research, "Focused Attention Drives the Effect of Mindfulness on Implicit Learning," as part of the oral presentations.
Poster presentations were conducted by Toppin ("You Can't Reject Me: How Extraverts React to Ostracism"), Stanley ("Personality and Politics: The Impact of Dark Triad Traits and Need For Cognition on Implicit and Explicit Presidential Candidate Endorsements"), Hupp ("Serial Killers: Fact and Fiction"), and CJ Feipel '17 (Fort Wayne, Indiana) and Carlsen ("What Do You Know About Criminal Behavior").
Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy begun in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers 45 majors and has been listed among Barron's Best Buys in College Education and Peterson's Competitive Colleges, and has been recognized as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, as well as one of the nation's best by Forbes.com.
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