* Undergraduate author, served as primary mentor
Kramer, T.*, Martins, L.*, & Foust, J. L. (2025, May 1). Roles of health malleability, motivation, and stages of change in health literacy, physical activity, and self-efficacy [Poster presentation]. RISE Symposium, Spartanburg, SC
Kramer, T.* & Foust, J. L. (2025, February 14). The effect of worry and coping resources on information avoidance [Poster presentation]. SC INBRE annual Science Symposium, Columbia, SC
Taber, J. M., Foust, J. L., Fitzsimmons, C. J., Scheibe, D. A., Godwin, K. E., & Thompson, C.A. (2025, February). Self-affirmation and Worked Example Math Intervention on Math Performance. [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
Foust, J. L., Beal, S. (2023, October). Using Mentimeter as a strategy for real-time, equitable engagement [Poster presentation]. Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Portland, OR.
Johnson, H.*, Foust, J. L., & Taber, J. M. (2023, April). Predictors of ambiguity about COVID-19 [Poster presentation]. Kent State Undergraduate Research Symposium, Kent, OH.
Foust, J. L., Taber, J. M., Fitzsimmons, C. J., Scheibe, D. A., Godwin, K. E., & Thompson, C. A. (2023, February). Math threat, fear, and health decision-making [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
Foust, J. L., Taber, J. M., Paljarvi, T., Cadmus-Bertram, L., Mays, D. M. M., Smith, B., Rana, B. & R., Cribbet, M. R. (2022, April). Stress, threat management resources, and perceived sleep health [Poster presentation]. Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Taber, J. M., Simonovic, N., O’Brien, A. G., Foust, J. L., Coifman, K. G., & Thompson, C. A. (2022, April). Risk beliefs and COVID-19 vaccination among U.S. adults: A prospective study [Paper presentation]. Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
O'Brien, A. G, Foust, J. L., & Taber, J.M. (2022, April). “It would be very scary to learn I had it”: Self-reported reasons for avoiding and rejecting personalized risk information [Poster presentation]. Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Foust, J. L., & Taber, J. M. (2022, February). Tailoring the normative reference group to discourage health information avoidance: The importance of group identity. [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco, CA.
Foust, J. L., Waters, E. A., Scherer, L. D., McQueen, A., & Taber, J. M. (2021, April). To what extent do Internet-based cancer risk assessment tools adhere to best practices in risk communication: A content analysis. [Poster presentation]. Society for Behavioral Medicine, Virtual Conference.
Foust, J. L., O’Brien, A. G., & Taber, J. M. (2020, June). Dispositional optimism and spontaneous self-affirmation as predictors of information avoidance and agreement with prediabetes risk information [Poster presentation]. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
Foust, J. & Richman, S. (2019, April). Adaptive decision-making as a mediator between self-complexity and stress [Poster presentation]. Midwestern Psychological Society National Conference, Chicago, IL.
Foust, J. & Richman, S. (2019, February). Adaptive decision-making as a mediator between self-complexity and stress [Poster presentation]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology National Conference, Portland, OR.
Ledwidge, P., Ramsey, A., & Foust, J. (2019, March). A slow late frontal positivity ERP reflects the resolution of contextual ambiguity during discourse comprehension [Poster presentation]. The Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Foust, J. L. & Taber, J. M. (2025, February 20-22). Examining the day-to-day antecedents and consequences of information avoidance: A daily diary study. In J. L. Foust (Chair), Why do people avoid information: Insights, implications, and interventions [Symposium]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
Foust, J. L., Taber, J. M., Fitzsimmons, C. J., Sidney, P. G., & Thompson, C. A. (2023, April). Who avoids personalized melanoma risk estimates? Testing health cognitions, coping resources, and math factors [Oral presentation]. Kent State University Graduate Research Symposium, Kent, OH.
Foust, J. L. (2023, February). When you’d rather not know: Understanding information avoidance [Oral presentation]. Kent State University Fourth Year Talk Symposium, Kent, OH.
Foust, J. L. (2021, April). Dispositional optimism and spontaneous self-affirmation as predictors of information avoidance and agreement with prediabetes risk information [Oral presentation]. Kent State University Graduate Research Conference, Kent, OH.
Foust J. L. (2020, October). Reducing Avoidance in the Face of Threat [Oral presentation]. Kent State University Second Year Symposium, Kent, OH.