Self & Relationships Lab

Recent Poster Presentations

*Graduate student co-presenter; †Undergraduate student co-presenter

Ruscieliwicz, D. †, Purgason, R. †, Blackhart, G. C. (2024). Assessing data quality across the semester from an 

undergraduate psychology participant pool. Poster presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Appalachian Student Research Forum, ETSU, Johnson City, TN.

Dismuke, A.*, Blackhart, G. C. (2024). Objectively neutral feedback predicts feelings of rejection. Poster presented at 

the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Bisio, I. †, Malibari, J. †, Blackhart, G. C., Exploratory research on predictors of conspiracy theory beliefs in college 

students. Poster presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San 

Diego, CA.

Day, L.*, Blackhart, G. C. (2024). The link between ACEs and imposter phenomenon and their effect on 

undergraduate academic burnout. Poster presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Personality & 

Social Psychology, San Diego, CA. 

Malibari, J. †, Bisio, I. †, & Blackhart, G. C. (2023). Exploratory research on predictors of conspiracy theory beliefs in 

college students. Poster presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, 

Charlotte, NC.

Day, L. R.*, & Blackhart, G. C. (2023). The indirect link between adverse childhood experiences and imposter 

phenomenon. Poster presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists, 

Charlotte, NC.

Dismuke, A. N.*, Day, L. R.*, & Blackhart, G. C. (2023). Neutral isn’t neutral: Examining the impacts of neutral 

feedback on participants’ affective reactions. Poster presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society of 

Southeastern Social Psychologists, Charlotte, NC.

Blackhart, G. C., Castelblanco, S. A., & Dismuke, A. N. (2023). Emotion dysregulation and attachment anxiety as 

mediators of the relationship between adverse childhood cxperiences and social health. Poster presented at the 

2023 meeting of the International Convention of Psychological Science, Brussels, Belgium.

Dismuke, A. N.* & Blackhart, G. C. (2023). Rejection sensitivity mediates the relationship between impression 

efficacy and social anxiety. Poster presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Personal and Social 

Psychology Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA. 

Castelblanco, S. A., & Blackhart, G. (2022). The effects of virtual nature exposure on state social motivation. Poster 

presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Personal and Social Psychology Annual Convention, San 

Francisco, CA. 

Castelblanco, S., Parish, A., & Blackhart, G. (2021). The role of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in social 

functioning through emotion dysregulation and attachment anxiety. In S. Castelblanco (Chair), How Trauma, 

Discrimination, Family Conflict, and Resilience Impact Health [Symposium]. Paper presented at the 2021 annual 

meeting of the Society for Personal and Social Psychology, Washington, DC.