We are so proud of Berny for getting the Clinical Psychologists at Liberal Arts Colleges SIG Student Poster Award!
WOO!! BERNY RECIEVED THE Noelle Skrobola Outstanding Research Scholar Award!
Congrats to Jess & Berny for getting their posters accepted for presentation at ABCT! ★★
Jess will be presenting her paper, “Disclosing Campus Sexual Assault to Formal Support Systems Increases Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Due to More Negative Social Reactions” at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy annual meeting SIG Poster Exposition!
Berny will be presenting his paper, “The Direction of Effects between Depression Symptoms and Alcohol-Related Problems among College Students” at the CPLAC SIG poster exposition at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy annual conference!
Congratulations to Jess and Harish!
Congratulations to Jess and Harish for being inducted into Psi Chi International Honors Society in Psychology! We are very proud to see our lab members succeeding and earning these honors.
Reactivity Lab and ABCT 2020!
Elijah Buckwalter, Meagan McDowell, Olivia Ortelli, Isabel Rodriguez, and Rajbir Toor had posters accepted for presentation at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies’s 54th Annual Convention, which is to be held November 19 – 22, 2020 in “Philadelphia, P.A” (virtually).
- Posters accepted:
- Elijah and Olivia: The Relationship between Substance-Related Campus Sexual Assault, Substance Use Coping, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms
- Olivia and Meagan: The Effects of Trauma Type on Subsequent Alcohol Use and PTSD Symptomology
- Olivia: Social Reactions to Substance-Related Campus Sexual Assault Depend on Who you Tell
- Isabel and Raj: Social Reactions to Disclosure of Campus Sexual Assault and PTSD Symptoms among Black Female Undergraduates
Congratulations everyone!
Shaun, Mallery, and Olivia accepted for EPA!
Shaun will be presenting his paper titled “Intimate partner violence in a college setting and corresponding perceptions of campus.”
Mallery will be presenting her paper titled “Stress Moderates Gender Differences in Eating Disorder Symptoms among College Students.”
Olivia will be presenting her paper titled “PTSD symptom clusters, depression, and alcohol use among college sexual assault survivors.”
Psychology Celebration of Student Achievement
(From left to right) Meagan McDowell, Mallery Davis-Swing, Olivia Ortelli, and Rajbir Toor
Reactivity Lab members presented their research findings at TCNJ’s inaugural Psychology-CoSA.
Dr. Herres and Shaun Meyers attend ABCT!
On November 21-24, Dr. Herres and senior lab member, Shaun Meyers, presented their work at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference (ABCT) in Atlanta, Georgia!
Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony 2019

On April 24th, 2019, several members of the Reactivity Lab were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and is often described as its most prestigious.