College of Psychology and Liberal Arts faculty were honored to be published in a number of distinguished publications and to present at many prestigious events during the past few months. They include:
Andrew Aberdein published “Virtuous argumentation and unendorsed claims,” in Informal Logic 45(3), 2025, pp. 311–28. He also published “Anonymous arguments,” in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 28(3): 345–357, and, with Katharina Stevens, published “Introduction to the special issue on the ethics of argumentation,” in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 28(3): 339–343.
Chelsea Carroll, along with fellow librarians William Bowman, Kaylee Erdos, Suzanne Odom, and Wanda Perez, “Credible or Constructed? Citation Quality and Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Generative AI.” Library Insights, vol. 1, no. 2. in August. https://www.canva.com/design/DAGw0qKdoyE/upimrfQzr0fzkPmFfFpg4w/view?utlId=h912c811c29#14
Felipa Chavez, along with E.E. Coates, K. Farrise, S. Coffey, R. Agbeli, and E. Aron, submitted for publication, (in press) “Bridging the Gap: Ameliorating disparities in the training of Black clinicians towards PCIT Sustainability,” in Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychology – Special Topic: Dismantling Disparities: Advancing Mental Healthcare Access for Diverse Youth. Chavez also published “A Qualitative Analysis Testing a Culturally Adapted Grounded PCIT Training for Black and Latine Clinicians: Creating Communities in PCIT for Providers of Autistic Youth” with co-authors, H. U. Onovbiona, L. B. Quetsch, and A. T. Scudder, in
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychology – Special Topic: Dismantling Disparities: Advancing Mental Healthcare Access for Diverse Youth, Sec. Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 4, in June. | https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2025.1517169.
She presented, “Discrimination Trauma as a Predictor of Black Caregivers’ Appraisal of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy in L Durskin (chair) Strengthening Parent-Child Relationships in Families Impacted by Trauma: Community-Based Implementation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy [Symposia],” with A. Watson, E. Aron, K. Farrise-Beauvior, R. deHeer, A. Cortez, N. Nazeer, N. Dube, and E. Coates, at the 41st International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies ISTSS 2025 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in September. Then, in October, Chavel presented “Daring to Demonstrate PRIDE: A Collaborative Social Justice Empowerment PCIT Adaptation Model for supporting African American Families,” at the Riverside University Behavioral Health Systems Annual Coaches Expert Workshop in Riverside, California.
Melissa Crofton was awarded a book contract in September with Boydell and Brewer for a collection of essays on The Green Knight, which is David Lowery’s film adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. She will co-edit the book with Drew Maxwell, professor at Humber College and Trent in Toronto. Other contributors to the collection are: Rachel Martin, a grad student at Harvard University and graduate from Florida Tech; Michelle Wolf, another Florida Tech alumnus, who teaches at Eau Gallie High School; Ann Martinez, a professor at Kent State University in Ohio; Mickey Sweeney, a professor at Dominican University in Illinois; Kathleen Forni, a professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore; Margaret Sheble, a 2024–2026 ACLS Leading Edge Fellow and Archive Distribution Specialist at the Educational Video Center in New York City; Alyn Pearson, a Senior Faculty Awards Specialist in the Office of the Provost at Purdue University in Indiana; and Simran Dhaliwah, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge in England.
Justin Niermeier-Dohoney presented “On Golden Ground: Chemistry, Religion, and the Political Ecology of Soil in Global Imperial Context” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana in November.
Natalie Dorfeld recently won the Distinguished Colleague Award from the Florida College English Association, the Kerry B. Clark Award for Excellence in Teaching from Florida Tech, and the strongest female recognition in the bench-pressing contest from the Clemente Center.
On Sept. 13, Dorfeld finished in the top 20 solo women for the Swim for Alligator Lighthouse race, an eight-mile oceanIn March, she is presenting “The 4Cs of Conferencing with Carolinas WPA: Conversation, Community, Collaboration, and Connection” at the CCCC Annual Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, the following peer-reviewed articles by Dorfeld have been accepted and are awaiting publication: “Advocating for LBGTQ Students on College Campuses” in the Florida Scholarly Review, “I Dissent: Teaching in Interesting Times” in WPA: Writing Program Administration, and “Death by 1,000 Papercuts: The Importance of Ethical Treatment for Adjunct Faculty” in the edited collection of Imagining Futures: Honoring and Extending the Contributions of Mike Palmquist by WAC Clearinghouse.
The peer-reviewed book chapter, “Canary in the Mine: 101 Reasons Why Everyone Needs to Support Part-time Faculty” is currently under review for the edited collection of Precarious Pedagogies: Teaching Praxis of the New Majority.
Jonathan Fernand, K. Sloman, and J. Fernandez presented, “An analysis of the effects of embedded instruction and item quality on activity selection,” at the annual convention for the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, in Ponte Vedra, Florida, in September. In addition, Fernand, with A. Ewald, K. Flynn, and K. Sloman, also presented the paper, “Increasing staff fire safety skills using task clarification,” at the convention. Two other papers Fernand presented at the convention were “Using transition items to improve transitions for children with Down Syndrome,” with E.W. Dowling, A. Ewald, and J. E. Chance; and “Creating pica-safe spaces: Preventing choking hazards in an early intervention clinic,” with M. de los Santos, V. Hernández Eslava, I. Medrano, and T. Pasillas. Fernand also chaired two symposia at the convention, one on “Optimizing organizational performance and safety: Innovations in systems, training, and implementation in organizational behavior management,” and the other on “Understanding and addressing pica in individuals with developmental disabilities: Behavioral patterns, intervention strategies, and risk prevention.” In August, Fernand, M. de los Santos, V. Hernández Eslava, A. León, and E. Ortega, presented the poster, “Comparación de programas de entrenamiento de habilidades conductuales estándar y enriquecido para profesionales que intervienen con niños con selectividad alimentaria y trastorno del espectro autista,” at the Organización Mexicana de Practicantes del Análysis Conductual Aplicado (OMPAC) in Oaxaca, Mexico. Fernand, K. Sloman, A. Nelson, C. O’Hara, and N. Ortiz also gave an invited presentation on “Assessment and treatment of restrictive and repetitive behavior: An overview and considerations,” at OMPAC.
Scott Gustafson and advanced psychology Psy.D. students in Community Psychological Services have joined a multistate initiative to provide free mental health counseling to food and beverage employees through the Southern Smoke Foundation. The pilot program began Sept. 1.
Lars Jones recently received an Educating Character workshop + Leadership & Character grant (co-pi). He also organized two AI orientation workshops.
Mariana Juras, M. Kohlsdorf, C. Hooley, A. L. Vázquez, G. Decker, T. Iskalis, and A. Baumann published, “Provider’s attitudes towards telehealth and parenting interventions during COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory cross-sectional study from Brazil and Mexico,” in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 38(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-025-00360-3 She also presented “Differentiation of Self and Technology Identity: A conceptual integration,” online at the 47th Annual Meeting and Open Conference of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) in June. That same month, she and G. Leifert presented “Diferenciação de Self: Uma perspectiva pós moderna e colaborativa com casais [Differentiation of Self: A Postmodern and Collaborative Perspective with Couples],” at the 12th Family Therapy Regional of São Paulo, Brazil, by the São Paulo Family Therapy Association in Brazil.
Liana Kreamer, S. Rogelberg, and J. Gray published “Thirty Years of Meeting Science: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead,” in the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 13. Kreamer, also with A. McBride, J. Gooty, G. Stock, G. Banks and T. Tonidandel, also published, “Crisis Leadership Behaviors: A Redirecting Review,” in the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518251343118
In addition, Kreamer, W. Obenauer, and H. R. Cobb published, “Bridging the Academic-Practice Gap Through Big Team Science Initiatives,” in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Radhika Krishnamurthy guest edited the introduction to a special section, “The use of the Rorschach to enhance diagnostic systems” in Rorschachiana, 46(2), 221-223.
Brandon May was elected as ‘Early Career Psychologist’ to the APA committee for Advancement for General Applied Psychology (term: 2026 – 2029). Also, along with R. Milne, he published “Virtual courts and forensic psychology: A step forward or a step too far?,” and, with M. Palace and J. Jacobson, “Disrupting disinformation: The next decade of psyops,” both in Big Ideas in Forensic Psychology: Visions of a Forensic Future from Leading Voices in the Field, edited by L. Alison & N. Shortland (2026). May, along with M. Palace, R. Milne, N. Shortland, G. Dalton, A. Meenaghan, L. Fryatt & A. Shawyer, published “An Exploratory Thematic Analysis of the Decision Challenges Faced by Emergency Responders during the 2017 Manchester Arena Attacks,” in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (2025)
He also published the following:
- May, B., Milne, R., Palace, M., Dalton. G., Meenaghan, A., & Terbeck, S. (2025). Virtue, Choice, and Storytelling: How Ethics, Decision Modalities and Narrative Framing Influence Decision Inertia in a 360 Degree Extended Reality Environment. Cognition, Technology and Work;
- Palace, M., Szwejka, L., Kossowska, M., May, B., Tretyakova, Y., Karolczak, A., Strojny, P., Gurbisz, D., Besta, T., Cherkas, N., Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz, B., Smith, L., Bokszczanin, A., L., Adams-Tukiendorf, M., Jiang, W., Suhirthi, A. (2025). “Does escaping a war zone feel worse than being there? War and coping by Ukrainian civilians in Ukraine and Poland,” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (APA journal);
- Palace, M., May, B., Shortland, N., Brown, W., David, M., Madan, M., Bokszczanin, A., Gurbisz, D., Daly, S., Hansen, L., Tripathi, R., Harjai, D., Ingale, S., & Gladysh, O. (2025). “In weapons we trust? Four-culture analysis of factors associated with weapon tolerance in young males,” in PLOS ONE;
- May, B. (2025). “Are we DrAIfting? The role of large language models in police investigative interviewing.” Manuscript submitted for publication to the International Journal of Investigative Interviewing: Research and Practice, 15(1), 1-21;
- Stanier, I., Nunan, J., & May, B. (in press). “Cell approaches and improving the flow of Source Referrals to Dedicated Source Units,” in Handbook of Applied Operational Intelligence. J. Nunan & I. Stanier, editors;
- May, B., & Jones, M. (in press). “Iusta resilientia: Towards a transactional just resilience framework in HUMINT,” in The human intelligence (HUMINT) handbook,J. Nunan, I. Stanier, & R. Dover, editors;
- May, B., Milne, R., & Bull, R. (2025). Applying cognitive psychology to Crime Investigation,” in An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology (3rd Ed). D. Groome, editor. Psychology Press, London;
- Bull, R., May, B., & Milne, R. (2025) What is memory? R. Milne & R. Bull, editors. Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice (2nd Ed). Wiley, Chichester; and
- Dalton, G., May, B., & Milne R. (2025). The Cognitive Interview. R. Milne & R. Bull, editors, Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice (2nd Ed). Wiley, Chichester.
Yanek Mieczkowski collaborated with Douglas Pratt on the narration of the book, Surviving War, Oceans Apart: Two Teenagers in Poland and Japan Destined for Life Together (McFarland, 2024), on Audible Books.
Moti Mizrahi’s new book, Playing God with Emerging Technologies: How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism, was published byBloomsbury Academic in October.
Anna Muenchrath published “The Statistical Unconscious: Hermeneutics and/of Computational Literary Sociology.” Journal of Literary Theory, vol. 19, no. 1, 2025. 149–167. Special issue on “Literary Sociology” edited by Urs Büttner, Carolin Amlinger, and David Christopher Assmann. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/jlt-2025-2007/html. Also, her article, “Making and Reading World Literature in a Pandemic: Global Logistics in Ling Ma’s Severance,” which appeared in Journal of World Literature, vol. 7, no. 2, 2022. 184–201, special issue edited by David Damrosch, was reprinted in World Literature in and for Pandemic Times. David Damrosch, ed. Brill. Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series. 2026. 103–120.
Muenchrath gave an invited talk on “Publishing Translations with Algorithmic Data in the US: China, India, and Beyond” during the Transnational Literary Production and Consumption in the Digital Age Symposium in June. She also spoke on “Just Browsing: Time and the Online Bookstore” online in March on the Bookselling Research Network and gave the COPLA Board Presentation, “Data Capital and Cultural Production,” in November.
She also presented “The Rise of the Translated German Novel in the U.S.” at the Biennial Conference of the Society of Novel Studies in Durham, North Carolina in May; “Amazon Crossing and the Untranslatable: Algorithms’ Effects on Source Language of the U.S. Translationa Market” at the SHARP 2025 “Communities and Values of the Book” in Rochester, New York, in July; and a virtual workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems (NORMalize) at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys), “Selling Books with Algorithms” in September.
Kenneth Pike published “The Anti-Natalist and the Aes Sedai: Should Rand al’Thor Save the World?” in The Wheel of Time and Philosophy: A Portion of Wisdom, Jacob M. Held and William Irwin eds. (Wiley-Blackwell 2025): 37-45 in August. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Wheel+of+Time+and+Philosophy%3A+A+Portion+of+Wisdom-p-9781119932420
Darby Proctor, Catherine F. Talbot and E. Amodovar Warner gave a poster presentation on “Fission-fusion housing improves welfare in zoo-living spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)” at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida in September.
Kimberly Sloman published “Bridging science and practice: A clinical faculty perspective in behavior analysis” in Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000316 She and co-authors K. Happel, A. Nelson, and J. Fernandez also published “Effects of music on vocal stereotypy and task engagement,” in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58(3), 615-613. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70015
Catherine Talbot published “Hormones and Social Behavior for Those with Autism Spectrum Disorder” in the July issue of The Academic Minute. (Note: The article was also featured on Newsbreak). https://academicminute.org/catherine-talbot-florida-institute-of-technology-hormones-and-social-behavior-for-those-with-autism-spectrum-disorder/ She also published “Hormone Supplementation in Rhesus Monkeys Points to Potential Autism Treatment” in Florida Tech News in April (https://news.fit.edu/academics-research/the-monkey-model-hormone-supplementation-in-rhesus-monkeys-points-to-potential-autism-treatment/) and “The Monkey Model: How Boosting a Hormone in Monkeys Points to Potential Autism Treatment” in Florida Tech Research (Spring). (https://news.fit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/spring2025.pdf). Talbot, along with O. Oztan, S.M.V. Simons, C. Trainor, L.C. Ceniceros, N.K.K. Duyen, L.A. Del Rosso, J.P. Garner, J.P. Capitanio, and K.J. Parker, presented “Vasopressin improves social cognition without inducing aggression in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at the 47th meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Chicago, Illinois. The presentation was selected for continuing education credits for veterinary members. At the same conference, Talbot, J. Saldana, and S.F. Brosnan presented “Tufted capuchins (Sapajus apella) show mixed results in a feature masking task.”
Angela Tenga presented “Uncommon Zombies: How Capitalist Technologies Make Zombies of Us All in the Black Mirror Episode “Common People”,” with Jonathan Bassett of Lander University, at the Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference in October.
David Wilder, along with K. Flynn, F. Izquierdo, and C. Sheppard, published “An evaluation of haptic feedback to reduce toe walking” in Behavioral Interventions. Wilder also published, along with B. Wine and T. Ludwig, “Applications of Behavior Analysis to Improve Safety in Organizational and Community Settings” in Clinical and organizational applications of behavior analysis (2nd edition). H. Roane, J. Ringdahl, and T. Falcomatta (Eds.) San Diego, CA: Elsevier Publishing.
Jessica Wildman, with K.P. Nyein, K. Canady, and J. Duron, will publish “Team interactions in robotic-assisted surgery: A scoping review” in the Journal of Robotic Surgery. She also published, with co-authors A.L. Thayer, C. Warren, S. Fiore, and E. Salas, “Interpersonal trust and distrust at work: Scale validation and theoretical exploration,” in Applied Psychology: An International Review, 74(1), 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12588
In addition, Wildman and co-authors M. Carroll, A. L. Thayer, K. Carmody, D. Nguyen, M. Akib, A. Addis, C. Ficke, and V. Robbins-Roth will publish “Trust in human-agent teams: Temporal, multilevel, and multimodal perspectives” in Research on Managing Groups and Teams: AI in Teams. S. B. F. Paletz & S. R. Dubrow, editors. Emerald Publishing.
