
Professor of Psychology Jen Borton, juniors Becca Rees and Abby Quirk, and Mark Oakes of St. Lawrence University, presented a poster on Feb. 28 at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference in Long Beach, Calif.
Written by Borton and Oakes, “Focus on Failure: The Involuntary Pull of Self-Threatening Information Among People with Defensive Self-Esteem” presented the results of a summer research project by Rees, Quirk and Rohan Arcot ’16. Arcot is studying in South Africa this semester and was unable to attend the conference.