2025 Symposium

PURC held its second Undergraduate Symposium on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. It was a great opportunity to celebrate the amazing work that undergraduates are doing in the psychology department!

Pictures from the 2025 PURC Symposium can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/193iJkWrnULpYa_H8MUpHtwecmN3sdb4G?usp=drive_link

**Click here for:** **Program Overview**

2025 – Award Winners

Standard Talks

**1st Place**
Sophia Joulaei
*But Doesn’t Retirement Sound So Relaxing?Understanding Prescriptive Ageism Against Older Adults with Intersectional Identities*

**2nd Place**
Chris Arrabito
*Decoding Verbal Reports of Category Learning Strategies*

**2nd Place**
Liuxin Han
*The Relationship Between Adolescent Manga Engagement and Adult Empathy*

Poster Presentations

**1st Place**
Shelby Suhan
*Are Children ‘Stickier’ Than We Think? How Novelty Shapes Developmental Differences in Visual Attention*

**2nd Place**
Jacky Jin
*Aging & Cognition in the Workplace*

**3rd Place**
Claire Finley
*What Stands the Test of Time? Children’s and Adults’ Perceptions of Trait Stability*

Flash Talk

**1st Place**
Cynthia Lin
*Naturalistic Observations of Parent-Child Interactions Involving Deception*

**2nd Place**
Aimee Fermin Olivares
*Sleep promotes memory for schema-incongruent video clips*

**2nd Place**
Aaron Wang
*Infants Perceive Fairness as Emotionally Significant*

2nd Place
Carrie Zheng
Judging Source Credibility: University Degree or Work Experience?