From the College of Psychology…
February 2025 Research Highlights reported by the College of Psychology.
Diana Formoso, PhD, along with COP students Jocelyn I. Meza and Veronica Grosse-Cardinale, published a paper on resilience among migrant youth in Translational Issues in Psychological Science. Many unaccompanied immigrant minors (UIM) have been through multiple traumatic events, without their parents to accompany or shield them, but exhibit strength through adversity. This study illustrated UIMs’ personal strengths and how families, communities, and policy can be interconnected and supportive of youth resilience. Recommendations based on these findings can provide critical layers of support for these youth who have risked so much in search of safety in the United States.
https://link.growkudos.com/1ryptomuio0
In collaboration with four former NSU students, Justin F. Landy, PhD published a recent paper titled “Moral preference reversals: Violations of procedure invariance in moral judgments of sacrificial dilemmas” in the journal Cognition. Across five studies applying methods from consumer behavior research to the study of moral judgments, the research demonstrates that which of two actions is considered more morally right can completely reverse, depending on how they are presented or what type of question is used to elicit the judgment. This is strong evidence that – just like preferences for consumer products – moral judgments are not always driven by stable, existing beliefs, but rather are “constructed” on the fly and depend on how they are elicited; in at least some cases, we do not know what we believe is right and must figure out our morals in the moment. Dr. Landy’s research group is currently investigating related phenomena in areas including medical ethics, negligence cases, and acts of war.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027724002051