Pictured left to right: Erica Van Overloop, Jacq Strowd, and Nicole Kollmann in front of their poster

The Counseling Psychology programs at the University of Southern Mississippi were well-represented at the 69th annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) in New Orleans this year. Three students in the lab won a Graduate Student Research Award for their poster: Erica Van Overloop, Nicole Kollmann, and Jacq Strowd. Congratulations!

The poster presented some results from a recent study examining dark personality traits and criminal thinking as predictors of academic misconduct among college students. Narcissistic and psychopathic personality traits predicted academic dishonesty while taking gender and social desirability into account. Criminal thinking appeared to be a better predictor because once it was entered into the model narcissistic and psychopathic traits were no longer significant.

Van Overloop, E., Kollmann, N., Strowd, J., & Dahlen, E. R. (2023, April 5-8). Venturing into the darkness of academic dishonesty [Poster presentation]. 66th Annual Convention of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA, United States.

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