BIO

I am currently a sophomore and am on track to graduate in the Fall of 2024. I am unsure exactly of what my future goals are and whether or not graduate school is the route for me now, but for now I have been conducting some really interesting research under Dr. Ruddy Faure. Even though we are done with the project I am presenting for UROP, I am continuing to work under him on a longer term project looking into automatic attitudes in romantic relationships. My research interests however are broad, expanding across clinical, social, and cognitive psychology. Overall I really have a passion for psychology and research in it and but as I said I am still figuring out my future goals in the field.

How Well Can Participants Predict Their Automatic Attitudes Towards Close Others?

Abstract

Relationships are important for positively improving our lives. Often, these relationships are impacted by the automatic “gut” attitudes we have towards others. Prior research has displayed that these automatic attitudes can show positive or negative perceptions of a relationship more accurately than a participant’s own words. In addition, it has been found that participants can predict their automatic attitudes about general topics, however there is yet to be a study on how well participants can do so about close others. To test this, FSU Undergraduate students in relationships were instructed through a series of tasks where they self-report the relationships between themselves and key figures such as parents, best friends, and partners in their lives. Then these participants, through a program coded within Inquisit, made predictions about their automatic attitudes and completed IATs (Implicit Association Tests) to measure their automatic attitudes. The study is still currently ongoing, however preliminary results have indicated there is a moderate correlation between the predictions of participants and their automatic attitudes, and we expect data to continue on this trend. If this does continue to be the case, it would suggest that future research into various relationships holds potential, such as providing insight into improving romantic relationships.

Keywords: Predict, Automatic Attitudes, Close Relationships