Dynamic Mental Representations

Freyd Dynamics Lab Undergraduate Research

Betrayal Trauma

Becoming a Dynamics Lab RA

Working in the Dynamics Lab, either as a volunteer or for research course credit, can be an extremely rewarding experience. If you are interested in doing so, there are several steps to take:

1. Identify a sponsor. Each RA works under the supervision of one of the permanent members of the lab, typically with one of the graduate student lab members.
2. If you are looking for a sponsor contact Melissa Barnes, the current Research Assistant Coordinator, Dynamics Lab, and let her know of your interest.
3. Fill out an "Undergrad Research Assistant Job Application" and give it to your proposed sponsor or to Melissa Barnes, the current Research Assistant Coordinator, Dynamics Lab.
4. If you want to obtain course credit for your research experience, you will need to have the approval of your sponsor for the proposal, and must read and sign the "Requirements for Dynamics Lab Research Credit." Register for Trauma Research (Psychology 401) with Professor Freyd.

If you are not able to get a research assistant position in the Dynamics Lab, or you decide it is not the lab for you, there are many other opportunities to do research in psychology. Find out more at the Psychology Peer Advising Office..

Scholarships and Special Projects

	Angela Binder McNair Program, 2003-2005, project completed spring 2005 "What's the Harm in Asking? Participant Reaction to Trauma History Questions Compared to other Personal Questions" L.D. Cromer and J. Freyd, Mentors
	Robyn Grimes (now Gobin) Summer Research Training in Clinical Psychology, summer 2004 Robyn is now a professor at the University of Illinois
	Hannah Oh Summer Research Training in Clinical Psychology, summer 2003 Hannah graduated in 2004 from Pepperdine University.
	Meggy Wang Summer Research Training in Clinical Psychology, summer 2005 Meggy attended Stanford University.
	Cristen Lillie McLean Institute for Development of Educational Acheivement Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2006-07
	Leslie Medrano McNair Program, 2010-11 "Oregon State Hospital: A Case Study of Institutional Betrayal?" C.G. Martin and J. Freyd, Mentors
	Zachary Cunningham McNair Program, 2015-16 "Maternal Betrayal Trauma and Response to Adolescent Negative Emotion: Does Maternal Emotion Regulation Matter?" C.G. Martin and J. Freyd, Mentors

Dynamics Lab Honors Theses

Photo is of Katie Spaventa and her poster, receiving award, 2007

Students who plan to pursue a career in psychology may consider applying to the departmental honors program at the end of their sophomore year. The psychology honors program centers on an independent research project, which the student develops and carries out under the supervision of a departmental committee.

Some of our psychology honors project students are also in the UO's Clark Honor's College (CHC). The psychology honors project can also double as the CHC senior thesis, so long as both sets of criteria are met.

If you are interested in being an honors student in the dynamics lab you must identify an advisor /sponsor in the lab (advanced graduate student or Professor Freyd). We take very few honors students and usually require identificiation by the spring of the junior year. Preference is given to students who are already working as research assistants in the lab. If you have not previously been an RA in the lab, you must complete the RA application form. When you have identified a potential honors advisor, you must complete the honors student application and contract and a written proposal. Only those applicants with proposals approved by Professor Freyd may conduct an honors project in the lab.

For more information including a list of all recent UO Psychology Department honors projects, see the Psychology Honors Program and a collection of completed Psychology Honors Projects.

Recently Completed Psychology Honors Theses (Dynamics Lab) [Abstracts] (*also CHC senior thesis)

• Alexandra Henry (2015), "Responding to Disclosure of Mistreatment: The Long-Term Impact of Listening Skills Training"
• Naomi Wright (2015 also CHC), "Experience of a Lifetime: Study Abroad, Trauma, and Institutional Betrayal" (Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Oregon 6, 2015)
• Sarah Cunningham (2013), "Sexual assault, institutional betrayal, and psychological outcomes in the LGBT community"
• Cord L. Chen (2013), "Effect of Betrayal Trauma on Fear, Anxiety, and Shame"
• Sarah Harsey (2012), "It happens, just not to me: Self-reports of trauma versus reporting trauma of others" (Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Oregon 6, 2012)
• Alex Fortune (2012), "Exploring associations among homophobic attitudes, trauma exposure, gender, and sexual orientation"
• Leslie Medrano (2011) "Oregon State Hospital: A Case Study of Institutional Betrayal?"
• Janae Chavez (2011) "Exploring the Adaptiveness of Moderate Dissociation in Response to Betrayal Trauma" (Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award, 2011)
• *Brent Belford (2010) "Borderline Personality Disorder, Betrayal, and Relational Health"
• *Laura Gramcko (2010) "Defining trauma from a college student’s perspective"
• Cristen McLean (2007) "Dissociation and Distortion: Functional and Effective Similarities" (2007 Alice C.Thompson Award)
• *Kathryn Spaventa (2007) "Rates and reasons of gender differences for disclosure of child abuse" (2007, B.B. Robbie Rossman Student Research Award)
  
• Michelle Marie Baldwin (2006) "The Influence of Attitudes and Experiences on Positive Bias in Memory for Physical Punishment Vignettes"
• Melissa Pistono (2005) "Scientific Research and its Implications for the Justice System"
• Christina Gamache Martin (2005). "The relationship of ADHD Symptomatology to Teachers' Perceptions of Maltreatment Effects on Children's Learning and Behavior" (2004-2005 Sheldon Zack Award)
• Mary Elisabeth Gray (2005). "Betrayal Trauma, Acculturation and Historical Grief among Native Americans" ( 2004-2005 Sheldon Zack Award)
• Paul Monson (2005). "The Roles of Event Plausibility in Autobiographical Memory Suggestion"
• Daniel Friend (2004). "The role of attachment and dissociation in the intergenerational transmission of abuse"
• Catherine Monahan Tenedios (2004). "Adult attachment and traumatic experience"
• *Kimberly A Babcock (2003). "Dissociation & Home Environment: Mediators of Childhood Social Competence" (2002-2003 Sheldon Zack Award)
• Maureen A. Hansen (2003). "Influence of Gender Course on Attitudes about Gender"
• * Bridget Klest (2002). "Trauma, Attention, & Dissociation: Memory for Neutral and Traumatic Stories" (2001-2002 Sheldon Zack Award)
• Stephanie Skow (2000). "The Search for Meaning in PMS"
• Ingrid Elise Perdew (2000). "Domestic Violence: Dissociation in Victims, and Different Perpetrator Caharacteristics" (2000 Alice C.Thompson Award)
• David Smith (1999). "Demand/Withdraw Patterns in Lesbian Relationships"
• Melissa Dianne Hill (1998).
• Patricia H Montgomery (1998). "The Relationship Between Personality Fragments in Dissociative Identity Disorder and Type and Frequency of Childhood Abuse"

See also

• Instructions for Getting Letters of Recommendation from Jennifer Freyd
• Dynamics Lab
• University of Oregon Home Page

last update June 26, 2017 jjf@uoregon.edu