PsycNews, No. 3, 2013, 22 July 2013 Department of Psychology

PsycNews, No. 3, 2013, 22 July 2013
Department of Psychology
Semester Two ….
Not sure where the time has gone, this Newsletter has taken a lot longer to get out than I had anticipated,
surely that means that things are ticking along here in the Department and time has been tight! Anyway,
welcome to Semester Two and welcome to any students who are new to the Department for Semester
Two.
The next newsletter is scheduled for distribution on Friday 16 August 2013, please have all items to
Robyn Daly [email protected]] no later than Monday 12 August 2013.
Inside this Issue:
 Staff News
 Erskine Visitors
 PG Employment
 Psyc Test Library
 Publications
 New PhD Students
 Thesis Congratulations
 Health & Safety
 NZPsS Conference
 News from our space
 Recipe
Congratulations...
Congratulations to Lehan Stemmett who successfully defended his PhD thesis in early May. His thesis was entitled
“General and specific avoidance coping—The development
and validation of a new scale”. Lehan’s supervisors were
Prof. Derek Roger and Dr Joana Kuntz. The international
examiner was Professor Yvonne Birks from York University and the oral examiner was Dr Dianne Gardner from Massey University.
Congratulations also to Nadia Borlase who successfully defended her PhD
thesis in early June. The external examiners were very impressed with her
very topical work of “The thalamus in Parkinson’s Disease”. Nadia was supervised by Prof. John Dalrymple-Alford, Tim Anderson and Tracey Melzer. She
conducted her work at the NZ Brain Research Institute and she has recorded
her appreciation of the technical and intellectual support she enjoyed from the
team there.
 Photo Gallery
Newsletter Housekeeping
This newsletter is for both staff and
PG Students to contribute to, so
the next time you are out there
doing exciting, interesting and
stimulating things, take your camera!. We would like to hear about
it.
 Distribution normally second
week of each month.
 Before submitting an item, if it
involves someone other than
yourself, make sure that you
have the permission of the other person(s) involved.
Appreciation from NZPsS for Long Service...
Prof Rob Hughes was recently publicly thanked in the NZPsS “Connections”
Newsletter in June. This was in appreciation of his ongoing involvement in
chairing of the Awards Committee since November 2005. He has also been
an active member of the Society for 49 years. For the full article, please see
later in this newsletter (page 80).
This is an outstanding records and we also congratulate him on such a distinguished and long involvement with NZPsS.
Also looks like the tradition of UC involvement is continuing with Neville
Blampied agreeing to take over this role from Rob.
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Staffing News
Staffing News
Sandra Fowler, Clinical Educator, left
us on 8 July to go back to her “roots” of
Clinical practice in the community. Sandra had been with us for eight years and
we thank her for her involvement in the
Clinical programme and in the Department generally. We also wish her all
the very best for her future.
rating on research.
We welcome Janet Carter, Roeline
Kuijer and Randolph Grace back from
Study Leave. Straight back into it for all
of them with lots of teaching on the
timetable for Semester 2. Nice to see
you all around the Department again.
Professor Brian Haig commences his
Erkine Leave on 27 July when he will
head to the US to spend time collabo-
Erskine Visitors
Prof. Jack James
Prof. Glenn Waller
We have two Erskine Visitors with us for
the beginning of this Semester.
ological correlates of stress, and behaviour analysis.
Professor Jack James, from Reykjavik
University in Iceland will be with us from
9 July through until mid-August. Professor James completed a BSc Honours
(1st class) in Psychology and following
that a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of New
South Wales. This was followed by a
PhD in experimental clinical psychology
at the University of Western Australia.
After working in clinical and community
settings as a clinical psychologist, he
pursued an academic career in clinical
psychology, behavioural medicine, and
health psychology. In 1991, he was
appointed Foundation Professor of Behavioural Health Sciences at La Trobe
University, Melbourne and was later
elected Founding National Chair of the
College of Health Psychologists. In
1998, he relocated to the National University in Ireland, Galway, then in 2012
moved to Reykjavik University, Iceland.
During his visit with us, he is located in
Room 207, L2, Staff Block.
He has particular interest in the implications of dietary caffeine for human
health and well-being, and in 2011
founded the Journal of Caffeine Research. His research interests include
cardiovascular behavioural health, with
particular reference to the psychophysi-
Professor Glenn Waller is Professor of
Clinical Psychology at the University of
Sheffield, UK. He has been working with
the eating disorders as a clinician and
researcher for 25 years, and is still realising new stuff (mainly learned from patients and colleagues). Complementing
his clinical work, his research is cognitive-behavioural in orientation, examining the pathology and treatment of the
eating disorders. This includes understanding the contribution of clinician
characteristics to the process and outcome of treatment, within and beyond
the eating disorders. To date, he has
published over 230 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, and two coauthored books on CBT for the eating
disorders. He is president-elect of the
international Academy for Eating Disorders, associate editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, and a
member of the Eating Disorders Research Society.
During his stay with us, he will be located in Room 508, Level 5 Staff Block.
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PG Employment Opportunity—Resident Tutor
Rochester and Rutherford Hall is seeking to make an award to a graduate or
senior student of resident tutorship for
2014. The Hall has 178 residents who
are accommodated in three houses.
The Hall which is set in pleasant
grounds opposite the University has
considerable community facilities.
The main responsibilities of the position
consist in giving pastoral care, academic support, and general oversight to all
members of the Hall and helping with
any events. There is a team of five tutors, who are responsible for security,
ensuring that quiet hours in the residential houses are observed, supplying
keys as required, etc. Organisational
skills and the ability to relate to a wide
range of people are particularly important.
The Tutor will live rent free in a flat within one of the Hall’s residential houses in
addition to receiving a stipend. Meals
are provided in the dining room.
The Hall has an active program of inhouse tutorials.
Applicants need to contact the Principal
by email to organize a time to meet and
also to obtain an application form. Applications will close on Friday 26 July,
2013.
Direct ALL enquiries to:
The Principal
Stephen Kissick
Rochester and Rutherford Hall
77 Ilam Road
Christchurch 8041.
Psychology Test Library
Recently the Psychology Test Library
was relocated from Room 107, to Room
229, next to the Department Office on
L2 of the Lab Block. Thanks to Janet
Cumberpatch and Liz Waugh for the
huge undertaking of “tidying up” the
tests and archiving historical tests.
Thanks also to Glenn Lewis for his assistance in the relocation process. As a
result of this relocation, the L2 Photocopier that was housed in this room,
has been moved to the Resource Room
inside the Main Office (see the photos
of how great it looks in there nowadays!).
This move has meant that PG students
no longer have access to this copier for
colour printing, however Gerard Mesman will alter the print queues so that
students requiring colour copying can
be redirected to the photocopier on L5,
Staff Block.
There have been changes to the administration of the Psychology Department
test Library. There are no longer
“formal hours”. To order a test email
[email protected] with
your request and the day you need the
test by. Your test request will be actioned within a few days and you will be
notified by return email. For more information Please go to the website to see
the changes http://
www.psyc.canterbury.ac.nz/people/
testlibrarian.shtml
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Publications and Conference Presentations
Boorsboom, D., & Haig, B. D. (2013).
In defense of correspondence truth: A
reply to Markus. Theory and Psychology, 23, (in press).
Haig, B. D. (2013) Investigating the
psychological world: Scientific method
in the behavioural sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (in press).
Haig, B.D. (2013) Analogical modelling: A strategy for developing theories
in psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 23, (in press).
Head, J. R., Wilson, K. M. & Helton, W.
S. (in press). The role of calmness in
a high-go target detection task. Pro-
ceedings of the 57th Annual Conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Head, J. R., Wilson, K. M., & Helton W.
S. (in press). Right hemisphere cortical involvement in processing textspeak. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference of the Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society.
Wilson, K. M., Head, J. R., & Helton, W.
S. (in press). Friendly fire in a simulated firearms task. Proceedings of
the 57th Annual Conference of the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
New PhD students
We have some new PhD students in the
Department and we take this opportunity to welcome them to the Department
and look forward to getting to know you
all better.
Francesca Crabu joined us recently,
coming from “Alma Mater Studiorum”
University, Italy. She will be working
with Martin Dorahy where the goal of
the Phd is to better understand the identity and personality characteristics of
humanitarian workers.
Carsten Grimm needs no introduction
to the department as he has just completed his MSc with us recently. He
begins his PhD working with Andy Martens. His doctoral research will develop
a smartphone experience sampling app
to gather data on experienced wellbeing within Christchurch and wider NZ.
Kristin Murphy joined us recently from
Huntington, Long Island US. She will
be working with Juan Canales and for
her project she will be studying the formation of maladaptive habits in a drug
self-administration context and explore
the brain circuits involved in this kind of
learning.
Megan Tucker has just joined us after
having completed a BSc(Hons) at the
University of Bath. This isn’t Megan’s
first trip or association with our Department, she was here in 2011 as a Bath
Placement student working with Janet
Carter and was here for “the” earthquake. Even with this experience she
has chosen to return to Christchurch to
undertake her PhD with Randolph
Grace. The research for her PhD is on
the financial debt and discounting factors in offenders and the links to
reoffending and mental health. She
hopes this will address a significant lack
of research in the area of financial debt
in criminal offenders in New Zealand.
Martina Zivic joined us recently to work
with Martin Dorahy. She comes to us
after having completed her Master of
Health Sciences with Honours at the
University of Auckland. Her area of research is on the long term mental health
effects following a natural disaster.
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Thesis Congratulations
Congratulations to Alana Bishop who
was recently awarded her MSc with
First Class Honours for her thesis entitled “Patients preferences for shared
decision making: Associations with demographic variables, personality characteristics and characteristics of the
health condition.”
Congratulations to Charis Coullie who
was recently awarded her MSc with Distinction for her thesis entitled “Adult psychiatric and offending outcomes of paediatric mild traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal study.”
Congratulations to Ashlea Dassanayake who was recently awarded her
MSc with First Class Honours for her
thesis entitled “Dual dopamine/serotonin
treatment approach for addictive behaviour.”
Congratulations to Joseph Fletcher
who was recently awarded his MSc with
Distinction for his thesis entitled “Just
world responses toward child victims of
physical and sexual abuse.”
Congratulations to Ashleigh Hooper
who was recently awarded her MSc with
Second Class Honours, Division I for
her thesis entitled “Dissociation, perceptual processing and conceptual processing in survivors’ of the Christchurch
earthquakes 2011.”
Congratulations to Jaimee Kleinbichler
who was recently awarded her MSc with
Distinction for her thesis entitled “The
type and frequency of metacognitions in
women dieting, not dieting and with Anorexia Nervosa.”
Congratulations to Andrew Knox who
was recently awarded his MSc with Distinction for his thesis entitled “The effects of cooling the head to reduce brain
temperature on stress.”
Congratulations to Jonathan Muller
who was recently awarded his MSc with
Second Class Honours, Division I for his
thesis entitled “Analysis of Kiwisaver
and investment fund choice behaviour.”
Congratulations to Phoebe Naismith
Thomass who was recently awarded
her MSc thesis with Distinction for her
thesis entitled “Effects of dietary micronutrient supplantation on the development of emotionality and anxiety in a
normal rat population”.
Congratulations to Susan Rapley who
was recently awarded her MSc with Distinction for her thesis entitled
“Investigation of C-type natriuretic peptide in the intact rat brain under formal
and informal learning conditions”.
Health & Safety
Our Health & Safety Officer in the Department is Silvana de Freitas Costa. Some
useful information:
 NZ Emergency Service 1-111
 UC Security = Emergency on Campus
6111 or 0800 823 637
 UC Non-emergency = 6888
 The Health & Safety Toolkit on the
intranet is https://
intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/hs/toolkit/
index.shtml
 The Department H&S Action Plan is
available for staff on Y drive and also
available on the Department website
http://www.psyc.canterbury.ac.nz/
health%20and%20safety.shtml
 Check out the upcoming training for
H&S at this link https://
intranet.canterbury.ac.nz/hs/
toolkit/04_info_train/index.shtml .
There is also 1st aid training available for students, information on the
above website as well.
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Leave and Conferences
Assoc. Prof. Neville Blampied has
been invited to present a keynote address for Division 25 at the American
Psychological Association Convention
in Honolulu from 31 July to 4 August.
The Keynote address is titled “Knitting
up the ravell’d sleeve of care” - Contributions of behaviour analysis to understanding and treating sleep disturbances across the life-span.
Dr Eileen Britt recently attended the
International Symposium in Motivational
Interviewing in Melbourne where she
presented a paper.
Dr Juan Canales is currently attending
the 2nd International Conference on
Addiction Research & Therapy in Las
Vegas from 21st to 27 July where he is
presenting a paper entitled “Biological
targets for medication development in
stimulant addiction: Focus on animal
models of addictive-like behavior.”
Dr Janet Carter recently attended the
International Society for Interpersonal
Psychotherapy conference in Iowa City
where she presented a paper.
Professor John Dalrymple-Alford recently attended the 17th International
Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and
Movement Disorders in Sydney where
he was invited to present a Guided
Poster Tour: “Lewy body dementia and
other dementias in movement disorders”. He also presented a poster entitled “Abnormal implicit prediction in
rhythmical saccadic movement of manifest Huntington patients: A 12 months
longitudinal study” and also
“Progression in cognitive function of
Huntington patients relative to controls:
A 12 months study.”
Dr Joana Kuntz recently attended the
International Conference of Applied
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences in
Paris where she presented a paper.
Dr Katharina Näswall recently attended the 13th European Congress of Psychology in Stockholm, Sweden where
she presented two papers “Technology
at work—a friend or a foe? The role of
employee attitudes and organizational
support in dealing with Technostres” (co
-authored with Dr Joana Kuntz) and
“Employee information and participation
in organizational change: Who needs
what and when?”
Assoc. Prof. Julia Rucklidge attended
the Nutrition in Medicine Conference
held in Sydney in May where she presented a paper entitled “A double-blind,
randomized, placebo controlled trial of
efficacy and safety of micronutrients for
the treatment of Attention-Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in
adults.” Julia also presented this paper
at the International Association of Nutritional Psychiatry in Tokyo in June as
well as an additional paper entitled
“Broad spectrum micronutrient formulas
for the treatment of psychiatric symptoms: A systematic review.”
Liz Waugh will be attending a supervision workshop entitled “The use of practice-based evidence in supervision” in
early August.
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NZPsS Conference
The NZPsS Annual Conference will be held from 6-19 September 2013 in Auckland.
Information from the Connections Newsletter is below.
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News from our space….
Congratulations to Sanna Malinen and
Jason Tylianakis who very recently
welcomed their son into the family.
Samuel (“Samu”) Heikki Tylianakis arrived on 26 June, weighing in at 3kg.
Everyone is doing well.
We have had some combined PG and
Staff functions recently. We celebrated
Queens Birthday “Friday” with a themed
morning tea with the prize going to
James Head for his “Queen Cider”! Check out the photo gallery at the back
of the newsletter!
We also had a 4th of July Shared Lunch
and what a lot of US treats that turned
up. Hotdogs galore, Chilli Con Carne
(to die for!). bagels, donuts… etc, I am
sure you get the drift?! The stars of the
show, however were expertly presented
cupcakes—check them out in the Photo
Gallery.
Don’t forget to check out the Facebook
page “Keep Calm and Carry on Writing”,
created by UC Postgraduate Psychology students for everyone to share
knowledge, skills, advice and experiences in writing a thesis and surviving!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/KeepCalm-and-Carry-onWriting/385608918196691?fref=ts
Watch this space for more events coming to staff and students in the next few
months. Great way to mix and mingle.
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The recipe this time is from Rachael Palmer, one of our Postgraduate students. Icecream is to be enjoyed year round, not just summer so enjoy this….
Instant Weight Gain Ice Cream
Ingredients:
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500 ml cream, whipped
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1 tin sweetened condensed milk
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1 tsp coffee
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2 crunchie bars, smashed roughly
Directions:
1.
Combine all ingredients, mix well, and freeze. Guaranteed to be delicious, no
fail every time.
So we have the Ice-Cream, now try it with this Brownie Recipe
The Ultimate Chocolate Brownie (From Robyn)
(Recipe Source—Annabel Langbein Free Range in the City)
Ingredients:
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2 cups chopped dates
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup boiling water
200g finely diced butter, at room temperature
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups caster sugar
1 cup dark cocoa, sifted
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
250g chocolate chips or dark chocolate cut into small chunks.
Directions:
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Preheat oven to 160oC and line a 30cm x 24cm slice tin with baking paper.
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Put dates in a large bowl, add baking soda and boiling water and stir to combine. Add finely diced butter and stir until melted. Leave to stand for 20
minutes.
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Mash softened dates with a fork (or I use a “wizz stick” to break them up to a
creamy consistency. Stir in the eggs and vanilla until well combined. Stir in the
sugar, then add the cocoa, flour and baking powder and stir until smooth. Stir in
the chocolate chips or chunks.
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Smooth into prepared tin and bake until it is set in the middle and begins to
come away from the sides of the tin (about 50 minutes—but watch carefully).
Cool before cutting into squares. Stored in a sealed container it will keep for a
couple of weeks (as long as no-one knows it is there!!.
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Photo Gallery
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Queen’s Birthday Morning Tea
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Photo Gallery (Continued …)
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4th of July Shared Lunch Day