February 2024
Jarrod matched to Children’s National Hospital, DC!
Jarrod is matched at Children’s National Hospital in DC for his postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology with a brain tumor focus! Many Congrats!
February 2024
Sam matched to KU Med!
Sam is matched to his top choice and will begin his internship this year at the KU Medical Center, Comprehensive track. We are very happy for you Sam! Congrats!
July 2023
Jarrod begins his internship at Duke!
Jarrod will take his internship at Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center. Way to go Jarrod!
May 2023
Sam received the UMKC SGS Research Grant!
Sam has been awarded the SGS Research Grant ($7,416) for his dissertation project titled “The Effect of Racial Representation on Rejection Sensitivity in a Small Group.” Congratulations, Sam!
March and May 2023
Our research work presented at SRCD and APS
Our work was presented at the 2023 SRCD conference and APS conference.
Nelson, S., Sotos, J., & Ha, O.-R. (May, 2023). Factors deterring face mask use in young adults. Poster presented at the 2023 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
Kim, J., Lee, S.-H., Ha, O.-R., & Choi, I. (March, 2023). Attachment to mothers alleviates the link between stress and disordered eating in Korean adolescents. Poster presented at 2023 Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake, UT.
October 2022
Olivia won the SEARCH grant!
Our undergraduate researcher, Olivia, was awarded the 2022 SEARCH grant! Great news!
“The Impact of Prosocial Disposition on Covid-19 Precautions Compliance” ($1,216)
May 2022
Haley successfully defended her dissertation!
Congratulations, Haley, on your accomplishment and graduation!
April 2022
Our research work at CDS
We presented our research work at 2022 CDS conference in Madison, WI.
Sotos, J., Killian, H., Nelson, S., Lim, S.L., Malti, T., & Ha, O.-R. (April, 2022). Children’s prosocial sharing decisions: Influence of internalizing behaviors and cognitive empathy. Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference, Madison, WI.
Kinney, K, Cashon, C. H., Ha, O.-R., & Mervis, C. B. (April, 2022). The face inversion effect in toddlers with Williams syndrome: a study of featural, holistic, and 2nd-order configural processing. Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society Bi-Ennial Conference, Madison, WI.
December 2021
Sam successfully defended his Master’s Thesis!
Sam successfully defended his Master’s Thesis titled “Physical Activity in Adolescents: An Expanded Theory of Planned Behavior Approach with Interaction Effects.” Many congratulations!
October 2021
Art of Grantsmanship Small Grant
Dr. Ha awarded the Art of Grantmanship Small Grant from the UMKC Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE), which will support her research project titled “Risks for Obesity Development in Mother-Infant Dyads: Eating Behavior and Health Inequality.”
October 2021
Sophia and Grace won the SEARCH grant!
Our awesome undergraduate researchers were awarded the 2021 SEARCH grant! Way to go!
September 2021
Award News
Dr. Ha won the Haskell Distinguished Research award from the College of Arts & Sciences in recognition of research accomplishment and support of her research work.
April and May 2021
Conference Presentations
Even during the pandemic, our lab doesn’t stop working on research! Jarrod and Sam successfully presented their work in virtual conferences. Way to go!
Sotos, J., Lim, S.L., Bruce, J., & Ha, O.-R. (May, 2021). Healthy Eating Education Decreases the Influence of Taste in Food Decision-Making. Poster presented at the 33rd Association for Psychological Science Virtual Annual Convention.
Nelson, S., Lim, S.L., Ha, O.-R. (April, 2021). Identifying Cognitive Risks of Obesity Development in 12- to 24-Month-Old Infants. Poster presented at the 2021 Virtual Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development.
Sotos, J., Killian, H., Nelson, S., Lim, S.L., Malti, T., Ha, O.-R. (April, 2021). Internalizing Behaviors and Prosocial Sharing Decisions in Children. Poster presented at the 2021 Virtual Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development.
March 2021
Kudos to Haley!
Haley is matched to a clinical psychology internship at the Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology! Her position is at a rural integrated primary care clinic through the Munroe Meyer Institute. Haley will be working within a pediatric primary care clinic to provide behavioral health services.
January 2021
Haley has received the UMKC Women’s Council Graduate Assistant Fellowship ($1,000). Congratulations!
August and September 2020
Conference presentations
Haley successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “Parental Factors Related to Health Behaviors Among Children and Adolescents.”
Jarrod successfully defended his master thesis titled “Healthy Eating Information and Food Choices.”
Sam successfully defended his master thesis proposal titled “An Expanded Theory of Planned Behavior Approach with Interaction Effects.”
Awesome! Congrats!!
April and May 2020
Haley and Dr. Ha presented recent work virtually at conferences:
Killian, H., Lim, S.L., Bruce, J., & Ha, O.R. (May 2020). Social Rejection Increases Costly Sharing Decisions In Disadvantageous Inequality. Poster presented at the 32nd Association for Psychological Science Virtual Annual Convention.
Killian, H., Bruce, A.S., Davis, A., & Ha, O.R. (April 2020). Pediatric Food Choices: The Relative Importance of Taste, Health, and What Your Mother Does. Poster presented at the 42nd Society of Behavioral Medicine Virtual Conference
January 2020
Haley has received the UMKC Women’s Council Graduate Assistant Fellowship in the amount of $1,000. Congratulations!
October 2019
Cognitive Developmental Society Bi-Ennial Conference
Dr. Ha presented her and her research team’s work on prosocial development, titled “Share My Precious: The Mechanisms of Prosocial Decision-Making in Children.” at the 2019 CDS in Louisville, KY.
October 2019
Angelique received the 2019 SEARCH grant!
Angelique Webb, an undergraduate 490 student, has been awarded $1,250 for her project titled “Parental Influences On The Development of Obesity in Infants.” Congratulations!!
August 2019
Welcome Samuel!
Samuel Nelson joined our lab as a clinical doctoral student. He graduated UMKC summa cum laude, Psychology and Economics majors with a Spanish minor.
April 2019
Undergraduate Research
Anum and Sam presented their work at the Undergraduate Research Day @ the Capitol in Jefferson City and the 2019 SEARCH Symposium. Way to go!
March 2019
Society for Research in Child Development Conference
Dr. Ha and Haley presented their work at 2019 SRCD conference at Baltimore, MD. It was a very fun and productive conference!
January 2019
Haley has received the UMKC Women’s Council Graduate Assistant Fellowship in the amount of $1,100. Congratulations!
August 2018
Anum and Sam presented posters at SUROP symposium and did amazing jobs!
June 2018
2018 SPeCTRE Grant Award
Dr. Ha and Drs. Amanda Bruce and Ann Davis at KUMC have awarded the 2018 Sunflower Pediatric Clinical Trials Research Extension (SPeCTRE) grant and received $19,770 in research funds. The SPeCTRE is a part of NIH grant.
Our project “An Advertising Inoculation for Underserved Youth” will investigate how psychoeducation for food advertising literacy impacts food decision-making in underserved youth.
May 2018
Anum and Sam have been awarded SUROP grants! Congratulations!
Anum’s proposal “The Effect of Emotional Regulation on Prosocial Decision Making in Children” has been funded for $2000 tuition grant and $1250 in research funds.
Sam’s proposal ” The Effect of Stress in Eating Behavior” has been funded for $2000 tuition grant and $1233 in research funds.
May 2018
Jen presented her work at the SEARCH symposium
Jen presented her work on healthy eating information and food choices at the SEARCH symposium successfully!
February 2018
Calorie Labeling Work featured in APS site
Dr. Ha and her colleagues’ recent work on calorie labeling, which has been published in Psychological Science, has been featured in Association for Psychological Science site.
January 2018
University Of Missouri Research Board Grant Award
Dr. Ha has received the University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB) grant. The proposal “Sharing My Precious: Prosocial Decision in Children” was funded for $20.624.
This project will investigate the developmental mechanism of prosocial decisions in children, and the roles of empathy and maternal prosociality in children’s adaptive development.
12.8.2017
UMKC Faculty Research Symposium
Dr. Ha presented the work on “Food Advertising Literacy Training and Children’s Food Decision-Making” at the fourth UMKC Faculty Research Symposium.
https://info.umkc.edu/ors/2018/01/25/2017-faculty-research-symposium/
10.19.2017
Dr. Ha will speak at The Lean Lab + The KCedu meet up!
Dr. Ha is invited to speak at the #KCedu + @TheLeanLab meetup. The topic is “the Latest in Neuroscience in Education.”
10.14.2017
Cognitive Developmental Society Bi-Ennial Conference
Dr. Ha and Haley presented their work at 2017 Cognitive Developmental Society!
10.12.2017
Jen is receiving 2017 SEARCH grants!
Jen has received 2017 SEARCH grants for undergraduates. Her project, “Healthy Eating Information and Food Choices,” has awarded $1200 in research funds. Congrats, Jen!