Trent Maurer published in Family Science Review
Congratulations Trent Maurer for his solo authored recent publication!
Maurer, T.W. (2023). Hindsight bias and perceptions of sexual assault. Family Science Review, 27(2). http://doi.org/10.26536/UNUJ1629
ABSTRACT. This investigation explored hindsight bias in college students’ perceptions of sexual assault. Participants read a vignette about a man and woman who met at a party with the conditions varied across the vignettes: the alcohol use of the characters, the outcome of the vignette, and in the rape outcome, the victim’s actions after the assault. Hindsight bias was assessed using both the posttest-only method and the pretest/posttest method and for both the outcome of the vignette and post-outcome events. Results revealed significant evidence for the existence of hindsight bias with the pretest/posttest method. Additionally, results revealed some evidence for hindsight bias contamination in perceptions of vignette characters, but in ways contrary to those predicted by the Defensive Attribution Hypothesis (Shaver, 1970).
Keywords: hindsight bias, sexual assault, vignette
Last updated: 8/10/2023
Congratulations Trent Maurer, Ph.D. and Emily Cabay on recent publications
Great HDFS faculty and student work that you will want to check out:
Maurer, T.W. (2023). Translating SoTL findings to students to effect learning in family science: A knowledge mobilization approach. National Council on Family Relations Report, 68(1), F12-F13. Retrieved from https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/spring-2023
This piece in NCFR Report extends my work on knowledge mobilization and translating the findings of SoTL research to students in ways they can use to enhance their learning. I show how I incorporate the framework in James Lang’s (2016) Small Teaching in one of my Family Science courses in a way that doesn’t just use those high impact techniques, but explains to students why they work and how students can adapt them to their own studying and learning. It is an approach that can be adopted with minimal effort to existing learning activities in just about any course.
The article below was published with his undergraduate researcher Emily Cabay:
Maurer, T.W., & Cabay, E. (2023). Challenges of shaping student study strategies for success: Replication and extension. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 11. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.11.18
This article in Teaching and Learning Inquiry reports on a project done in collaboration with a former undergraduate student in the course (Emily Cabay, Psychology major) and represents the culmination of two years’ worth of work. It is a replication/improvement of some of my earlier work that was originally scheduled to be completed during the 2019-2020 academic year, but the pandemic ruined that data collection and postponed starting over until the fall of 2021. This has been a long time coming, but it was worth the wait: we found out some really interesting things about how to help students adopt more effective study strategies! It’s open access, so anyone can read it! We also have a brief blog post about it, written almost entirely by my student co-author, on the ISSOTL website: https://issotl.com/2023/06/21/challenges-of-shaping-student-study-strategies-for-success-replication-and-extension/?fbclid=IwAR1eEHsHhOw5GvN804YJ9prs0_Sk5y5EZKgX-vZsjU6iyF3K2mXxX7922mk
Last updated: 6/23/2023
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Starting Fall 2023, students enrolling in or transferring in to the Human Development & Family Science (HDFS) major will no longer select an HDFS concentrations. Included in this update, the Child Life concentration will not be available starting Fall 2023. More flexibility will be offered.
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