{"id":10990,"date":"2024-06-07T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:33:44","slug":"ewu-mcnair-scholar-alexander-dodson-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-alexander-dodson-published\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU McNair Scholar Alexander Dodson Publishes with Dr. Watkins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Alexander Dodson<\/a>! Alexander is a contributing author for \u201cGratitude and Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Gratitude<\/a>,\u201d with Dr. Philip Watkins and former EWU graduate student Michael Frederick. This is a chapter in the book Happiness and Wellness – Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives<\/em> edited by Floriana Irtellli and Fabio Gabrielli. Alexander continued his work in Dr. Watkins\u2019 lab, and collaborated with additional students and Dr. Watkins on the research and preparation for two subsequent conference presentations, \u201cExploring the cognititve context of gratitude to God: The importance of positive spiritual appraisals,\u201d and \u201cGratitude sticks: How grateful memories maintain their positive impact.\u201d They have also submitted a chapter for another book and are waiting to hear back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander will be graduating this June with a major in Psychology and minors in Sexuality and Queer Studies and Anthropology. In addition to his work in Dr. Watkins\u2019 lab, Alexander worked in Dr. Amani El-Alayli\u2019s research lab both independently and collaboratively to design several novel, replication, and extension studies in person perception, stereotyping, and prejudice. Dr. El-Alayli served as Alexander\u2019s mentor for his 2022 and 2023 McNair Summer Research Internships. Alexander presented his 2022 research, Effects of American and pride flags on our judgements of others<\/em>, at the 2023 Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) conference, and his 2023 research, Political orientation moderates pride and American flag effects on person perception<\/em>, at the SPSP conference in 2024. Alexander also presented a prospectus of his 2022 research at the 2023 EWU Research and Creative Works Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Alexander Dodson! Alexander is a contributing author for \u201cGratitude and Happiness: The Causes and Consequences of Gratitude,\u201d with Dr. Philip Watkins and former EWU graduate student Michael Frederick. This is a chapter in the book Happiness and Wellness – Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives edited by Floriana Irtellli and Fabio Gabrielli. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4431,"featured_media":11013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,492,27,28,31,127,34],"tags":[787,786,431,134,96,785,160],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-2022-cohort","category-alexander-dodson","category-mentor","category-news","category-psychology","category-research","category-scholars","tag-alexander-dodson","tag-dr-phillip-watkins","tag-ewu-mcnair-faculty-mentor","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-mcnair-scholar","tag-positive-psychology","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37615,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions\/37615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}