The Joan Rosen Fellowship Program

With the support of her mentor Jennifer Vonk, Associate Professor of Psychology, psychology and Spanish major Ellen Searle extended a previous empirical study of the relationship between religious beliefs and false memory for events that depicted religious or atheist events in positive and negative ways.

 

Ellen Searle  had conference proposals about the work accepted by the American Psychological Society and Meeting of the Minds. She also had an abstract accepted at Cognitive Science. In addition to the Rosen fellowship, Ellen received a Provost's grant to support her work. 

 

Currently, Dr. Vonk and Ms. Searle, who is headed to graduate school at Michigan State University, are collaborating on an article for submission to Cognition, a journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind.