Stephen D. Short, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Charleston
Student Presentations
Poster Presentations (* indicates student author)
Marsden, A. L.*, & Short, S. D. (March, 2023). Measuring individual and government responsibility to climate change. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA). Boston, MA.
Mowry, C. S. *, & Short, S. D. (March, 2023). Moderated mediation of hurricane priming and responsibility between conservatism and climate change attitudes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA). Boston, MA.
Gibson, F. G. *, & Short, S. D. (March, 2023). Place attachment as a buffer for political conservatism and climate disengagement. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA). Boston, MA.
Brooker, M. E.*, Marsden, A. L.*, Mowry, C. S.*, & Short, S. D. (2022, February). Neuroticism moderates the relationship between place attachment and perceived risk of climate change. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). San Francisco, CA.
Mowry, C. S.*, Marsden, A. L.*, Brooker, M. E.*, & Short, S. D. (2022, February). Examining climate change attitudes and knowledge as mediators of conservatism and risk perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). San Francisco, CA.
Marsden, A. L., Mowry, C. S.*, Brooker, M.E.*, & Short, S. D. (2022, February). Initial development and validation of the Climate Change Responsibility Scale. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). San Francisco, CA.
Short, S. D., & Mullins, G. E.* (2022, February). Message framing moderates the effects of conservatism and place attachment on climate change attitudes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). San Francisco, CA.
Mullins, G. E.*, McKenzie, B. N.*, & Short, S. D. (2020, February). The role of place attachment and message framing on climate change risk perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). New Orleans, LA.
McKenzie, B. N.*, Mullins, G. E.*, & Short, S. D. (2020, February). Is the relationship between conservatism and climate change attitudes moderated by right wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). New Orleans, LA.
Short, S. D., & McKenzie, B. N.*, & Mullins, G. E.* (2020, February). Trying to reason with hurricane season: Priming experience of hurricane Florence lowers effect of conservatism on climate change attitudes. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). New Orleans, LA.
McKenzie, B. N.*, & Short, S. D. 2019, November). Does Conservatism Mediate the Relationship between Right Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Climate Change Attitudes? Poster presented at the annual Perry V. Halushka Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Research Day. Charleston, SC.
Lafontaine, D. M.*, & Short, S. D. (2019, February). Attitudes, but not knowledge, about climate change influence interpretation of sea-level rise maps. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR.
Short, S. D., & Lafontaine, D. M.*, (2019, February). Awareness of the consequences of climate change moderates effect of conservatism on interpreting sea-level rise maps. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR.
Lafontaine, D. M.*, Golden, E. C.*, Peecher, M. E.*, & Short, S. D. (2018, October). The mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between knowledge of and attitudes toward climate change. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists (SSSP), Raleigh, NC.
Lastrapes, K. L.*, Peecher, M. E.*, Golden, E. C.*, & Short, S. D. (2018, October). Examining moderators of the relationship between climate change beliefs and conservative identity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists (SSSP), Raleigh, NC.
Lafontaine, D. M.*, McBrady, E. E*., & Short, S, D. (2018, March). Examining predictors of attitudes toward the impact of climate change. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA). Charleston, SC.
McBrady, E. E.*, Lafontaine, D. M.*, & Short, S, D. (2018, March) The role of belief orientation and self-efficacy on one’s perceived risk of climate change. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA). Charleston, SC.
Lastrapes, K. A.*, & Short, S. D. (March, 2018). The more you know? Religion, politics, and distrust of science. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Charleston, SC.
Lastrapes, K. A.*, Natale, N. E.*, McBrady, E. E.*, & Short, S. D., (2018, March). The indirect effect of processing style on the relationship between openness and distrust of science is moderated by experimental priming of rational thinking. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, GA.
Short, S. D., & Lastrapes, K. A.*, (2018, March). Priming of rational thinking moderates the indirect effect of processing style on openness and knowledge of evolution. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Atlanta, GA.
Lastrapes, K. A.*, Natale, N. E.*, McBrady, E. E.*, & Short, S. D. (2017, March). Examining mediators of the relationship between openness and knowledge of evolution in a non-college sample. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), Atlanta, GA.
Natale, N. E.*, McBrady, E. E.*, Lastrapes, K. A.*, & Short, S. D. (2017, March). Personality and processing style predictors of paranormal beliefs in college students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), Atlanta, GA.
McBrady, E. E*., Lastrapes, K. A.*, Natale, N. E.*, & Short, S. D. (2017, March). Paranormal beliefs in college and non-college samples. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), Atlanta, GA.
Lastrapes, K. A.*, Natale, N. E.*, McBrady, E. E.*, & Short, S. D. (2016, November). Examining the relationship between paranormal beliefs and creationist reasoning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists (SSSP), Asheville, NC.
Natale, N. E.*, Lastrapes, K. A.*, McBrady, E. E.*, & Short, S. D. (2016, November). Rational processing style mediates the relationship between openness to experience and knowledge of evolution. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists (SSSP), Asheville, NC.
Klosson, C. M.* Short, S. D. (2016, April). Creationist reasoning mediates relationship between intuitive thinking and knowledge of evolution. Poster
presented at the College of Charleston’s Department of Psychology Student Awards and Research Day (SARD), Charleston, SC
Klosson, C. M.* Short, S. D. (2016, March). Creationist reasoning mediates relationship between intuitive thinking and knowledge of evolution. Poster
presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), New Orleans, LA.