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Everyone.

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My name is Suzanne
Rose, and I'm going

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to be talking about
my summer experience.

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So actually, a
different experience

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from Elise and Claudia,
I was returning home

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from being abroad, and
I used these skills

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to help me in my research job.

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When I returned home, I used
link funding for a six week

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internship at Gordon
College, and I

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worked in the psychology lab.

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And that will be what this
presentation is about,

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but I'll talk of a little
bit about the perspective

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that I got from being abroad.

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So I was in Vietnam teaching
math, life skills, and soccer

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to sixth and seventh
grade students.

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And to see how excited
they were and passionate

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they were about
learning, it made

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me appreciate the resources
we have here for education

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and the opportunities
for research.

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So I went with a
program called Coach

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for College, which was
funded by the Weissman

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Center for Leadership here.

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And I had a really
great experience,

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and I thought about this
and I had this perspective

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when I came home.

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So I'm going to tell you
a bit about the research

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that I did this past
summer, and then

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also how it's helped me at
Mount Holyoke since being back.

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So we were doing time
perception studies, myself,

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a research assistant who is
a recent graduate at Gordon

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College, and Dr. Hodges
who's a professor at Gordon,

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and we were exploring two
different time perception

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effects that appear
in the research.

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The first is the
magnitude effect,

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which states that larger numbers
are perceived as lasting longer

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than smaller numbers.

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So for example, if a
number 9 is projected

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a screen for a specific
amount of time,

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and then the number
three is also

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on the screen for the
same amount of time,

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participants will think that
the number 9 is lasting longer.

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And then a valence effect
states that negative events are

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perceived as lasting longer
than positive events,

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so this is like the saying, time
flies when you're having fun.

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So the main project
that I had to work on

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was how participants
respond when

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there are magnitude and
valance effects happening

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at the same time.

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So I actually worked,
two Summers ago,

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with Dr. Hodges and another
professor at Gordon, part time,

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and I was involved in
some of this research.

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And we built off of the
previous studies we worked on,

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and in the summer, I was able
to work full time for him.

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And so we came up with
a brand new study trying

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to identify these
differences, and we came up

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with two different conditions.

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So we had a baseball
condition, which

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stated that the
participants were

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told that the
number on the screen

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represented the amount of runs
their team scored in the game.

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And then in the golf
condition, the number

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represented the
amount of strokes

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it took them to get
the ball in the hole.

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So these two scenarios were
created because of baseball.

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You want a higher number
of runs for your team,

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and in golf, you want a
few number of strokes,

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so in this context,
in terms of magnitude,

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baseball was positive
and golf was negative.

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So the way that we assessed
time perception was a number

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would appear on the screen, and
then participants would see it

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for a specific amount of time.

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Then the number would disappear,
and this middle screen

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would appear.

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Participants would press the
Y key to start their time

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estimation, and they were told
to perceive the amount of time

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they saw the number.

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So they would press
the Y key once

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to start their estimation,
and then a second time

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to end their time estimation.

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Then a blank screen
would appear,

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and this procedure would
continue with various numbers

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throughout.

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So the way we have this set up
was participants saw numbers 1

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through 9 for differing
time variations of 800-2400

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milliseconds, and all of the
numbers and all of the times

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are counterbalanced
throughout the experiment

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and presented randomly
to participants.

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And we were able to do this on
the program super lab, which

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is a software that we able
to design the studies on.

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And then participants were
told to accurately assess

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the amount of time that
they saw each stimulus.

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So these are some of
the hypotheses we have.

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We think that magnitude will be
less in the baseball condition

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compared to the golf condition.

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So what this means is,
as the number increases

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in the base-- in
the golf condition,

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so will the time of
estimation or overestimation

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of the stimulus.

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But in the baseball
condition, it

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will actually be an
inverted magnitude

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effect because of the
positive valance context.

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So we think that the
positive or negative context

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will affect the way
participants perceived numbers

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Where are we now?

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So right now, they're
currently running--

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they're running these
studies at Gordon College,

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and I'm excited to
see where these go.

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And as I mentioned
before, two Summers ago,

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we created pilot studies
to assess the ways that we

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wanted to further this project.

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So this is a picture
of my sister up here.

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She came at the
end of the summer

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to test out the work
that I had been doing,

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both myself, and Gian also
created a different study.

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And so she came in and
ran the studies for us.

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Some of the transferable
skills that I've learned.

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I did a lot of
reviewing literature

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in the beginning of
the research process,

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and then analyzing data
from the pilot studies.

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I spent a lot of time
in the first part

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of my summer analyzing
the data and cleaning up

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the data on Excel and
then working with SPSS.

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And then programming
through super lab,

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I became a lot more
comfortable with the software.

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And working
collaboratively with a team

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was a really great
experience, because I

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learned a lot from the
mentors that I had there.

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This has also helped me continue
research at Mount Holyoke

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and feel more comfortable
in this field.

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Well, time perception is an
area I had never studied before.

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I got a really
great scope of what

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it's like to conduct research
and all of the time and effort

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that goes into this work.

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And as I mentioned before,
Dr. Hodges and Gian

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were great mentors
for me, and gave me

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the confidence and
the comfort level

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in being able to pursue
independent research at Mount

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Holyoke.

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So right now, I'm working
on a project looking

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at female athlete well-being
with Professor Davis,

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and I don't think I would have
pursued this opportunity if I

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didn't have this experience.

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So just for people
who are thinking

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about research
opportunities in the future,

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I just reached out to professors
at colleges near my hometown,

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because I knew I
wanted to be home

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for the second
part of the summer.

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And I would encourage people
to reach out to individuals

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that have a career path
that they're interested

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in or in a geographic
location that interests you.

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And the link funding is
great, because it gives you

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an opportunity to have
many different options,

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because you're not
getting compensated

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from the institution
that you're working at.

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And so I was lucky enough
to have an abroad experience

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and then bring that
prospective home with me

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and do research with a
great group of people.

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So overall, I just want
to thank the Link Fund.

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I want to thank
Dr. Hodges and Gian

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for welcoming me to their
team, and for all of you

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for being here.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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