Presentations

2025

Psychonomic Society

Tanguay, S., Cronin, J., McGinley, J. J., & Weidler, B. J. (2025, November). No transfer of attentional control in an applied context [Poster presentation]. 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, CO, United States.

Society of Psychophysiological Research

Cronin, J., Klein, A.R., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (2025, October), Trait worry is predictive of subjective but not autonomic measures of emotion dynamics [Poster presentation]. 65th Annual Meeting for the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Canada.

Papaleonti, I., Shaw, M., Prasai, R., Cronin, J., Mucha, E., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (2025, October). Autonomic differentiation of disgust subtypes using cluster analysis [Poster presentation]. 65th Annual Meeting for the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Montreal, Canada. 

2024

Psychonomic Society

Eibner, M., Spears, M., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J. (November, 2024). Hide your phone when studying! The presence of a cell phone hinders memory, though differently than traditional divided attention [Poster presentation]. 65th annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.

Association for Psychological Science

Spears, M., Klein, A., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (May, 2024). Emotion Dynamics in Rumination and Worry [Poster presentation]. 36th annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

Association for Psychophysiological Research

Friedman, B.H. & McGinley, J.J. (October, 2024). Measure for Measure: Comparative Utility of Heart Rate Variability Indices of Cardiac Vagal Control. Co-chair for symposium presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Prague, Czech Republic

Klein, A.R., Stoudt, E., Consoli, T., Spears, M., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (October, 2024). No concordance between two continuous measures of emotion intensity [Poster presentation]. 64th Annual Convention for the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Prague, Czech Republic.

Roen, K., Spears, M., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (October, 2024). Cardiac vagal tone does not predict flexible responding in affective or cognitive task-switching paradigms [Poster presentation]. 64th Annual Convention for the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Prague, Czech Republic.

Spears, M., Klein, A., Terrell, L., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (October, 2024). Cardiac vagal tone is not related to performance on validated tests of individual differences in attentional control [Poster presentation]. 64th Annual Convention for the Society of Psychophysiological Research, Prague, Czech Republic.

Vision Sciences Society

Weidler, B.J., Bennett, S.W., McGinley, J.J., & Fowble, E. (May, 2024). Automated Symbolic Orienting Revisited: Do Words Elicit the Same Effect? [Poster presentation]. 2024 conference for Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, FL.

2023

Society for Psychophysiology

McGinley, J.J., Klein, A., Weidler, B.J. (2023). Heart rate variability predicts mean and variability metrics of emotion but not cognition. Psychophysiology, XX(Suppl. 1), SXX. 

Bennett, S.W., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J. (November, 2023). Automated Symbolic Orienting Revisited: Do Nonpredictive Words Elicit the Same Effect? [Poster presentation]. 64th annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Bennett, S.W., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J. (submitted). Automated Symbolic Orienting Revisited: Do Nonpredictive Words Elicit the Same Effect? Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.  

Eibner, M., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J. (November, 2023). The Impact of Cell Phone Presence on Attentional Control [Poster presentation]. 64th annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Eibner, M., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J. (submitted). The Impact of Cell Phone Presence on Attentional Control. Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

McGinley, J.J., Klein, A., Weidler, B.J. (September, 2023). Heart rate variability predicts mean and variability metrics of emotion but not cognition [Poster presentation]. 64th Annual Convention for the Society of Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, LA. 

Baumann, H., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J., (May, 2023). Color Consistency Speeds Graph Interpretation. Poster presented at the 35th annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C. 

Goodling, S., & McGinley, J.J. (May, 2023). Is there functional coherence across systems in the disgust response? Poster presented at the 35th annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.

Johnson, T., & McGinley, J.J., (May, 2023). Emotion Science Video System: Video Clips with Discrete and Dimensional Ratings. Poster presented at the 35th annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.  

Klein, A., Bennett, S., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (May, 2023). Heart rate variability is related to emotional responding but not traditional executive function metrics. Poster presented at the 35th annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C. 

McGinley, J.J., Klein, A., Weidler, B.J. (September, 2023). Heart rate variability predicts mean and variability metrics of emotion but not cognition. Psychophysiology, XX(Suppl. 1), SXX. 

European Association of Social Psychology

Baldner, C., & McGinley, J.J. (June, 2023). Re-thinking empathy: Is a hiatus on empathy as a unique construct necessary? Talk presented at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, Poland. 

Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum 

Bennett, S.W., Alderite, M., Cudek, J., Schuchardt, K., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J. (April, 2023). Automated symbolic orienting revisited: Do nonpredictive words elicit the same effect? Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Eibner, M., Klingelhofer, A., Tran, C., Alvarez-Hernandez, J., McGinley, J.J., & Weidler, B.J. (April, 2023). The impact of cell phone presence on attentional control. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Spears, M., DiClaudio, K., Ralph, C., Tony, A., Klein, A., Weidler, B.J., McGinley, J.J., & Miller, B.W. (April, 2023). You could think that, but you’d be wrong: The impact of text structure and evocative language in scientific texts on emotional responses and memory. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Lund, B., Harris, E., Lynch, M., Spangler, J., McGinley, J.J., Weidler, B.J., & Wahlheim, C.N. (April, 2023). The Role of spacing in memory updating and truth perception. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Weathers, E., Fowble, E., Merlo, M., Watson, D., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2023). How processing stimuli alters the endowment effect. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

2022

Spangler, D.P., McGinley, J.J., Friedman, B.H., & Thayer, J.F. (September, 2022). Unraveling the cognitive correlates of heart rate variability with the ex-Gaussian and drift diffusion models. Talk presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, BC. 

Psychonomic Society

Eibner, M., Bennett, S., McGinley, J.J., Hicken, L., & Weidler, B.J. (November, 2022). Cognitive Consequences of Auditory Task-Elicited Eye Movements. Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.   

Bennett, S., McGinley, J.J., Hicken, L., Hilchey, M.D., & Weidler, B.J. (November, 2022). Spatial Auditory Task-Elicited Systematic Eye Movement: Voluntary or Reflexive? Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.   

Lund, B. & Weidler, B.J. (November, 2022). Cognitive Effects of Olfactory Stimulation. Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. 

Walsh, S. N., Weidler, B. J., (2022, April). The Impact of Affect on Executive Control. Talk presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research, virtual.    

Donatien, J., Montgrain, L.E., Hilchey, M. & Weidler, B. J., (2022, April). The Impact of the Decoy Effect and Visual Cues on Decision Making. Poster presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research, virtual. 

Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum 

Bennett, S.W., Jewell, O.F., Golabi, N., Lebo, D., Langholt, R., Weidler, B.J., McGinley, J.J., & Hicken, L. (April, 2022). Spatial auditory task-elicited systematic eye movement: Voluntary or reflexive? Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Bhattacharya, T., Martin, G., Terry, L., Edmonds, K., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2022). Comparing metrics of vagal activity through tasks of cognitive inhibition. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

2021

Psychonomic society

Montgrain, L, Donatien, J.  Pratt, J., Weidler B. J., & Hilchey, M. D. & (2021, November). Effects of Visual Cues and Decoys on Product Choice. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual Psychonomics   

Colvett, J., Weidler B. J., & Bugg, J. M. & (2021, November). Revealing Object-Based Attentional Control in a Moving Object Paradigm. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual Psychonomics   

Bennett, S., Lund, B., Weidler B. J., & Cohen-Shikora, E. (2021, November). Effect of Incidental Color on Judgments and Memory. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual Psychonomics   

McCoy, H., & Weidler B. J.,  (2021, November). E The Effect of Accountability on False Memory. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual Psychonomics 

Association for Psychological Science

Judy, K., & McGinley, J.J. (May, 2021). Emotion Regulation Moderates the Effect of Pandemic-Related Factors on Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Poster presented at the 33rd annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Held Virtually. 

Pustovit, S., Sutcliffe, K.M., Barton, M.A., Christianson, M.K., McGinley, J.J., & Waller, M.J. (July, 2021). Understanding the Workplace Consequences of Uncertainty Through the Lens of COVID-19. Talk presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Held Virtually. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.10562symposium 

McGinley, J.J, & Judy, K. (August, 2021). Uncertainty and Anxiety during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Reflections and Future Directions. Talk presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Held Virtually. 

Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum 

Gondringer, A., Villanueva, B., Rendon-Garcia, C., & Sears, O. & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2021). Anxiety and physiological recovery from a stressor. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Judy, K., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2021). Emotion Regulation Moderates the Effects of Pandemic-Related Factors on Perceived Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Johnson, T., Lutz, E., Villanueva, B., Bhattacharya, T., Sears, O., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2021). The operations of emotion elicitation: 3 forms of validated evocative stimulus sets. Talk presented at Towson University's Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Rinker, D., Rendon-Garcia, C., Sears, O., Villanueva, B., Pais, M., Johnson, T., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2021). Emotion Science Picture System: a new stimulus set for research in emotion. Talk presented at Towson University's Student Research and Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Pais, M., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2021). The Gut Microbiome and Mental Health: Anxiety and Depression. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Villanueva, B., Judy, K., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2021). Increased perceived anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic persisted as COVID-19 progressed: A longitudinal study on college students. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

2020

Society for Psychophysiology Research

Judy, K., & McGinley, J.J. (2020). Resting heart rate variability does not predict inhibitory control in three laboratory tasks. Psychophysiology, 57(Suppl. 1), S11. 

Gondringer, A., & McGinley, J.J. (2020). Untangling the relationship between heart rate variability and self-report anxiety. Psychophysiology, 57(Suppl. 1), S42. 

Psychonomic Society

Weidler, B. J., Taylor, E, Hilchey, M. & Pratt, J. (2020, November). Eliminating the Low Prevalence Effect in Visual Search with a Remarkably Simple Strategy. Talk presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual Psychonomics    

Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum 

Lutz, E., Barth, M., Scudder, A., Langley, M., Assi, A., Scott, M., Thomas, M., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2020). Emotional Impact: The Role of Heart Rate Variability on Executive Performance Under Duress. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Mullin, C. J., Lutz, E., Fagan, L., Scott, M., Assi, A., Choe, J., Ferdinand, D., Pais, M., & Capobianchi, G.& McGinley, J.J. (April, 2020). Vagal flexibility and cognitive stability during persistent distraction. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD. 

Gondringer, A., Langley, M., Thomas, M., Rinker, D., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2020). Social stress and emotion regulation. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD. 

Judy, K., Fagan, L., Lutz, E., Simpson, S., Scudder, A., Hathazi, J., Sears, O., Bracewell, G., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2020). Social Anxiety and Vagal Tone’s Effect on Disengagement from Threat Cues. Talk presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD. 

Fagan, L., Lutz, E. T. H., Simpson, S., Hathazi, J., Larkin, K., Miller, E., Reyes, B. & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2020) The influence of emotion regulation strategies on heart rate. Talk presented at Towson University's Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD. 

2019

Society of Psychophysiological Research 

Mullin, C.J., & McGinley, J.J. (September, 2019). The interaction of disgust and vagal activity informs subsequent risk-taking behavior. Talk presented at the 59Th Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Washington D.C. DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13501 

Psychonomic Society

Weidler, B. J., Cohen-Shikora, E. R., Hicks, B., & McKinnon, A. (2019, November). Conflict Based Modulations in Attentional Control Influence Semantic Processing.. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, CA   

Eastern Psychological Association

Elsayed, S.E., & McGinley, J.J. (March, 2019). The interaction of anxiety and heart rate variability on executive function performance. Presented at Eastern Psychological Association.   

American Psychological Society 

Weidler, B. J.,  Elsayed, S., McGinley J. J. (2019, May). Emotion Has Little Influence on Conflict-Triggered Adjustments in Attentional Control. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C. 

McGinley J. J., Elsayed, S, Mullin, C., & Weidler, B. J. (2019, May). The New Normal? No Relationship between Resting Heart Rate Variability and Attentional Regulation. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C. 

Association for Psychological Science 

McGinley, J.J., Elsayed, S.E., Weidler, B.J., & Mullin, C. (May, 2019). The New Normal? No Relationship Between Resting Heart Rate Variability and Attentional Regulation. Poster presented at the 31st annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington D.C. 

Weidler, B.J., Elsayed, S.E., & McGinley, J.J. (May, 2019). Emotion Has Little Influence on Conflict-Triggered Adjustments in Attentional Control. Poster presented at the 31st annual convention for the Association for Psychological Science, Washington D.C. 

Vision Sciences Society

Hilchey M. D., Weidler, B. J., & Pratt, J.P. (2019, May). Statistical learning can modulate contingent attentional capture. Poster presented at the meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg, FL. 

Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum 

Jaweed, S., Kolker, Z.M., Mullin, C.J., Wildberger, J., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2019). Does spirituality protect against the physiological effects of existential anxiety? Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD 

Mullin, C.J., Fagan, L., Pearce, M., Garvin, R., Holmes, D., Simpson, S., Scudder, A., Fernandez, X., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2019). Disgust and vagal influences on risk taking. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD. 

Elsayed, S., Fagan, L., Seyboth, H., Small, E., Muniz, L., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2019). The influence of anxiety on executive function. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD. 

Elsayed, S., Fernandez, X., Eady, I., Scudder, A., Pearce, M., Sunju-Abbey, E.., Weidler, B.J., & McGinley, J.J. (April, 2019). Resting heart rate variability and executive function. Poster presented at Towson University’s Student Research & Creative Inquiry Forum, Towson, MD. 

2018

Psychonomic Society 

Weidler, B. J., Hilchey M. D., Abrams, R. A., & Pratt, J. P.  (2018, November). Context modulates integration effects –selectively when it is task relevant. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA   

Hilchey M. D., Weidler, B. J., Abrams, R. A., & Pratt, J. P. (2018, November). Context does not modulate location-response integration effects. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA    

Huffman, G. H., Hilchey, M. D., Weidler, B. J., Mills, M., & Pratt, J. (2018, November). The partial repetition cost paradigm, reversed: No feature integration effects without target discrimination. Poster presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA

Society for Psychophysiological Research 

McGinley, J.J., Sagan, O., Parton, D., Rompilla, D.R. (October, 2018). Escaping the file drawer: Is heart rate variability always useful as a biomarker for self-regulation? Talk presented at the 58th Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Quebec City, Canada.