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In addition to presenting her paper at the annual TPA Convention, to be held in Houston Nov. 5-6, Rogstad will receive $500 and a commemorative plaque for her work.
“I hope to use the conference to bring awareness to this issue,” she said. “I’d like to question current assumptions about how gender and psychopathy and anti-social behavior are handled in forensic and court settings.”
Rogstad came to UNT to work on her master’s degree after graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a B.S. in Psychology in 2006.
During her undergraduate career in Wisconsin, Rogstad worked in a lab performing research on how people with psychopathy process emotion. Her observations during this experience served as an inspiration for her future work at UNT.
“I noticed that when dealing with pyschopathy and antisocial personality disorders, psychologists have not done a lot of work with women,” Rogstad explained. “People take it for granted that there are women who are affected by these disorders and make a false assumption that the different ways in which different genders process emotion don’t apply to the case.”
When Rogstad came to UNT, she was attracted to the program by the opportunity to work with Dick Rogers, a professor in the Department of Psychology.
“I liked how his own work was so diverse; it showed that he was open to different research areas,” Rogstad said.
Rogers has served as the advisor of Rogstad’s master’s thesis, from which the winning paper was adapted.
For more information about the TPA Conference, please follow this link: http://www.texaspsyc.org/displayconvention.cfm
For more information about the Department of Psychology, please follow this link: http://www.psyc.unt.edu/.
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