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• Avery, M. C., Spencer, M. T., Pacheco, M. B., & Altarriba, J.  (2025, April).  Supra- and sub-liminal attentional bias to disgust-related words. Poster presented at the 97th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J.  (2025, April).  Negative emotions impair survival: Examining adaptive memory for emotion state words. Paper presented at the 97th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

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• Jones, S. N., & Altarriba, J.  (2025, April).  Emotion and non-emotion word learning via the survival processing paradigm. Poster presented at the 97th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J.  (2025, May).  Negative feelings won’t help you survive:  An examination of memory for emotion state words in the survival paradigm.  Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

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• Jones, S. N., & Altarriba, J.  (2025, May).  Learning new emotion and non-emotion English-Spanish word pairs via the survival processing paradigm.  Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

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• Avery, M. C., Spencer, M. T., Pacheco, M. B., & Altarriba, J. (2025, November).  Disgust is different: How discrete emotion impacts lexical decisions and attentional bias to word stimuli. Poster submitted for presentation at the 66th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, Colorado.

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• Bąk, H., Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2025, November).  Survival of the fittest language: Variability of the survival advantage in L1 and L2. Paper submitted for presentation at the 66th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, Colorado.

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• Hall, B. C., & Altarriba, J. (2025, November).  “Surviving” college:  The role of financial stressors on incidental memory. Poster submitted for presentation at the 66th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, Colorado.

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• Jones, S. N., & Altarriba, J. (2025, November).  Examining the effects of auditory and silent reading modalities in the Survival Processing Paradigm. Poster submitted for presentation at the 66th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, Colorado.

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• Rodriguez, M., Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2025, November).  Counting Sudoku difficulties by counting Sudoku placements. Poster submitted for presentation at the 66th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, Colorado.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J.  (2024, April).  Is emotion adaptive?  Examining the fitness relevance of word valence.  Paper presented at the 96th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

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• Leblebici-Başar, D., Avery, M. C., Vitrano, D. & Altarriba, J. (2024, April).  Analyzing product design processes in a survival context:  An experimental study on design briefs.  Paper presented at the 9th meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC), Toronto, Canada.

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• Avery, M. C., & Altarriba, J. (2024, May).  Creativity or fluency?  A closer look at what drives the survival processing advantage in memory.  Paper presented at the Creativity Conference, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.  (Virtual presentation)

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• Bates, H., Brennan, T., Vitrano, D., Lebleici-Başar, D., & Altarriba, J. (2024, October).  Exploring the influence of creativity levels and word type on associative flexibility.  Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Springfield College, Springfield, MA.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2024, October).  How do we remember emotion? An examination of adaptive memory for valenced words.  Paper presented at at the 64th  annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Springfield College, Springfield, MA.

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• Altarriba, J.  (2024, November).  Training Hispanic students for research careers:  Preparing for success.  In E. Vazaquez (Organizer), Innovative programming and partnerships leading to student success.  Workshop presented at the 38th annual meeting of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), Aurora, CO.

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• Avery, M. C., Spencer, M. T., Pacheco, M. B., & Altarriba, J. (2024, November).  Forget slap, remember slime:  Investigating incidental memory for discrete emotion words.  Poster presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2024, November).  Is survival positive? Examining adaptive memory for positive and negative words.  Poster presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.

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• Jones, S. N., & Altarriba, J. (2024, November).  A language acquisition study:  Learning new Spanish words via the survival processing paradigm.  Poster presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.

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• Ahmed, R., Refki, D., Altarriba, J., & Sa, E. (2023, March-April). Understanding frontline healthcare and social service providers’ experiences serving limited English proficient patients during COVID-19.  Paper presented at the 114th Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.

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• Altarriba, J. (2023, April).  Survival and emotion—Keys to learning a new language.  Paper presented at the 95th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J.  (2023, April).  Examining the role of emotion processing in the survival paradigm.  Poster presented at the 95th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

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• Avery, M. C., & Altarriba, J. (2023, October).  Evolutionary advantages in memory:  How creativity and working memory capacity interact with the survival processing effect.  Paper presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2023, October).  Adaptive memory and emotion: How emotion words are processed within the survival paradigm.  Paper presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA.

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• Avery, M. C., Spencer, M. T., & Altarriba, J. (2023, November).  Disgust is different:  Investigataing early attention for discrete emotion words using a modified dot probe paradigm.  Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

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• Bąk, H., & Altarriba, J. (2023, November).  Feel

• ing it differently:  Emotional causality of verbs across languages.  Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

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• Clark, D. Q., Altarriba, J., & Heredia, R. R. (2023, November).  Emotion across languages:  Developing a biligual emotion word norm.  Poster presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

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• Ahmed, R., Refki, D., Altarriba, J., Sa, E., Avery, M. C., & Abdelkarim, S. (2022, April). Exploring the role of information sources in vaccine decision-making among four culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the U.S.  Paper presented at the 113th Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.

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• Altarriba, J. (2022, September).  Cognition, culture, and emotion:  Basic research, applied notions, and into the future.  Keynote address delivered at the I Simposio International de Lengua, Emoción, e Identidad, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.

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• Avery, M. C., & Altarriba, J. (2022, November).  Adaptive skills in survival processing:  Individual differences in working memory capacity.  Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

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• Bąk, H., & Altarriba, J. (2022, November).  Of two hearts, of two minds—Differences in concreteness, imageability, and context availability measures in English and Polish emotion terms.  Paper presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

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• Clark, D. Q., & Altarriba, J. (2022, November).  Emotion vs. survival:  An examination of word processing in the survival paradigm.  Poster presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

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• Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2021, November). Emotional intensity increases information believability. Paper presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF​​

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• Avery, M. C., Spencer, M. T., & Altarriba, J. (2021, November).  Is happiness facilitated in discrete emotion word processing? Poster presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF

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• Eady, A., Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2021, April). What’s that? The influence of emotional audio on memory. Poster presented at the 93rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF

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• Spencer, M., Avery, M. C., & Altarriba, J. (2021, April).  Sex differences in emotion word processing. Poster presented at the 93rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. (Virtual conference). Link to PDF

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• Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2020, November)  Do familiar sounds aid language learning? Support for exemplar-based memory models for spoken language processing. Poster accepted for presentation at the 61st  annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Austin, TX. Link to PDF

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• Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J.  (2019, November).  I’m happy to remember your name:  The influence of emotion and focus on face-name recall.  Poster presented at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Link to PDF

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• Bak, H., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). (In)visible dimensions: Implicit affect and basic emotion categorizations of emotion terms. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
   

• Basnight-Brown, D. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). Explorations of adaptive/survival memory in Sub-Saharan Africa. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
   

• Martin, J. M., Wilck, A. M., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). Would you like a snack? Priming for food-related behaviors. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
   

• Wilck, A. M., Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018, November). Why don’t we learn what we DO know? Metacognition and the perceptual interference effect. Poster presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. Link to PDF
   

• Altarriba, J. (2018, April). Survival, death, and the supernatural. Paper presented at the Evolutionary Perspectives on Death Conference, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. Link to PDF
   

• Altarriba, J. (2018, April). Emotion and memory in the bilingual and monolingual mind. Paper presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2018, April). The survival advantage, but only when you’re trying. Poster presented at the 90th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Basnight-Brown, D. M., Tse, C.-S., & Altarriba, J. (2017, November). The relationship between language proficiency and attentional control: Evidence from a highly proficient multilingual Sub-Saharan African population. Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
   

• Kazanas, S. A., Altarriba, J., & O'Brien, E. (2017, November). How survival processing provides an effective mnemonic for second-language acquisition. Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
   

• Kazanas, S. A., Wilck, A. M., Altarriba, J. (2017, November). Me versus we: Examining the role of culture in the survival advantage. Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
   

• Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2017, November). How do individuals with varying previous experience approach learning new languages? Poster presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Link to PDF
   

• Altarriba, J. (2017, June). Valence and word type effects in the processing of emotional stimuli in bilingual speakers. Paper presented at the Eleventh International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Link to PDF
   

• Altarriba, J., Kazanas, S. A., & O'Brien, E. (2017, April). That BEAR is OSO ferocious! Animacy and second-language acquisition in the survival memory paradigm. Paper presented at the 88th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Altarriba, J. (2017, March). Emotion, mind, and cognition: A framework for understanding emotion word processing. In S. A. Kazanas (Organizer), Emotion effects in language, memory, and cognition. Symposium conducted at the 109th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA.
   

• Diliberto-Macaluso, K. A., Kazanas, S. A., Altarriba, J., O’Brien, E., Rivera, E., & Smith, J. (2016, November). Emotion and emotion-laden words differ on both hits and false alarms: Insights from the DRM paradigm. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
   

• Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016, November). Emotional face-name pair learning is facilitated by repeated testing and highly arousing contexts. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
   

• Knickerbocker, H. F., Johnson, R. L., Starr, E. L., Hall, A. M., Preti, D. M., Slate, S. R., & Altarriba, J. (2016, November). The processing of positive and negative emotion-laden words during reading: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
   

• Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2016, November). Inaccuracies of metamemory in the perceptual interference effect. Poster presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA. Link to PDF
   

• Wilck, A. M., & Altarriba, J. (2016, October). The survival processing effect and explicit versus implicit memory. Paper presented at the 55th annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Assumption College, Worcester, MA.
   

• Cho, K. W., Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2016, May). Dissociating recollection from familiarity in the survival processing memory effect. Poster presented at the 28th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2016, May). Hemispheric specialization for emotion words in bilinguals: Effects of valence and first language. Poster presented at the 2nd International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain. Link to PDF
   

• Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Survival processing increases Stroop interference: When poor performance has adaptive value. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Will you remember my face? Valence and arousal in memory for facial identity. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Knickerbocker, H. F., Boucher, J., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Positive proactive interference: Happy versus marriage. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2015, November). Neutral and emotion-laden word types in the attentional blink paradigm. Poster presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. Link to PDF
   

• Kazanas, S. A., Altarriba, J., & Mann-Saumier, M. (2015, May). Word type effects and language dominance in the switch cost paradigm. Paper presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB10), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
   

• Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2015, May). Predicting a language dominance switch in bilinguals using discrimination analysis. Poster presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB10), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Link to PDF
   

• Bak, H., & Altarriba, J. (2015, April). Keeping an ear out for negativity--L2 emotion recognition bias for emotional prosody. Paper presented at the 24th International Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE). Department of English Studies, University of Wroclaw and the Polish Association for the Study of English, Wroclaw, Poland.
   

• Cho, K. W., Altarriba, J., & Popiel, M. (2014, November). Mental juggling: When does task-switching affect reading comprehension? Poster presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Link to PDF

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• Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2014, November). Switch costs conditionalized on word type: Examining the representation of concrete, abstract, and emotion words. Poster presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Link to PDF
   

• Martin, J. M., & Altarriba, J. (2014, November). Is emotion word processing lateralized? Findings from a hemifield lexical decision task using emotion and emotion laden words. Poster presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA. Link to PDF​

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• Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2014, October). Implicit emotion word processing: Priming effects with Spanish-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 54th annual meeting of the New England Psychological Assocation, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
   

• Knickerbocker, H. F., & Altarriba, J. (2014, October). Proactive interference with emotion and emotion-laden words. Paper presented at the 54th annual meeting of the New England Psychological Association, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.

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• Basnight-Brown, D. M., Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2014, May). The role of emotion in translation processes: Results from Chinese-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

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• Martin, J. M., Altarriba, J., & Pagano, M. J. (2013, November). Spanish-English bilingual word norms with new examination of comprehensive cognate measures. Poster presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Link to PDF
   

• Knickerbocker, H., & Altarriba, J. (2013, November). Release from proactive interference with emotional and neutral semantic shifts. Poster presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Link to PDF
   

• Kazanas, S. A., & Altarriba, J. (2013, November). Predators v. demons v. clowns: When fear of the supernatural improves recall in a survival scenario. Poster presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Link to PDF
   

• Basnight-Brown, D. M., Altarriba, J., & Kazanas, S. A. (2013, June). Translation differences across concrete, abstract, and emotion words: A study of Chinese-English bilinguals. Poster presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB9), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
   

• Li, Y., & Altarriba, J. (2012, November). The influence of valence and arousal of emotional pictures on attentional processes. Poster presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
   

• Tse, C.-S., & Altarriba, J. (2011, November). Searching for a bilingual advantage in the tail of reaction time distribution in the Stroop switching task. Poster presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
   

• Basnight-Brown, D. M., & Altarriba, J. (2011, June). Translation ambiguity moderates the processing of concrete, abstract, and emotion words. Paper presented at the Eighth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
   

• Van Dam, N. T., Earleywine, M., & Altarriba, J. (2010, April). Emotional contrast and self-reported anxiety predict target accuracy in an emotional attentional blink paradigm. Poster presented at the 17th annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
   

• Knickerbocker, H., & Altarriba, J. (2010, April). Repetition blindness with emotion, emotion laden, and neutral words. Paper presented at the 82nd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
   

• Leblebici-Basar, D., & Altarriba, J. (2010, February). Translating concrete, abstract, and emotional concepts into product form: Insight into the design process. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
   

• Altarriba, J. (2009, November). The role of linguistic and emotional factors in working with bilingual, clinical populations. Paper presented at the 2nd International Clinical Linguistics Conference, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
   

• Altarriba, J., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2009, July). Are emotion words represented differently than emotion-laden words? Evidence from an Affective Simon Task. Paper presented at the Seventh International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB7), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.