Lab News
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Sydney Varnak, Maggie Miller, Haley Barad, Divya Durai (not pictured), Ambreet Heera (not pictured)
IARR 2026
ARCC lab members Yiwen Gu and Rachel Florkiewicz plan to attend the 2026 International Association for Relationship Research conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
ARCC Lab at MPA 2025
ARCC lab members Sydney Varnak and Rachel Florkiewicz attended the 2025 Midwest Psychological Association conference in Chicago, Illinois. Rachel presented her poster with preliminary results from her undergraduate research titled, “Modern Day Relationships”.
Congratulations to our graduating seniors!!!
MPA 2026
Both Sydney Varnak and Rachel Florkiewicz presented posters at the 2026 Midwest Psychological Association conference in Chicago, Illinois. Sydney will present her poster on “Fragile masculinity: Does threatening a man’s power cause partner aggression?”, and Rachel will present her poster on “Relational Identity Predicts Barriers to Seeking Help from Partner Aggression”. Sydney won a Psi Chi award for her poster!
Psych Undergraduate Conference
Sydney Varnak presented at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference, “Threat to men’s status causes aggressive inclinations against partners”. This poster won an award from Psi Chi
COIP Paper
Dr. Arriaga, Rachel Florkiewicz, and Yiwen Gu were just published in Current Opinions in Psychology! Their paper, “The psychological entrapment of partner abuse” reviews the literature and proposes a framework.
SPSP 2026
ARCC lab member Rachel Florkiewicz presented a poster at SPSP 2026 in Chicago titled: “Modern-day relationships: Cyber and in-person aggression as predictors of individual and relational distress”