Lab News

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ARCC Lab at 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”.

ARCC Lab at MPA 2026

Both Sydney Varnak and Rachel Florkiewicz will present 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 Varnak Poster

ARCC lab member Sydney Varnak presented a poster at the Purdue Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference titled “Threats to men’s status causes aggressive inclinations against a partner”. This poster won a Psi Chi Award from its submission at MPA!

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.

ARCC Lab at 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”