Laura L . Finken, PhD

Department

Psychological Science

Position

Associate Professor

Books

• Handbook of the Teaching of Psychology
  Finken Laura L, Teaching Human Sexuality [Book Chapter] 2006
• The handbook of the teaching of psychology
  Finken Laura L., Teaching controversial psychology topics: Teaching human sexuality [Book Chapter] 2006

Publications

• Teaching of Psychology
  Khanna Maya M., Short- and Long-Term Effects of Cumulative Finals on Student Learning
  40:3, p. 175 - 182 2013
• International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
  Leak Gary K., The relationship between the constructs of religiousness and prejudice
  21:1, p. 43 - 62 2011
• Teaching of Psychology
  Finken Laura L., The complexity of student responses to in-class debates in a human sexuality course
  30:3, p. 263 - 265 2003
• Teaching of Psychology
  Finken Laura L., A comparison of progressive and two-draft writing assignments in introductory psychology courses
  30:3, p. 246 - 248 2003
• Journal of Quantitative Criminology
  Osgood D. W., Analyzing multiple-item measures of crime and deviance II: Tobit regression analysis of transformed scores
  18:4, p. 319 - 347 2002
• Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality
  Finken Laura L., The impact of a human sexuality course on anti-gay prejudice: The challenge of reaching male students
  14:1, p. 37 - 46 2002
• American educational research journal
  Jacobs Janis E., The Career Plans of Science-Talented Rural Adolescent Girls
  35:4, p. 681 - 704 1998
• Journal of adolescent research
  Finken Laura, Consultant choice across decision contexts: Are abortion decisions different?
  11:2, p. 235 - 260 1996
• Educational gerontology
  Finken Laura L., AGE DIFFERENCES IN LEARNING AND THE QUESTION OF PREEXPERIMENTAL INTERFERENCE
  22:7, p. 683 - 692 1996
• Sex roles
  Finken Laura, Parental self-esteem and behavior problems in children: Similarities between mothers and fathers
  28:9-10, p. 569 - 582 1993
• Contemporary psychology
  Thompson Ross A, Charting the Waters of Ethical Responsibility to Children
  37:4, p. 293 - 294 1992

Presentations

• Leak, G. K., Finken, L. L., & Budesheim, T. L. (2016, May). A Construct-Focused Examination of the Relationships among Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Various Types of Prejudice. A presentation at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. 2016
• Budesheim, T. L., Finken, L. L., & Leak, G. K. (2014, November). A Socio-Functional Model of How Personality and Sex Differences Influence Perceived Threats, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Responses Toward Gay Men and Lesbians. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Omaha, NE. 2014
• Leak, G. K., Ruchensky, J. & Finken, L. L. (2014, May). Validation of a Revised Measure of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. A presentation at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA. 2014
• Budesheim, T. L., Leak, G. K. & Finken, L. L. (2013, January). How stereotype content mediates the relationship between RWA, SDO, and prejudice. A presentation at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA. 2013
• Rogers, T., Luteran, S., Leak, G. K. & Finken, L. L. (2012, May). The relationship between two types of religious sexual orientation prejudice. A presentation at the meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. 2012
• Khanna, M. M., Laughlin, M., Badura Brack, A. S. & Finken, L. L. (2011, May). The impact of cumulative finals on long-term retention of course material. A presentation at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C. 2011

Other

• Khanna, M., Badura-Brack, A. & Finken, L. (2010). Summer research grant from the
  Office for Academic Excellence and Assessment at Creighton University.