Conference Presentations
* Denotes presentations by mentored graduate & undergraduate students
* Wilcox, A., Kneeland, I., & Schoenleber, M. (2023, July). Exploring the affective core of openness to experience. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Evanston, Illinois.
* Wilcox, A., Kneeland, I., & Schoenleber, M. (2023, April). Exploring the affective core of openness to experience. Poster presented in the Psi Chi section at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Williams, K., Voight, L., & Schoenleber. M. (2021, September). Shame-proneness and shame aversion are associated with Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, but not to Social Anxiety Disorder. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology.
Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). ‘We the People’ agree on the traits of a good leader, but disagree on which 2020 Presidential candidate had those traits. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). Covid-19 anxiety impairs working memory capacity, regardless of levels of anxiety sensitivity. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Beltran, E., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). Meaningfulness, but not spirituality, is associated with greater posttraumatic growth and lower posttraumatic stress. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Earing, K., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). Genuine and narcissistic altruism are differentially related to anger, shame, and joy dispositions. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, April). Effects of Covid-19 anxiety and anxiety sensitivity on working memory capacity. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Psychological Association.
** Third Place Recipient of the Margaret Bernauer Psychology Research Award **
Schoenleber, M. (2021, April). Event-related factors influencing affective forecasting in the 2020 election. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, April). Key factors predicting homesickness, depression, and academic outcomes in first-year college students. Poster accepted for the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.
* Collins, A., Spitz, A., & Schoenleber, M. (2020, June). Ruminating increases state negative affect, which subsequent physical pain may alleviate. Poster presented virtually at the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2020, June). Males and student athletes are less likely to be homesick in their first semester of college, but pre-existing depression will have the biggest effect on grades. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Collins, A., Spitz, A., & Schoenleber, M. (2020, April). How do rumination and distraction influence emotion and willingness to experience pain? Poster presented virtually at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
** Recipient of the Psi Chi Regional Research Poster Award **
* Schmidt, A. J., Scott, B. A., & Schoenleber, M. (2019, June). Contributions of shame and self-focused attention to real-world prosocial behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
* Schoenleber, M., Collins, A., O’Brien, C., Kacmarek, C., & Berenbaum, H. (2019, June). Self-conscious emotions in narcissism dimensions: Evidence of differences in emotional dispositions and reactivity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Schoenleber, M. (2018, September). Testing a shame regulation pathway to sustained engagement in non-suicidal self-injury. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Indianapolis, Indiana.
* Lindeman, S., & Schoenleber, M. (2018, May). Industriousness fully mediates the associations of optimism and hopefulness with academic performance. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
* O’Brien, C., & Schoenleber, M. (2018, April). Shame regulation in self-injurious behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Psychological Association, Appleton, Wisconsin.
** First Place Recipient of the Margaret Bernauer Psychology Research Award **
* Mu, W., Schoenleber, M., & Berenbaum, H. (2017, November). Shame and guilt aversions predict PTSD symptoms. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Chicago, Illinois.
Schoenleber, M. (2017, June). Problem-solving ability’s role in the association between pathological narcissism and aggression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Sacramento, California.
Schoenleber, M., Peters, J. R., & Anestis, M. (2016, November). Even when elevated, trait shame is more tolerable if you can externalize blame. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York City, New York.
Schoenleber, M., & Anestis, M. (2016, October). Psychometric properties and content expansion of the Brief Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Baltimore, Maryland.
* Detienne, I. R., Schmidt, A. J., Marohl, K., Blean, B., & Schoenleber, M. (2016, June). Reducing Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Emotion Dysregulation: Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in a Community-Based Clinic. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
* Cohen, R. T., Schoenleber, M., Tull, M. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, November). Emotional responses to psychiatric hospitalization among patients admitted with and without suicidality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, Illinois.
Selected for the ABCT Suicide & Self-Injury SIG Outstanding Poster Award
Schoenleber, M., Berghoff, C. R., Gratz, K. L., Tull, M. T. (2015, November). Temporal dynamics of emotion in posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters in a clinical sample. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.
* Fisher, J. W., Schoenleber, M., Tull, M. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, October). Using interpersonal disclosure to regulate shame related to psychiatric hospitalization. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
* Manjrekar, E., Mu, W., Flores, Jr., L. E., & Schoenleber, M. (2015, October). Self-compassion as a mediator of the associations for disordered eating and body dissatisfaction with emotional distress. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Schoenleber, M., Roche, M. J., Wetzel, E., Pincus, A. L., & Roberts, B. W. (2015, June). Developing a brief version of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, St. Louis, Missouri.
Schoenleber, M., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, May). Development of an evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral treatment for shame: Self-Acceptance Group Therapy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Canada.
Schoenleber, M., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, March). Open trial of an evidence-based intervention for shame among individuals with elevated BPD pathology: Self-Acceptance Group Therapy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Boston, Massachusetts.
Bresin, K., & Schoenleber, M. (2014, June). Gender differences in the prevalence of nonsuicidal self-injury: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, Chicago, IL.
* Manjrekar, E., Schoenleber, M., & Mu, W. (2013, May). Shame aversion uniquely predicts maladaptive eating-related attitudes and behaviors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
* Daubenspeck, J., Stovall, L., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). Narcissism and psychopathy in a community sample: Further exploring the possibility of parallel syndromes. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Diaz, K., Daubenspeck, J., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). Impulsivity as a moderator for the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adult suicidality. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Stovall, L., Brender, D., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). Healthy conscientiousness?: General health in relation to maladaptively high and low conscientiousness. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Torri, J., Brender, D., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). A first look at aversion to self-conscious emotions in posttraumatic stress. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Schoenleber, M., Verona, E., & Sadeh, N. (2009, September). Parallel syndromes: Two forms of narcissism and the facets of psychopathic personality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Schoenleber, M., & Berenbaum, H. (2008, May). The role of shame in Cluster C personality disorders. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
English, S. M., Schoenleber, M., Niles, T., Arentsen, T., & Nielson, K. (2008, May). Arousal induced after learning enhances veridical memory and reduces false memory in post event misinformation task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
English, S. M., Schoenleber, M., Niles, T., Arentsen, T., & Nielson, K. (2007, May). Arousal induced after an eyewitness-misinformation task enhances memory accuracy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Schoenleber, M., Miller, S.K., & Bobholz, J.A. (2006, August). The relationship between anxiety and cognitive functioning in multiple sclerosis. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Schoenleber, M., Miller, S.K., & Bobholz, J.A. (2006, August). Cognitive profiles in males and females with multiple sclerosis. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
de St. Aubin, E., Skerven, K., Brantley, T., & Schoenleber, M. (2006, May). The generative lesbian: How internalized homonegativity blocks the ego. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Wilcox, A., Kneeland, I., & Schoenleber, M. (2023, July). Exploring the affective core of openness to experience. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Evanston, Illinois.
* Wilcox, A., Kneeland, I., & Schoenleber, M. (2023, April). Exploring the affective core of openness to experience. Poster presented in the Psi Chi section at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Williams, K., Voight, L., & Schoenleber. M. (2021, September). Shame-proneness and shame aversion are associated with Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, but not to Social Anxiety Disorder. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology.
Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). ‘We the People’ agree on the traits of a good leader, but disagree on which 2020 Presidential candidate had those traits. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). Covid-19 anxiety impairs working memory capacity, regardless of levels of anxiety sensitivity. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Beltran, E., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). Meaningfulness, but not spirituality, is associated with greater posttraumatic growth and lower posttraumatic stress. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Earing, K., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, May). Genuine and narcissistic altruism are differentially related to anger, shame, and joy dispositions. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, April). Effects of Covid-19 anxiety and anxiety sensitivity on working memory capacity. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Psychological Association.
** Third Place Recipient of the Margaret Bernauer Psychology Research Award **
Schoenleber, M. (2021, April). Event-related factors influencing affective forecasting in the 2020 election. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2021, April). Key factors predicting homesickness, depression, and academic outcomes in first-year college students. Poster accepted for the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association.
* Collins, A., Spitz, A., & Schoenleber, M. (2020, June). Ruminating increases state negative affect, which subsequent physical pain may alleviate. Poster presented virtually at the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
* Johnson, L. R., & Schoenleber, M. (2020, June). Males and student athletes are less likely to be homesick in their first semester of college, but pre-existing depression will have the biggest effect on grades. Poster presented virtually at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science.
* Collins, A., Spitz, A., & Schoenleber, M. (2020, April). How do rumination and distraction influence emotion and willingness to experience pain? Poster presented virtually at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
** Recipient of the Psi Chi Regional Research Poster Award **
* Schmidt, A. J., Scott, B. A., & Schoenleber, M. (2019, June). Contributions of shame and self-focused attention to real-world prosocial behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
* Schoenleber, M., Collins, A., O’Brien, C., Kacmarek, C., & Berenbaum, H. (2019, June). Self-conscious emotions in narcissism dimensions: Evidence of differences in emotional dispositions and reactivity. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Schoenleber, M. (2018, September). Testing a shame regulation pathway to sustained engagement in non-suicidal self-injury. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Indianapolis, Indiana.
* Lindeman, S., & Schoenleber, M. (2018, May). Industriousness fully mediates the associations of optimism and hopefulness with academic performance. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, California.
* O’Brien, C., & Schoenleber, M. (2018, April). Shame regulation in self-injurious behavior. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Psychological Association, Appleton, Wisconsin.
** First Place Recipient of the Margaret Bernauer Psychology Research Award **
* Mu, W., Schoenleber, M., & Berenbaum, H. (2017, November). Shame and guilt aversions predict PTSD symptoms. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Chicago, Illinois.
Schoenleber, M. (2017, June). Problem-solving ability’s role in the association between pathological narcissism and aggression. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Sacramento, California.
Schoenleber, M., Peters, J. R., & Anestis, M. (2016, November). Even when elevated, trait shame is more tolerable if you can externalize blame. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York City, New York.
Schoenleber, M., & Anestis, M. (2016, October). Psychometric properties and content expansion of the Brief Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Baltimore, Maryland.
* Detienne, I. R., Schmidt, A. J., Marohl, K., Blean, B., & Schoenleber, M. (2016, June). Reducing Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Emotion Dysregulation: Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in a Community-Based Clinic. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
* Cohen, R. T., Schoenleber, M., Tull, M. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, November). Emotional responses to psychiatric hospitalization among patients admitted with and without suicidality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, Illinois.
Selected for the ABCT Suicide & Self-Injury SIG Outstanding Poster Award
Schoenleber, M., Berghoff, C. R., Gratz, K. L., Tull, M. T. (2015, November). Temporal dynamics of emotion in posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters in a clinical sample. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana.
* Fisher, J. W., Schoenleber, M., Tull, M. T., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, October). Using interpersonal disclosure to regulate shame related to psychiatric hospitalization. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
* Manjrekar, E., Mu, W., Flores, Jr., L. E., & Schoenleber, M. (2015, October). Self-compassion as a mediator of the associations for disordered eating and body dissatisfaction with emotional distress. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Schoenleber, M., Roche, M. J., Wetzel, E., Pincus, A. L., & Roberts, B. W. (2015, June). Developing a brief version of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, St. Louis, Missouri.
Schoenleber, M., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, May). Development of an evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral treatment for shame: Self-Acceptance Group Therapy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Canada.
Schoenleber, M., & Gratz, K. L. (2015, March). Open trial of an evidence-based intervention for shame among individuals with elevated BPD pathology: Self-Acceptance Group Therapy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Boston, Massachusetts.
Bresin, K., & Schoenleber, M. (2014, June). Gender differences in the prevalence of nonsuicidal self-injury: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, Chicago, IL.
* Manjrekar, E., Schoenleber, M., & Mu, W. (2013, May). Shame aversion uniquely predicts maladaptive eating-related attitudes and behaviors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
* Daubenspeck, J., Stovall, L., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). Narcissism and psychopathy in a community sample: Further exploring the possibility of parallel syndromes. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Diaz, K., Daubenspeck, J., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). Impulsivity as a moderator for the relationship between childhood maltreatment and adult suicidality. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Stovall, L., Brender, D., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). Healthy conscientiousness?: General health in relation to maladaptively high and low conscientiousness. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
* Torri, J., Brender, D., & Schoenleber, M. (2012, May). A first look at aversion to self-conscious emotions in posttraumatic stress. Poster presented at the Psi Chi section of the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Schoenleber, M., Verona, E., & Sadeh, N. (2009, September). Parallel syndromes: Two forms of narcissism and the facets of psychopathic personality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Schoenleber, M., & Berenbaum, H. (2008, May). The role of shame in Cluster C personality disorders. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
English, S. M., Schoenleber, M., Niles, T., Arentsen, T., & Nielson, K. (2008, May). Arousal induced after learning enhances veridical memory and reduces false memory in post event misinformation task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.
English, S. M., Schoenleber, M., Niles, T., Arentsen, T., & Nielson, K. (2007, May). Arousal induced after an eyewitness-misinformation task enhances memory accuracy. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Schoenleber, M., Miller, S.K., & Bobholz, J.A. (2006, August). The relationship between anxiety and cognitive functioning in multiple sclerosis. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Schoenleber, M., Miller, S.K., & Bobholz, J.A. (2006, August). Cognitive profiles in males and females with multiple sclerosis. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
de St. Aubin, E., Skerven, K., Brantley, T., & Schoenleber, M. (2006, May). The generative lesbian: How internalized homonegativity blocks the ego. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Invited Talks
Schoenleber, M. (2015, March). Shame-related pathways to psychopathology. W. Stewart Agras Award presentation at the Grand Rounds series, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Schoenleber, M. (2012, April). Shame and its regulation in personality pathology. Presentation at the Clinical/Community Psychology Brown Bag series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Schoenleber, M. (2008, April). The role of shame in Cluster C personality disorders. Presentation at the Social-Personality-Organization Psychology Brown Bag series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Schoenleber, M. (2007, November). The role of shame in Cluster C personality disorders. Presentation at the Clinical/Community Psychology Brown Bag series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Schoenleber, M. (2012, April). Shame and its regulation in personality pathology. Presentation at the Clinical/Community Psychology Brown Bag series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Schoenleber, M. (2008, April). The role of shame in Cluster C personality disorders. Presentation at the Social-Personality-Organization Psychology Brown Bag series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Schoenleber, M. (2007, November). The role of shame in Cluster C personality disorders. Presentation at the Clinical/Community Psychology Brown Bag series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.