The TCTS authors welcome research collaboration with interested professionals and graduate students. 

 

In coordination with your faculty advisor, we are happy to:

• assist with multi-site coordination for gathering data

• provide training on administration and scoring

• serve as dissertation committee members

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In participating in TCTS research, past students have:

• developed research skills

• received co-authorship on conference presentations 

• completed masters theses and doctoral dissertations

 

Some student-involved TCTS research topics have included:

• Cultural differences in body image shame

• TCTS construct and discriminant validity

• Shame in anorexia nervousa

• Shame, aggression and empathy

• Shame and negative body image in females

• Shame in adolescent male sex offenders

• Shame, narcissistic injury and depression

• The role of shame in adolescent victim and bully behaviors

• Shame in women who experience domestic violence

• Shame and persistent mental illness

• Does shame have a critical developmental period?

• Shame in adolescence

• Shame as a mediator between parental maltreatment and interpersonal violence

• Adolescent shame-based responses toward obesity

• Measuring shame through physiological reactions using EEG

• Shame and masculinity

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Students have presented TCTS research at the following conferences:

• American Psychological Association

• International Neuropsychological Society

• National Multicultural Summit

• Western Psychological Association

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