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Associate Professor Amy D. Marshall from Pennsylvania State University will hold a lecture titled "Trauma-Based Social Information Processing Biases and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence."

Bio:

Amy Marshall's research is designed to determine causal mechanisms and contextual factors that contribute to the occurrence of psychological and physical aggression in intimate relationships. A particular emphasis is placed on the ways in which trauma-related psychopathology interacts with early-stage social information processing skills (i.e., individuals' attention to, and perception of, social stimuli) to lead to aggression both in and outside of intimate relationships. This model includes the study of intrapersonal processes (e.g., emotional and neurohormonal system dysregulation) and interpersonal processes (e.g., reciprocal and multiplicative communication patterns) that may contribute to changes in information processing skills that are particularly important to the maintenance of adaptive close relationships and recovery from posttraumatic sequelae.