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Lumen Prize information session – Feb. 14

fromson — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:39:00 +0000

An information session will be held Tuesday, Feb. 14, 5-6 p.m., in Lindner 102 to learn more about applying for The Lumen Prize, Elon’s premier award for intellectual and creative excellence. The director and current prize recipients will be on hand to answer questions.

Each Lumen Prize provides a $15,000 award to support your study, travel, and scholarly/creative pursuits during your final two years at Elon. If you are a second-semester sophomore whose cumulative gpa is 3.50 or above, you are eligible to apply for one of up to 15 Lumen Prizes to be awarded this spring. More information and application materials are available at the program website: www.elon.edu/lumenprize.

Make note of the following two dates:
• Information session: Feb. 14, 5 p.m., in Lindner 102
• Application deadline: March 14 by noon

Lumen Prize information session – Feb. 15

fromson — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:55:00 +0000

An information session will be held Tuesday, Feb. 15, from 5-6 p.m. in Lindner 102 to learn more about applying for The Lumen Prize, Elon’s premiere award for intellectual and creative excellence. The director and current prize recipients will be on hand to answer questions.

Each Lumen Prize provides a $15,000 award to support your study, travel, and scholarly/creative pursuits during your final two years at Elon. If you are a second semester sophomore whose cumulative GPA is 3.50 or above, you are eligible to apply for one of up to fifteen Lumen Prizes to be awarded this spring.

More information and application materials are available at the program website: www.elon.edu/lumenprize

Make note of the following two dates:
• Information Session: Tuesday, Feb. 15, 5 p.m. in Lindner 102
• Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 16, by noon

Learn more about the Lumen Prize and how to apply

fromson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:16:00 +0000

An information session will be held Tuesday, February 9, from 5-6 p.m. in Lindner 102 to learn more about The Lumen Prize, Elon’s premiere award for intellectual and creative excellence. Each Lumen Prize provides a $15,000 award to support your study, travel, and scholarly/creative pursuits during your final two years at Elon. If you are a second semester sophomore whose cumulative GPA is 3.50 or above, consider applying for one of up to 15 Lumen Prizes to be awarded this spring.

More information and application materials are available at the program website: www.elon.edu/lumenprize

Make note of the following two dates:

• Information Session: Tuesday, February 9, 5 p.m. in Lindner 102
• Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 17, by 12 p.m.

Paul Fromson and Carol England ’09 present at conference

fromson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:31:00 +0000

The study, “Risk-taking behavior as a function of guilt versus shame prone personality,” grew out of England’s research for the Elon College Fellows program. Arguing that the decisions we make not only have tangible outcomes [such as money gained or lost], but also implications for how we feel about ourselves, psychologists have begun to explore personality dimensions that influence people’s tendency to take or to avoid risk when confronted with choices. The intense, negative focus upon the self that is associated with shame – but not with guilt – was hypothesized to elicit maladaptive patterns of decision-making.

The results suggested that guilt-prone individuals tend to behave in ways predicted by standard economic theories whereas shame-prone individuals made choices counter to those theories and, of greater importance, counter to their own best interests.

Lumen Prize information session on Feb. 10

fromson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:07:00 +0000

The Lumen Prizes, Elon’s premier award for intellectual and creative excellence, are open to second-year students with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 and above. Each of the up to fifteen prizes to be awarded this spring carries a $15,000 award to support your study, travel and scholarly/creative pursuits during your junior and senior years. To learn more about the Lumen Prize program and how to apply, please plan on attending the information session Tuesday, Feb. 10, from 5-6 p.m. in McMichael 115. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions of the program director, Dr. Paul Fromson, and several of the current Lumen Scholars.

Fromson and alum have research on regret accepted for conference presentation

fromson — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:33:00 +0000

Research by Dr. Paul Fromson, Professor of Psychology, and Elon alum Dana Neumann ’07 has been accepted for presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association conference in Boston, March 13-16. The study, “Anticipatory Regret: Temporal Patterns and Psychological Mechanisms,” grows out of earlier studies of regret. Most studies have focused on consequential regret, the regret people experience as an actual
consequence of their choices. Such
research suggests that in the short-term aftermath, people more often regret
the actions they took than their inactions. But with the passage of time, they more likely come to
regret the actions they failed to take.

The current study focused on anticipatory regret, the
remorse we imagine we will feel if we do [or fail to do] a certain action, and
explored whether a comparable time-frame effect exists. That is, when thinking about the
immediate future do people’s anticipated regrets focus more on the actions they
might take, but when thinking about the more distant future, does the focus
shift more to the likelihood of regretting things we will fail to do? Results support that such a temporal
pattern exists and some psychological factors involved with this are suggested.