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Section 1 The research poster that I have chosen for this topic is a meta-analytic investigation on if treatment as usual is harmful for borderline-personality

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The research poster that I have chosen for this topic is a meta-analytic investigation on if treatment as usual is harmful for borderline-personality. The research poster also covers the results, methods, discussion, and introduction for this study by the students at Pomona College. I believe this research poster is important in understanding whether usual or normal treatment can affect or harm a person with borderline-personality. However, although this research poster has it's strengths, it also has a few weaknesses as well. One weakness of this research poster is it lacks supplemental information to help the reader understand and have a closer look at the experiment that was conducted. Another weakness of this poster is that it does not have a summary or conclusion of the experiment which deprives the reader of a deeper understanding of the experiment that took place and the opinion of the author of the research poster. On the other hand, this research poster has strength in providing the reader with an introduction that allows the reader to understand the purpose of the experiment and research that was conducted. Another strength is the author includes the outcomes of the experiment that was conducted, which allows the reader to undertstand the results of the experiment.

References:

APA. (n.d.). Style and Grammar Guidelines. Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines

Pamona. (n.d.). Psychological Science Presentations & Conferences. Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/psychological-science/research-instructional-resources/presentations-conferences

Wikipedia. (2021, July 22). APA style. Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APA_style

Link to poster : https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/psychological-science/research-instructional-resources/presentations-conferences 

Section 2

The APA poster I reviewed was “Predicting Intimacy: Differences and Similarities Across Gender and Sexual Orientation” (Schepler et al., 2020), which was presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association's conference in 2020. It can be viewed here (although the image is not high-resolution and could be difficult to read if not enlarged): https://msp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Logan.png.

This poster presented information gathered as part of a study on whether people of different genders and different sexual orientations (heterosexual men and women and homosexual men and women) felt intimacy in their partnerships and what factors they felt contributed to that intimacy (factors such as positive and negative interactions with their spouses, emotion work, empathic responding, and positive and negative actions toward them from their spouse). The researchers concluded that positive interactions between spouses were reliable predictors of intimacy for all four groups, and also that women (both heterosexual and homosexual women) differed from men in other areas reviewed as potential predictors for intimacy. However, the researchers cautioned that the results were limited, since causality was not clear (e.g., it was possible that greater levels of intimacy caused the positive interactions, rather than the reverse). 

Strengths of this poster, in my opinion:

• I thought the clinical implications were very interesting and were clearly explained.
• The directions for future research clearly described the limitations, such as a lack of clear causality.

Weaknesses of this poster, in my opinion:

• The poster was very text heavy, and data were not presented visually, which means a person has to get very close to the poster in order to get a glimpse of the content and results—not always easy to do in conference poster-session settings where there could be crowds, food, beverages, etc.
• I found that I had to review the “Procedures” section several times to recall what the abbreviations used in the “Results” section meant. This could be difficult to do in a poster-session setting where other people were standing nearby and reading sections I needed to read, as well. I would recommend information in each column be organized so that you don’t need to return to the first column in order to understand the second or third column. It might not be an issue if the abbreviations are commonly known to the conference-goers, but these were not all abbreviations I had seen previously.