Conferences

Alba, B. (2019, July). Promoting anti-ageist attitudes in resident care. Social Justice in Nursing and Healthcare Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Alba, B. & Smillie, L. (2017, December). Pet preferences and personality: How cat people and dog people differ in attitudes and personality traits. Paper presented at the Australian Conference for Personality and Individual Differences, Sydney, Australia.

Alba, B. & Smillie, L. (2017, April). Do cat people and dog people differ in attitudes and political orientation? Paper presented at the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Alba, B. & Smillie, L. (2016, November). Personality differences and political orientation in cat people and dog people. Paper presented at the Australian Conference for Personality and Individual Differences, Melbourne, Australia.

Alba, B. & Boag, S. (2015, December). Individual differences in how people understand social status. Paper presented at the Australian Conference for Personality and Individual Differences, Sydney, Australia.

Alba, B. (2014, November). Hierarchical Orientation and well-being. Paper presented at the Australian Conference for Personality and Individual Differences, Newcastle, Australia.

Alba, B. (2014, September). The psychological benefits of participating in a metta meditation retreat.  Paper presented at the Nan Tien Institute’s Mindfulness, Education and Transformation Conference, Wollongong, Australia.

Alba, B. (2014, February). Personality and birth order: Some evidence for differences relating to social status.  Poster presented at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, USA.

Alba, B. (2014, February). Differences between Indian and US citizens in beliefs about social status and status hierarchies.  Poster presented at the Advances in Cultural Psychology preconference at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, USA.

Alba, B. (2013, July). Status, individual differences, and emotional reactions to threat.  Paper presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Miami Beach, USA.

Alba, B. (2013, January). Individual differences in perceived superiority and contempt towards others.  Poster presented at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, USA.

Alba, B. (2013, January). Gender differences in emotional reactions to threat. Poster presented at the Evolutionary Psychology preconference at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, USA.

Alba, B., McIlwain, D., Wheeler, L., Jones, M.P. (2012, November). The construction of a scale measuring “Status Anxiety”.  Paper presented at the Australian Conference for Personality and Individual Differences, Melbourne, Australia.

Alba, B. (2011, November). Beliefs about social status and status hierarchies.  Paper presented at the Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Alba, B. (2011, April). Beliefs about social status and status hierarchies.  Paper presented at the Society of Australasian Social Psychology Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.