Thomas, J. G. & Thorsrud, H. (2024, October 27). What does it mean to be human? A panel discussion on the limits to artificial intelligence [Public talk]. SPARK Philosophical Discussion Group, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, United States.

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Braswell, S.; Colon, V. L.; Hall, C.; Hodgson-Weed, M.; Jackson, N.; Mendenhall, R.; Oliver, M.; Scafidi, M.; Walsh, M.; White, R. A.; and Thomas, J. G. (2023, April 25). Emotional awareness, self-concept clarity, and self-stability as factors in trauma resilience [Conference presentation]. Thirty-third Spring Annual Research Conference (SpARC), Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, United States.

 

Dicks, K., Carr, E., Randall, R., White, R., Egboh, D., Acker, D., Anderson, G., Snoad, C. C., & Thomas, J. G. (2023, April 25). Emotion inhibition as it relates to emotion perception, peripheral empathy, and cultural identity [Conference presentation]. Thirty-second Spring Annual Research Conference (SpARC), Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, United States.

 

Carr, E., Dicks, K., Randall, R., White, R., Egboh, D., Acker, D., & Thomas, J. G. (2023, April 15). Emotion inhibition as it relates to emotion perception, peripheral empathy, and cultural identity [Poster presentation]. Nineteenth Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (GURP), Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, United States.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2023, April 5-8). Facilitating discussions using primary sources: An alternative to textbook teaching [Conference presentation]. Innovative Teaching Techniques Symposium at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), New Orleans, LA, United States.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2023, March 26). The world of J. Krishnamurti. [Public talk]. SPARK Philosophical Discussion Group, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, United States.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2022, November 18). What is phenomenology? [Public talk]. SPARK Philosophical Discussion Group, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, United States.

 

Panchapakesan, S., Galiano, M., Gentry, S., Hibbitt-Maguire, S., Mays, M., Miner, K., Reeves, R., Villarreal, M., Williams, S., & Thomas, J. G. (2022, April 26). Self-stability as a resilience factor in coping with trauma [Conference presentation]. Thirty-first Spring Annual Research Conference (SpARC), Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, United States.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2022, March 26-23). Naming parts-of-self activity: A way to humanize abnormal psychology [Conference presentation]. Innovative Teaching Techniques Symposium at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), Hilton Head, SC, United States.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2021, September 21). Psychological distress, healing, and the self: An alternative to the medical model [Invited talk]. Academic Colloquia and Monthly Exchange (ACME) at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, United States.

 

Sharp, P. B., Thomas, J. G., Miller, G. A., Rockstroh, B., & Cuthbert, B. (2017, October 11-15). Constructing riskier tests of theory, linking psychological and biological phenomena, and introducing a new mechanistic philosophy of science [Paper presentation]. Symposium at the 57th Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vienna, Austria.

 

Thomas, J. G., & Sharp, P. B. (2017, April 21). A new mechanistic philosophy of science to bridge psychological and biological phenomena [Paper presentation]. Clinical/Community Psychology Division Brown Bag, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States.

 

Thomas, J. G., Sharp, P. B., Niznikiewicz, M, & Heller, W. (2017, June 21-24). Understanding therapeutic change: Beyond the placebo [Paper presentation]. Forty-eighth Annual International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Toronto, ON, Canada.

 

Thomas, J. G., Sharp, P. B., & Heller, W. (2017, July 29-30). The roles of emphatic support and expectation in personality change: A placebo study [Poster presentation]. Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Berlin, Germany.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2017, July 29-30). New insights into the self: A relational schema model [Paper presentation]. Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Berlin, Germany.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2015, December 4). A relational schema model: A developmental explanation for the effects of early emotional wounds on adult psychopathology [Paper presentation]. Clinical/Community Psychology Division Brown Bag, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States.

 

Thomas, J. G. (2014, May 21-24). From spirit possession to multiple personality: Reflections on the cultural and psychological structuring of mental experience [Paper presentation]. Tenth Annual Meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States.

 

Kivlighan, M. D., Frost, N., Lindemann, A., Yulish, N., Thomas, J. G., Cullen, M., Minami, T., & Wampold, B. (2013, October 17-19).  Are there differential treatment effects at follow-up? A meta-analysis of psychodynamic psychotherapy vs. bona-fide treatments [Paper presentation]. Forty-fourth the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research, Memphis, TN, United States.