Our professors are distinguished scholars, active researchers, published writers, and faithful Christians who demonstrate what it means to be both Christ-followers and leaders in their academic fields. As mentors and role models, they play a huge role in the integration of faith and learning at Bethel.
Submissions from 2022
Facial identity and facial speech processing in developmental prosopagnosia, Andrea Albonico, Sabrina Yu, Sherryse L. Corrow, and Jason JS Barton
The neural substrate of acquired prosopagnosia, including its lateralization, remains a matter of investigation. Face processing networks in healthy subjects are right dominant, and acquired prosopagnosia usually results from right or bilat...
Passion-Driven Statistics: A course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), Naomi J. Spence, Rachel Anderson, Sherryse Corrow, Susan A. Dumais, and Lisa Dierker
This paper describes the use of scientific practices in the Passion-Driven Statistics CURE and presents the results of surveys from the implementation of this CURE at three different colleges. Overall, students experienced positive changes ...
Submissions from 2021
Prosopagnosia and disorders of face processing, Jason J.S. Barton, Jodie Davies-Thompson, and Sherryse L. Corrow
Face recognition is a form of expert visual processing. Acquired prosopagnosia is the loss of familiarity for facial identity and has several functional variants, namely apperceptive, amnestic, and associative forms. Acquired forms are usua...
Submissions from 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Adoption, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Emily Helder, and Elisha Marr
Adoption is practiced globally yielding a multidimensional area of study that cannot be characterized by a single movement or discipline. This handbook provides a central source of contemporary scholarship from a variety of disciplines with...
Submissions from 2019
Object recognition in acquired and developmental prosopagnosia, Jason J. S Barton, Andrea Albonico, Tirta Susilo, Brad Duchaine, and Sherryse L. Corrow
Whether face and object recognition are dissociated in prosopagnosia continues to be debated: a recent review highlighted deficiencies in prior studies regarding the evidence for such a dissociation. Our goal was to study cohorts with acqui...
Looking beyond the face area: Lesion network mapping of prosopagnosia, Alexander L. Cohen, Louis Soussand, Sherryse L. Corrow, Olivier Martinaud, Jason J.S. Barton, and Michael D. Fox
Damage to the right fusiform face area can disrupt the ability to recognize faces, a classic example of how damage to a specialized brain region can disrupt a specialized brain function. However, similar symptoms can arise from damage to ot...
Training face perception in developmental prosopagnosia through perceptual learning, Sherryse L. Corrow, Jodie Davies-Thompson, Kimberley Fletcher, Charlotte Hills, Jeffrey C. Corrow, and Jason J.S. Barton
Background: Recent work has shown that perceptual learning can improve face discrimination in subjects with acquired prosopagnosia. Objective: In this study, we administered the same program to determine if such training would improve face ...
Perception of musical pitch in developmental prosopagnosia, Sherryse L. Corrow, Jacob L. Stubbs, Gottfried Schlaug, Stephanie Buss, Sebastien Paquette, Brad Duchaine, and Jason J.S. Barton
Studies of developmental prosopagnosia have often shown that developmental prosopagnosia differentially affects human face processing over non-face object processing. However, little consideration has been given to whether this condition is...
Search for face identity or expression: Set size effects in developmental prosopagnosia, Sara Djouab, Andrea Albonico, Shanna C. Yeung, Manuela Malaspina, Anna Mogard, Rachel Wahlberg, Sherryse L. Corrow, and Jason J.S. Barton
The set size effect during visual search indexes the effects of processing load and thus the efficiency of perceptual mechanisms. Our goal was to investigate whether individuals with developmental prosopagnosia show increased set size effec...
Trajectories of birth family contact in domestic adoptions, Harold D. Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Lisa Fiorenzo, Albert Y.H. Lo, and Ruth G. McRoy
Emotional distance regulation theory (Broderick, 1993; Grotevant, 2009) guided this examination of the changes in family structure and process in adoptive kinship networks experiencing different arrangements of contact between birth and ado...
The scanpaths of subjects with developmental prosopagnosia during a face memory task, Dong Ho Lee, Sherryse L. Corrow, Raika Pancaroglu, and Jason J.S. Barton
The scanpaths of healthy subjects show biases towards the upper face, the eyes and the center of the face, which suggests that their fixations are guided by a feature hierarchy towards the regions most informative for face identification. H...
Working memory load improves diagnostic performance of smooth pursuit eye movement in mild traumatic brain injury patients with protracted recovery, Jacob L. Stubbs, Sherryse L. Corrow, Benjamin R. Kiang, Jeffrey C. Corrow, Hadley L. Pearce, Alex Y. Cheng, Jason J.S. Barton, and William J. Panenka
Smooth pursuit eye movements have been investigated as a diagnostic tool for mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). However, the degree to which smooth pursuit differentiates mTBI patients from healthy controls (i.e. its diagnostic performance...
Minding the (Information) Gap: What Do Emerging Adult Adoptees Want to Know About Their Birth Parents?, Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Harold D. Grotevant
The formation of an adoption information gap was examined for a group of 169 emerging adults (M = 25.0 years) who were adopted as infants. Participants completed interviews and questionnaires at adolescence and emerging adulthood (late teen...
Submissions from 2018
Developmental perceptual impairments: Cases when tone-deafness and prosopagnosia co-occur, Sébastien Paquette, Hui C. Li, Sherryse L. Corrow, Stephanie S. Buss, Jason J.S. Barton, and Gottfried Schlaug
Studies have shown subtle gray and white matter abnormalities in subjects with several developmental disorders including prosopagnosia, tone-deafness, and dyslexia. Correlational evidence suggests that tone-deafness and dyslexia tend to co-...
Submissions from 2014
Adoptees' Contact With Birth Relatives in Emerging Adulthood, Rachel H. Farr, Holly A. Grant-Marsney, Danila S. Musante, Harold D. Grotevant, and Gretchen Miller Wrobel
While openness in adoption has become more common in the United States, little research has examined contact between birth and adoptive families as adoptees become adults. Using quantitative and qualitative data from 167 emerging adult adop...
Submissions from 2013
Contact between adoptive and birth families: Perspectives from the Minnesota/Texas adoption research project, Harold D. Grotevant, Ruth G. Mcroy, Gretchen M. Wrobel, and Susan Ayers-Lopez
A growing number of adoptive families have contact with their children's birth relatives. The Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project is examining longitudinally the consequences of variations in contact arrangements for birth mothers, ad...
Adoptees' curiosity and information-seeking about birth parents in emerging adulthood: Context, motivation, and behavior, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, Diana R. Samek, and Lynn Von Korff
The Adoption Curiosity Pathway (ACP) model was used to test the potential mediating effect of curiosity on adoption information-seeking in a sample of 143 emerging adult adoptees (mean age = 25.0 years) who were adopted as infants within th...
Submissions from 2012
Understanding the Adoptive Family within the Context of Christian Hospitality, Gretchen Miller Wrobel
Adoptive families can take many forms, yet there are similarities across adoptive family types that can be studied. Relevant research regarding the adoptive kinship network, openness and contact in adoption, family communication about adopt...
Adopted Adolescents: Who and What Are They Curious About?, Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Kristin Dillon
Connecting Research to Practice, Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Elsbeth Neil
International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice, Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Elsbeth Neil
This is a unique compilation of cross-cultural and international attitudes towards adoption research and outcomes. Whilst informal adoption of children has probably always existed across all human societies, this work is timely in that inte...
Submissions from 2011
The role of adoption communicative openness in information seeking among adoptees from adolescence to emerging adulthood, Brooke A. Skinner-Drawz, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, and Lynn von Korff
Adoption Communicative Openness was examined as a predictor of information seeking from adolescence to emerging adulthood in a group of adoptees who did not have direct contact with birth relatives during adolescence. Changes in information...
Submissions from 2009
International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice, Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Elsbeth Neil
This is a unique compilation of cross-cultural and international attitudes towards adoption research and outcomes. Whilst informal adoption of children has probably always existed across all human societies, this work is timely in that in...
Submissions from 2007
Many faces of openness in adoption: Perspectives of adopted adolescents and their parents, Harold D. Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Lynn Von Korff, Brooke Skinner, Jane Newell, Sarah Friese, and Ruth McRoy
Parents and adolescents (mean age, 15.7 years) from 177 adoptive families participating in the second wave of the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project were interviewed about their post-adoption contact arrangements. The sample included...
Submissions from 2006
Adolescents' feelings about openness in adoption: Implications for adoption agencies, Jerica M. Berge, Tai J. Mendenhall, Gretchen M. Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
Adoption research commonly uses parents' reports of satisfaction when examining openness in adoption arrangements. This qualitative study aimed to fill a gap in the adoption research by using adolescents' voices to gain a better understandi...
Submissions from 2004
Adolescents' satisfaction with contact in adoption, Tai J. Mendenhall, Jerica M. Berge, Gretchen M. Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
The current investigation drew from the second wave of data collected from the Minnesota-Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP). Adolescents involved in adoptive arrangements in which there is contact with birth parents were compared to ad...
Moving Forward, Gretchen Miller Wrobel
Adolescent Search for Birthparents: Who Moves Forward?, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
The decision to search for birthparents is one that all adopted persons consider. The focus of this study is to describe, for a group of adopted adolescents, who chooses to search and who does not and to explore how search behavior is relat...
The Family Adoption Communication (FAC) Model: Identifying Pathways of Adoption-Related Communication, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Julie K. Kohler, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
Presented is a theoretical model explaining how family communication about adoption evolves over time. Based on data from a national longitudinal study of the effects of openness in adoption (Grotevant & McRoy, 1998), the Family Adoption Co...
Submissions from 2003
Contact in Adoption: The Experience of Adoptive Families in the USA, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Harold D. Grotevant, Jerica Berge, Tai Mendenhall, and Ruth McRoy
Contact in adoption is a complex issue that adoption professionals frequently negotiate. Today most adoption placements include an initial plan for contact that in many instances changes over time. By understanding contact as an issue that ...
Submissions from 2001
The emergence of psychosocial engagement in adopted adolescents: The family as context over time, Harold D. Grotevant, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Manfred H. Van Dulmen, and Ruth G. McRoy
Psychosocial engagement of adopted adolescents was examined as a function of longitudinal patterns of stability and change in parents'perceptions of the compatibility of the child within the family. Psychosocial engagement involves the adol...
Submissions from 1998
Factors related to patterns of information exchange between adoptive parents and children in mediated adoptions, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Julie K. Kohler, Harold D. Grotevant, and Ruth G. McRoy
Communication between adoptive parents and their adopted children was examined in a sample of 60 families involved in mediated adoptive relationships. Subjects for this study participated in the Minnesota-Texas Adoption Project, a nationwid...
Submissions from 1996
Openness in Adoption and the Level of Child Participation, Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Susan Ayers-Lopez, Harold D. Grotevant, Ruth G. McRoy, and Meredith Friedrick
There is great controversy regarding the impact of openness in adoption, especially the impact of such an arrangement on adopted children. Three indicators of the level of child participation in the openness arrangement were examined: (a) l...