Philip Stoner, an advanced doctoral student working in the Anger and Traffic Psychology Lab at the University of Southern Mississippi successfully proposed his dissertation this week. Philip’s dissertation will test some aspects of Hooley and Franklin’s (2018) benefits and barriers model for understanding non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among college women.

Of particular relevance to our work in the lab and building on his prior thesis work, Philip plans to incorporate grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as potential moderators of some of the expected relationships he will be testing between theoretically relevant predictors and NSSI.

Much like Ali’s recent thesis defense, Philip’s dissertation proposal took place online through Microsoft Teams. Everything worked as intended, and one would never had guessed that he hadn’t presented like this before.

Congratulations to Philip on the successful proposal!

Tags: narcissism, suicide