Presentations

• Boone, T. L. (April, 2009). Friendship and Facebook:  Assessing relations between interaction types and relationship quality. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
   
• Cruz, K. D., & Boone, T. L. (April, 2009). “Honey, does this dress make me look fat?”:  Body image and social support. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
   
• Heiss, M., & Boone, T. L. (April, 2009). Sexual behavior message sources and their importance in adolescent decision making. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
   
• Gillen, M. M., Boone, T. L., Abarca-Mortensen-S., & Lefkowitz, E. S. (April, 2009). A longitudinal study of HIV testing in college students. Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

• Goland, T. N., & Boone, T. L. (April, 2008). A study on social networking sites:  Body image, psychosocial health, and substance use in female college students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA.
   
• Layne, J. G., & Boone, T. L. (April, 2008). Examining personality, subjective well-being, and frequency of social networking site use with BMI. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA.
   
• Boone, T. L., & Duran, A. B. C. (May, 2007). Sexual prejudice, gender role attitudes, and condom use among heterosexual men. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC.
   
• Ritter, T. C., & Boone, T. L. (May, 2007). Nonconsensual sex, dating violence, and high school athletics: Is there a connection? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC.
   
• Boone, T. L. (April, 2006). We expect them to act like adults, but are they? Emerging adulthood in the classroom. Invited presentation at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Palm Springs, CA.
   
• Boone, T. L., & Ritter, T. C. (April, 2006). Just say no or just do it? Adolescent athletes’ risky health attitudes and behaviors. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Palm Springs, CA.
   
• Boone, T. L., & Villareal, G. J. (April, 2003). “Where the rubber meets the road”: Predictors of late adolescent condom use. Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
   
• Gillen, M., & Boone, T. L. (April, 2003). Factors associated with HIV testing among late adolescents. Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
   
• Boone, T. L. (October, 2002). Predictors and correlates of late adolescent sexual attitudes: Implications for teen pregnancy prevention. Invited presentation at the annual Teen Pregnancy Prevention Conference, State College, PA.
   
• Boone, T. L., & Robertson, C. (April, 2002). Late adolescents and their mothers: Topics raised in discussions about sexuality. Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.
   
• Boone, T. L. (April, 2002). Parenting style: Is it stable across contexts? Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans, LA.
   
• Caldwell, L., Baldwin, C., Smith, E., & Boone, T. L. (January, 2002). TimeWise—Learning Lifelong Leisure Skills: Conceptualization and preliminary evidence for a new substance abuse prevention program. Paper presented at the Pacific Rim Conference on Leisure Education, Honolulu, HI.
   
• Caldwell, L., Boone, T. L., & Baldwin, C. (May, 2001). “Mom, I’m bored”: Adolescent leisure motivation and substance use. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, DC.
   
• Boone, T. L. (April, 2001). Mother-adolescent sexuality communication and adolescent sexual attitudes and behaviors: The role of sexual guilt. Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
   
• Lefkowitz, E. S., & Boone, T. L. (April, 2001). No sex or safer sex? Teens and mothers discuss sexuality and AIDS. In C. Somers (Chair), Perspectives on the socialization of sexuality. Paper presented at bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
   
• Afifi (Boone), T. L. (November, 2000). Predicting safer sex talk: The role of parent-adolescent sex communication. In T. Boone (Chair), Contributing to the community: The intersection of basic and applied research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
   
• Afifi (Boone), T. L. (November, 1999). Panelist in: M. Miller-Day (Chair) Roundtable Discussion of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Family Communication. Special program presentation at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
   
• Afifi (Boone), T. L. (November, 1998). Family secrets: The impact on family cohesiveness. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New York, NY.
   
• Boone, T. L. (November, 1994). Another one bites the dust: Dialectics and the dyadic phase of relationship dissolution. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.