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109did not show any indirect effects of social support on student engagement through anxiety. However, support from friends/classmates and professors predicted higher behavioral and emotional engagement. Only professor support predicted higher cognitive engagement. Findings highlight the important role that peers and professors have in supporting student engagement.8:15am %u2013 8:25am\ CHANGED BECAUSE I CHANGED\NARRATIVES OF YOUNG ADULTS PERSONAL GOAL PROCESSESGABRIELLE LAMANNO (CUNY GRADUATE CENTER), JACOB SHANE (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BROOKLYN COLLEGE AND THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER), TANZINA AHMED (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE), LAURA REIGADA (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BROOKLYN COLLEGE AND THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER), FARNAZ KAIGHOBADI (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE), ERIKA NIWA (CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BROOKLYN COLLEGE AND THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER) Personal goals both shape and reflect development, with young adults' goal selection, pursuit, and change being influenced by biological, social, and historical factors. This study analyzed goal narratives from young adults across eight New York city colleges, examining short-term and long-term goals, and reasons for goal change and persistence. Results highlight how young adults navigate their personal goals amid developmental and historical shifts, moving between goal selection, pursuit, and change.8:30am %u2013 8:40amDEMOGRAPHIC AND BEHAVIORAL PREDICTORS OF EXPERTISE IN CREATIVITY RATERSQIN LI (QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE) The consensual assessment technique (CAT) is the gold standard for evaluating creativity, but researchers often rely on ambiguous relative experts rather than bona fide experts. This reliance underscores the need for a more rigorous screening tool for selecting relative experts as raters. This study examines the strength of demographic and art behavior variables in predicting art expertise and proposes a more systematic screening tool for creativity raters.8:45am %u2013 8:55amCOLLEGE STUDENTS' PERCEPTUAL BIASES TOWARD GENERATIVE AI AND HUMAN MENTORSJIMIN LEE (CLARK UNIVERSITY), ALENA ESPOSITO (CLARK UNIVERSITY) This study explored college students' ability to distinguish between AI-generated and humangenerated mentor responses across social, personal, and academic domains. Findings revealed that students struggled to accurately identify AI responses, especially in the personal domain. Participants rated responses they believed were from humans as more helpful and caring, highlighting perceptual biases favoring human mentorship. The study introduces the Perceptual Bias Activation Framework to explain how these biases influence evaluations of AI in educational contexts.Saturday, March 8, 20258:00am %u2013 9:00am Paper ZiegfeldSOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY PAPERS: PERCEPTION & EMOTIONSSaturday, March 8, 20258:00am %u2013 9:00amCHAIR: ANTONIO FREITAS 8:00am %u2013 8:10amAUTHENTICITY AFFORDANCES AS SOCIAL AND HEALTH-RELATED CUESANTONIO FREITAS (STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY), ASHLEY ARAIZA (ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY) Behaving authentically can entail overcoming situational constraints and judging oneself worthy of individuating. Accordingly, we proposed and found that self-esteem relates to anticipating authenticity in social situations and to indirect associations with interest in entering those situations (Studies 1-3). Moving beyond inherently social contexts, in Studies 3 and 4 participants evaluated health behaviors authentic to their true selves to hold greater health benefits than other behaviors, with that effect strongest for persons highest in self-esteem.8:15am %u2013 8:25amGRIT OR QUIT: LAY BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD GOAL DISENGAGEMENT109Saturday, March 8