Most of our psychology majors are involved in research and many complete honors projects. Below is a list of recent honors projects. To find out how to get involved in research, please contact Anne Henly.
2022
Katharine Boggs (Adviser: Emma Levine) Do gendered expectations influence interest in workplace tasks?
Sydney Buffonge (Adviser: Amanda Woodward) Infants' Race-Based Visual Preferences: Exploring Bias in Static Versus Dynamic Contexts
Defne Buyukyazgan (Adviser: Akram Bakkour) The Effect of Differential Learning of Stimulus Attributes on Subjective Value Construction
Caroline Chade (Adviser: Susan Goldin-Meadow) Parental Responses to Children's Actions and Gestures: Effects on Word Learning
Lev Copelan (Adviser: Susan Goldin-Meadow) Response Latency to Questions Regarding Differing Social Groups
Jessica Davalos (Adviser: Amanda Woodward) What's going on?: Comparisons of social referencing among Mayan and US infants
Rebecca Greenberg (Adviser: Wilma Bainbridge) Investigating Variations Within Visual Memory When Scene Grammar Is Violated
Alyssa Guillu (Adviser: Susan Goldin-Meadow) Shrug Gestures as a Window into the Pragmatic Development of Children with Pre- and Perinatal Brain Lesions
Mahika Hari (Adviser: Boaz Keysar) Impact of Language Modality on Empathy and Forgiveness
Katherine Hodgdon (Adviser: Katherine Kinzler) Motivated Perspective-Taking: The role of social information in children's theory of mind
Naomi Nero (Adviser: Jean Decety) Psychopathy, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Violent Crime in Male and Female Inmates
Chloe Roske (Adviser: Bernd Wittenbrink) Is it real? The influence of perceived target ethnicity on authenticity judgments of smile expressions
Lauren Thompson (Adviser: Jean Decety) Impact of Moral Convictions and Cognitive Style on Social Evaluations of Political Violence
Kaitlyn Wallace (Adviser: Kate Keenan) Interpersonal Needs and Minority Stress: Contributions to Bisexual Mental Health
Jack Westhead (Adviser: Boaz Keysar) The Impact of Mood Dimensions on Metacognitive Performance
Feyza Yucel (Adviser: Brian Prendergast) Time Restricted Feeding and Alzheimer's-Type Behavior in a Mouse Model
2021
Emily Bansemer (Adviser: Boaz Keysar) Impact of race on accent prestige and hiring decisions
Mollie Davies (Adviser: Fan Yang) What meaning means to children: The development of meaning perceptions and valuation
Daryn Ellison (Adviser: Amanda Woodward) Learning contexts affect rule-learning in adults
Sara Hockett (Adviser: Susan Levine) All in a day's work: Decision making and the appraisal of mental effort
Alice Ji (Adviser: Greg Norman) Ramifications of social inclusion: Does social inclusion affect people's adoption and internalization of harm-doing group normative behavior?
Yena Kim (Adviser: Howard Nusbaum) Psychological resilience and distress during the Covid-19 pandemic
Emily Knopf (Adviser: Susan Levine) Gender identification as a predictor of math anxiety
Josselin Martinez (Adviser: Amanda Woodward) Help-seeking behaviors in toddlers as a product of executive functioning and social engagement
Eddie Mondeja (Adviser: Alex Shaw) Evaluations of poserism: Children's nuance to impression management deceptions
Nicholas O'Donnell (Adviser: Nicolas Epley) Giving guidance: The impact of different communicative media on advice-taking
Anastasia Shvedova (Adviser: Boaz Keysar) Are mediators less biased than negotiators? The case of full information
Margaret Wolfson (Adviser: Fan Yang) Love your group as yourself: Children value and promote the interests of their group
Ashley Yu (Adviser: Anuj Shah) Psychological mechanisms underlying the gap in expectations about the poor and the rich
2020
Jillian Bowman (Adviser: Marc Berman) A walk in the park or a day at the mall: The effects of the environment on affect and impulsivity
Kelly Collins (Adviser: Jean Decety) Psychopathy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and the likelihood of violent sexual offending in a male forensic sample
Yarra Elmasry (Adviser: Boaz Keysar) To invest or not to invest: Modality & risk-taking behaviour
Estelle Higgins (Adviser: Greg Norman) Just breathe: Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on airway inflammation in individuals with asthma
Victoria Keating (Adviser: Amanda Woodward) Children’s racial preferences and social network diversity
Abbie Klein (Adviser: Alex Shaw) Oops, I did it again: Children’s third party evaluations and perceptions of apology’s communicative nature and recidivist implications
Daniel Labrousse (Adviser: Alex Shaw) “ADHD” and less responsibility: the effect of mental health diagnostic label
Tanvi Lakhtakia (Adviser: Marc Berman) Seeing green: the restorative effect of natural environments on visual attention
Samuela Mouazaoir (Adviser: Anne Henly) Academic buoyancy in conceptually difficult math learning: Exploring students’ self-disclosed emotions, beliefs, and perceptions
Sarah Pan (Adviser: Amanda Woodward) Parental guidance and toddlers’ object learning
Wanitchaya Poonpatanapricha (Adviser: Dario Maestripieri) A psychological and physiological study of stress associated with early relationship formation, with emphasis on gender and personality differences
Alexa Saccone (Adviser: Susan Levine) Gender differences in the career aspirations of elementary school children
Faith Shepherd (Adviser: Susan Levine) Alexithymia has a strong negative relationship with Interoceptive Awareness: a top-down approach
Alexandra Tunkel (Adviser: Alex Shaw) Negation: A strategy for referential communication
2019
Soaham Bharti (Adviser: Alex Shaw) People Avoid Algorithms in Uncertain Prediction Environments Due to Risk-Seeking Preferences
Anoushka Chowdhary (Adviser: Alex Shaw) Friendship Masking in Children
Naomi Gancz (Adviser: Greg Norman) Peer Ratings Predict Behavioral Changes in Children Exposed to Early Life Stress
Madeleine Meyers (Adviser: Dan Yurovsky) Caregiver Reconstruction of Children’s Errors: The Preservation of Complexity in Patterned Systems
Bjorn Olafsson (Adviser: Nick Epley) The Effect of Affect: How Mood Influences Social Engagement
Mia Radovanovic (Adviser: Amanda Woodward) Exploration and Abstraction: Effects of Learning Context and Executive Function on Children’s Abstract Rule Learning
Katharine Reis (Adviser: Howard Nusbaum) How Low Can You Go: Can Top-Down Attentional Effects Impact Sound Processing at the Level of the Auditory Brainstem?
Katharine Ross (Adviser: Kristen Jacobson) Today or Tomorrow: Can Future Orientation and Parental Support Serve as Protective Factors from the Harmful Effects of CUE on the Ability to Delay Gratification
Juliette Tuenissen (Adviser: Boaz Keysar) Developing Materials to Examine Effect of Language Nativeness on Susceptibility to Misinformation
John Veillette (Adviser: Howard Nusbaum) Early Attentional Modulations of Neural Activity Predict Subjective Decision Outcomes
2018
Sophie Arnold (Adviser: Alex Shaw) When do women ask for less: Exploring the origin of gender differences in negotiation
Luke Clohisy (Adviser: Howard Nusbaum) Memory for Popular Music: Evidence for widespread tempo abilities and implicit pitch categories
Sara Furukawa (Adviser: Susan Golden-Meadow) Caregiver Contingency Before and After the Six-Month Thirty Million Words Initiative Home Visiting Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Study
Uriel Heller (Adviser: Boaz Keysar) Thinking in a Foreign Language: Promoting Acceptance of Mental Health Services
Howlett, Nicholas (Adviser: Alex Shaw) Confession and Punishment: Children’s Granting Leniency to Confessors
Benjamin Kolleck (Adviser: Christine Looser; Alex Shaw) Judging a Book by the Shelf it Sits On: How Our Brain Conflates Non-Valanced Contextual Visual Information with Social Judgment
Rebecca Kuang (Adviser: Ed Vogel) The Effect of Positive and Negative Feedback on Reducing Working Memory Lapses
Isabella Levy (Adviser: Jean Decety) Children’s Altruistic Behavior: Examining Differences Between Genders and Cross Culturally
Linman Li (Adviser: Alex Shaw) “But I really want it”: When Empathy and Justice are in Conflict in Children
Cameron Martinez (Adviser:Brian Prendergast) A Vote for Oneself: Egocentric Projection’s Role in the Liberal Evaluation of Political Candidates
Shamini Nair (Adviser: Thomas Talhelm) Institution & Instruction: Examining Teacher Talk Across SES
Emilia Russo (Adviser: Daniel Yurovsky) Parents’ Response Times Provide Implicit Negative Evidence for Grammar Learning
Clara Save-Segal (Adviser: Daniel Casasanto) Unconscious Processing of Appoximate Number in the Human Visual System
Siddharth Seth (Adviser: Alex Shaw) Race and the Underdog Effect in Advertising
Caroline Sudduth (Adviser: Sian Beilock) Exploring the Role of Math Anxiety in Career Choices
Sumer Said (Adviser: Jasmin Cloutier) Implicit Positive Bias Towards High Status Individuals: A Multidimensional Investigation
Tyler Warner (Adviser: Lindsey Richland) Impacts of Simultaneous visual comparison and individual differences on learning from a cognitively demanding comparative mathematics lesson
Ching Hang Joey Wong (Adviser: Miwa Yasui) Parental Conditional Regard: A Culture-Specific Risk Factor for Chinese Students
Marianna Zhang (Adviser: Daniel Casasanto) Perspective-Taking in Mental Imagery of the Actions of Others