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Senior Honors Presentations

Please join us for the presentations of honors theses by students completing the Psychology Honors Program in 2009. Presentations will take place on Wednesday April 29 at 4:10 PM
in 614 Schermerhorn Hall.

Student
(advisor)
Title
April 29, 2009  
Emily Jordan
(Frances Champagne)
Effects of Communal Nesting on Offspring Social Behavior
Ashleigh Aviles
(Tory Higgins)
Regulatory Focus and Learning
Natalie Johnston
(Tor Wager)
The Impact of Expectancy and Attention on Pain Perception
Allison Reid
(David Krantz)
Justifying Injustice: The Effects of Affiliation Manipulation on Judicial Decision Making
Jennifer Salant
(Don Hood)
Scanning Laser Polarimetry: A Test of a Structure-Function Linear Model and Reliability
Nick Camp
(Tory Higgins)
What drives cultural differences in attention? The role of self-construal and regulatory focus
Anushree Doshi
(Sarah Woolley)
Mate copying in female Zebra Finches

The students listed below have successfully completed all requirements of the Psychology Honors Program for graduation with Departmental Honors

Congratulations !

Student
(advisor)
Title

April 30, 2008

Dana Pavarini
(Tory Higgins)
What is the role of experienced expectancy in value creation?
Devika Bhushan
(Geraldine Downey)
Assessing the Consequences of RS –Gender for Stereotype Threat Susceptibility
Taylor Joerger
(Jennifer Mangels
& Daphna Shohamy)
When recollection helps you to realize something didn’t:  An ERP study of feedback in disqualifying false memories
May 7, 2008
Erin Yates
(Robert Krauss)
Inferring Personal Attributes from Voice: Effects of Pitch and Gender
Rachel Gibbons
(Robert Krauss)
Linguistic Convergence in Roommate Pairs
Heather O'Neil
(Herb Terrace)
Do sounds facilitate performance in rhesus macaques and humans?
Emily Lightstone
(Niall Bolger)
Title: TBA

April 25, 2007
Student
(advisor)
Title
Allison Turza
(Carl Hart)
The Effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy) on Reported and Observed Social Behavior in Humans
Thomas Blair
(Christoph Wiedenmayer)
Social Recognition and Social Memory in Rat Pups
Sonya Thomas
(Don Hood)
The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus: Gateway to Vision
Noam Zerubavel
(Tory Higgins)
The Unintentional Self: Systematic Breakdowns in Self-Regulation
Victory Joseph
(Peter Balsam)
The Role of Cortico-striatal Loops in Temporal Information Processing

 

April 26 and May 3, 2006
Student
Title
Zoe Weinstein
Influences of context on impression formation
(Tory Higgins, advisor)
Chloe Carmichael
Regulatory Focus and the Assignment of Punishment
(Tory Higgins, advisor)
James Garrett
Self-Efficacy and Mood in Social Support Processes
(Eshkol Rafaeli and Geraldine Downey, advisors)
Katelyn Beaudette
Emotional Availability as a Function of Past Trauma
(Katherine Monk, advisor)

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Chris Kelly
Aggression-related Changes in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Repeated Exposure to Media Violence
(Joy Hirsch, advisor)
Jennifer Mesrie
Achievement Motivation and Learning: A Gamma Band EEG Study
(Jennifer Mangels, advisor)
Julia DiBegnino
I Don't Care What You Think About Me: Do Performance and Rejection Sensitivity Predict Extreme Responses to Rejection?
(Geraldine Downey, advisor)
Tara Patterson
Affects of Masked and Non-Masked Fear-Relevant Stimuli on Memory for Neutral Information
(Joy Hirsch, advisor)

 

April 27 , 2005
Student
Title
Jeremiah Bertz
The Influences of Visual Pitch on
Visually Perceived Eye Level, Visually Perceived Vertical, Felt Hand Position, and Felt Head Position
Hila Katz
Finding the Right Word:
A Study of Irregular Past Tense Forms
Kathryn Struthers
Regulatory Focus and Goal Emphasis:
Setting Minimal, Maximal, and Aspiration Level Goals
Rebecca Warner
The Relationship between Pitch and Persuasiveness

 

April 28 , 2004
Student
Title
Mary Steffel
Influence of Regulatory Focus
on Decision Making under Ambiguity
Jennifer Thorpe
Value Transfer from Fit in the Case of Negative Options
Molly Flaherty
Comparing Cognition:
Metacognition in Human and Nonhuman Animals
Rachel Kolster
Processing Emotional Faces under Divided Attention
Austin Frank
Interactivity and Shared Representation:
A Computational Investigation of Homophones in Production

 

April 30 and May 7, 2003
Student
Title
Jessica Chan
 
Simon Fischer-Baum
 
Lauren Kornreich
 
Gillian Diercks
Expectancy and Learning: A Proposed ERP Study
Raquel Gardner
What's in a Voice? Pitch and Persuasiveness
Kathryn Romansky
The Role of Theory of Mind in Social Learning
Adam Waytz
Implicit Theories and Environmental Stereotype Threat for Women in Mathematics
Evan Mayo-Wilson
Weighted Adjustment: A Descriptive Theory of Choice for Decisions from Experience

 

May 1 and May 8, 2002
Student
Title
Kim VanOrden
Regulatory Pride and Self-Monitoring
Lindsay Lugar
The Effects of Regulatory Fit on Conflict Resolution
Elizabeth Horstmann
Identity and Social Support:
A Study of an Internet Support Group for Fibrous Dysplasia
Ardavan Akhavan
Dopamine and Aversive Conditioning
Dana Heitmeyer
Associative Retrieval Processes in Rhesus Macaques
Hedy Kober
Value Transfer in Goal Pursuit: Value from Fit, Attainment, and Maintenance
Bhavana Vishnubhotla
A Circadian Rhythm in Appetitive Conditioning in the Rat

 

April 25, 2001
Student
Title
Robin Haber
(Robert Krauss)
Jennifer Kim
(Michele Miozzo)
Anna Wiste
(Carol Dweck)

 

April 24, 2000
Student
Title
Aileen Heinberg
 
Avi-Jonah Schwab
 
Jan Seele
 
Gavin Williams
 
Joshua Yorgason
 

 

April 21 and April 28, 1999
Student
Title
Renee Slon
Judgements of Learning and the Allocation of Study Time
Rekha Joy
Effects of Acute Administration of Quinpirole
Nancy Kim
Korean and American Students' Views of Intelligence
Bahar Firoz
The Human Multi-Focal Electroretinogram and the Inner-Retinal Component
Angelina Davis
Sensitivity to Race Based Rejection
Elizabeth Wallace
How Mental Models Influence Memory and Performance
Kathleen Schnare
The Language of the Self

 

 

 

 

 
     

 

 

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