Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
Propelling Them to Greatness? Helicopter Parenting Effects on First Year College Students, Ann Berkow
Department: Psychology
Jury Perceptions of Neuroscience versus Psychological Explanations of the Other Race Effect, Christopher E. Bope
Department: Psychology; Neuroscience
Being Part of the Game: The Effects of Presence Inducing Stimuli in Video Games on Focused Attention, Connor Brown
Department: Psychology
Close to Home: How a Rural Community Relates to College Decisions in High School Students, Sara L. Carpenter
Department: Psychology
The Influence of Need for Cognition and Camera Angle, Emily B. Chormann
Department: Psychology
The Effect of Stress on Eating and the Moderating Role of Mindfulness, Chelsea Denlinger
Department: Psychology
Power Posing in Space: How Posture and Space Interact to Influence Power and Abstract Thinking, Adam Donnelly
Department: Psychology
Transmediation and Technology in an Urban Calssroom Setting, Alexander J. Dorman
Department: Psychology
Only YOU can Prevent Unsustainable Consumption: The Influence of Advertisement Appeals on Sustainable Consumerism, Erin F. Flannelly
Department: Psychology
Picture Books Worth a Thousand Words: A Narrative Analysis of Original and Re-Told Stories, Elise W. Gifford
Department: Psychology
Let the Outside In: A Case for Biophilic Architecture, Benjamin Glor
Department: Psychology
Empathy and Aggression: Exploring Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Aggressive Video and Text, Christine E. Goglia
Department: Psychology
Nurturing a Love for Nature: An Investigation of Parental Influence on Children’s Environmental Concern, Emily R. Grover
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Exercise on Depression in Adolescents, Adam H. Hansell
Department: Psychology
Music Genres and Their Effects on Taste Perception, Brandon J. Henshaw
Department: Psychology
The Relationship Between Literacy Self-Efficacy of Parents and Children in Kindergarten through Third Grade, Catherine E. Herst
Department: Education; Psychology
Empathizing with The Shadows: How Empathy Attitudes and Race Affect Social Welfare, Tracy R. Jackson
Department: Psychology
Psychological Mechanisms of Risk Compensation in the Context of Physical Risk Taking Behaviors, Dylan C. Jurcik
Department: Psychology
Detecting Major and Minor Keys in the Faces of Singers: The Importance of Facial Expression in Communicating Emotion in Music, Adam Joseph Kropf
Department: Psychology
Why Should I Run to Prevent Cancer? The Contributions of Perceived Similarity, Empathic Concern, and Relevance of Effort to the Martyrdom Effect, Khoa D. Le Nguyen
Department: Psychology
Absentminded or Attentive: The Effect of Letter Case on Memory After an Interruption Applied to Patient Safety, Hannah I. Levin
Department: Psychology
Multicultural Attitudes towards People with Mental Disorders, Xin Lv
Department: Psychology
Personality and the Transformation of Motivation in the Context of P&P Games, Ian F. McCandliss
Department: Psychology
Differences in the Ways in Which Vogue Communicates Beauty Standards to American and French Women, Natalie D. Minklei
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Psychology
Reversing the Other Race Effect: The Influence of Emotional Facial Expression and Social Contact on Facial Recognition and Memory, Emily Neuhoff
Department: Psychology
Beauty is Experienced: Beautiful Objects and the Promise of Happiness, Phu Nguyen Thien
Department: Philosophy; Psychology
Validating Biomarkers for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Toward Improving Specificity and Selectivity of Cross-Cultural Diagnostics, Jonathan W. Reeves
Department: Neuroscience; Psychology
The Political Consequence and Psychological Mechanisms of Dictatorial Cults of Personality, Wyatt C. Smith
Department: Political Science; Psychology
"Hooked." An Analysis of the Sexual Double Standard and the Effects of Alcohol on College Campus Heterosexual Casual Sexual Relationships, Alexandria A. Stopka
Department: Psychology
The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and the Big Five Factors of Personality and Effects on Time-on-Task, Lauren M. Thompson
Department: Psychology
It’s Not What’s on the Outside that Counts: An Examination of the Effects of Media-Portrayed Thin Idealization on Women’s Mental Resources, Brittany L. Wilder
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
BIS/BAS, Need For Cognition, and the Framing Effect: Increasing Intentions to Read Before Class, Olivia Aspiras
Department: Psychology
The Call of the Wild (And the Caged): The Impact of a Zoo's Exhibition Styles on the Attitudes of Its Human Visitors, Erin S. Behn
Department: Psychology
Bad Kids These Days: Behavior Modification and Parental Perceptions of Children With Behavioral Disorders, Abena Boamah-Acheampong
Department: Psychology
Drug Abuse Explored in Mice: Tolerance and Cross-Tolerance in Nicotine and Ethanol Using Siegel's Model, Hope Brill
Department: Psychology
The Roles of Individual Personality and Statewide Personality on Individual Corporal Punishment Beliefs, Katherine E. Darling
Department: Psychology
Monkey See Monkey Do: Imitation and Tool Use in Cebus Apella Monkeys, Human Children, and Infants, Anna Divis
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Head Motion on Mood, Life Satisfaction, and Future Expectations, Abigail Douglas
Department: Psychology
Can Incentive Influence Susceptibility to Inattentional Blindness?, Tristan D. Fava
Department: Psychology
Increasing the Salience of Inadmissible Evidence to Decrease Its Effect on Juror Judgments, Brandon Fay
Department: Psychology
Blaming Victims: the Effects of Sexual Orientation, Provocation, and Gender on Perceptions of Domestic Violence, Gillian Fiske
Department: Psychology
I Have to Own That! Exploring the Relationship Between Impulsivity and Internet Shopping Behavior, Amanda Leigh Gittleson
Department: Psychology
Go Greek or Go Home: Investigating Greek Versus Non-Greek Perceptions of Fairness, Devin B. Grandi
Department: Psychology
Effective Pain Management in the Reduction of Addictive Behaviors: A Review of Greek Theories with Modern Implication, Grace Hamilton
Department: Classical Studies; Psychology
The Effects of Trait-Anxiety on Young Children's Facial and Vocal Emotion Recognition and Attention, Sarah Marie Huttie
Department: Psychology
You'll Only Date Who? The Effects of Race and Racial Preference in Dating on Perceptions of Prejudice, Gabriela I. Jaramillo
Department: Psychology
The Interaction Between the Physical Environment and Metaphysical States: the Role of Social Anxiety and Stress in Informing Spatial Perception, Emily Koelmel
Department: Psychology
The Connections Among Contagious Yawning, Attachment, and Empathy in Dogs (Canis Familiaris), Steven C. Kyle
Department: Psychology
Temporal Processing Across Geographic Regions: How Different Regions in the United States Perceive Punctuality, Katherine A. Laubacher
Department: Psychology
Personality As a Predictor of the Quality of Online Friendships, Ashleigh Luttery
Department: Psychology
Does Auditory Perception Help Maintain Safety?: An Examination of the Relationship Between Auditory Perception and Injury Risk, Christen Maguire
Department: Psychology
The Effect of Context on the Evaluation of Obese Vs. Average-Weight Children As a Function of Antifat Attitude, Stephanie McShane
Department: Psychology
What Really Matters? Predicting Latino Academic Achievement From Parenting, Self Efficacy, Stress, Number of Successful Relatives, and Demographic Variables, Adolfo Mejia
Department: Psychology
Say What? The Use of Age As An Identifier on the Auditory Stroop Effect, Sarah Mitchell
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Presentation and Individual Differences on Narrative Engagement, Joseph Morgan
Department: Psychology
Prism Adaptation and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, Anne O'Malley
Department: Psychology
Biological Sex Differences in Attraction and Proof of Worth, Ethan O'Neal
Department: Psychology
Group Interactions of Ostracized People, Nathaniel Dejarnett Partee
Department: Psychology
Coaching Behaviors' Effects on Athletes' Anxiety, Malcolm Perry
Department: Psychology
Stereotypes About Parents in the Workplace: Bringing Kids to Work and the Effects on Person Perception, Nicole Sager
Department: Psychology; Sociology and Anthropology
Forgiveness and Resentment: A Study in Philosophy and Psychology, Katherine Kay Schiller
Department: Philosophy; Psychology
The Real Face of Mental Illness: The Effects of Messaging on Attitudes Towards People with Severe Mental Illness, Kelsey J. Schulman
Department: Psychology
The Effect of Modesty and Gender on the Perception of Attractive and Unattractive Individuals, Amanda Weeks
Department: Psychology
Insults to Significant Others, Elaine Wilcox-Cook
Department: Psychology
Exercise Intention and Motivation: Intrapersonal Relationships, Feedback, and Personality, Kendal Wong
Department: Mathematics; Psychology
Athletes' Self and Metaperceptions of the Coach-Athlete Relationship and Its Impact on Athletes, Hannah K. Woodske
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Personality Determinants of Political Orientation and Nation-State Political Systems, Erik Beuck
Department: Psychology
Clinical Predictors of Neuropsychological Outcomes in Persons With Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in An Outpatient Rehabilitation Setting, Madison Jane Carey
Department: Psychology
Effect of Athletic Media Images on Women's Body Dissatisfaction and Drive For Muscularity, Gwen Davis
Department: Psychology
Pornographic Influence: Men's Perception of Women and Their Relationship Reflections, Caroline B. Denzer
Department: Psychology
How We Seem "To Be": English- and Spanish-Speaking Children's Susceptibility to the Fundamental Attribution Error and Actor-Observer Bias, Mary E. Dixon
Department: Psychology
Effect of Power and Accountability on Cognitive Performance, Abigail J. FitzSimons
Department: Psychology
Testing the Limited Resource Model and Its Effect on Task Performance in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella), Courtney Chase Foster
Department: Psychology
Gender Differences on a Change Blindness Task, Rebecca Furspan
Department: Psychology
Effect of Language of Origin on Improvisational Jazz, Harrison Goldberg
Department: Psychology
Mere Presence of Opposite-Sex Others on Judgments of Sexual and Romantic Desirability: Opposite Effects For Men and Women, Mate Selection: Hill and Buss (2008) - Revisited, Devon Grennell
Department: Psychology
Comparing Success and Satisfaction of Black and White Students Attending Predominantly White Institutions, Carmen Guess
Department: Psychology
Male Objectification and Consumer Behavior: The Effect of Objectified Media Images on Male Consumer Behavior, Sarah Hawke
Department: Psychology
How Interactivity in Video Games Affects the Perception of Timed Durations, James A. Hoag
Department: Psychology
Effects of Clothing, Body-Type, Perceived Athleticism, & Perceived GPA on Impression Formation of Athletes and Non-Athlete, Ibrahim Ibrahim
Department: Psychology
Influence of Reading Fairy Tales on Moral Reasoning in Pre-School Children, Jessica J. Jackson
Department: Psychology
Peer Attachment and Its Role on a Child's Cognitive Abilities, Kelsey Johnson
Department: Psychology
Context Dependent Effects of Educational Video Games in the Classroom, Kathryn A. Kirkpatrick
Department: Psychology
Climate Change in the Media: Collective Guilt and Behavioral Effects of News Reports and Environmental Identity, Amanda Koehn
Department: Psychology
Effects of Distraction and Warnings on Pain Perception, Nadia Maharaj
Department: Psychology
We Are Innocent Victims of Our Mind's Manipulations: on the Effects of Choice Blindness For Eyewitness Identification, Heather M. McPherson
Department: Psychology
Effect of Parenting Style and Child Temperament on Moral Reasoning in Preschool Children, Ally Monheim
Department: Psychology
Disaster Strikes: Perceived Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the People of New Orleans, Megan Aleece Mudersbach
Department: Psychology
Effects of Extraversion and Pain on Risk Taking in Male College Students, Adam Muller
Department: Psychology
Effects of Closing Arguments and Adult Age on False Memory and Jury Verdicts in a Simulated Trial Setting, Shannon O'Neill
Department: Psychology
Affective Priming on Micro-Expression Recognition, Adam Saad
Department: Psychology
Internalization Measures Not Influenced By Media Image Presentation: An Examination of Female Athletes and Non-Athletes, Meredith Shaul
Department: Communication Studies; Psychology
Bilingualism and Social Cognitive Development: the Effect of Dual-Language Acquisition on Nonverbal Communication, Melanie Elizabeth Ordinario Weil
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
The Effects of Stereotype Threat and Cognitive Load on Math Performance in Women, Hannah Ackerman
Department: Psychology
Is This a Set?: the Relationship Between Creative Thinking and Playing a Visual Perception Card Game, Mara Bartlett Asenjo
Department: Psychology
Can Work Be Fun? the Effects of Feedback and Need For Cognition on the Achievement of a Flow State, Casey Biggs
Department: Psychology
Domain Specific But Structurally Shared: Exploring the Syntactic Processing of Music and Language in the Brain, Sarah Ciriegio
Department: Psychology
Gender Differences in Auditory and Visual Spatial Memory, Matthew Copple
Department: Psychology
Too Far Gone: Abstract Films, Intelegence, Sensation Seeking and the Need For Cognition, Michael C. Corby
Department: Psychology
Would You Vote For a Woman? a Study Looking at Gender Identity and Party Politics in America, Arielle Lauren Einstein
Department: Psychology