Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
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
What Factors Really Affect Jurors' Decisions: a Mathematical Modeling Approach to a Common Psychological Question, Dustin Eisele
Department: Psychology; Mathematics
Volunteerism, Food Access, and Community Resilience: a Case Study of a Non-Profit Urban Farming Organization, Sara Falkoff
Department: Psychology
A Touch of Homophobia, Elijah Franklin
Department: Psychology
E-Readers Vs. Paper: An Investigation of Cognitive Differences in a College Sample Reading From Popular E-Readers and Paper, Thomas Gable
Department: Psychology
Experiencing a Narrative: An Empirical Exploration of a Reader's Social Engagement With Text, Sarah Gerlach
Department: English; Psychology
Comfort of Animals: Effects of An Animal's Presence on Stress, Melanie R. Gillan
Department: Psychology
Romantic Partner Influence on Body Satisfaction in Undergraduate Females: An Experimental Study of Exposure to Positive and Negative Verbal Commentary, Suzanne Hamby
Department: Psychology
Racial Paralysis: Responses to Racial Humor in Interracial Context, Somadina Iworisha
Department: Psychology
Increasing Self-Control in College Students, Gordon S. Lee
Department: Psychology
Progesterone and Alzheimer's Disease: Treatment Effect on Behavioral Tests in Transgenic Mice, Matthew Patrick McCaslin
Department: Psychology
The Impacts of Distraction on the White-Coat Hypertension Effect in College Students, Emily Meyer
Department: Psychology
Adult Attitudes of Shame and Stigma Toward Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Victoria Patrello
Department: Psychology
Exploring the Earworm Phenomenon: a Study of Hooks and Musical Imagery Repetition (Mir), Matthew Pullara
Department: Psychology
Fear and Arrogance: Why Death Needs a Revolution, William Reid
Department: English; Psychology
The Effect of Agreeableness and Gender on Deception Detection, Naomi Robertson
Department: Psychology
Induction of Postnatal Color Preferences in Japanese Quail Chicks (Coturnix Coturnix Japanica) From Prenatal Visual Experience, Morgan A. Schweighoefer
Department: Psychology
Scared Into Consuming: the Effect of Climate Change Videos on Materialism Values and Operational Consumption, Emma Shriver
Department: Psychology
The Influence of Authority on Economic Decision Making, Dusty Staggs
Department: Psychology
Clean Room, Moral Thoughts: the Effect of the Physical Environment on Memory and Moral Action, Samantha Walker
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Social Kombat in Video Games: Interacting With Others While Playing Violent Video Games May Reduce Levels of Aggression and Frustration, Henry Ernest Cook IV
Department: Psychology
Comparing Body Image and Self Esteem Across Cultures: a Look at Jamaican and American Women, Kacy-Ann K. Cordiel
Department: Psychology
Effect of Mental Imagery on Performance, Eric Dyer
Department: Psychology
Feel What You Eat: the Emotional, Psychological, and Physiological Responses to Ingestion of Healthy and Unhealthy Food Stimuli in Unrestrained Males and Females, Rachel A. Gaines
Department: Psychology
Cultural Estrangement and Social Comparison: the Effect of Cultural Estrangement and Comparison Target on Hostility in Upward Social Comparisons, Kim L. Hall
Department: Psychology
Classical Conditioning and Caffeine Tolerance: the Importance of Drug-Associated Environmental Cues to the Development of Tolerance to Stimulatory Behavior in Rats, Hilary Jean Hicks
Department: Psychology
Bringing Sports Into Music: a Study of Music Performance Anxiety Utilizing Tools Previously Studied in Sports Performance Anxiety, Andrea C. Kelley
Department: Psychology
Interviewing Format: How Choice of Format May Impact Personality Traits Elicited, Kerry A. Kiley
Department: Psychology
Soup Doesn't Speak For Itself: Creative Messaging Influences Taste Perception, Hilary M. Maich
Department: Psychology
Effects of Your Friday Nights: the Impact of Alcohol on Working Memory, Christopher M. Malone
Department: Psychology
Effects of Various Modes of Communication on Cooperation Between Dyads, Kathleen Metcalfe
Department: Psychology
It's Story Time! Can You Keep Up?: An Examination of Shared-Reading and Its Influence on a Child's Language and Reading Development, Ashley Lynn Meyer
Department: Psychology
Influence of Anxiety on a Student's Cognitive Ability and Performance, Stephanie L. Plotts
Department: Psychology