Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
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
Examination of the Effects of Swimming Exercise on Learning in Mice, Ryan E. Radtke
Department: Psychology
To Label or Not to Label: the Effect of Labels on Person Perception of Autistic Adults, Lindsay E. Ryan
Department: Psychology
My Appearance Is the Most Important Part of Who I Am: Appearance Schema and Body Perception in Female College Student, Meghana Shrestha
Department: Psychology
Date With Culture: the Roles of Cultural Values and Personality Traits in Emerging Adults' Dating Attitudes and Sociosexual Behavior, Valeriya G. Spektor
Department: Psychology
Effects of Physical Fitness and Physical Activity on the Internal Clock When Estimating Intervals of Time, Rachel N. Waggoner
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Production and Perception of Musical Rhythm By Musicians and Music Novices, Gillian C. Anderson
Department: Psychology
Present Mind: the Effect of Mindful Meditation on the Executive Network of Cognition, Jonathan W. Brumbaugh
Department: Psychology
Follow the Leader, Joshua Clark
Department: Psychology
Study Examining the Relationship Between Young-Adult Egocentrism and the Propensity to Lie, Lying Effectiveness, and Deception Detection, Christopher W. Collen
Department: Psychology
Professor's Perceptions of the Pierced Population: Too Cool For Schoolwork?, Alexander O. Dreussi
Department: Psychology
Self-Determination Theory and Wilderness Experiences, Robert Fitzgerald
Department: Psychology
Effect of Disrupted Circadian Rhythms on Episodic and Procedural Memory, Sarah Lucille Garcia
Department: Psychology
There Are Places I Remember--Maybe: the Effects of Age and Memory Techniques in the Creation of False Memories, Erica Hanuschak
Department: Psychology
Musical Emotions: the Effect of Happy and Sad Music on Mood, Crystal B. Hardman
Department: Psychology
Perceptions of Drug Addiction: Is Addiction More Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances?, Ryun K. Ivory
Department: Psychology
Reconsidering Human Pheromones: Can the Effects of Men's Axillary Secretions on Women Predict Degrees of Visual Attractiveness?, Michael C. Karoglan
Department: Psychology
Perceived Social Support and Coping Strategies Among Adolescents: Comparing Private Boarding, Private Day, and Public High Schools, Alysia Lynn LaBonte
Department: Psychology
Does Sexual Orientation Affect Empathy? An Examination of Participants’ Empathy Levels Towards Victims of Domestic Violence, Kristin E. McCall
Department: Psychology
Other-Race Face Perception: An Investigation of the Perceptual-Expertise Hypothesis, Kara M. Mitchell
Department: Psychology
The Effects of the Presence of An Animal on Anxiety and Communication, Benjamin T. Nielsen
Department: Psychology
Do You Know What I Know? The Effect of Language Ability on Verbal and Nonverbal Theory of Mind Tasks, Alexandria Rushley
Department: Psychology
The Effects of Priming on Responses to Projective Techniques, Andrew K. Salata
Department: Psychology
Expertise and Attractiveness in Advertisements: What Entices You to Buy a Product?, Stephanie C. Schab
Department: Psychology
Reducing Proactive Interference Through Constructivist Learning Instruction, Margaret B. Strome
Department: Psychology
How Challenge and Subtle-Gendered-Threat Effect Athletic Performance, Jessica Twombly
Department: Psychology
The Influence of Film Music on the Perspective Assumed Within a Narrative, Chris Walton
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Crime Seriousness and Its Effects on Eyewitness Accuracy, Confidence, and Arousal, Kevin M. Brooks
Department: Psychology
The Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Personality Traits Among College Athletes at The College of Wooster, Bradley C. Chisnell
Department: Psychology
An Analysis of Male Body Image in College Athletes and Non-Athletes, Grant D'Augustine
Department: Psychology
In Support of Natural Beauty: a Study of the Effects of Urban and National Parks on Conservation Attitudes and Mood, Natalie E. Gertz
Department: Psychology
Help, You Know I Need Somebody: An Analysis of Helping Behavior, Courtney Joliat
Department: Psychology
Examining the Effects of Realism and Perspective on Aggression in a Video Game, Eric W. Klingemier
Department: Psychology
Children of Divorce Versus Children of Intact Families: Does Parental Status Influence How One Evaluates Different Marital Situations?, Milena E. Mauric
Department: Psychology
Violent Video Games, Contact Sports, and Aggression: Application of the Feneral Aggression Model, Aaron Rezendes
Department: Psychology
Guns and Sexuality: Pulling the Trigger of Attractiveness, Daniel Keith Terlonge
Department: Psychology
Liberty and Justice For All? The Influence of Media Exposure and Socioeconomic Identity on Perception of Crime, Martina Ward
Department: Psychology
You (Don't) Sound Gay!: a Study on the Effects of Homosexual Speech and Expectancy Violation on Target Likeability, Emily E. Wilson
Department: Psychology
Diminishing the Other-Race Effect: An Investigation Into Creating Better Cross-Cultural Facial Recognition Using Social-Categorization, Stephen Zumbrun
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Eicosapentaenoic Acid Does Not Reduce Immobility in the Mouse Forced Swim Test, Salim Elie Abboud
Department: Psychology
More Than Meets the Eye: the Use of Auditory Cues in Hitting a Pitched Baseball, Brandon L. Boesiger
Department: Psychology
Integrative Study of Hand Lateralization and Tool-Use in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella) and Their Effects on Human Observers' Environmental Attitudes, Christine M. Cassella
Department: Psychology
Effect of Questioning Style on Vocabulary Acquisition: Can Preschoolers Self-Reference?, Lauren Courtney Colapietro
Department: Psychology
False Testimony of Law & Order: Court Television Dramas and Their Influence on Juries, Emily A. Daubert
Department: Psychology
Perception of Point-Light Biological Motion in Athletes and Non-Athletes, Colin F. Fink
Department: Psychology
To Help or Not to Help, That is the Question: The Effects of Openness, Conscientiousness and Gender of Victim on the Bystander Effect, Kelly G. Fredrickson
Department: Psychology
Experiences and Thoughts: A Daily Diary Study of Psychological Well-Being, Maria P. Gonzalez
Department: Psychology
Put Yourself in Someone Else's Shoes: The Effect of Having a Social Identity on Empathizing with a Bully or Victim, Kelly Goss
Department: Psychology
Effect of the Y Chromosome on Spatial Learning and Synaptic Density in the Hippocampus, Emily Hansen
Department: Psychology
Effects of Endogenous Ovarian Estrogen on Fear Memory Consolidation in Female Rats Using a Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Paradigm, Ye-Hyun Kim
Department: Psychology
Birds of a Feather Flock Together: a Study of Ethnicity and Personality Value Similarities Concerning Interpersonal Attraction, Patrick Litam
Department: Psychology
Amount of Formal Care Prior to Kindergarten, Erin Lustic
Department: Psychology
Emotional Intelligence: Impact of Stress on Self-Regulation, Dia A. Mason
Department: Psychology
Effects of Depression on Explicit and Implicit Memory: Mood Congruent Biases and Decreased Performance, Taylor A. McKay
Department: Psychology
Influence of Politeness on Likeability: Using Grice's Maxims in Human-Computer Interaction, Krysta Niemczyk
Department: Psychology
Power of Persuasive Speech: the Interplay Between Ethnicity, the Speaker, His or Her Message, and the Audience, Michael Panfil
Department: Psychology; Political Science
Laundry Is the Only Thing That Should Be Sorted By Color: the Role of Anxiety in Deterring Interracial Interactions, Katherine E. Patton
Department: Psychology
Birth Order and Competition: the Effects of Family Dynamics, Gender, and the Developmental Nature of One's Ordinal Position, Amanda K. Popiel
Department: Psychology
The Influence of Religion on Environmental Attitudes and Conservation Behaviors, Crystal M. Riley
Department: Psychology; Religious Studies
Satisfied?: Examining Job Satisfaction and Marital Satisfaction of Professors at State Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States of America, Erica Marie Ropers
Department: Psychology
Metacognitive Ability in Paired Associate and Text Comprehension Tasks: Comparisons and Attempts to Improve Metacognitive Accuracy, Stephanie Salisbury
Department: Psychology
Featural and Holistic Face Processing in Individuals With Autism, Ashley E. Zervos
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Dynamic and Influential Relationship Between Attachments to Mother, Father, and God, Robert D. Adams
Department: Psychology
Relationship Between Working Memory and College Academic Performance, Aung Aung
Department: Psychology
Competition in Video Games: A Factor Other than Violence that May be Linked to Aggression, Matt Buzby
Department: Psychology
You Are What You Ate: A Retrospective Study of Early-Life Predictors of Dietary Restraint in Caucasian and African American College Women, Meredith H. Dykstra
Department: Psychology
Children's Attitudes and Behavior Intentions Toward Typical and Autistic Peers Who Are Aggressive and Non-Aggressive, Michelle L. Hall
Department: Psychology
Climbing the Social Ladder: The Effects of Social Skills Training on Children with Autism, Lindsey A. Headman
Department: Psychology
Teacher Support and Locus of Control As Protective Factors For Physically Abused Children, Carly C. Hofmann
Department: Psychology