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
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