Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
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
Influence of Bilingual Experience on the Developing Brain: Dichotic Listening Differences Between Bilinguals and Monolinguals, Jung Kim
Department: Psychology
Relationship Between Codependency, Paternal Parenting Style and Intimate Opposite-Sex Mate Choice Among College Women, Amanda Kravochuk
Department: Psychology
Can Infant Vocalizations be Used as Audio Analgesia? The Effect of Listening to Infant Laughing and Crying on Pain Perception and Coping, Ashley L. Maciulaitis
Department: Psychology
Change Deafness: Allocating Attention to Auditory Changes and the Effects on Earwitness Testimony, Ellie A. Papke
Department: Psychology
Too Cool For School? The Relationship between High School Students' Self-Monitoring and Gender Identity to Academic Achievement and their Perception of Valuable Qualities in Peers, Alissa M. Schmidt
Department: Psychology
Comparison of Bully Prevention Programs in Middle Schools to the Number of Students Involved in Bullying Situations at Each Middle School, Collette R. Smith
Department: Psychology
Effect of Art Therapy on Self-Esteem and Short Term Memory Performance in the Elderly, Jessica L. Ward
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Adult Attachment Style As a Predictor of Success and Exploration in First-Year College Students, Kathleen Fones-Wolf
Department: Psychology
Understanding Single-Sex Education: How Group Gender Composition Affects Predictions and Interpretations of Task Performance, Sarah M. Hamerstone
Department: Psychology
Friendship Structures: Motives in Forming and Managing Ideal and Actual Friendships, Tyler S. Heisterkemp
Department: Psychology
Perfectionism and Obsessive-Compulsive Tendencies: An Experimental Study to Evaluate the Effects on Athletes and Non-Athletes, Erin N. Herl
Department: Psychology
Goodbye Sympathy? Goodbye Humanity: How Sympathy and Compassion Can Solve the Animal Rights Debate, Shane Ryan Hess
Department: Psychology
Adolescent Identity and Romantic Relationships, Rebecca Hicks
Department: Psychology
"A Rabbi, a Priest and a Terrorist Walk Into a Bar...": How An Adverse Experience Affects Views in Political Correctness, Brandon Holman
Department: Psychology
"Manly Man" and "Girly Girl": a Likely Couple, or Just Coincidence? a Study of Psychological Androgyny, Sex Roles and Their Effects on Partner Selection and Relationship Satisfaction in College, Courtney M. Holmes
Department: Psychology
Pet Dogs As Moderators of Physiological Responses to Stress in Learning Disabled and Normally Functioning College Students, Martha E. Huiskamp
Department: Psychology
Lifetime of Happiness: the Development of Levels and Elicitors of Happiness, a Cross-Sectional Study, Abigail Johnson
Department: Psychology
Gender Differences in Pre-School Aggression: Intrinsic Gender Differences, the School Setting, and Parental Discipline Techniques, Meaghin Kennedy
Department: Psychology
Consumer Decision Making: An Interactive Account Between Information Load and Presentation Format, Hyun Joon Lee
Department: Psychology
Effects of Accutane on the Development of Depressive-Like Symptoms in Rats, Susan McDowell
Department: Psychology
Virtual Environments: Gender in Spatial Learning Ability in a Virtual Morris Water Maze, Nicholas Ryan Novak
Department: Psychology
Sex Differences Reflect Evolutionary Significance of Auditory Looming, Rianna L. Planisek
Department: Psychology
Effectiveness of Approach and Avoidance Coping Strategies on Performance in Golf Putting, Joseph P. Punturi
Department: Psychology
Can a Woman Deliver a Sports Report As Well As a Man? Differences in Male and Female Viewers' Perceptions of the Credibility of Sports Reporters, Benjamin A. Schafir
Department: Psychology
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Do I See That Treat at All? Well...Maybe?": An Examination of the Concept of Theory of Mind and Dominance Competition in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella) Through Their Ability to Use a Mirror to Locate Hidden Food Rewards, Courtney M. Segovis
Department: Psychology
"He Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea," But Can Spongebob Be Influencing Children's Body Image Development?: a Cross-Sectional Analysis of "Spongebob, Squarepants" and Other Popular Television Programming on a Child's Development of Body Build Stereotypes, Bethany B. Skelton
Department: Psychology
Effect of Live Versus Videotaped Testimony on Juror Perceptions of Recall, Confidence, and Nonverbal Cues of An Adult Female Eyewitness, Meghan Grant Slipka
Department: Psychology
Use of Nicotine For Treatment of Schizophrenic Behavior: An Examination of Calcineurim Knockout Mice, Lakshman Swamy
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004
Effects of Homelessness on the Development of Peer Relationships in Children, Michael M. Nienaber
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
Reflectiveness, Creativity, and Spirituality: Can Reflectiveness and Imagination Revitalize Spirituality and Religious Belief?, Stephen B. Baughman
Department: Religious Studies; Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994
The Spirituality and Death Anxiety of Hospice Volunteers and Trainees: a Qualitative Research Study, Laura B. Abernethy
Department: Psychology; Religious Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1990
The Characteristics of Human Learned Helplesness, Heidi A. Huneke
Department: Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1988
Reading Comprehension and Preferences of Seventh Grade Students: An Analysis of the Fry Readability Formula and Children's Literature, Rebecca L. DeNelsky
Department: English; Psychology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1981
The Effect of Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Family Styles on Sex-Role Preference and Parental Imitation in Preschool Children, Barbara Schutte
Department: Psychology
A Study of the Influence of Women's Age on the Employment Decision, Elizabeth Ann Van Cleef
Department: Psychology