Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2016

Author

Track

 

Title

Supervisor(s)

Reader(s)

Brendan Eappen

CNEP Experimental Insights on Suicide Contagion and Stigma in the Media

Matthew Nock,
Evan Kleiman

Jill Hooley

Serena Hagerty

General Hoping for the Worst: When and Why People Prefer Bad News

Michael Norton,
Kate Barasz

Mina Cikara

Claire Leibowicz

MBB/Cognitive Science Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Examine the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex’s Role in Intergroup Empathy

Mina Cikara

Joshua Buckholtz

Chelsea Lide

MBB/Cognitive Science Language, Goals and the Selective Learner: How Syntax Guides Infants’ Interpretation of Goal-Directed Events

Jesse Snedeker,
Melissa Kline

Susan Carey

Elizabeth Mahon

General Interpretation Biases for Threat as a Function of Anger and Aggression Proneness

Richard McNally,
Nicole LeBlanc

Evan Kleiman

Garrett Maron

General An Empirical Investigation into the Effectiveness of Thought Experiments in the Development of Children’s Physical Concepts

Susan Carey

Debbie Zaitchik-Samet

Gabrielle Milner

CNEP Predictors of Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Sexual Minority Women

Richard McNally,
Sara Kimmel

Richard McNally

Preeti Srinivasan

CNEP A Stroke of Luck: The Hidden Implications of Fortune on Altruism

Daniel Gilbert,
Bethany Burum

Mina Cikara

Madison Taylor

CNEP The Relationship Between the Big 5 Personality Dimensions and False Confessions

Richard McNally

Ellsworth Fersch

Constanza Vidal Bustamante

CNEP Cognitive and Biological Underpinnings of Reward-Control Interactions Across Development

Leah Somerville,
Juliet Davidow

Fiery Cushman

Ava Zhang

General The Split Bias: Decisions About Personal Resource Allocation In The Face Of Competing Demands

Daniel Gilbert,
Gus Cooney

Fiery Cushman