#  Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2004 

 



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SortAuthorThesis TitleSupervisor(s)Reader(s)**William ADAMS**  
(March 2005)

Sub-cultural differences in facial expression: Smiles as indicators of sexual orientation

N. Ambady,  
H. Gray

P. Cavanagh

**Kristy BENOIT**  
MBB/Psychopathology

Selective attention to threat in anxious children

R. McNally

D. Pizzagalli

**Zachary BERCU**  
MBB/Psychopathology

The relationship between well-being and the degree of community in one's personal projects as investigated in individualistic and collectivistic Israeli communities

P. Stone,  
A. Hwang

M. Nock

**David CANOSE**

Chasing a mirage: The conditions under which perfectionism facilitates or inhibits task performance

S. Carson

R. McNally

**Sarah CARTER**

Autism and the representation of self

N. Block,  
E. Spelke

S. Pinker

**Jennifer CHEN**

Correlates of anosognosia in Alzheimer's patients: The roles of   
false memory and the distinctiveness heuristic in awareness

A. Budson

D. Schacter

**Stella CHRISTIE**  
MBB/CBB

Infants' attention to functionally relevant object properties

E. Spelke,   
L. Markson

S. Carey

**Noah EISENKRAFT**

Ignoring nuance: The dominant effect of treatment response, mistake attribution, and illness severity on patient outcome in a medical setting

E. Langer

J. Hooley

**Caitlin FERRITER**

Distinguishing between general and specific family correlates of eating disorders

P. Keel

R. McNally

**Lisa GUTTENTAG**

Personality and the influence of hand gestures on memory

J. Chiao,  
N. Ambady

K. Nakayama

**Eliot HAMLISCH**

Easy as 1,2,3: Multiple goals as a moderating variable for increasing individual task performance

E. Langer

P. Stone

**Chetan IRWIN**

Attending to imagery: Cognitive reframing applied to the startle reflex

S. Kosslyn

D. Pizzagalli

**Nilda ISIDRO**

Using implicit measures to predict mock juror decisions

S. Kosslyn

M. Banaji

**Hannah KENSER**

Does racial identity influence other-race facial perception?

K. Nakayama,  
J. Chiao

K. Nakayama

**Devon KLATELL**

The influence of neglected information: Can 'unseen' semantics guide visual search?

W. Milberg

A. Caramazza

**Arjun KUMAR**  
MBB/CBB

Organization of the visual short-term memory storage system

Y. Jiang

P. Cavanagh

**Kimberly MC CARTHY**

The cheerleader effect: Perceived will in the success of an athlete   
based on positive thoughts about performance

D. Wegner

N. Epley

**Hung NGUYEN**   
Psy/Ec

Effects of cognitive load and positive mood on consumer preference and consumer choice

T. Pittinsky/Psy,  
D. Laibson/Ec

P. Stone/Psy,  
M. Bazerman /Ec

**Olamipe OKUNSEINDE**

Implicit and explicit measures of race categorization

E. Spelke,  
M. Banaji

S. Carey

**Ariana ORNELAS**   
MBB/CBB

The problem of occlusion: Amodal completion in infant perception of real and illusory figures

K. Condry,   
E. Spelke

K. Nakayama

**Bonnie POON**

Upward advice transmission: Do children give advice to their parents?

T. Pittinsky,  
R. Hackman

R. Hackman

**Mariah POSPISIL**

The long-term effects of early parent loss: Disorder, creativity and resilience

S. Carson

R. McNally

**Joshua SAVAGE**   
Psy/EAS

Society and sacred will: The construction of agency in American   
and Japanese religion and social structure

D. Wegner /Psy,  
T. Bestor /EAS,  
C. Zhu /EAS

D. Gilbert /Psy

**David STAHL**  
MBB/Psychopathology

Interpretation of chronic, superficial, inflammatory pain as stressful mediates in appetite, eating habits, sleep, depression and pleasure-loss changes in an epidemiological pain suffering population

R. Burstein   
D. Pizzagalli

D. Pizzagalli,  
M. Nock

**Yulia STESHENKO**

None of us is us: Mindful attention to variability and health

E. Langer

J. Hooley

**Elizabeth TISEI**

"Out of the blue": The psychophysiology of attributing thoughts

H. Gray,   
D. Wegner

R. McNally

**Chia-Jung TSAY**

Innate ability is privileged in music performance among professionals

M. Banaji

R. Hackman

**Alyson ZALTA**  
MBB/Psychopathology

Homogeneity of eating patterns in collegiate peers: A longitudinal study

P. Keel

R. McNally