Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2006
| Author | Thesis Title | Supervisor(s) | Reader(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
Randall Adams SocSt/Psy | 'You have strong preference for white Americans:' Effects of implicit racial attitude awareness on mock juror decision making | M. Banaji /Psy, T. Pittinsky /SocSt | E. Langer /Psy /SocSt |
Ayodola Adigun MBB/CN | The effect of visual impairment on children's self-concept | D. Sorensen | J. Snedeker |
Maria Barth | Children's moral judgments of action and omission | M. Hauser | J. Snedeker |
Krupa Bhojani MBB/PN | Hands as causal agents: Seven-month-olds and the development of causal perceptions | S. Carey | J. Snedeker |
Virginia Borges | Children's responses to gender-based inequalities | E. Spelke, K. Olson | M. Banaji |
Anna Chen | The polarization effect of shared ingroup interests on outgroup leader evaluation | T. Pittinsky | M. Banaji |
Maureen Connolly | Group therapy for patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: Confronting self-blame, stigma, and depression | M. Nock, L. Phillips | S. Carey |
Kristin Demorest | The effects of perceived responsibility for weight on self-esteem in normal and overweight females | M. Nock, K. Woodberry | W. Mendes |
Jane Evans | Mindful resonance and mindful contagion: How to improve the effects of television viewing | S. Kosslyn | E. Langer, T. Ben-Shachar |
Kelley Fahl | Socioeconomic status and stress response: An argument for multimodal assessment | W. Mendes, B. Sparrow | M. Nock |
Shana Franklin | Moral reasoning in obsessive compulsive disorder | R. McNally, B. Riemann (U. Wisc) | D. Pizzagalli |
Dina Gohar | 'Do you feel what I feel?': Perceived uniqueness as a mediator of self-other differences in affective forecasts | D. Gilbert, C. Morewedge | W. Mendes |
Sarah Goodin MBB/CN | The relationship between sleep and moral decision-making | R. Stickgold | D. Gilbert |
Lucy Grayson | Psychologists' attitudes toward patients who engage in non-suicidal self-injury and the diagnostic bias for borderline personality disorder | M. Nock | J. Hooley |
Kimberly Gutowski | Perception and memory of mirror images in children and adults | E. Spelke, A. Shusterman | S. Carey |
Arin Keyser MBB/CN | Appraisals of competitive situations as predictors of performance | W. Mendes, B. Sparrow | D. Pizzagalli |
Brett Laffel | Using the IAT as a way to de-bias discriminatory behavior relating to employment decision making | M. Bazerman, D. Chugh | M. Banaji |
Lisa Lareau | Optimism predicts more adaptive coping under stress, depending on racial context | W. Mendes, H. Gray | D. Gilbert |
Kathleen Lee | When it is best to expect reality: Optimism predicts biased risk perception under conditions of stress | W. Mendes | E. Spelke |
Beatriz MacDonald Wer MBB/PP | The malleability of gender stereotypes: An interaction of personality and situational context | M. Nock. | W. Mendes |
Catherine Matthews | Learning of arbitrary associations by trial-and-error | Y. Jiang | K. Nakayama |
Caitlin McKee MBB/CN | The effects of social information on infants' food preferences | E. Spelke, K. Kinzler | M. Banaji |
Marina Nasman | Intergroup contact: Reducing stress responses with increased cross-race contact | W. Mendes, J. McDell | M. Banaji |
Jacqueline O'Brien MBB/CN | Reality monitoring in older adults: Effects of positive and negative emotional content | D. Schacter, R. Garoff, E. Kensinger | R. McNally |
Kim Ono | Lexical constraint or pragmatic principle: A preliminary account of mutual exclusivity in children with high functioning autism spectrum disorders | J. Snedeker | D. Pizzagalli |
Sarah Otner | The threat of prejudice: A history of preceived discrimintation's role in cognitive and affective responses to social stress | W. Mendes, D. Carney | R. Hackman |
Kellee Patterson MBB/PP | Wishing and praying: Adults' experiences with mind-world control | S. Carey, A. Shtulman | E. Hannon |
Caroline Pemberton MBB/CN | Young children's reasoning about the influences of social categories on friendship | E. Spelke, K. Shutts | M. Banaji |
Aleris Rodgers MBB/CN | Relationship of the race implicit association test to measures of intergroup anxiety during intterracial interactions | W. Mendes, H. Gray | M. Banaji |
Kay Schwader MBB/CN | Cognitive aspects of restrained eating: Insight into thought suppression and implications for treatment | D. Wegner, S. Najmi | R. McNally |
Ashley Seo | Temporal valuation of past and future events | D. Gilbert, E. Caruso | W. Mendes |
Saviz Sepah | The search for an auditory-based cognitive enhancer: Effects of listening to 16Hz binaural beats on cognitive performance and mood | S. Kosslyn, S. Moulton | E. Hannon |
Yankun Shen MBB/CN | Interrupted visual searches reveal volatile search memory | Y. Jiang | K. Nakayama |
Lisa Shichijo | It is better to have known and lost than not to have known at all...The effects of intermediate updates on affective forecasts | D. Gilbert, E. Caruso | J. Hooley |
Lisa Shu Ec/Psy | Is the endowment effect due to loss aversion or mere ownership? | D. Gilbert /Psy, C. Morewedge /Psy, S. Mullainathan /Ec | M. Bazerman /Psy |
Laura Soto | Effects of gender related priming on female performance in a mental rotation task | S. Kosslyn | P. Cavanagh |
Aleksandra Stankovic | When test anxiety is beneficial: Examining personality, expectancy, anxiety, and attribution as predictors of acadmic success following an experience of failure | S. Carson | R. McNally |
Sarah Stapleton | Decreasing prejudice by increasing discrimination | T. Ben-Shachar, R. Hackman | E. Langer |
Leslie Theophile MBB/CN | Rationality vs. intuition: The effect of emotions on dual systems of reasoning | D. Gilbert, B. Shenoy | W. Mendes |
Alexa Von Tobel | The psychological effects on the introduction of television on an underdeveloped society: The 1999 introduction of television into the kingdom of Bhutan | T. Ben-Shachar | M. Banaji |
Matthew Wallenstein | Physical exercise reduces the urge to self-injure: A case series | M. Nock | D. Pizzagalli |
Alicia Warlick Psy/Ec | Does exposure to same-race and different-race faces differentially affect decisions to trust during a repeated investor game? | M. Banaji, S. Mullainathan /Ec | S. Pinker /Psy |
Caroline Whiting Ling/Psy | One mind, two languages: Examining models of bilingual lexical access through grammatical feature selection | A. Caramazza /Psy, A. Nevins/ Ling | J. Snedeker /Psy, Cedric Boeckx /Ling |