Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2006

AuthorThesis TitleSupervisor(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