#  Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2011 

 



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SortAuthorTitleSupervisor(s)Reader(s)**Jay Musen**  
(March 2010)  
MBB/Psy&Neuroscience

The Moral Psychology of Obligations to Help Those in Need

J. Greene

M. Banaji

**Henrietta Afari**  
LS/Soc&Cog Neurosci

The Neural Basis of Aversive Feelings: Anterior Insula Responses to Route Obstructions During Virtual Navigation

R. Buckner,  
F. Krienen

D. Schacter

**Denetrias Charlemagne**

Social Categorization and Evaluation Among 10-month-old Infants

S. Carey

M. Banaji

**Samantha Connolly**  
MBB/Cognitive Science

Rumination, Depression, and Inhibition of Negative Emotional Stimuli

D. Pizzagalli,  
J. Hooley

J. Hooley

**Alexandra Dowd**

You Can't Always Get What You Want: Nine-Month-Olds Don't Expect Helpers to Consider Others' Preferences

E. Spelke,  
L. Powell

F. Warneken

**Alexander McNaughton**

How Children Think About Right and Wrong, Rules, and Punishment

S. Carey,  
N. Winkler-Rhoades

F. Cushman

**Andrew Olsen**  
MBB/Cognitive Science

Moral Bootstrapping: Perceiving the Minds of Moral Patients

D. Wegner,  
A. Ward

J. Greene

**Emily Orlins**

It's Not Bad, It's Modern!: Children Tell White Lies For Prosocial Purposes

F. Warneken

P. Harris

**Kenneth Parreno**

Electrophysiological Signatures of Non-symbolic Approximate Addition

E. Spelke,  
D. Hyde

Y. Xu

**Nicholas Purcell**  
MBB/Cognitive Science

Induced Arousal Increases the Desire to End a Suffering Peson's Life

D. Wegner,  
A. Jenkins

F. Warneken

**Katherine Ransohoff**  
LS/Soc&Cog Neurosci

Patients on the Trolley Track: The Moral Cognition of Medical Practitioners and Public Health Professionals

J. Greene

D. Melton

**Basima Tewfik**

Effects of Individual Goal and Cognitive Load on the Relationship Between Social Perceptiveness and Social Effectiveness

R. Hackman,  
S. Jang

G. Alvarez

**Shanshan Wang**

What's in a Name? Emergence of Spontaneous Verbal Labeling in 24-month-olds and Four-year-olds

J. Snedeker,  
A. Geojo

F. Warneken

**Sophie Wharton**  
MBB/Cognitive Science

Thou Shalt Versus Thou Shalt Not: The Neural Processes Underlying Decisions to Help Versus Decisions to Avoid Doing Harm

F. Cushman,  
J. Greene

F. Warneken