#  Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2017 

 



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SortAuthorTrackTitleSupervisor(s)Reader(s)**Justin Giallorenzo**   
(March 2017)

General

‘Where do our predictions of pleasure and effort experience come from? What are they? What do they bring us to do?’

An investigation of the relation between anhedonia and motivated behavior: Exploring the roles of pleasure and effort aversiveness



Richard McNally,  
Nicole LeBlanc

Joshua Buckholtz

**Stella Tu**  
(March 2017)

CNEP

Emotional Simulation of Alternative Future Events

Daniel Schacter,  
Helen Jing

Matthew Nock

**Aidan Campbell**

General

Bill Effects in Multi-Event Intertemporal Choice Decisions

Sam Gershman

Joshua Buckholtz

**Celina Dubin**

General

Thinking and Moving: Boosting Cognitive Performance with Acute Aerobic Exercise

Richard McNally,  
Emily Bernstein

Leah Somerville

**Eric Joseph Juarez**

General

Episodic Future Thinking and Food Choices in Older Adults

Daniel Schacter

Matthew Nock

**Bushra Guenoun**

CNEP

Reflections of Intergroup Trust: An Experimental Test of the Intergroup Trust Model

James Sidanius,  
Mariska Kappmeier

Max Krasnow

**Isobel Green**

CNEP

The Effect of Affective Priming on Reward Processing in Individuals with Low vs. High Levels of Depressive Symptoms

Diego Pizzagalli,  
Poornima Kumar

Leah Somerville

**Steven Kunis**

CNEP

Do Growth Intelligence Mindsets Influence Resilience in Achievement-Associating Youths?

John Weisz,  
Jessica Schleider

Matthew Nock

**Jeremy Sabath**

General

Race, News, and Attitude Change

James Sidanius,  
Sa-Kiera Hudson

Daniel Gilbert

**Diana Smith**

CNEP

Minority Stress and Self-Injury

Jill Hooley,  
Kathryn Fox

Matthew Nock

**Karen Tocatly**

General

The Relationship between Maternal Postpartum Depression and Brain Function in 6-Month-Old Infants

Charles Nelson

Jason Mitchell

**Lilian Zhu**

CNEP

Plain Labelling of Soda

Daniel Gilbert,  
Leslie John,  
Grant Donnelly