#  Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2023 

 



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SortAuthorTrackTitleSupervisor(s)Reader**Chloé Georgeaux-Healy** (March 2023)

General

Functional Assessment of Disordered Eating in the Context of Trauma and Sexual Assault

Jill Hooley, Emily Mellen

Rebecca Shingleton

**Morgan Blind**

General

Project SOLVE and Rangatahi in Aotearoa: A School-Based Pilot Test of a Digital Single-Session Mental Health Intervention for Adolescents in New Zealand

John Weisz, Olivia Fitzpatrick

Jill Hooley

**Sophia Blyth**

General

A Mixed Methods Analysis of Stigma and Social Identity in Adolescents with Alcohol or Other Drug Use Disorders

Jill Hooley, Emily Hennessy

Mayron Piccolo

**Bianca Braun**

General

Examining Physical Activity as a Potential Moderator of the Association Between Stress and Internalizing Symptoms

Katie McLaughlin, Constanza Vidal Bustamante

Richard McNally

**Caroline Cooper**

General

How Individuals High in Perfectionism Experience and Cope with Specific Negative Emotions

Jill Hooley, Chelsea Boccagno

Rebecca Shingleton

**Maddy Gavitt**

General

Political Frameworks: Differences in the Way Liberals and Conservatives View Issues

Michael Norton, Liz Johnson

Mina Cikara

**Riley Hoffman**

CNEP

Individualized Functional Brain Mapping of the Frontoparietal Control System in Major Depressive Disorder

Diego Pizzagalli, Matthew Sacchet

Talia Konkle

**Alexandra Kim**

General

Examining Children's Facial Recognition of Emotion as a Mechanism Linking Maternal Depression and Child Internalizing Symptoms

Charles Nelson, Kelsey Quigley

Katie McLaughlin

**Do Yeon Kim**

General

A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Stigma Related to Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Scale Development and Psychosocial Correlates

Mark Hatzenbuehler, Emily Mellen

Mina Cikara

**Isaiah Kim**

CNEP

Should We Practice Together?: The Impact of Communal Music-Making on Mental Wellbeing

Jill Hooley, Mayron Piccolo

Jason Mitchell

**Fabian Koenig**

General

Feeling the Truth: The Divergent Effects of Sadness and Anger on Misinformation Detection

Jennifer Lerner

Mina Cikara

**Eliot Min**

General

What Not to Know: The Role of Strategic Ignorance in Avoiding Punishment

Dan Gilbert, Bethany Burum

Fiery Cushman

**Marcus Montague-Mfuni**

General

Theory Drives Data, Drives Theory: Cognitive Models Enhanced by Data-Driven Machine Learning Methods Provide Theoretical Advances to Models of Social Behavior

Fiery Cushman

Talia Konkle

**Sofia Montinola**

CNEP

Through the Looking Glass: An Examination of the Relationship Between Introspective Accuracy into Choice Processes and Psychopathology

Fiery Cushman, Adam Morris

Katie McLaughlin

**Truong Nguyen**

CNEP

Associations of Acculturation and Discrimination with Mental Health in Hispanic/Latinx, East Asian, and Southeast Asian Pre-Adolescents

Katie McLaughlin, David Weissman

Leslie Rith-Najarian

**Samuel Pratt**

General

Investigating Intellectual Safetyism: What are the Consequences of Shielding Students from Emotional Discomfort?

Richard McNally, Ben Bellet

Jill Hooley

**Georgia Steigerwald**

General

How Do We Learn?: Understanding Differences in Social and Individual Learning Between Urban and Rural Populations

Fiery Cushman

Mina Cikara

**Carly Tiras**

CNEP

Mapping the Brain onto Behavior: An Exploration of Functional Connectivity in Infancy Underlying Cognitive Outcomes at Three Years

Charles Nelson

Mahzarin Banaji

**Allison Tu**

MBB

Examining Intellectual Safetyism: Developing a Safetyism Scale and Characterizing its Associations in a Sample of College Students

Richard McNally, Ben Bellet

Shelley Carson

**Sophia Vranos**

CNEP

Reactivation and Cognitive Restructuring of Negative Autobiographical Memories

Elizabeth Phelps, Xandra Kredlow

Daniel Schacter

**Gena Williams**

General

Exploring the Effects of Documentation Status on Immigrant Representation and Immigration Policy Preferences

Mina Cikara, Joel Martinez

Mahzarin Banaji

**Gianna Zades**

General

Find Sound: A Game-based Intervention to Improve Children’s Reading Skills

Elizabeth Spelke, Akshita Srinivasan

Jesse Snedeker