Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2026
| Author | Track | Title | Supervisor(s) | Reader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tioluwalase Adelakun | General | “I, Too, Am a Poet”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of a Brief Online Poetry-Based Mental Health Intervention for Black U.S. Adults | Matt Nock, Kylie Li | Mina Cikara |
Aanya Afridi | MBB | Investigating the Impact of Risk-Aversion and Impulsivity on Reinforcement Learning and Subsequent Memory | Dan Dillon, Kreshnik Burani | Elizabeth Phelps |
Rhea Anand | General | Who “Cares”: A Comparative Study of Patient, Therapist, and AI Triage Decisions for Human vs. AI Mental Health Care | Mark Hatzenbuehler, Christian Webb | - |
Sean Gallagher | General | On Punishment and Legitimacy: The Impact of Free Will Belief and Socioeconomic Status on Criminal Punishment Decisions | Fiery Cushman | Joshua Greene |
Ke Nicole Du Hu | CNEP | Fairness Under Bargaining Power Asymmetry: How Gain and Loss Domains Shape Distributive Judgments | Fiery Cushman, Arthur Le Pargneux | Mina Cikara |
Ash Kim | General | Emergency Department Clinicians’ Perspectives on Suicide Risk and Treatment Decisions for Patients with Prior Visits | Matt Nock, Taylor McGuire | Becca Shingleton |
Audrey King | General | How Children Reason About Communication Across Language Barriers | Ashley Thomas, Aaron Chuey | Elizabeth Spelke |
Paola Lee-Vega | CNEP | “Grandma, what gray hair you have!”: How children think about ‘grandmothers’ | Ashley Thomas, Christina Steele, | Jesse Snedeker |
Molly Malague | General | Spirituality and Substance Use Outcomes Among Adolescents in Recovery | Emily Hennessy | Jill Hooley |
Jazlyn Navarro Jiménez | General | Children's Inferences from Differing Pedagogical Approaches | Elizabeth Bonawitz, Ilona Bass | Tomer Ullman |
Charlotte Paley | General | How Weight-Based Discrimination “Gets Under the Skin”: Testing a Biopsychosocial Mediation Framework in a Longitudinal, Population-Based Study of Young Adults | Mark Hatzenbuehler, Nathan Hollinsaid | Becca Shingleton |
Destinee Ramos | General | Beyond Inattention: Cognitive Processing Biases and Problematic Social Media Use Among Individuals with ADHD Symptoms | Jill Hooley, Jordan Zimmerman, Becca Shingleton | - |
Isabella Schauble | General | Did She Get IN the Bus or ON the Bus? Investigating Linguistic Determinism Through English Preposition Use With Vehicles | Elizabeth Spelke | Tomer Ullman |
Autumn Shin | General | Rationalization Shapes Subsequent Moral Revision | Fiery Cushman, Lucas Woodley | Joshua Greene |
Amber Simons | General | Distinctiveness and Differentiation: How the Nature of Group Relations Influences Responses to Intermediate Groups | Nicole Noll | Mark Hatzenbuehler |
Clifford Stowe | General | Primed to Create: Effects of a Memory Induction on the Production of Novel Drawings | Dan Schacter, William Orwig | Joshua Greene |
Kira Tian | General | Optimizing Collaboration: How Anticipated Division of Labor Guides Multidimensional Competence Training | Sam Gershman, Yang Xiang | Fiery Cushman |
Rae Trainer | General | “Walking a Thin Line”: College Medical Leave Policy as a Barrier to Seeking Mental Healthcare | Richard McNally | Mark Hatzenbuehler |
Sylvia Whittaker-Traw | CNEP | Network Analysis of ADHD Symptoms and Common Comorbidities in Pregnancy | Richard McNally, Gabriella Hamlett | Jesse Snedeker |