# Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2026 ## expand\_more SortAuthorTrackTitleSupervisor(s)ReaderTioluwalase 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