Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2002
| Author | Library No. | Thesis Title | Supervisor(s) | Reader(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Laura Babkes Psychology/Biology | P873 | Images of skiing: An examination into the causes of hypnagogic imagery | Robert Stickgold/Bio | Stephen Kosslyn, Patrick Cavanagh |
Charles Baird VES/Psychology | P874 | Invisible cities: Emotion, memory, recall, and art | Christian Garnett/VES, Shelley Carson /Psy | Annette Lemieux/VES, Daniel Schacter /Psy, Peik Larson /VES |
Morgan Barense Psychology/Biology | P875 | Prefrontal cortex function in aged rats: Performance on an extra-dimensional attentional shift | Mark Baxter | Howard Eichenbaum, Joshua Rodefer, Cary Savage /3rd |
Melissa Christino | P876 | Generating flow | Philip Stone, Tal Ben-Shachar | Philip Stone, Brian Little |
Emmeline Chuang Psychology/Biology | P877 | Reciprocal altruism in the cotton top tamarin | Marc Hauser | Naomi Pierce /Bio, Laurie Santos |
Jessica Cohen MBB/Psychopathology | P878 | Coping and expressed emotion in relatives of patients with schizophrenia | Jill Hooley | Patricia Deldin, Heather Barnett |
Joseph Cousin Psychology/Biology | P879 | Is 1 minute longer than 60 seconds? The increasing compression of the magnitude of larger numbers | Elizabeth Spelke | Daniel Simons, Tecumseh Fitch /Bio |
Elizabeth Dibble Psychology/Biology | P880 | Human reorientation by a directional signal: Evidence in support of a homologous navigation mechanism | Elizabeth Spelke | Marc Hauser /Bio, Kirsten Condry, Ken Nakayama /3rd |
Elnaz Firoz Psychology/Biology (March 2003) | P930 | The role of the rodent perirhinal cortex in object identification functions that have been attributed to the perirhinal cortex in nonhuman primates | Mark Baxter /Bio | Joshua Rodefer, Daniel Roe |
Jonathan Flombaum Psychology/Biology | P881 | The evolution of guesstimating: Spontaneous representations of large numbers in a nonhuman primate | Marc Hauser | Susan Carey, Naomi Pierce /Bio |
Matthew Fox Psychology/Biology | P882 | Attentional set shifting and the rat posterior parietal cortex | Mark Baxter /Bio | Joshua Rodefer, H. Eichenbaum |
Duretti Fufa Psychology/Biology | P883 | Acupuncture: Effects on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and subjective and physiological responses to thermal noxious heat stimuli | Robert Gollub /Bio Patricia Deldin | Patricia Deldin, Robert Savoy |
Daniel Garcia-Pedroza MBB/CBB | P884 | The young ironist: toward an understanding of the development of irony comprehension | Jesse Snedeker | Laura Wagner, Michelle Leichtman |
Dana Gavrieli | P885 | Gender and leadership in the Israeli Defense Forces | Richard Hackman | Linda Hill, Abigail Marsh |
Jenine Ghani Psychology/Biology | P886 | Neurological components of conscious will | Daniel Wegner | Ken Nakayama /Bio, Thalia Wheatley |
Gustavo Gonzalez-Gavillan | P887 | The role of copulation calls in rhesus monkey mate choice | Cory Miller Marc Hauser | Tecumseh Fitch, Marc Hauser |
Jessica Harder | P888 | Muscle activity, event outcome, and the experience of conscious control | Jesse Preston, Daniel Wegner | Daniel Wegner, Brian Little |
Svetla Gueorgueva | P930 | Stranger, you are not a stranger anymore: Predicting job search outcomes of real world candidates from 10 seconds of resumes and interviews | N. Ambady | R. Hackman, H. Elfenbein |
Katie Heikkinen | P889 | Meditation experience and inattentional blindness | Stephen Kosslyn | Sara Lazar, Patrick Cavanagh |
Jennifer Hepps Psychology/Biology | P890 | The effect of stressful mental imagery on the cortisol response of females with and without a histroy of childhood sexual abuse | Stephen Kosslyn | Susan Lipson /Bio, Giorgio Ganis, Jill Hooley /3rd |
Cendri Hutcherson MBB/CBB | P891 | The effects of sleep deprivation on frontal lobe function and cognitive and affective processes | Robert Stickgold | Daniel Gilbert, Daniel Simons |
Daniela Jodorkovsky Psychology/Biology | P892 | The perception of vocal attractiveness: Analysis of the source and filter vocal parameters | Tecumseh Fitch | Ken Nakayama /Bio, Susan Carey |
Kate Johnsen Psychology/Biology | P893 | The effects of gender, socioeconomic status, and temperament on help-seeking behaviors | Michelle Leichtman/Bio | Bruce Thompson, Philip Stone |
Sara Johnstone Psychology/East Asian Studies | P894 | Age and reason: The disappearance of cultural influence on cognitive reasoning strategies as a function of age | Nalini Ambady /Psy, Charlotte Ikels /EAS | Douglas Powell /Psy, Martin Whyte /EAS, Daniel Gilbert /3rd |
Laura Kawakami Psychology/Economics | P895 | Will that be cash or credit? Examining the stimuli effect on spending | Max Bazerman /Psy, Daniel Gilbert /Psy, David Laibson /Ec | Daniel Gilbert /Psy, Alvin Roth /Ec |
Connie Kim | P896 | On transitioning to college: A longitudinal study on academic perceptions | Monica Higgins, Nicholas Epley | Nicholas Epley, Josephine Pichanick |
Gregory Kulessa Economics/Psychology | P897 | Team-management and conformity in the mutual fund industry | David Laibson /Ec, Ellen Langer /Psy | David Laibson/Ec, Max Bazerman /Psy |
Eun Soo Kwak Psychology/Biology | P898 | Mental rotation ability in organic chemistry students | Stephen Kosslyn | Patrick Cavanagh, Ken Nakayama /Bio |
Ann Laguarda | P899 | The pen and the sword: How activism and writing affect the perspective-taking abilities of early adolescent girls | Robert Selman | Philip Stone, Richard Hackman |
Alicia Levin Psychology/Biology | P900 | Thought suppression across sleep-wake states: A neuromodulatory model of ironic processes | Robert Stickgold /Bio | Stephen Kosslyn, Ken Nakayama, N. Ambady /3rd |
Conor Liston Psychology/Biology | P901 | Self-recognition, language, and the origins of long-term event memory: Implications for infantile amnesia | Jerome Kagan | M. Leichtman, Daniel Schacter /Bio |
Shiou-Huei Liu | P902 | Talking about the past: A naturalistic study of gender differences in spontaneous memory recounts among adolescents | Michelle Leichtman | Bruce Thompson, David Pillemer |
Stephen Long Psychology/Statistics | P903 | Psychopathic personality and affect in a non-incarcerated sample | Debra Titone /Psy, Philip Holzman /Psy, Donald Rubin /Stat | Heather Barnett /Psy, Steve Wang /Stat |
Brad Mahon Psychology/Biology | P904 | Grammatical class constraints on a lexical selection in speech production | Alfonso Caramazza | Susan Carey, David Caplan /Bio, J. Snedeker /3rd |
Kelley Morrell | P905 | When things fall apart: An exploration of motivational contagion | Richard Hackman | Todd Pittinsky, Sharon Kramer |
Shanthi Naidu Psychology/Biology | P906 | Beyond valence: An ERP investigation of how arousal of stimuli moderates biased memory processing in major depression | Patricia Deldin /Bio | Michelle Leichtman, Avgusta Shestyuk |
Sue Paik | P907 | Stalling stereotype threat: The effects of individuation | Nalini Ambady | Daniel Wegner, Jennifer Steele, Mahzarin Banaji /3rd |
Neha Pathak Psychology/Biology | P908 | The effect of naps after training: On a sleep-dependent perceptual learning task | Robert Stickgold /Bio | Patrick Cavanagh, Ken Nakayama |
Devon Quasha | P909 | Coping and expressed emotion in informal caregivers of patients with borderline personality disorder | Jill Hooley | Shelley Carson, Amy Wiseman, Patricia Deldin /3rd |
Sarah Rabbitt | P910 | Self-regulation in 30-month-olds: The role of maternal depression and child gender | Katherine Weinberg, Jesse Snedeker | Jesse Snedeker, Eric Peterson |
Kathleen Rey | P911 | Posttraumatic symptoms and traumatic memory consistency among Bosnian refugees | Shelley Carson | Susan Hermes, Richard Mollica, Philip Stone /3rd |
Deborah Rin Psychology/Biology | P912 | What's black and white and perceived all over? Correlations of automatic evaluations of race with visual attention and memory performance | Stephen Most, Daniel Simons | Robert Stickgold /Bio, Jason Mitchell |
Caitlin Rollins MBB/Psychopathology | P913 | Modulation of memory biases in major depressive disorder: A slow-wave investigation | Patricia Deldin | Michelle Leichtman, Nancy Snidman |
Katherine Rose Psychology/Biology | P914 | Volumetric analysis of the temporal pole in schizotypal personality disorder: A magnetic resonance imaging study | Martha Shenton /Bio | Mark Baxter, Daniel Schacter |
Katherine Rosedale | P915 | Associations among preschooler's relationships with parents, teachers, and peers | Kathleen McCartney, Jill Hooley | Michelle Leichtman, Bruce Thompson |
Eric Rosenbaum MBB/CBB (March 2002) | P871 | Temporal coding of pulsed calls: The effects of manipulating interpulse intervals in natural vocalizations of Macacca mulatta on the temporal discharch patterns of auditory cortical neurons | Marc Hauser | Peter Cariani, Tecumseh Fitch |
Andrew Rosenfeld Psychology/Biology | P916 | Who could ask for anything more? A behavioral study on the role of syncopation in human rhythm perception | Tecumseh Fitch /Bio | Peter Cariani, Kathleen Howland |
Jessica Rosenthal Psychology/Biology | P917 | On the relation between children's understanding of the singular-plural distinction and systems of number representation | Susan Carey | Jesse Snedeker /Bio, Elizabeth Spelke |
Judith Scarl Psychology/Biology | P918 | The role of combination long call in sex recognition and mate choice in the cotton-top tamarin | Marc Hauser | Cory Miller, Richard Wrangham/Bio |
Robyn Scatena Psychology/Biology | P919 | Cellular phones and driving: An application of the central bottleneck theory | Daniel Simons /Bio | Stephen Most, Joshua Rodefer |
Leigh Sepeta Psychology/Biology | P920 | The recognition and processing of facial expressions of emotions in autistic disorder | Gordon Harris, Ken Nakayama /Bio | M. Leichtman, Ken Nakayama, Susan Carey /3rd |
Tamara Spiewak | P921 | The effect of acting training on social skills | Richard Hackman | Amy Wiseman, Stephen Seidel |
Jason Tajima | P922 | Can individual differences in spatial processing ability affect how we recall architectural space? | Stephen Kosslyn | Daniel Schacter, Fred Mast |
Ian Tomb | P923 | Emotion and decision-making: A critical test of the somatic marker hypothesis | Marc Hauser | Patricia Deldin, Daniel Simons |
Uma Viswanathan MBB/Psychopathology (March 2002) | P872 | Creativity and mental blocking | Daniel Wegner | Patricia Deldin, Gary Belkin |
Joseph Vuckovich Psychology/Biology | P924 | Effects of extensive basal forebrain cholinergic lesions on spatial working memory | Mark Baxter /Bio | Joshua Rodefer, J. Berger-Sweeney |
Shelley Waite Psychology/Biology | P925 | Ambiguity and revision in on-line sentence comprehension | Jesse Snedeker /Bio | Susan Carey, Elizabeth Spelke |
Joshua Weaver Psychology/Biology | P926 | What causes the tip-of the toungue state? A new look at the blocking hypothesis | Daniel Schacter /Bio | Daniel Simons, Anat Maril, Elizabeth Spelke /3rd |
Sabrina Wickremasinghe Psychology/Biology | P927 | The effect of meditation on emotional arousal and cognitive performance | Randy Gollub /Bio, Patricia Deldin | Robert Savoy, Patricia Deldin |
Laura Wiegand Psychology/Biology | P928 | Cortical thickness abnormalities in schizophrenia: A magnetic resonance imaging study | Martha Shenton | Andrew Barsky, Stephen Heckers /Bio, Daniel Schacter /3rd |
Lawrence Williams | P929 | The construction of agency as a mediating factor for the influence of violent films on aggressive cognition and aggressive affect | Shelley Carson, Daniel Wegner | Nicholas Epley, Philip Stone |