# Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2002 ## expand\_more SortAuthorLibrary No.Thesis TitleSupervisor(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