Approved Thesis Proposals - Class of 2002

 

Author

 



Laura Babkes
Psychology/Biology

Library No.

 

 


P873

Thesis Title

 



Images of skiing: An examination into the causes of hypnagogic imagery

Supervisors

 



Robert Stickgold /Bio

Readers

 



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