Thesis Prizes
A number of prizes are available for outstanding thesis research. These include both College and Departmental prizes.
The Department of Psychology offers two prizes for distinguished honors theses, the Psychology Faculty Prize and the Gordon W. Allport Prize.
Psychology Faculty Prizes are presented for honors theses which in the judgment of the Prize Committee are of special distinction. The award intends to provide an incentive for high-quality undergraduate research and to honor those students who undertake such exceptionally fine work. Course grades are not taken into account in making the award. The Prize Committee will consider all theses that were given highest grades in the normal thesis grading process, but will make its own independent judgment of thesis quality. The Committee is not bound to make an award each year; on the other hand, the Committee can make more than one award if it feels that more than one thesis qualifies for special distinction.
Gordon W. Allport Prizes are awarded for honors theses offering research of exceptionally high quality in those scholarly areas to which the late Gordon W. Allport was himself dedicated—personality psychology, the study of prejudice, social psychology, rumor, and social ethics. As in the case of Faculty Prizes, the Prize Committee will consider all theses that meet the above criteria and that were given highest grades in the normal thesis grading process. But, again, the Prize Committee will make its own independent judgment in the granting of the award.
Departmental prizes are monetary; each recipient will receive a letter confirming their receipt of this award, and will be honored at the Senior Party during commencement week.
The College also offers prizes for distinguished theses and research. Full details about College prizes can be found in the booklet Prizes, available in University Hall. Several prizes seem especially relevant for students in Psychology, including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, awarded for excellent scholarly work or research, and the Bowdoin Prize, awarded for any topic suitable for treatment in literary form.
Prize Theses in Psychology: 2001-2025
| Student | Thesis Title | Committee |
|---|---|---|
2024-2025 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Adelaide Kelsey | What Children Know About Numbers They Do Not Yet Know | Elizabeth Spelke, Yiqiao Wang Reader: Jesse Snedeker |
Rayha Kelly McPherson | The Efficacy of a Novel 8 Week Mindful-Movement Resilience Curriculum as a Scalable, Culturally-Informed Intervention for Rwandan Adolescents with PTSD or Depression | Matt Nock, Katherine Venturo-Conerly, Taylor McGuire Reader: John Weisz |
Leticia Sefia | Nature and Nurture: The Interconnected Effects of Poverty and Maternal Stressors on Children's Cognitive Development | Charles Nelson, Viviane Valdez Reader: Mina Cikara |
Katie Sevier | The Mental Health and Perception of Children and Adults With and Without Learning Differences and Disabilities | Nadine Gaab Reader: Leah Somerville |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Kayla J. Saucedo | Measuring Structural Latinophobia and Testing Its Associations with Potentially Traumatic Events and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Latino Youth | Mark Hatzenbuehler, Nathan Hollinsaid Reader: Mina Cikara |
Melissa Shang | Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Minoritized People with Disabilities | Mina Cikara, Franckie Castro-Ramirez, Taylor McGuire Reader: Rebecca Shingleton |
Alicia Shao | Exploring the Influence of Immediate and Evolutionary Incentives on Empathy Avoidance | Daniel Gilbert, Bethany Burum Reader: Lindsey Davis |
Kaitlyn Tsai | Autonomy and Belongingness: The How Behind Suicide Risk in Individuals Experiencing Homelessness | Matt Nock Reader: Mina Cikara |
2023-2024 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Mira Becker | The Influence of Environmental Volatility on Cultural Preferences for Social Learning Strategies | Fiery Cushman Reader: Joseph Henrich |
Maggie Chiffer | Mental Health in Motion: A Randomized Pilot Test of an Accessible Dance/Movement Therapy Intervention for Children with Autism and ADHD | John Weisz, Olivia Fitzpatrick Reader: Elizabeth Spelke |
Matthew Gross | The Curse of Knowledge in Perceptions of AI | Jill Hooley, Julian De Freitas Reader: Tomer Ullman |
Oliver Toscano | Human & AI Chatbot Collaborations on Crisis Hotlines: The Potential Benefits & Limitations | Matt Nock, Daniel Coppersmith Reader: Grace Lin |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Abigail Mejia | Perceived Socioeconomic Status-based Discrimination and Mental Health Among a Population-based Sample of Swedish Young Adults | Mark Hatzenbuehler, Nathan Hollinsaid Reader: Mina Cikara |
Sandra Mwangi | Revisiting the Double Jeopardy and Intersectional Invisibility Hypotheses: Exploring the Role of Race and Gender on Backlash and Salary as Negotiation Outcomes | Michael Norton, Bushra Guenoun Reader: Nicole Noll |
Atlas Sanogo | Beyond the Binary: An Investigation into Social Perceptions of Nonbinary Individuals | Nicole Noll Reader: Mark Hatzenbuehler |
2022-2023 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Fabian Koenig | Feeling the Truth: The Divergent Effects of Sadness and Anger on Misinformation Detection | Jennifer Lerner Reader: Mina Cikara |
Marcus Montague-Mfuni | Theory Drives Data, Drives Theory: Cognitive Models Enhanced by Data-Driven Machine Learning Methods Provide Theoretical Advances to Models of Social Behavior | Fiery Cushman Reader: Talia Konkle |
Samuel Pratt | Investigating Intellectual Safetyism: What are the Consequences of Shielding Students from Emotional Discomfort? | Richard McNally, Ben Bellet Reader: Jill Hooley |
Sophia Vranos | Reactivation and Cognitive Restructuring of Negative Autobiographical Memories | Elizabeth Phelps, Xandra Kredlow Reader: Dan Schacter |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Do Yeon Kim | A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Stigma Related to Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Scale Development and Psychosocial Correlates | Mark Hatzenbuehler, Emily Mellen Reader: Mina Cikara |
Sofia Montinola | Through the Looking Glass: An Examination of the Relationship Between Introspective Accuracy into Choice Processes and Psychopathology | Fiery Cushman, Adam Morris Reader: Kate McLaughlin |
Gena Williams | Exploring the Effects of Documentation Status on Immigrant Representation and Immigration Policy Preferences | Mina Cikara, Joel Martinez Reader: Mahzarin Banaji |
2021-2022 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Stephanie Alderete | Preschoolers' Representation of Possibilities | Susan Carey, Brian Leahy Reader: Jesse Snedeker |
Dylan DeMarco | Finding Signal in Noise: Understanding Variance in Suicide Risk Assessments | Matt Nock, Rebecca Fortgang Reader: Susan Murphy |
Charlotte Johnstone | I Knew That Would Happen!: Examining the Role of Hindsight Bias in Narcissistic Overconfidence | Jill Hooley, Ellen Finch Reader: Daniel Gilbert |
Pechthida Kim | The Evaluative Nature of Summaries | Tomer Ullman, Julian De Freitas Reader: Daneil Gilbert |
Moshe Poliak | Finding Systematicity in Variation: Using Neural Decoding to Extract Meaning from EEG Data with High Between-Participant Variation | Jesse Snedeker, Anthony Yacovone Reader: Patrick Mair |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Hunter Baldwin | Finding Some Body to Love: Self-Objectification and Dating App Usage Among Gay and Bisexual Men | Mark Hatzenbuehler Reader: Nicole Noll |
Jackie Feffer | The Effects of Race and Gender on Standards of Professionalism | Michael Norton, David Levari Reader: Mina Cikara |
Alina Hachigian | Individual Shifts and Generational Differences: Understanding Perceptions of How Public Opinion Changes | Daniel Gilbert, Adam Mastroianni Reader: Fiery Cushman |
Audrey Jones | To See or Not To See: The Effect on Creativity of Seeing Oneself on Zoom | Michael Norton, Nicole Abi-Esber, Nicole Noll Reader: Mina Cikara |
Barbara Oedayrajsingh Varma | Fleeting Flops: The Relationship Between Brand Extension Availability and Consumer Brand Perceptions | Michael Norton, Emily Prinsloo Reader: Jason Mitchell |
2020-2021 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Amy Carolus | Emotional Support and Emotion Differentiation: The Role of Emotion Scaffolding in Emotional Development | Kate McLaughlin, David Weissman Reader: John Weisz |
Julia Friedman | Choice Amnesia: When difficult product choices are harder to remember | Michael Norton, David Levari Reader: Daniel Gilbert |
Jenna Lang | Truth Be Told: Belief in and Memory for Sources of Emotional Fake News | Dan Schacter, Nadia Brashier Reader: Elizabeth Phelps |
Yuri-Grace Ohashi | Discerning Attitudes towards Norms, Control, & Eating (D.A.N.C.E. Study): Identity, social pressure, and body image in the development of disordered eating thoughts and behaviors among pre-professional adolescent ballet dancers | Matt Nock, Shirley Wang Reader: Rebecca Shingleton |
Marcus Trenfield | The Positive Effect of Rationalization on Recall Accuracy | Fiery Cushman, Adam Bear Reader: Daniel Gilbert |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Ece Hakim | Revisiting the Surgeon Riddle: The Pervasiveness of the Surgeon = Male Stereotype and the Role of Gender-Neutral Language as a Mitigator | Mahzarin Banaji Reader: Jennifer Lerner |
Joyce Seok | "You get what you expect": Participant Expectancy Mediates the Relationship between Synchrony and Prosociality | Max Krasnow, Samuel Mehr Reader: Bethany Burum |
Eric Wilson | Reputational Effects of Observability on Strategic Ignorance | Daniel Gilbert, Bethany Burum Reader: Fiery Cushman |
2019-2020 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Sabrina Bell | Eating Disorders and Dietary Restrictions: Prevalence of Disordered Eating and the Role of Food Attention in Individuals with Dietary Restrictions | Matt Nock, Shirley Wang Reader: Richard McNally |
Margaret Canady | Movement Matters: Testing the Effects of Dance on Childhood Depression | Matt Nock, Nicole Noll, Alexander Millner |
Anne Marie Crinnion | Catch you on the flip side: Using reflections to understand visual processing of objects | Alfonso Caramazza, Teresa Schubert Reader: George Alvarez |
Nensi Gjata | Look Before You Leap: Reasoning About the Danger and Rewards in Other People’s Actions | Elizabeth Spelke, Shari Liu Reader: Tomer Ullman |
Enosa Ogbeide | How Physical Effort Costs Affect Decisions to Aggress | Joshua Buckholtz Reader: Tomer Ullman |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Hannah Harris | "As a Woman and as a Mother of Sons”: Maternal Blame Attribution towards Victims of Sexual Violence | Max Krasnow Reader: Fiery Cushman |
Micaela Rodriguez | The Cognitive Reappraisal of Alone Time: Transforming Loneliness into Solitude | Richard McNally, Benjamin Bellet Reader: Jessica Schwab |
2018-2019 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Melissa Dreier | Attentional Biases Towards Food and Body Stimuli Among Individuals with Disordered Eating Versus Food Allergies | Jill Hooley Reader: Matthew Nock |
Yiping Li | Infants’ Inferences About Insides: Attributions of Animacy to Agents and Patients in Different Causal Events | Susan Carey, Jonathan Kominsky Reader: Elizabeth Spelke |
Sienna Nielsen (MBB/Cognitive Science) | The Story of Adversity and the Self: The Relation Between Life Challenges and Authenticity | Jill Hooley, Chelsea Boccagno Reader: Daniel Schacter |
Marissa Rodriguez (LS/Cog Neuro & Evo Psych) | The Effects of Socioeconomic Status & Maternal Stress on Infant Frustration | Charles Nelson, Lara Pierce Reader: Mahzarin Banaji |
Katie Vincent | The Effects of Parental Stress on Children’s Baseline Electroencephalography Alpha Activity and Internalizing Behaviors | Charles Nelson, Wanze Xie Reader: Mina Cikara |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Mariana Lee | The Impact Asymmetry: Understanding the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Social Impact After Conversations | Daniel Gilbert, Gus Cooney Reader: Fiery Cushman |
Jacob Verrey (LS/Cog Neuro & Evo Psych) | Here, Let Me Do It: Task Takeover Hurts Team Performance | Daniel Gilbert, Adam Mastroianni Reader: Fiery Cushman |
2017-2018 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prize | ||
Anna Riley-Shepard (MBB/Cognitive Science) | Working hard or hardly working: Attentional effort and efficiency in expert dancers | George Alvarez, Hrag Pailian Reader: Randy Buckner |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Taylor Ladd | Four- and Five-Year-Olds Weigh Race and Shirt Color Equally When Making Social Decisions | Elizabeth Spelke, Annie Spokes Reader: Mahzarin Banaji |
Terry Lee (LS/Cog Neuro & Evo Psych) | Third Party Punishment: Signaling Trustworthiness or Deterring Future Mistreatment? | Max Krasnow Reader: Fiery Cushman |
Olivia Losiewicz | The Emotional Effects of Socially Processing News | Richard McNally, Nicole LeBlanc Reader: Leah Somerville |
2016 - 2017 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prize | ||
Isobel Green | The Effect of Affective Priming on Reward Processing in Individuals with Low vs. High Levels of Depressive Symptoms | Diego Pizzagalli, Poornima Kumar Reader: Leah Somerville |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Bushra Guenoun | Reflections of Intergroup Trust: An Experimental Test of the Intergroup Trust Model | Jim Sidanius, Mariska Kappmeier Reader: Max Krasnow |
Jeremy Sabath | Persuasive News, Race, and Attitude Change: How Race Affects What Audiences Take Away from The News | Jim Sidanius, Sa-Kiera Hudson Reader: Daniel Gilbert |
2015 - 2016 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Serena Hagerty | Hoping for the Worst: When and Why People Prefer Bad News | Michael Norton, Kate Barasz Reader: Mina Cikara |
Garrett Maron | An Empirical Investigation into the Effectiveness of Thought Experiments in the Development of Children’s Physical Concepts | Susan Carey Reader: Debbie Zaitchik-Samet |
Constanza Vidal Bustamante (LS/Cog Neuro & Evo Psych) | Cognitive and Biological Underpinnings of Reward-Control Interactions Across Development | Leah Somerville, Juliet Davidow Reader: Fiery Cushman |
Ava Zhang | The Split Bias: Decisions About Personal Resource Allocation In The Face Of Competing Demands | Daniel Gilbert, Gus Cooney Reader: Fiery Cushman |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Claire Leibowicz (MBB/Cognitive Science) | Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Examine the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex’s Role in Intergroup Empathy | Mina Cikara Reader: Joshua Buckholtz |
2014 - 2015 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Abla Alaoui-Soce (LS/Cog Neuro & Evo Psych) | The Perception and Influence of Animate Shape Features | George Alvarez, Bria Long Reader: Ken Nakayama |
Jonathan Herzog | How Implicit Theories of Intelligence Elucidate the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception to Aid in the Development of Interventions to Enhance Educational Outcomes | Mike Norton, Donal Cahill Reader: Joshua Greene |
Seo Yeon Kim (MBB/Cognitive Science) | The Effect of Executive Function Depletion on Interpreting Garden-Path Sentences | Jesse Snedeker, Tanya Levari Reader: Susan Carey |
Justin Moore | Creative Destruction: How Events Detrimental to Normal Cognition May Promote Creativity | Shelley Carson Reader: Ellen Langer |
Mirta Stantic (LS/Cog Neuro & Evo Psych) | Differentiation Between Coarse and Fine Face Processing in Prosopagnosics | George Alavarez Reader: Ken Nakayama |
2013 - 2014 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Cherish Connelly | The Bully and the Bullied: A Study of the Persistence and Influence of the Winner and Loser Effects, Advisers: Catherine Dulac and Joe Bergan | Catherine Dulac, Joe Bergan Reader: Joshua Buckholtz |
Alexander Diaz | Variations in the Memory Accuracy-Confidence Relationship: The Effects of Thematic Similarity, Amount, Modality, and Complexity of Information | Mahzarin Banaji, Caroline Wilmuth Reader: Leah Somerville |
Jennifer Hatfield | Representing Communicative Intent: Investigations of Early Sensitivity to Pedagogical Communication | Elizabeth Spelke, Amy Skerry Reader: Susan Carey |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Xin Xiang | Would the Buddha Push the Man of the Footbridge? Systematic Variations in the Moral Judgment and Punishment Tendencies of the Han Chinese, Tibetans and Americans | Joshua Greene Reader: Felix Warneken |
2012 - 2013 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Margaret Barrow | Towards a Strategic Model of Executive Function Depletion | Susan Carey, Lindsey Powell Reader: Jesse Snedeker |
Miranda Beltzer | Rethinking Butterflies: The Public Speaking Effects of Arousal Reappraisal and Social Anxiety | Matthew Nock Reader: Nicole Noll |
Vaida Rimeikyte | Affect Unbound: The Dissociability of Arousal and Valence in Early Emotion Processing | Joshua Greene, Adrianna Jenkins Reader: Leah Somerville |
Matthew Yung | Theory-of-Mind and Relationship Satisfaction in Romantic Partners: An fMRI Investigation | Christine Hooker, David Dodell-Feder Reader: Joshua Buckholtz |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Meghan Ferreira | Ingroup Love Versus Outgroup Hate: Attitudes Among Members of Competitive Intergroup Rivalries | Mahzarin Banaji Reader: Jim Sidanius |
Alexa Fishman | Epic Fail? The Influence of Star Player Underperformance on Teammate Performance | (J. Richard Hackman) Sujin Jang, Nicholas Aramovich Reader: Mahzarin Banaji |
Andrew Hellman | Warmth or Competence First? Gender and First Impressions in Job Interviews | Amy Cuddy, Mahzarin Banaji Reader: Mahzarin Banaji |
Jillian Jordan | The Development of Third-Party Punishment of Cooperative Norm Violations | Felix Warneken, Katherine McAuliffe Reader: Steven Pinker |
Bay McCulloch | Taking One For the Team: Changing Group Membership Decreases Intertemporal Altruism | Daniel Gilbert, Bethany Burum Reader: Josh ua Greene |
2011 – 2012 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Caitlin Carey | An fMRI Investigation of Automatic Simulation in Schizophrenia | Christine Hooker, Sarah Hope Lincoln Reader: Dara Manoach |
Whitney Fitts | Spontaneous Verbal Labeling During Object Processing | Jesse Snedeker, Manizeh Khan Reader: Felix Warneken |
Westley Resendes | The Dissociation between Language and Early Theory of Mind Reasoning in Toddlers | Susan Carey, Kathryn Hobbs Reader: Jennie Pyers |
Leslie Rith-Najarian | Was That Stressful?: Performance Ability, Stress Reactivity, and Stress Appraisals in Adolescents | Kate McLaughlin, Matthew Nock Reader: Shelley Carson |
Matthew Sachs | Functional and Structural Neural Connectivity Associated with Individual Differences in the Chill Response to Music | Josh Greene, Psyche Loui Reader: Joshua Greene |
Alexander Tancredi | Choice Size, Value, and Perceived Freedom of Choice: Effects on Choice-related Stress and Regret | Amitai Shenhav, Jason Mitchell Reader: Jason Mitchell |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Jocelyn Karlan | Bilingual Bi-personality: How Language Shapes Implicit Attitudes and Self-concept | Mahzarin Banaji Reader: Elizabeth Spelke |
Sophia Scolnik-Brower | Holy Crap!: The Role of Disgust in Religious Beliefs | Steven Pinker, Amitai Shenhav Reader: Joshua Greene |
2010 – 2011 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Henrietta Afari (LS/Soc&Cog Neurosci) | The neural correlates of aversive feelings: Anterior Insula responses to route obstructions during virtual navigation | Randy Buckner, Fenna Krienen |
Nicholas Purcell | Induced arousal increases the desire to end a suffering person's life | Daniel Wegner, Adrianna Jenkins |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Alexander McNaughton | How children think about right and wrong, rules and punishment | Susan Carey, Nathan Winkler-Rhoades |
Jay Musen (MBB/Psy&Neurosci) | The moral psychology of oblications to help those in need | Joshua Greene |
Andrew Olsen (MBB/Psy&Neurosci) | Moral bootstrapping: Perceiving the minds of moral patients | Daniel Wegner, A. Ward |
Emily Orlins | It's not bad, it's modern!: Children tell white lies for prosocial purposes | Felix Warneken |
Katherine Ransohoff (LS/Soc&Cog Neurosci) | Patients on the trolley track: The moral cognition of medical practitioners and public health professionals | Joshua Greene |
Sophie Wharton (MBB/Psy&Neurosci) | Thou shalt versus thou shalt not: The neural processes underlying decisions to help versus decisions to avoid doing harm | Fiery Cushman, Joshua Greene |
2009 – 2010 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Nicholas Navarro | Conflict management in global virtual teams: Eastern and Western approaches | Richard Hackman |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Roy Cohen (MBB/Cognitive Science) | Different positive contacts for different groups: Asymmetric effects of interaction in Palestinians and Israelis | Joshua Greene, Rebecca Saxe |
2008 – 2009 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Yuliya Nikolova (LS/Soc&Cog Neurosci) | The effects of naturalistic stress and serotonin transporter (5-HTT) genotype on reward responsiveness: Implications for depression | Diego Pizzagalli, Ryan Bogdan |
Rachel Reardon (MBB/Psy&Neurosci) | Does it matter where we come from? Representations of sources in infants' event pre presentations | Susan Carey, Laura Lakusta, Paul Muentener |
Daniel Valenti | Extensions and implications of future anhedonia | Daniel Gilbert, Karim Kassam |
Elizabeth Weiss | Forewarned is forearmed: The role of forewarning in should/want decision making | Max Bazerman, Katherine Milkman |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Haiwen Chen (LS/Soc&Cog Neurosci) | Crossing the "Uncanny Valley" to assess long-term perceptual adaptation to facial attractiveness | Margaret Livingstone /HMS Ken Nakayama |
Teresa Knickman | More dead than dead: Perceived mind of the persistent vegetative state | Daniel Wegner, K. Gray |
Katherine Koh | Humanization and helping behavior: How does mind perception affect willingness to help the homeless? | Andrea Heberlein, Daniel Wegner |
2007 – 2008 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Konika Banerjee (PSY/HEB) | Evidence for a general intelligence factor (g) in a non-human primate species | Marc Hauser /Psy/HEB |
Erin Blackstock (MBB/PN) | Leveling the playing field: Examining the relationship between performance goals, stress responses, and stress appraisal on standardized exams | Wendy Mendes, Modupe Akinola |
Amit Kumar | The impact of outcome valence on perceived duration | Daniel Gilbert, Karim Kassam |
Carina Martin (Life Science) | Evidence for vagal regulation as an index of endocrine sensitivity to social feedback | Wendy Mendes, Katrina Koslov |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Harrison Greenbaum | “Did you hear the one about the…?”: The effect of racial humor on prejudice | Jim Sidanius, Lotte Thomsen |
Eric Reavis | High-level stimulus characteristics affect the stability but not the initiation of binocular rivalry | Ken Nakayama, S. Afraz |
Jillian Swencionis (SocSt/Psy) | Perception of defendant memory and its societal implications | Karim Kassam, Daniel Gilbert T. Aladjem /SocSt |
Rocksheng Zhong | The trouble with trolleys: Intention and causation in moral dilemmas | Joshua Greene, Fiery Cushman |
2006 – 2007 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Frankie Chen (MBB/CN) | A study of language and thought: Object-substance interpretation among the Tsotsil Mayan | Susan Carey, Peggy Li |
Aline Flodr | To be or not to be ill: How choosing labels affects physical, emotional and mental symptoms | Shelley Carson |
Katrin Gerlach (MBB/CN) | Autonomic nervous system responses to different tempi in music | Gottfried Schlaug, Erin Hannon |
Sarah Heilbronner (MBB/CN) | The evolution of risk-sensitive preferences in non-human primates | Marc Hauser |
Jori Pearsall (MBB/CN) | Sleep and the facilitation of human emotional memory over time | Matthew Walker, Randy Buckner |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Judy Herbstman (HistSci/Psy) | A 'special relationship'?: Responsibility and the development of mental health resources at Harvard 1900-2007 | Matthew Nock, Paul Barreira |
Oludamini Ogunnaike (AfAm/Psy) | The language of prejudice: The influence of language on implicit attitudes | Mahzarin Banaji, Yarrow Dunham, J. Murgane |
2005 – 2006 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Krupa Bhojani (MBB/PN) | Hands as causal agents: Seven-month-olds and the development of causal perceptions | Susan Carey |
Kathleen Lee | When it is best to expect reality: Optimism predicts biased risk perception under conditions of stress | Wendy Mendes |
Caroline Pemberton (MBB/CN) | Young children's reasoning about the influences of social categories on friendship | Elizabeth Spelke, Kristin Shutts |
Lisa Shu (Ec/Psy) | Is the endowment effect due to loss aversion or mere ownership? | Daniel Gilbert, Carey Morewedge, Sendhil Mullainathan |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Virginia Borges | Children's responses to gender-based inequalities | Elizabeth Spelke K. Olson |
Caitlin McKee (MBB/CN) | The effects of social information on infants' food preferences | Elizabeth Spelke, Katherine Kinzler |
2004 – 2005 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Lucas Butler | Children's early understanding of pictures and words as symbols | Susan Carey |
Erika Cowman | Effects of pramipexole, a D2/D3-receptor agonist, on reward responsiveness | Diego Pizzagalli, Anne Eden-Evins |
Carmen Iguina | Primate vocal communication: Evidence for vocal adjustment in response to auditory feedback | Marc Hauser, Roian Egnor |
Lindsey Powell | Thinking about thoughts: The neural correlates of belief attribution | Susan Carey, Rebecca Saxe |
Alexandra Rosati | Context-sensitive discounting in two non-human primates, the cotton-top tamarin (Sanguinis oedipus) and the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) | Marc Hauser, Jeffrey Stevens |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Alia Crum | Think and grow fit: The mind-body connection between excercise and health | Philip Stone, Tal Ben-Shachar |
Caitlin Riley | Infants' preference and engagement as predictors of problematic behavior in preschool at age five | Matthew Nock, Karlen Lyons-Ruth |
2003 – 2004 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Jennifer Chen | Correlates of anosognosia in Alzheimer's patients: The roles of false memory and the distinctiveness heuristic in awareness | Andrew Budson |
Stella Christie | Inferring the nonovbious: Infants' knowledge of correlation between structure and function | Elizabeth Spelke, Lori Markson |
Caitlin Ferriter | Distinguishing between general and specific family correlates of eating disorders | Pamela Keel |
Alyson Zalta | Homogeneity of eating patterns in collegiate peers: A longitudinal study | Pamela Keel |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
David Canose | Chasing a mirage: An investigation into the conditions under which perfectionism facilitates or inhibits task performance | Shelley Carson |
Hannah Kenser | Cognitive effects of priming in biracial individuals | Ken Nakayama, Joan Chiao |
Bonnie Poon | Upward advice transmission: Who gives and who gets? | Richard Hackman, Todd Pittinsky |
2002 – 2003 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Stephen Kim | Contribution of Prefrontial Contical Areas To Spatial Learning and Navigation in the Rat | Mark Baxter |
Tiffany Lai | RetrivialInstructions and False Recognition: Testing the Limis of the Distinctiveness Heuristic | Amy Wiseman, Daniel Schacter |
Emily Murphy | The Effect of PDE 10A Inhibition on Frontal Cognitive Performance in a Subchronic Phencyclidine model of Schizophrenia | Mark Baxter |
Kristin Naragon | The Perception of Timbre as an Organizational Structure in Twentieth Century Nontonal Music | Joshua Fineberg, Elizabeth Spelke |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Frances Chen | The Evolution of Cooperation: Finding the Requisite Cognitive Mechanisms in Cottontop Tamarins (Sanguinus Oedipus) | Marc Hauser |
Alexander Jordan | Obsessionality, Distraction Strategy, and the Accessibility of Suppressed Thoughts | Daniel Wegner, Megan Kozak |
Joseph Whitchurch | Guilty by Association: An Empathic Model of Biased Anticipated Self-Evaluations as the Result of an Associate's Behavior | Nicholas Epley |
2001 – 2002 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Cendri Hutcherson | The Effect of Stressful Mental Imagery on the Cortisol Response of Females with and without a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse | Robert Stickgold |
Conor Liston | Self-Recognition, Language, and the Origins of Long-term Event Memory: Implications for Infantile Amnesia | Jerome Kagan |
Andrew Rosenfeld | Who Could Ask for Anything more? A Behavioral Study on the Role of Syncopation In Human Rhythm Perception | Tecumseh Fitch |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Dana Gavrieli | Gender and Leadership in the Israeli Defense Forces | Richard Hackman |
Tamara Spiewak | The Effect of Acting Training On Social Skills | Richard Hackman |
Ian Tomb | Emotion and Decision-Making: A Critical Test of The Somatic Marker Hyphothesis | Marc Hauser |
2000 – 2001 | ||
Psychology Faculty Prizes | ||
Erin Clifford | Interactions Between Attentional Set, Feature Characteristics and Explicit Capture | Daniel Simons |
Daniel Luskin | Practice Does not Make Perfect: The Time-Course of Change in Performance on a Sleep-Dependent Perceptual Learning Task | Robert Stickgold, Mark Baxter |
Samuel Moulton | Implicit Measures of Ganzeld Success: An Experimental Assessment | Stephen Kosslyn |
Rachel Tobey | MS/VDB Lesions Blunt NMDAR1 Upregulation in Rat Dentate Gyrus Following Bilateral Perforant Path Transection: A Potential Model For Alzheimer's Disease | Mark Baxter, J. Morrison |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes | ||
Grace Chan | The Impact of Violence on Cortisol Secretion and the Associated Cognitive Performance in Children | B. Kennedy, Michelle Leichtman |
Kelley Edwards | Pathways To Hope: Strategies Used By Inner-City Families To Cope Successfully With Childhood Asthma | Sheldon White |