Psychological Sciences
In its Honors Program the Department of Psychological Sciences awards one level of Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2023-2024
- Kevin Alejandro Aviles, "Meditation, Education, and Transformation: An Empirical Test of Students’ Experiences in a Meditation and Wellness Course" (Honors)
Adrian J. Bravo + Mark J. McLaughlin, Todd M. Thrash
- Samuel Joel Gruber, "Emotion Regulation Among Children with Incarcerated Parents: Relations to Caregiver Income and Coping Strategies" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Sarah Bisconer, Monica Seger
- Sarah Jane Lage, "Crushing a cockroach versus a butterfly: The effects of female defendant physical attractiveness and crime type on guilt attributions and punishment harshness" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Catherine Forestell, Madelyn Labella, Elena Prokhorova
- Isabel Yan Li, "Omnivorous Women’s Perceptions of Vegan and Vegetarian Men as a function of their Dietary Motivations" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Harvey Langholtz, Peter Vishton, Kate Harrigan
- Thu Minh Pham, "Remote Acculturation: The Case of Attribution Styles among American Fans of Japanese Anime and Manga" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Michael Cronin, Xiaowen Xu
- Maya Reddy, "Adverse Childhood Experiences on College Student’s Immune Function Status: An Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and COVID-19 Stress" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Patricia Habersham, Paul Kieffaber
- Olivia Grace Solís Ritchey, "Personality Pathways: Depression and Nonsuicidal Self-injury in College Students" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Xiaowen Xu, Reya Farber
- Carina Gross Rosenberg, "Perceptions of relational mobility and loneliness among American university students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Xiaowen Xu, Michael Cronin
- Sam Brody Wilson, "Personality, Gaming Motivations, and Internet Gaming Disorder: A Motivational Mediation Model in College Students" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Michele King, Xiaowen Xu
- Ellen Anne Windham, "Health Characteristics of Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants" (Honors)
Madelyn Labella + Adrian Bravo, Sarah Menefee
- Quanhan Zhou, "Emotion Regulation Choice, Flexibility, and Effectiveness in the Face of Interpersonal Stress" (Honors)
Meghan Quinn + Kelly Crace, Adrian Bravo
2022-2023
- Yvettea Melissa Bivins-Sanchez, "Mental Health Stigmatization: How Imagined Contact Affects In-group & Out-group Bias" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Joanna Schug, Victoria Castillo
- Sylvain Nicolas Chassagneux, "Sleep and Early Childhood Stressors in College Students: Examining Alcohol Use as a Moderator" (Honors)
Meghan Quinn + Adrian Bravo, Deborah Lee-Ferrand
- Xiatian Chu, "The Influence of Relational Mobility and Social Esteem on Experienced Loneliness in Asian International Students Studying in the United States" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Janice Zeman, Heather Sasinowska
- Alaina Isabelle Collings, "Training Theory of Mind: The Impact of Discourse and False Belief Experience" (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Madelyn Labella, Anya Hogoboom
- Rebecca Jill Dunaief,"College Adjustment, Substance Use Beliefs, Coping Motivations, and Problematic Use: A Moderated-Mediation Model among First Year College Students" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Josh Burk, Sarah Menefee
- Elizabeth Anne Germain, "Perceived Descriptive Norms, Academic Stress, and College Students' Sleep Habits" (Honors)
Madelyn Labella + Meghan Quinn, Kathleen Jenkins
- Elizabeth Muse Kerman, "Cognitive Decline and Contact Sports: The Relationship Between P3 Amplitude and Sub-concussive Head Impact" (Honors)
Paul Kieffaber + Cheryl Dickter, Robert Kohl
- Hannah Yasmin Khan, "Do Those Who Come Here Belong Here?: Sense of Belonging and Multicultural Organization Membership in Multiracial and Monoracial Students of Color at a Predominantly White Institution" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Madelyn Labella, Patton Burchett
- Rachel Li, "Longitudinal Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Friendship Quality: A Matter of Type and Time" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Matthew Hilimire, Dana Willner
- Shuhan Liang, "Examining Measures of EEG as Biomarkers for Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Honors)
Paul Kieffaber + Brian Rabinovitz, Sarah Stafford
- Lilly Michela McClendon, "The Superpower of Sleep: Poor Sleep Quality Predicts Worse Executive Control Under Conditions of Stress" (Honors)
Meghan Quinn + Madelyn Labella, Kelly Crace
- Marina Pantner, "An Investigation of Self-Regulation as a Mediator Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Future Addictive Behaviors" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Christopher Ball, Paula Pickering
- Grace Elizabeth Phillip, "Stress and Animal Therapy Rewards: The Impacts of Animal Interaction on Neurological Markers of Stress in College Students" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Paul Kieffaber, Dan Cristol
- Kezhen Qi, "Investigating the Relationship Between N2pc and Rapid Saccadic Eye Movements" (Honors)
Paul Kieffaber + Robert Barnet, Brian Rabinovitz, Matthew Haug
- Matthew Braden Siroty, "Mindfulness and Avoidant Coping: Examining the Behavioral Correlates of Suicidal Ideation among Sexual Minority College Students" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Madelyn Labella, Thomas Linneman
- Yifan Yuan, "Associations Among Self-Regulation, Life Stress, and Suicidal Ideation in Adolescents: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach" (Honors)
Madelyn Labella + Meghan Quinn, Noah Lemos
2021-2022
- Anisha Vanka, "Cultural Variations in Experiences of Stress in a Diverse Sample of Adults" (Honors)
Madelyn Labella + Leslie Cochrane, Joanna Schug, Kaitlyn Harrigan - Annika Allen, "Imagined Contact with Autism: The Effects of Labeling and Behaviors on Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Josh Burk, Robin Looft-Wilson, Adrian Bravo - Avery Freeman, "Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Morality and Motivation Behind the Algorithm" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Ashleigh Everhardt-Queen, Jessica Stephens, Paul Davies, Reya Farber - Emma Ackerman, "Connecting Moral Injury and PTSD among Military Veterans: The Role of Problem-Focused Thought Rumination & Social Support" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Meghan Quinn, Elizabeth Burgin - Jacqueline Smith, "Friendship Formation Across Cultures: How Do People Meet Their Friends?" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Madelyn Labella, Tomoyuki Sasaki - Matthew Lowrie, "Do You Salt Your Soup: Investigating the Effect of Interference Control on the Cognitive Reflection Test" (Honors)
Chris Ball + John Parman, Harvey Langholtz - Matthew Wright, "Between the Gay-Straight Binary: Gender and Sexual Identities as Peripheral Cues in Advertising" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Timothy Barnard, Meghan Miller, Candice Benjes-Small - Zhiwen Yu, "Intergroup Trust: An Examination of Expectations of Ingroup Favoritism in a Trust Game" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Xiaowen Xu, Emily Moschini
2020-2021
- Elise Coberly, "Message Reframing & COVID-19 Safety Precautions" (Honors)
Xiaowen Xu + Jennifer Stevens, Dennis Smith - Jada Copeland, "Perceptions of Confronters of Racist Remarks Towards Interracial Couples: The Effects of Confronter Race, Assertiveness, Explicit Bias, and Participant Race" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Adrian Bravo, Thomas Linneman - Ian Cropley, "The Effect of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Sociability in Adult Rats" (Honors)
Robert Barnet + Pamela Hunt, Paul Vierthaler - Paige Little, "Attentional Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: The Effects of Dual Orexin Receptor Blockade on an NMDA Receptor Hypofunction Model" (Honors)
Josh Burk + Randolph Coleman, Meghan Quinn - Yuxin Liu, "Attentional Bias to Low-Calorie Foods in Restrained Eaters" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Cheryl Dickter, Jaclyn Moloney, Tatia D. Granger - Madeleine Moore, "Y-Maze Spontaneous Alternation and Response Alternation Task for Assessing Spatial Memory in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)" (Honors)
Pamela Hunt + Robin Looft-Wilson, Matthew Wawersik - Erin Murray, "How Differences in Political Ideology Impact Close Relationships" (Honors)
Xiaowen Xu + Jaclyn Moloney, Jorge Terukina - Emma Shahin, "Examining the Effect of Music Journaling, in the Form of Biweekly Music Playlists, on the Vividness and Emotionality of Autobiographical Memory Recall" (Honors)
Brian Rabinovitz + Janice Zeman, Brian Hulse - Samantha Sorid, "The Moderating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty on the Relationship Between Health Anxiety and COVID-related Stress and Precautions" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Kelly Crace, Meghan Quinn - Angela Vasishta, "Understanding Ideal Social Networking Strategies Based on Relational Mobility and Environmental Stability" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Joshua Puzey, M. Drew LaMar, Lee Kirkpatrick - Sierra Walters, "The Relation of Parental Incarceration to Child Self-Perception and School Programming Impacts" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Janice Zeman, Ashleigh Everhardt Queen
2019-2020
- Stephanie Cerrato, "Meet Your Meat: Imagined Intergroup Contact on Implicit and Explicit Responses to Food" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Cheryl Dickter, Amy Quark, Meghan Sinton - Jennifer Fiedler, "The Self-Reference Effect: How Elaborative Processing and Associability Function Through Self-schemas" (Honors)
Chris Ball + Meghan Sinton, Paul Heideman - Elizabeth Flatt, "Border Control: The Use of Language as it Relates to Compensatory Control Theory" (Honors)
Xiaowen Xu + Frederick Ernst, David Dominiqu, Jennifer Stevens - Sarah Frary, "Reaching with Light: The Impact of Remote Tool Use on Size and Distance Perception" (Honors)
Peter Vishton + Catherine Forestell, Daniel Cristol, M. Christine Porter - Bailey Hall, "Synesthesia and its Cognitive Correlates" (Honors)
Peter Vishton + Josh Burk, Jackson Sasser - Sana Lall-Trail, "Impact on Personality on Attitudes towards Diversity and Diversity Initiatives" (Honors)
Xiaowen Xu + Jaclyn Moloney, Inga Carboni - Rita McInerny, "The Relationship Between Child and Mother-Reported Maternal Behaviors and Children’s Family Drawings: Impact of Child Gender and Age" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Christy Porter, Brian Kreydatus - Taylor Noem, "Effect of Spatial Surround and Sound on Individuals" (Honors)
Jennifer Stevens + Chris Ball, Evie Burnet - Hope Parker, "Patterns of Relations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Risk-taking Behaviors, and the Influence of Protective Factors on Harm Reduction and Resilience In a University Student Sample Survey" (Honors)
Sarah Bisconer + Pamela Hunt, Sarah Menefee - Emma Preston, "Parental Incarceration as a Unique Risk Factor for Delinquency and Psychopathology: Examining Mentorship as a Buffer" (Honors)
Adrian Bravo + Meghan Sinton Miller, Kelly Crace - Cameron Shifflett, "Real is What You Make It: An Analysis of Authenticity and Inspiration in Daily Life" (Honors)
Todd Thrash + Joanna Schug, Anya Lunden, Kate Harrigan - Caitlyn Whitesell, "Bilingualism and Emotion: How do Spanish-English Bilinguals Experience the Two Languages Differently?" (Honors)
Kaitlyn Harrigan + Peter Vishton, Rachel Varra, Katherine Barko-Alva
2018-19
- Valerie Bambha, "The Impact of Guided Pretend Play on Preschool Children's Theory of Mind" (Honors)
Kate Harrigan + Peter Vishton, Anya Lunden - Vansh Bansal, "Using the Prisoner’s Dilemma to Evaluate Personality Indicators of Cooperation"
Constance Pilkington + Joanna Schug, Lisa Anderson - Katelyn Birchfield, "Peer-Mediated Interventions for Middle School Students with High-Functioning Autism" (Honors)
Harvey Langholtz + Cheryl Dickter, Heartley Huber - Sarah Bottari, "The Effect of Internalizing Symptoms on Affect Recognition and Theory of Mind Performance in a Community Sample of Adolescents"
Elizabeth Raposa + Paul Kieffaber, Carla Buck - Laila Drury, "Deconstructing Resilience: Running, Personality, and Psychopathology"
Christopher Conway + Meghan Miller, Silvia Tandeciarz, Harvey Langholtz - Giselle Ferguson, "Effect of Descriptive Social Norms on Implicit and Explicit Responses to Foods"
Catherine Forestell + Constance Pilkington, Jessica Stephens - Sara Franklin-Gillette, "Peer Emotion Socialization and the Development of Aggressive Behavior in Adolescence" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Catherine Forestell, Janise Parker - Elizabeth Gallary, "Food Neophobia in Children and the Role of Sensory Characteristics of Food" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Robert Scholnick, Elizabeth Raposa, Meghan Miller - Ruitao Lin, "Effects of Action Intention, Binocular Depth Cues, Motion Parallax, Haptic Feedback, and Body Posture on the Perception of the Ebbinghaus Visual Illusion" (Honors)
Peter Vishton + Christopher Ball, Mainak Patel - Isabel Marcovici, "Police Officers and Personality Characteristic"
Jaclyn Maloney + Christopher Ball, Daniel Runfola - Daniel McNeil, "Group Differences in Adolescents’ Reluctance to Express Emotions: Relations to Parent Emotion Socialization and Adolescent Internalizing Symptomatology" (Honors)
Janice Zerman + Chris Conway, Dana Lashley - Megan Serody, "Gender and the Connection between Distress Tolerance and Psychopathology"
Christopher Conway + Pamela Hunt, Doug Young - Stephen Smith, "Preserving Relationship Stability and Self-Evaluations despite Individual Emotional Traits: The SEM Model and Specialization within Romantic Relationships"
Constance Pilkington + Joanna Schug, Jackson Sasser, Meaghan Stiman - Zihan Yang, "The Social Ecology of Empathy and Helping: A Comparison of Chinese and American University Students"
Joanna Schug + Janice Zeman, Gul Ozeygin
2017-18
- Channing Everidge, "Are Approach-Avoidance Emotions Represented in the Brain as Approach-Avoidance Actions?" (Honors)
Christopher Ball + Kaitlyn Harrigan, Catherine Levesque - Mary Grutta, "Supporting Meaningful Career Paths: Effects of Mentoring and Adulthood Perception on Vocational Outcomes for Emerging Adults" (Honors)
Elizabeth Raposa + Meghan Miller, David Long Sulleen Kauffman, "The Relation Between Trustworthy Behavior and Facial Mimicry: An Examination of Behavior in a Trust Game" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Christy Porter, Jaime Settle- Rachel Plummer, "The Effect of Appearance-Related Media on Cognitive Responses to Food" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Cheryl Dickter, Kenneth Kambis, Meghan Sinton - Caitlin Taylor, "From Bias to Behavior: Predicting Prejudice Towards Autistic Individuals" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Joshua Burk, Raymond McCoy
2016-17
- Christian Bean, "The Role of Executive Control Deficits in Cognitive Correlates of Dysphoria" (Honors)
Christopher Ball + Scott Cone, Paul Davies
- Hannah Bunting, "Cultural Variation in Causal Attribution as an Adaptive Strategy: the Role of Relational Mobility" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Michael Cronin, Meghan Sinton, Tomoko Kato
- Samuel Jens, "Can You See It? Facial Expression Leakage in Response to Emotional Intensity" (Honors)
Thomas Daniel + Christopher Conway, Jaime Settle - Thomas Le, "The Effect of Conformity to Feminine Norms on Women’s Food Consumption after a Sad Mood Induction" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Elizabeth Raposa, Meghan Sinton, Sharon Zuber
- Rachel Orleans-Pobee, "Personality and Fear Conditioning: Effects of Neuroticism" (Honors)
Chris Conway + Robert Barnet, Bob Scholnick
- Natalee Price, "Links Between Maternal Emotion Socialization and Adolescents' Social Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Peer Emotion Socialization" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Inga Carboni, Elizabeth Raposa
- Conor Smith, "Building the Future from the Past: Evaluating the Relationship between Nostalgia, Imagination, & Creativity" (Honors)
Todd Thrash + Joanna Schug, Alexander Angelov
- Connor Symons, "Language Patterns as Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors of Depression in Adolescence" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Daniel Parker, Kaitlyn Harrigan
- Yuchen Wang, "Do Stereotype Consistent Media Profiles of Sexual Outgroup Members affect Perceived Entitativity of and Bias Towards Sexual Outgroups?" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Catherine Forestell, Helis Sikk
- Alexander Williams, "Vicarious Fear Learning: The Role of Empathy" (Honors)
Christopher Conway + Janice Zeman, Michael Daise
2015-16
- Joshua Albertson, "Political Attitudes and the Facial Feedback Hypothesis" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Matthew Hilimire, Paul Manna - Laurel Brockenberry, "Emotion Regulation and Friendship: The Shield and Sword against Adolescent Depression" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Jennifer Cross, Meghan Sinton - Vanessa Duffie, "Mirror Neuron Activation Priming in Novice Versus Expert Ballet Dancers" (Honors)
Jennifer Stevens + Christine Porter, Denise Wade - Edmund Lichter, "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Four-Step Assessment Model in Structural Family Therapy" (Honors)
Michael Nichols + Cheryl Dickter, Angela Leruth - Gabrielle Mecca, "Fed Up: Do Diet Violations Affect Implicit and Explicit Wanting and Liking in Restrained Eaters?" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Cheryl Dickter, Meghan Sinton, Monica Seger - Sarah Perry, "Coming Home: Challenges Related to Reentry and Recidivism for Previously Incarcerated New Mothers" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Scott Cone, Allison Scott - Justin Thibault, "Bittersweet Recollection: An Ecological Study of Nostalgia" (Honors)
Christopher Ball + Peter Vishton, Paul Davies - Karyne Williams, "The Effect of Diversity Ideology on the Perception of Political Candidates Varying By Race" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Joanna Schug, Marcus Holmes
2014-15
- Lauren Collier, "Effect of Parental Dependence and Escape-Drinking on Affect and Attentional Bias to Alcohol-Related Cues in Pre-Adolescents" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Pamela Huny and Frederick Smith - Aleeya Ensign, "Creating Cooperation: The Effects of Synchrony in Group Formation Cross-culturally" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Catherine Forestell and Dimitrios Skordos - William Goodling, "Effects of Current Mood State on the Time-Frame
Orientationj of Mind-Wandering" (Honors)
Christopher Ball + Jennifer Stevens and Cary Humber - Nicholas Gupta, "Does Entitativity Reduce Behavioral Attentional and Evaluative Biases Toward Homosexual Couples?" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Catherine Forestell, Jennifer Stevens and Mark Forsyth - Dahanah Josias-Sejour, "The Effects of Race and Stereotypes in the Advertisement of Beverages" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Catherine Forestell, Joanna Schug and Alison Scott - Addie Merians, "The Association Between 5-HTTLPR and Spontaneous Facial Mimicry: An Investigation Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Pamela Hunt and Jacqueline Rodriguez - Emily O'Gorman, "Effect of Exercise on Attentional Bias for Food in Restrained and Emotional Eater" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + MeghanSInton and Alison Scott - Naomi Parr, "Somatization in the Social Environment:
Relationsto Victimization and Friendship Processes Among Middle School Students" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Catherine Forestell and Beverly Sher
2013-14
- Enrique Bello, "Unravelling the Consumer Brain: The Role of Emotion in Purchase Behavior" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Jennifer Stevens, Molly Swetnam-Burland
- Kimberly E. Chaney, "Surmounting Solo Status: Beliefs and Previous Experience Buffer Solo Women's Learning" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Jennifer Stevens, Molly Swetnam-Burland
- Anna Hochgraf, "The Skinny on Regulating Media Images to Prevent Eating Disorders" (Honors)
Meghan Sinton-Miller + Janice Zeman, Scott Ickes, Robert Scholnick - Blina Kruja, "I'll Drink to That: Differential Effect of Fat Labeling, Weight Salience and Dietary Restraint on Consumption" (Honors)
Janice L. Zeman + Danielle H. Dallaire, Douglas A. DeBerry
- Catherine Mitchell, "Emotional Priming and Spontaneous Facial Mimicry of Asian and Caucasian Faces: An Investigation Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Christopher Ball, Jaime Settle - Matthew Schafer
- Benjamin Thomas
- Danielle Weber, "The Effect of Gender, Type of Statement, and Individual Differences on Perceptions of Individuals Who Make and Confront Sexist Remarks" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Suzanne Raitt, Jennifer Stevens
2012-13
- Laura Crespo, "Parent-Child Emotion Talk in Relation to Parental Socialization and Emotion Regulation" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Cheryl Dickter, Kathleen Jenkins - Maegan Jones, "Role of Maternal Messages on Girls' Body Image and their Approach and Avoidance of Foods" (Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Meghan Sinton, Melissa McInerney - Alix Kashdan, "Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A Cross-Cultural Analysis in France and the United States" (Honors)
Joanna Schug + Christy Porter, Giulia Pacini - Aylin Kaya, "Perceptions of Alleged Criminals as a Function of Target Race, Media Presentation, and Prejudice Level" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Catherine Forestell, Salih Can Aciksoz - Rose St. Clair, "An Investigation of the Autobiographical Memory Biases of Socially Anxious Individuals" (Honors)
Christopher Ball + Anya Lunden, M. Christine Porter
2011-12
- Adrian Bravo, "Maternal Incarceration: Effects on Caregivers' Mental Health" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Graham Ousey, Meghan Sinton - Meghan Brown, "Examining the Effect of a Body Image Cognitive Dissonance Prevention Program on Disordered Eating, Risky Alcohol Use, and Sexual Risk Taking" (Honors)
Meghan Sinton + Catherine Forestell, Leisa Meyer - Dolores Gano, "A Victim Who Hasn't Been Wronged Yet: Can Events in the Future Make Us Selfish in the Present?" (Honors)
Paul Story + David Aday, Jennifer Stevens - Leigh Gayle, "Visual Mismatch Negativity as an Indicator of Emotion Processing in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Personality Traits" (Honors)
Paul Kieffaber + Paul Davies, Cheryl Dickter - Grace Hansen, "Adaptive or Elaborative Memory: ERP Analysis of the Survival Effect" (Honors)
Chrisopher Ball, Anne Charity-Hudley, Paul Kieffaber - Rachel Miller, "Children with Incarcerated Mothers: Relations among Risk Factors, Child Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Adjustment" (Honors)
Janice Zeman + Graham Ousey, Meghan Sinton - Jennifer Mills, "An Experimental Analysis of Power and Aggression in Close Relationships" (Honors)
Constance Pilkington + Catherine Forestell, Robert Vinson - Alice Proia, "The Role of Affect in the Control of Attention to Monoracial and Racially Ambiguous Faces" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Christopher Freiman, Glenn Shean - Nicole Scott, "Effects of Self-Other Distinctions on Attributes of Anxiety Symptoms" (Honors)
Karen Schaepe, Glenn Shean, Meghan Sinton - Linda Zou, "Colorblindness and Perceptions of Ambiguous Racial Confrontation" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Jennifer Putzi, Joanna Schug
2010-11
- Engin Ege, "Temperamental Characteristics that Serve as Protective Factors Against Development of Behavior Problems" (High Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Catherine Forestell, Kate Slevin - Jamie Hershaw, "ERP and Behavioral Correlates of Temporal Processing Dysfunction in
Scizotypy " (Honors)
Paul Kieffaber + Bob Barnet, Robert Kohl - William Morris III, "Bridging the Achievement Gap: An Exploratory Study of a Virginia School" (Highest Honors)
Vernon Hurte + Anne Charity-Hudley, Joe Galano
2009-10
- Ellen Anderson, "Emotion and Regulation in Ghanaian and American Children: Associations with Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors" (Highest Honors)
Janice Zeman + Catherine Forestell, Anne Charity Hudley - Virginia Burk, "The Dissociation Approach and Associations to Visual Stimuli and Their Impact on Information Processing" (Honors)
Glenn Shean + Paul Kieffaber, Leisa Meyer - John Cooley, "Peer Victimization, Internalizing Symptoms and Aggression among High-Risk Youth: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation" (Highest Honors)
Janice Zeman + Danielle Dallaire, Joseph Galano, Kelly Whalon - Alexander Hinnebusch, "Validating the Perceptual Vigilance Subscale of the Approach-Avoidance Temperament Questionnaire-Multiple Component with the Dot Probe Paradigm" (High Honors)
Todd Thrash + Janice Zeman, Hiroshi Kitamura - Samuel Monfort, "Reactions to Daily Events as a Function of Emotionality, Social Support, and Familiarity with the Environment" (Honors)
John Nezlek + Todd Thrash, Matthew Haug - Adah Murray, "Can We Predict and Manipulate Memory Intrusions in a Laboratory Setting?" (High Honors)
Christopher Ball + Glenn Shean, Danielle Currier - Laura Nelson, "A Behavioral Examination of Complementarity and Specialization" (High Honors)
Constance Pilkington + Peter Vishton, Inga Carboni - Virginia Newton, "Implicit and Explicit Perceptions of Biracial Targets" (High Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Christy Porter, Paula Blank - Kathleen Rhyner, "Social and Physiological Cognates of Looming Vulnerability to Anxiety" (High Honors)
Glenn Shean + Joseph Galano, Deborah Morse - Lisa Risely, "Increasing Fathers' Involvement in Family Therapy: A Discovery-Oriented Process Study" (High Honors)
Michael Nichols + Janice Zeman, Christine Porter, Patricia Toney - Jennifer Schindler,"The Effect of Nutrition Education on Children's Healthy Food Choices "(Highest Honors)
- William Schreiber, "The Effects of Attention on
Comsumption in Restrained and Non-Restrained Eaters" (Highest Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Pamela Hunt, Danielle Currier
2008-09
- Kayla Anders, "The Effects of Dialect, Gender, and Group Identity on Person Perception" (Highest Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Christy Porter, Julie Richter
- Lisa Bateman, "Children's Emotional Expression within a Close Friendship Dyad" (High Honors)
Janice Zeman + Christy Porter, Sandra Ward
- Kaitlin Brunick, "Finding the Right Size: Examining How Perception Influences the Persistence of Scale Errors in Toddlers" (High Honors)
Peter Vishton + Jennifer Stevens, Anya Lunden
- Kelly Carter, "The Relationship Between Delinquent Behavior, Adolescent-Parent Relationships and Intergenerational Cycles of Crime" (Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Janice Zeman, Graham Ousey
- Kurt DeSoto, "Eye Movements While Zoning Out During Reading: Implications for Mind Wandering and Metaconsciousness" (High Honors)
Christopher Ball + Peter Vishton, Noah Schwartz
- Jennifer Gimbert, "Mood Manipulation Effects on the Characteristics and Retrieval of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memory" (Honors)
Christopher Ball + Cheryl Dickter, Katherine Guthrie
- Andrew Hale, "The Effects of Race, Gender, and Clothing Style on Stereotype Activation" (Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Jeanine Stefanucci, Jason Danner
- Sharon Huston-Willis, "Social Components of Speech Evaluation: Person Perception of Black and White Voices" (High Honors)
Cheryl Dickter + Cathy Forestell, DanielleCurruer - Ashley Hampton, "Peer Relations of Children with Incarcerated Parents" (High Honors)
Danielle Dallaire + Janice Zeman + Sal Saporito - Rebecca Koppel, "Rapid Eye Movement Effects on Traumatic Memories: A test of the Working Memory Hypothesis" (High Honors)
Christopher Ball + Jeanine Stefanucci, Maryse Fauvel - Chelsea Osborne, "Increasing Knowledge and Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables in Children: Does the Type of Exposure Matter?" (High Honors)
Catherine Forestell + Danielle Dallaire, Erica Jackson - Meghan Posey, "Attitudes Towards Mental Disorders" (Honors)
Glenn Shean + Paul Kieffaber, Tom Linneman
2007-08
- Elizabeth Bott, "Effect of Emotion on Achievement Goal Performance" (Honors)
Paul Story + Doug Gross, Kimberly Phillips - Charlene Deming, "Does Metacognitive Training Improve Social Cognition Among Schizophrenic Patients?" (High Honors)
Glenn Shean + Joseph Galano, Cornia Vaida - Sarah Erb, "An Evaluation of the Solutions for Wellness Group on Indicators of Metabolic Syndrome with Persons Receiving Psychiatric Medication" (High Honors)
Sarah Bisconer + Christy Porter, Glenn Shean, Deirdre Royster Jerillyn Kent, "Neural Correlates of Emotional Processing in Schizotypal Individuals" (Highest Honors)
Jennifer Stevens + Glenn Shean, Tamara Sonn- Andrew Lupo, "Mental Rotation and its Relationship with Motoric Accessibility: An ERP study assessing the effects of a physical barrier on spatial discrimination" (High Honors)
Jennifer Stevens + Pamela Hunt, Laurie Wolf - Diana Morelen, "Broad and Narrow Cultural Comparisons of Children's Emotion Regulation: Studies of Ghana and the United States" (Highest Honors)
Janice Zeman + Constance Pilkington, Anne Charity-Hudley - Amy Pastva, "The Effects of Arrhythmic Eye Movements on Memory Recall" (Honors)
Christopher Ball + Glenn Shean, Charles Palermo - Brooke Tortorella, "Parent-Child Concordance on Children's Emotion Regulation: Influence of Age, Gender, and Type of Emotion" (High Honors)
Janice Zeman + Todd Thrash, Lynn Pelco
2006-07
- Elizabeth Fein, "Partner presence and relationship satisfaction: Does the presence of one's partner make relationship ratings more accurate?" (Honors)
Constance Pilkington + Harvey Langholtz, Jim Harris - Nathan Fields, "Unconditioned Stimulus Preexposure Effect: Modulation Via Temporally Specific Fear" (High Honors)
Robert Barnet +Jennifier Stevens, Greg Capelli - Jaclyn Hennessey, "Inhibition Effects in Subliminally Primed Autobiographical Memories" (Highest Honors)
Christopher Ball + Paul Story, Paul Davies - Katherine Hinkle, "God Says Don't Eat Your Dog: The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Models of Moral Intuition" (Honors)
Larry Ventis + Danielle Dallaire, John Morreall - Elicia Lair, "Reader Attribution of Gender to Authors of Scholarly Articles" (High Honors)
Harvey Langholtz + Joseph Galano, Ken Lacy - Whitney Link, "Mediational Factors in Relationship Aggression: The Role of Cognition" (High Honors)
Constance Pilkington + M. Christine Porter, Denise Wade - Elizabeth
Materese , "Obesity and Federal Assistance: Evaluating Food Stamp Sponsored Diets" (High Honors)
Harvey Langholtz + Joseph Galano, Larry Evans - Lauren Nelson, "Media Influences on Trust and Romantic Relationships" (High Honors)
Constance Pilkington + Peter Vishton, Jeanne Wilson - Elizabeth Sadock, "The Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Children's Somatic Symptomology" (High Honors)
Janice Zeman + Danielle Dallaire, Sandra Ward
2005-06
- George Banks, "Generative Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories: Spontaneous vs. Effortful Recall" (Honors)
Chris Ball + Christy Jensen, Chris Howard - Daryl Cameron, (High Honors)
Glenn Shean + Chris Ball, Paul Davies - Robert Franklin, "Sexual and Asexual Difference in Facial Attractiveness: A Cognitive Explanation" (High Honors)
Adam Rubenstein + Constance Pilkington, Mel Ely - Ashley Glover, "The Role of Hemispheric Specializations in Informative Processing and the Production of Humor" (High Honors)
Todd Thrash + Jennifer Stevens, Sal Saporito
2004-05
- Laura Haworth
Robert Barnet + Lee Kirkpatrick, Ray McCoy - Robyn Kondrad
Joshua Burk + Chris Ball, Ann Reed - Andy Lau
Larry Ventis + Adam Rubenstein, Mark Fowler - Lindsay Roberson
Constance Pilkington + Joseph Galano, Evelyn Hall - Drew Saylor
Jennifer Stevens + Todd Thrash, John Morreall - Damian Stephen
Chris Ball + Peter Vishton, Carey Bagdassarian - Peter Thaxter
Jennifer Daly + Fredrick Frieden, John Foubert - Alison Wagner
Pamela Hunt + Josh Burk, John Griffin