Boggs Center for Energy and BiotechnologyDepartment of Psychology

 

 

 

Undergraduate Studies: Honors Theses

Honors Theses 1999 – 2008

 

Kathryn Black, 2008
Director: Professor Carrie Wyland
Perception and Experience of Control and Its Influence on Self-Esteem

Jeremy Eberle, 2008
Director: Professor Carrie Wyland
Self-Awareness and Affective Forecasting

Ashley Jacobson, 2008
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
Vulnerability to Stubstance use in Rural Adolescents

Maria N. Kanopoulos, 2008
Director: Professor Laurie O'Brien
Gender Differences in Attributions to Discrimination Following Rejection

Justin Kordys, 2008
Director: Professor Laurie O'Brien
White's Negative Feelings Toward Affirmative Action: An Examination of Principled Conservatism and In-Group Preference

Mara Mudd, 2008
Director: Professor Laurie O'Brien
Gender Differences in Entitlement: Effects of Task Gender-Typing

Megan Newhouse, 2008
Director: Professor Carrie Wyland
Effect of Negative Emotion on Perceived Exertion During Exercise

Jenna Rosen, 2008
Director: Professor Lisa Szechter
Gender, Science, and Informal Learning

Lauren K. Ruth, 2008
Director: Professor Chrisman Wilson
The Relationship Between Eye-Contact, Repetitive Behaviors, and Anxiety in Autism

Shubho Sarkar, 2008
Director: Professor Jeffrey Lockman
Motor Coordination in Early Tool Use


Steven Bright,  2007
Director: Professor Edward Golob
Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease in Young Adults: A Combined Genetic and Neurophysiological Analysis

Reesa Dube,  2007
Director: Professor Laurie O’Brien
Perceptions of Racism Post-Katrina and Terror Management Theory

Leslie Frankel, 2007
Director: Professor Jeffrey Lockman
Infant Object Exploration

Rachel Horvath,  2007
Director: Professor Lisa Szechter
Young Children’s Understanding of Spatial Graphic Representations

Katianne Lucey,  2007
Director:  Professor Enrique Varela
Repressive Adaptive Style in Children Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes

Usman Mian, 2007
Director: Professor Janet Ruscher
Prejudice Post-Katrina:  The Effects of Social Dominance Orientation and Competition for Resources on Perceptions of Evacuees

Sonia Schwartz,   2007
Director:  Professor Enrique Varela
Anxiety Sensitivity and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children following Hurricane Katrina

Jessica Siegel,   2007
Director: Professor Laurie O’Brien
Perceptions of Gender Discrimination

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Amanda Bielonko, 2006

Director: Professor Ronald Landis
Various kinds of Parental Support and the Development of Autonomy in College Students

Charles Calderwood, 2006
Director: Professor Ronald Landis
Tokenism in Virtual Teams

Amber Garrison, 2006
Director: R. Enrique Varela
Parenting Practices and Anxiety in a Cultural Context

Nicole Leveille, 2006
Director: Professor Ronald Landis
Gender and Legal Insanity

Rebecca Ostrich, 2006
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
School-based Extracurricular Activities as a Buffer between Exposure to Community Violence and Self-esteem in African American Adolescents

Sarah Vetter, 2006
Director: Professor R. Enrique Varela
Anxiety and Hispanic American Children's Adjustment: Cultural and Contextual Effect

Julie Vigna, 2006
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
Coping Style and Attributional Style as Mediators to Community Violence and Their Resultant Effects on Aggression

Stephanie Weiner, 2006
Director: Professor R. Enrique Varela
Fear Across Cultures

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Lindsey Bell, 2005

Director: Professor Janet B. Ruscher
Critical Feedback in Intergroup Settings

Katherine Brody, 2005
Director: Professor Janet B. Ruscher
Sexism and Perceptions of Women’s Persuasive Speech

Nicole Kaban, 2005
Director: Professor Paul Colombo
Effect of C-Fos Antistense of Oligodeoxynucleotides on Hippocampal-Dependent Memory Performance

Sarah Covert, 2005
Director: Professor Janet B. Ruscher
Hey Baby: The Relation between Benevolent Sexism and Response to Terms of Endearment

Sara Debus, 2005
Director: Professor Enrique R. Varela
Parent-Child Agreement of Child Anxiety Expression in a Cross-Cultural Sample

Elizabeth Horn, 2005
Director: Professor Gary P. Dohanich
Stimulant Use in the College Population

Cynthia Hughes, 2005
Director: Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman
Infant Object Exploration

Galen Jones, 2005
Director: Professor Denise L. Newman
Personality Predictors of Adolescent Risky Behavior and Injury

Emily Mcwilliams, 2005
Director: Professor David M. Corey
Auditory Processing And Delayed Auditory Feedback

Ashley Newton, 2005
Director: Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman
Infant Object Exploration: Babies, Blocks and Bangs

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Elizabeth Brown, 2004

Director: Professor C. Chrisman Wilson
Inconsistent Behavioral Exam and Children's Donations: A Methodological Revision

Heather Dambly, 2004
Director: Professor Enrique Varela
Acculturation and Anxiety in Children

Elizabeth Larson, 2004
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
The Role of Maternal Mental Health in the Development of Post-Trauma Psychopathology in Children

Dana Lewis, 2004
Director: Professor Ron Landis
Affects of Stress on Absenteeism

Tara Mathews, 2004
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
Differential Diagnoses of PTSD and ADHD in Children Exposed to Community Violence

Kelly Sauerwein, 2004
Director: Professor Edgar O'Neal
Other Perceptions and Metaperceptions: The Role of Perceiver Information and Task Interdependence on Perceptions and Metaperceptions of Targets

Lisa Sontag, 2004
Director: Professor Denise Newman
Body Image in American Indian Adolescents

Jill Tanenbaum, 2004
Director: Professor Barbara Moely
The Relationship of Maternal Depression to the Reciprocity between Harsh Parenting and Negative Child Reactivity

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Ashley Babendure, 2003

Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
The Effects of Exposure to Community Violence on Academic Functioning as Mediated by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Brooke Barbera, 2003
Director: Professor Melanie McGrath
Prototype Perception: A Predictor of Smoking Change in College Students

Tania Cardoso, 2003
Director: Professor Edgar O'Neal
Women's Gender Roles and Self-Perceptions of Their Leadership Styles

Lori Davis, 2003
Director: Professor Gary Dohanich
Anatomy of Addiciton

Justin Elstrott, 2003
Director: Professor Duncan Irschick
A Comparative Analysis of Habitat Use and Clinging in Arboreal Arboreal Anoles

Victoria Ervin, 2003
Director: Professor Janet Ruscher
Intrinsic Motivation for Volunteering and Satisfaction with Service Learning

Scott Francioni, 2003
Director: Professor Paul Colombo
Neural Mechanisms of Memory

Jeffery Getbehead, 2003
Director: Professor Ronald Landis
Factors Influencing Team Performance

Patricia Metzger, 2003
Director: Professor Janet Ruscher
The Effects of Body Image Consciousness on Negative Metaperceptions

Jennette Palcic, 2003
Director: Professor Melanie McGrath
Alcohol Expectancies and Their Relationship with Fraternity and Sorority Membership

Lacey Sahuque, 2003
Director: Professor Paul Colombo
Learning-Dependent of C-FOS Transcription in the Rat Orbitofronal Cortex using the Social Transmission of Food Preference Taks

Elizabeth Weeks, 2003
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
Taking the Lead: Individual Learners and Positive Academic Outcomes for African American Adolescents

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Victoria L. Browning, 2002

Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
The Relation Between Stressful Life Events and Self-Esteem Among African American Adolescents

Jessica M. Devivo, 2002
Director: Professor Barbara Moely
Positive Talk Pregnancy

Sarah M. Gallini, 2002
Director: Professor Barbara Moely
The Effects of Service Learning on Students' Attitudes: A Comparative Study

Jesse Lind, 2002
Director: Professor Carl Thoresen
Determinants of Job Based Value Attainment

Christopher May, 2002
Director: Professor Joseph Dien
Expectancy and Semontic Matching as Respective-Modulators of an Early Symmetrical Posterior Even-Related Potential

Rebecca Roller, 2002
Director: Professor Carl Thoresen
Personality Trait as a Predictor of Value Attainment

Katherine Shepard, 2002
Director: Professor Barbara Moely
The Effects of Service Learning on Elementary School Students

Erica Tennenbaum, 2002
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
The Academic Achievement Among Resilient African American Adolescents

Stacey Turner, 2002
Director: Professor Carl Thoresen
Predicting Job Satisfaction and Job Burnout: The Role of Personality, Perceived and Objective Job Characteristics

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Lisa A. Delise, 2001

Director: Professor Ronald Landis
College Student Satisfaction, Involvement, and Perceived Support: Does Residence Make a Difference?

Dina Kopperman, 2001
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
The Relationships Between Self-Esteem & Academic Achievement in African American Students

Tracey Pastan, 2001
Director: Professor Margaret Dempsey
Family and Environmental Factors that Lead To Emotion-Focused Coping in Children

Jenene Roberto, 2001
Director: Professor Jeffrey Lockman
Effects Of Contrast On Young Children's Drawing

Justin R. Springer, 2001
Director: Professor Margaret Dempsey
Self-Efficacy and Science Performance: The Relation to Individual and School Characteristics

Tara Stacker, 2001
Director: Professor Melanie McGrath
Self-Esteen as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption, Sexual Risk Behavior and Sexual Victimization Among College Freshmen

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Meredith N. Cohn, 2000

Director: Professor Edgar O'Neal
The Effects of Body Self-Objectification in Women: Caucasian/African American Differences

Shannon M. Fuller, 2000
Director: Professor Margaret Dempsey
The Impact Of Social Support For Children Faced With Chronic Stress

Catherine M. Galeener, 2000
Director: Professor Terry Christenson
Evolution of Male Aggression

Stephen R. Garofano, 2000
Director: Edgar O'Neal
The Effect of Violent Video Games on Perception of Hostile Intent

Sarah Hyatt, 2000
Director: Professor Barbara Moely
Reading Intervention for Below Level Middle School Students

Cecily Kanter, 2000
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
Gender as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Exposure to Community Violence and Posttraumatic Stress

Amanda L. Keevican, 2000
Director: Professor Melanie McGrath
The Impact of Self-Esteem and Stress on Smoking Behavior of College Students

Megan A. Mcfarland, 2000
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
Reading Comprehension and the Race of the Characters

Leah J. Newkirk, 2000
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
The Effect of Incongruent Parent and Teacher Expectations

Lieuko Nguyen, 2000
Director: Professor Gary Dohanich
Estrogenic Regulation of M2 and M4 Receptor Binding in Hippocampal Fields of Female Rats that Display Different Working Memory Performance in the Morris Water Maze

Jennifer N. Trapani, 2000
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
Disturbances of Attachment in Infancy

Rebecca R. Zusman, 2000
Director: Professor Ronald Landis
The Effects of Web-Based Technology on Organizational Recruitment Efforts

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London L. Ahders, 1999

Director: Professor Margaret Dempsey
Coping Strategies of Inner-City Youth Dealing with Environmental Stress

Laura K. Ales, 1999
Director: Professor Megan Hurley
Complexity, Interest and Clarity Of Conversations in Elderly Women

Ashley M. Berg, 1999
Director: Professor Paul Tesluk
Pay Plan Modification: The Roles of Objective Pay and Fairness in Determining Effectiveness Perceptions and Satisfaction with a New Incentive System

Shawnee D. Braun, 1999
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety as a Mediating Factor Between Exposure to Community Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Ignacio Castellon, 1999
Director: Professor Paul Colombo
The Role of Signaling Proteins in Spatial Memory Formation in Young and Aged Rats

Marianna J. Fischer, 1999
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
Social Support Characteristics as Moderators of the Relationship Between Exposure to Violence and Post-Trumatic Stress Disorder

Abbe M. Goncharsky, 1999
Director: Professor Megan Hurley
The Impact of Child-Care Quality on Language Development

Lisa Kaplan, 1999
Director: Professor Jeffrey Lockman
Infant Landmark Coding

Joel D. Larma, 1999
Director: Professor Jeffrey Lockman
Infant Landmark Coding

Jessica K. Laursen Duarte, 1999
Director: Professor Jeffrey Lockman
Infant's Use of Hammer-Like Objects

Sean P. Mathew, 1999
Director: Professor Michael Cunningham
The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Life Satisfaction Among College-Aged Adolescents

Rachel A. Meltzer, 1999
Director: Professor Margaret Dempsey
Coping Strategies of Inner-City Youth Dealing with School Stress

Justin C. Perry, 1999
Director: Professor Melanie McGrath
Smoking, Diet and Exercise Habits in College Freshmen: A Study of Body Esteem, Motivation for Physical Activity and Locus of Control

Lara R. Robinson, 1999
Director: Professor Barbara Moely
Math Attitudes and Motivation

Lauren M. Rochleau, 1999
Director: Professor Edgar O'Neal
The Effects of Arousal Ambiguity and Relationship Satisfaction on Attention and Attraction to Others

Eve N. Rosenthal, 1999
Director: Professor Edgar O'Neal
Relationship Satisfaction and Perceptions of Others' Behavior as Flirtatious

Joy L. Terrell, 1999
Director: Professor Janet Ruscher
Differential Reactivity of the Modern Racism Scale and Linguistic Abstraction Measures

Lisa S. Usdan, 1999
Director: Professor Gary Dohanich
The Effects of Endomorphin-1 and Endomorphin-2 the Mu-Opiate Receptors in SH-SY5Y Cells

Kelly Vance, 1999
Director: Professor Gary Dohanich
Transforming Growth Factor Alpha and Interactions with the Blood-Brain Barrier

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