This archive highlights Psychology Honors Program projects completed since 1995, reflecting decades of student scholarship and creativity. While the Psychology Honors Program itself dates back to at least 1974, earlier project records are incomplete or unavailable. Together, these listings offer a snapshot of the program’s enduring academic impact.
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Noor Maher Al-Khaouli | Exploring Diverse Adults' Expectations of End-of-Life Care and Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Integration in Advance Care Planning | Dr. Hollen Reischer |
Manaal Azad | The Intersection of Cannabis Use and HIV on Inflammation and Cognitive Function | Dr. Rebecca Ashare |
Erim Buyuk | Interpersonal Trauma and Co-use: Trauma’s Relationship with Substance Use and Disconstraint | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Bridget Crandall | Acoustic Communication in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Alexis Dimitroff | Assessing Individual Differences in Emotional Imagery Ability: A Psychometric Evaluation of The Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire | Dr. Larry Hawk & Dr. Len Simms |
Xinluan Dong | Optimizing the Detection of Anosognosia in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease | Dr. Ralph Benedict |
Riley Godwin | The Role of Household Chaos on Depressive Symptoms and Aggressive Behavior During the Pre-K to Kindergarten Transition | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Caramia Michno | Creating a New “We”: Collective Experiences and University Belongingness | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Matthew Proy | The Sentences Are Not What They Seem: The Problem of Prosody for the Garden-Path Linger | Dr. Andrés Buxó-Lugo |
Giulianna Roth | Understanding Witnesses’ Reactions: Traditional Gender Roles and Sexual Harassment | Dr. Mark Seery |
Lowell Santoro | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters, Problem Drinking, and the Mediating Role of Drinking Motivations | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Riddhi Shelat | I Faked It and Made It. What Now? Influence of Job Interview Behaviors and Outcomes | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Mirelis Silva | The Impact of COVID-19 Isolation on Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation and Suicide Risk | Dr. Rebecca Schwartz-Mette |
Samantha Syracuse | Self-Distancing as a Buffer of the Effects of Cognitive Dissonance | Dr. Mark Seery |
Katy Szynkowski | Simultaneous Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among College Students: Associations With Experiencing Negative Sexual Consequences | Dr. Kathleen Parks |
Kathryn Trumble | Does Problematic Alcohol Use Predict Success in Abstaining From Nicotine Use for One Day Among Adults Who Smoke or Vape? | Dr. Larry Hawk |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Megan Ang | Mitigating Morphine’s Respiratory Effects: The Effect of Afterbirth Ingestion on Morphine-Induced Respiratory Depression | Dr. Alexis Thompson |
Bidushi Bhowmik | Trauma History and the Process of Creating an Ethical Will | Dr. Hollen Reischer |
Hui Yue Crystal Chen | Networks of Relationships and Happiness in Emerging Adulthood: A Cross-Cultural Examination | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Joseph Cook | Investigating the Role of Traumatic Experience in the Association Between Sexual Orientation and Alcohol Use in Young Adult Women | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Reilly Diemond | Voluntary Investment of Unrewarded Effort: The Consequences of Cognitive Dissonance on Perceived Growth and Entitlement in College Students | Dr. Mark Seery |
Rachel Fan | The Role of Salivary Amylase in Taste-Driven Behaviors | Dr. Ann-Marie Torregrossa |
Elizabeth Goldstein | Does the Emotional Content of a Stimulus Affect Accuracy in Pitch Imitation? | Dr. Peter Pfordresher |
Jessica Gurbacki | Romantic Relationship Qualities and Internalizing Problems During Emerging Adulthood | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Sonny Hsia | Female Salivary Proteins and Their Effect on Bitter Diet Acceptance | Dr. Ann-Marie Torregrossa |
Jake Lis | The Impact of Exposure to Peer Successes and Failures on First-Generation College Students | Dr. Mark Seery |
Amanda Mondschein | The Impact of Short-Term Estradiol Administration on Anxiety-like Behavior of Juvenile Hamsters | Dr. Matthew Paul |
Yoon Park | Exploring Potential Mechanisms of the Relationship of Sexual Assault History and Usage of Sexual Assault Protective Behavioral Strategies | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Matthew Preisigke | The Effects of Liraglutide in an Operant Food-Social Choice Model | Dr. Paul Meyer |
Esther Turay | Exploring Generational Differences Regarding Perceptions of Mental Health in Buffalo’s Black Community | Dr. Rebecca Ashare |
Angelia Venezia | Learning to Listen: Do Learning Goals Facilitate High-Quality Listening? | Dr. Kenneth DeMarree |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Bradley Castiglia | The Effect of Partisan Bias Under High- and Low- Elaboration Conditions | Dr. Kenneth DeMarree |
Czarina Gutierrez | The Power of Group Singing: Exploring the Relationship Between Collective Effervescence and Positive Outcomes | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Alexis Harrell | The Black Lives Matter Movement: Influence of Cognitive Load and Implicit Attitudes on Supporters’ Engagement | Dr. Mark Seery |
Taylor Lee | The Effects of Interaction Goals on Disagreements | Dr. Kenneth DeMarree |
David Lichte | Nicotine Administration Increases Appetitive and Consummatory Behaviors for Opioids in the Seeking-Taking Chain and Enhances Punishment Resistance | Dr. Gregory Loney |
Joame Lissade | Associations Between Risk Behaviors, Parental Attachment, and Female College Students Experiences with Sexual Assault | Dr. Kathleen Parks |
John Meyer | Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd: Examining the Associations Between Triadic Friendship Involvement and Psychological Outcomes During Early Adolescence | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Pooja Nattu | The Effects of the Circadian Neurohormone Melatonin on the Response to Cocaine and Pavlovian Food Cues | Dr. Paul Meyer |
Grayson Smith | Multiple Group Identities: The Effect of Winning Versus Losing and Undesirable Group Attributes on Attitudes Towards Groups | Dr. Mark Seery |
Emily Sutton | The Addition of Desired Attitudes as a Predictor Variable in the Theory of Planned Behavior: An Examination Using Help-seeking Intentions | Dr. Kenneth DeMarree |
Omeed Tartak | CAT-PD and MMPI-3 Validity Scales Detect Simulated Overreporting and Underreporting | Dr. Len Simms |
Mythili Thamilchelvam | Is There an Association Between Emotional Intelligence, Auditory Emotion Recognition, and Pitch Imitation? | Dr. Tim Pruitt |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Nikoleta Antoniou Karademitrou | Examining Prospective and Bidirectional Associations Between Anxious-Withdrawal and Negative Peer Beliefs During Early Adolescence | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Emma Bailey | Who Do You Prefer? Genotype Preference in Rats | Dr. Matthew Paul |
Isabella Chee | Differential Effects of Diet and Weight on Taste Responses in Diet-Induced Obese Rats | Dr. Ann-Marie Torregrossa |
Emily Demieri | The Effects of Chronic Short-Term Noise on Tinnitus in CBA/CaJ Mice | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Lucia Fetkenhour | An Analysis of Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalizations Across Sex, Age, and Strain | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Jasmine Greggs | The Effects of Gonadal Hormones on Anxiety-like Behaviors in Juvenile Siberian Hamsters | Dr. Matthew Paul |
Ashlan Hubbard | The Importance of Social Support for HIV+ Smokers with Depression | Dr. Rebecca Ashare |
Jordan Johnson | Estradiol Does Not Alter Exploratory Behavior in Juvenile Siberian Hamsters | Dr. Matthew Paul |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Sarah Ardalan | A Correlational Analysis of College Men’s Characteristics and Their Impressions of a Written Social Scenario | Dr. Kathleen Parks |
Paige Au | The Influence of Negative Emotional Arousal on Spatial Pattern Separation | Dr. Joyce Lacy |
Ariana DeJesus-Rodriguez | The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation and Anxiety on Associations Between Hyperactivity/Impulsivity, Inattention, and the Forms of Aggression in Early Childhood | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Mia Forney | The Effect of Offender Race/Ethnic Status on Public Determination of “Appropriate” Sentencing | Dr. Joyce Lacy |
Jennifer Hogan | Do Other-Gender Friendships Matter? Examining Other-Gender Friendships as a Moderator of the Associations Between Anxious-Withdrawal and Psychological Outcomes | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Christopher Khudari | Influence of COVID-19 on Middle Eastern and North African International Students: Ethnic Identity and Acculturation | Dr. Katharina Azim |
Julia Kiefer | Examining the Moderating Role of Gender and Mediating Role of Anxiety on the Association Between Social Competence and Forms of Aggression in Early Childhood | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Bethany Laufer | Investigating the Association Between College Generational Status and Alcohol and Other Drug Use | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Cassondra Lyman | Individual Differences in Engagement in Attributional Thinking and Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression | Dr. John Roberts |
Ryan O’Donnell | The Effects of Working Memory and Perceptual Speed Training on Reaction Time of Multiple Sclerosis Patients | Drs. David & Janet Shucard |
Dylan Schaefer | The Therapeutic Efficacy of Ayahuasca, Ketamine, and MDMA for Treating Depression and PTSD: A Meta-Analysis | Dr. Paul Meyer |
Mariam Shafik | The Effects of Speaker-Induced Inferences on Novel Word Learning in Adults | Dr. Marieke van Heugten |
Hector Sosa | Optimizing the Effectiveness of Role Models by Matching First-Generation Student Status and Revealing Successes and Failures | Dr. Lora Park |
Stephanie Stewart-Hill | Humbling the Powerful and Empowering the Powerless: The Effects of Awe on Social Power | Dr. Mark Seery |
David Vollweiler | The Effects of Music Training on Singing Accuracy, Working Memory, Auditory Imagery, and Pitch Perception | Dr. Peter Pfordresher |
Kyle Zumpano | Intensity of Bitter Diets and its Effects on the Expression of Salivary Proteins | Dr. Ann-Marie Torregrossa |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Melanie Abbondola | The Role of Deception and Collaborative Play in the Development of Relational Aggression and Victimization | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Taylor Buonocore | Mindfulness, Threat, and Prosocial Behavior | Dr. Michael Poulin |
Carly Connor | Effects of Chronic Methylphenidate and Fluoxetine Exposure During Adolescence on Future Cocaine Abuse | Dr. Panayotis Thanos |
Gillian Falletta | The Effects of Neuropeptide Y on Motivation to Seek Food in Rats | Dr. Alexis Thompson |
Virginia Freeman | The Effect of Speaker Identity on Spoken Language Processing | Dr. Marieke van Heugten |
Sae Fukuda | Effectiveness of the Daily Behavior Report Cards Among Children with Disruptive Behaviors | Dr. Gregory Fabiano |
Abbie Hessler | Effects of Feedback on Academic Locus of Control and Contingencies of Self-worth | Dr. Lora Park |
Alexa Jimenez | Dysphoria and Well-Being in Daily Life: Development and Validation of Ecological Momentary Assessment Short Forms of Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms-II Scales | Dr. Kristin Gainey |
Tamijah Lawton-Stone | The Role of Prepubertal Estradiol on Juvenile Exploration | Dr. Matthew Paul |
Keliang Li | The Effects of Implementation Intentions on Prosociality and Invisibility | Dr. Michael Poulin |
Courtney Mahan | Learning Language Through Song: The Effect of Language Background on Novel Word Representations | Dr. Marieke van Heugten |
Sara Mainville | The Effect of a Meal-Predictive Context on Glucose Responseand Subsequent Feeding Behavior in Male and Female Sprague-Dawley Rats | Dr. Paul Meyer |
Jennifer Mosley | Calling Upon the Unknown: Investigating the Neural Substrates of Object Representations | Dr. Christopher McNorgan |
Mackenzie Rittenhouse | Home-Based Mental Health Treatment: Assessing the Efficacy of a Mobile Outreach Program Targeting At-Risk Youth and Adolescents | Dr. Alex Cogswell |
Paige Szarafin | The Influence of Sexual Victimization History on the Sexual Consent Process | Dr. Jennifer Read |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Sashel Haygood | Temperature is Sufficient to Create a Flavor Preference | Dr. Ann-Marie Torregrossa |
Anna Honan | The Role of Subvocalization in the Mental Transformation of Melodies | Dr. Peter Pfordresher |
Michael Jaworksi | Baseline Conscientiousness Predicts Negative Changes in Employment Status in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis | Dr. Ralph Benedict |
Sabrina Kachurka | Children's Ability to Map Accents to a Speaker's Race | Dr. Marieke van Heugten |
Gregory Keay Golyakhovsky | The Effects of Salivary Proteins on Bitter Tastes | Dr. Ann-Marie Torregrossa |
Junye Alex Ma | The Intersectionality of Ethnicity, Gender, and Family in Association with LGB Mental and Physical Health | Dr. Beatrice Wood |
Ariana Roman | Prenatal Cocaine Exposure and Caregiving Status: Effects on Early Adolescent Behaviors | Dr. Rina Das Eiden |
Alex Schick | Elucidating the Critical Site of Angiotensin II Action in Enhanced Appetition | Dr. Derek Daniels |
Lauren Seilheimer | Parasocial Relationships as a Pathway for Emotion Regulation | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Niko Vehabovic | Psychosocial Correlates of Redemption and Contamination Themes in Life Story Narratives | Dr. Len Simms |
Carl Wiedemann | Social Surrogacy and Fictional Friend Groups: Effects of Fictional Friend Groups on Feelings Toward Real-Life Friend Groups | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Savitoj Kaur | Effect of Glucagon- Like Peptide-1 on Drinking Behavior in Rats Maintained on High Fat Diet Versus Low Fat Diet | Dr. Derek Daniels |
David Khaydatov | Mindful Judgment: Different Facets of Mindfulness and Their Effects on Moral Intuition Reliance | Dr. Kenneth DeMarree |
Miranda Mangual | How Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Beliefs Relate to Experiences of Collective Effervescence and Awe | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Evan Murphy | The Construct Validity of a Brief Measure of General and Maladaptive Personality | Dr. Len Simms |
Hemapriya Navaindran | Shyness, Friendship Quality and Depression: The Moderating Role of Friend Shyness | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Fatima Maria Ng Xing Yi | Developing an Assay Comparing the Opioid-Enhancement Effect of Amniotic Fluid Components | Dr. Alexis Thompson |
Mariangela Perrella | Does Seating Type Affect Students’ Behavior? An Examination of Flexible Seating and Its Relationship to Rule Violations in Special Education Classrooms | Dr. Gregory Fabiano |
Kristin Tymchak | The Effects of Social Experience on Ultrasonic Vocalization (USV) Production in CBA/CaJ Mice (Mus musculus) | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Austin Valvo | Delaying Happiness Versus Living in the Moment:
| Dr. Lora Park |
Danielle Villata | Project RISE: Refugee Identity and Somali Experiences | Dr. Jennifer Read |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Quinn Carroll | Neural Mechanisms That Mediate Sex Differences in Juvenile Social Play: An Investigation of Estrogen-Receptor- in the Medial Amygdala
| Dr. Matthew Paul |
Alejandro Corona Espinosa | Exploring the Factor Structure of an Inclusive Set of Common Language Person Descriptors | Dr. Len Simms |
Khadijatu Jalloh | Chronic Methylphenidate Exposure in Adolescent Rats Promotes Reversible Decreases in [3H] MK-801 Binding | Dr. Peter Thanos |
Brandon Koscinski | Examining the Cognitive Catalyst Model With Autobiographical Memory | Dr. John Roberts |
Phuong Le | Not as Awesome as It Seems: Spontaneous Self-Distancing Predicts Divergent Outcomes of Awe During Individual Goal Pursuit | Dr. Mark Seery |
Paige Marsland | Effect of Water Deprivation on Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptors in the Parabrachial Nucleus and the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla | Dr. Derek Daniels |
Melissa Meynadasy | Response Priming and Conflict Processing in Police Officers With a Range of PTSD Symptomatology: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study | Dr. David Shucard |
Haemi Nam | You Have a Friend in Me: The Role of Social Connections in Improving Women’s Math Outcomes | Dr. Lora Park |
The Role of Personality in Predicting Changes to Employment Status in People With Multiple Sclerosis | Dr. Ralph Benedict | |
Nicholas Nolan | Singing Production and Musical Perception:A Closer Look | Dr. Peter Pfordresher |
Muhaimen Rahman | The Effects of Empathy on Responses to Costly versus Non-Costly Helping Behaviors | Dr. Michael Poulin |
Sydney Sullivan | Investigating Repeating and Interrupting Auditory Stimuli on the Verbal Transformation Effect | Dr. Joyce Lacy |
Jacqueline Szabat | Paternal Psychopathology and Parenting Attitudes From Infancy to School Age | Dr. Rina Eiden |
James Zemer | The Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Status and Overgeneralized Memory in a College Sample | Dr. Jennifer Read |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Nina Baldy | Influence of Social Housing on Ultrasonic Vocalization Discrimination by Adult Female CBA/CaJ Mice | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Angeline Choong | A Systematic Review of the Relationship Between Personality and Functional Status | Dr. Ralph Benedict |
Alexander Davis | The Impact of Expectancy Violations on Relationship Perceptions | Dr. Sandra Murray |
Amy Gorski | Associations Between Romantic Beliefs and Perfectionism Types | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Nicole Hunter | Do Adult Female CBA/CaJ Mice Show a Preference for the Vocalizations of Cage Mates Over the Vocalizations of Strangers? | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Shereen Khoo | Relations Between Openness and Depression: Analyses at Domain and Facet Levels | Dr. Len Simms |
Kiarra King | Driving Distraction in Teenagers With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Dr. Gregory Fabiano |
Meg Ryan | Negative Peer Experiences, Shame, and Internalizing Outcomes During Early Adolescence | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Kimberly Tom | Is Personality Pathology Associated With Self-Other Agreement? | Dr. Len Simms |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Victoria Kent | Place Attachment: A Developmental Perspective | Dr. Michael Poulin |
Paul Kovacs | The Effects of Complexity During Pitch-variant and Timing-variant Sequences on the Learning and Performing of Tonality and Meter | Dr. Peter Pfordresher |
Emily Mroz | Self-Esteem as a Predictor of Caregiving:A Longitudinal Study of Hospice Patients and Informal Caregivers | Dr. Michael Poulin |
Sara O’Donnell | Does the Specificity of Episodic Thoughts Affect Delay Discounting? | Dr. Leonard Epstein |
Amanda Russo | Can CBA/CaJ Mice Discriminate Among Renditions of Ultrasonic Vocalizations Within a Defined Category? | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Spencer Schultz | The Relation Between Resting Heart Rate Variability and Impulsivity in an Alcohol-Use Disordered Sample | Dr. Rebecca Houston |
Rachael Steiner | Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in Adults: A Network Science Approach | Dr. Gail Mauner |
Daniel Tang | Video Games Are My Friends: Does Playing Video Games Satiate the Need to Belong? | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Kylie Valent | Admiration and Ambivalence: Can Celebrities Improve Self-Liking? | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Meghan Bauer | Mental Construal Level and Women’s Interest in STEM Fields | Dr. Lora Park |
Marielle Darwin | The Effect of Biofeedback Training on Aggressive Outbursts in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury | Dr. Rebecca Houston |
Ethan Guthman | Functional Effects of Reinforcement on Human Error Detection | Dr. Larry Hawk |
Narmene Hamsho | An Examination of the Influence of Parental ADHD Symptoms on Parenting Behaviors of Parents of Adolescents | Dr. Gregory Fabiano |
Amanda Haskell | Do Stimulus-Induced Neural Oscillations Affect Memory Performance? | Dr. Eduardo Mercado |
Tatiana Matlasz | The Associations Between Having a Popular Friend and Psychological Adjustment in Early Adolescence | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Francis Mollica | The Locus of Inverse Semantic Priming | Dr. Gail Mauner |
Thomas Phillips | The Development and Initial Validation of an Assessment of Craving Disruption and Distress | Dr. Stephen Tiffany |
Sarah Reynolds | Bullying in Early Childhood: The Bully Role and its Associated Adjustment Outcomes | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Adryona Ruggerio | Associations Between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Features and Childhood Maltreatment | Dr. Len Simms |
Malak Sharif | The Effect of Augmented Feedback on Singing Accuracy | Dr. Peter Pfordresher |
Stephanie Smallets | Bringing You Down Versus Bringing Me Up: What Underlies Malicious and Benign Envy? | Dr. Mark Seery |
Brittany Sternberg | Relational Interparental Hostility and Child Outcomes: A Correlational Study of Childhood Aggression and Social Competence | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Zi Yi Alina Tan | Displaying Prosocial Behaviors: Implications for the Associations Between Anxious-Withdrawal and Psychological Adjustment | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Ashley Wander | Associations Between Aggression, Social Dominance, and Peer Acceptance: The Role of Gender Normative Behaviors in Early Childhood | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Josh Barback | Loneliness, Helping, and Mortality in Older Adults | Dr. Michael Poulin |
Rowena Chin | An Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP) Study of the Effects of Perceptual Task Difficulty on Cognitive Control | Dr. David Shucard |
Carrie Fisher | Does Other-Sex Popularity Impact Same-Sex Peer Experiences? | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Justin Kimber | Social Anxiety and Alcohol-Related Consequences: Do Negative Perceptions Moderate This Relationship? | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Leslee McGee | When Does a Role Model Become a Prime? The Effects of Stimulus Presentation on Psychophysiological Responses During Competition | Dr. Mark Seery |
Tierney McMahon | Cognitive Characteristics of Relational Aggression and Depression | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Rebekah Meltzer | Examining How Young Adolescents' Affective Reaction to Friendship Dissolution Impacts Their Later Behavior | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Troy Schedin | Verbal Transformation Effect: Rate and Temporal Correlates | Dr. Eduardo Mercado |
Laurel Screven | The Role of Time Cues in Stream Segregation in Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Yin Sung Esther Song | Positive and Negative Valence as Personality Descriptors: Going Above and Beyond the Big Five | Dr. Len Simms |
Emilee Valler | The Effects of Justice Concerns and Compassion on Unfair Helping Behavior | Dr. Michael Poulin |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Lauren Campise | Can “Rightness” Be Wrong? Using Physiological Measures to Assess the Psychological Effects of Regulatory Fit During Goal Pursuit | Dr. Mark Seery |
Megan H. Fitzgerald | Residential Status and Drinking Habits in College Students | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Yu Gao | Concurrent Task Interference in Implicit and Explicit Category Learning | Dr. J. David Smith |
Michael Giblin | The Effect of Serial Ordering on the Activation of Learned Activation Sequences by Auditory Feedback | Dr. Peter Pfordresher |
Eric Herberger | The Effect of Decision Deadlines on Implicit and Explicit Categorization | Dr. J. David Smith |
Lesthia R. Isaacs | An Investigation of Distracted Driving in Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | Dr. Gregory Fabiano |
Vanessa A. Scott | Sexually Dimorphic Contact Calls of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) | Dr. Micheal Dent |
Bryan Sim | Valence of Perspective-Taking Produces Divergent Attitudinal Effects | Dr. Lora Park |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Alyssa Geisler | You Like What You Eat: Social Threat Increases Favorability of a Comfort Food Among the Securely Attached | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Marissa Green | Avoidance of Intimacy and Friendships: The Effects of Core vs. Superficial Friendship Qualities on Comfort and Discomfort in Relationships During Contrast and Assimilation | Dr. Mark Seery |
Sangkalpa Gurung | The Impact of Cumulative Lifetime Adversity on Responses to Stress: Do Social Support and Self-Affirmation Matter? | Dr. Mark Seery |
Kaisha Josephs | Structural Priming in Comprehension: Priming vs. Contingency Learning | Dr. Gail Mauner |
Eric Maziol | Delay Discounting in the Patch Model | Dr. Jerry Richards |
Lauren Ministero | May Your Cup Overflow: Can Feeling Empathy for One Lead to Helping Many? | Dr. Michael Poulin |
Douglas Nickolai | From Parental Authority to Knowledge: A Mediational Model | Dr. Craig Colder |
Loriene Perera | A New Motor Performance Model of Parkinson's Disease | Dr. Scott Wersinger |
Andrew J. Porter Jr. | Implicit and Explicit Self-Esteem in Previously Depressed and Never Depressed Individuals: The Impact of Rumination vs. Distraction | Dr. John Roberts |
Mykel Robble | The Impact of Visual Stimuli on Cocaine Self-Administration in Rats | Dr. Jerry Richards |
Olivia Schlager | You Take the Good, You Take the Bad: Consequences of Assimilation on Women's Body Image | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
David Spangler | Olfactory Performance by Mice Treated With Paraquat and Maneb | Dr. Scott Wersinger |
Camille Toarmino | Identification of Conspecific Calls by Budgerigars | Dr. Micheal Dent |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Michael Connolly | Sensory Reinforcement: The Role of Stimulant Drugs, the Superior Colliculus, and a Potential Link to Neurological Disorders | Dr. Wendy Quinton |
Jessica Gyemibi | Maternal Behaviors in Timothy Syndrome Mice | Dr. Scott Wersinger |
Chelsey Hartley | Best Friendship Dissolution During Early Adolescence: A Focus on Social Support | Dr. Julie Bowker |
David Lloyd | Comparison of the Sensory and Conditioned Reinforcing Properties of a Visual Stimulus | Dr. Jerry Richards |
Kelly Norman | Rejection Sensitivity and Psychological Difficulties: Examining the Moderating Roles of Best Friendship Involvement and Friend Characteristics | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Nadia Suzuki | Correlation Between Personality Traits and Excessive Gaming Behavior | Dr. Len Simms |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Katrina Bytschkow | Motives for Pre-Gaming: Measure Development and Associations With Drinking | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Tricia De Fillips | Influence of Ingroup Identification on Intergroup Attitudes | Dr. Gretchen Sechrist |
Elizabeth Gyoerkoe | Crushes During Adolescence: Implications for Self-Esteem and Social Anxiety | Dr. Julie Bowker |
Marlana Howard | The Presence of Friends Increases Food Intake in Youth | Dr. Sarah Jeanne Salvy |
Michele McNerney | The Need to Belong and the Use of Television as a Parasocial Bond | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Wern How Yam | Computerized Adaptive Testing: Does Order of Item Presentation Affect Item Savings or Construct Validity? | Dr. Len Simms |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Marc Badura | Social Recognition b1KO Mice | Dr. Scott Wersinger |
Melissa Buchman | Making Attributions Toward Discrimination: The Role of Promotion and Prevention Focus Motivations | Dr. Gretchen Sechrist |
MinMin Chen | Mathematics Anxiety: Parents Training as Role Model in College Students | Dr. Leslie McCain |
Morgan Gottfried | The Effects of Life Experience and Personality on Participants Performing a Computer Math Task | Dr. Jennifer Read |
Bill Greene III | Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Attitudes About Alcohol: Mediating Effects Through Residents' Behaviors and Approval of Substance Use | Dr. Craig Colder |
Meirong Kuang | Relationships Between Age and Personality Pathology: A Cross-Sectional Study | Dr. Len Simms |
Jessica Minney | The Effects of Stress on Parental Tolerance for Their Children's Misbehavior | Dr. William Pelham |
Nicole Slootsky | Adult-Youth Conflict and Childhood Aggression Across Contexts | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Katelyn Thomas | Self-Disclosure and Secrets in Friendships During Late Childhood: What are Friends Talking About and Does It Matter? | Dr. Julie Bowker |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Shira Bennett | Do Intolerance Uncertainty Interact? An Exploration of Dugas's Cognitive Model of Worry | Dr. Gayle Beck |
Ashley Brubaker | Cortisol in Asthmatic Children | Dr. Beatrice Wood |
Bill Calabrese | Self and Peer Reports of Normal and Abnormal Personality and Interpersonal Problems | Dr. Len Simms |
Jaclyn Emerson | Relationship between Child With Behavioral Problems, Co-Parenting, and Teachers | Dr. William Pelham |
Brianna Harris | The Moderating Effect of Attachment Style in Previously Demonstrated Attitudinal Shifts | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Melissa Kluczynski | The Relationship Between Negative Expectancy Biases, Anxiety, and Disgust Among Spider-Fearful Individuals | Dr. Gayle Beck |
Erin McCarthy | Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Approach Versus Avoidance Motivation | Dr. Lora Park |
Todd Reeves | Structural Priming and Contingency Learning in Sentences With Reduced Relative Clauses | Dr. Gail Mauner |
Joanna Rose | Identifying the Spiritual Personality: Investigation of Relations Among Religiosity, Spirituality and Personality | Dr. Len Simms |
Michele San George | Effects of Methylphenidate on Timing | Dr. Jerry Richards |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Lee Ashrafioun | The Effects of Stimulants on Sensory Reinforcement | Dr. Jerry Richards |
Christa Bishop | Preschoolers Aggression and Parent-Child Relationships | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Chris Bailey | Behavioral History, Intent Attributions, and Normative Beliefs of Peer Conflict Situations in Emerging Adults | Dr. Jamie Ostrov |
Paul Chapman | Stages of Category Learning in Humans and Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) | Dr. J. David Smith |
Ethan Gable | Defensive Behaviors in Avpr1 Knockout Mice | Dr. Scott Wersinger |
Kristine Lunan | Varying Consequences of Failing to Attribute Negative Feedback to Discrimination | Dr. Gretchen Sechrist |
Luis Martinez | Impaired Discrimination, but Not Detection, of Social Olfactory Cues in Vasopressin 1a Receptor Knockout Mice | Dr. Scott Wersinger |
Jesse Sperry | Effect of Subliminal Priming on Sleep Duration and Heart Rate | Dr. Brett Pelham |
Jeff Thomas | Relations among Personality, Work Values, and Dimensions of Leadership Style | Dr. Len Simms |
Lindsey Vedder | Duration of Social Memory in Mice Lacking Functional Vasopressin Receptor 1b Genes | Dr. Scott Wersinger |
Samantha Wallace | Social Anxiety in Relationship Aggression and Social Acceptance | Dr. Larry Hawk |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Melanie Bogdan | Uncertainty Monitoring by Humans (Homo sapiens) and Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in the Categorization of Multidimensional Stimuli | Dr. J. David Smith |
Lauren Chapman | Physiological Arousal and the Interpersonal Processes of Daters | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Courtney Delmar | The Denial of Personal Discrimination | Dr. Gretchen Sechrist |
Amy Gancarz | The Role of Orbital Prefrontal Cortex in Decision-Making About Delay and Probabilistic Rewards | Dr. Jerry Richards |
Sarah Haas | Categorization of Dot Distortions in Humans and Monkeys (Macaca mulatta): A Comparative Interpretation of Categorization Theories | Dr. J. David Smith |
Jennifer Rounds | Differences in Delay Discounting Among High and Low Socially Anxious Individuals in Social Threat and Non-Threat Situations | Dr. Gayle Beck |
Marian Shafir | Behavioral Impacts of Partners on the Self: Close Relationships and Personality Traits | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Erica Lee Carlos | The Effects of Low vs. High Analysis Rumination on Autobiographical Memory in Depression | Dr. John Roberts |
Lily Cui | The Role of Optimism in Making Attributions to and Confronting Discrimination | Dr. Gretchen Sechrist |
Dara C. Goodman | The Role of Consonant Clusters in Lexical Neighborhoods | Dr. James Sawusch |
Lisa M. Jaremka | Are We as Independent as We Think: Evidence for the Primacy of Interdependent Needs Among College Students | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Judith A. Jordan | The Influence of Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy on Approach-Avoidance Choice in Socially Anxious Individuals | Dr. Gayle Beck |
Jee Yeun Julianne Lee | The Influence of Consensus Information on Intergroup Beliefs: The Role of Ingroup Identification | Dr. Gretchen Sechrist |
Eugene Paul Lubliner | The Information Present in Verbs: Instrument and Locations | Dr. Gail Mauner |
Lisa Nowak | Does Gratitude Increase the Accessibility of Positive Stimuli | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
April M. Rabe | Sex Roles and Crying Behavior | Dr. Janice Hastrup |
Cheryl Rozario | The Role of Neuropeptide-Y in the Nucleus Accumbens on the Development of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | Dr. Alexis Thompson |
Sabrina Kim Sidaras | The Nature of Auditory Priming | Dr. Barbara Church |
Lisa Marie Vaughan | Does Gratitude Increase the Accessibility of Positive Stimuli? | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Erin Higgins | Voice Specificity Effects on Implicit Memory for Non-Words | Dr. Barbara Church |
Katrina Johnson | Kinesthetic Feedback Influences Storage of the Visual Motion Aftereffect | Dr. William Schmidt |
Ivy Lui | Tone Specificity of Auditory Priming | Dr. Barbara Church |
Christine Mattison | Motivational Primacy: A Case for the Interpersonal Self | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Jeaveen Nowak | Auditory Classification of Complex Sounds by Rats | Dr. Eddie Mercado |
Kristina Swamy | Experimental Avoidance and Interpersonal Relationships | Dr. Gayle Beck |
Rabia Syed | The Effects of Serotonergic Drugs on the Value of Delayed Rewards | Dr. Jerry Richards |
Adam Tolli | Effects of a Monetary Incentive Upon Attentional Modification of Short-Lead Prepulse Inhibition and Long-Lead Facilitation of Acoustic Startle | Dr. Larry Hawk |
Pamela Wickham | An Investigation Into the Information-Processing of Airport Security Screeners | Dr. J. David Smith |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Lisa Burgio | Mock Jurors Perceptions of Criminal Defendants: Effective Age of Defendant and History of Abuse | Dr. Murray Levine |
Karen Kuba | Mock Jurors Perceptions of Criminal Defendants: Effect of Race of Victim and Age of Defendant | Dr. Murray Levine |
Agnes Popijakowska | A Within Subject Evaluation of the Behavioral Treatment and Once-a-Day Methylphenidate Transdermal System Within the Context of the Summer Treatment Program for Children With ADHD | Dr. William Pelham |
Virginia Rizzo | Studying the Social Processes of Assimilation vs. Contrast and Self-Monitoring in Individuals and Friends | Dr. Shira Gabriel |
Ahmad Sylvester | The Effect of Morphine and Amniotic Fluid on Approach and Avoidance Behaviors in Rats | Dr. Alexis Thompson |
Susan Tomsic | The Difference in Attitudes Among Mothers, Fathers, and Teachers Regarding Children With ADHD | Dr. William Pelham |
Nicole Triolo | The Role of Implicit Memory in Learning New Vocabulary in Adults | Dr. Barbara Church |
Justin Wetter | The Role of Eye Movements in Inhibition of Return: Evidence Against Attentional Momentum | Dr. William Schmidt |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Michelle Alt | The Remote Memory Index: A New Test to Assess Remote Memory | Dr. Ralph Benedict |
Jason D'Orazio | The Effects of State Anger, Anxiety, Sadness, and Happiness on Creativity | Dr. Cheryl Rusting |
Jason Imundo | Influence of the Pineal Gland on Norepinephrine Release in the PVN | Dr. Lori Badura |
Emily Ng | Effect of Laboratory Stress: Manipulation on the Reinforcing Value of Nicotine | Dr. Larry Hawk |
Omar K. Qadeer | Administration of the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Antagonist MK-801 Into the Medical Preoptic Area and Medial Amygdala Impair Copulation and may Block Sexual Experience | Dr. Elaine Hull |
Joshua Redford | Methodological Aspects of Prepulse Inhibition | Dr. Larry Hawk |
Carrah Torrence | An Evaluation of the Summer Treatment Program for ADHD Children | Dr. William Pelham |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Stacy Durman | Salivary Habituation in Restrained Eaters while Experiencing Negative Affect | Dr. Leonard Epstein |
Alicia Hughes | What Role Does State Anxiety Play in Stroop Interference in Socially Anxious Individuals? | Dr. Gayle Beck |
Lorig Kachadourian | Attachment Representation of Self and Others as Mediators Between Parenting Experiences in Childhood and Depression in Childhood | Dr. John Roberts |
Conor McLennan | Representation of Flaps in Spoken Word Recognition | Dr. Paul Luce |
Erin O'Brien | Does Love of Moral Development Affect Attitudes and Reasoning about Affirmative Action? | Dr. Jack Meacham |
Michael Zinman | The Effects of Emotional/Behavioral Problems on Physical Growth in Children | Dr. David Sandberg |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Maytali Novak | Students Self-Perceptions and Perceived Parental-Perception of Motivation and Capability: Relations to College Performance | Dr. J. Sidney Shrauger |
Maria Bleil | The Relationship between Attachment and the Report of Quality of Life in a Population of Children With Asthma | Dr. Beatrice Wood |
Breton Bienvenue | Comprehension of Unexpressed Locations | Dr. Gail Mauner |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Rob Drake | Slow Brain Potentials During a Visual Continuous Performance Task | Dr. David Shucard |
Michelle Ducharme | Why Do I Love Thee? Effects of Contingent Self-Regard on Relationship Security | Dr. Sandra Murray |
Michael Mance | Deictic Center and Reading Tasks: The Role of Teaching and Person in Reader Involvement | Dr. Erwin Segal |
Marc Renzoni | Felony Murder and the Effects of Child's Age on a Jury's Decision in Child Abuse Homicides | Dr. Murray Levine |
HONORS STUDENT | TITLE OF PROJECT | FACULTY ADVISOR |
Wendy Shields | The Uncertain Response in a Rotational Mental Imagery Task | Dr. J. David Smith |