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Grading: Prizes
A number of prizes are available for outstanding honors 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 consist of $200.00 and a commemorative certificate. Recipients are invited to present their research to the Department faculty at its annual degree meeting.
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: 2001-2008
* = also available in the Psychology Undergraduate Office
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Faculty Prizes |
Gordon W. Allport Prizes |
| Year |
Student |
Title |
Advisor(s) |
Student |
Title |
Advisor(s) |
| 2007-2008 |
Konika Banerjee
PSY/HEB |
Evidence for a general intelligence factor (g) in a non-human primate species |
M. Hauser /Psy/HEB |
Harrison Greenbaum |
“Did you hear the one about the…?”: The effect of racial humor on prejudice |
J. Sidanius
L. Thomsen |
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Erin Blackstock
MBB/PN |
Leveling the playing field: Examining the relationship between performance goals, stress responses, and stress appraisal on standardized exams |
W. Mendes
M. Akinola |
Eric Reavis |
High-level stimulus characteristics affect the stability but not the initiation of binocular rivalry |
K. Nakayama
S. Afraz |
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Amit Kumar |
The impact of outcome valence on perceived duration |
D. Gilbert
K. Kassam |
Jillian Swencionis
SocSt/Psy |
Perception of defendant memory and its societal implications |
T. Aladjem /SocSt
D. Gilbert /Psy
K. Kassam |
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Carina Martin
Life Science |
Evidence for vagal regulation as an index of endocrine sensitivity to social feedback |
W. Mendes
K. Koslov |
Rocksheng Zhong |
The trouble with trolleys: Intention and causation in moral dilemmas |
J. Greene
F. Cushman |
2006-2007 |
*Frankie Chen
MBB/CN |
A study of language and thought: Object-substance interpretation among the Tsotsil Mayan |
S. Carey
P. Li |
*Judy Herbstman
HistSci/Psy |
A 'special relationship'?: Responsibility and the development of mental health resources at Harvard 1900-2007 |
M. Nock
P. Barreira |
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*Aline Flodr |
To be or not to be ill: How choosing labels affects physical, emotional and mental symptoms |
S. Carson |
*Oludamini Ogunnaike
AfAm/Psy |
The language of prejudice: The influence of language on implicit attitudes |
M. Banaji
Y. Dunham
J. Murgane |
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*Katrin Gerlach
MBB/CN |
Autonomic nervous system responses to different tempi in music |
G. Schlaug
E. Hannon |
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*Sarah Heilbronner
MBB/CN |
The evolution of risk-sensitive preferences in non-human primates |
M. Hauser |
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*Jori Pearsall
MBB/CN |
Sleep and the facilitation of human emotional memory over time |
M. Walker
R. Buckner |
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2005-2006 |
Krupa Bhojani
MBB/PN |
Hands as causal agents: Seven-month-olds and the development of causal perceptions |
S. Carey |
Virginia Borges |
Children's responses to gender-based inequalities |
E. Spelke
K. Olson |
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Kathleen Lee |
When it is best to expect reality: Optimism predicts biased risk perception under conditions of stress |
W. Mendes |
Caitlin McKee
MBB/CN |
The effects of social information on infants' food preferences |
E. Spelke
K. Kinzler |
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Caroline Pemberton
MBB/CN |
Young children's reasoning about the influences of social categories on friendship |
E. Spelke
K. Shutts |
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Lisa Shu
Ec/Psy |
Is the endowment effect due to loss aversion or mere ownership? |
D. Gilbert
C. Morewedge
S. Mullainathan |
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2004-2005 |
*Butler, Lucas |
Children's early understanding of pictures and words as symbols |
S. Carey |
Crum, Alia |
Think and grow fit: The mind-body connection between excercise and health |
P. Stone
T. Ben-Shachar |
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Cowman, Erika |
Effects of pramipexole, a D2/D3-receptor agonist, on reward responsiveness |
D. Pizzagalli
A. Eden-Evins |
Riley, Caitlin |
Infants' preference and engagement as predictors of problematic behavior in preschool at age five |
M. Nock
K. Lyons-Ruth |
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Iguina, Carmen |
Primate vocal communication: Evidence for vocal adjustment in response to auditory feedback |
M. Hauser
R. Egnor |
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Powell, Lindsey |
Thinking about thoughts: The neural correlates of belief attribution |
S. Carey
R. Saxe |
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Rosati, Alexandra |
Context-sensitive discounting in two non-human primates, the cotton-top tamarin (Sanguinis oedipus) and the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) |
M. Hauser
J. Stevens |
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| 2003-2004 |
Chen, Jennifer |
Correlates of anosognosia in Alzheimer's patients: The roles of false memory and the distinctiveness heuristic in awareness |
Budson, A. |
Canose, David |
Chasing a mirage: An investigation into the conditions under which perfectionism facilitates or inhibits task performance |
Carson, Shelley |
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Christie, Stella |
Inferring the nonovbious: Infants' knowledge of correlation between structure and function |
Spelke, Elizabeth
and Markson, L. |
Kenser, Hannah |
Cognitive effects of priming in biracial individuals |
Nakayama, Ken
and Chiao, Joan |
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Ferriter, Caitlin |
Distinguishing between general and specific family correlates of eating disorders |
Keel, Pamela |
Poon, Bonnie |
Upward advice transmission: Who gives and who gets? |
Hackman, Richard
and Pittinsky, Todd |
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Zalta, Alyson |
Homogeneity of eating patterns in collegiate peers: A longitudinal study |
Keel, Pamela |
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| 2002-2003 |
Kim, Stephen* |
Contribution of Prefrontial Contical Areas To Spatial Learning and Navigation in the Rat |
Baxter, Mark |
Chen, Frances* |
The Evolution of Cooperation: Finding the Requisite Cognitive Mechanisms in Cottontop Tamarins (Sanguinus Oedipus) |
Hauser, Marc |
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Lai, Tiffany* |
RetrivialInstructions and False Recognition: Testing the Limis of the Distinctiveness Heuristic |
Wiseman, Amy and Schacter, Daniel |
Jordan, Alexander* |
Obsessionality, Distraction Strategy, and the Accessibility of Suppressed Thoughts |
Wegner, Daniel and Kozak, Megan |
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Murphy, Emily* |
The Effect of PDE 10A Inhibition on Frontal Cognitive Performance in a Subchronic Phencyclidine model of Schizophrenia |
Baxter, Mark |
Whitchurch, Joseph* |
Guilty by Association: An Empathic Model of Biased Anticipated Self-Evaluations as the Result of an Associate's Behavior |
Epley, Nicholas |
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Naragon, Kristin* |
The Perception of Timbre as an Organizational Structure in Twentieth Century Nontonal Music |
Fineberg, Joshua and Spelke, Elizabeth |
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| 2001-2002 |
Hutcherson, Cendri |
The Effect of Stressful Mental Imagery on the Cortisol Response of Females with and without a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse |
Stickgold, Robert |
Gavrieli, Dana* |
Gender and Leadership in the Israeli Defense Forces |
Hackman, Richard |
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Liston, Conor |
Self-Recognition, Language, and the Origins of Long-term Event Memory: Implications for Infantile Amnesia |
Kagan, Jerome |
Tamara, Spiewak |
The Effect of Acting Training On Social Skills |
Hackman, Richard |
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Rosenfeld, Andrew |
Who Could Ask for Anything more? A Behavioral Study on the Role of Syncopation In Human Rhythm Perception |
Fitch, Tecumseh |
Tomb, Ian |
Emotion and Decision-Making: A Critical Test of The Somatic Marker Hyphothesis |
Hauser, Marc |
| 2000-2001 |
Clifford, Erin |
Interactions Between Attentional Set, Feature Characteristics and Explicit Capture |
Simmons, D. |
Chan, Grace |
The Impact of Violence on Cortisol Secretion and the Associated Cognitive Performance in Children |
Kennedy, B. and Leichtman, M. |
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Luskin, Daniel |
Practice Does not Make Perfect: The Time-Course of Change in Performance on a Sleep-Dependent Perceptual Learning Task |
Stickgold, R. and Baxter, M. |
Edwards, Kelly |
Pathways To Hope: Strategies Used By Inner-City Families To Cope Successfully With Childhood Asthma |
White, S. |
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Moulton, Samuel |
Implicit Measures of Ganzeld Success: An Experimental Assessment |
Kosslyn, S. |
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Tobey, Rachel |
MS/VDB Lesions Blunt NMDAR1 Upregulation in Rat Dentate Gyrus Following Bilateral Perforant Path Transection: A Potential Model For Alzheimer's Disease |
Baxter, M. and Morrison, J. |
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