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Honors Theses: Class of 2002

Author

Library
No.

Thesis Title

Supervisors

Readers

Laura Babkes
(Psychology/Biology)

P873

Images of skiing: An examination into the causes of hypnagogic imagery

Robert Stickgold /Bio

Stephen Kosslyn

Patrick Cavanagh

Charles Baird
(VES/Psychology)

P874

Invisible cities: Emotion, memory, recall, and art

Christian Garnett/VES

Shelley Carson /Psy

Annette Lemieux/VES

Daniel Schacter /Psy

Peik Larson /VES

Morgan Barense
(Psychology/Biology)

P875

Prefrontal cortex function in aged rats: Performance on an extra-dimensional attentional shift

Mark Baxter

H. Eichembaum    

Joshua Rodefer

Cary Savage /3rd

Melissa Christino

P876

Generating flow

Philip Stone

Tal Ben-Shachar

Philip Stone

Brian Little

Emmeline Chuang
(Psychology/Biology)

P877

Reciprocal altruism in the cotton top tamarin

Marc Hauser

Naomi Pierce /Bio

Laurie Santos

Jessica Cohen
(MBB/Psychopathology)

P878

Coping and expressed emotion in relatives of patients with schizophrenia

Jill Hooley

Patricia Deldin

Heather Barnett

Joseph Cousin
(Psychology/Biology)

P879

Is 1 minute longer than 60 seconds? The increasing compression of the magnitude of larger numbers

Elizabeth Spelke

Daniel Simons

Tecumseh Fitch /Bio

Elizabeth Dibble
(Psychology/Biology)

P880

Human reorientation by a directional signal: Evidence in support of a homologous navigation mechanism

Elizabeth Spelke

Marc Hauser /Bio

Kirsten Condry

Ken Nakayama /3rd

Elnaz Firoz
(Psychology/Biology)

(March 2003)

P930

The role of the rodent perirhinal cortex in object identification functions that have been attributed to the perirhinal cortex in nonhuman primates

Mark Baxter /Bio

Joshua Rodefer   

Daniel Roe

Jonathan Flombaum
(Psychology/Biology)

P881

The evolution of guesstimating: Spontaneous representations of large numbers in a nonhuman primate

Marc Hauser

Susan Carey

Naomi Pierce /Bio

Matthew Fox
(Psychology/Biology)

P882

Attentional set shifting and the rat posterior parietal cortex

Mark Baxter /Bio

Joshua Rodefer

H. Eichenbaum

Duretti Fufa
(Psychology/Biology)

P883

Acupuncture: Effects on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and subjective and physiological responses to thermal noxious heat stimuli

Robert Gollub /Bio

Patricia Deldin

Patricia Deldin

Robert Savoy

Daniel Garcia-Pedroza
(MBB/CBB)

P884

The young ironist: toward an understanding of the development of irony comprehension

Jesse Snedeker

Laura Wagner

Michelle Leichtman

Dana Gavrieli

P885

Gender and leadership in the Israeli Defense Forces

Richard Hackman

Linda Hill

Abigail Marsh

Jenine Ghani
(Psychology/Biology)

P886

Neurological components of conscious will

Daniel Wegner

Ken Nakayama /Bio

Thalia Wheatley

Gustavo Gonzalez-Gavillan

P887

The role of copulation calls in rhesus monkey mate choice

Cory Miller

Marc Hauser

Tecumseh Fitch   

Marc Hauser

Jessica Harder

P888

Muscle activity, event outcome, and the experience of conscious control

Jesse Preston

Daniel Wegner

Daniel Wegner

Brian Little

Svetla Gueorgueva

P930

Stranger, you are not a stranger anymore: Predicting job search outcomes of real world candidates from 10 seconds of resumes and interviews

N. Ambady

R. Hackman

H. Elfenbein

Katie Heikkinen

P889

Meditation experience and inattentional blindness

Stephen Kosslyn

Sara Lazar

Patrick Cavanagh

Jennifer Hepps
(Psychology/Biology)

P890

The effect of stressful mental imagery on the cortisol response of females with and without a histroy of childhood sexual abuse

Stephen Kosslyn

Susan Lipson /Bio

Giorgio Ganis

Jill Hooley /3rd

Cendri Hutcherson
(MBB/CBB)

P891

The effects of sleep deprivation on frontal lobe function and cognitive and affective processes

Robert Stickgold

Daniel Gilbert

Daniel Simons

Daniela Jodorkovsky
(Psychology/Biology)

P892

The perception of vocal attractiveness: Analysis of the source and filter vocal parameters

Tecumseh Fitch

Ken Nakayama /Bio

Susan Carey

Kate Johnsen
(Psychology/Biology)

P893

The effects of gender, socioeconomic status, and temperament on help-seeking behaviors

Michelle Leichtman/Bio

Bruce Thompson

Philip Stone

Sara Johnstone
(Psychology/East Asian Studies)

P894

Age and reason: The disappearance of cultural influence on cognitive reasoning strategies as a function of age

Nalini Ambady /Psy

Charlotte Ikels /EAS

Douglas Powell /Psy

Martin Whyte /EAS

Daniel Gilbert /3rd

Laura Kawakami
(Psychology/Economics)

P895

Will that be cash or credit? Examining the stimuli effect on spending

Max Bazerman /Psy

Daniel Gilbert /Psy

David Laibson /Ec

Daniel Gilbert /Psy

Alvin Roth /Ec

Connie Kim

P896

On transitioning to college: A longitudinal study on academic perceptions

Monica Higgins

Nicholas Epley

Nicholas Epley

Josephine Pichanick

Gregory Kulessa
(Economics/Psychology)

P897

Team-management and conformity in the mutual fund industry

David Laibson /Ec

Ellen Langer /Psy

David Laibson/Ec

Max Bazerman /Psy

Eun Soo Kwak
(Psychology/Biology)

P898

Mental rotation ability in organic chemistry students

Stephen Kosslyn

Patrick Cavanagh

Ken Nakayama /Bio

Ann Laguarda

P899

The pen and the sword: How activism and writing affect the perspective-taking abilities of early adolescent girls

Robert Selman

Philip Stone          

Richard Hackman

Alicia Levin
(Psychology/Biology)

P900

Thought suppression across sleep-wake states: A neuromodulatory model of ironic processes

Robert Stickgold /Bio

Stephen Kosslyn

Ken Nakayama

N. Ambady /3rd

Conor Liston
(Psychology/Biology)

P901

Self-recognition, language, and the origins of long-term event memory: Implications for  infantile amnesia

Jerome Kagan

M. Leichtman

Daniel Schacter /Bio

Shiou-Huei Liu

P902

Talking about the past: A naturalistic study of gender differences in spontaneous memory recounts among adolescents

Michelle Leichtman

Bruce Thompson

David Pillemer

Stephen Long
(Psychology/Statistics)

P903

Psychopathic personality and affect in a non-incarcerated sample

Debra Titone /Psy

Philip Holzman /Psy

Donald Rubin /Stat

Heather Barnett /Psy

Steve Wang /Stat

Brad Mahon
(Psychology/Biology)

P904

Grammatical class constraints on a lexical selection in speech production

Alfonso Caramazza

Susan Carey

David Caplan /Bio

J. Snedeker /3rd

Kelley Morrell

P905

When things fall apart: An exploration of motivational contagion

Richard Hackman

Todd Pittinsky

Sharon Kramer

Shanthi Naidu
(Psychology/Biology)

P906

Beyond valence: An ERP investigation of how arousal of stimuli moderates biased memory processing in major depression

Patricia Deldin /Bio

Michelle Leichtman

Avgusta Shestyuk

Sue Paik

P907

Stalling stereotype threat: The effects of individuation

Nalini Ambady

Daniel Wegner

Jennifer Steele

Mahzarin Banaji /3rd

Neha Pathak
(Psychology/Biology)

P908

The effect of naps after training: On a sleep-dependent perceptual learning task

Robert Stickgold /Bio

Patrick Cavanagh

Ken Nakayama

Devon Quasha

P909

Coping and expressed emotion in informal caregivers of patients with borderline personality disorder

Jill Hooley

Shelley Carson

Amy Wiseman

Patricia Deldin /3rd

Sarah Rabbitt

P910

Self-regulation in 30-month-olds: The role of maternal depression and child gender

Katherine Weinberg

Jesse Snedeker

Jesse Snedeker    

Eric Peterson

Kathleen Rey

P911

Posttraumatic symptoms and traumatic memory consistency among Bosnian refugees

Shelley Carson

Susan Hermes

Richard Mollica

Philip Stone /3rd

Deborah Rin
(Psychology/Biology)

P912

What's black and white and perceived all over? Correlations of automatic evaluations of race with visual attention and memory performance

Stephen Most

Daniel Simons

Robert Stickgold /Bio

Jason Mitchell

Caitlin Rollins
(MBB/Psychopathology)

P913

Modulation of memory biases in major depressive disorder: A slow-wave investigation

Patricia Deldin

Michelle Leichtman

Nancy Snidman

Katherine Rose
(Psychology/Biology)

P914

Volumetric analysis of  the temporal pole in schizotypal personality disorder: A magnetic resonance imaging study

Martha Shenton /Bio

Mark Baxter

Daniel Schacter

Katherine Rosedale

P915

Associations among preschooler's relationships with parents, teachers, and peers

Kathleen McCartney

Jill Hooley

Michelle Leichtman

Bruce Thompson

Eric Rosenbaum
(MBB/CBB)

(March 2002)

P871

Temporal coding of pulsed calls: The effects of manipulating interpulse intervals in natural vocalizations of Macacca mulatta on the temporal discharch patterns of auditory cortical neurons

Marc Hauser

Peter Cariani

Tecumseh Fitch

Andrew Rosenfeld
(Psychology/Biology)

P916

Who could ask for anything more? A behavioral study on the role of syncopation in human rhythm perception

Tecumseh Fitch /Bio

Peter Cariani

Kathleen Howland

Jessica Rosenthal
(Psychology/Biology)

P917

On the relation between children's understanding of the singular-plural distinction and systems of number representation

Susan Carey

Jesse Snedeker /Bio

Elizabeth Spelke

Judith Scarl
(Psychology/Biology)

P918

The role of combination long call in sex recognition and mate choice in the cotton-top tamarin

Marc Hauser

Cory Miller

Richard Wrangham/Bio

Robyn Scatena
(Psychology/Biology)

P919

Cellular phones and driving: An application of the central bottleneck theory

Daniel Simons /Bio

Stephen Most

Joshua Rodefer

Leigh Sepeta
(Psychology/Biology)

P920

The recognition and processing of facial expressions of emotions in autistic disorder

Gordon Harris

Ken Nakayama /Bio

M. Leichtman

Ken Nakayama

Susan Carey /3rd

Tamara Spiewak

P921

The effect of acting training on social skills

Richard Hackman

Amy Wiseman

Stephen Seidel

Jason Tajima

P922

Can individual differences in spatial processing ability affect how we recall architectural space?

Stephen Kosslyn

Daniel Schacter   

Fred Mast

Ian Tomb

P923

Emotion and decision-making: A critical test of the somatic marker hypothesis

Marc Hauser

Patricia Deldin

Daniel Simons

Uma Viswanathan
(MBB/Psychopathology)

(March 2002)

P872

Creativity and mental blocking

Daniel Wegner

Patricia Deldin     

Gary Belkin

Joseph Vuckovich
(Psychology/Biology)

P924

Effects of extensive basal forebrain cholinergic lesions on spatial working memory

Mark Baxter /Bio

Joshua Rodefer

J. Berger-Sweeney

Shelley Waite
(Psychology/Biology)

P925

Ambiguity and revision in on-line sentence comprehension

Jesse Snedeker /Bio

Susan Carey

Elizabeth Spelke

Joshua Weaver
(Psychology/Biology)

P926

What causes the tip-of the toungue state? A new look at the blocking hypothesis

Daniel Schacter /Bio

Daniel Simons

Anat Maril

Elizabeth Spelke /3rd

Sabrina Wickremasinghe
(Psychology/Biology)

P927

The effect of meditation on emotional arousal and cognitive performance

Randy Gollub /Bio

Patricia Deldin

Robert Savoy

Patricia Deldin

Laura Wiegand
(Psychology/Biology)

P928

Cortical thickness abnormalities in schizophrenia: A magnetic resonance imaging study

Martha Shenton

Andrew Barsky

Stephen Heckers /Bio

Daniel Schacter /3rd

Lawrence Williams

P929

The construction of agency as a mediating factor for the influence of violent films on aggressive cognition and aggressive affect

Shelley Carson

Daniel Wegner

Nicholas Epley

Philip Stone

 

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