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Approved honors proposals: Class of 2006

Author

Thesis Title

Supervisors

Readers

Randall Adams
(SocSt/Psy)

'You have strong preference for white Americans:' Effects of implicit racial attitude awareness on mock juror decision making

M. Banaji /Psy
T. Pittinsky /SocSt

E. Langer /Psy
_____ /SocSt

Ayodola Adigun
(MBB/CN)

The effect of visual impairment on children's self-concept

D Sorensen

J. Snedeker

Maria Barth

Children's moral judgments of action and omission

M. Hauser

J. Snedeker

Krupa Bhojani
(MBB/PN)

Hands as causal agents: Seven-month-olds and the development of causal perceptions

S. Carey

J. Snedeker

Virginia Borges

Children's responses to gender-based inequalities

E. Spelke
K. Olson

M. Banaji

Anna Chen The polarization effect of shared ingroup interests on outgroup leader evaluation T. Pittinsky M. Banaji

Maureen Connolly

Group therapy for patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: Confronting self-blame, stigma, and depression

M. Nock
L. Phillips

S. Carey

Kristin Demorest

The effects of perceived responsibility for weight on self-esteem in normal and overweight females

M. Nock
K. Woodberry

W. Mendes

Jane Evans

Mindful resonance and mindful contagion: How to improve the effects of television viewing

S. Kosslyn

E. Langer
T. Ben-Shachar

Kelley Fahl Socioeconomic status and stress response: An argument for multimodal assessment

W. Mendes
B. Sparrow

M. Nock

Shana Franklin

Moral reasoning in obsessive compulsive disorder

R. McNally
B. Riemann
(U. Wisc)

D. Pizzagalli

Dina Gohar

'Do you feel what I feel?': Perceived uniqueness as a mediator of self-other differences in affective forecasts

D. Gilbert
C. Morewedge

W. Mendes

Sarah Goodin
(MBB/CN)

The relationship between sleep and moral decision-making

R. Stickgold

D. Gilbert

Lucy Grayson

Psychologists' attitudes toward patients who engage in non-suicidal self-injury and the diagnostic bias for borderline personality disorder

M. Nock

J. Hooley

Kimberly Gutowski Perception and memory of mirror images in children and adults E. Spelke
A. Shusterman
S. Carey

Zahra Kassam
(March 2007)

Malleability of implicit attitudes

M. Banaji
S. Akalis

W. Mendes

Arin Keyser
(MBB/CN)

Appraisals of competitive situations as predictors of performance

W. Mendes
B. Sparrow

D. Pizzagalli

Brett Laffel

Using the IAT as a way to de-bias discriminatory behavior relating to employment decision making

M. Bazerman
D. Chugh

M. Banaji

Lisa Lareau

Optimism predicts more adaptive coping under stress, depending on racial context

W. Mendes
H. Gray

D. Gilbert

Kathleen Lee

When it is best to expect reality: Optimism predicts biased risk perception under conditions of stress

W. Mendes

E. Spelke

Beatriz MacDonald Wer
(MBB/PP)

The malleability of gender stereotypes: An interaction of personality and situational context

M. Nock.

W. Mendes

Catherine Matthews

Learning of arbitrary associations by trial-and-error

Y. Jiang

K. Nakayama

Caitlin McKee
(MBB/CN)

The effects of social information on infants' food preferences

E. Spelke
K. Kinzler

M. Banaji

Marina Nasman

Intergroup contact: Reducing stress responses with increased cross-race contact

W. Mendes
J. McDell

M. Banaji

Jacqueline O'Brien
(MBB/CN)

Reality monitoring in older adults: Effects of positive and negative emotional content

D. Schacter
R. Garoff
E. Kensinger

R. McNally

Kim Ono

Lexical constraint or pragmatic principle: A preliminary account of mutual exclusivity in children with high functioning autism spectrum disorders

J. Snedeker

D. Pizzagalli

Sarah Otner

The threat of prejudice: A history of preceived discrimintation's role in cognitive and affective responses to social stress

W. Mendes
D. Carney

R. Hackman

Kellee Patterson
(MBB/PP)

Wishing and praying: Adults' experiences with mind-world control

S. Carey
A. Shtulman

E. Hannon

Caroline Pemberton
(MBB/CN)

Young children's reasoning about the influences of social categories on friendship

E. Spelke
K. Shutts

M. Banaji

Aleris Rodgers
(MBB/CN)

Relationship of the race implicit association test to measures of intergroup anxiety during intterracial interactions

W. Mendes
H. Gray

M. Banaji

Kay Schwader
MBB/CN

Cognitive aspects of restrained eating: Insight into thought suppression and implications for treatment

D. Wegner
S. Najmi

R. McNally

Ashley Seo

Temporal valuation of past and future events

D. Gilbert
E. Caruso

W. Mendes

Saviz Sepah

The search for an auditory-based cognitive enhancer: Effects of listening to 16Hz binaural beats on cognitive performance and mood

S. Kosslyn
S. Moulton

E. Hannon

Yankun Shen
(MBB/CN)

Interrupted visual searches reveal volatile search memory

Y. Jiang

K. Nakayama

Lisa Shichijo

It is better to have known and lost than not to have known at all...The effects of intermediate updates on affective forecasts

D. Gilbert
E. Caruso

J. Hooley

Lisa Shu
(Ec/Psy)
Is the endowment effect due to loss aversion or mere ownership? D. Gilbert /Psy
C. Morewedge /Psy
S. Mullainathan /Ec

M. Bazerman /Psy
_____ /Ec

Laura Soto

Effects of gender related priming on female performance in a mental rotation task

S. Kosslyn

P. Cavanagh

Aleksandra Stankovic

When test anxiety is beneficial: Examining personality, expectancy, anxiety, and attribution as predictors of acadmic success following an experience of failure

S. Carson

R. McNally

Sarah Stapleton

Decreasing prejudice by increasing discrimination

T. Ben-Shachar
R. Hackman

E. Langer

Leslie Theophile
(MBB/CN)

Rationality vs. intuition: The effect of emotions on dual systems of reasoning

D. Gilbert
B. Shenoy

W. Mendes

Alexa Von Tobel

The psychological effects on the introduction of television on an underdeveloped society: The 1999 introduction of television into the kingdom of Bhutan

T. Ben-Shachar

M. Banaji

Matthew Wallenstein

Physical exercise reduces the urge to self-injure: A case series

M. Nock

D. Pizzagalli

Alicia Warlick
(Psy/Ec)

Does exposure to same-race and different-race faces differentially affect decisions to trust during a repeated investor game?

M. Banaji
S. Mullainathan /Ec

S. Pinker /Psy
_____ /Ec

Caroline Whiting
(Ling/Psy)
One mind, two languages: Examining models of bilingual lexical access through grammatical feature selection A. Caramazza  /Psy
A. Nevins/ Ling
J. Snedeker /Psy
Cedric Boeckx /Ling
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