Senior Honors Presentations
Please join us for the presentations of honors theses
by students completing the Psychology Honors Program in 2017.
Presentations will take place on
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 4:10 p.m. in 614 Schermerhorn Hall.
2017 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Zachary Heinemann (Bergeman & Iyengar)
- Presentation Title
- I Think I Like You: A Perceptual and Behavioral Analysis of Friendship Formation
- Student (Advisor)
- Paul Bloom (Metcalfe)
- Presentation Title
- Tip of the Tongue States, Curiosity, & Memory
- Student (Advisor)
- Samantha Ting (Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Shared Reality on Facebook
- Student (Advisor)
- Gillian Carling (Woolley)
- Presentation Title
- Innate & learned features of cross-fostered finch song
- Student (Advisor)
- Luis Sanchez (Weber)
- Presentation Title
- Salience-based Perception in Intertemporal Choice
- Student (Advisor)
- Elizabeth Blackwell (Tottenham & Callaghan)
- Presentation Title
- The Imagined Presence of a Primary Caregiver: Learning Modulation Effects in Adulthood
- Student (Advisor)
- Irma Alineri (Metcalfe)
- Presentation Title
- Metacognition in Epilepsy: A Comparative Analysis Among Frontal, Occipital, and Temporal Lobe Epileptic Patients
2016 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Hezi Ben Sasson (Shohamy)
- Presentation Title
- The Role of Episodic Memory in Value-Based Decisions
- Student (Advisor)
- Suzie Kim (Kevin Ochsner)
- Presentation Title
- Culture and Moral Memory: The Effects of Independent and Interdependent Self-Construals on Recall of Moral Events
- Student (Advisor)
- Jessica Li (Sarah Woolley)
- Presentation Title
- How Zebra Finches Coordinate Their Calls
- Student (Advisor)
- Blair Vail (Daphna Shohamy)
- Presentation Title
- In Retrospect: Memory, Loss, and Anxiety
- Student (Advisor)
- Kalman Victor (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Putting the "Saying" back into Saying-Is-Believing: The Psycholinguistic Concomitants of Shared Reality
- Student (Advisor)
- Linda Wang (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Regulatory Focus in the Ultimatum Game
2015 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Zachary Glasser (Valerie Purdie-Vaughns)
- Presentation Title
- Graying out the Threat: Age, Race and Perceptions of Criminality
- Student (Advisor)
- Kierstin Utter (Steve Stroessner)
- Presentation Title
- Apprized possessions: Factors affecting race bias in anger perception
- Student (Advisor)
- Sahng-Ah Yoo (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Vicarious Shared Reality
- Student (Advisor)
- Farah Tamizuddin (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- The Impact of Motivation on Romantic Relationships
- Student (Advisor)
- Lauren Tomasulo (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Moving On or Digging Deeper? Regulatory Mode Interactions in Dyads in Conflict
- Student (Advisor)
- Yuval Aberman (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Musicking: Self-Regulation and Music Experience
2014 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Isaac Assor (Geraldine Downey)
- Presentation Title
- Rejection Sensitivity and Executive Control as Joint Predictors of Perseverance Following Rejection
- Student (Advisor)
- Julia Chen (Kevin Ochsner)
- Presentation Title
- Social Regulation of Negative Emotions: The Mere Presence of Others
- Student (Advisor)
- Marvellous Iheukwumere (Carl Hart)
- Presentation Title
- MDMA (Molly) Increases Cigarette Smoking
- Student (Advisor)
- Alex Jonokuchi (Dean Mobbs)
- Presentation Title
- Anxiety and Reward Sensitivity in Response to Approaching Threat: Examining Human Fear Behavior Using a Novel, Ecologically-Inspired Task
- Student (Advisor)
- Y. Dana Neugut (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Shared Reality and Regulatory Mode
2013 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- C. Giselle Doepker (Kevin Ochsner)
- Presentation Title
- The Effects of Choice and Motive on Performance and Persistence
- Student (Advisor)
- David Halpern (Hakwan Lau)
- Presentation Title
- Dissociations Between Confidence Ratings and Performance in a Visual Discrimination Task
- Student (Advisor)
- Carl Jago (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Are Values as Fickle as Fashion? Social Influence as a Probe for Moral Flexibility
- Student (Advisor)
- Yoshiaki Ko (Hakwan Lau)
- Presentation Title
- Visual Attention as Internal Noise Reduction
- Student (Advisor)
- Kevin Montiel (Valerie Purdie-Vaughns)
- Presentation Title
- Boundaries of Desire: Self-Disclosure, Concealment and Eating Disorder Risk Among Out Gay Men
- Student (Advisor)
- David Rhee (Donald Hood)
- Presentation Title
- The Effect of Magnification on Optical Coherence Tomography
- Student (Advisor)
- Jennifer Smerling (Catherine Monk)
- Presentation Title
- The Effects of Folic Acid and Zinc Consumption on Fetal Autonomic Nervous System Development
2012 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Emma Draper-Reich (James Curley)
- Presentation Title
- Individual Differences in Paternal Behavior in Mice
- Student (Advisor)
- Olivia Mandelbaum (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Daily Internet Use Patterns: Regulatory Mode Moderates Use Throughout the Day
- Student (Advisor)
- Erik Nook (Kevin Ochsner)
- Presentation Title
- Tell Me How You Feel: The Effects of Emotion Naming on Emotion Regulation
- Student (Advisor)
- Colleen Platt (Frances Champagne)
- Presentation Title
- The Effects of Environmental Experience on Behavior and the Brain in Adulthood
- Student (Advisor)
- Rithu Ramachandran (Donald Hood)
- Presentation Title
- A Method for Deriving Visual Field Boundaries from OCT Scans of Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa
- Student (Advisor)
- Michael Smith (Janet Metcalfe)
- Presentation Title
- Examining the Stability of Memories: How Do We Re-learn?
- Student (Advisor)
- Katherine Zee (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Less is More: Tailoring Help to Situational Needs
2011 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Maxwell Bertolero (Edward Smith)
- Presentation Title
- Cognitive Control and Depression
- Student (Advisor)
- Kira Boesch (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- The Speedy Side of Prevention Focus
- Student (Advisor)
- Leor Hackel (Kevin Ochsner)
- Presentation Title
- Situational Determinants of Empathic Accuracy
- Student (Advisor)
- Julia Reuben (Catherine Monk)
- Presentation Title
- Quality of Early Maternal Care and Stress Reactivity in Adolescence
- Student (Advisor)
- Randi Scott (David Krantz)
- Presentation Title
- (David Krantz) The Effects of Cognitive Construal on Food Preferences
- Student (Advisor)
- Joanna Wang (Frances Champagne)
- Presentation Title
- The Transgenerational Effects of Social Experiences in Mice
2010 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Aicha Cisse (Carl Hart)
- Presentation Title
- Role of Motives in Apparent Methamphetamine-Induced Risky Sexual Behavior in Men Who Have Sex with Men
- Student (Advisor)
- David Eddie (Carl Hart)
- Presentation Title
- Subjective Effects of Methamphetamine and Alcohol in Combination
- Student (Advisor)
- Larissa Higgins (Kathy Berenson and Geraldine Downey)
- Presentation Title
- How Emotional Awareness Impacts Rage Reactions to Rejection in Borderline Personality Disorder
- Student (Advisor)
- Anna Murray (Catherine Monk)
- Presentation Title
- Effects of Trauma on Maternal Physiology and Fetal Development
- Student (Advisor)
- Maya Opendak (Peter Balsam)
- Presentation Title
- Memory for Time
- Student (Advisor)
- Caitlin Stachon (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Self-Control Conflicts and the Restrained Eater
2009 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Ashleigh Aviles (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- Regulatory Focus and Learning
- Student (Advisor)
- Nick Camp (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- What Drives Cultural Differences in Attention? The Role of Self-Construal and Regulatory Focus
- Student (Advisor)
- Anushree Doshi (Sarah Woolley)
- Presentation Title
- Mate Copying in Female Zebra Finches
- Student (Advisor)
- Natalie Johnston (Tor Wager)
- Presentation Title
- The Impact of Expectancy and Attention on Pain Perception
- Student (Advisor)
- Emily Jordan (Frances Champagne)
- Presentation Title
- Effects of Communal Nesting on Offspring Social Behavior
- Student (Advisor)
- Allison Reid (David Krantz)
- Presentation Title
- Justifying Injustice: The Effects of Affiliation Manipulation on Judicial Decision Making
- Student (Advisor)
- Jennifer Salant (Don Hood)
- Presentation Title
- Scanning Laser Polarimetry: A Test of a Structure-Function Linear Model and Reliability
2008 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Devika Bhushan (Geraldine Downey)
- Presentation Title
- Assessing the Consequences of RS-Gender for Stereotype Threat Susceptibility
- Student (Advisor)
- Rachel Gibbons (Robert Krauss)
- Presentation Title
- Linguistic Convergence in Roommate Pairs
- Student (Advisor)
- Taylor Joerger (Jennifer Mangels and Daphna Shohamy)
- Presentation Title
- When Recollection Helps You to Realize Something Didn’t: An ERP Study of Feedback in Disqualifying False Memories
- Student (Advisor)
- Heather O'Neil (Herb Terrace)
- Presentation Title
- Do Sounds Facilitate Performance in Rhesus Macaques and Humans?
- Student (Advisor)
- Dana Pavarini (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- What is the Role of Experienced Expectancy in Value Creation?
- Student (Advisor)
- Erin Yates (Robert Krauss)
- Presentation Title
- Inferring Personal Attributes from Voice: Effects of Pitch and Gender
2007 Presentations
- Student (Advisor)
- Thomas Blair (Christoph Wiedenmayer)
- Presentation Title
- Social Recognition and Social Memory in Rat Pups
- Student (Advisor)
- Victory Joseph (Peter Balsam)
- Presentation Title
- The Role of Cortico-striatal Loops in Temporal Information Processing
- Student (Advisor)
- Sonya Thomas (Don Hood)
- Presentation Title
- The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus: Gateway to Vision
- Student (Advisor)
- Allison Turza (Carl Hart)
- Presentation Title
- The Effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy) on Reported and Observed Social Behavior in Humans
- Student (Advisor)
- Noam Zerubavel (Tory Higgins)
- Presentation Title
- The Unintentional Self: Systematic Breakdowns in Self-Regulation