2021-2022 Psychology Senior Project Theses
Ismael Aquino: Potential Advantages for Bicultural Individuals
Jonah Bauer: Pop Culture and Social Experiences
Lucy Beckett: Decision-Making in Post-Sentence Civil Commitment Cases
Carter Briglia: Using Moral Foundations to Increase Support for Felon Enfranchisement
Mackenzie Burton: Medication is Okay for You, but Not Me: Do Perceptions of Treatments for Depression Vary by User
Characteristics?
Aerin Cho: Examining Pretend Play and Theory of Mind in South Korean Children With Autism
Sarah Ferdinand: Improving Children's Executive Function Through Play: The Role of Fantasy and Peer Interaction
Meredith Gioia: Examining College Athletes’ Motivation in Light of COVID-19
George Herrera: Hip Hop vs. Blues: Agents of Aggression Affect Attention Performance
Maddy Howe: Triumphant Return: The Role of Similarity and Liking in Reducing Stigma Towards the Formerly
Incarcerated
Kirsten Hull: Fraud and Feelings: The Effect of Emotion on Misinformation Susceptibility
Grace Kupka: Investigating Emotion Regulation as a Mediator Between Sibling Relationship Quality and Attachment
Security
Claire Lavalley: Responses to Moral Situations and Resistance to Conformity Pressures
Emily Le: From Beauty to Function: The Effects of Website Aesthetics on Online Shopping Behaviors
Emma Liebegott: Competing vs. Socializing: How Disordered Eating Symptoms in Athletes Vary Based on Context, Personal
Characteristics, and Sport Type
Levana Lyu: Social Media Engagement: Forming Parasocial Relationships With Celebrities and Social Media
Influencers Through Authenticity
Caroline Magnan: The Tragedy of the [Medical] Commons: Perspectives on Value Prioritization and Resource Stewardship in
the Healthcare Industry
Yannis Makridis: Psychopaths and Harm Aversion
Mary Mallavarapu: (Dis)Order in the Court: Effect of Visual Imagery and Race on Punitiveness
Layne McKeown: Sibling Relationship Quality and Socioemotional Development
Emily Norum: Effects of Racial Identity, Stigma Consciousness, and Friendship on Self-Disclosure in Biracial Individuals
Phoebe Parker: Exploring Predictors to Emotion Socialization and Empathy in Young Children
Hannah Reck: Happiness and Productivity: Examining the Effect of Emotion on Task Performance
Katharine Roberts: Dismantling the “Abuse Excuse:” Psychological Influences in Juror Decision-Making
Jaelin Robin: Learning and Inference in Complex Tasks: A Developmental Study
Claire Sehring: Grit as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Frustration Intolerance and Goal Achievement in Sports
Katy Shepard: Food for Thought: The Influence of Moralization on Disgust Activation and Disordered Eating Outcomes
Panida Sritatera: Parasocial Relationships With Content Creators in Livestreaming Communities
Sosha Stecher: The Impact of Playful Parents on One’s Dispositional Joyfulness
Livia Svenvold McPhee: Children With ADHD and Comorbid Behaviors: Which School-Based Behavioral Interventions are
Most Effective?
Lexi Takashima: People Say Otherwise: How Pushback Affects the Likelihood of Changing Answers
Katherine Taylor: The Presence of Fathers: Implications for the Development of Eating Disorders
Amanda Tougas: The Association Between Perceived Destructive Parental Conflict and Interpersonal Relationship
Closeness
Fan (Fiona) Xiang: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish: Influence of Disease Threat on Punishment Strategies
Amy Zhai: Individual Modifications to the Preschool Life Skills Program