Past Student Theses
2025
Baca, Ana Carina
Immune Function, Exclusion, and Threat: Neural Correlates of Social Context Processing
Advisor: Alexander Schielke
Branker-McLean, Brianna Elizabeth
We Are Not Your Jezebels: The Impact of the Jezebel Stereotype on College Aged Black Women
Advisor: Pauline Ho
Buchillon-Almeida, Daniela
Linguistic Shifts and Emotion Regulation Across Languages: The Case of "Estar" in Spanish
Advisor: Kevin Holmes
Capurso, Leore S.
Retention of visual features in the absence of conscious awareness…? A closer look at the inattentional blindness paradigm
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Collie, Victoria
Characterizing Eating Disorders in Treatment Seeking Older Adults
Advisor: Lisa Velkoff
Daniels, Isabella
Investigating Waldorf Education through Teachers' Perspectives: A Case Study
Advisor: Pauline Ho
Desmond, Beatrice Siobhan
Gender Differences in Alcohol-Related Behavior and Risk Perception Among Cisgender and Gender Diverse Emerging Adults
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Edwards, Minal
The Effects of Framing, Algorithmic Trust, and Pricing on Users' Willingness to Pay for Premium Features on Dating Apps
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Feldman-Peterson, Della
Closing the Loop: Introducing Transverse Patterning to a Transitive Inference Task
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Gallant, Inez
Insight or Inference? A Modern Look at Transitive Inference in Rats
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Gordon, Joseph
40 Hz Repetitive Visual Stimulation as an Intervention in Fear Extinction in Rats
Advisor: Alexander Schielke
Gulbrandsen, Lindsey
Influences of Gender Dynamics and Sexual Orientation on Alcohol Offer Acceptance in Emerging Adults
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Hakobyan, Gor
Does Knowledge of Linguistic Diversity Shape Beliefs about the Link between Language and Reality?
Advisor: Kevin Holmes
Hansen, Isabelle
Examining the Validity and Prevalence of Mastery Avoidance in Higher Education Settings
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Hedouin, Camille Rose
Ethnic Racial Identity Development among Transracially Adopted Individuals
Advisor: Pauline Ho
Heyer, Barrett
Model-free learning activity in the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area in Rhesus macaques
Advisor: Pauline Ho
Hoyle, Catherine
Peptide Power: Effects of Exendin-4 on Transitive Inference Learning in Rodents
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Hussein, Fatuma Hurein
Why You Actin’ Like That: Examining the Bidirectional Relationship between Acting White Accusation on Ethnic Racial Identity Development and Socialization Among Black/African American College Students
Advisor: Pauline Ho
Hutchinson, Victoria
Intersecting Identities and Alcohol Harm Reduction: Gender Diversity, Race, and Protective Behavioral Strategies in Emerging Adults
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Kalua, Sierra
Communication and Affective Responsiveness: Examining the Influence of Family Functioning on Adolescent Eating Disorder Severity
Advisor: Lisa Velkoff
Leaf, Robyn
“Society has no clue what to do with my gender”: The mediating effect of transgender/gender non-conforming pride/shame on passing beliefs and mental health outcomes
Advisor: Megan Bruun
Leonard, Gavin
From Speech to Sip: A Linguistic Examination of the Theory of Planned Behavior in Drinking Contexts
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Moineau, Peyton
COVID-19 Safety Precautions: Self-Interest and Communal Orientations
Advisor: Megan Bruun
Niteo, Odena Faye
The Effects of Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Medial Amygdala on Alcohol Drinking Mice: A Potential Role for Oxytocin Receptors
Advisor: Valeria González Diaz
Ogawa, Joshua
First Impressions Matter? How Initial Exposure to a Film Sequence Shapes Subsequent Understanding of Cause and Effect
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Parikh, Kahaan
Chemogenetic Inhibition of the Basolateral Amygdala in a Modified Risky Decision Task: A Model of Gambling Disorder
Advisor: Valeria González Diaz
Schlipp, Ashley Lynne
The Role of the Dorsomedial Striatum In Stable Information Seeking Behavior
Advisor: Valeria González Diaz
Shapira, Amalia Kaufer
Mind Over Grammar: When and How Does Generic Language Shape Essentialist Beliefs 91大神 Social Categories?
Advisor: Kevin Holmes
Slaughter, Signe
The Rhetoric of Victimhood: How the Trans “Panic” Defenses Shape Jurors’ Inferences, Attitudes, and Decision-Making
Advisor: Kevin Holmes
Soeiro, Rowan Josephine
Death and Divine Order: Religion and Prosocial Responsibility in Presbyterian Communities
Advisors: Chauncey Handy and Megan Bruun
Thacker, Rachel
Does Aspectual Framing Shape Reasoning in Educational Contexts?
Advisor: Kevin Holmes
Ward, Tsion
Love Your Mother (Earth): Eco-Anxiety and Perinatal Mental Health
Advisor: Vasiliy Safin
Wilson, Cedar
Exploring Individual Differences in the Information Preferences of Rats
Advisor: Valeria González Diaz
Wolcott, Kati
Generic Language and Structural Thinking about Social Group
Advisor: Kevin Holmes
2024
Arakalgud, Ramya
Risk, altruism & prisoner's dilemma
Advisor: Vasiliy Safin
Araya, Angellina Jade
Tripping over sobriety: examining the potential of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodoamphetamine on alcohol relapse behavior in rat models of addiction
Advisor: Matthew Ford
Boldt, Tori
We don't read about dinosaurs : investigating the unique motivational struggles of students at Reed with ADHD
Advisor: Jennifer Corpus
Buchanan, Erin Carver
Statistical foraging : a comparative analysis of compositional barycentric matching and
q-learning for describing foraging behavior in rats
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Dillon, Emma Maloy
Gender differences in risk perception and motives for alcohol use
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Elliott, Teresa Marie Lane
Mind's eye morality : mental imagery, gender, & emotion in the footbridge problem
Advisor: Vasiliy Safin
Fazio, Hailey
Demystifying the one-man toast: UPPS-P personality predictors and solitary drinking in emerging adults
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Gitin, Aaron
Choice, uncertainty, and satisfaction
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Gonzalez, Guido S.
Associations between peer attachment, quality of life, and the use of alcohol and other drugs
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Gorkin, Alyssa N.
So what we get drunk : social anxiety, drinking motives, and drinking outcomes in an emerging adult gender diverse community sample
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Guo, Xin Yi
Cultural diversity and social essentialism
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Jackson, Kayla Rose
Trad wives or trad lies? misinformation and traditional beliefs about women
Advisor: Vasiliy Safin
Kassin, Lena
"A much-needed reminder of how important writing is to me": the impact of utility and attainment value interventions on creativity and motivation for poetry writing Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Li, Beier
The role of solitary cannabis use and coping motives in depression and anxiety among emerging adults: a longitudinal study
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Mabbutt, Dylan
A construct-first based approach to a selective unification of theories of consciousness
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Monroy, Leslie
Exploring dog cognition and their bonds with humans- a systematic review
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Quintana, Harlan W.
A systematic review of risk and protective factors : examining drivers of alcohol use in American Indian youth
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Ramberg-Gomez, Olivia Ruth
Got gossip? Examining gossip tendencies and the effects of gossip on trustworthiness
Advisor: Vasiliy Safin
Roberts, Ian
Impressions of awareness : Ouroboros theory as a selective unification of theories of consciousness
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Star-Lack, Maya
Queer attitudes : the influence of sexual minority status on attitude-behavior gap in college hookups
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Stewart, Julie
Gamification in procedural learning
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Truxaw, Atlas
The effect of partial probabilistic reinforcement on transitive inference and the symbolic distance effect
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Weakley, Rhiannon Leila Fay
Planting the seeds of belonging : restorative justice and therapeutic horticulture with justice-involved youths
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Zhang, Iris
From history to healing : a systematic scoping review of mental health disparities for BIPOC
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Zhou, Shuyu
Decoding neural dynamics in inattentional blindness : a temporal generalization approach
Advisor: Michael Pitts
2023
Ahsan, Iman Sara
Investigating the Effect of Race and Skin Color on Emotion Attributions
Advisor: Chuma Owuamalam
Allison, Lucy
Out of Body, Out of Mind: Interoceptive Awareness and Attention as Modulators for Full Body Illusions
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Beitchman, Chloe Moon
Why Is Everyone So Obsessed With Me? Implications of Social Media Audience Ideation in Young Women
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Chun, Reina
Seating Placement as a Predictor of Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Curley, Bridget
Stress-Mindset & Social Pain: Reducing Race-Based Bias
Advisor: Chuma Owuamalam
Daniels, Bec
The Psychology of UX: Assessing and Applying HCI Theory and Empathic Design Frameworks with Dykes on Bikes® Portland Oregon Chapter
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Dziedzic, Harper
Development of a Solitary Drinking Measure
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Fargis, Tulia Lan
The Land of Equal Opportunity: Changing Dehumanization Towards Latinx Immigrants Through Storytelling
Advisor: Chuma Owuamalam
Gersh, Daniella
Fitting In: Examining Strategic Self-Presentation Through Clothing as a Means of Belonging for Fat Students
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Goldstein, Ari Lee
Linguistic Encoding of Gender and Gender Self-Concept in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
Grant, Louie
Pleasure and Pain in the Midbrain: Dopamine and Drugs Outside the Lab
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Greenwald, Declan
"Money or River": A Bistable Approach to Investigating the Neural Correlates of Lexical Ambiguity
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Kenna, Isabel
Effects of Blocking Amygdalar 5-HT3 Receptors on Ethanol Seeking Behavior
Advisor: Earnest Kim
Kim, Nakyung (Nicky)
Optogenetic Stimulation of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area Under Anxiety and Reward Related Paradigms
Advisor: Earnest Kim
Lebolt, Anna
Your Attention, Please: The Competition and Comparisons between Social Cues in Directing Attention
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Madar, Clarissa
Alcohol Expectancies and Implicit Associations in Heterosexuals and Sexual Minority Groups
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Mercer-Garber, Adrian
Measures of Body Satisfaction in a Gender-Diverse Community
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Moir, Molly
How the “Trans Panic Defense” Shapes Attitudes toward Anti-Transgender Violence
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
Phelan, Brenna
Color Lightness Effects in Attention and Decision Making
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Renfree, Hateya
A Study on Alcohol Decision-Making: How Group Composition Relates to Behavioral Willingness in Social Drinking Contexts
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Sensabaugh, Azure Maeve
Widespread Aptitude for Detecting Pitch-Shifts in Familiar Audio Clips
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Shan, Liantao
Anthropomorphic Language and Reasoning about Political Entities
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
Star-Lack, Maya
Queer Attitudes: The Influence of Sexual Minority Status on the Attitude- Behavior Gap in College Hookups
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Steinhilber, Clay
Stanislav Grof’s Transpersonal Psychology: A Psychiatric Framework for Catalyzing Abundantly Healthy Personhood With the Aid of Higher Healing Agencies
Advisor: Michael Pitts, Steve Wasserstrom, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Thatte, Eashan
Changing Perceptions: Investigating Novel Associations Between Stress Mindset and Academic Motivation
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Wu, Sarah
The Mind Behind the Music: AI, Intentionality, and the Perception of Musical Narrative
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
Zulch, Ariella J.
Effects of Long-Term Levonorgestrel Administration on Anxiety and Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Gonadally-Intact Female Long-Evans Rats
Advisor: Earnest Kim
2022
Baker, Nirvana
Sexism, explicit biases, and empathy for various gendered sex disorders
Advisor: Leia Harper
Barone, Sophronia Neff
As if the sun went round the earth : a systematic review of empirical evidence concerning perceptual richness
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Cao, Anan
Own- and Cross-Price Demand Elasticity with Specific and Generalized Conditioned Reinforcers in a Token Economy with Pigeons
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Egermeier, E. F. (Emery Felise)
"No trans fats" : providers' anti-black and anti-fat biases are barriers to medical gender transition
Advisor: Leia Harper
Greenwald, Jax
Love at first fight : examining links between attachment security and mindset beliefs Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Hakomori, Kai
Hot and bothered : affect and intrinsic motivation as predictors of pro-environmental behavior Gregory Guichard Jensen
Hill, Anthony
Racism and sleep : an interrelated recovery process
Advisor: Leia Harper
Kang, Andrew L.
The Barycentric Method of a Rat's World
Advisor: Gregory Guichard Jensen
Kim, Maxim
Academic self-efficacy as a predictor of belonging for students of marginalized identities
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Krishnamurthy, Rishi
Overt attention and cognitive ability explain climate graph interpretation
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
Li, Charlotte
Unconscious effect of Chinese classifier during object categorization
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Li, Christina Xue
"We were cannon fodder" : black and Latine nurses' cardiovascular health moderated by coping during Covid-19
Advisor: Leia Harper
Liu, Abigail
Spatial attention control mechanism modulated by subliminal stimuli : an electroencephalography study
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Moffitt, Joanna Milwako
Examining the Relationship Between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Black and White Students
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Queen, Monique L.
Showing Up and Showing Out: Predictors of Black Lives Matter Protest Endorsement and Protest Behavior in Portland, OR
Advisor: Glenn Baker
Rook, Ella Demille
How linguistic framing shapes anti-fat bias : the role of pragmatic reasoning
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
Wang, Jinduo
The aesthetics of mathematics : intuitions about the beauty and sublimity in abstract ideas
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
2021
Baker, Raines
COVID-19 and Resilience in a Sample of Yoga Practitioners
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Davis, Lili Behumi
Cops Just Doing Their Jobs: Victim Framing of Media Representations of Police Violence
Advisor: Kevin J. Holmes
Hayworth, Kyla
Maternal Cocaine Addiction and The Effect on Parenting Behavior
Advisor: Crystal Carr
Lei, Christy
Labeling emotions in a native and foreign language: An ERP study on emotion regulation in bilinguals via affect labeling
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
2020
Corea, Daniela
Emotional Awareness and Emotional Tone: Temperamental Weather
Advisor: Greg Jensen
Johnson, Max Shalk
Nancy Glu and The Mystery of The LHb: The Role of Glutamatergic Signaling in the Lateral Habenula and Alcohol Consumption
Advisor: Paul Currie
Mathieux, Adrien
The Effects of Distinction and Color Congruence on Incidental Memory
Advisor: Vasiliy Safin
Scherfling, Nell
The Double-Edged Sword: Mindset, Goals, and Feedback Recipience in a Narrative Feedback System
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
2019
Bastacky, Joshua
Addiction is not a disease & dopamine is not pleasure : a story of stress & reward
Advisor: Paul Currie
DeFor, Marshall
Why (don't) we talk about race : exploring the relationship between academic social norms and faculty members' perceptions of conducting race talk in the college classroom
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
Dunn, David P.
Central ghrelin 1a and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor activation modulates d-amphetamine conditioned place preference
Advisor: Paul Currie
Engel, Liv
Estrogen receptor α and ß modulation of ethanol withdrawal-induced anxiety in female rats
Advisor: Paul Currie
Fox, Estella
Intentions to use alcohol after alcohol prevention participation : impacts of race and ethnicity
Advisor: Kristen Anderson
Glass, James
Using token economies to assess demand and preference for specific and generalized reinforcers in pigeons Advisor: Timothy Hackenberg
Gutowsky, Katelyn
Impact of social enrichment on a valproic acid model of autism spectrum disorder
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Harris, Alexa
The effects of microaggressions on predictors of academic success
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
Hendry, Camille
EEG differences between perceiving speech versus noise in physically identical sine-wave speech stimuli
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Hough, Aoife
Synesthesia, visual search, and the N2pc : an ERP study
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Kelly, Linnea
Out in left field : a mixed methods approach to understanding the experience of LGBTQ+ women in sports
Advisor: Kristen Anderson
Kyroudis, Andrew
Neural activity linked with visual awareness and task-relevance in a novel 2x2 design
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Lutsyshyna, Lydia Antonivna
An interdisciplinary approach to psychedelic therapy
Advisor: Timothy Hackenberg
Marsico, Nicholas A.
Effects of advertising on (simultaneous) alcohol and cannabis use decision-making in a social scenario simulation Advisor: Kristen Anderson
Martinez-Picazo, Paloma
Self-efficacy and the regulation of motivation
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Meredith, Melanie
Synesthesia and sensory substitution
Advisor: Enriqueta Cansceco-Gonzalez
Mery, Katerina Rain
Right before your eyes : individual differences in visual noticing
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Naveed, Tehniyat
Academic self-handicapping and its correlates in early adolescence
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Pearson, Anders
No light : a comparative study of first-time and experienced float tank users
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Rein-Jungwirth, Arek
Microbiome, metabolism, and memory consolidation : circadian variables in social transmission of food preferences Advisor: Paul Currie
Schwartz, Kara
Ask them if they're single : ERP responses to the singular "they" paired with human and object antecedents
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Spires, Olivia Carole
Effect of perspective-taking on implicit and explicit bias towards exotic dancers
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
Tibbetts, Logan
Effects of the dopamine receptor D₂ antagonist raclopride on operant variability
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Wadhwa, Nikhil
Shapes and sounds : a behavioral investigation of crossmodal correspondences between musical chords and geometric forms
Advisor: Igor Bascandziev
Willson, Jessie
Mindfulness, consent, gender identity, and sexual orientation : health education in elementary school
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Wilson, Rane
A cross-age, culture, and training comparison of the emotional categorization of musical chords and intervals Advisor: Igor Bascandziev
2018
Aragón, Karina
Selective trust in print : how do children think about authorship?
Advisor: Igor Bascandziev
Biesanz, Cody
The role of cognitive reflection in conceptual development
Advisor: Igor Bascandziev
Buttrill, Sidney
Student and faculty values of classroom dynamics in higher education
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
Cairati, Rachael
Stereotypes v. legal definitions in cases of sexual and physical assult
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Dickinson, Matthew
Effects of hippocampal ghrelin and cannabinoids on learning
Advisor: Paul Currie
Garland, Katherine
Social enrichment effect on demand and preference for certain and uncertain rewards
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Ge, Xiyao
The role of reputation and suspicion in children's decision making
Advisor: Igor Bascandziev
Goldstein, Clio
I think you think : perceived entity theory, gender, and undergraduates' sense of school belonging across academic majors
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
Hammerslough, Shira
Social media alcohol advertising and college drinking
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Harvey, Sophie
Gamifying the delay discounting task : the effects of gamification on impulsivity and enjoyment
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Holland, James|
CaMKII in LTP : more than just a catalyst
Advisor: Paul Currie
Howell, Erin
GLP-1 receptor activation in the lateral hypothalamus reduces food and ethanol consumption
Advisor: Paul Currie
Jaime, Gabrielle
Deranged neurobiology & gut microbiome ecology mediate the paradoxical effects of weight gain and energy homeostasis upon non-nutritive sweetener consumption
Advisor: Paul Currie
Kahn, Nicole
Collicular hyperstimulation disrupts control of attention and impulsivity : a novel model of ADHD
Advisor: Timothy Hackenberg
Kaufman, Savannah
Visualization ability and autobiographical memory
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Krebs, Lindsay
Who did it again? : linguistic relativity and eyewitness memory in English speakers, Spanish speakers, and bilinguals
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Krenik, Destine
The effects of maternal care on glucocorticoid receptor expression in the mouthbrooding chichlid a. Burtoni
Advisor: Suzy Renn
Kreth, Veda
For whom is androgyny relevant?
Advisor: Kris Anderson
MacCalman, Emily
An investigation of the link between specific phobias and substance use behaviors
Advisor: Kris Anderson
MacCalman, Michelle
Perceptions of gender and behavioral willingness in a social context simulation
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Marsh, Kendra
No new matches : understanding self-presentation and meta-accuracy in dating application content
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
Murphy, Robert
The synergistic influence of bias awareness and implicit theories of prejudice on racial prejudice
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
Ortego, Kevin
Is the chicken ready to eat? : electrophysiological signatures of ambiguity in the brain
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Pearlman, Sarah
The influence of gang affiliation and race of the defendant on juror decision making
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Schulingkamp, Rachel
No new friends? : an economic analysis comparing the value of familiar and unfamiliar interactions in rats
Advisor: Jonathan Rork & Tim Hackenberg
Sky-Johnson, Clarise
The effects of an incremental theory intervention on algebra students' motivation and performance in mathematics
Advisor: Igor Bascandziev
Solis, Delenn
An investigation into local/global processing in grapheme-color synesthetes
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Spear, Genevieve
The effects of lighting design on mood, attention, and stress
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Steele, Theresa
Adam and EVN : understanding the cellular basis of sexual dimorphism in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis
Advisor: Erik Zornik
Tripier, Juliette
You can't see me : searching for evidence of unconscious semantic processing in an inattentional blindness paradigm
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Yang, Tianfang
Build a bridge, not a wall : how moral reframing facilitates perspective-talking in political communication
Advisor: Kathryn Oleson
2017
Abtahi, Shayan
Accumbal Ghrelin and Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Modulation of Ethanol Reward and Ingestive Behavior in Female Rats
Advisor: Paul Currie
Alexander, Jordan
Self-Esteem and Drink Refusal Self-Efficacy in an Adolescent Prevention Context
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Basu, Kavya
Unraveling the Neutral Correlates of Consciousness During the Processing of Words
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Dirks, Aaron
Integration of Amygdalar Urocortin 1 and Endocannabinoid Signaling on the Modulation of Ethanol Reinstatement and Preference
Advisor: Paul Currie
Erwin, Cecelia
Fixed Time Schedules Produce Equivalent Consumption of Ethanol and Sucrose Reinforcement in Freely Feeding Rats
Advisor: Paul Currie
Feinstein, Marc
Meditating on Impulsivity: An Attempt to use Mindfulness to Influence Rate of Delay Discounting
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg & Ana Franceschini
Feldhaus, Isabella
The Effects of Storybrook-Embedded Linguistic Cues on Helping Behavior, Intentions, and Cognitions of Preschool-aged Children
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Good, Kayla
The Effect of Praise Type and Linguistic Cues on Parents' Perceptions of Traits and Behaviors Associated with Achievement
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Hall, Thalia
The Effects of Cannabis on Eyewitness Memory: Face Memory and Recognition
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Hansson, Jocelyn
Variability Reinforcement and Learning in a Computer Game Context
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Heinz, Daniel
The phosphorylation dependency of effects of morphine pre-treatment on mu-opioid receptor sensitivity
Advisor: Erik Zornik
Huang, Jasmine
Classical conditioning without awareness: An electrophysiological investigation
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg & Michael Pitts
Israel, Laura
Creating a Video Game Simulation of Alcohol and Marijuana Use: Pilot Study
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Jimenez-Wieneke, Alexandar
Neural Correlates of Expected and Unexpected Perceptual Transitions of a Bistable Figure
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Knoepfler, Aliana
Eyewitness Lineup Identifications: The Impact of Suspect Stereotypicality, Crime Type, and Victim Race
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Koukoutchos, Corbin
No N400 in the absence of awareness: an inattentional blindness study
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Lanzalotta, Jaroth
Instilling a generalized resistance to persuasion
Advisor: Kateryna Sylaska
Li, Danting
Maximizers Versus Satisficers: Decision-making styles, Sense of Control and Vulnerability to Sunk-cost Fallacy
Advisor: Dan Reisberg & Yan Lau
Porkar-Aghdam, Shirin
An Experimental Analysis of Pigeons' Demand for Food and Water in a Token Economy
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Rouda, Rebecca
Prediction of collegiate engagement with alcohol via self-handicapping, drinking motives, and academic pressure
Advisor: Kristen Anderson
Sutherland, Nicolette
Cross-modal Perceptual Learning: A Novel Shape Tasting Method for Sensory Discrimination of Wine
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez & Michael Pitts
VanderJagt, Hayley
A History of Binge-Like and Daily Cocaine Exposure Increases Consumption of Highly Palatable Food
Advisor: Paul Currie
Ward, Nathan
Considering the Who and Why of Opponent Selection: Goal Orientation, Competitiveness, and Social Comparison in a Competitive Gaming Community
Advisor: Kateryna Sylaska
Wolcott, Gabrielle
Risk and Resilience: The Four Sources of Self-Efficacy
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Zimmer, Nicholas
How does Imitation Promote Pro-Sociality? The Effects of Contingency and Similarity on Pro-Social Behavior using Natural and Artificial Stimuli
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg & Carol Franceschini
2016
Appelbaum, Madeline
Academic Motivation in Undergraduates: A Person-Centered, Mixed-Methods Analysis
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Badger, Jacob
Motivating Young Musicians: The Effects of Teaching Practice Strategies and Allowing Choice Repertoire
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Baumgartner, Hannah
Ghrelinergic and Endocannabinoid Signaling in the Amygdala and Ethanol Reward
Advisor: Paul Currie
Chesley, Oliver
The Role of Attention in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Ellinger, Rachel
Examining the role of interaural time and level differences on speech intelligibility in complex multi-talker environments
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez & Frederick Gallun
Eyers, Jack
The Effect of Internet-Based Pretrial Publicity on Potential Capital Jurors
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Flint, Lafcadio
Communicating Status through Body Language and Clothing
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Flores, Hazel
Tensed: A linguistic analysis of the relationship between stress, anxiety, and word use
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Goldblatt, Carly
Coloring Consciousness: Exploring the Neural Correlates of Conscious Perception by Manipulating Awareness of Color
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Groombridge, Elizabeth
Gendering Strangers: Why, How, and Why Not
Advisor: Kathy Oleson & Chloe Chapin
Hawley, Kirsten
The Role of Basic Need Support in Adaptive Coping
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Kalisher, Caleb
Attribute amnesia or task-based interference?
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Kenchel, Jillian
Eyewitness Confidence: Post-Identification Feedback Affects Both Verbal and Numerical Expressions
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Kerns, Lydia
Worry, Risk Perception, and Motivation to Quit Smoking
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Leong, Anthony
Biocultural Perspectives on Circumcision and Autonomy of Incompetent Patients
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Merfeld, Emily
Action of Cytoskeletal Crosslinking Proteins in Nuclear Positing and Movement
Advisor: Derek Applewhite
Miller, Justin
The Effects of Dextromethorphan on Depression- and Anxiety-Like Behavior in Mice
Advisor: Paul Currie
Miller, L. B.
The Utility of Distraction: Alternative Response Options for Pigeons in a Self Control Paradigm
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Pike, Eleanor
The Effect of Marijuana on Eyewitness Memory
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Rice, Clara
Praise-Seeking Behavior Among College Students: Links to a History of Ability Praise, Academic Contingent Self-Worth, and Entity Theory
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Ryan, James
Sex-Dependent Consequences of Early-Life Maternal Separation on Anxiety-like Behavior, Glucocorticoid Signaling, and Hippocampal Gene Expression
Advisor: Paul Currie & Suzy Renn
Scarpetta, Maia
Neural Correlates of Auditory Attention in an Exogenous Orienting Task
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Schweitzer, Emma
The Effects of Oxytocin in Mediating Social Behavior and the Value of Social Reward in Female Rats
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg & Suzy Renn
Sheskier, Mikela
The Pro-Social and Anxiolytic Effects of Oxytocin in a Postnatal VPA Animal Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Advisor: Paul Currie
Troxell Whitman, Zoe
Motivated Disclosure Patterns: Disability Identity Management in the Higher Education Environment
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Vanderhooft, Lauren
Recourse Exploitation in a Modified Public Goods Foraging Game with Rats
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg & Allen Neuringer
Vinton, Eileen
Safety and Discomfort in the Classroom: Naïve Realism and Productive Discomfort in Higher Education
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Wagar, Madeline
"Come here often?": The Role of Choice and Novelty in Social Preference and Decision-Making in Rats
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Yohannes, Winta
Negotiated Justice: The Role of Race, Age, and Crime Type on Plea Bargaining
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Zallar, Lia
Ghrelinergic and Endocannabinoid Signaling in Ethanol Reward and Food Consumption
Advisor: Paul Currie
2015
Agan, Emily
The Effects of Mouthbrooding on Brood Size, Growth, and Mobile Behaviors in Astatotilapia burtoni
Advisor: Suzy Renn
Bauer, Phoebe
The Figure is in the Brain of the Beholder: Neural Correlates of Individual Perceptions in the Bistable Face-Vase Image
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Beach, Peter
Assigned Achievement Goals and Self-Handicapping
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Brockway, Emma
Investigating Possible Anxiety Effects of Anandamide into the Edinger-Westphal Nucleus
Advisor: Paul Currie
Carnegie, Amanda
A First Empirical Look into the Nature of the Trigger Warning: Anxiety and Behavioral Functions as Tested by an Approach-Avoidance Task
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Crisman, Elizabeth
Don't read the comments: Online comment sections as prejudicial pretrial publicity
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Evans, Orian
Sex and age differences in alcohol drinking behavior in socialized vs isolated C57BL/6J mice
Advisor: Raúl Pastor-Medall
Geffen, Allesandra
Haitian Creole genesis: language contact and language creation
Advisor: J. Matthew Pearson
Graulty, Christian
Neuronal Dynamics of Grapheme-Color Synesthesia
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Hoeflin, Caitlyn
"It's Not Me, It's My Brain": How Neuroscience Evidence Affects Perceptions of Free Will
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Horel, Meredith
The Roots of Prosocial Behaviors in Preschool Children: Theory of Mind and Empathy
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Jackson, Corinna
Binge-like methamphetamine consumption in a selected mouse line
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Jackson-Nielsen, Molly
Awareness doesn't come for free: The attentional costs of gist perception
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Khoo, Xin
Perceptual Awareness in Human Ventral Stream Visual Cortex: Neural Correlates of Consciousness or Reporting?
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Lauffer, Marisol
Developing an Animal Model of the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Lisitsa, Elizabeth
Blame It On The Alcohol: Effects of Perpetrator Alcohol Use on Implicit and Explicit Attributions of Blame for Sexual Assault
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Maita-Keppeler, Teresa
A Person-Centered Examination of Academic Motivation, Emotions, and Marijuana Use Among Undergraduates
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Moctezuma-Bender, Cloe
Central Amygdala Endocannabinoid Neurotransmission Alters Emotional Memory Processes in Female Rats
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg & Paul Currie
Morales, Ileana
Differential Involvement of Dopamine and Opioid Signaling in Food Preference and Effort-Related Decision-Making in Rats
Advisor: Raúl Pastor-Medall & Tim Hackenberg
Morris, Benjamin
Preschool Children’s Learning and Motivation in Game-Based Learning Contexts
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Papaioannou, Orestis
Investigating the validity of the additive model as a control in audiovisual integration studies
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Pekarskaya, Elizabeth
Cyclical Feelings: Effects of Continuous Hormonal Contraception on Stress Behavior and Circulating Hormones in a Mouse Model
Advisor: Erik Zornik & Raúl Pastor-Medall
Ponteri, Brice
Studying Social Motivation Using the Valproic Acid Animal Model of Autism in Rats
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Scherm, Nicole
Neural Correlates of Speech Perception
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez & Michael Pitts
Selva, Joaquin
Ventral Tegmental and Systemic Ghrelin Stimulate Ethanol Intake
Advisor: Paul Currie
Shadrach, Lina
The Psychological Study of Morality and Gender: A Feminist-Postmodernist Perspective of Moral Psychology
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Valcarce, Bianca
Inoculating Jurors Against Expert Hindsight Bias in Medical Malpractice Litigation
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
2014
Benak, AbbeyThe Effects of Pre-Call Instructions and Voice Distinctiveness on Earwitness Identification
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Chavez, Alison
A Person-Centered Investigation of Academic Motivation, Emotions, and Drinking in a High School Setting
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Corallo, Chandler
Girls and Academic Achievement in the Elementary-Middle School Classroom: Examining the Relationships among Gender, Evaluative Feedback, and Beliefs about the Self
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Covill-Grennan, Grace
Personal Narrative, Development, and Identity: Men at a Minimum Security Prison
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Doucette, Chanelle
“That’s (not) what she said”: How Sexual Arousal Influences the Interpretation of Facial Expressions
Advisor: Tim Flemming
Duffy, Katherine
Influences of Gender and Sexual Orientation Identity Salience on Group Dynamics
Advisor: Tim Flemming
Hiura, Lisa
To Free, or Not to Free: The Relative Reinforcing Values of Food Reward vs. Social Contact in Rats
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Kafka, Alison
Overprescribed and Under-researched: A Look into the Effect of Chronic, low-dose, oral exposure to DL Amphetamine in the Developing Male Sprague-Dawley
Advisor: Paul Currie & Tim Flemming
Leighton, Isabelle
Women’s Effort Perception, in STEM and Beyond: An Assessment of Accuracy, Motivational Correlates, and Potential Moderators
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Liebow, Samuel
Are There Statistical Heuristics for the Law of Large Numbers?
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Linthicum, Kathryn
There’s an App for That: Investigating mindfulness, context, and moods
Advisor: Tim Flemming
Metzler, Stephen
Conscious and Non-Conscious Visual Processing of Shape and Color Depends on Task-Oriented Attention
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Myers, Julianne
Imagine the Possibilities: Familiarity Effects on the Subjective Vividness of Auditory Imagery of Speakers and Singers
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Scarcello, Antonia
Social and Empathic Nudges: An evaluation of the two intervention strategies to influence handwashing behavior
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Schelonka, Kathryn
The Neural Correlates of Word Perception during Inattentional Blindness
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco Gonzalez
Shelstad, James
Interspecies Behavioral Biases and the Conceptual Components of Crosslinguistic Syntactic Patterns
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg & Enriqueta Canseco Gonzalez
Swanson, Annam
Even Educated Fleas Do It: An Achievement Goal Theory for Sex Education
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
2013
Balk, Maggie
Anxiety, Bodily Awareness, and Substance Use
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Barrientos, Yogan
Competition and Stress
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Berry, Allison
The Effects of Chronic Peripheral Oxytocin Administration in Diet-Induced Obese Rats on a High-Protein Diet
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Cain, Deirdre
The Effects of Motivation on False Memory Adoption
Advisor: Cara Laney
Callis, Mackenzie
The Effects of Social Exclusion on Behavioral Willingness in Simulated Collegiate Drinking Contexts
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Carreras, Aaron
Reevaluating Learning Without Awareness: An extension of Williams (2005)
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Chiles, Robert
The Impact of Lineup Instructions on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Dash, Genevieve
Academic Motivation and Motives to Use or Abstain From Marijuana in Adolescents: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Davis, Katherine
Metabolic and Behavioral Effects of Saccharin Consumption in Juvenile and Adult Rats
Advisor: Paul Currie
Dinkova, Elizabeth
Perceptions of Visual Causality in Pigeons and Humans
Advisor: Tim Flemming
Doerflinger, Jane
The Interaction Violent Media and Personality
Advisor: Cara Laney
Gelman, Annelyse
The Effects of Improvisation on Creative Problem-Solving
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Gottman, Moriah
Caffeine and Dementia in a Rat Model of Parkinsons
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Heichman, Sharon
The effects of ghrelin and neuropeptide Y microinjections into the ventral tegmental area on appetitve motivation and food intake
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Hildebrand-Chupp, Rowan
Asexuality and the US Mental Health System: Diagnostic Decision-Making Regarding Clients Who Could Potentially Identify as Asexual
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Houston, Alex
Juror Perceptions of Fingerprint Evidence and Expert Testimony
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Leontovich, Natalia
The effects of ghrelin microinjections into the basolateral amygdala on anxiety behavior
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Lewis, Clara
The Collegiate-Simulated Intoxication Digital Elicitation (C-SIDE) and Concurrent Alcohol Use, Context, and Motives
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Lewis, Melissa
An Open Science Electrophysiology Study of the Error-Related Negativity and Anxiety
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Mastick, Rodney
The effect of ambiguity in situation and threat on collective flight behavior
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Maxon, Elizabeth
Cognitive Flexibility & Theory of Mind Development: The Influence of Relational Language on False-belief Understanding
Advisor: Tim Flemming
Meese, William
The Effects of Social Identity Threat on College Students with ADHD
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Nelken, Jacob
The Effects of HRTFs on the Listening Experience
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Neumann, Carlie
The Zooniversal Nature of Anxiety: A Comparative Assessment of Stereotypic Behavior Across Species
Advisor: Tim Flemming
Oh, Linda
Can Procrastination be Productive?: Differences in Motivation and Self-Regulation of the ‘Active’ Procrastinator in the Academic Context
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Pang, Alicia
Stereotypicality and Social Identity Complexity: Considering Multiple Social Identities under Stereotype Threat
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Pettyjohn, Ethan
Motivations of Play and their Role in Predicting High Engagement and Problematic Usage among World of Warcraft Players
Advisor: Cara Laney
Plascencia, Eugenia
Using psycholinguistics to investigate the syntactic structure of the dative alternation in Mexican Spanish
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Raisz, Eva
Social Comparison: Assimilation and Contrast Effects with In-Group and Out-Group Targets
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Ramezani, Kimya
Twitter: A Window on Alcohol Use?
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Rodriguez, Sal
Mortality Salience and Intellectual Performance
Advisor: Cara Laney
Scola, Alex
Vividness of Mental Imagery as a Predictor for Facial Recognition
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Shafto, Juliet
Neural signatures of conscious face perception: The N170 is absent during inattentional blindness
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Silbert, Karen
8-OH-DPAT microinjections have effects on anxiety in ventral amygdaloid areas which are modulated by co-administration with ghrelin
Advisor: Tim Flemming
Sosa, Frank
Loss Aversion in the Pigeon
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Stein, Hannah
Clinical Judgment and Cultural Differences in the Diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Theis, Jemana
Childhood Place and Environmental Identity
Advisor: Cara Laney
Wauson, Shelby
Examining the role of ghrelin in activating dopaminergic projections from the VTA to the BLA: VTA ghrelin enhances reward-cue acquisition in a reinstatement paradigm
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Wells, Luke
Why Do People Do Dumb Things?
Advisor: Dan Reisberg
Yiu, Loretta
Electrophysiological Estimate of the Time Course of Syntactic and Language Tag Encoding During Bilingual Word Recognition
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
2012
Berg, Don
Enthusiastic Students: The Motivational Consequences of Two Alternatives to Mandatory Instruction
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Coston, Eli
The Effects of Auditory Bandwidth and Spatial Congruence on Early Audiovisual Interactions
Advisor: Michael Pitts
Davidson, Gray
Apparent Motion and the Tritone Paradox: An EEG Investigation of Novel Bistable Stimuli
Advisor: Michael Pitts
de los Reyes, Alisa
Blame and Memory
Advisor: Cara Laney
Garcia, Jennifer
Evaluating the Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Eating Disorders with Student Athletes
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Grimaldi, Elizabeth
Motivational Profiles of Academic Motivation, Drinking Motivation, and Motivation not to Drink Predict Alcohol Related Outcomes
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Heiss, Meredith S.
Detecting Deception and False Memories in Transcripts and Videos
Advisor: Cara Laney
Ladizinsky, Esther
Effects of Caffeine on Attention and Cognition in Sleep-Deprived College Students
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Lynch, Andrew
Consumer Purchasing Decisions and the Question-Behavior Effect
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Matsen, Julie
Parenting Styles, Need for Fulfillment and Eating Regulation: Factors in Disordered Eating
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Nguyen, Elizabeth
A Linguistic Relativity Study Involving the Visual Mismatch Negativity Component and English and Vietnamese Colors
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Pichel, Amanda
The Effects of a Therapeutic Writing Task on Students in a Competitive Academic Setting
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Sitney, Miranda
Every American's Goal: A Self-Determination Approach to Promoting Healthy Eating Behavior
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Wise, Adrienne
The Contribution of Belongingness Uncertainty, Self-Doubt and Perceived Effort Expenditure to Domain Identification and Persistence of Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Fields
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
2011
Blickenstaff, Bradley
Multimodal Numerical Cognition in Pigeons
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Brackenbury, Lauren M.
Collegiate Decision Making about Drug Use
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Canada, Katherine G.
Thinking Through Change: The Effect of Implicit Trait Theories on Goals and Well-Being
Advisor: Acacia Parks
Carby-Angus, Petergaye Simonne
A Major By Any Other Name Would Still Have a Stereotype: Social Dominance
Orientation, Group Membership, Major Involvement and Major Stereotyping
Advisor: Peter Marks
Cooney, Henry A.
The Role of TRPV1 Receptor in Endocannabinoid Enhancement of Emotional Memory
Advisors: Tim Hackenberg and Paul J. Currie
Evensen, Lara A.K.
Perceptions of Belonging and Adjustment to College: The Role of Social
Persistence and Social Risk-Taking
Advisor: Peter Marks
French, Matthew
To Pee, or Not to Pee, that is the Stresstion: An Exploratory Study in the Psychological
Relation of Positive Emotions to Stress Hormones as Measured in Urine by Gas
Chromatography—Mass Spectroscopy
Advisor: Acacia Parks
Gerhardt, Jessica
A Crying (Prejudice) Shame: The Effects of Confronter and Gender on
Perceptions of Sexism
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Gray, Chris
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Realegeno, Claudia
Better Living Through Chemistry: Modafinil as a Pharmocotherapy for
Neuropsychological Recovery from Methamphetamine Dependence
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Hammond-Oakley, Clara
The Role of Death Qualification in Venirepersons’ Memory for Pretrial Publicity
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Harati, Amelia Y.P.
When the Grass is Browner on the Other Side: The Effects of Stigma and Social
Comparison on Mental Health Help Seeking in College Students
Advisor: Acacia Parks
Kappeyne van de Coppello, Nicholas
Meta Rats: Self-Awareness During Self-Report and Escape
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Kim, Jonathan Young
An Investigation of Perceptual and Behavioral Confirmation within Friendship Dyads
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Lasner, Will
Is There a Cognitive Heuristic that is Activated by the Properties of Self-Voice?
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Leonard, Jason
Discovering the Key to Unlocking Tool-Use in a Non-Tool-Using Species
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Luchow, Justin Evan
Human and Pet Animal Social Support and their Corresponding Situational Factors
Advisor: Acacia Parks
McMahon, Jean Marie
Mortality Salience and the University Worldview: Exploring the Terror
Management Benefits of an Intrinsic Orientation
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Porter, Devon E.
The Effect of the Appearance-Change Instruction on Same-Race and Cross-Race
Eyewitness Identifications
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Quackenbush, Mathias Paul
Risk-Taking and the Four-Factor Model of Impulsivity
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
A Developmental Perspective on Alcohol Use in Middle and High School Students:
Effects of School Engagement and Peer Victimization
Advisor: Kris Anderson
Schwartz, Robert M.
The Functionality of Cross-Modal Activation in Word Identification
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Skaperdas, Eleni
The Intimate Internet: Personality and Self-Disclosure in Online vs. Face-to-Face Communications
Advisor: Peter Marks
Speert, Zach
The Influence of Experimental Technique on Caffeine-Placebo Responding
Advisor: Acacia Parks
Thoreson, Justina K.
Perceptions of Female Physical Beauty: Are Men and Women on the Same Page?
Advisor: Kathy Oleson
Weinberg, Zachary Y.
An Exploration of Ghrelin’s Effect in a Conditioned Place Preference Paradigm
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
2010
Baltzell, Lucas S.
Interaction between syntax processing in language and music as a function of bilingualism : an ERP study
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Booth, Margaret Rae
The effects of praise followed by ambiguous feedback on college students' intrinsic motivation
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Briggs, Kristen E. L.
Factors influencing adolescents' motivation to seek therapy for depression
Advisor: Rachel E. Goldsmith
Call, Aaron
Mindfulness for children : "a pillow you can take anywhere"
Advisor: Jaime Kurtz
Chapman, Colin Daniel
Oxytocin mediates ghrelin-induced eating in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
DeBellis, Paul
The power of music and memory in advertising
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Dennis, Jessica
Metacognition in rats
Advisor: Tim Hackenberg
Dubose, Ryan
A picture is worth a thousand words : using photography to cultivate positive emotions through savoring
Advisor: Jaime Kurtz
Duncan, Katia D.
The effect of allocutions on capital jury sentencing decisions
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Forbis, Jessica Elizabeth
Memory and emotion : the memory effects of humor
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Fuentes, Lauren Elizabeth
Correlates of posttraumatic growth in adults who experienced parental cancer in adolescence
Advisor: Rachel E. Goldsmith
Fyfe, Alisa Michelle
Mothers' reminiscing style and use of suggestive questioning in unshared and shared event conversations
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Goehner, Sean
The post-decision satisfaction of cellphone purchases : can the best phone be the worst choice?
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Gottschlich, Alyssa
Effect of the 5-HT2C antagonist SB242084 on eating behavior in the rat
Advisor: Paul Currie
Haimovitz, Kyla
Effects of person verses process praise on student motivation : stability and change in emerging adulthood
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Hertz, Robin M.
Effect of a mindfulness-based intervention on attributions for PTSD
Advisor: Rachel Goldsmith
Hewey, Jeryl
The self-determined voter : a need-based theory of political engagement
Advisor: Jaime Kurtz
Hilbert, Brian
Rats' choices in situations of diminishing returns : effects of motivation and switching costs
Advisor: Tim D. Hackenberg
John, Catherine S.
Targeting the endocannabinoid system : how agonism and antagonism of TRPV1 and CB1 receptors in the basolateral amygdala can differentially affect anxiolytic and anxiogenic behavior
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Kessler, Nicholas
Motivation, incentive sensitization and college drinking: an eye-tracking study of attentional processes
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Kurbanov, Daniel B.
Naltrexone suppresses food intake and body weight gain in a rat model of olanzapine-induced hyperphagia and obesity
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Larisch, Ruby
Free bird : proposing and testing an ecologically valid foraging analogue for the operant laboratory
Advisor: Timothy Hackenberg
Luehrs, Evin Hunter
Testosterone and 17ß-estradiol in male cynomolgus monkeys self-administering ethanol
Advisor: Timothy Hackenberg
Lyo, Shawn
Bidirectionality of psychological variables and embodiment in the form of static postures and walks
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
McCarron, Tara
Academic motivations for the nonmedical use of prescription stimulants
Advisor: Jamie Kurtz
Moshontz de la Rocha, Hannah
Making energy saving normal : an energy-saving intervention based on the focus theory of normative conduct
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Moss, Alexa C.
Eyewitness identification procedures in Oregon police work and the impact of the appearance-change instruction on identification accuracy
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Nicholson, Marjorie Louise
Ghrelin microinjections into the ventral tegemental area elicit an increase in motivation for food seeking
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Robinson, Joanna M.
When you see it, let it be : urgency, mindfulness and adolescent substance use
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Sutherland, Thomas McGarrett
Potential interactions between centrally administered ghrelin and salvinorin A on the expression of reward : a conditioned place preference study in rats
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Volker, David Andrew Bowman
Self-complexity deconstructed : the independent and joint contributions of integration and differentiation of the self-concept to resilience
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Westgate, Erin Corwin
A rocky issue : the effects of humor on learning and interest in an educational context
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Witkin, Emily
Positive and negative urgency, motives, and perceived risk in adolescent alcohol use
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Wormington, Stephanie V.
Put them together and what have you got? : A person-centered investigation of academic motivation, performance, and engagement in a high school setting
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
2009
Baikie-Rick, Rachel R.
The state of the art : impacting women's artistic creativity through stereotype susceptibility and competition
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Beasley, Robertson Tyne Earthman
Hearing outside the box : an exploration of how categories mediate the auditory attentional blink
Advisor: Derek E. Lyons
Casey, Christopher M.
Are individual differences in preference for consistency and cooperation predictive of behavior in social dilemmas?
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Coles, Roswell Strong, IV
Salvia? in my ventricle? it's more likely than you think : a conditioned place preference assay in rats after central injection of Salvinorin A
Advisor: Paul J. Currie, Ph.D
Davis, Matthew James
Ghrelin microinjection into the ventral tegmental area induces conditioned place preference
Advisor: Paul J. Currie, Ph.D
Federow, Mariah Dyan Bernard
Hidden in plain sight : a detailed analysis of dog social cue preference
Advisor: Derek E. Lyons
Frederick, Benedict John, IV
Adolescent substance abuse and comorbid psychopathology : the youth relapse model
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson, Ph.D
Garfield, Tamara
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder experience decrements in executive function as a result of stress in social situations
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Grueneisen, Aline Michelle
Feeling the weight of a cognitive backpack : the mind's effect on visual perception
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Horvick, Michael
The relationship between stress, burnout, and leisure as a coping strategy within a student population
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson, Ph.D
Hudson, James
Indirect effects of processing fluency on reasoning
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Kominsky, Jonathan F.
Are you reading through time? : two studies of the relationship between space and time in English speakers
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Liddell, Jessica
The black hole of motherhood : a decrease in perceived competence and hirability for female physics job candidates with children
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Loera, Katherine E.
Serotonin attenuates the orexigenic and anxiogenic actions of ghrelin within the paraventricular nucleus of thehypothalamus
Advisor: Paul J. Currie Ph.D
McGee, Anna Joyce
Do you see what I see? : canine understanding of what is new and old in the experience of others
Advisor: Derek E. Lyons
McNellis, Jamie
Transference of handling effects between rats
Advisor: Mark Pitzer
Robboy, Juliet M.
Intergenerational child abuse, revictimization, and coping
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson, PhD
Snelling, Jennifer Kelly
Race and ethnicity in jury selection
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Springate-Combs, Cole
The double phonemic boundary : development in non-native bilinguals
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzales
Staples, Roy P.
Who are they? : group entitativity, subgroup relations, and immigration policy
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Tinsley, Alexandra
You can tell by the way I use my walk : gait symmetry and judgments of attractiveness, competence, friendliness, and desirability
Advisor: Mark Pitzer
Utevsky, Natasha Bessie
Spirituality in the context of risk and protection
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson, Ph.D
Voss, Sandra Kristina
Differences between Spanish and English speakers' perceptions of animal gender
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Wall, Daniel G.
Pretreatment with insulin detemir attenuates the orexigenic effects of ghrelin
Advisor: Paul J. Currie, Ph.D
Yen, Tian Yu
How to motivate yourself to write a bibliography when you expect it to be boring : interest expectations and students' use of motivational strategies
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
2008
Beaumont, Richard
The effect of Afrocentric facial features on conviction rate : amock-juror simulation
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Brehm, Laurel Ellen
Language rules : lexical ambiguity and models of sentence processing
Advisor: Kyle E. Chambers
Bridge, Rami
The suppression of stereotypic inferences based on Afrocentric facial features : a dilemma unsolved by awareness
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Buras, Morgan Raya Cooper
Affect, expectancies and drinking patterns in older adults
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Cardinale, Quincy Reiken
Auditory and visual memory capacity : do similar items limit capacity?
Advisor: Kyle Chambers
Cook, Alexandria
Parental perceptions of infants' television viewing
Advisor: Rebecca Brand
Gersovitz, Ryan
A comparison of eyewitness identification accuracy between simultaneous, sequential, and elimination lineup procedures
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Go, Jennifer N.
Everybody's doing it : adolescent substance use and gender difference on the A-SIDE task
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Grant, Alexandra
Ethnic differences in American college students' drinking behavior and alcohol expectancies
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Grunwald, Ilan
The expansion of a motivational model for alcohol use
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Hafer-Zdral, Jennifer
When senses collide : multimodal and dynamic people perception
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Hollenbeck, Emily Nicole
Mothers' use of eye gaze in infant-directed action demonstrations
Advisor: Rebecca Brand
Horsley, William Stewart
Pornography consumption, body image, and sexual behavior in college-age men
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Hudson, Patrick G.
Navigation of the Rough-skinned newt ("Taricha granulosa")" : is there a geo-magnetic sense?
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Ilyes, Emese
The heat beneath the melting pot : implicit and explicit stereotyping of immigrants
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Juarez, Lindsay
Stereotype threat and self-affirmation : the good student
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Kushlev, Kostadin Petrov
The more you want the less you get : the effect of maximizing, number of choices and mindfulness on purchasing decisions in Americans and Bulgarians
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Kuznetsova, Ludmila
Free testosterone concentrations in a Hepatitis C population
Advisor: Jennifer Loftis and Paul J. Currie
Lehet, Matthew I.
Gap junctions and memory
Advisor: Paul Currie
Leonard, Lindsay Alyse
Effects of nitric oxide, c-reactive protein, and depression in hepatitis C patients undergoing interferon-alpha therapy
Advisor: Jennifer Loftis and Paul Currie
Moffitt, Ursula Elinor
Ethnic identity, motivation, and academic engagement among Hispanic immigrant high school students
Advisor: Kyle Chambers
Ostrom, Erik
Magic motion : infants' perception of causality & spontaneous movement
Advisor: Rebecca Brand
Powers, Jaine L.
The way the ball bounces : seeking direct connections between intrinsic motivation and mindfulness as well as investigating the presence of both in jugglers
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Ragnarsson, Kristín Ásta
Evidence for motionese in a non-parent population
Advisor: Rebecca Brand
Rodnick-Smith, Zane
Individual differences in visual imagery
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Sarkodie, Kwaku Amoako
8-OH-DPAT attenuates the anxiogenic action of hypothalamic ghrelin
Advisor: Paul J. Currie
Siegel, Cara
Oxytocin mediates partner preference in the polygamous rat
Advisor: Paul Currie
Siegel, Seneca
Exploring asymmetrics in figurative language between Spanish and English speakers
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Summers, Emily
A study of modern personality
Advisor: Kristen G. Anderson
Tabachnick, Anne J.
The effects of variability training on exploratory behavior of rats
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Zander, Robin P.
The effects of variable and creative practice in a dance environment
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Ziegler, Sianna Alia
The virgin/whore dichotomy in action : ambivalent sexism and evaluations of positively and negatively sexually subtyped women
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
2007
Averbach, Elana J.
The effect of problem size on affect and prosocial choice
Advisor: Dr. Allen Neuringer
Bezemer, Denille
Media and body image : the role of ethnic identity with females of color
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Dunn, Lea H.
Social identity influence on advertising perception
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Edwards, Ben
Investigating intolerance of uncertainty in social anxiety
Advisor: Ken Abrams
Gamble, Marissa Lynn
A time-course study of access to semantic vs. language information in English-Spanish bilinguals
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Hayenga, Amynta O.
Profiles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation : a holistic studyof motivation and its correlates
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Hibbard, Isaac
Ease of discrimination of 'polymorphically'-similar stimuli after1, 2, and 3 behavioral equivalencies
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Iglehart, Blake
The relative impact of photographic and video lineups on eyewitness accuracy
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Killeen, Rhiannon Elizabeth
The effects of gender make-up of an exercise environment on the self-objectification of women
Advisor: Ken Abrams
Kochhar-Lindgren, Duncan
Contemporary racism in juries : the need for cognition and race salience
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Koren, Matthew
The effects of instant messenger on social perceptions
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Abrams
Lee, Christian
Big-five personality traits and religiosity : delving deeper into the relationships between personality and religion
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Murphy-Crews, Aaron M.
Cytokine-induced depression and the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis : effects of sub-chronic interleukin-1β and DMP904on immobility in the forced swim test and peripheral cytokine levels
Advisor: Jennifer M. Loftis
Nash, Whitney N.
Curiosity and sensation seeking in middle school : motivational profiles and academic achievement
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Peric, Mirna
Prophylactic administration of citalopram to treat pegylated-interferon induced depression in Hepatitis C patients
Advisor: Jennifer M. Loftis
Ritchie, Andrew
Change or mirage? : an investigation of stereotyping and cognitive load
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Safin, Vasiliy
The sunk-cost effect and discounting of delayed rewards
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Troxel, Natalie
Mock witnesses and attitudes toward law enforcement : does cynicism matter when a lineup is biased?
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Weintraub, Natalie H.
Unwanted options : choice behavior and autonomy
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
White, Lauren N.
The effects of multidimensional arousal and thematically induced detail on attention and memory for an emotional event
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
2006
Blodgett, Elizabeth Geneva
Women and sexuality in the health care setting
Advisor: Allison Caruthers
Bresee, Catherine
Acquired magnetosensation : demonstration of the phenomenon in rats
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Chevalier, D. Ashton
Variation and selection in context
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Deen, Michael
Hookups and women's social, psychological, and sexual health in college
Advisor: Allison Caruthers
Dotson, Rachel
Mother-child conversations and children's memories of unshared events
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Fischer, Kara A.
Overt and covert transfer of statistical reasoning training
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Gatta, David Trexler
The differential effects of oleoylethanolamide on ingestive behavior in free-feeding rats
Advisor: Steven St. John
Giotta, Terra Jade
The effects of stereotype priming in an academic setting
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Hilarides, Bridget Ann Dubois
Coming out and passing : disability identity management in higher education
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Hudgins, Lauren Elaine
Written emotional disclosure : a potential therapeutic intervention for chronic pain
Advisor: Tonya Lippert-Luikart
Lakeland, Violet L.
Effects of sexually objectifying magazine advertisements on late adolescent's gender attitudes and stereotypes : reinforcing traditional roles and ideologies
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
McClintic-Gilbert, Megan S.
The relationships among early adolescents' motivational orientations, learning strategies, and academic achievement
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
O'Sullivan, Matthew
Environmmental influences on developmental and adult injury-induced plasticity : effects of dietary sodium restriction during early development and chorda tympani regeneration on salt taste behavior
Advisor: Steven St. John
Rothstein, Jacob
Ceiling effects in assessments of choice variables
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Sailer, Bonnie Elizabeth
The cost of switching languages and switching categories in two bilingual auditory tasks
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Schriber, Roberta A.
The interactive effect of regulatory focus and self-construal on global-local processing
Advisor: Dell Rhodes
Selfridge, Ethan
The role of state-anxiety in cognitive dissonance induced attitude change
Advisor: Dr. Tonya Lippert-Luikart
Speicher-Eisenstark, Kendra L.
Individual differences in visualization : not a binary categorization
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Stanton, Penelope R.
One for one and all for all? : the effect of group identity and communication on self-interested behavior and trust in social dilemmas
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Steckler, Maureen T.
Heterosexism and attitudes toward same-sex parenting
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Stickney, Sarah Alice
The effects of fear and sadness on automatic intergroup discrimination in the minimal group paradigm
Advisor: Dell Rhodes
Ungerecht, Mary Elizabeth
Gendered power relations and condom use in heterosexual relationships : a critique of the theory of reasoned action
Advisor: Allison S. Caruthers
Walker, Rosa Michelle Montana
An investigation of variability-training in electromyography (EMG) biofeedback
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
2005
Álvarez, Crystal
Ability praise : a possible cause of self-handicapping as mediated through contingent self-worth
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Andrews Ch√°vez, Brian James
Subjective overachievement and risky task choices : an issue for academia or daily life?
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Bambino, Cody Park
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Advisor: Lauren Maxim
Bridge, Yael Segal
Examining self-knowledge and individual differences in affective forecasting and the retrospective impact bias
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Brough, Kasmira Maureen
Disability prejudice from a terror management perspective
Advisor: Michelle R. Nario-Redmond
Cover, Rachel Shenandoah
An examination of the relationship between REM sleep, aminergic neurotransmission, and water maze learning and memory in rats
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Duffield, DeeAnna K.
Why don't you like what you like? : modulating factors in the anticipatory contrast and conditioned flavor preference paradigms
Advisor: Steven St. John
Guerrero, Cherie Josefa
A longitudinal approach to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation : the middle school transition
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Hollins, Athena Victoria
The relationship between neuroticism and memory for emotional events
Advisor: Lauren Maxim
Hubbard, Hannah
Confidence-accuracy calibration and the cross-race recognition deficit : race in the mind of the beholder
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Kalmbach, Leila Rose
If seeing is believing, then don't believe your eyes : the effect of photographs on false memories
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Love, Kelly Elizabeth
The impact of beliefs : does shaping theory of intelligence make a difference for motivation
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
McCollum, James Isaac
Acting in other's best interests : self-handicapping and other-enhancement for friends and strangers
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Molloy, Elissa
Professors' perceptions of learning disabled students
Advisor: Michelle R. Nario-Redmond
Myers, Shorey Alison
The cultural psychology of confirmation bias : dialectics, logic and the evaluation of hypotheses
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Rancourt, Joseph F.
To taste or not to taste : human fatty acid taste perception
Advisor: Steven St. John
Saxbe, William B.
Your president is "always" right : motivated credulity and the 2004 Presidential debate
Advisor: Kathryn C. Oleson
Scheiner, Lauren Rose
Lexical access in Spanish-English bilinguals during auditory comprehension
Advisor: Enriqueta Canseco-Gonzalez
Schreiner, Ian Taavi
Mood and variability
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Tappon, Sarah C.
Combining concepts in language
Advisor: Daniel Reisberg
Trimble, Cynthia A.
Motivational regulation strategies in elementary school populations
Advisor: Jennifer Henderlong Corpus
Tubman, Shimron Louis Lyons
The taste of science : how sweet can it be?
Advisor: Dr. Steven St. John
Wagner, Katherine
Delay of reinforcement and variability
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Weiss, Alison R.
Object manipulation in two strains of laboratory rat
Advisor: Allen Neuringer
Wensman, Leigh
Personality and vocational interests in undergraduate major selection
Advisor: Lauren Maxim, Ph.D