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Recent Senior Thesis Project Topics

Senior thesis projects conducted during the 2007-2008 academic year

• Did you hear what I just saw? Auditory dominance in temporal judgments. Carly Giffin (supervised by Marilyn Boltz)
• The effects of implicit theories and self-esteem on self-narratives of romantic rejection experiences. Jen Benson, Sarah Morris, and Carly Yasinski (supervised by Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl)
• An exploration of current pain curricula and physical therapists’ knowledge of pain: Emphasis on the psychological aspects of pain. Jennifer X. Chu (co-supervised by Wendy Sternberg and Marilyn Boltz)
• How motivational orientation, physical self-esteem and relational schemas relate to the athletic self-concept. Bianca Bromberger, Emily Dillon, and Jake Mendlinger (supervised by Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl)
• Monitoring the mind: The relationship between individual differences in cognitive control and emotion regulation. Alexandra Amen, Jessica Dodd, and Stephanie Fineman (supervised by Rebecca Compton)
• A multivariate model of the need for approval from social networks in romantic relationships. Allyson Abrams, Jefferson Fellows, Rachel Jacobson, and Hana Peters (supervised by Ben Le)
• The relationship between drug-induced alterations in neurogenesis and pain behavior in mice. Emily Alspector and Elizabeth Bitler (supervised by Wendy Sternberg)
• Right on time: The framing effect on predicted duration. Yen Na Yum (supervised by Marilyn Boltz)
• Social approach behavior in mice: effects of pain state and affiliative hormones. Kara Brown, Amelia Mutso, and Alexander Tuttle (supervised by Wendy Sternberg)
• Social network approval and relationship quality: The role of positive and negative disclosure. Rebecca Harmon and Carly Layfield (supervised by Ben Le)

Senior thesis projects conducted during the 2006-2007 academic year

• Associations among empathy, human social relationships, and pain behavior. Stephen Selsor and Heather Shafi (supervised by Wendy Sternberg)
• Commitment, relationship maintenance, and missing a partner in temporarily geographically separated relationships: A longitudinal study of naturally occurring separations. Miriam Korn (supervised by Ben Le)
• The effects of healing tones on pain and stress behavior in mice. Betsy Gauthier and Joyce Sun (supervised by Wendy Sternberg)
• The effects of implicit theories and gender on autobiographical reasoning about academic self-defining memories. Meredith Fox, Lindsay Karzon, Amy Havassy, and Jennifer Scully (supervised by Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl)
• The impact of visual stimuli on music perception. Brittany Ebendorf and Benjamin Field (supervised by Marilyn Boltz)
• Perceived parental conditional regard and its role in the narrative identity development of college students. Allie Klein and Charlotte Koeniger (supervised by Jennifer Pals Lilgendahl)
• Perceived similarity and neural mirroring: Evidence from vicarious error processing. Joshua Carp, Michael Halenar, Lorna Quandt, and Alfredo Sklar (supervised by Rebecca Compton)
• To err is human: The effects of anxiety and contextual emotion on error-related negativity. Tess Nelson (supervised by Rebecca Compton)
• Was that the truth? Temporal vocal cues and the perception of deception. Rebecca Dyer and Anna Miller (supervised by Marilyn Boltz)