Psychology

In its Honors Program the Department of Psychology awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2010-2011

• Engin Ege, "Temperamental Characteristics that Serve as Protective Factors Against Development of Behavior Problems" (High Honors)
  Danielle Dallaire + Catherine Forestell, Kate Slevin
• Jamie Hershaw, "ERP and Behavioral Correlates of Temporal Processing Dysfunction in Scizotypy" (Honors)
  Paul Kieffaber + Bob Barnet, Robert Kohl
• William Morris III, "Bridging the Achievement Gap: An Exploratory Study of a Virginia School" (Highest Honors)
  Vernon Hurte + Anne Charity-Hudley, Joe Galano

2009-10

• Ellen Claire Anderson, "Emotion and Regulation in Ghanaian and American Children: Associations with Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors" (Highest Honors)
  Janice Zeman + Catherine Forestell, Anne Charity Hudley
• Virginia Wheeler Burk, "The Dissociation Approach and Associations to Visual Stimuli and Their Impact on Information Processing" (Honors)
  Glenn Shean + Paul Kieffaber, Leisa Meyer
• John Cooley, "Peer Victimization, Internalizing Symptoms and Aggression among High-Risk Youth: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation" (Highest Honors)
  Janice Zeman + Danielle Dallaire, Joseph Galano, Kelly Whalon
• Alexander Joseph Hinnebusch, "Validating the Perceptual Vigilance Subscale of the Approach-Avoidance Temperament Questionnaire-Multiple Component with the Dot Probe Paradigm" (High Honors)
  Todd Thrash + Janice Zeman, Hiroshi Kitamura
• Samuel Stephen Monfort, "Reactions to Daily Events as a Function of Emotionality, Social Support, and Familiarity with the Environment" (Honors)
  John Nezlek + Todd Thrash, Matthew Haug
• Adah Elizabeth Murray, "Can We Predict and Manipulate Memory Intrusions in a Laboratory Setting?" (High Honors)
  Christopher Ball + Glenn Shean, Danielle Currier
• Laura Virginia Nelson, "A Behavioral Examination of Complementarity and Specialization" (High Honors)
  Constance Pilkington + Peter Vishton, Inga Carboni
• Virginia Ann Newton, "Implicit and Explicit Perceptions of Biracial Targets" (High Honors)
  Cheryl Dickter + Christy Porter, Paula Blank
• Kathleen Teresa Rhyner, "Social and Physiological Cognates of Looming Vulnerability to Anxiety" (High Honors)
  Glenn Shean + Joseph Galano, Deborah Morse
• Lisa Marie Risely, "Increasing Fathers' Involvement in Family Therapy: A Discovery-Oriented Process Study" (High Honors)
  Michael Nichols + Janice Zeman, Christine Porter, Patricia Toney
• Jennifer Michelle Schindler -"The Effect of Nutrition Education on Children's Healthy Food Choices "(Highest Honors)
• William Benjamin Schreiber, "The Effects of Attention on Comsumption in Restrained and Non=Restrained Eaters" (Highest Honors)
  Catherine Forestell + Pamela Hunt, Danielle Currier

2008-09

• Kayla Anders, "The Effects of Dialect, Gender, and Group Identity on Person Perception" (Highest Honors)
  Cheryl Dickter + Christy Porter, Julie Richter
  
• Lisa Bateman, "Children's Emotional Expression within a Close Friendship Dyad" (High Honors)
  Janice Zeman + Christy Porter, Sandra Ward
  
• Kaitlin Brunick, "Finding the Right Size: Examining How Perception Influences the Persistence of Scale Errors in Toddlers" (High Honors)
  Peter Vishton + Jennifer Stevens, Anya Lunden
  
• Kelly Carter, "The Relationship Between Delinquent Behavior, Adolescent-Parent Relationships and Intergenerational Cycles of Crime" (Honors)
  Danielle Dallaire + Janice Zeman, Graham Ousey
  
• Kurt DeSoto, "Eye Movements While Zoning Out During Reading: Implications for Mind Wandering and Metaconsciousness" (High Honors)
  Christopher Ball + Peter Vishton, Noah Schwartz
  
• Jennifer Gimbert, "Mood Manipulation Effects on the Characteristics and Retrieval of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memory" (Honors)
  Christopher Ball + Cheryl Dickter, Katherine Guthrie
  
• Andrew Hale, "The Effects of Race, Gender, and Clothing Style on Stereotype Activation" (Honors)
  Cheryl Dickter + Jeanine Stefanucci, Jason Danner
  
• Sharon Huston-Willis, "Social Components of Speech Evaluation: Person Perception of Black and White Voices" (High Honors)
  Cheryl Dickter + Cathy Forestell, Danielle Curruer
• Ashley Hampton, "Peer Relations of Children with Incarcerated Parents" (High Honors)
  Danielle Dallaire + Janice Zeman + Sal Saporito
• Rebecca Koppel, "Rapid Eye Movement Effects on Traumatic Memories: A test of the Working Memory Hypothesis" (High Honors)
  Christopher Ball + Jeanine Stefanucci, Maryse Fauvel
• Chelsea Osborne, "Increasing Knowledge and Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables in Children: Does the Type of Exposure Matter?" (High Honors)
  Catherine Forestell + Danielle Dallaire, Erica Jackson
• Meghan Posey, "Attitudes Towards Mental Disorders" (Honors)
  Glenn Shean + Paul Kieffaber, Tom Linneman
  

2007-08

• Elizabeth Mundy Bott. "Effect of Emotion on Achievement Goal Performance" (Honors)
  Paul Story + Doug Gross, Kimberly Phillips
• Charlene Ann Deming, "Does Metacognitive Training Improve Social Cognition Among Schizophrenic Patients?" (High Honors)
  Glenn Shean + Joseph Galano, Cornia Vaida
• Sarah Elizabeth Erb, "An Evaluation of the Solutions for Wellness Group on Indicators of Metabolic Syndrome with Persons Receiving Psychiatric Medication" (High Honors)
  Sarah Bisconer + Christy Porter, Glenn Shean, Deirdre Royster
• Jerillyn Suzanne Kent, "Neural Correlates of Emotional Processing in Schizotypal Individuals" (Highest Honors)
  Jennifer Stevens + Glenn Shean, Tamara Sonn
• Andrew Michael Lupo, "Mental Rotation and its Relationship with Motoric Accessibility: An ERP study assessing the effects of a physical barrier on spatial discrimination" (High Honors)
  Jennifer Stevens + Pamela Hunt, Laurie Wolf
• Diana Michelle Morelen, "Broad and Narrow Cultural Comparisons of Children's Emotion Regulation: Studies of Ghana and the United States" (Highest Honors)
  Janice Zeman + Constance Pilkington, Anne Charity
• Amy Marie Pastva, "The Effects of Arrhythmic Eye Movements on Memory Recall" (Honors)
  Christopher Ball + Glenn Shean, Charles Palermo
• Brooke Elizabeth Tortorella, "Parent-Child Concordance on Children's Emotion Regulation: Influence of Age, Gender, and Type of Emotion" (High Honors)
  Janice Zeman + Todd Thrash, Lynn Pelco

2006-07

• Elizabeth Brooks Fein, "Partner presence and relationship satisfaction: Does the presence of one's partner make relationship ratings more accurate?" (Honors)
  Constance Pilkington + Harvey Langholtz, Jim Harris
• Nathan Richards Fields, "Unconditioned Stimulus Preexposure Effect: Modulation Via Temporally Specific Fear" (High Honors)
  Robert Barnet + Jennifier Stevens, Greg Capelli
• Jaclyn Anne Hennessey, "Inhibition Effects in Subliminally Primed Autobiographical Memories" (Highest Honors)
  Christopher Ball + Paul Story, Paul Davies
• Katherine Thompson Hinkle, "God Says Don't Eat Your Dog: The Relationship Between Religious Orientation and Models of Moral Intuition" (Honors)
  Larry Ventis + Danielle Dallaire, John Morreall
• Elicia Chelsey Lair, "Reader Attribution of Gender to Authors of Scholarly Articles" (High Honors)
  Harvey Langholtz + Joseph Galano, Ken Lacy
• Whitney Meredith Link, "Mediational Factors in Relationship Aggression: The Role of Cognition" (High Honors)
  Constance Pilkington + M. Christine Porter, Denise Wade
• Elizabeth Rose Materese, "Obesity and Federal Assistance: Evaluating Food Stamp Sponsored Diets" (High Honors)
  Harvey Langholtz + Joseph Galano, Larry Evans
• Lauren Ann Nelson, "Media Influences on Trust and Romantic Relationships" (High Honors)
  Constance Pilkington + Peter Vishton, Jeanne Wilson
• Elizabeth Jane Sadock, "The Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Children's Somatic Symptomology" (High Honors)
  Janice Zeman + Danielle Dallaire, Sandra Ward

2005-06

• George Banks, "Generative Retrieval of Autobiographical Memories: Spontaneous vs. Effortful Recall" (Honors)
  Chris Ball + Christy Jensen, Chris Howard
• Daryl Cameron, QUERY TITLE (High Honors)
  Glenn Shean + Chris Ball, Paul Davies
• Robert Franklin, "Sexual and Asexual Difference in Facial Attractiveness: A Cognitive Explanation" (High Honors)
  Adam Rubenstein + Constance Pilkington, Mel Ely
• Ashley Glover, "The Role of Hemispheric Specializations in Informative Processing and the Production of Humor" (High Honors)
  Todd Thrash + Jennifer Stevens, Sal Saporito

2004-05

• Laura Haworth
  Robert Barnet + Lee Kirkpatrick, Ray McCoy
• Robyn Kondrad
  Joshua Burk + Chris Ball, Ann Reed
• Andy Lau
  Larry Ventis + Adam Rubenstein, Mark Fowler
• Lindsay Roberson
  Constance Pilkington + Joseph Galano, Evelyn Hall
• Drew Saylor
  Jennifer Stevens + Todd Thrash, John Morreall
• Damian Stephen
  Chris Ball + Peter Vishton, Carey Bagdassarian
• Peter Thaxter
  Jennifer Daly + Fredrick Frieden, John Foubert
• Alison Wagner
  Pamela Hunt + Josh Burk, John Griffin