Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Psychology Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.

In addition to this digital archive, physical copies of the Psychology comps from the past five years are available for browsing in Music Hall 313.

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Submissions from 2014

 

Loren Rae Cherry, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Assumed Common Ground in the Language of Advertisements

 

Yuna Lee Choi, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Schizophrenia Pathophysiology a Product of NMDA Receptor and GABA Interneuron Dysregulation in the Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus

 

Claire Cocroft, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Musical Experience and the Shared Syntactic Integration Resource Hypothesis

 

Polly Garfield Durant, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Peer Interactions Throughout Development in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome

 

Nicole Althea Forner, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Effects of Exercise Intensity on Explicit Memory and Implicit Memory

 

Wataru Kay, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Dopamine Pathway Development during Puberty in Female Rats: Understanding the Organizational Impact of Ovarian Hormones

 

Michael Lederer Kellner, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, The Effects of Cause Marketing on Taste Perception

 

Megan A. Meads, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Comparing The Effects of Internal and External Expressions of Felt Luck on Performance

 

Arielle Melum, Gena Roisum, and Haley Woodward, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Considering new approaches to reducing recidivism: Alternative therapies in prisons

 

Jacob Elliot Meyers, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Working Memory & Executive Functions in Media Multitaskers

 

Hai Quoc Nguyen, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, The Neuroregenerative Capabilities of the Nervous System

 

Allison Lynn Parker, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, An Application of the Contact Hypothesis to a Novel Population: Sex Offenders

 

Jennifer Marie Ramey, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Gender, not Religiosity, Predicts Differences in Conventional Morality Responses in Undergraduate Students

 

Jonathon Logan Rowe, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Stress and Memory: Can Stressed Induced State-Dependency Overcome the Negative Effects of Stress at Retrieval?

 

Galen Berdelle Ryan, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, The Legitimacy of a "Sex Addiction" Diagnosis

 

Helen King Strnad, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, The potential for cannabinoids to provide neuroprotection against microglia-­mediated neurotoxicity

 

Elayne Patrice Teska, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Psychotherapeutic Treatments for ADHD: Analysis of Parental Perceptions for Parent Behavior Training

 

Julius F. Tsai, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, A Review of The Methods For Reducing The Effects of Stereotype Threat In The Classroom

 

Canaan Ashely West, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Losing a Friend in Adolescence

 

Bettina Sarah Wiesenthal, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Facebook Use in Relation to Life Satisfaction and Mindfulness: Is Facebook Distracting Us from Life's Everyday Perks?

 

Kia X. Yang and Daniel Motta, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Examining the Effects of Expectancy Confirmation and Stereotype Threat on Student Academic Performance

 

Mignote Yirdaw and Zainab Wadia, Psychology (PSYC) 2014, Examining Theory of Mind in the Context of Sharing Behaviors in Three-to-Five-Year-Old Children

Submissions from 2013

 

Priscilla A. Amofa Sr., Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Effects of Neuropeptide S on Spatial Learning and Memory in Rats

 

Kelly Sue Anderson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Prepubertally ovariectomized rats display a conditioned place preference for paced mating

 

Jordan Anthony Butler and Caleb Alan Hyde, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The Effects of Priming on Racial Prejudice in a Group Setting

 

Dylan Cheever, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Sound Symbolism's Role in Everyday Speech and Developing Languages

 

Rebecca Cogbill, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Is there a bed in embedding?: Processing of lexical embedding in multisyllabic words

 

Allison Cooperman, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Can Feeling Good Make Us Feel Good About Others? Positive Emotions and Their Effects on Negative Attitudes and Stereotype Application Towards Obesity

 

Grace Cormier and Melody Zhou, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Influence of Creativity Dimensions on Cognition and Advertising Effectiveness: Application for the Promotion of Pura Vida Healthy Lifestyle Program

 

Chantal Donahue, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The influence of culture on recovery rates of schizophrenia: a comparison of sub-Saharan Africa and the West

 

Karen Marie Eash, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Engagement in social learning on a food-retrieval task by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus Oedipus)

 

Molly Elizabeth Farry-Thorn, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Pubertal Gonadal Hormone Exposure Influences Paced Mating Behavior in Female Rats

 

Sarah Marie Ferrari, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Psychological Differences between Traditional Healing and Western Therapeutic Practices in Africa

 

Christopher David Frills, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Lowering the recidivism rates of sex offenders: A legal and cross-cultural analysis of sex crime in the United States and the Czech Republic

 

Elliott Gray Johnson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Adult but Not Pubertal Ovarian Hormones Lead to Elevated Male Partner Preference in the Female Rat

 

Elizabeth Berhe Kelati, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, A Comparative Review of Western Versus African Reactions to Traumatic Events and Treatments for Post Traumatic Stress

 

Anton Ledesma and Eduardo Motino, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Pathological gambling as a non-substance based addition: the product of maladaptive learning and pathology of motivation

 

Eric William Leppink, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Depression and the negative feedback loop: What happens when our support systems are not supportive?

 

Sofia Cordova Levinson, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Use of Experimenter Body Orientation by Cotton-top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in a Choice Task

 

Elliot Griffith Mitchell, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Of Death and Democracy: Mortality Salience Effects in the 2012 Presidential Election

 

Yansong Pang, Jeweletter Johnson, and Meiyuzi Gao, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, The Effects of Extraversion on Group Performance in Cooperative and Competitive Memory Tasks

 

Han Jae Sun, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, A test of cognitive and physiological efficacy of binaural beat recordings and brainwave entrainment resulty for the use of i-doser

 

Deborah Hui En Tan, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, How Do We Understand Gestures? Lexical representation of emblematic gestures

 

Lisa Taxier, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Estrogen and Progesterone Priming Induces Higher Male Odor Preference Independent of Pubertal Ovarian Hormone Exposure

 

Caitlin Grace Wood, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, White privilege and anti-racist intervention: Developing methods for racial education on a college campus

 

Jessa Lynn Youso, Psychology (PSYC) 2013, Can they do it? An Evaluation of Altruistic Behavior in Cotton-top Tamarins

Submissions from 2012

 

Julia Ann Gilbert Baker, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Effects of Priming on Emotional and Identity Recognition in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

 

Alex Brewer and Tanya My Bui, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Dealing with Feelings: Emotional Intelligence and Resident Assistants at Carleton College

 

Jacob Monir Canfield, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Simplified Characters Make for Empathetic Audiences

 

Audrey Yang Carlsen, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Why Does My Chicken Taste Purple? - An Exploration of the Neural Basis of Synesthesia

 

Austen Caitlin Chase and Sonali Gupta, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Belief in a Just World and Empathy: What Affects Perceptions of Rape Victims?

 

Robert Daniels, Michael Grinnell, and Mouhamadou Diagne, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Musical Perception in a "Post-Racial" America: Effect of Age and Violence on Perceived Offensiveness of Rap and Country Lyrics

 

Zachary S. Delpier, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Adolescent Delinquency

 

Paul Abraham Dimick, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Functional Theories of Mirror Neurons: A Research Based Evaluation

 

Megan Christine Erlandson, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Depression and Anxiety as Factors in the Course of Cardiovascular and Heart Disease

 

Rebecca Leah Feldman, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Is 1942 1853?: Increased Cognitive Abilities in Autistic Individuals

 

Johanna Maren Fierke, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Between a Rock and Un Lugar Duro: A study of Spanish-English bilinguals and language differentiation

 

Naomi Fine, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, 'Can I Play Too?' Theory of Mind and Peer Group Entry Strategy

 

Rebecca Anna Gourevitch and Colin Prescott MacArthur, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Connecting People to Services: A Psychology-Based Marketing Campaign for the LINK Center

 

Lipi Gupta, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Can a Tutoring Intervention Enhance Social Support and Self-Efficacy of At-Risk Adolescents? A Resilience-Framed Case Study in Delhi, India

 

Juventina Joan Hahn and Carolyn Hanrahan, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Romantic Relationships and Emerging Social Media

 

Michael Omar Hanna, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Mindfulness Impact on Empathy: An Examination of Empathy using the Cognitive Theory of Emotion

 

Seohyun Kim, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Difficulty of gestalt processing in high functioning vs. low functioning autistic individuals

 

Davis Tower Kingsley, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Potential Bayesian Improvements to Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology Research

 

Adriane Sara Kisch-Hancock, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Appearance and credibility: How does one's apparel affect his or her perceived trustworthiness and assigned fine in a criminal setting?

 

Colin Prescott MacArthur, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Finding the Lost Navigation Guidelines: Next Generation Website Usability Guidelines

 

Jessica Lynn McCormick, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, A Review of Cognitive Biases in Individuals with Disordered Eating Patterns

 

Amy Strauss Murdoch, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Do Immediate Contextual Cues Affect Ways of Knowing?

 

Daniel Isaac Nathan, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Is L8r A Word? Semantic Priming In Electronic Communication Shortcuts

 

Molly Claire Nichols, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Neural Foundations for Sensory Processing Abnormalities in Autism: The Weak Central Coherence Account versus the Intense World Theory

 

True Overholt and David Weidner Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Cultural and economic components of the country of origin effect: Advertisement evaluations for goods and services among multicultural individuals

 

Veronica Leigh Pena, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Effect of 17 beta-estradiol on an Object Recognition Task in Alzheimer's Induced Rats

 

Mallory Catherine Pernell, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Effects of Stigma on Individuals With Schizophrenia

 

Tasha Wei Rhoads, Owen Donald Alldritt, and Danny Mills Forman, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Choosing Luck: The Effects of Luck and Choice on Performance

 

Ally Shaw and Emily Winer, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Low-Income Latinos in the United States: Dietary Habits and The Health Belief Model

 

David Lawrence Steefel-Moore and Anushka Rajesh Patel, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Gestalt Processing in Autistic Adolescents

 

Kathryn Diane Stinebaugh, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Deconstructing Attitudes towards Smoking: Exploring the Underlying Components of Explicit and Implicit Attitudes

 

Johara Suleiman and Elizabeth Giraud, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Predictors of Negative Cross-Group Attitudes between Somali Immigrants and Native Born Americans

 

Catherine Amelia Clare Townes, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The effects of Conspecificity and familiarity on social learning in cotton-top tamarins (saguinus oedipus)

 

Lor Vue, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Cues and Personality: How Valid are Using Cues to Judge Someone's Personality?

 

Turner Gambill Wadington, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The effect of β-amyloid injection on different remembered aspects of the Morris Water Maze in rats

 

Jolene K. Walter, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, The Power of the Story: How the Way We Talk About Our Experiences Shapes the Way We Remember Them

 

Ari Jacob Warshawsky and Kayla Jo Kramer, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, An Investigation of Why Mere Thoughts of Money Buffer Feelings of Social Exclusion

 

Abby Wills, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Are Funnier People Healthier People? Reviewing the Relationship Between Humor and Health

 

Heather Yang, Psychology (PSYC) 2012, Give Me or Else: Power Dynamics in Food Sharing by Tamarin Monkey Breeding Pairs

Submissions from 2011

 

Mohd Yusoff Jabir Bin, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Felt Misunderstanding and Motivation: Differences between East Asians and European Americans

 

Katie Lynn Boudreaux, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Perceptual Categorization in Pigeons: Closed vs Open Geometric Shapes

 

Emily Cogsdill and Emily Snyder, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The effects of laughter on pain tolerance using a cold-pressor task

 

Stephen Paul Ferber, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Meditation's effect on the brain: A neurobiological analysis

 

Avi B. Fine, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Unconventional and Understudied Benefits of Prayer: Investigating the Effects of Prayer on Attention

 

Christian Benjamin Foster, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Human Deception and Cognitive Development with Regard to Theory of Mind

 

Jacqueline Lee Gauer, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Exploring the Relationship Between Self-Verification and Authenticity in Friendships

 

Galen Christopher Kast and Elizabeth Low, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Advertising and the ELM: An integrative approach to the dual-process model and its application to the promotion of "Go! Northfield"

 

William Grant Lindsley, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Ethics of Placebo Use for the Clinical Treatment of Pain

 

Jeffrey M. Maneval, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The Norepinephrine Precursor L-threo-DOPS Does Not Attenuate Cognitive Deficits in a Rat Model of Alzheimer's Disease

 

Graham Haines Nelson, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Personality and Coping Behaviors in Response to the Breakup of Dating Relationships

 

Victor Julio Ramirez, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Investigating the neuroanatomical pathology of schizophrenia: using correlate models of dreaming and drug-induced psychosis

 

Lucy Marie Schroeder, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The neural correlates of spiritual and religious experience

 

Larissa Anne Silverman, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Nicotine and Endocannabinoids: Effects on Short Term Learning and Memory

 

Merritt Ann Swain, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The Effects of Sleep Duration on Motor Performance and Mood