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.
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-Âmediated 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