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 2012
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
Clinton Gerald Ulmer, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, The Effect of Post-Training Administration of Alcohol on Memory Consolidation in Rats
Hillary Jane Doescher Wiener, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Individual Differences in Advice Seeking
Hillary Jane Doesche Wiener and Amy S. Teller, Environmental Studies (ENTS), Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Variation in bitter taste perception between moral vegetarians and non-vegetarians
Geoffrey Leuba Williams, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Priming Stigmatized Groups to Change Intellectual Ability
Rachel Zucker, Psychology (PSYC) 2011, Extraversion-Targeted Interventions to Promote Exercise: The Low Efficacy of Personality-Congruent Attempts
Submissions from 2010
William T. Adler, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Auditory Metrical Coordination of Attention on a Visual n-back Task
Philip Richard Blue, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Multiple Types of Resilience: Self-Enhancing Bias and Positive Emotions as Predictors of Ego-Resilience
Molly Alice Bresslour, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, When Do We Support Positions Advanced by an Opposing Political Party? The Effects of Political Party Labels on Attitudes
Rose Elia Chahla, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Finding Happiness: Internal and External Determinants of Subjective Well-Being
Irene F. Dennison, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Adult Exploration and Secure Base Priming
Katherine Anne Ehni, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, An Analysis of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors in Delay Discount Rates
Amy Grace Elson, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Stuck on the Hedonic Treadmill? It May Not (Completely) Be Your Fault: The Role of Personality, Social Relationships, Genes and the Individual on Happiness
Benjamin Ethan Ericsson Garwin, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Endocannabinoid Signaling Required for Spatial Memory Encoding and Contextual Recall: Neuropragmatic Theory and a Rat Model
Anna Katelore Heinzerling, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Adult Attachment and Standards for Best Friends and Romantic Partners
Addie Laura Honeycutt, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Lessons in Pretending: Scaffolding Theory of Mind and Perspective Taking through Pretend Play
Adelle Housker, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, What Causes Proofreading Errors?
Dan Jasper Jensen, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Patient-Focused Research: The History, Problems, and Benefits of Implementing Outcome Tracking Systems in Psychotherapy
Katherine Blair Jones, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, The Call of the Wild: Discrimination of Music and Monkey Calls in Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys
Rita Nabh Kanagat, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Music and Anxiety: A Study
Kyungmin Kim, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Cognitive Intervention Addressing Gambling Related Irrational Beliefs
Anne Marie Merrill, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Internal and External Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice Against Overweight Individuals
Stephanie Moberg, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Academic applications of adolescent attachment relationships
Elizabeth Musz, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Not All Modifiers Are Created Equal: Evidence for Differential Processing of Modal Verbs in Advertising Text
Samantha Kristine Peterson, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Another Potential Excuse: The Role of Parental Authority in Students' Procrastination
Matthew Charles Kern Pieh, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Dietary Soy Phytoestrogens Alter Sexual Behaviors in Male Rats
Nicole Elizabeth Reich, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Methodological Issues of Teaching Scientific Reasoning Skills to Elementary Students: Inconsistent Definitions and Insufficient Participant Detail
Katherine Richey, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Slurs and Stereotypes: Automatic Stereotype Activation in Non-Insulting Contexts
Laura O'Sullivan Schlosser, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Effects of Methylphenidate and Environmental Enrichment on Spatial Memory in Rats
Katie L. Silbiger, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, Evaluating Educational Initiatives for Gifted and Talented Students
Brianne M. Wooldridge, Psychology (PSYC) 2010, The Relationships of Positive Psychology: Specifically Personality and Social Interactions with Happiness
Submissions from 2009
Adam Brown, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The weakest link: bilingual lexical access and the orthographic size congruity effect
Frank M. Dolce, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, How can I read this title? The contributions of pre-lexical and sub-lexical pathways to Chinese word recognition
Katelyn Donisch, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Using gain-framed messaging to change attitudes toward menstruation and menstrual suppression
Lacey Dorman, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Goal urgency versus goal importance: which goals do people pursue and which goals lead to satisfaction?
Yusi He, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, A review of current estrogen research: implications and future directions
Juliana Houston, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Exercise and stress reduction: testing a theory of arousal attribution
Annelise Lawson, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, To burn out or fade away: the effects of the peak/end rule on prospective assessments of life quality
Melissa Mayer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The interactive effects of alcohol cues, alcohol outcome expectancies, and motives fulfillment on hostile impression formation
Yael Mayer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, An evaluation of remedial education programs using cognitive research
Laura Myers, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Selective attention in bilingual students: a comparison of skills in both languages
Hannah Oken-Berg, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The Five-Factor model and food choices: personality and the foods we eat
Martha Perez, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Dissociative symptoms, episodic memory, and a neurological basis for childhood trauma
Lena Tjosvold, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, What's in a name: does your name affect memory for positive and/or negative narrative?
Julian Tokarev, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, What you think is what you get: the effects of affective orientation on incidental learning of words are dependent on item valence and evaluator orientation
Gene Uenishi, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Stereotype threat and social facilitation: how both affect math performance among white males
Andrew Widmer, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, Differential social behavior development in the mouse as a result of nicotine- or codeine- influenced juvenile social environment
Katrina Wood, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The strategic management and structural organization of working memory distinct roles for D1 and D2 dopamine receptors
Gao Yang, Psychology (PSYC) 2009, The effects of partial sleep deprivation on adaptation to anxiety
