This page lists all of the senior projects from previous cognitive science majors, organized by year. For current majors, there is a guide to the research process of the senior thesis.
Years
Class of 2025
| Student | Senior Project Title |
|---|---|
| Ore Adeogun | Food for Thought: Do Edibility Judgments Boost Memory Performance? |
| Bethel Asomaning | Right feedback, wrong time? The effect of children’s effort and performance on the content of parental feedback |
| Eesha Bodapati | Attribution in Context: Examining the effect of relational context on explaining moral lapses |
| Marie Bong | The Association Between Cue-Utilization in Emotion Inference and Regulation of Expressions |
| Breanna Brownson | Finding Control Under Pressure: The Role of Locus of Control in Challenge and Threat Responses to Stress |
| Nicole A. Campbell | The Interpersonal Course of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Repeated-Measures Social Network Analysis |
| Paloma Casanova | The relation between parent-child physiological covariation and overparenting |
| Teddy Cavanagh | Age and Anxiety: Investigating the Impact of Age on Anxiety and Emotion Regulation Strategies around the 2024 Election |
| Mona Chen | The Politics of Pessimism: How Ideology Shapes Moral Judgment of Pessimists |
| Irene Maria Beatrice Colombo | Beyond Words: What Vocabulary Can—and Can’t—Tell Us About Individual Emotional Granularity |
| Christopher R. de Santis | Ethical Blickets and Reliable Widgets: Rethinking how Integrity and Reliability Drive Consumer Trust and Shape its Attendant Consequences |
| Lidya Demilew | Between Instinct and Algorithm: Mental Models of AI in Connecticut Law Enforcement |
| Pranava Dhar | Somehow, everything has changed: Event boundaries defined only by unnoticed changes to implicit visuospatial statistics drive active forgetting in visual working memory |
| Jackson Downey | Social Influence and Algorithmic Bias in Music Taste |
| Dona Ekwalla | A Different Kind of Change: Identity and Transformative Experiences |
| Josh Ellis | Radicalism in the Fight to Eliminate Bigotry from Humanity’s Social Reality |
| Maya Ennis | Investigating the Associations Between Mothers’ Cognitive Control and Their Representations of their Infant’s Affective Experiences |
| Michelle V. Foley | Perspective Taking Reduces Attributions of Belief Control |
| Enkhjin Gansukh | Visual Stimulation as a Foundation for Functional Olfactory Imaging: Methodological Validation of the Next-Gen, NeuroEXPLORER |
| Odessa Goldberg | The Effect of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Stress Reactivity and Cognition Across Age Groups |
| Sophia Grau | Between Languages, Between Norms: How Spanish–English Bilinguals Adapt Assertiveness and Politeness |
| Julia Grobman | Post-Error Slowing as a Paradigm for Cognitive Control: Examining the Role of Emotion Regulation in Psychosis-Proneness |
| Luis A. Halvorssen | The Experience Valuation Gap. The Role of Anticipation and Memory in the Valuation of Experiential Purchases |
| Lauren Hartz | Perceptions of Altruism and Virtue Signaling Across the Political Divide |
| Katherine He | Large Language Models as Legal Summarizers and Evaluators |
| Audrey Hempel | His Lights Are On but She’s Not Home: The Perception of Attentiveness in Faces Differs by Gender |
| Caleb P. Hwang | Thinking in Rules or Emotions? Understanding Moral Reasoning in Autism |
| Lena Jones | Living Less Stressed Together: a Psychophysiological Framework for the Pursuit of Racial Reconciliation |
| Sohum Kapadia | Reinforcement Learning and Food Valuation: Modeling Reversal Learning Behavior in the Context of Binge Eating Disorders |
| Emma Kohlmayer | Depth-perception in the visuomotor system: The effect of cast shadows on object-oriented action |
| Caroline Koppel | Essentialist Beliefs and Their Impact on Cross-Cultural Mental State Inference |
| Tetsu Kurumisawa | Intention Inference and Autonomy Arbitration in Human Robot Interaction |
| Madison Laprise | Cognitive Flexibility as a Structural Bridge Between Depression and Social Anxiety |
| Jessica Le | Bias, Belief, and the Self: Modeling First-Person Detection of Social Biases Using Mental State Inference |
| Annabel Lee | What Drives Food Decisions: The Role of Image Type and Perceived Authenticity in Purchase Intent |
| Phaedra Letrou | Shared Realities and Emotional Understanding Investigating the Impact of Emotional Segmentation Alignment on Relationship Satisfaction |
| Tess Levy | Mapping Reward: fMRI Evidence for Cerebellar Contributions to Reinforcement Learning |
| Kelly Lopez | Rewriting the Narrative: Are Short Stories the Key to Reframing Stigma Towards Incarceration? |
| Coco Ma | Dopamine Without Dollars: Orthogonal Reward Cues as Behavioral Nudges in Financial-Temporal Decision-Making Tasks |
| Taylor McClure | Directing Selective Attention in Motor Working Memory |
| Lily Milone | How Human is HumAIn: Exploring How the Perceived Source of Thin-Ideal Messaging (Human vs. AI) Affects Self-Esteem, Appearance-Related Anxiety, and Psychological Responses |
| Mahal Montes | Betraying the Social Contract: The Impact of Framing Outgroup Support on Intergroup Solidarity Expectations |
| Charlotte E. Morrison | Insights from a Neuropsychological Pathway: Understanding the Role of Proactive Avoidance in the Relationship Between Pain Sensitivity and Alcohol Misuse |
| Maanasa Nandigam | Soundscapes of the Mind: Elucidating the Impact of Indian Classical Music Scales on Physiology, Psychology, and Cognition |
| Breanna K. Nguyen | The Justification Machine and Its Moral Operator |
| Megan Niu | Phonetic Detail in Lexical Access: The Use of Duration in Homophone Perception |
| Fabiha Rafrafin | The Maddy’s Choice Control: Investigating Social Disjunctive Inference in 13- to 15-month-old Infants |
| Jude Sack | The Creative Manifold: Mapping The Neural Signatures of Musical Improvisation |
| Noah Savolainen | Principled Profit: The Counterintuitive Power of Transparent Self-Interest in Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Maximillion Shearod | Blame it on the Boogie: Examining Demographic Differences in Complex Meter Perception |
| Kyle Justin Shepherd | Sam is all smiles: Quantificational Enrichment of Lexical Aspect in Copular Constructions with Human Entities |
| Rebecca Elisa Sosa-Coba | Amplified Attention: How Socioeconomic Modulation of Visual Salience Shapes Economic Valuation and Risky Decision-Making |
| Summer Steinmiller | Leading by Example: Is the Gender of Political Leaders Related to Gender Bias in Corporate Evaluations? |
| Benjamin G. Sterling | People Use Theory of Mind to Craft Lies Exploiting Audience Desires |
| Sophie Straka | Reframing Redistribution: Cognitive Influences on Support for Redistribution Policies |
| Gabriella Thompson | Mapping the Language Network in Taiwanese Children |
| Trucy Truong-Phan | From Fonts to Fragrances: Exploring Crossmodal Associations Between Visual and Olfactory Perception in Consumer Behavior |
| Eric Tu | Objectifying (Aesthetic) Experience |
| Sanaa Williams | (Im)moral Institutions |
| Mahdere Yared | Hype Me Up: Investigating a Socially Engaging Function of Sharing Self-Pride |
| Mila Yarich | Predicting Effort-Based Choices and Reward Sensitivity: An Exploratory Analysis of Decision-Making Styles in the Modified Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT) |
| Arden Yum | A Cross-Cultural Study of Affiliative Language Use in Relational Contexts |
| Angela Zhao | A Gut Feeling: Investigating the Influence of Gut Microbiota on Alpha-Synuclein Pathology in Lewy Body Dementia |
| Michelle Zheng | Choosing Between AI and Human Expertise: Exploring Decision-Making Preferences Across Analytical and Creative Tasks |
Class of 2024
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Yaara Aybar | Seeing the Future Self: Effects of Dynamic Age Visualizations on Intertemporal Decision-Making | Gal Zauberman |
| Mikayla Barber | The Relationship Between Lifetime Substance Use and Cost Weighing in a Loss-Based Probabilistic Learning Task | Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| Steve Blanco | The social Bouba-Kiki effect: the liking bias induced by face-name congruence in moral character assessments | Isaac Davis |
| Mina Caraccio | Impartial beneficence predicts greater moral concern for socially distant others—but not at the expense of close relationships | Margaret Clark |
| Jessie Cheung | Societal evaluations of ChatGPT-generated ethnic-minority cultural narratives | Isaac Davis |
| Mikheil Gabashvili | Mindsharing: implicit motivation to reveal preference strength | Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| Gillian Gold | Exploring the Association Between Educational Attainment and White Matter Integrity in Adults | Dylan Gee |
| Brendon Gong | Investigating Compact 3D-CNN Configurations for MRI-based Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease | Priya Panda |
| Cora Hagens | Exploring the Impact of Psychological Motivators and Political Context on the Development of Climate Efficacy Beliefs | Marija Verner |
| Charlotte Harrington | Riddle Me This: An Exploratory Analysis of Stumper Riddles | Shane Frederick |
| Harry Keenan | Awe and Empathy: A Reductionist Perspective on the Relationship | Wendy Berry Mendes |
| Ihtesham Khan | Susceptibility to Sunk Cost Fallacy: Individualistic vs. Collectivist Cultures | Isaac Davis |
| Victoria Lacombe | Beyond Audit Studies: Redefining Discrimination through the Interplay of Sociological and Cognitive Perspectives | Issa Kohler-Hausmann |
| Shen-Vey Lai | Decoding Consensus Anger: Examining the Role of Faces and Facial Action Units (AUs) in Anger-Speci c Emotion Segmentation | Maria Gendron |
| Zoe Larkin | So Funny I Forgot to Think: The Effect of Humor on Belief Formation | Ravi Dhar |
| Connor Lee | Unveiling Moral Dimensions in Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Analysis of Large Language Models and Human Perspectives | Isaac Davis |
| Demi Lee | Enhancing Education Through Trust: A Gendered Analysis of Student-Instructor Interactions | Mark Graham |
| Mark Matera | Preferences for Exploration as a Function of Cognitive Ability: Investigating Human Decision-Making in the Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma Using Obscured Topographic Maps | Shane Frederick |
| Felix Mebius | Absentminded Selfishness? How Observed Time Pressure Influences Inference of Social Value Orientation | Isaac Davis |
| Alyssa Michel | Knowledge Trumps Exposure: The Implications of Critical Black History on Interracial Relations | Wendy Berry Mendes |
| Lydia Monk | You’re Hot and You’re Warm: An Investigation into Scalar Implicature Processing Costs and Time Course | Maria Piñango |
| Kayla Morgan | Effects of Melodic Expectations on Induced Auditory Hallucinations | Al Powers |
| Kirin Mueller | Examining the Increased Processing Load of Long-Distance Dependencies and Aspectual Verbs in Neurocognitively Healthy Individuals: Toward a Diagnostic Test for Language Deficits in Neuro-Oncology | Maria Piñango |
| Katie Nail | Fostering Care : Impacts of Childhood Trauma on Cognitive Development, Life Outcomes, and Welfare Policy | Andrea Asnes |
| Tramy Nguyen | Efficacy of Attention Networks in Borderline Personality Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Sara Fineberg |
| Jennifer Okolo | Minds in Motion: Modeling the Trajectory of Cognitive and Motivational Development Across Childhood to Mid-Adolescence | Youngsun Cho |
| Toni Oluwatade | The Heart-Mind Connection: Language Preference and Linguistic Competence Among Yoruba-English Bilinguals | Maria Piñango |
| Shruti Parasarathy | The Art of Wellness: Developing and Testing the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of a 4- Week, Digital Mindfulness-Based Indian Classical Dance Intervention, Mindful Kala, for University Students | James Floman |
| Nick Phillips | Enhancing Perceptions of Stress | Zoe Chance |
| Samantha Prince | Discovering the Linguistic Semantic Composition Network An fMRI Meta-Analysis and Contrast Study on Linguistic Semantic Composition | Maria Piñango |
| Kris Qiu | The diagnostic disconnect: autism as an identity and the role of the Internet | Fred Volkmar |
| McKenna Ragen | Kindness and Gratitude Interventions and Their Impact on Well-Being | Laurie Santos |
| Ariana Reichler | Exploring Associations Between Childhood Unpredictability, Emotional Memory, and Psychopathology | Dylan Gee |
| Nathalia Reis | Catching Cheaters: Examining the Role of Perspective on Cheater Detection in Social Contracts | Nicolo Cesana-Arlotti |
| Danny Rodriguez | Powerball, Coin Tosses, and the Kentucky Derby: A Neuroeconomic Analysis of Risk Aversion, Gambling Prevalence, and Delayed Gratification across Socioeconomic and Political Spectra | Isaac Davis |
| Elana Rothberg | Why Buy a Birkin? How Quality, Status, and Heritage Affect Consumer Economic Valuation of Luxury Bags | Isaac Davis |
| Chris Song | For God, For Ministry, and For Yale: Analyzing the effects of ingroup/outgroup cognition in a church environment | Isaac Davis |
| Joey Utomo | The Fauna Naming Test: A new naming task for the localization of naming impairments in left temporal lobe epilepsy | Christopher Benjamin |
| Naheem Watson | Technology and Trust: Using and Analyzing Digital Tools to Address ADHD Disparities in Black Communities | Isaac Davis |
| Annie Yan | Addressing disagreement on acquisition of disjunctive syllogism through an analysis of study design | Isaac Davis |
Class of 2023
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Kwaku Acquah | Stuck in Their Ways: The Effects of Age and Stress on Belief Flexibility | Wisteria Deng & Jutta Joormann |
| Addison Beer | Just a Press: The Impact of Simple Motor Action on the Statistical Learning of Visual Sequences | Samuel McDougle |
| Ilyana Bejelloun | I Am the River and the River is Me: Anthropomorphic Language and Environmental Personhood in the Rights of Nature Movement | Frank Keil |
| Michael Bochkur Dratver | An empirical study of public perception of essentialism and its association with prejudice towards Black, woman, gay, and Jewish social categories | Yarrow Dunham |
| Konrad Collins | Optimizing Education: Mindset, Other Traits, and the Roles They Play in Child Development | Mark Graham |
| Elena DeBre | Hidden Scars: The Cost of Sacrificing Morality | Steven Marans |
| Carla Descombes | Beyond Brushstrokes: Uncovering and Moderating the Bias against AI-Generated Art | Ravi Dhar |
| Jared Fel | Automated and manual segmentation of the hippocampus in human infants | Nick Turk-Browne |
| Mourad Frishkopf | An Experimental and Simulative Proposal: Investigating Semantic Structure through Grammatical Person, Aspect, and Mood | Maria Pinango |
| Marissa Healy | Taking Charge: How parents’ beliefs about their children’s learning impact over- engagement | Julia Leonard & Reut Shachani |
| Daniel Inojosa | Toward a Cognitive Critique of Culture: “Historicizing” and Temporalizing Psychology Through Living Indigenous Relationalities | Isaac Davis |
| Raime Jones | Psychological Connectedness and Addiction: Do Addicts Perceive Their Future Self as a Different Person? | Gideon Yaffe |
| Reese Koppel | Overprecision in Confidence Intervals | Shane Frederick |
| Allie Liebmann | Find the Matching Word:A Visual World Paradigm Study of Written Word Recognition in Children | Richard Aslin & Erin Isbilen |
| Silver Liftin | Talking Tigers and Other Distortions of Reality: Examining Remission Rates Within the Clinical High Risk for Psychosis Population | Tyrone Cannon |
| Kincaid MacDonald | Metaphors as Conceptual Compressions | Isaac Davis |
| Jaret Malouf | Linguistic tools for building social momentum | Shane Frederick |
| Nicholas Marinaj | The Relationship between Need for Cognition and Framing Effects in Financial Decision-Making | Isaac Davis |
| Michelle Marti | Ideas of Reparations in Children | Yarrow Dunham |
| Diego Miro Rivera | The Mind Represents Space in Multiple Formats Simultaneously | Frank Keil & Sami Yousif |
| Clare Naughton | Beyond Entertainment: How Entertainment Media Can Combat Prejudice and Foster Long-Term Social Tolerance, Turning a Potentially Dangerous Tool into a Catalyst for Positive Change | Melissa Ferguson |
| Noah Norman | From Flexible to Fixed: Parents believe children’s interests become less malleable with age | Julia Leonard |
| Vishwa Padigepati | FIRE and Future: The Role of Future Visualization in the Willingness to Commit to the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) Movement | Gal Zauberman |
| Aram Russell | Different Substance Use Motivations Relate to Differential Integration of Cost Information in Effort-Based Decision-Making | Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| T. Scarborough | Humor and Resonance: A Novel Presuppositional Approach to Comedy | Jason Stanley |
| Stella Sekoff | Climate Cognition: Investigating International Climate Change Risk Perceptions | Jennifer Marlon |
| Vanya Shivanshankar | Investigating Changes in Adult Pupil Diameter in Response to the Multisensory Cocktail Party Problem | David Lewkowicz |
| Katherine Skoff | How do we decide where to donate? Social Influence and Charity Selection | Deborah Small |
| Jes Springer | The Power of Co-Creating Knowledge: Folk Theories of Normal and Possible . | Robin Dembroff |
| Alexandra Truwit | Why CEOs Need Emotional Intelligence | Zoe Chance |
| Doga Uenlue | It is like Talking to a Brick Wall: The Effect of Political Groups on Judgments of Mental Fixity | Melissa Ferguson |
| Sarah Valeika | A Study of Maternal Interaction and Rearing Conditions in Rhesus Macaque Neurobehavioral Development | Amanda Dettmer |
| Vivian Wang | Here it comes: Active forgetting triggered even just by anticipation of an impending event boundary | Brian Scholl |
| Nyla Williams | Fair Game? Investigating Children’s Bargaining Behaviors in the Presence of Outside Options | Yarrow Dunham & Sifana Sohail |
| Nancy Wu | Bridging the Mental Health Gap: Increasing Access to Treatment for Low-level Mental Illness in China with AI-powered Therapy Chatbots | Bradford Martins |
| Lauren Yoon | Prada, Chanel, and YSL, “Who cares?”: Addressing the Motives for Luxury Consumption | Margaret Clark |
| Adam Zhang | Fostering Creative Thinking in Human Groups using Autonomous Bots | Nicholas Christakis |
Class of 2022
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Valerie Akinyoyenu | A Matter of Time: Temporally distancing from historical racism is related to overestimates of racial economic equality | Jennifer Richeson |
| Mafalda von Alvensleben | (Re)framing Disability: a case for the importance of social-identity approaches to disability in cognitive science | Molly Crockett |
| Hannah Armistead | An Exploration of the Psychological Factors Underlying Conflict Aversion | Ifat Levy |
| Cameron Berg | Social Group Size Modulates Human Reinforcement Learning Strategies. Exploring the Computational Underpinnings of Human Reward-Seeking in Social Environments | Samuel McDougle |
| Anika Bhargava | Accent Perception as a Driver of In-Group Bias | Jason Shaw |
| Mikaela Boone | Demographic Moderators on the Efficacy of a Large-Scale Positive Psychology Intervention | Laurie Santos |
| Rachel Calcott | An Investigation into the Role of Relational Context in Perceptions of Identity Change | Brian Earp, Joshua Knobe, and Molly Crockett |
| Brendan Campbell | Meant to be Good, or Meant to be Good at Being Good? Investigating Criteria of Life Purpose | Joshua Knobe |
| Zola Canady | Virtual Reality and Rehabilitation for Justice-Involved Populations | Michael Kraus |
| Aparajita Chauhan | Effects of Visualization on Athletic Performance | Samuel McDougle |
| Sarah Chiang | One-to-one: Children’s understanding of gesture as tallying | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Peggy Li, and Susan Carey |
| Braden Cody | Unequal Treatment: Perceptions of Manipulation in Experimental Design | Ravi Dhar |
| Ariel Cohen | Giving What and How We Can: The Impact of Charitable Giving on Career Choices | Ravi Dhar |
| Conor Downey | Group Trustworthiness and Moral Assessment: A Pilot Study | Brian Scholl |
| Chloe Fink | Rehabilitating the Innocent: Reported Beliefs about what Exonerees’ Deserve Post-Wrongful Incarceration and Individuals Actual Willingness to Integrate Exonerees into Society | Tom Tyler |
| Aya Hall | Ethos, pathos, logos in legal argumentation | Guilherme Almeida |
| Julia Hu | Temporal Contagtion and Moral Judgment | Gal Zauberman |
| Jen Huang | Innovation and Decision-Making Structures in Teams | Florian Ederer |
| Kyle Johnson | Hypothetical psychedelic drug use for treatment versus enhancement: an experimental bioethics study into public attitudes | Setphen Latham |
| Alexandra Jones | The Pain of Paying: The Impact of Tangibility on Consumer Purchase Decisions | Ravi Dhar |
| Caroline Kindler | Smash your phone | Jason Stanley |
| Sonia Lingos-Utley | Evaluating the Psychological Explanations Behind Millennials Obsession with Frozen Pre-made Foods | Samuel McDougle |
| Eric Liu | Facial Homophily in Human Social Networks | Nicholas Christakis |
| Carolyne Newman | American children’s and adults’ attitudes towards immigrants to and from the United States | Yarrow Dunham |
| Valerie Nguyen | State-Level Interference Effect of Statistical Learning on Episodic Encoding | Nick Turk-Browne |
| Alan Presburger | How Relational Context Shapes the Expression of Emotions | Margaret Clark |
| Jacob Rhee | Investigating the Importance of Socio-Academic Interactions in Online Learning | Kenneth Pugh |
| Adam Rothman | No evidence that brief algorithm literacy education corrects polarizing effects of social media newsfeeds | William Brady and Molly Crockett |
| Nicholas Ryan-Schreiber | Mitochondrial Function and Ambiguity Processing Bias in Honeybees: implications for the neurobiological underpinnings of common psychiatric disorders. | Benjamin Kelmendi |
| Maya Sanghvi | Resolving Conflict: Conscientiousness and Subjective Probability Mediate Choices Under Uncertainty | Ifat Levy |
| Allie Schneider | Under Pressure: Evaluating Psychological Distress Among Young Children and Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Walter Gilliam |
| Lydia Schooler | Confidence in Moral Decision-Making | Molly Crockett |
| Brooke Schwind | Conceptualizing Coercion: Examining Folk Intuitions of Coercion in Societally Sanctioned Punishment Mechanisms | Guilherme Almeida |
| Eden Senay | A Token for Your Thoughts? Exploring How Children Perceive the Mind and Morality of Artificial Intelligence | Molly Crockett |
| Amy Shteyman | Dynamic Mitochondrial Cristae Remodeling During Neuronal Synaptic Plasticity | Elizabeth Jonas |
| Ely Sibarium | The Combined Effects of Cochlear Implantation and American Sign Language on Early Literacy | Kenneth Pugh |
| Kira Sze | Storybooks as Tools to Teach External and Internal Reasoning: How Priming Children With External or Internal Reasoning Affects Beliefs About Socioeconomic Inequality | Yarrow Dunham |
| Serena Thaw-Poon | Interpretive Bias in Adolescents: A Pilot Study on the Use of Event-Related Potentials to Differentiate Social Anxiety Responses to Ambiguity | Michael Crowley |
| Kaori West | Reimagining Race: An Exercise in Futurity | Yarrow Dunham |
| Georgia Woscoboinik | The Effect of Domain on Lay Intuitions of Psychological Trait Heritability | Yarrow Dunham |
Class of 2020
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Ashna Aggarwal | Stress-Induced Relapse to Nicotine Seeking: Mechanistic Effect of Guanfacine in Male Mice | Marina Picciotto |
| Naima Amraan | Self-Other Discrepancies in Context- Dependent Risky Choices | Nathan Novemsky |
| Mary Baumann | Analogies, Content Knowledge, and Implications on Learning | Frank Keil |
| Shruti Baxi | Extrospection and the Racial Income Gap: Putting Yourself in Someone Else’s Skin | Shane Frederick |
| Kayleigh Bishop | Towards Flexible Referring Expression Generation for a Collaborative Robot | Brian Scassellati |
| Tyler Bleuel | Is the Price Right?: An Examination of Compensatory Damages to Understand Taboo Trade-Offs | George Newman |
| Lydia Buonomano | Cognitive Substrates of Belief in Fake News | Tyrone Cannon |
| Lukas Burger | Mental Inference: Mind perception as Bayesian model selection | Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| Hannah Burgess | Robot Moderation of Hot Topic Political Conversations | Brian Scassellati |
| Marina Cisneros | On ‘Electability:’ The Influence of Epistemic Injustice on the 2020 Primary Election | Jason Stanley |
| Devon Doheny | Direct and Mediated Learning in Hallucinating Rats | Jane Taylor |
| Farhha Feroz | The Potential of Behavioral Economics in the Characterization of Anxiety Disorder Comorbidities in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Fred Volkmar |
| Jazzy Fisher | Cultural Opacity Mindset: Exploring Barriers & Conduits to Cross-Cultural Collaboration | Maria Gendron |
| Ellie Garland | Stories of Migration: Indirect Contact Theory & the Power of Narrative to Improve Attitudes toward an Outgroup | Jason Stanley |
| Amelia Haynes | Exploring Relations Between Psychopathy, Resting State Delta, and Performance on an Attention Bottleneck Task | Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| Claire Hu | The Light Switch of the Brain: How the Thalamus Drives Cortical Conscious-Linked Activity | Hal Blumenfeld |
| Lotta Keller | “Tu me gustas, but do you like me?”: Quantifying Affective and Political Response to Political Code-Switching | Maria Gendron |
| Jocelle Marius | The Challenges of Intergroup Communication: Warmth and Competence Perception Differences During Interracial Mentorship | John Dovidio |
| Cameron Martel | Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news | David Rand and Gordon Pennycook |
| Louisa Nordstrom | The Effect of Differential Spatiotemporal Contexts on the Perceptual Saliency of Animacy, Emotion, and Intentionality | Brian Scassellatti |
| Will Oles | Social Correlates of Depression in Honduran Village Networks | Nicholas Christakis |
| Daniel Rice | Treating Tobacco Use Disorder: Neural Mechanisms and Comparative Efficacy | Hedy Kober |
| Sidney Saint-Hilaire | What is Enough? Examining Americans’ Estimates of a Living Wage | Michael Kraus and Jun Won Park |
| Leslie Schneider | The Effect of Relational Reasoning on Young Children’s Self-Resemblance Preference | Yarrow Dunham and Karen Wynn |
| Gabriella Seo | Children’s Concepts of Institutional Groups | Yarrow Dunham |
| Tamar Sifri | Seminal Systems: Dual Process Theory and Lay Perceptions of Authenticity | George Newman |
| Mariana Suárez-Rebling | Autism education for caretakers: Tracing the evolution of the disorder and its impact on the education of caretakers and teachers of children with autism | Fred Volkmar |
| Anna Thorndike | Aversive Learning and Discrimination: The Impact of Monetary Loss on Visual Perception | Ifat Levy |
| Sarah Widder | Syntactically-Constrained Paraphrase Generation with Tree-Adjoining Grammar | Robert Frank |
Class of 2019
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Wisowaty | Group Human-Robot Interaction: A Review | Marynel Vázquez |
| Adoración Guzmán García | Seeking of Confirmatory and Disconfirmatory Information by Children | Mark Sheskin |
| Alex Wang | Intersectionality and Daily Affective Experiences of LGBT People | Maria Gendron |
| Andrew Del Vecchio | Procedural Justice in the Connecticut Correctional System: An Exploration of Correlates and Modifications through an Intervention Program | Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| Bianca Li | Beyond Discrete Categories: Young Children Fail to Privilege Categories when Shared Preferences Compete | Yarrow Dunham and Ashley E. Jordan |
| Celia Crum | Venting: Combatting the Globalizing Influence of Specific Judgments | Shane Frederick and Guy Voichek |
| Daniel Do | Goodness, Realness, and True Love | Joshua Knobe and Brian Earp |
| Darwin Edwards III | Professor Cyborg: Exploring the Impact of New Technologies on Learning Outcomes and Cognitive Pedagogy | Mark Sheskin |
| Ellis Burgoon Miskell | Differences in Acceptability Ratings of Incorporation Structures in French and English Speakers | Maria Pinñango and Mark Sheskin |
| Eugine Szeto | Exploring Relations Between Ambiguities in Product Designs and Sentences | Shane Frederick |
| Evelyn Roberts | Teamwork and Social Robots: Examining Forced Participation Within Group Endeavors | Brian Scassellati |
| Evin Henriquez-Groves | Distinguishing the Impact of Child Maltreatment and Exposure to Violence on Neuropsychological Measures and Academic Functioning | Arielle Baskin-Sommers and Suzanne Estrada |
| Georgi Dumanov | The Effect of Time on Moral Judgment | George Newman |
| Imani George | Who, What, Where? How Information on Product Production Affects Consumer Perceptions | George Newman and Minju Han |
| Kacey Fang | All the lonely people: the relationship of loneliness and social isolation to age-related changes in brain structure | Steve Chang and Avram Holmes |
| Katherine Hong | The Effect of Exposure to Violence on Trustworthiness Perception | Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| Kiarra Alleyne | Where Should They Sit?: Infant and Toddler’s Expectations about Third-Party Affiliation Based on Gender | Karen Wynn and Lisa Chalik |
| Ladan Mohamed | Moral Decision Making in Adults with Autism: The Role of Capacity in Blame Assignments | Fred Volkmar |
| Levi Truong | Signs of Social Class and Anxiety | Michael Kraus and Brittany Torre |
| Maxwell Greene | Parahippocampal Fos-Like Immunoreactivity After Incidental Association Formation in Rats | Jane Taylor and Leah Fleming |
| Maya Rodriguez | The Anchoring Effect and Moral Judgements | Paul Bloom and Matthew Jordan |
| Noorisingh Saini | Streaming Now: The Effect of Live Streaming and Temporal Distance on Emotions and Closeness | George Newman |
| Phillip Vorster | Clinical Cognitive Screening: A Study Done with Chiari Malformation I Patients | Christopher Benjamin |
| Shelby Kennedy | Best Practices for Replicable Research on Gender Differences | Mark Sheskin |
| Zachary Balleisen | On the Origins of Polarized Risk Assessment | Dan Kahan |
Class of 2018
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Aviva Abusch | A Young Mind, Neglected: Exploring the Impact of Early Omissions on Executive Function Development and Paths Forward for Public Policy-Based Intervention |
Dylan Gee |
| Maxim Baranov | Assigning Responsibility to Command-Executing Robots | Brian Scassellati |
| Stephen Barmore | Evaluating Differing Proportions of Text and Image Fixation During User Internet Experience | Joy Hirsch |
| Spencer Birney | Crime, Punishment, and Abuse: The Effect of Post-Crime Mitigating Evidence on Sentencing Decisions | George Newman |
| Sam Bowers | Investigating contagious behaviors in Canis familiaris | Laurie Santos |
| Lilla Brody | Defying Empathy: Applying Criticisms of Empathy to Maximize the Utility of Arts-Based Empathy Training Programs | Mark Sheskin |
| Brooks Butler | Eating Your Way To Happiness | David L. Katz |
| Jason Campbell | Brains, Beliefs, and Existentialism: Philosophies and Treatments Pertaining to Three Approaches to Social Anxiety Disorder, and the Prospect of a New Mental Health Paradigm |
Michael J. Crowley |
| Amrutha Dorai | Theories of Intelligence, Metacognition, and Teaching Strategies in Student Achievement | Mark Graham |
| Kyle Hietala | Conceptualizing and Studying Free Will Belief and Disbelief | Thomas H. Brown |
| Victor Hunt | Problems in Pedagogy: Teaching Deficits in an In-Lab Sample | Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| Adam Lowet | Seeing structure: Shape skeletons modulate perceived similarity | Chaz Firestone and Brian J. Scholl |
| Michaela Macdonald | Worker changes in effort and perceptions of fairness in response to leader management strategy | David Rand and Gordon Kraft-Todd |
| Damla Ozdalga | Fake News and Social Endorsement Cues: Do the Number of Likes, Shares and Comments Influence Engagement with Inaccurate News Articles? | David Rand and Gordon Pennycook |
| Andi Peng | An Integrated Machine Learning Approach To Studying Terrorism | Brian Scassellati |
| Jacob Prince | Covert metrics of conscious visual perception: Pupil, microsaccade and blink dynamics | Hal Blumenfeld |
| Aaron Resnick | When Goals Get in the Way: The Hidden Downsides of Goal Setting |
Ravi Dhar |
| Amanda Royka | Metacognition across domestication: A comparison of dogs and dingoes | Angie M. Johnston and Laurie Santos |
| Kacie Saxer-Taulbee | Expectations of Rationality in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) and Dogs (Canis familiaris) | Laurie Santos |
| Genevieve Simmons | Regulation of Craving: Stress and Anxiety in Cigarette Smokers | Hedy Kober |
| Michael Tappel | Moral beliefs and intuitions about the true self predict responses to precommitment dilemmas | Molly Crockett |
| Harrison Tracy | Crowding Out and Competition in Charitable Giving: The Impact of Thank- You Gift Incentives | George Newman |
| Tara Venkatesan | Beliefs about Authentic Music | George Newman and Joshua Knobe |
Class of 2017
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Selena Anjur-Dietrich | Diversity and Quality of Institutions: Fostering Prosociality toward Outgroup Members | David Rand |
| Eryk Banatt | Input Latency Detection in Expert-Level Games: An experiment in visuomotor perception | Brian Scholl and Stefan Uddenberg |
| Nathaly Basto Camargo | Human Relationships: A Systematic Review of the Outcomes of Intergenerational Programs | Claudia Valeggia and Melanie Martin |
| Kevin Blohm | What have we learned in non-human primate behavioral economics | Mark Sheskin |
| Hatice Nur Eken | The Impact of Psychopathic Traits and Anxiety on Responses to Social Exclusion in Adolescents and Young Adults | Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| Grant Fergusson | Your Mind on Politics: exploring a theory of identity fusion during the 2016 presidential election | Yarrow Dunham and Antonia Misch |
| Angelica Fuentes | Effects of Pharmacological Manipulations on Natural Social Interaction in Rhesus Macaques: A Pilot Investigation | Steve Chang |
| Rachel Ha | I’d Rather Hear From the Robot: The Potential for Social Robots As Evaluators That Provide Negative Performance Feedback | Brian Scassellati and Sarah Strohkorb |
| Darby Henry | The Influence of Neuroscientific Evidence on Mock Jurors | Hedy Kober and Gideon Yaffe |
| Paul Holden | Dogs Do Not Change Their Problem Solving Strategies After Receiving Pedagogical Cues | Laurie Santos and Angie Johnston |
| Lydia Keating | A cross cultural analysis of implicit and explicit xenophobia | John Dovidio |
| Toby Knisely | A Meta-Analysis on Drug Cue-Induced Craving and Outcomes | Hedy Kober |
| Ben McCoubrey | How much does an anchor weigh? Psychophysical anchoring and the role of mental representation in weight judgments | Shane Frederick |
| Chris Melamed | Mechanisms of Optimistically Biased Belief Formation | Laurie Santos and Matthew Jordan |
| Sara Metzger | Chronic Overcommitment: The Role of Opportunity Cost Consideration in Time Commitment Decisions | Gal Zauberman |
| Abdel Morsy | Specificity in Psychological Distances | Shane Frederick |
| Tiffany Oche |
There are Two Sides to Every Coin: Metacognitive Scaffolding and the Development of a Critical Epistemology |
Mark Sheskin |
| Alexander Sernyak | Rationally Biased Cognition: A Study of Ideologically Motivated Information Processing | Dan Kahan |
| Andrea Smith | From Where She Stands: Standpoint Theory as a Significant Predictor of Diversity in Academia | Jason Stanley |
| Emma Speer | When laughing gets serious: Gender Bias in Humor Perception | Mark Sheskin |
| Sean Sullivan | Vocalization Defects in Conditional Foxp2-KO Mice | David McCormick |
| Nate Swetlitz | More to the Point: Dogs (Canis familiaris) interpret pointing as a command that conveys information | Laurie Santos and Angie Johnston |
| Lisa Ann Tang | Mechanism and Problem-Solving: What do you want to know? | Kristi Lockhart and Frank Keil |
| Lucy Tashman | Virtual Reality in Scripted Television: Why it will ultimately fail | Paul Bloom |
| Natalie Warren | From Norm to Table (and Beyond): The Cooperative Dilemma of University Food Waste | Dave Rand and Gordon Kraft-Todd |
| Camille Weisenbach | More Than a Game: Sports Team Affiliation as a Social Identity Marker | Mark Sheskin |
| Cindy Xue | On the origins of chronic regulatory focus: The role of socioeconomic status | Woo-kyoung Ahn |
| Grace Yi | Threat Perception, Legitimation, and the 1911 Baltimore Racial Zoning Ordinance | Henry Cowles |
Class of 2016
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Chen, Lucia | Multi-Choice Defaults in Charitable Giving (Or: How to Manipulate People for Social Good) | Ravi Dhar |
| Cobb, Abby | A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance | Susan Rivers |
| Cohen, Matthew | Framing Private Vaccination Behavior as a Public Good: A Randomized Trial of Self- and Other-Framed Influenza Vaccination Appeals | David Rand |
| Connelly, Rebecca | Perceptions on Transforming the True Self | Nina Strohminger |
| Dow, Anny | The Emotional Marketplace | Gregory Samanez-Larkin |
| Durkin, Allison | The Development of a Preference for Procedural Justice | Tom Tyler |
| Feldstein, Emily | “How Many?”: Object Individuation in Canines (Canis familiaris) Using Spatiotemporal, Property/Kind, and Verbal Cues | Laurie Santos |
| Garvey, Katherine | Belief Contagion: Susceptibility to Others’ Beliefs in Canis familiaris | Laurie Santos |
| Hullar, Kateline | The Effects of Common In-Group Identity and Race of the Narrator on Perceived Credibility of Stories of Racial Discrimination | Jack Dovidio |
| Jiang, Irene | Does the Mere Experience of Empathetic Emotion Shape Self-Perceptions? | Margaret Clark |
| Kagan, Ari | Imperfect Deliberation, Context Sensitive Intuition, and the Evolution of Cooperation | David Rand |
| Kim, Savina | Behavioral Economics and the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces: Utilizing Choice Architecture to Optimize Consumer Decisions for Health Insurance | Fiona Scott Morton |
| Lee, James | Do Domestic Canines (Canis familiaris) Understand Human Competence? | Laurie Santos |
| Leopold, Michael | Smarter in the Long-Term: Diminishing Ambiguity Aversion in a Repeated Ellsberg Urn Task | Shane Frederick |
| Lewis, Aaron | Can Images of “Watching Eyes” Kick-Start Donations to Crowdfunding Campaigns? | Shane Frederick |
| Liu, Carleen | Group and Similarity Effects on Cooperation and Punishment | Yarrow Dunham |
| Marvin, Rebecca |
Reassessing the Poverty of the Stimulus That-trace Effect: Parameter Setting or Distributional Learning? |
Robert Frank |
| Matyas, Daniel | You Had My Curiosity, But Now You Have My Attention: Camera Movement and the Spatial Distribution of Audience Attention in Cinema | Brian Scholl |
| Pavco-Giaccia, Olivia | Rationality is Gendered: Using Social Cognition to Explore the Thinking/Feeling Gender Bias | Jason Stanley |
| Ryu, Jun Hwan | Designing Neural Networks for Surface Normal Estimation | Steven Zucker |
| Schroeder, Jordan | Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Effects of Metareference and Direct Address in Fictional Narrative | Jonathan Kramnick |
| Shorenstein, Danielle | The Effect of Color on Monetary Decisions Regarding Risk | Ifat Levy |
| Solder, John | Cognition and Histamine: H1 Receptor Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex from Fungi in the Amazon to Working Memory Function in the Rat Brain | Amy Arnsten |
| Spaulding, Rebecca | Examining Executive Function and Empathetic Processing in Disinhibited Populations Using the Social Simon Task | Arielle Baskin-Sommers |
| Stern, Daniel | “The Thirty Dollar Drop”: A Study of (1) Risk Aversion, (2) “Perceived Control” Effect, (3) Under- and Over-Confidence, and (4) Hindsight Bias in “Hedged” Decisions | Shane Frederick |
| Tolappa, Aaditya | Measuring Distinct Reward Processes in Depression and Mania | Jutta Joormann |
| Wong, Matthew | Role of General Competence in Risk and Ambiguity Preferences | Shane Frederick |
| Yu, Jonathan | Structural Imaging Findings in PTSD: Tracing Neuroanatomy Through the 5-Factor Model | Ifat Levy |
Class of 2015
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Chen, Monica | Turnip the Beet… and the Brain: How Cognitive Science Can Inform Food-Related Public Service Messaging | Greg Samanez-Larkin |
| Froome, Nia | I Had a Dream that Greenwald Developed a Prejudice Detector…But Then I Woke Up: Critical Issues with the Implicit Association Test and What Can Be Done | Kristi Lockhart |
| Gertler, Aaron | Charitable Fundraising and Smart Giving: How Can Charities Use Behavioral Science to Drive Donations? | Hedy Kober |
| Gottlieb, Deena | Was it Meant to Be? Atheism and Teleological Reasoning about Life Events | Paul Bloom and Koni Banerjee |
| Jones, Lindsey | Great Expectations: Developing a Behavioral Method of Reward Prediction Error | Laurie Santos |
| Kaye-Kauderer, Halley | The Dimensions of Mind Perception: Agency, Experience and the Need for More Fine-Grained Dimensions of Variation | Aaron Norby |
| Kim, Emmett | The Ransom Note Effect: Modeling Visual Word Recognition through the Lens of Typographic Theory | Brian Scholl and Chaz Firestone |
| Mahoney, Erin | Adult Language Learning: A New View Informed by Hyperpolyglots | Kate Davidson |
| Pham, Tammy | Effect of Attentional Focus on the Formation of New Memories | Marcia Johnson and Kyungmi Kim |
| Ratskevich, Maria | The Implications of a Gradient Cognitive Model of Possession and Ownership Concepts for the Theoretical Approach of Developmental Research on Ownership: A Linguistic Critique | Ashwini Deo |
| Roth, Alexander | A Novel Framework for a Two-dimensional Conceptualization of Misrepresenting the World Around Us: Misperceptions and Illusory Beliefs | Lawrence Marks |
| Schoening, Rachel | Shaping Viewer Experience through Communication of Artistic Intent Insights from Cognitive Science towards Greater Accessibility in the 21st Century Museum | George Newman |
| Silver, Ike | Empirical Evidence of Selective Dualism between Mental Traits | Josh Knobe |
| Sin, Lucas | Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads- We Need Stories: Mental Time Travel as a Function of a Narrative Model of Mind | Aaron Norby |
| Ullman, Daniel | Distinguishing between Intentionality and Agency in the Context of Human-Robot Interaction | Brian Scassellati |
| Weiner, Daniel | Regulation of Desires in Everyday Life Partially Mediates the Relation between Dopamine and BMI Across the Human Life Span | Greg Samanez-Larkin |
| Yoder, Kyle | The Monstrous Player: Studying Acting and Performance through the Lens of Cognitive Science | Thalia Goldstein |
| Youssef, Sharif | Sickly and Contagious: Vegan Stereotypes and | Ravi Dhar |
| Contagion Effects in the Domain of Food | ||
| Zhang, Muye | The Development of Metonymic Processing | Maria Pinango |
Class of 2014
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Zachary Bakal | Individual Differences in Moral Judgment | Steve Guglielmo (CGSC) Postdoc/Lecturer |
| Kevin Chen | Gender Salience is Mediated by Correlation between Natural Gender and Grammatical Gender: A Novel Paradigm and Proposal for Investigating Linguistic Relativity in Gender | Laurence Horn |
| Nace Cohen | Conformity on the Computer: The Role of Conformity in Online Interaction and Computer-Mediated Communication | Yarrow Dunham |
| Daniel First | The Neural Basis of Craving | Hedy Kober |
| Jenner Fox | Music, Spirituality, and Evolution: How Altered States of Consciousness Induced through Music Might Boost the Evolutionary Argument for Music as a Biologically Transformative Technology of the Mind | Ian Quinn |
| John Griswold | The Implications of Science’s Immunity to Moral Refutation in Cognitive Science | Daniel Greco |
| Reuben Hendler | Brief Mindfulness Training, Cognitive Performance, & Pro-Social Behavior | Hedy Kober |
| Katarzyna Hitczenko | Incremental Versus Batch Search: Cognitive Limitations Affect Learing Outcomes in Word Segmentation | Gaja Jarosz |
| Julia Hosch | The Impact of Music in Decision-Making Situations | Eve Poudrier |
| Jasmeet Jernaill | We Are the Sum of our Transgressions Negativity Bias and Asymmetry in Moral Judgment | Steve Guglielmo (CGSC) Postdoc/Lecturer |
| Sophia Jia | Consumption Utility Neglect (Or why People Go Crazy on Black Friday) | Ravi Dhar |
| Matthew K Johnson | Utilizing Power Posing to Manipulate Perspective Taking in Moral Processing | Michael Crowley |
| Hobart Lim | Role of Emotions in Decision-making as Integral and Incidental: an Exploration of a Possible Framework to Integrate the Different Theories and Findings | Greg Samanez-Larkin |
| Eugena O’Donnell | Dublin English: A Linguistic Analysis of Social Change | Ryan Bennett |
| Cindy Ok | Lakoff Today: Reinterpreting Old Postulates of Gender in Language | Marianne LaFrance |
| Greta Parnes | Nonverbal Autism in Deaf Children Exposed to Sign: Two Case Studies and Avenues for Further Research | Kathryn Davidson |
| Julie Qui | The Role of Individual Differences and Effectiveness of Health Messaging in Cognitive Training Products | Greg Samanez-Larkin |
| Tyler Reynolds | The Cognitive Science of Financial Bubbles: Cognitive Biases and Neurological Causes | Greg Samanez-Larkin |
| Mariya Toneva | Towards a Model for Attribute-based Representation of Scenes in Human Vision | Marvin Chun |
| Geoffrey Van | Psychedelics and Creativity: a Review | Noah Capurso |
| Liliana Varman | Can Capuchin Monkeys Infer Others’ Goals? | Laurie Santos |
| Rebecca Watsky | Opening the Doors: Attentional Saccades and the Requirements for Conscious Perception | Hal Blumenfeld |
| Nathaniel Weinstein | The Influence of Visual and Verbal Presentation Styles on the Success of a Computer-Assisted Learning Module for Math | Brian Scassellati |
| Nicole Wenger | A Literature Review of Alzheimer’s Disease and Fear Conditioning: Can Studying their Intersection Improve Understanding of the Disease? | Greg Samanez-Larkin |
| Michael Wolner | Seeking Recommender Liking over Expertise as a Regret-minimization Strategy | Nathan Novemsky |
Class of 2013
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Sohini Bandy | Attention to Emotion in Bipolar Disorder Using an Eye Tracking Approach | June Gruber |
| Ezekiel Blackwell | Psychological Theories of Humor: A Literature Review and Methodological Critique | Paul Bloom |
| Cynthia Chen | You Don’t Think I Like You on Purpose? Intentionality in Psychology Verbs | Joshua Knobe |
| Max Cho | Causality as a Perceptual Size Modifier | Brian Scholl |
| Paul M Cohen | Context Independent Preferences in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) | Laurie Santos |
| Alan Cowen | Reconstruction Perceived Face Images from Evoked Brain Activity in Fmri | Marvin Chun |
| Simon Cozzens | Power, Inequality, and Action: Exploring Hierarchy through Cognitive | Jaime Napier |
| Julian DeFreitas | Attentional Rhythm: A Temporal Analogue of Object- Based Attention (Angier Award winner for Psychology and CGSC) (Henry Snow Prize winner: highest ugrad sr. award) | Brian Scholl |
| Jennifer Friedman | Exquisitely Useless: The Evolution of Arbitrary Aesthetics in Cotingidae, in Redefining Evolutionary Aesthetics | Richard Prum |
| Gregory Hindy | Moral Psychology and Performance Art | George Newman (SOM) |
| David Kastelman | Justice as Fairness for all: Strains of Commitment, Empirical Work in Normative Philosophy, and Judging Liberal Democracies | Thomas Pogge |
| Nayeon Kim | The Effect of a Future Memory Test on Age-related Differences in BOLD Response in Category-selective Regions During Perceptual Attention | Marcia Johnson |
| Sebastian Park | A Hard Reset: How Professional Poker Players Trained to Be Optimally Rational Succumb to Systematically Predictable Deviations from Learned Strategy Only to Return to the Optimal after a Period of Break | Scott Boorman |
| James Silveira | Where is My Mind?-Self-concept Representations in Bicultural Individuals | Keith Chen |
| JohnMark Taylor | The Phylogeny of Willpower: Ego Depletion in Capuchin Monkeys | Laurie Santos |
| Kartik Venkatraman | Polarizing Experts: Examining the Effect of Challenges to Our Beliefs from Credible Sources | Joshua Knobe |
| Benjamin Watsky | Chapel Town to Alwoodley: A Case Study of Sociolinguistic Variation in the Jewish Community of Leeds | Bob Frank |
| Victoria Westerhoff | Value Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Investigating the Effects of Value on Perceptual Averaging | Brian Scholl |
| Beau Wittmer | Longshots and Friends: Social Distance, Risk-Preferences, and the Overweighting of Low Probabilities for When Betting for Other People | Nathan Novemsky |
Class of 2012
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Mary Altonji | The Effect of Money Primes on Relationship Orientation | Margaret Clark |
| Hilary Barr | Art as Communication with Painting Elephants | Stephen Anderson |
| Ashok Bhaskar | Vowel and Consonant Feature Influence on Non-Arbitrary Sound-Symbol Mapping | Carol Fowler |
| Samuel Brudner | Fixating an Irrelevant Object Speeds Early Word Recall if the Object Was Fixated During Learning | Brian Scholl |
| Sofija Canavan | Accomplished Lucid Dreamers and Prefrontal Task Function | Peter Morgan MD PhD |
| Linda Chang | Function-based Individuation of Artifacts in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta) | Laurie Santos |
| Nicole Cohen | Inequity Aversion in Capuchins: A New Methodology | Laurie Santos |
| Nicolas Finger | Comparison of Attitudes and Beliefs about Bisexuals, Homo-sexuals, and Heterosexuals: Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Predicts Negative Attitudes | Marianne LaFrance |
| Shelley Foran | The Power of Explanation: Its Role in Enhancing the Ability to Learn from Experience and Facilitating the Generalization of Learning across Domains | Nathan Novemsky |
| Paul Joo | The Cognitive Science of Corruption | Marvin Chun |
| Hope Kronman | Effects of Stress on Auditory Cued Fear Conditioning | Glenn Schafe |
| Claire Paulson | Prosodic Signatures in the Speech of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders | Jelena Krivokapic |
| Raja Pillai | The Sibling and the Cerebellum: A New Marker for Face Processing Deficits in ASD? | Kevin Pelphrey |
| Patrick Pitoniak | Psychological Priming and Conflict of Interest | Daylian Cain |
| Nicholas Simmons-Stern | Music as a Memory Enhancer | Ian Quinn |
| Cynthia Weaver | Beliefs about Contagion Moderate the Effects of the Perceived Fit of Brand Extensions | George Newman (SOM) |
| Chloe Zale | The Role of Gender and Food Preferences as Expressed in a Regulation of Craving Task | Hedy Kober |
Class of 2011
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| James Cersonsky | The Identity Politics of Consensus: Democrats’ and Republicans’ Views Converge as a Function of Abstract, Nation-Based Thinking | Jaime Napier |
| Brendan Dill | How to Start a Revolution in Charitable Giving | Frank Keil |
| Samantha Ellner | The Necessity of Extrapolation in Multiple Object Tracking | Brian Scholl |
| AJ Haskins | Parents’ Topic Management and Attention Contingency in Free-Play Interactions with Autistic Children | Rhea Paul |
| Sabrina Karim | Reflection Over Reflexiveness: The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Behavior Regulation | Hedy Kober |
| Andi Klestadt | Toward a Comprehensive Amodle of Phonological Acquisition: How Research on Mnadaring Lexical Tone Can Enhance Under- standing of First and Second Language Acquisition | Rhea Paul |
| Harrison Korn | Neurolaw: Differential Brain Activity for Black and White Faces Predicts Damage Awards in Hypothetical Employment Discrimination Cases | Marvin Chun |
| Jarrett Lovelett | Learning Recursive Rules; the Importance of Statistical Relation-ships in Training Corpora for Artificial Grammar Learning | Bob Frank |
| Stephanie Marton | The Venture Capital Decision-Making Process: Insights from the Behavioral Sciences | Joe Simmons |
| Jacqueline Meadow (Beanie) | The Role of Interdependence in Prejudice | Jaime Napier |
| Nicholas Selz | Regressing to Our Moral Sweet Spot: A New Model of Behavior Fluctuation | Daylian Cain |
| Jason Sullivan | Order Effects: Positional vs. Temporal Effects in Choice and Judgement | Shane Frederick |
| JinJin Sun | How Does the Perception of Animacy Influence Behavior?: Online Avoidance Based on Cues to the Direction of Intention | Brian Scholl |
| Yue, Amy | Event “Grain” and Associative Strength in Memory: Fine-grained and Coarse-grained Events | Frank Keil |
Class of 2010
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmet Aktay | Investigating Pre-Target Brain Activity and its Behavioral Effects in a Visual Detection Task | Greg McCarthy |
| Pria Anand | Toward an Understanding of Working Memory: Dopamine and Internal Calcium Release in Prefrontal Cortical Neurons | Mark Yeckel |
| Wilma Bainbridge | Using Computer-Generated Facebook Profiles to Understand Perception of Online Personas | Brian Scassellati |
| Samuel Cartmell | Attraction and Partner Selection: A Study in Social Decision-Making | Marvin Chun |
| Ian Cutler | The Effect of Near Misses on Subjective Probability and Risk Taking | Joe Simmons |
| Brian Earp | Incidental Exposure to No-Smoking Signs Primes Craving for Cigarettes: An Ironic Effect of Unconscious Semantic Processing? | John Bargh |
| Emma Griffin | Rebellion and the Status Quo: Effects of the Unconscious Motivation to Rebel on the Status Quo Bias | John Bargh |
| Lauren Hartman | Characterizing Self-Regulation: An Integration of the Ego-Depletion and Construal Level Models | Jeremy Gray |
| Jack Ben Margines | Provincial Norms: How Situation Specific Normative Information Can Effectively Change Behavior | Joe Simmons |
| Samuel Norman-Haignere | Task-Modulated Functional Connectivity in Category-Selective Networks | Greg McCarthy and Marvin Chun |
| Jesse Obbink | UncertaintyMoral Noise: A Quarantining Model for Reduction of Moral | Dan Kahan |
| Tiffany Petrosino | Naming as a Conduit for Emotional Attachment: Toward an Understanding of the Brand-Consumer Relationship | Joe Simmons |
| Ian Randolph | Unraveling and Reweaving the Law of Attraction: Physics, Belief, and Transformation | David Gelernter and Michael Basso |
| Nicole Roberts | Early Language Development in Autism Spectrum Disorders | Rhea Paul |
| Amy Skerry | Capuchin Monkeys Do Not Behave Prosocially Towards a Conspecific in an Instrumental Helping Task | Mark Sheskin and Laurie Santos |
| Susan Steinman | Malleability and Optimistic Bias | Erica Dawson and Cade Massey |
| Eric Tsytsylin | Face and Reputation Processing During the Trust Game: An fMRI Study | Greg McCarthy |
| Leah Wibecan | Causal Cognition in Non-human Primates: Abilities of Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) to Reason About Unobserved Causes | Laurie Santos |
Class of 2009
| STUDENT | SENIOR PROJECT TITLE | ADVISOR |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Baer | Modulation of Inhibition and Disinhibition of Associative Memory Networks as the Basis of Creative Cognition | Tamar Gendler |
| Luke Broster | Harmonic Priming and Musical Expectancy: The Circle of Fifths and Harmonic Function Models | Ian Quinn |
| Benjamin Deen | Hand Motion Perception during Naturalistic Stimulation: A Parietal-Temporal Network Analyzed with Regression and Time-Frequency Decomposition | Greg McCarthy |
| Margarita Gorlin | Understanding of Basic Probability in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta): A Perspective on Human Base Rate Neglect | Laurie Santos |
| J. Alex Johnson | Comparing Phototactic Cues to Word and Morpheme Boundaries in Multiple Languages | Gaja Jarosz |
| Amy Jones | Differences in Analogical Domain as an Aid to Comprehension: A New “Teaching-with-Analogies” Model | Jeremy Gray |
| Joel Knopf | Teachers Can and Should Violate Students’ Expectations about Concepts | Jeremy Gray |
| Sydney Levine | An Experimental Philosophy Approach to Imaginative Resistance | Tamar Gendler |
| David Mackenzie | Formal Models of Iterative Pair-wise Choices | Keith Chen |
| Jordan Malter | Diminishing Selective Exposure to Politically Polarizing Information on the Internet | Joe Simmons |
| Olivia Scheck | In Defense of Emotionalism: Empirical Evidence and Its | Jonathan Gilmore |
| Philosophical Relevance | ||
| Heather Stoller | Positive Effects of Uncertainty: When Uncertain Incentives Increase Performance on an Anagram Task | Ravi Dhar |
| Mai-Ahn Vu | Aging, The Prefrontal Cortex, and Memory Encoding: fMRI Contributions | Marcia Johnson |
| Kara Weisman | Memory for Specific Sensory Stimuli: Absolute Pitch and the Possiblity of ” Absolute Hue” | David Ross |