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PSY 357 Undergraduate Research

FALL 2008

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Descriptions will be added as they become available. Last update: 10 September 2008

*Click on the name of the study for description and requirements*

Behavioral Neuroscience

• Gonzalez-Lima : Brain and behavioral mechanisms underlying predisposition towards helplessness

Clinical

• Beevers : Genes and vulnerability to depression
• Beevers / Pennebaker : Depression and everyday behavior
• Fromme : “The UT Experience!”
• Holahan : Psychological Distress, Subjective Well-Being, and Health Risk Behaviors
• Holahan : Failure as a Positive Experience?
• Meston : Efficacy of an acute exercise intervention for SSRI-induced sexual side effects
• Meston : Effects of Smoking Cessation on Sexual Functioning in Men with Erectile Dysfunction
• Ramirez : Developing Culturally Sensitive Treatments
• Telch : Pharmacological enhancement of fear extinction learning using methylene blue
• Telch : Augmentation of exposure therapy for social phobia
• Telch : Somatic tolerance training for individuals high in anxiety

Cognition & Perception

• Cohen : Infant Cognition and Perception
• Echols : Language Development in Young Children
• Henderson : Two-person Decision Making Study
• Love : Using Video Games to Develop Smarter Interfaces
• Markman : Sensory Modality and Proverbs
• Markman : Motivation, Decision Making, and Categorization

Developmental

• Cohen : Infant Cognition and Perception
• Echols : Language Development in Young Children
• Langlois : Emotion and Attractiveness
• Langlois : Social development: Attractiveness Preferences and Face Perception
• Langlois : Beauty and the Wii
• Pennebaker : Family Interactions in Naturalistic Settings
• Woolley : Development of the fantasy/reality distinction

Individual Differences & Evolutionary Psychology

• Buss : Perceptions of Sexual Intent
• Li : Sexuality, Relationships, and Health

Social & Personality

• Beevers / Pennebaker : Depression and everyday behavior
• Gosling : Self-fulfilling prophecies in the classroom:  How teacher’s expectations effect student achievement
• Gosling : Personality Ratings of Chimpanzees
• Gosling / Pennabaker : UT Speed Dating
• Henderson : Two-person Decision Making Study
• Josephs : Affiliation, Social Relationship Quality, and Acute Stress Response and Recovery
• Pennebaker : Family Interactions in Naturalistic Settings
• Pennebaker : Accuracy of Status Perception
• Pennebaker : Looking at the World Through Arabic and English Eyes
• Swann : Smoking and Identity Negotiation
• Swann : Self-Views and Valuation

PSY 357 Course Requirements