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PSY 357 Undergraduate Research Projects

SPRING 2006

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Behavioral Neuroscience

• Jones : Neural Plasticity and Recovery from Brain Damage

Clinical

• Beevers : Attention and Negative Mood
• Fromme : “The UT Experience!”
• Holahan : Finding Happiness in Negative Emotions
• Meston : The Influence of Physical Fitness on Women’s Sexual Function
• Neal-Beevers, Rebecca : Facial Recognition in Children with Autism
• Ramirez : Developing Culturally Sensitive Treatments
• Ramirez : Stay or Go: African Americans, College Experiences, and
  Mental Health
• Stice : Depression prevention program for adolescents
• Stice : Longitudinal study of adolescent health (eating disorders, depression, substance abuse)
• Stice : Eating disorder prevention program for adolescent females with body image concerns
• Telch : A test of strategies to facilitate courageous behavior in phobic individuals
• Telch : Pathological Academic Worry Study
• Telch : Social Phobia/Public Speaking Phobia study
• Telch : Public Speaking Anxiety Treatment Study
• Telch : Social Anxiety and Judgment Task Performance
• Telch : CBT and Mindfulness Treatments for Claustrophobia
• Telch : Animal Phobia Exposure Treatment Study
• Telch : Perception of memory in compulsive checkers
• Telch/Tucker : Investigation of Factors Predicting & Maintaining High Levels of Worry

Cognition & Perception

• Cohen : Current studies include Infant Word Learning, Infant Music Perception, and Infant Memory
• Echols : Language Development in Young Children
• Maddox : Cognitive Neuroscience of Categorization & Decision Making
• Markman : Emotions and Decision Making
• Markman : Fantasy and Reality Stories
• Markman : Temporal Reasoning

Developmental

• Bigler : Children’s understanding of gender and ethnicity
• Cohen : Current studies include Infant Word Learning, Infant Music Perception, and Infant Memory
• Echols : Language Development in Young Children
• Holden : Investigation into Meta-parenting
• Langlois : Origins and Significance of Attractiveness Preferences and Stereotypes
• Langlois : Adolescent Self-Perceptions and Relationships
• Langlois : Beauty and Brainwaves: Electrophysiology of Attractiveness Preferences and Face Perception
• Woolley : Children’s understanding of reality and fantasy

Individual Differences & Evolutionary Psychology

• Buss : Reasons and Tactics of Breaking Up
• Buss : Evolutionary psychology of familial interactions
• Buss : Sexual Victimization: Understanding and Prevention
• Buss : Homicide and Homicidal Ideation
• Buss : Changes across the menstrual cycle
• Li : Sexuality, Relationships, and Health

Sensory Neuroscience

• Cormack : Outdoor Illusion Research

Social & Personality

• Buss : Changes across the menstrual cycle
• Gosling : Personality from the Inside and Outside
• Josephs : Testosterone, leadership, and resource acquisition: An evolutionary game theory analysis of the relationship between testosterone and status-seeking
• Josephs : Can we learn about who a person is through their hormone levels? An exploratory analysis of the relationship between hormones, personality, and social behavior
• Josephs : Testosterone predicts leadership?
• Josephs : Status, money, and leadership
• Pennebaker : And then there were three: Adapting to the stresses of new parenthood
• Pennebaker : Exploring How Couples Behave in their Natural Environments: A View from the Inside
• Richards : Impact of Reality TV on Materialistic Tendencies
• Richards : Emotion’s Impact on Feedback Quality
• Richards : Emotion’s Impact on Feedback Quality (actor needed)
• Swann : Self-Esteem and Mood
• Swann : People's thoughts during romantic conflict

PSY 357 Course Requirements