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PSY 357 Undergraduate Research Projects

SUMMER 2006

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Behavioral Neuroscience

• Delville/Gonzalez-Lima : Social Subjugation in Hamsters
• Domjan : Emotion Regulation and Meditation
• Gonzalez-Lima : Posterior Cingulate Metabolism and Memory
• Gonzalez-Lima : Metabolic Mapping of Learning Paradigms in the Rodent Brain
• Gonzalez-Lima : Sex Differences in the Effects of Maternal Separation on Hyperactive Behavior

Clinical

• Beevers : Cognitive Factors and Depression
• Holahan : Finding Happiness in Negative Emotions
• Holahan : Coping with Future Stressors: The Effects of a Proactive Coping Writing Intervention
• Meston : Patterns of Sexual Arousal in Males and Females
• Ramirez : Developing Culturally Sensitive Treatments
• Telch : Public Speaking Anxiety Treatment Study
• Telch : Social Anxiety and Judgment Task Performance
• Telch : Testing the efficacy of combining emotional writing and 'in vivo' exposure in the treatment of spider and snake phobias 
• Telch : A test of strategies to facilitate courageous behavior

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
• Markman : Individual Differences Produce Sensitivity to Context
• Markman : Inference and Category Representation
• Markman : Emotions and Decision Making
• Markman : Fantasy and Reality Stories
• Markman : Concepts and Categories
• Markman : Motivation and Cognition
• Markman : Analogical Inference Evaluation
• Markman : Representational Shift

Developmental

• Cohen : Current studies include Infant Word Learning, Infant Music Perception, and Infant Memory
• Echols : Language Development in Young Children
• Holden : Investigation into Meta-parenting
• Holden : Influences of educational TV on children’s racial attitudes
• Langlois : Adolescent Self-Perceptions and Relationships
• Langlois : Origins and Significance of Attractiveness Preferences and Stereotypes
• Woolley : Development of the fantasy/reality distinction

Individual Differences & Evolutionary Psychology

• Buss : Evolutionary psychology of familial interactions
• Buss : Reasons and Tactics of Breaking Up
• Li : Attraction and race; multiracial and monoracial differences

Social & Personality

• Josephs : Social Conflicts Over Money: Competition or Cooperation
• Josephs : Personality and Leadership
• Pennebaker : Exploring How Couples Behave in their Natural Environments: A View from the Inside
• Pennebaker : Interpersonal hate
• Pennebaker/Richards : Family Interactions in Naturalistic Settings
• Pennebaker/Richards : Communication Perceptions: Impact of Facial Expression on Critical Feedback
• Swann : Wearing your self-esteem like a flag
• Swann : Emotion regulation in abusive relationships
• Swann : Investigating the graduate experience
• Swann : Role-verification across romantic relationships

PSY 357 Course Requirements