Thesis Archives
Below you may see past theses written as part of the Honors Program.
2011-2012 [1]
- Katrina Braun (Professor Fathali Moghaddam) – A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Barack Obama’s Facebook Fans (poster)
- Anila D’Mello (Professor Chandan Vaidya) – The Effect of Social Reward on Reinforcement Learning (poster)
- Adam Fine (Professor Deborah Phillips) – Predicting the Childcare Experiences of Foster Children: An ecological study of Maryland foster families (poster)
- Hannah Frank (Professor Rachel Barr) – The Effects of Bilingualism on Executive Functioning in Infants (poster)
- Sheri Holt (Professor Jennifer Woolard) – Prior Family Involvement with the Legal System as a Predictor of Adolescent Attitudes about the Law (poster)
- Erin Kennedy (Professor Rebecca Ryan) – The Impacts of Father Absence and Neighborhood Reproductive Context on Adolescent Sexual Behavior (poster)
- Meaghan LeMay (Professor David Crystal) – Stress trends at Georgetown University An analysis of ACHA-NCHA data from Spring 2008
- Mahi Megra (Professor Pamela Diener) – Testing Efficacy of Sensory Motor Enrichment in Ameliorating Symptoms of Rett Syndrome
- Esha Nagpal (Professor Abigail Marsh) – “You Take the Vomit, I’ll Have the Peach”: Psychopathic Personality Traits and Prosocial Behavior (poster)
- Henri Carlo Santos (Professor Yulia Chentsova-Dutton) – Interpersonal Motives and Cultural Values Behind Forgiveness: A Study in the United States and in the Philippines (poster)
- Theodore Semon (Professor Yulia Chentsova-Dutton) – Emotional Reactivity across the Gender & Identity Spectrum: Experience, Expression, & Physiology (poster)
- John Tetsuro Shuler (Professor Rachel Barr) – Joint Picture Book Reading in Monolingual and Bilingual Parent-Child Dyads: The Role of Parent-Child Interactional Quality (poster)
- Michaela Tracy (Professor Abigail Marsh) – Behavioral and Personality Predictors of Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout Among Georgetown EMS Providers (poster)
- Chloe Zachary (Professor Rachel Barr) – Parent-Infant Interactions in Low-Income Minority Families: The Interplay of Parent Support and Cumulative Risk on Child Outcomes (poster)
2010-2011 [1, 2]
- Vivian Alvarez Toro (Professor David Crystal) – Stereotype Threat: A Real Threat for Underrepresented Minorities in Medical School?
- Melissa Horne (Professor Rebecca Ryan) – The Impact of Father Absence on Adolescent Romantic Relationship Ideals
- Margaret Massimo (Professor Rebecca Ryan) – Patterns of Mother and Father Time with Children in the U.S.: The Importance of Education and Employment
- Samantha Reina (Professor Rachel Barr) – The Baby Elmo Program: Improving the Quality of Teen Father-Child Interactions within Juvenile Justice Facilities
- Elizabeth Parham Horn (Professor Rachel Barr) – Factors Associated with Rapid Auditory Processing in 6-month-olds: Risks and Potential Buffering Factors
- Emily Sauerhoff (Professor Fathali Moghaddam) – Irish National Identity and Irish Drama: A Social Psychological Analysis
- Danielle Dougherty (Professors W. Gerrod Parrott and Yulia Chentsova Dutton) – An Analysis of the Effects of Happiness and Sadness on Attention
- Kristin Hovis (Professor Janet Mann) – Quantifying the Rate of Fission-Fusion: A Shark Bay Bottlenose Dolphin Study
- Eleanor Hughes (Professor Jennifer Woolard) – Perspectives on the D.C. Juvenile Justice System
- Daniel Bercik (Professor Chandan Vaidya) – Salience Attribution Differences by Dopamine Transporter Genotype
- John Hale (Professor Yulia Chentsova Dutton) – Social Support Provision: Effects of Solicitation and Closeness of Relationship
- Hae Min Byeon (Professor Abigail Marsh) – What is an out-group?:Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans racial versus cultural identification with others
- James Barneo (Professor Janet Mann) – Going with the flow?: The relationship between sponge foraging dolphins (Tursiop sp.) and tidal current
2009-2010
- Alexander E. Buckley (Professor Moghaddam) – The Influence of Gender on Perceptions of Rights and Duties (poster)
- Joanna M. Lee (Professor Howard) – The Effects of Goal Motivation on Implicit Sequence Learning (poster)
- Kyla A. Machell (Professor Marsh) – Emotion Recognition and Psychopathic Personality Traits (poster)
- Marta J. Perez (Professor Calvert) – Infants’ Visual Attention to Videos as a Function of Auditory Features of the Program (poster)
- Ashley J. Tedone (Professor Barr) – Content Analysis of Language-Promoting Teaching Strategies: Do Strategies Match the Claims in Infant Directed Media? (poster)
2006-2007
- Catherine Lally (Professor Barr) – Factors Associated With Patterns of Infant Television Viewing Behavior: A Questionnaire and Diary Analysis
- Lauren Libera (Professor Walker) – Effects of Seizures and Immune System Activation on Autism-like Behaviors: An Animal Model
- Jenny Mathews (Professor Moghaddam) – Developing a Questionnaire to Examine Immigrant Identity in a Cultural Context
- Andrea Moderi (Professor Mann) – The Development of Respiratory and Diving Ability in the Bottlenose Dolphin Calves of Shark Bay, Western Australia
- Abby Winer (Professor Phillips) – The Relationship between Child Gender and Quality of Child Care Experiences at 24 Months
2005-2006
- Anna Mikulak (Professor Walker) – Injection of Neuroinflammatory Chemokine Alters Developmental Course of Social and Exploratory Behaviors of Neonatal Rats
- Colleen Barry (Professor Mann) – Developmental Changes in Separation and Activity of Wild Bottlenose Dolphin Calves
- Emily Cumberland (Professor Woolard) – Age, Intelligence, and Understanding of Police and Lawyers as Predictors of Juveniles’ Decisions in Police Interrogation and Consulting with Legal Counsel
- Daryaneh Badaly (Professor Howard) – Age Differences in Unsupervised Statistical Learning from Temporal Sequences of Visual Shapes
- Erica Lessem (Professor Moghaddam) – Strategies of Differentiation: Preferences in Contexts of Upward or Downward Comparisons and Cooperation or Competition
- Kimberly Howell (Professor Parrott) – Ease or Exacerbate: Responses to the Envy of Emotional Others
- Kristin Brudy (Professor Finkel) – The Drama of the Courtroom: Media Effects on American Culture and Law
- Lisa Gallo (Professor Crystal) – A Pathway Analysis to Eating Disorders: Interaction of Pubertal Timing, Family Dynamic, Control, Ineffectiveness, and Perfectionism with Disordered Eating
- Lorena Maria Valencia Escalon (Professor Barr) – Effects of Early Media Exposure on School Readiness