The Psychology Department Honors Thesis Program is designed to allow a small number of majors to have an intensive research experience beginning in the spring semester of their junior year and continuing through the end of their senior year. To be eligible for the Honors program, students are expected to have an overall GPA of 3.2 and a Psychology GPA of 3.5, and to have completed their core psychology courses (PSY 103, PSY 201 or equivalent, and PSY 310). Applications for the Honors program are available from the Psychology Undergraduate Advising Office (Room B-116). Applications should be completed during the first semester of your junior year, usually by the first week of November.
The following are some representative Honors Theses recently completed in the program:
Jennifer Allen
Faculty Advisor: Howard Rachlin
“Self-control, cheating, and deception”
Dominick Biezonski
Faculty Advisor: Patricia Whitaker-Azmitia
“Effects of pharmacological manipulation of S-100B: Implications for
down syndrome”
Yevgeny Botanov
Faculty Advisor: Harriet Waters
“Narrative attachment assessment and mothers as observers”
Jennifer Choi
Faculty Advisor: Nancy Squires
“The effect of glucose on memory and P300 observed using a face
recognition paradigm”
Danielle Delosh
Faculty Advisor: Lynda Geller
“Using the Early Childhood Inventory-4 to correlate sleep problems
and behavior among preschool children with pervasive developmental
disorder”
Sonia Ghumann
Faculty Advisor: Marvin Goldfried
“Attitudes toward homosexuality and gender roles in women”
Jasmine Osman
Faculty Advisor: Joanne Davila
“Father-daughter relationships as predictors of adult intimate
relationship functioning”
Ioana Radu
Faculty Advisor: Hoi-Chung Leung
“Effect of time on the working memory system”
Eunice Yi
Faculty Advisor: Ted Carr
“Validation of Contextual Assessment Inventory”
