Thesis Students
2018
Emma Shumway: The Effect of Moral Foundations Framing and Political Identity Priming on Environmental Attitudes in Conservatives
2016
Lauren Henry: Impact of Need Satisfaction on Collegiate Athletes Motivation, Performance, Commitment & Well-being
2014
Abigail Karp: The Effect of Goal Setting and Reminders on Environmental Behavior
2013
Danielle Baker: Nature Immersion and Breathing Exercise Effects on Directed Attention and Stress
Olivia Blahut: To Give or Not to Give? Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Contributions to the Public Good
Angela Santee: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Communication with Children in the Interview Setting: The Importance of Psychological Need Support
2012
Sarah Harney: The Effects of Rapport and Autonomy support on Children’s Food Recall
Claire McIlvennie: Individually Helping the Environment Together: Relatedness, Social Norms, and the Attitude-Behavior Gap
2011
Kevin Madore: Eliciting Children’s Food and Movement Recall: Can the Interviewer’s Questions Make a Difference?
Jonas Schoenefeld: The Beast in the Backyard: Impacts of Local Climate Change Information and Values on Pro-Environmental Behavior and Climate Policy Support
2010
Kat Hartley: Friendly Persuasion: Considering How and When Social Norms Motivate Pro-Environmental Behavior
Caleigh Waldman: The Relationship Between Childhood Experiences and Adult Environmental Behavior
Yuki Yoshida: So, you want to save the earth? Start with your interpersonal relationships
2008
Caitlin Taylor: Adults’ Perceptions of a Child’s Recall: What Matters?
2007
Heather Viani: The Effect of Question Phrasing and Associative Memory on Children’s Recall
2006
Hannah Delong: A Comparison of Interview Protocols on Children’s Recall
Christopher King: Child Eyewitness Identification Accuracy from Simultaneous, Sequential, and Elimination Lineups
2005
Katherine Hicks: Investigating the Role of Alcohol on Perceptions of Domestic Violence
Jessica Horner: The Moderating Effects of Age, Verbal Ability, and Interview Type on the Accuracy of Children’s Memory Retrieval
Amy Josephson: Need for Cognition and Issue Involvement as Moderators of Framing Effects in Social Workers’ Decisions about Child Welfare
2004
Jenelle Slavin: The Effects of Skin Color and Accent on Hispanic Witnesses’ Credibility
2003
Margaret Aleks: Effects of socioeconomic status on child placement assignments in a case involving domestic violence
Jess Salerno: The effect of cross-examination, deliberation and need for cognition of jurors’ ability to distinguish between good and bad scientific expert testimony
2002
Kimberly Guion: When do We Remove a Child from an Abusive Home? The Effects of Outcome Framing on Decision-Making?
2001
Celeste Gauthier: Assessing Rapport Building Techniques as a Way to Enhance Preschoolers’ Recall Memory
Meredith Livoti: Effects of Moral Culpability and Alcohol Expectancies on the Decisions of Guilt in a Domestic Violence Case
Courtney Quish: Using the Cognitive Interview as a Source Monitoring Interview for Child Eyewitnesses
2000
Michelle Young: The Relation among Environmental Attitudes and Presentation of Outcome on Legal Decision Making
1999
Julianne Krulewitz: Assessing how Jurors’ Environmental Attitudes are Related to Decision Making
Amy Simpson: The Effects of High Rape Myth Acceptance on Jury Decision Making