Undergraduate Theses Supervised
UNDERGRADUATE THESES SUPERVISED
Mark D. Daly, Self-Deception: The Unavailability of Preconscious Thought, 1984
Kathleen A. Houle, Personality Differences in Athletes: A Study of Carleton College
Female Athletes and Nonathletes, 1984
Troy W. Mangan, A Short-term Cognitive-behavioral Intervention for First-graders with Behavior Problems, 1984
Sharon L. Mitchell, The Relationship Between Teacher Expectations, Teacher Behavior,
and Student Behavior, 1984
Paul A. Mullin, A Featural Manipulation of Stimuli I a Visual Search Task: Reaction
Times For Detecting Letter Targets Amongst Distractor Letters Versus Distractor Digits, 1984
Lisa Vecoli, Feminist Therapy: Assumptions, Integration and Issues, 1984
Sara J. Brose, Children’s Conceptions of the Origin and “Naughtiness” of Social
Conventions and Moral Prohibitions, 1985
Deborah Parker, Levels of Moral Reasoning as a Function of Sex Role Orientation and
Sex of the Dilemma Protagonist, 1985
Beth C. Wiggins, Learned Helplessness and Attribution Theory Among Boys and Girls, 1985
Frances S. Go, Self-worth and Altruism in Pre-school Children, 1986
Monica C. Stevens, Relationships Between Behavioral and Artistic Expression in
Preschoolers, 1986
Andrew Becker, Sex Differences in Problem Solving as a Function of Field
Independence, Conceptual Tempo and Learned Helplessness, 1987
Susan Boley, Sex Differences in Childhood Toy Preferences, 1987
Kristin Holden, Framing/Outcome effects and Familiarity Effects in Consumer Decisions, 1987
Laura Pugh, High School and College Students’ Perceptions of Sibling Relationships,1987
Gina Wiese, Animistic Thought in Preschool and Elementary School Children, 1987
Sheila M. Haley, The Nature of Expertise: Comparing Experts Across Domains, 1988
John Levin, The Role of Connectionism in Cognitive Science, 1988
Andrea K. Matchett, Content Change and Children’s Prediction of Change in the Self-Concept, 1988
Christyn Dundorf, The Effects of Play with Structured and Unstructured Toys on
Preschoolers- Creativity as Measured by Associative Fluency, 1989
Paula Erickson, Determinants of Parental Styles of Discipline, 1989
Heidi Mueller, The Structure of Children’s Stories, 1989
Amanda Buttress, Associations Between Popular Music and Adolescents’ Sex-Role Attitudes, 1990
Laura Matheny, The Development of Humor in Children, 1990
Daniel J. Simons, Planning Skills and Scheduling Ability: An Analysis of Everyday Planning, 1990
Paige Pendleton, The Teacher/Student Script: How Do Children Attribute Knowledge
to Adults?, 1992
Brenna Backstrand, The Effect of Visual Stimuli on Attention to a Lecture, 1993
Simin Ho, Differences in Gender Schema of College-Aged Females and Males, 1993
Laura Gibson, From Childhood to Adolescence: Gender Differences in Responses to
Depressed Mood, 1994
Emily Millikan The Relationship Between Cognitive Processing Biases and Identity
Development in the Career Exploration Process, 1994
J. Elizabeth Likens, Children’s Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Locus of Control, 1995
Aimee Maxwell, Success Imagery as a Method of Changing Locus of Control in
Adolescents, 1995
Holli Tonyan, Day Care and the Use of Strategies in Social Situations: An Exploration of Peer-Group Entry Strategy, 1995
Kathryn Ainsworth, How Students Regard Separate and Connected Knowing in Different Academic Disciplines, 1996
Stephanie Cornils, Birth Order: A Review of the Literature on Personality Outcomes,
Differential Treatment, and Differential Expectations, 1996
David Hong, Social Problem Solving and Self-Perception in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, 1996
Elizabeth M. Nybakken, The Role of Experience in the Development of Scripts, 1996
Ryan Hunt, Does Myers Brigg’s Personality Type Predict Analogical Reasoning
Performance? 1997
Heidi Sickler, Teacher Perceptions of Multiple Intelligences, 1997
Beth M. Lavin, Everyday Decision Making: Room Draw, 1998
Hope Altenbaumer, Do Hypothetical Dilemmas Affect Recall and Description of Real-life Moral Dilemmas?, 1999
Rebecca Reimer & David W. Drebus, Ways of Knowing as Learning Styles, 1999
Sarah Yarian, Helping Adolescents Make Thoughtful Sexual Decisions: A Triangular Model, 1999
Lucie M. Shipp, Let’s Get It On! Wait, Let Me Think First: A Study of Decision-Making About Sexual Behavior in Older Adolescents, 2000
Twila A. Wingrove, An Investigation of Models Accounting for the Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse, 2000
Kelly Carmichael, Decision-Making of Separate and Connected Knowers: Choosing a
College Major, 2001
Dianna Murray-Close, The Moral Status of Physical and Relational Aggression in
Elementary School Children, 2001
Jennifer Cooper, Enhanced Performance in Counterfactual Reasoning, 2002
Emily Dworkin, The Effect of Personal Connectedness on Flashbulb Memories of the
September 11th Terrorist Attacks, 2002
Deanna Fierman, Bilingual Language Acquisition in a Controlled Environment:
Implications for Current and Future Psycholinguistic Research, 2002
Rebecca Hurwitz, The Development of Forgiveness: Real Life Situations, 2002
Cora Monahan, Gender Differences in Career Aspirations as a Function of Perceived
Competence, 2002
Melinda Jensen, What We See and What We Don't: The Change Blindness Debate, 2003
Joanne Kane, Indelible Ink: Comparing the Factors Considered by Tattooed versus Nontatooed Late Adolescents in Long-Term Decisions of Permanent Body Modification, 2003.
Allison Rupp, The Effects of Siblings on Self-Perception of Identity in Adolescence, 2003
Garret Westlake, Cognitive Theories of Word Perception: Their Role in the Orton- Gillingham Tutoring Method and Beyond, 2003
Michael P. Berger. Cognitive Rigidity in Problem-Solving, 2004
Elizabeth A. Sehr, Why Some Fail Where Others Succeed: A Model of Attributional Style and Performance, 2004
Julie Woulfe, Cognitive Explanations of the Social Criteria of Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2004
Caroline Conrad, College Students’ Perceptions Toward Cooperative Learning Linked to Ways of Knowing, 2005
Drew Dara-Abrams, Bringing Urban Form into Spatial Cognition and the Mind into Space Syntax, 2005.
Zina Deldar, Is Justice Served When Jurors Fail to Examine Evidence? A Investigation of Deliberation Styles, 2005
Kate Jones, Scaffolding of Preschoolers’ Theory of Mind: The Effects of Sibling Age Gap on False Belief Tasks, 2005.
Nicolas Larsen. Effects of Immersion Style and Video Game Exposure on Spatial Performance in a Virtual Environment, 2005.
Anna Maier, Translating Research into Practice: An Analysis of the Oregon Social Learning Center’s Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Model, 2005
Carey Tinkelenberg, Goal Orientation and Achievement Motivation in Elite and Non-Elite Figure Skaters, 2005.
Helen Behr, The Influence of School Environment on Theories of Intelligence in Gifted Students, 2007.
Anna Graefe, Adolescent Medical Decision-Making, 2007.
Jamie Olson, Reputation in the Prisoners’ Dilemma, 2007.
Jedda Foreman, "What's the Game?": Peer Group Entry Strategies as a Function of Socioeconomic Status, 2008
Mitchell Lundin, Phoning It In: Considering the Role of Judgment in Distracted Driving, 2008
Russell O’Connell, A Questionable Practice: Flashbulb Memory in the Courtroom, 2008
Dominika Ujlaky, Savant Syndrome: Background, Theories, and Applications, 2008
Lacey Dorman, Importance, Urgency, and Satisfaction, 2009
Laura Myers, Selective Attention in Bilingual Students: A Comparison of Selective Attention Skills in Native and Non-Native Languages, 2009
Elizabeth Aeschlimann, Eliciting Emotion and Affect in Moral Judgment: An Examination of Intention, Personal Force, and Personal Relevance, 2010
Stephanie Moberg, Applications of Adolescent Attachment Relationships in an Academic Setting, 2010.
Laura Stone , Stereotype Alternation Through a Cognitive Dual-Process Lens: Examining Stereotype Knowledge Structures, Stereotype Processes, and Perspective Taking, 2010.
Hillary Wiener, Individual Difference in Advice Seeking, 2011.