2000s PHD Recipients

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mackie / Blascovich

Title: Performance under pressure : the impact of challenge and threat states on information processing

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ashby

Title: Role of the anterior cingulate cortex in attentional control : a report on two neurological patients

Degree: PSY

Chair: Loomis

Title: How we use sensory information to keep oriented as we locomote

Degree: PSY

Chair: Brainard

Title: The role of illumination perception in color constancy

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hamilton

Title: Perceptions of interdependence and judgments of collective responsibility

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mackie

Title: The impact of preparation on the ingratiation success of high and low self-monitors

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ashby

Title: Feedback processing in category learning

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ettenberg

Title: The reinforcing and anxiogenic effects of cocaethylene

Degree: PSY

Chair: Bugental

Title: The facilitative effect of friendship on young children's emerging theory of mind

Degree: PSY

Chair: Bugental

Title: Maternal and child adrenocortical responses as a function of attachment classification, temperament, and maternal caregiving attributions

Degree: PSY

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Computaional and developmental specificity in face recognition : testing the alternative explanations in a developmental prosopagnosic

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ettenberg

Title: The biopsychology of sexual motivation in the male rat : effects of primary and secondary incentives

Degree: PSY

Chair: Brainard

Title: An evaluation of color constancy across illumination and mutual reflection changes

Degree: PSY

Chair: Reese

Title: Control of programmed cell death in the inner nuclear layer of the developing retina

Degree: PSY

Chair: Bugental

Title: A congnitive approach to intimate partner violence

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: Effects of social comparisons on challenge and threat responses : disambiguating effects of similarity of comparison others

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hernandez

Title: Role of phonological awareness and decoding skill in second language learning

Degree: PSY

Chair: Carlisle

Title: Fever and body temperature : behavioral thermoregulation, leptin and alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone

Degree: PSY

Chair: Major

Title: Attributions to discrimination and the psychological consequences of exposure to prejudice among members of high status vs. low status groups

Degree: PSY

Chair: Major

Title: A double edged sword : ideology and self-esteem among low status groups

Degree: PSY

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Mapping the cognitive architecture of systems for kin detection and inbreeding avoidance : the Westermarck hypothesis and the development of sexual aversions between siblings

Degree: PSY

Chair: Klein

Title: The effects of choice over category membership on social category compound dominance

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: Stereotype vulnerability or stereotype reactance : the moderating role of leadership efficacy in women leaders' responses to stereotype activation

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer

Title: The tradeoff between usability and usefulness for educational software

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ashby

Title: Selection and Switching in Rule-Based Catogory Learning

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ettenberg

Title: Opiate-benzodiazepine interactions in an animal model of reward

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: Probability and consequences : a model of the processes underlying task engagement, challenge, and threat

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: The effect of violent game play in virtual environments on aggression : immersive vs. desktop platforms

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hegarty / Montello

Title: Spatial representations and transformations : the influence of vision and body-based information

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: Counterintuitive effects of bellief activation on responses to social support

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ettenberg

Title: Motivating factors underlying the co-administration of cocaine and alcohol

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hamilton

Title: The effect of social essentialism on categorization and induction

Degree: PSY

Chair: Major

Title: The impact of appraisals of fairness on motivation among members of stigmatized groups

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hamilton

Title: Antecedents and consequences of entitativity in categorical and dynamic groups

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer

Title: The Role of prior experience in self-efficacy calibration

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: Inattentional blindness, change blindness and race/ethnicity

Degree: PSY

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Regulating welfare tradeoff ratios : three tests of an evolutionary-computational model of human anger

Degree: PSY

Chair: Klein

Title: Anticipating the future : how narrative goals affect explanatory and predictive inferences

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ashby

Title: Foundations for a neurobiologically plausible model of decision making

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer

Title: Cognitive aids in guiding graph comprehension : can signaling, advance organizers, and adjunct questions improve understanding of graphs?

Degree: PSY

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Category-specificity in spatial and temporal attention

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hegarty

Title: Perspective in spatial perception, representations, and descriptions

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hamilton

Title: Judgment polarization or negativity : the impact of perceived entitativity on impressions about groups.

Degree: PSY

Chair: G. Jacobs

Title: Rodent photopigments, photoreceptors, and vision : examination of an ultraviolet-sensitive cone photopigment in the Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus and vision in the aging mouse

Degree: PSY

Chair: Major

Title: Valuing stigma : consequences of size acceptance for the overweight

Degree: PSY

Chair: Collins

Title: The interactive effects of self-esteem and rejection on health

Degree: PSY

Chair: Brake

Title: The effects of methylphenidate on behavior and neural activation in a rat model of birth complications

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ettenberg

Title: Behavioral pharmacological investigations of basolateral amygdala modulation of amphetamine-induced behaviors

Degree: PSY

Chair: Loomis

Title: Sensorimotor alignment effects in learning and novel environments

Degree: PSY

Chair: Revlin

Title: Reasoning with tacit premises : are categorical inferences made by similarity, by rule, or both?

Degree: PSY

Chair: Miller

Title: Maternal care, genetic inheritance, and development of neurobiological mediators of anxiety and stress

Degree: PSY

Chair: Klein

Title: Affective reactions in a prosopagnosic patient

Degree: PSY

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Coalitional support and the regulation of welfare tradeoff ratios

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mackie

Title: Perceiving the world through group-colored glasses : effects of self-categorization and group identification on attention and information processing

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ashby

Title: The role of perceptual learning in categorization

Degree: PSY

Chair: Bugental

Title: Avoiding costly mating mistakes : the evolution of female reproductive safeguards

Degree: PSY

Chair: Collins

Title: The influence of social support and attachment style on performance, self-evaluations, and interpersonal behaviors

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hamilton

Title: Crowd perception : the interplay of entitativity, race, and emotion

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mackie / Blascovich

Title: Antecedents and consequences of outgroup identification estimates

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer

Title: Increasing learning in college lecture classes : is it just a click away?

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer

Title: Pictorial encoding and testing impact recognition memory

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer

Title: Cognitive diversity in distributed problem solving groups

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mackie

Title: Empathic forecast confirmation : inducing expected emotions in others

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ettenberg

Title: On the mixed positive and negative consequences of cocaine : evidence from a runway model of self-administration

Degree: PSY

Chair: Loomis

Title: Visual and inertial influences on steering control

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: Team environment and cardiovascular reactivity

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ashby

Title: Multiple stages of procedural-learning-based categorization

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hegary

Title: Spatial visualization training using interactive animation and virtual models

Degree: PSY

Chair: Bugental

Title: Selective attention, processing, and memory related to RHP-relevant variables in humans

Degree: PSY

Chair: Miller

Title: A longitudinal investigation of individual variability in brain activity during episodic encoding and retrieval

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ashby

Title: Training information-integration category learning

Degree: PSY

Chair: Fridlund

Title: Why do we punish? studies of lay judgments against criminal offenders

Degree: PSY

Chair: Miller

Title: Recognition memory and the parietal lobe : insights from functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, and transcranial magnetic stimulation

Degree: PSY

Chair: German

Title: Animate monitoring by morphology and motion cues

Degree: PSY

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Erasing race with cooperation : evidence that race is a consequence of coalitional inferences

Degree: PSY

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Friendship, jealousy, and the banker's paradox

Degree: PSY

Chair: Bugental

Title: Costs and potential mitigating factors of the stigmatization of older adults

Degree: PSY

Chair: German

Title: Mapping the design of theory of mind : simple actions are used to create mental state representations

Degree: PSY

Chair: Blascovich

Title: The plasticity of attitude embodiment : behavioral and neural evidence for the influence of evaluation on action planning

Degree: PSY

Chair: Collins

Title: The impact of responsive social support provision on stress, the self and relationship outcomes

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer / Hegarty

Title: Anatomy learning in virtual reality : a cognitive investigation

Degree: PSY

Chair: Ettenberg

Title: An investigation of sexual motivation in the female rat

Degree: PSY

Chair: Kim

Title: To talk or to type? : internet and culture's affect on self-disclosure and social support seeking

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mackie

Title: How does self-categorization affect emotion about outgroups?

Degree: PSY

Chair: Mayer

Title: When more cognitive load leads to less distraction

Degree: PSY

Chair: Hegarty

Title: Is mental rotation color blind?