2020s PHD Recipients

Degree: PBS

Chair: Kippin

Title: Probing Individual Differences that Contribute to Methamphetamine Use Disorder Vulnerability with a Rat Model of Drug Choice

Degree: PBS

Chair: Hegarty

Title: Examining Perspective Taking and its Relation to Map Use and Environment Learning

Degree: PBS

Chair: Kim

Title: Emotional Fit, Emotional Accuracy, and Belonging among First-Generation and Continuing-Generation University Students

Degree: PBS

Chair: Ashby

Title: Task Switching, Executive Control, and Neural Mechanisms

Degree: PBS

Chair: Cosmides

Title: A Computational Framework for Social Valuation Inference

Degree: PBS

Chair: Ratner

Title: Top-Down Influences of Mere Group Membership on Face Representations: The Roles of Ingroup Positivity, Category Labels, and the Self

Degree: PBS

Chair: Schooler

Title: Awe and Accommodation: Do Feelings of Awe Support a Shift from Schema-Driven to Stimulus-Driven Processing?

Degree: PBS

Chair: Kim

Title: Sociocultural Variations in Motivation and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Degree: PBS

Chair: Giesbrecht

Title: Great Expectations: Advance Knowledge and Distractibility

Degree: PBS

Chair: D. Sherman

Title: Projection and Stereotyping in Pro-environmental Persuasive Communication

Degree: PBS

Chair: German

Title: The Mind’s Meta-Data: Cognitive Mechanisms for Monitoring the Source and Content of Communication

Degree: PBS

Chair: Szumlinski

Title: Investigating the Role of Corticostriatal Glutamate Signaling in Methamphetamine Reward and Reinforcement

Degree: PBS

Chair: Kippin

Title: Building Biosensors for Neuropsychopharmacology

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Chair: Miller

Title: Who Gives a Criterion Shift? Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of a Stable Cognitive Trait

Degree: PBS

Chair: Eckstein

Title: Long-Term Visual Experience Shapes Neural Representations of Faces

Degree: PBS

Chair: Sherman

Title: The Psychological Impacts of Normalizing Nationalism in a Transnational World

Degree: PBS

Chair: Cosmides

Title: Motivational Systems in Dyadic Cooperation Are Designed for Reputation-Based Partner Choice

Degree: PBS

Chair: Ashby

Title: Cortex Automatizes Rules Model: A Novel Neurocomputational Model of Rule Based Automaticity

Degree: PBS

Chair: Mackie

Title: The Role of Student Fit in College Environments (S’FICE) in the Academic Performance of Under-Represented (UR) Students

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Chair: Major

Title: Multiracials’ Affective, Behavioral and Identity-Specific Responses to Identity Denial

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Chair: German

Title: Modulation of Mental State Inference by Group Membership

Degree: PBS

Chair: Goard

Title: Investigating the Processing and Transformation of Visual Stimuli for Spatial Navigation in the Mouse Cortex

Degree: PBS

Chair: Schooler

Title: Perceptual, Phenomenological, and Behavioral Processes Underpinning State and Dispositional Curiosity

Degree: PBS

Chair: Eckstein

Title: Dynamic Gaze Cueing: Perception, Covert Attention, and Eye Movement Control

Degree: PBS

Chair: Janusonis

Title: A Neuroengineering Platform for ex vivo Analysis of Single-Axon Dynamics of Serotonergic Neurons

Degree: PBS

Chair: Janusonis

Title: An Experimental Toolkit for Analysis of Single Monoaminergic Axons in the Mouse Brain

Degree: PBS

Chair: Mayer

Title: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Effect of Applying Multimedia Principles to a Minecraft STEM Lesson

Degree: PBS

Chair: Mayer

Title: The Impact of Individual Differences on Learning with Distractions

Degree: PBS

Chair: Collins

Title: How Cultural Fit Determines What Behaviors Are Perceived as Responsive when Sharing Stressors and Good News

Degree: PBS

Chair: Conroy-Beam

Title: Testing Assumptions About Human Mating Psychology: Dealbreakers and Mate Preferences

Degree: PBS

Chair: Jacobs

Title: The Impact of Endocrine Aging on Spatial Navigation

Degree: PBS

Chair: Jacobs

Title: Endocrine Modulation of Large-Scale Brain Networks -- Implications for Women's Brain Health

Degree: PBS

Chair: Jacobs

Title: The Multifaceted Nature of Navigation Ability