2020s PHD Recipients
Mari Purpura
Degree: PBS
Chair: Kippin
Peri Gunalp
Degree: PBS
Chair: Hegarty
Title: Examining Perspective Taking and its Relation to Map Use and Environment Learning
Smaranda Lawrie
Degree: PBS
Chair: Kim
Yi-Wen Wang
Tadeg Quillien
Youngki Hong
Degree: PBS
Chair: Ratner
Elliott Ihm
Degree: PBS
Chair: Schooler
Roxie Chuang
Degree: PBS
Chair: Kim
Title: Sociocultural Variations in Motivation and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Dipanjana Das
Michelle Handy
Degree: PBS
Chair: D. Sherman
Title: Projection and Stereotyping in Pro-environmental Persuasive Communication
Spencer Mermelstein
Degree: PBS
Chair: German
Title: The Mind’s Meta-Data: Cognitive Mechanisms for Monitoring the Source and Content of Communication
Chelsea Brown
Degree: PBS
Chair: Szumlinski
Julian Gerson
Evan Layher
Degree: PBS
Chair: Miller
Title: Who Gives a Criterion Shift? Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of a Stable Cognitive Trait
Puneeth Chakravarthula
Lauren Ortosky
Degree: PBS
Chair: Sherman
Title: The Psychological Impacts of Normalizing Nationalism in a Transnational World
Sakura Arai
Degree: PBS
Chair: Cosmides
Title: Motivational Systems in Dyadic Cooperation Are Designed for Reputation-Based Partner Choice
Paul Kovacs
Degree: PBS
Chair: Ashby
Title: Cortex Automatizes Rules Model: A Novel Neurocomputational Model of Rule Based Automaticity
Anudhi Munasinghe
Degree: PBS
Chair: Mackie
Payton Small
Degree: PBS
Chair: Major
Title: Multiracials’ Affective, Behavioral and Identity-Specific Responses to Identity Denial
Jack Strelich
Kevin Sit
Degree: PBS
Chair: Goard
Madeleine Gross
Degree: PBS
Chair: Schooler
Nicole Han
Degree: PBS
Chair: Eckstein
Title: Dynamic Gaze Cueing: Perception, Covert Attention, and Eye Movement Control
Melissa Hingorani
Degree: PBS
Chair: Janusonis
Title: A Neuroengineering Platform for ex vivo Analysis of Single-Axon Dynamics of Serotonergic Neurons
Kasie Mays
Degree: PBS
Chair: Janusonis
Title: An Experimental Toolkit for Analysis of Single Monoaminergic Axons in the Mouse Brain
Ashleigh Wells
Degree: PBS
Chair: Mayer
Alyssa Pualani Lawson
Delancey Wu
Degree: PBS
Chair: Collins
Katy Walter
Degree: PBS
Chair: Conroy-Beam
Title: Testing Assumptions About Human Mating Psychology: Dealbreakers and Mate Preferences
Shuying Yu
Laura Pritschet
Degree: PBS
Chair: Jacobs
Title: Endocrine Modulation of Large-Scale Brain Networks -- Implications for Women's Brain Health
Carol He
Viktoriya Babenko
Degree: PBS
Chair: Grafton
Title: Dynamic Allostatic Modulation During Appraisal, Cognitive Challenge, and Across the Menstrual Cycle
Melissa Hingorani
Degree: PBS
Chair: Janusonis
Title: A Neuroengineering Platform for Ex Vivo Analysis of Single-Axon Dynamics of Serotonergic Neurons
Kasie Mays
Degree: PBS
Chair: Janusonis
Title: An Experimental Toolkit for Analysis of Single Monoaminergic Axons in the Mouse Brain
Anne Milner
Degree: PBS
Chair: Giebrecht
Title: The generalizability of value-driven attention capture across time, attentional domains, and environments
Ashleigh Wells
Degree: PBS
Chair: Mayer
Title: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Effect of Applying Multimedia Principles to a Minecraft STEM Lesson
Alisa Bedrov
Degree: PBS
Chair: Gable
Title: Examining Secrecy Burden and Well-Being Within the Context of Close Relationships
Jordan Garrett
Degree: PBS
Chair: Giesbrecht
Title: Characterizing the Influence of Perturbations in Global State on Working Memory
Leo Jimenez Chavez
Degree: PBS
Chair: Szumlinski
Title: Investigating the role of age and sex on the affective and cognitive consequences of alcohol binge-drinking
Devi Klein
Degree: PBS
Chair: Eckstein
Title: Understanding and Mitigating Search Errors in 3D Volumetric Images
Suyi Leong
Degree: PBS
Chair: Sherman
Title: Little Drops Make the Mighty Ocean: The Influence of Collectivism in Addressing Collective Action Problems
Daniel Thayer
Degree: PBS
Chair: Sprague
Title: Neural and Behavioral Prioritization of Attention Across Feature Dimension Maps
Vinnie Wu
Degree: PBS
Chair: Gable
Title: With Us or Against Us: Regulating Others' Group Emotions
Courtney Durdle
Degree: PBS
Chair: Miller
Title: Exploring Criterion Shifting with Ecologically Valid Contexts: An Investigation of Recollection Processes and the Impact of Social External Factors on Decision-Making Strategies for Memory-Based Tasks
Nicole Emmons
Degree: PBS
Chair: Kippin
Title: Advancing personalized medicine with electrochemical aptamer-based (EAB) sensors
Sierra Feasel
Degree: PBS
Chair: Mackie
Title: Sincere Allies or Ulterior Motives? Black Americans’ Perceptions of White vs. Latino Ally Motives
Ben Gelbart
Degree: PBS
Chair: Conroy-Beam
Title: Jealousy and the Emotions Debate: Conceptualizing Romantic Jealousy as a Bayesian Infidelity-Detector
Connor Gibbs
Degree: PBS
Chair: Sherman
Title: Cultural Moderation of Control Threat Compensation
Laura Huerta Sanchez
Degree: PBS
Chair: Szumlinski
Title: Incubated craving: Biochemical correlates within forebrain cortical regions and neuropharmacological interventions
Bailey Immel
Degree: PBS
Chair: Liberman
Title: Exploring the Role of Food Refusal on Children and Adults’ Social Evaluations
Byron Johnson
Degree: PBS
Chair: Eckstein
Title: The Effects of Low and Prosthetic Vision on Scene Understanding: Relating Semantic Information with Eye Movements and Plasticity
Sophie Peterson
Degree: PBS
Chair: Keiflin
Title: Orbitofrontal Contributions to Context-Gated Reward Predictions
Elizabeth Quinn-Jensen
Degree: PBS
Chair: Major / Liberman
Title: The Role of Identity Misrepresentation and Biracial Conceptualizations in Judgements of Contextual Self-Presentation in the U.S
Rammy Salem
Degree: PBS
Chair: Mackie / Major
Title: Feeling that You Count: The Effects of Racial Categorizations on Emotions, Feelings of Belonging, and Inclusion
Shreya Sodhi
Degree: PBS
Chair: Liberman
Title: Examining the Developmental Trajectory and Predictors of Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Fangzheng Zhao
Degree: PBS
Chair: Mayer
Title: The Role of Affective Features of Feedback on Multimedia Learning: An Eye-Tracking Study
Selin Bekir
Degree: PBS
Chair: Miller
Title: Unity in Split-Brain Patients Behavioral and Neural Evidence from Complete and Partial Callosotomy and New Experimental Paradigms
Dylan Benkley
Degree: PBS
Chair: Cosmides
Title: A Unique Form of Cooperation: Cognitive Specializations for Collaboration
Tikal Catena
Degree: PBS
Chair: Roney
Title: Functional Effects of Cortisol Increases in Novel Environments
Carly Chak
Degree: PBS
Chair: Giesbrecht
Title: Characterizing the Neural and Behavioral Consequences of Attentional Priority over Space and Time
Anusha Garg
Degree: PBS
Chair: Schooler
Title: From Dawdle to Done: Reinforcement Processes in Procrastination
Hannah Grotzinger
Degree: PBS
Chair: Jacobs
Title: Dynamic changes in brain structure and cerebrovasculature across the transition to parenthood
Goirik gupta
Degree: PBS
Chair: Roney
Title: Facial and Vocal Attractiveness Across the Menstrual Cycle: Implications for Concealed Ovulation
Paige Harris
Degree: PBS
Chair: Collins
Title: The Effects of Physical Activity on Psychological, Physiological, and Social Processes
Kevin Honeywell
Degree: PBS
Chair: Kippin
Title: Electrochemical Aptamer-Based Sensors for Exploring the Relationship between in-Brain Drug Concentrations and Associated Behavioral Responses
Madhuri Kashyap
Degree: PBS
Chair: Yu
Title: Living up to it: Investigating the affective and behavioral consequences of social expectation violations
Mengsi Li
Degree: PBS
Chair: Lapate
Title: Adaptive Emotional Responding: Time-Emotion Integration and Functional Organization of the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
Elle Murata
Degree: PBS
Chair: Jacobs
Title: Rethinking Rhythm: How endocrine disruption shapes the brain
Shravan Murlidaran
Degree: PBS
Chair: Eckstein
Title: Decoding Free Viewing: Using Vision-Language Models to Reveal the Optimality of Human Eye Movements for Scene Understanding
Viki Papadakis
Degree: PBS
Chair: Kim
Title: When Class Meets Closeness: The Role of Social Class Similarity in Relationship Development
Henri Etel Skinner
Degree: PBS
Chair: Giesbrecht
Title: A Comprehensive Account Of The Vigilance Decrement Utilizing Signal Detection Theory
Lexie Topete
Degree: PBS
Chair: Hegarty
Title: Ovarian Hormones and Their Impacts on Spatial Learning and Navigation
Lu Zang
Degree: PBS
Chair: Kim
Title: When Time is of the Essence: Culture and the Social Clock— Subjective vs. Intersubjective Perceptions
