Within recent years, the number of students selecting this option has increased dramatically (along with the time given by the faculty who supervise these students, and students in Advanced Research and in Independent Study, in addition to their regular teaching responsibilities). So has the breadth of topics selected by students to investigate. There have been 46 Honors projects in the past five years and about the same number of Advanced Research projects. The quality of most of these projects is such that many become published in professional journals or are presented at national or regional conferences. In subsequent issues of this newsletter, we will tell you about some of them.
Listed below are the honors projects completed by psychology majors from 1962 to 1997. When the information was available a brief description is included along with the name of the faculty supervisor(s). Most of the listed theses are on file in the Department.
1. Charles S. Brick '62 The Prevention And Cure Of Juvenile Delinquency Through The Present-Day School System. Advisor: unlisted (b)Walter Rosenberg '62 A Hypnotic Approach to Psychotherapy. Advisor: unlisted.
2. Jay Michael Weiss '62 The Effect Of Frustration Upon Visual Perception. Jay Michael Weiss, Ph.D. (1967) Effects of Coping Responses on Stress (Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy)
3. Allen Barry Cohen '63 A Psychological Analysis of Utopian Societies. Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
4. Fred Denkhaus '65 A Further Study in Prejudice. Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
5. Robert Herman Doktor '66 Personality Inventories Empirically related to Hypnotic Susceptibility. Advisor: Not listed
6. Thomas A. Sebben '66 Interaction of Retinal Gradients and the Perception of Apparent Movemen. Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
7. Len Epstein '68 Systematic Desensitization: The Use of a Video-Tape Recorder. Advisor: Dr. Meyer Rothberg
8. Howard Feldman '68 The Effects of Autonomic Perception on the Acquisition of a Conditioned Response. Advisor: Dr. Meyer Rothberg
9. Sol Miskin '68 The Reticular Formation and Arousal. Advisor: Dr. Burton Cohen
10. Kenneth Covelman '69 A Comparison of a Group Counseling Technique and an Automated Pre-Programmed Systematic Desensitization Procedure for Treating Test Anxiety. Advisors: Dr. William Berkowitz and Dr. Meyer Rothberg
11. Bruce Kressel '69 (Eugene R. Posnock [Biology]) Some Physiological and Psychological Effects of Prenatal Maternal Handling on Rat Offspring. Advisors: Dr. Meyer Rothberg and Dr. James L. Baird
12. Michael Maskin '69 The Therapeutic Effects of Psychodrama upon hostile inmates. Advisor: (Missing)
13. Jim Young '69 Psychological Perspectives on Religion. Advisor: Dr. Meyer Rothberg
14. Robert W. Handler '70 Systematic Desensitization Of Test Anxiety: The Effects Of Spaced Vs. Massed Practice And Comparison With A Pseudotherapy Control. Advisor: Dr. Meyer Rothberg
15. Michael Le Witt '70 Birth Order and the Acquisition of Avoidance Responses. Advisor: Dr. Meyer Rothberg (2 copies)
16. Robert S. Lipetz '70 Motivation vs. State Theories of Hypnosis. Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
17. Wilfred M. Cheng '71 The Efficience Model Approach to Sexual Perversions Advisors: Dr. Howard F. Gallup and Dr. Seymore Weissman
18. Craig Gordon '72 A Study in Creativity Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
19. Wayne D. Gray '72 The Effect of Words of High and Low Imagery on an Auditory-Visual Difference in Short-Term Memory Advisor: Dr. Burton H. Cohen
20. Mark S. Harrison '72 The Impact of the Dixon Decision Upon Allentown State Hospital Advisor: Dr. William U. Weiss
21. Alan McFarland '72 Comparison of Methadone Clinic Patients and Methadone Clinic Drop-outs Using the Leary Interpersonal Check List Advisor: Dr. William U. Weiss
22. David B. Doolittle '73 Father Identification and Role Development in Young Emotionally Disturbed Males Advisor: Dr. William Weiss
23. Jack D. Edinger'73 The Relationship Between Prognosis in Therapy and Visual-Spatial Organization Ability Advisor: Dr. William Weiss
24. Michael Katz '73 Relationships of Form Level Responses on Individual Rorschach Cards, To the Process and Reactive Dimensions of Schizophrenia Advisor: Dr. William U. Weiss
25. Murray B. Rosen '73 Job Satisfaction: Its Nature and Relationship to Satisfaction with Life Advisor: Dr. J. Marshall Brown
26. Deborah Michele Martz '74 A History and Analysis of Hearing Loss, Its place in Modern Educational Audiology Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
27. Mark B. Pape '74 An Evaluation of State-Dependent Learning and Consolidation Deficit Models of Cycloheximide Induced Amnesia in a Spatial Reversal Task Given To Rats and Mice Advisor: Dr. Phil Slonim
28. Amy Silverstein '75 The Effects of Beginning Reading Techniques on Perceptual and Discriminative Abilities: A comparison of the Initial Teaching Alphabet versus Traditional Orthography Approaches Advisor: Dr. Burton H. Cohen
29. Nancy D. Davies '76 Attitudes Toward Violence Advisor: Dr. J. Marshall Brown
30. Nancy DeVries '76 Rorschach Technique Validation Using Blind Interpretations and a Behavior Checklist Advisor: Dr. William U. Weiss (2 copies)
31. Kalina Gonska '76 A Training Program to Facilitate the Development of Empathy Advisor: Dr. James McCormack
32. Lisa b. Priftis '76 A Study of the Creative Process. the Elicitation of Divergent Hierarchies Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
33. Joanne Samuels '76 A Study of Aphasia: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment Advisor: Dr. William Weiss
34. Carol Van Arsdale '76 Fragmentation of Stabilized Retinal Images Using the Afterimage Technique (2 copies) Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
35. Diane Van Arsdale '76 Sex Differences in Intrahemispheric Response Competition- Between Verbal and Unimanual Tasks Advisor: Dr. Burton H. Cohen
36. Richard S. Jaffe '78 Job Satisfaction: Evaluation of the Relationship between Managers' Estimate of Satisfaction Scores and the Actual Mean Scores Advisor: Dr. H. Marshall Brown
37. Kenneth Steidl '78 An experimental Analysis of Factors Influencing Visual Cliff Performance in Gerbils Advisors: Dr. Mel Lockhart and Dr. Joanne (LoGiudice) Krug
38. Donna M. Crawley '79 Helping Behavior: The Effects of Sex and Sex-Typing Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow
39. Verna E. Farr '80 A Study of Discriminative and Orienting Responses to Up/Down and Left/Right Stimuli and the Implications of the Findings for the Beginning Keyboard Student Advisor: Dr. Mary Ann Skowronski
40. Joy A. Maier '80 Job Applicant Impression Formation: Effect of Sex, Height, and Occupational Sex-typing Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow & J. Marshall Brown (2 c)
41. Lana M. Umali '80 Impact of Repression-Sensitization and Death Education on College Students' Attitudes Toward Death Advisor: Dr. Joanne (LoGiudice) Krug (2 copies)
43. Claire McFadden '82 The Relation of Jungian Psychological Type to Individual Differences in Person Perception Advisor: Dr. Burton H. Cohen
44. Renae C. Schneck '82 Eating Disorder Among College Women Advisors: Dr. Susan A. Basow and Dr. Janet L. Sola
45. Randi Mahler '83 Fading Paired Associate Learning Advisors: Dr. Burton Cohen and Dr. Howard Gallup
46. Victoria L. Reardin '83 The Effects of Sex of Subject and importance Attributions on Learned Helplessness in Humans Advisors: Dr. Howard Gallup & Dr. Alan Childs
47. Martha A. Heinze '86 Neurofibroma Tosis: Disfigurement, Self-Esteem and Acceptance Advisor: Dr. Alan Childs
48. Eric S. Skovronek '86 The Importance of Ocular Dominance in Typing Skills Advisor: Dr. J. Marshal Brown
49. Irene Marie Vigilante '86 Eating Attitudes and Self-Worth Advisors: Dr. Susan A. Basow and Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
50. Cynthia Ann Rubin '87 Career and Family Values as Correlates of Sex Typing in College Students Advisor: Dr. Shawn Ward
51. Rebecca L. Schein '87 Activity Level and residential options as Correlates of Life Satisfaction in Elderly Women Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
52. Dorothy Young '87 The Influence of Self-schemas in Perceiving Others Advisor: Dr. Elaine Byram
53. Hillarie Collins '88 The Influence of Rater and Ratee Satisfaction on Performance Appraisals Advisor; Dr. James Smither
54. Kristi L. Medcalf '88 Academic Achievement and Attributions Among College Students: Effects of Gender and Sex-typing Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow
55. Wendy B. Stuehring '88 Dual Modalities in Semantic Comprehension : Should we be Reading About? Advisor: Dr. Howard F. Gallup
56. Diane Kobrynowicz '89 What is She Eating? The Effects of Meal Size on Others Impressions of a Female Eater. Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow
57. Tonya Mason '90 Black Students' Identity Development as Related to Academic Achievement and Self esteem at a Predominantly White College Advisor: Dr. Laura Roberts (2 copies)
58. Michelle L. Noll '90 Friendliness (Mis)Perceived: The Influence of Gender, Touch, and Sex-Typed Attitudes on Perceptions of Sexual Interest Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow
59. Stacy M. Otstot '90 Stress in College Students: The Relationship Between the Type A Behavior Pattern, Hostility, and Blood Pressure Advisor: Dean Alan W. Childs
60. Darren R. Ritzer '90 Situational interview for a College Professor Position Advisor: Dr. Andrew J. Vinchur
61. Subha Subramanian '90 Mothers' Beliefs About Children in Two Cultures Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi (2 copies)
62. Marti M. Apgar '91 Stress, Self-Esteem and the Incarcerated Mother Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow
63. Anthony J. Barravecchio '91 The Effects of Conditioning Hyperglycemia on Obese Zucker and Learn Zucker Rats Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
64. Amy Goerss '91 The Effect of Aspartame on Aggression in Rats Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
65. Cynthia L. Hardenbergh '91 Dominance Hierarchy as Illustrated in a Captive Troop of Proboscis Monkeys Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
66. Andrew J. Heller '91 Periodicity of Tonic Immobility in Chicken and its Relationship to Neurotransmitter Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
67. Meredith R. McGeary '91 Salt Preference in Chicks Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
68. Vincent Pandolfi '91 A Study of Psychoanalytic Personality Patterns in Accounts and Social Workers through extra-Analytic Means Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow
69. Elizabeth A. Rowland '91 Questioning the expectancy causes behavior assumption: A longitudinal study of expectancies and drinking behavior Advisor: Dr. Laura Roberts
70. Leslie A. Apfelbaum '92 The Importance of Drug and Social Condition on Separation Distress in Newly-Hatched Chicks. Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
71. Cathleen P. Buchanan '92 Pharmacologic Manipulations of the Brain Serotonergic System: The Effects of P-cpa and Fluoxetine Hydrochloride on Aggression in Chicks Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
72. Christy Chandler '92 Factors Involved in Choice of Science and Nonscience Careers in Women and in Men Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
73. Stacey E. Fox '92 The Mere Exposure Effect for Familiar and Unfamiliar Stimuli Advisor: Dr. Dan Burns
74. Melissa Kambach '92 Mothers' and Children's Perceived Competence Among Gifted and Non-gifted Students Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
75. Eric M. Shrier '92 The Effects of Fluoxetine HCI on Intruder-evoked Aggression in Long-Evans Rats Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
76. Cynthia L. Watkins '92 Distributive Justice: The Effects of Relationships on Decisions on Children Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
77. Kristin Williams '92 Coping Strategies in Adolescents: Age and Gender Effects Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi and Dr. Susan Basow
78. Jennifer A. Baliotti '93 The Effectiveness of the Big Five Personality Dimensions for Predicting College Performance and Satisfaction Advisor: Andrew Vinchur
79. William P. Boxer '93 Respondent and Operant Control of Visually-Guided Catching and Tracking Behavior in the Pigeon Advisors: Dr. Robert W. Allan, Dr. Howard F. Gallup and Dr. Charles Holliday (biology)
80. Amy L. Buhl '93 The Effects of Positive and Negative Anecdotal & Statistical Performance Appraisal Information on Pay Raise Decisions and Memory Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vinchur
81. Cindy Celnik '93 The Effects of Diet and Attributions on Athletic Performance. Advisors: Drs. Susan A. Basow, Alan W. Childs and Alan Johnson
82. Scott Cooper '93 Assessing the Stability of Performance of College Faculty Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vinchur
83. Mariana Gonzalez del Riego '93 The Effects of Added Albumen in Ovo on Chicken Development Advisors: Dr. Wendy Hill & Dr. Howard Gallup
84. Kristin B. Hopkins '93 Gender and Age Differences in the Effectiveness of Teaching Strategies on Computational Arithmetic Performance Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
85. Stacy A. McIlraith '93 Conformity: Personality and Situational Effects Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vinchur
86. Ana Sanjuan '93 The Stress Moderating Effects of Psychological Hardiness on Women in the Academic Setting Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vinchur
87. Zoe Adlersberg '94 The Analysis of Value Importance Among American, Canadian, and French College Students Advisor: Dr. April Gresham
88. Bethany J. Bodo '94 The Effect of Job Type and Sex on Self-Rating of Performance Advisor: Dr. Andrew J. Vinchur
89. Tanya Brubaker '94 Effects of Participation and Authority on Goal Setting Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vinchur
90. Ilaina M. Cohen '94 The Effect of Applicant Sex, Subject Sex, and Job type in the Employment Interview Advisor: Dr. Andrew J. Vinchur
91. Elisabeth T. Curti '94 The Relationship of Maternal Employment to Achievement Motivation, Gender Role Attitudes and Attitudes toward Employed Mothers in Men and Women College Students Advisor; Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
92. Madoka Kumashiro '94 The Role of Hierarchical Ordering in Stimulus Equivalence Classes: Are Stimulus Equivalent? Advisor: Dr. Robert W. Allan
93. Kristina Lyhus '94 Response Location in Complex Visual Discrimination Tasks Advisor: Dr. Robert W. Allan
94. Carrie F. Shiff '94 The Effect of Schedule Location on Pigeons' tracking of Conditioned Reinforcers Advisors: Dr. Robert Allan, Dr. Howard Gallup, and Dr. Charles Holliday
95. Deb Campbell '95 An Analysis of Economic and Psychological Components of the Gender Wage Gap Advisors: Susan Averett & Andrew Vinchur
96. Diane Dorman '95 Response Location and Reinforcer Density: A Test of the Matching Law Advisor: Dr. Robert Allan
97. Jo-Ellen Paradise '95 The Effects of Interpersonal Relationships and Setting on Distributive Justice Judgments Advisor: Dr. Ann McGilliuddy-De Lisi
98. Scott Rosenbloom '95 Enclosure Utilization and the Effects of Captivity on the Behaviors of a Group of Owl-Faced Guenons (Cercopithecus hamlyni) Advisor: Dr. Wendy Hill
99. Marie Spencer '95 Job Satisfaction and Occupational Therapists' Beliefs and Behaviors in Relation to Clients' Caregivers Advisor: Dr. A. McGillicuddy-De Lisi
100. Marisa Thatcher '95 The Effect of Task Type an Performance Feedback on Group Performance and Individual Satisfaction Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vinchur
101. Jimhui Yun '95 The Effects of Asian-Accented English on Perceptions of the Speaker Advisor: Dr. April Gresham
102. Ryan Alexander '96 Advisor: Dr. Matthew McGlone
103. Kathleen Ash '96 Keyboard Skill Acquisition Rate as a function of Ability, Goal Condition, and Skil Acquistion Phase. Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vinchur
104. Amie C. Braman '96 Women and Body Hair: Social Perceptions and Attitudes. Advisors: Professors Susan A. Basow, April Gresham, and Susan Averett
105. Danielle DeHoratius '96 The Effects of Para-Chlorophenylalanine (CPA) on the Self-Selection of Diet by male Domestic Chicks (Gaolus gallus) Advisor: Dr. Wendy Hill
106. Alexandra Ebner '96 Pigeons' feature positive discrimination of an individual human Advisor: Dr. Robert Allan
107. Jacqueline M. Efron '96 When does the endogenous clock start ticking in the domestic chicken (Gallus domesicus)? Advisor: Dr. Wendy Hill
108. Jennifer Garthwaite '96 Parental Disciplinary Preferences for Transgressions Committed by Boys and Girls. Advisor: Dr. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
109. Kerry Jones '96 Auditory perception of raptors for passerine alarm calls: A comparative analysis of hawks and owls Advisor: Dr. Wendy Hill
110. Christine Lukens '96 Eating disorders, autonomy, and self-esteem among college women. Advisor: Dr. Susan Basow
111. Heather Maher '96 An evaluation of pet-assisted therapies Advisor: Dr. Alan Childs
112. Christina Newell '96 The effects of serotonergic drugs on the behavioral repertoires of colonially-breeding zebra finches Advisor: Dr. Wendy Hill
113. Ann B. Reed '96 The Influence of Anchoring on the Interpretation of Probability Expressions. Advisor: Dr. Matthew McGlone
114. Jeffrey Schiff '96 Response contingent effects of a setback procedure. Advisor: Dr. Robert Allan
115. Deborah L. Wolfe '96 Self-selection of diet and patterns of macronutrient intake in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata) Advisor: Dr. Wendy L. Hill
116. Richard Yi '96 Delay of reinforcement effects and the matching law Advisor: Dr. Robert Allan
117. Janeese N. Armero '97 The Effect of a Selective Dopamine D1 Agonist on Memory in Domestic Chick Advisors: Dr. Wendy l. Hill and Dr. Matthew McGlone
118. Heather Beraducci 97 Does A Metabolite of Vasopressin (DDVP) Affect Selective Attention in Humans. Advisor: Dr. Matthew McGlone
119. Eve Cowen '97 Perceived Parental Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction as A Function of Child Temperament and Gender. Advisor: D. Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
120. Carey Knox '97 Perceived Parental Self-Efficacy and Satisfaction as a Function of Child Temperament and Gender. Advisor: Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi
121. James Kohl '97 Attributional Style. Motivation Orientation and the Development of Learned Helplessness. Advisor: Dr. Alan Childs
122. Allison Paige Max '97 The Relationship of Substance Use in College Students to Motivation for Academic Achievement and Daily Stressors. Advisor: Dr. Alan W. Childs
123. Lisa Rubin '97 Consciousness Raising as A Form of Psychoeducation: Working Towards the Prevention of Body Dissatisfaction in Women. Advisor: Dr. Susan A. Basow
124. Neil Salesky '97 The Effect of Glucose on Nicotine Abstinence in High and Low Dietary Restraint Individuals. Advisor: Dr. Wendy Hill
125. Cecilia F. Scavelli '97 The Effects of a Selective M3 Muscarinic Antagonist on the Proceptive and Receptive Sexual Behavior of the Naturally Cycling Female Rat. Advisors: Drs. Susan A. Basow and Wendy Hill
126. Christina N. Seed '97 The Effect of Phosphatidylcholine on memory and Attention. Advisor: Dr. Alan W. Childs
127. Peter S. Theodore '97 Heterosexual Masculinity and Homophobia: A Reaction to the Self? Advisors: Dr. Susan A. Basow (2nd Semester) & Dr. April W. Gresham (1st Semester)
128. Deanna S. Warren '97 The Effects of Feedback on Human Choice Behavior Advisor: Dr.Robert W. Allan