Vania conducted on honors thesis on jury decision making, which was based substantially on a project that she developed in experimental social psychology; this paper appeared in the Spring 2000 issue of the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research (abstract). During her junior year, Vania assisted with several experiments, in particular with Ruscher and Duval studies of multiple communicators that appeared in JPSP (abstract). At commencement, Vania was awarded the Alpha Lambda Delta Award, which is awarded to the senior with the highest grade point average. She intends to pursue graduate work in psychology and/or law.

During her junior year, Joy assisted with projects on linguistic cues to age stereotyping (which appeared in JLSP (abstract)) and also on the linguistic intergroup bias with Dan Beal. Following these interests, her honors thesis focuses on measurement aspects of the linguistic intergroup bias. After completing her master's in counseling at the University of Pennsylvania, Joy completed her Ph.D. in counseling psychology at Temple University.

During her part of her junior year, Tory served as a research assistant to Seth Kaplan; during the remaining part of her junior year, she studied in Ghana. Her honors thesis examined students' expectations about their service learning experiences, as a function of their underlying reasons for pursuing those experiences. Tory expects to pursue graduate work in public health.

During her sophomore and junior years, Patty served as an assistant to Alecia Santuzzi, working primarily on research appeared in Social Cognition (abstract). Her honors thesis examined body consciousness as a proxy for eating-related physical stigmas (e.g., anorexia; obesity), and how body consciousness may be related to social anxiety and negative metaperceptions; the results of her work appear in Current Research in Social Psychology(reference) Patti currently is working on her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Wyoming.

Honor's Thesis:Differential Feedback in Cross-Race Settings

During her sophomore year, Lindsay served as a research assistant for former Ph.D. student Alecia Santuzzi. Following her junior year abroad, Lindsay conducted an honors thesis that builds upon current Ph.D. student Kristin Walker's work. Using the MOTIF model of intergroup feedback, Lindsay's study examined how feedback could be influenced by accountability for accurate feedback and fear of appearing prejudice. Lindsay was the 2005 co-recipient (with Taylor Newton) of the Rosa Cahn Hartmann prize for research in psychology. Lindsay worked with Teach for America in post-Katrina New Orleans, and currently is a developmental psychology doctoral student at the University of Michigan.

Honor's Thesis: Sexism and perceptions of women's persuasive speech

Katie's honors thesis grew out of a course paper for the "Research Methods in Prejudiced Communication" course junior year. Her thesis examined the role of sexism in perception of hyperfeminine persuasive speakers, and satisfied requirements for honors in both Psychology and Women's Studies. Katie earned her law degree in 2008 at Georgetown University.

Honor's Thesis: Hey, Baby: Benevolent sexism and terms of endearment

Honor's Thesis: Prejudice post-Katrina: The effects of social dominance orientation and competition for resources on perceptions of evacuees

*Note: Anywhere between 4 and 20 undergraduates complete independent studies in our laboratory each semester. Their contributions to research gratefully are acknowledged on published and presented work. The students whose work is described here also completed a substantive independent project under my direction

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