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Lab Group 2011-2012




Priscilla Wright (Thesis)
Perceptions of Sexual Assault: Comparing Gender, Education, and Presence of Alcohol
Arianna Groveman (Thesis)
Does Personality Moderate the Effectiveness of Reciprocity-Based Compliance?

Alexa Goldfarb
Media and Persuasion

Not Pictured:  Alágra Bass (Psychology/Political Science Thesis)
Changing Public Persuasion from Moral Appeals


Lab Group 2010-2011


Kseniya Zhuzha (Thesis)
Attributing Mind to Others: The Role of Dispositional Walking Speed

Sloane Sheldon (Thesis)
What’s More Persuasive? How the Internet and Newspaper Change Opinions

Allison Jekogian (Thesis)
Social Dominance Orientation & The Belief in a Just World: Relation to Stigma Towards Mental Illness

Not Pictured:  Alexa Engert (Thesis)
Personality and the Net Promoter Score

Lab Group 2009-2010


Kseniya Zhuzha
Valence Framing

Michelle Russo (Thesis)
Attitudes toward Intermarriage

Jamie Luguri (Thesis)
The Impact of Gender of Political Candidates:  How Framing Affects Perceived Candidate Competency, Viability, and Characteristics

Lab Group 2008-2009


Alan Fox (Thesis)
Stereotypes and Advertising: The Relationship Between Personal Need for Structure and the Assessment of Race-Related Sports Advertisements

Kseniya Zhuzha
Valence Framing

Jamie Luguri
Valence Framing

Elise Wakeland (Thesis)
Sex Guilt and Persuasion

Marisa Greenberg (Thesis)
Who's Buying It: Does Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development Predict Persuasion?



Lab Group 2007-2008

Allison Lacoff
Valence framing and cognitive load

Jackie Raftery (Thesis)
Relationship of Frustration and Quality of Performance: The Moderating Effect of Individual Differences in the use of Emotion-Regulation Strategies

Jenn Gabrielski (Psychology/Economics Thesis)
Do Empathy and Social Dominance Predict Allotment of Foreign Aid?

Sam Posnock (Thesis)
Getting to know you: Influence of personality in impression formation

Michelle Koo (Thesis)
Valence Framing Effect: Do Positively or Negatively Framed Attitudes Affect Persuasion?

Lara Levine (Thesis)
Social Dominance Orientation as a Predictor of Social Status

Jessica Goldberg (Psychology/Political Science Thesis)
The Effect of Personality on Supreme Court Decision Making: An Analysis of Justices O’Connor and Frankfurter


Lab Group 2006-2007


Kara Huston (Thesis)
Effect of plastic surgery on males' perceptions of women with the hourglass figure

Jimmy Shand (Thesis)
Osama Obama and the Gravity of Motivation: The Innuendo Effect Revisited

Shirel Kozak (Thesis)
Effects of Straw Man Arguments on Persuasion: The Moderating Role of Personality

Mike Epstein (Thesis)
Moderating Attitude Resilience under Valence Framing Effects using a Relevance Manipulation

Leigh Ann Holterman (Thesis)
The Effect of Ease of Retrieval on Resistance to Persuasion and Attitude Certainty


Lab Group 2005-2006

Dana Smullyan (Thesis)
'I Approved this Message:' The Effects of Personal Support Messages on Perceptions of Political Candidates

Andrew Mason (Thesis)
The Negative Valence Framing Effect: Expansion Beyond Dichotomies

Liz Kovach (Thesis)
The Effects of Socially Perceived Norms on the Occurrence of Academic Cheating