Fall 2022 - Second Year Projects

Department of Psychology Friday, September 23, 2022 | 1:00-4:00pm | William James Hall B1   1:00pm: Welcome and Introduction, Leah Somerville, Director of Graduate Studies   1:05pm: Kirsten Morehouse, Advisor: Mahzarin Banaji, Reader: Mina Cikara All human groups are human, but some are more human than others: A comprehensive analysis of the implicit human-animal stereotype towards racial and ethnic human groups   1:20pm: Yelina Chen, Advisor: Leah Somerville, Reader: Liz Phelps Examining potential routes by which peers shape adolescents’ risk preferences   1:35pm: Felix Sosa, Advisor: Tomer Ullman, Raeder: Sam Gershman Simulation and abstraction as engines of efficient physical reasoning   1:50pm: Shaan McGhie, Advisor: Rich McNally, Reader: Jill Hooley Reduced access to emotional states in obsessive-compulsive disorder   2:05pm: Shuchen Liu, Advisor: Alfonso Caramazza, Reader: Talia Konkle Dissociating action goal from action outcome during action observation   2:20pm: Peter Aungle, Advisor: Ellen Langer, Reader: Leah Somerville Perceived time and wound healing   2:35pm: Break   2:50pm: Emma Laurent, Advisor: Liz Phelps, Reader: Randy Buckner Systematic hippocampal suppression and its influence on systems consolidation   3:05pm: Eric Bigelow, Advisor: Tomer Ullman, Reader: Sam Gershman Non-commitment in mental imagery   3:20pm: Katherine Venturo-Conerly, Advisor: John Weisz, Readers: Patrick Mair & Christian Webb Relationships between treatment elements of youth psychotherapy and clinical symptoms: findings from three randomized controlled trials   3:35pm: Yichen Li, Advisor: Tomer Ullman, Reader: Josh Greene An approximate representation of objects underlies physical reasoning   3:50pm: Johnny Castillo, Advisor: Liz Phelps, Reader: Dan Schacter Overestimating the intensity of negative emotion in autobiographical memory: evidence from the 9/11 attack and Covid-19 pandemic   4:05pm: Reception, WJH Basement Lounge