Senior Projects

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Senior Projects Supervised by Prof. Hutcheon (**indicates empirical project)

  • Yserwrantz Lubin (Fall 2024 –  Spring 2025). The Missing Link: Aging Out and The Role of Parental Support On College Persistence, Emotional Distress, and Social Isolation, Foster Care Alumni and First-Generation Peers**.
  • Xuan Ma (Fall 2024). Stable Action Symbols in PMv Across Recording Sessions & Dynamic Switching of Vision, Planning, And Motor Neural Codes in the Macaque Brain**.
  • Clara Retzloff (Fall 2024, Spring 2025). Processing Human and Monkey Faces: An Eye-Tracking Study**.
  • Quinn Seger (Spring 2025). Communication as Connection: A Dialogic Approach to Engagement, Comprehension, and Trust in Psychology.
  • Calum Tinker (Fall 2024 – Spring 2025). The Architectural and Environmental Psychology of  Danish and American Prisons.
  • Justyne Ingwu (Spring 2024).  Effects of Animosity on Smoking Stigma: The moderating effects of race**. 
  • Luis Jhamil Rondon (Spring 2024). The Impact of Religiosity and Spirituality on Wellbeing: The Mediating Effect of Positive Emotions and Perceived control. 
  • Jared Toby (Spring 2023). The effectiveness of virtual training: Comparing virtual and in-person sport specific cognitive training**.
  • Atom Carrasco (Fall 2022 – Spring 2023). The feeling of control: The psychology behind immersive controls in video games and their real-world effects.
  • Asa Kaplan (Fall 2022 – Spring 2023). A repulsive inquiry: Evaluating the impact of cognitive load on aversive gaze behaviors following exposure to disgusting and fearful stimuli **.
  • Henry McCulllers (Fall 2022 – Spring 2023). The Power of Wake and Sleep Incubation
    in Creative Problem Solving. 
  • Ana Quigley (Fall 2022). Analyzing the effects of video games on social anxiety and communication.
  • Cam Goldberg (anticipated Spring 2022 – Fall 2022).  Is transphobia conditional? The effects of coming out before or after an interaction**.
  • Itzel Herrera Garcia (Spring 2022 – Fall 2022). The power of representation: Media representation of black people in relation to implicit bias**.
  • Ivy Wu (Fall 2022). How lyrics influence the effect of music on emotions regarding differences in musical training**.
  • Freddie Hernandez (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022). Color me impressed: Using the lexical decision task  to understand color-word associations.**
  • Jess Rylander (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022). The effects of music-induced emotion on memory**.
  • Anya Swinchoski (Spring 2021 – Fall 2021). A Major Decision: Examining the relationship between emotional intelligence, acting with awareness, and college major satisfaction**.
  • Isabella Cruz-Vespa (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021). The College Choice: Adolescent Identity Uncertainty and Group Entitativity**.
  • Poppy Sheehan (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021). Back to Wonderland: Can imaginative play improve creativity in adults?
  • Gabriela Rosado Torres (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021). Music as Medicine: Supporting NASA’s Advancement into Long-Duration Space Missions.
  • Kirsten Ostbirk (Spring 2020 – Fall 2020). The differences in attentional gradients between synesthetes and non-synesthetes identified through visual search**.
  • Alina Augustin (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020). The effects of virtual reality on motor performance in the first person point of view**.
  • Immanuel Zion (Fall 2019 – Spring 2020). The effect of smartphone separation and dependence on selective attention**.
  • Nikolai Grumet (Fall 2018 – Spring 2019). Reducing panic through olfaction.
  • Rachael Rice (Fall 2018 – Spring 2019). How creating art impacts visual perception**.
  • Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Spring 2018). Nothing tastes as good as starvation feels: Anorexia nervosa as a maladaptive mechanism of emotion regulation.
  • Aileen Lian (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018). “Boys will be Boys”: Examining the relationship between men’s conformity to masculine norms and perceptions of psychological abuse.**[Winner of the 2018 Andrew Bernstein award for the best senior project in psychology at Bard College]
  • Chanya Riddick (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018). The unwilling spectator: How secondary exposure to trauma through journalism effects emotional processing.** (link)
  • Sydnie Sinclair (Fall 2017 – Spring 2018). Cream of the crop of the bottom of the barrel: An exploration of the variation in susceptibility to social influences present in genocides**.
  • Eva Frishberg (Fall 2016 – Spring 2017). The impact of self-generated growth narrative on women’s persistence and effort on math tasks ** . [Winner of the 2017 Andrew Bernstein award for the best senior project in psychology at Bard College]
  • Sarah Genung (Fall 2016 – Spring 2017). Human chameleons: Are biracial individuals with integrated racial identities more prone to body dissatisfaction?
  • Glenisha Givens (Fall 2016 – Spring 2017). Putting micro-aggressions under the microscope: Examining the effects of micro-aggressions on student engagement in the college classroom**.
  • Maayan Eldar (Fall 2015 – Spring 2016). What’s your type?: Readability of fonts across native and non- native English speakers**.
  • Zachary Goodman (Spring 2016). Contrasting substance abuse and mobile gaming addiction.
  • Nicole Lang (Fall 2015 – Spring 2016). The influence of arousal on the perception of colors**.
  • Veronika Mojzesova (Spring 2014 – Fall 2015). The difference in motor memory as a function of the characteristic movements of musical instruments.
  • Michelle Lee. (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015). Eating disorders in Asian-American women: Self-esteem and fat phobia**.