Students' Work

Supervised Senior Thesis Research

Hamilton College

2022 — 2023

  • A model like me: The effects of race-matched role models on student achievement

  • Body and mind: The cognitive, physiological, and social concepts related to exercise

  • Cross-cultural helping hands: The role of neural threat and reward systems in facilitating cooperation

  • Effects of social exclusion on just-world beliefs and victim blame, moderated by moral identity

  • Life history strategy, political ideology, and religiosity: The mediating role of moral intuition

  • The need for identity renegotiation after athletic retirement

2020 — 2021

  • I won’t buy it! Connecting consumer anger and moral licensing to boycott decisions

  • Send them to jail or talk it out? A look into willingness to engage in restorative justice

  • The effects of white guilt on punishment: A moral cleansing approach

  • Waste not, cheat not: The effects of resource availability on cheater detection

  • Why did she struggle? Gender salience and stereotypicality in the ultimate attribution error

  • Who gets the toilet paper? The effect of perceived risk on inequity aversion

2021 — 2022

  • Fraud and feelings: The effect of emotion on misinformation susceptibility

  • How the model minority myth hurts us all: Anti-Black attitudes and outgroup denigration

  • Psychopathy and physiological harm aversion

  • Putting the good in a good day’s work: Examining the relationship between happiness, sadness, and productivity

  • The tragedy of the (medical) commons: Prioritization and resource stewardship in the healthcare industry

  • Vicarious moral self-regulation in response to moral suasion and resistance to conformity pressures

2019 — 2020

  • Active engagement: Pretense play beyond childhood

  • But he is a good person: Perpetrator personality, moral judgments, and victim blaming

  • Burnt out but not beaten down: Promoting resilience in psychology graduate students

  • Driving us apart or bringing us together? Moral values, politics, and outgroup acceptance

  • In her shoes: The effect of perspective taking on reducing rape myth acceptance and the schema-driven processing of information about rape

Colgate University

2018 — 2019

  • Company vs. CEO: The effect of corporate social responsibility and CEO behavior on consumer attitudes

  • Is it okay for them to do that? Perceiving immoral behavior in other cultures

  • Surveying the experiences of students of color at primarily-white institutions

  • The idea victim: The role of moral character in perceptions of victim-blame

2016 — 2017

  • Acceptable faux pas: The effect of foreign language on social judgment

  • The effect of individual & social guilt on decision-making

  • The effect of stereotypical symbols on attitudes towards others

2017 — 2018

  • Effects of media modality on consumer and environmental behavior

  • How do you see me? A study on language and perceptions of others

  • The decoy effect and time pressure on consumer decision-making

  • The role of affiliation in the motivation to blame others


Supervised Summer Research

Summer 2022 (Hamilton College)

  • Who we are vs. what we do: The relationship between moral character and blame

Summer 2020 (Hamilton College)

  • Don’t call the police! When people are willing to employ alternative dispute resolution strategies

  • The influence of corporate and CEO reputation on consumer attitudes

Summer 2017 (Colgate University)

  • Temperature priming and the prisoner's dilemma