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Psychology and the Honors Thesis

Students in the Psychology Department regularly complete Honors Theses. Students who complete an Honors Thesis have the opportunity to develop and carry out a year-long empirical research project to investigate a psychological topic of interest. Thesis students work closely with a faculty adviser who supervises all aspects of the research. Thesis students first write a thesis proposal that is submitted for approval to the Honors Board of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. They then have the opportunity to apply for a thesis grant from the Holcomb Undergraduate Committee to fund their thesis research. If necessary, thesis writers apply for permission to conduct their research from the Institutional Review Board. When they have all the necessary approvals, thesis students then collect and analyze their data, write a formal report on their project, and present their results either at the Butler Undergraduate Research Conference or at a national psychology conference. By completing an Honors Thesis, students gain invaluable experience for graduate study in psychology.

Below is a list of psychology majors who have completed an Honors Thesis in recent years:

Name	Grad date	Title
Whitney Brockus	2008	The Evaluation of Men in Cross-Gender Majors
Laura Cobb	2008	Does Stereotype Threat Affect Intelligence Test Performance in Students with ADHD?
Delphia Flenar	2008	Examining the Effects of Self-Affirmation on Evaluations of Heterosexism
Adam Hilliard	2008	Everybody Hurts, Sometimes: Memories of Physical Trauma
Jasmine Khosravi	2008	Autobiographical Memories for Social Evens: Effects of Emotional Valence
Kara Shaneyfelt	2008	Flashbulb Memory: Private Memories for Car Accidents
Jenna Thomas	2008	Emotional Contagion and Gender Differences in Memory for First Kisses
Brett Agypt	2007	Memories of Parental Divorce Announcements
Susanne Biehle	2007	Social Judgments of the Grief Reactions of Men versus Women: Does Gender of the Griever Impact How Expressions of Grief Are Perceived?
Adam Congleton	2007	Overcoming Test Anxiety: Implanted Memories of Success
Ashley Gretencord	2007	Children's Stereotypes about the Elderly: What Do Children Believe and How Do These Beliefs Develop?
Paul Hutman	2007	Elderspeak: Speech Accommodations to the Elderly
Megan Julian	2007	Measures of Flashbulb Memory: Are Extensive Memories Consistently Accurate?
Megan Mull	2007	Effect of Mood Induction and Language on Memory for Emotional Content in Bilinguals
Jade Presnell	2007	Interpreting Ambiguous Behavior: Impact of Mentally Ill and Racial Stereotypes
Andrew Butler	2006	Memory for Emotional Versus Neutral Images Over Time: Time to Recall Reveals Emotional Modulation of Memory with Evolutionary Implications
Jeffrey Conway	2006	Investigating the Relationship Between Seasonal Affective Disorder and Academic Performance Longitudinally.
Megan France	2006	Social Relations of Three Captive Southern White Rhinoceroses: Two Females Approaching Reproductive Maturity and a Male Peer
Marchion Hinton	2006	Romance Remembered: Consistency based on Arousal
Lacy Lesmiester	2006	Are Grad School Acceptances and Rejections Equally Memorable?
Mary Margaret Montgomery	2006	The Effects of Depressive Symptomology on Confirmation Bias
Taylor Moore	2006	How Students' Feedback to Their Peers is Affected by Race and Self-Affirmation

2003-2005 Past Honors Theses