Department of Psychology
Psychology Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021

The psychology major research symposium will be Friday April 30th and Monday May 3rd. The poster session will be asynchronous however students are asked to submit a 3-minute video (audio only or audio/visual) with their poster providing a walk-through. Posters must be submitted by 10AM Friday April 29th. Our talk symposium will be synchronous and will be both Friday April 30th and Monday May 3rd. Students will be allowed to submit an asynchronous recorded talk if their internet malfunctions. (Note all 2-semester 399s are required to submit a poster. Only honors students are required to present a talk- it is optional for other students).

Details
Start Time: April 30 2021 - 10:00 AM
End Time: May 10 2021 - 10:00 PM
Dr. Caroline Connolly
Andrew R Zheng
The Negative Effect of Working Just in Time on Interpersonal Judgments of Trust
Samuel Borislow
Holding Experts to Excessive Epistemic Standards: Re-examining Optimality Bias
Maia Chester
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Mask-Wearing, and Emotion Recognition in Children
Ashna Sethi
Predicting factors associated with depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and subjective well-being among Indian university students
Madison West Jaffe
Why are dating apps more widely used than friendship apps?
Mary Grace Shinners
Phenotypes of aggression: proactive and reactive aggression in borderline and antisocial personality disorders
Abigail Laver
Children assume an asymmetry in syntax indicates an asymmetry in meaning
Feiyi Wang
  • Feiyi Wang
Modeling the Retrieval of Counterfactual Thoughts
Laleh Pandole
Attitudes and Preferences of Indian College Students towards Mental Health Interventions
Nicholas Bishop
  • Sarah Aina Shamsul Azhar
  • Jia Shi
Efficacy and Acceptability of an Ethical Decision Making Tool for Clinical Trainees
Jenna DiStefano
The Perceptual-Conceptual Connection of Symmetry in Sign Language Syntax
Tiffany Schell
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Inspiring Women to Compete
Benjamin Epstein
Memory Priming and Intertemporal Choice
Anna Glickman
Developing and Evaluating Brief Online Interventions to Promote Effective Giving: Pilot
Gabriel Jose Muro
Understanding Attitudes Towards Mental Health and Wellness Apps Among College Students
Sara E. Perkins
  • Sara Perkins
Bringing Positive Psychology to Policing: A Practical Curriculum
Callie Jones
Promoting the Development of Prosocial Emotions Via a Home-Based Intervention
Katherine All
What's in it for Me? Callous-Unemotional Traits and Prosocial Behavior
Jia (Elisa) Xu
Follow Friends, One Hour a Day
Title First & Last Name Sort descending Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Mood in Depressed Participants With and Without Suicidal Ideation Emma Palermo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Jennifer Goldschmied
  • Dr. Philip Gehrman
US National Institutes of Health Grants
Attitudes and Preferences of Indian College Students towards Mental Health Interventions Laleh Pandole College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert DeRubeis
  • Akash Wasil
US National Institutes of Health Grants
Bringing Positive Psychology to Policing: A Practical Curriculum Sara Perkins
Sara Perkins
  • Dr. Martin Seligman
  • Eric Patterson
2025
Choose Your Adventure: A Novel Paradigm for Measuring Perseverative Thought Allison Ricks
Emily Potter
,
Jair Jean-Gilles
,
Isabella Schlact
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Ayelet Meron Ruscio
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Inspiring Women to Compete Tiffany Schell College of Arts & Sciences
  • Coren Apicella
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Optic Flow and the Reverse Pulfrich Effect Heather Schneps College of Arts & Sciences
  • Johannes Burge
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Predicting factors associated with depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and subjective well-being among Indian university students Ashna Sethi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert DeRubeis
  • Akash Wasil
US National Institutes of Health Grants
Phenotypes of aggression: proactive and reactive aggression in borderline and antisocial personality disorders Mary Shinners College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Adrian Raine
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Comedic Dominance: Dominance’s Effect on Comedic Perception and the Potential Role That Gender Plays Alexander Sislo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Gordon Bermant
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
The Quarterback and the Situation: Evidence for the Fundamental Attribution Error in Evaluations of Quarterback Success Isaac Spear College of Arts & Sciences
  • Angela Duckworth
  • Danny Southwick
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
An Online Wellness Intervention for College Students: Evaluating the Efficacy of The Common Elements Toolbox (COMET) Joshua Steinberg College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Robert DeRubeis, PhD
  • Akash Wasil
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
A Qualitative Study of Grit and Creativity in Michelin Star Chefs Maggie Tang Wharton
  • Angela Duckworth
2025
Evaluating and Increasing Mask-Wearing on Penn's Campus Tiffany Tieu
Danny Chiarodit
,
Julie Baum
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Melissa Hunt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Modeling the Retrieval of Counterfactual Thoughts Feiyi Wang
Feiyi Wang
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sudeep Bhatia
  • Ada Aka
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Role of Imagination-Induced Empathy in Decisions Impacting Other People and One’s Future Self Jacob Wee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Anna Jenkins
  • Rista Plate
Other
The Effect of Context and Training on Forecasting Accuracy Yuwen Wong
Eliud Vargas
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Philip Tetlock
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Follow Friends, One Hour a Day Jia (Elisa) Xu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa Hunt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
The Negative Effect of Working Just in Time on Interpersonal Judgments of Trust Andrew Zheng College of Arts & Sciences
  • Rebecca Schaumberg
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Evaluating an Online Wellness Intervention for Greek Adolescents Eirini Zoupou College of Arts & Sciences
  • Robert J. DeRubeis
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research