Department of Psychology
Psychology Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022

The psychology major research symposium will be Thursday, April 28. The poster session will be in-person, but also available online here. Posters must be submitted by 10AM the day of the symposium.  (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
April 28 2022 - 10:00 AM - April 28 2022 - 5:00 PM
Dr. Caroline Connolly
Sarah Aina Shamsul Azhar
Using Sentence Context to Learn Word Meaning
Emma H Palermo
Perceived Sleep Quality and REM are Integral to Emotion Regulation
Kevin Le
Development and Validation of Mind-Body Scale
Yik Ming (Michael) Lau
Does participation in forecasting tournaments promote intellectual humility?
Christian Cross
Habituating Rhesus Macaques To A Naturalistic Environment To Quantify Social Behavior Using Semi And Fully Automated Methods
Cheryl Chang
Impacts of Behavioral Incentives on App Engagement in the Context of a Mental Health App
Mia Fuentes
Examining How Parenting and Socioeconomic Status Relate to Hippocampal Volume and Attentional Control Abilities
Wenyi Xu
Neuroimaging predictors of treatment response and abnormalities in neuropsychiatric disorders: a meta-analysis
Ryan Le
The Effect of Semantic Coherence on Numerosity Perception
Nicholas Plante
Stranger Than Friction: People Discount the Efficacy of Friction in Reducing Screen Time
The Influence of Primal Beliefs on the Performance of College Tennis Players
Valerie Hanna
  • Valerie Hanna
How Subtasks Influence Behavior Change, Goal Desirability, & Goal Attainability
Jan Magielski
The NPU-Anxiety Test: A Novel Paradigm for Studying Perseverative Thought in a Social-Evaluative Context​
Qinlin Li
The Meaning of Food in Three Countries
Sydney Zebrowitz
The Role of Excitatory: Inhibitory Balance in Seizure Exacerbated Tau Spread in the 5XFAD Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model
Stephanie A Hasford
Relationship between Early Exposure to Violence and Later Antisocial and Criminal Behavior
Bridget Brody
The Impact of Parent-Child Relationships on Adolescent Substance Use
Jia Shi
COVID Stress, Loss, and Expressive Writing
Katinka Tangen
Does polysemy assist in cross-situational word learning? Comparing artificial visual similarities with natural polysemous pairs.
Kendall Owens
The Interplay of Emotional Reactivity, Motivation, and Sleep Efficiency in Major Depressive Disorder
Tiffany Tieu
  • Hope Cho
Exploring the Impact of Anti-Asian Hate on Penn Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lana Prieur
It’s More About What You’re Saying: Emergent Leaders in Virtual Groups
Carly Cohen
Students' judgments of the importance of treatment-induced improvements in functioning and symptoms of depression
Janet Lee
Examining associations between early life stress, accelerated development, and cognition
Title Sort descending First & Last Name Co-Presenter(s) School Advisors Project Funding Source
A CBT Smartphone App for IBS Improves Visceral Anxiety and Fear of Food Simay Ipek College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Melissa Hunt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Callous Versus Anxious and Substance Choices in Adjudicated Adolescents: A Longitudinal Test of the Self-Medication Hypothesis Maia Chester College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Rebecca Waller
  • Samantha Perlstein
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
COVID Stress, Loss, and Expressive Writing Jia Shi College of Arts & Sciences
  • Melissa G. Hunt
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Development and Validation of Mind-Body Scale Kevin Le College of Arts & Sciences
  • Annie Jung
  • Dolores Albarracin
Other
Does participation in forecasting tournaments promote intellectual humility? Yik Ming (Michael) Lau College of Arts & Sciences
  • Philip Tetlock
  • Cory Clark
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Does polysemy assist in cross-situational word learning? Comparing artificial visual similarities with natural polysemous pairs. Katinka Tangen College of Arts & Sciences
  • John Trueswell
  • Alexander LaTourrette
  • Victor Gomes
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Examining associations between early life stress, accelerated development, and cognition Janet Lee College of Arts & Sciences
  • Allyson Mackey
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Examining How Parenting and Socioeconomic Status Relate to Hippocampal Volume and Attentional Control Abilities Mia Fuentes
  • Dr. Allyson Mackey
  • Dr. Anne Park
  • Dr. Morgan Botdorf
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Exploring the Impact of Anti-Asian Hate on Penn Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic Tiffany Tieu
Hope Cho
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Melissa Hunt
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Habituating Rhesus Macaques To A Naturalistic Environment To Quantify Social Behavior Using Semi And Fully Automated Methods Christian Cross Liberal & Professional Studies
  • Dr. Michael Platt
  • Felipe Parodi
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
How Subtasks Influence Behavior Change, Goal Desirability, & Goal Attainability Valerie Hanna
Valerie Hanna
College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Dolores Albarracín
  • Yubo Zhou
Other
Impacts of Behavioral Incentives on App Engagement in the Context of a Mental Health App Cheryl Chang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Heather Nuske
Other
Investigating Decision Processes in Organ Donor Registration Feiyi Wang College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sudeep Bhatia
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
It’s More About What You’re Saying: Emergent Leaders in Virtual Groups Lana Prieur College of Arts & Sciences
  • Scott Rennie
University Scholars
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Treatment of Comorbid Depression and Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study of Two Different Approaches Daniella Batievsky College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Michael Thase
  • Dr. Michelle Weiner
Other
Neuroimaging predictors of treatment response and abnormalities in neuropsychiatric disorders: a meta-analysis Wenyi Xu College of Arts & Sciences
  • Desmond Oathes
Grants for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Perceived Sleep Quality and REM are Integral to Emotion Regulation Emma Palermo College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Jennifer Goldschmied
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Perceptions and experiences of mental health treatment among suicidal individuals Joshua Steinberg College of Arts & Sciences
  • Kelly Green
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Relationship between Early Exposure to Violence and Later Antisocial and Criminal Behavior Stephanie Hasford College of Arts & Sciences
  • Sara Jaffee
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
Stranger Than Friction: People Discount the Efficacy of Friction in Reducing Screen Time Nicholas Plante College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Angela Duckworth
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant
Students' judgments of the importance of treatment-induced improvements in functioning and symptoms of depression Carly Cohen College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Robert DeRubeis
  • Akash Wasil
Other
The Effect of Semantic Coherence on Numerosity Perception Ryan Le College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Elizabeth M. Brannon
  • Chuyan Qu
MindCore
The Impact of Parent-Child Relationships on Adolescent Substance Use Bridget Brody College of Arts & Sciences
  • Dr. Sara Jaffee
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Grocery Purchasing Decisions Abigail Metzler College of Arts & Sciences
  • Tanja Kral
  • Evan Forman
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant