Graduate Research Funding Recipients

2017-2018 Recipients Project Title
Joseph Avery (Psychology) A Novel Application of Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning: Understanding and Improving Legal Decision Making
Nathan Cheek (Psychology) Exploring the Role of Motivated Reasoning in Judgments of Lying
Sammy Floyd (Psychology) Reconciling meaning and learning: cases of polysemy
Angela Radulescu (Psychology & Neuroscience) Mood-induced sharpening of attention in human reinforcement learning
Tracy Reuter (Psychology) Look at that prediction via stimultion: Using spatial deixis to evaluate theoretical claims in psycholinguistics
Karina Tachihara (Psychology) The Role of Memory Suppression in Language Learning
Taylor Webb (Psychology) Reconsidering Unconscious Perception

 

2016-2017 Recipients Project Title
Joel Finkelstein (Psychology) & Taylor Webb (Psychology) A systematic investigation of attitudes on folk psychological concepts
Samantha Floyd (Psychology) & Jessica Schwab (Psychology) The influence of contrastive training on children's learning of scalar implicature
Adam Lerner (Philosophy) Investigating the Role of Perspective-Taking in Moral Judgment with Virtual Reality
Gandalf Nicolas (Psychology) Measuring the content of stereotypes through free response
Madalina Vlasceanu (Psychology) Retrieval Induced Forgetting in the Equity Premium Puzzle

 

2015-2016 Recipients Project Title
Judy Fan (Psychology) & Simon Cullen (Philosophy) Investigating the role of visualization in argument understanding
Gary Kane (Psychology) Investigating the role of the locus coeruleus in foraging behavior
Adam Lerner (Philosophy) Somatosensory Simulation and Moral Judgment
Mor Regev (Psychology) Neural network dynamics underlying the accommodation of spoken and written language comprehension
Nicholas Rohrbaugh (Psychology) Complex Social Dynamics of Public Reactions to the Psychology of Poverty
Jessica Schwab (Psychology) Generalization versus lexical conservatism in children's learning of gendered particles