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2007-08 Undergraduate Research Grant Winners

Fall 2007

Thirteen undergraduate Psi Chi members are recipients of Psi Chi Research Grants for Fall 2007. This grant program provides funds for Psi Chi members to defray the cost of conducting a research project. The Fall 2007-08 winners, along with their schools, research advisors, and project titles, are listed below.

• Joseph Donohoe, Shippensburg University (PA)
  Dr. Adrian Tomer (research advisor)
  "The Role of Emotional Intelligence in the Influence of Positive Affect on Creativity and Inductive Reasoning"
   

• Mehul Gandhi, University of Victoria (BC)
  Dr. Ronald Skelton (research advisor)
  "The Effect of Spatial Experience on Spatial Attention: A Study With Eye-Tracking in Virtual Reality"
   

• Laura Girz, University of Michigan
  Dr. Patricia Deldin (research advisor)
  "Rumination as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Depression"
   

• Richard A. Griggs, Bradley University (IL)
  Dr. Timothy Koeltzow (research advisor)
  "The Effects of Continuous Versus Intermittent Methylphenidate Administration on Cocaine Self-Administration in a Rat Model of ADHD"
   

• Kristin A. Kiel, James Madison University (VA)
  Dr. Sherry Serdikoff (research advisor)
  "Examining Immediate and Delayed Reinforcement in a Contingency Management Smoking Cessation Intervention for College Students"

• Adam Kynaston, Utah State University
  Dr. Amy Odum (research advisor)
  "Environmental Factors Affecting the Development of Tolerance and Sensitization: Random-Ratio vs. Random-Interval Schedules of Food Delivery"

• Stephanie A. Maddox, University of South Carolina–Columbia
  Dr. Barbara Oswald (research advisor)
  "Effects of Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex on Trace Eyeblink Conditioning Following Amygdala Inactivation"

• Emily Morales Mall, California State University, Stanislaus
  Dr. Dawn Strongin (research advisor)
  "Comparison of Neurobehavioral Assessment Techniques"

• Peter Radu, Stanford University (CA)
  Dr. James Gross (research advisor)
  "Impulsiveness and Relapse in Cigarette Smokers: A Longitudinal Study"

• Kartik Ramamoorthi, Rutgers University (NJ)
  Dr. Tim Otto (research advisor)
  "Gene Expression Changes in Ventral and Dorsal Hippocampus Induced by Trace Fear Conditioning"

• Sarah Schwarz, Saint Michael's College (ME)
  Dr. Ari Kirshenbau (research advisor)
  “Chronic Nicotine Administration and Cue-Dependent Impulsivity”

• Lauren Stewart, University of Victoria (BC)
  Dr. Ron Skelton (research advisor)
  “Eye Tracking as a Means of Distinguishing Between Allocentric and Egocentric Navigation"

• Max Wu, Wesleyan University (CT)
  Dr. Steven Stemler (research advisor)
  "Resident Advisor Performance and Multiple Intelligences"
  Article in the NASPA Journal

Spring 2008

Fifteen Psi Chi members are recipients of Spring 2007-08 Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grants. This grant program, which was launched in the 1997-98 school year, provides funds for Psi Chi members to defray the cost of conducting a research project. The Spring 2007-08 Undergraduate Research Grant winners, along with their schools, research advisors, and project titles, are listed below (in alphabetical order):

• Bailey Bell, Utah State University
  Dr. Melanie Domenech Rodríguez (research advisor)
  "Self-Injurious Behaviors: An Examination of the Establishment and Maintenance of Self-Injurious Behaviors in Adolescent-Limited Versus Life Course-Persistent Patterns of Self-Injury”
   

• Marissa B. Esser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Dr. Patricia Devine (research advisor)
  "Biased Judgments: The Influence of Gender and Intoxication Level on Reactions to Sexist Remarks"
   

• John Freimuth, Saint Mary's College of California
  Dr. Paul Zarnoth (research advisor)
  "Elements of Control and Depression in Behavior-Related and Nonbehavior-Related Illnesses”
   

• Brantley P. Jarvis, James Madison University (VA)
  Dr. Sherry Serdikoff (research advisor)
  "Toward Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Contingency Management: Using Percentile Schedules and Escalating Quality of Reinforcement in an Intervention Designed to Reduce Smoking in College Students"
   

• Lauren Lubarsky, Pennsylvania State University at Abington
  Dr. Fran Sessa (research advisor)
  "Perceptions of Alcohol Control and Performance Ability With Fatal Vision Goggles: A Comparison"
   

• Jeremy Wing-Hei Luk, University of Washington
  Dr. Robert Kohlenberg (research advisor)
  "Contextual Variations of Mindfulness Across Interpersonal and Task-Oriented Contexts”
   

• Jon Niemi, Mount Union College (OH)
  Dr. Brian Woodside (research advisor)
  "The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Spatial Learning and Memory Following Blockade of NMDA and VDCC Receptors"
   

• Kristin Marie Oosterkamp, California State University, Stanislaus
  Dr. Dawn Strongin (research advisor)
  "Comparison of Neurobehavioral Performance Based on Residential Location"
   

• Stephen H. Robertson, James Madison University (VA)
  Dr. Sherry Serdikoff (research advisor)
  "Assessing the Putative Anxiolytic Effects of Kava Administration in Rats Using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM)”
   

• Andrea C. Rydel, Rutgers University New Brunswick (NJ)
  Dr. Jeannette Haviland-Jones (research advisor)
  "Effects of Human Mood Odors on Heart Rate Variability”
   

• Juliana Schroeder, University of Virginia
  Dr. Gerald Clore (research advisor)
  "The Computation of Pain: How Pain Beliefs and Reaction Rates Affect Chronic Pain Patients Determination of Their Pain Intensity”
   

• Desiré Ann Shepler, University of Alaska Anchorage
  Dr. Gwen Lupfer-Johnson (research advisor)
  "Individual, Interpersonal, and Community Correlates of Trait Self-Objectification"
   

• Chloe Skidmore, Grand Valley State University (MI)
  Dr. Andrea Rotzien (research advisor)
  "The Impact of Disordered Eating Patterns, Multidimensional Self-Esteem, and Emotional Regulation on Self-Injurious Behaviors in College Women"
   

• Sarah Turchin, Connecticut College
  Dr. Joan Chrisler (research advisor)
  "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Factors Related to Eating Disorders in the U.S. and Argentina”
   

• Wes Wayman, Bradley University (IL)
  Dr. Timothy Koeltzow (research advisor)
  "The Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Cocaine-Seeking Behavior and Protein Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens”