{"id":8,"date":"2013-02-05T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychology.cos.ucf.edu\/pmil\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:54:37","slug":"current-independent-research-projects-of-undergraduate-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/current-independent-research-projects-of-undergraduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Research Projects of Undergraduate Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recently Defended Honors in the Major Projects from MPACT Lab:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Honors Undergraduate Thesis &#8211; Ana Garcia &#8211; Mediation analysis of a broader conceptualization of the three-step theory of suicidallity. Status: Successfully defended (April 2022)<\/p>\n<p>Honors in the Major &#8211; Keira Monaghan &#8211; Emotion experience to expression: Influence of psychopathy, expression suppression, and working memory capacity. Status: Successfully defended (November 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Honors in the Major &#8211; Allen Hagen &#8211; History of involvement with combat sports and severity of subtypes of psychopathy. Status: Successfully defended (July 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Honors in the Major &#8211; Magan Halverson &#8211; Development of a new self-report scale of level of trait motivation: The multifaceted motivation inventory. Status: Successfully defended (July 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Honors in the Major &#8211; Charlotte Payne &#8211; Does mental status moderate the relationship between traumatic brain injury history and life satisfaction?\u00a0Successfully defended (April 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Honors in the Major &#8211; Ashley Lee Lum &#8211; Relationship between broad aspects of personality functioning and generalized anxiety severity. Successfully defended (April 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Honors in the Major &#8211; Samantha Berg &#8211; Social anxiety, subtypes of empathy, and biological sex. Successfully defended (Oct. 2018). <u>Chosen by UCF Burnett Honors College for one of four oral presentations across the university during UCF Research Week (April 2019). <\/u><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-image-114 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/pmil\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/photo-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Joseph (above) presenting his initial Honors in the Major idea at the 2013 Diversifying Clinical Psychology Conference in New Orleans.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_83\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/Jenya.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/pmil\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/Jenya-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Honors in the Major undergraduate student Jenya Kolpakova presenting her poster (ICOSR 2013)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/Jenya-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/Jenya-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/Jenya-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/Jenya-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honors in the Major undergraduate student Jenya Kolpakova presenting her poster (ICOSR 2013)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictures of Winners from the MPACT Lab\u00a0in the 2011 UCF Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Timothy.jpg\" alt=\"CNS-Timothy\" width=\"367\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Timothy.jpg 367w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Timothy-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Timothy-361x300.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First place Winner in the Social Sciences III Category \u2013 Timothy Paskowski<br \/>\n\u201cThe Relationship Between Psychometrically-Defined Social Anxiety and Working Memory Performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Marlaine.jpg\" alt=\"CNS-Marlaine\" width=\"397\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Marlaine.jpg 397w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Marlaine-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second Place Winner in the Health Sciences Category \u2013 Marlaine Monroig<br \/>\n\u201cAssociations Between Positive Health Behaviors and Psychological Distress\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictures of Winners from the MPACT\u00a0Lab in the 2010 UCF Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Andrea-Diane.jpg\" alt=\"CNS-Andrea-Diane\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Andrea-Diane.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/CNS-Andrea-Diane-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Ranieri (left) and Diane Hernandez (right) &#8211;<br \/>\nUndergraduate Research Students of MPACT Lab &#8211;<br \/>\nSecond place winners at the 2010 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence (SURE)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Past Honors in the Major Projects of Undergraduate Students in the MPACT<strong>\u00a0Lab<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<p>1) The relationship between stress and memory performance in an undergraduate population. (Honors in the Major project \u2013 Diana Orem \u2013 defended Spring 2005).<\/p>\n<p>2) Attentional bias across the dimension of social anxiety. (Honors in the Major project \u2013 Scott Sutterby \u2013 defended Spring 2006).<\/p>\n<p>3) Personality traits related to vengeance propensity. (Honors in the Major project \u2013 Cathleen Webster \u2013 defended Spring 2006).<\/p>\n<p>4) Linguistic correlates of psychopathology in autobiographical narrative. (Honors in the Major \u2013 Micah Allen \u2013 defended Spring 2008 \u2013 Honorable Mention at UCF Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence)<\/p>\n<p>5) The relationship between concussion history and preseason neuropsychological performance in UCF football players. (Honors in the Major project \u2013 Amanda Huston \u2013 defended Spring 2010)<\/p>\n<p>6) Associations between positive health behaviors and psychological distress. (Honors in the Major project \u2013 Marlaine Monroig \u2013 defended Spring 2011 \u2013 Second Place Winner in the Health Sciences Category at 2011 UCF Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence)<\/p>\n<p>7) The relationship between psychometrically-defined social anxiety and working memory performance. (Honors in the Major project \u2013 Timothy Paskowski \u2013 defended Spring 2011 \u2013 First place Winner in the Social Sciences III Category at 2011 UCF Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence)<\/p>\n<p>8)\u00a0Childhood cat bites and disorganized symptoms of schizotypy in adulthood. (Honors in the Major project &#8211; Jenya Kolpakova &#8211; defended Spring 2013).<\/p>\n<p>9) Subtypes of anhedonia and facial electromyography response to negative affective pictures in healthy adults. (Honors in the Major project &#8211; Lisa Kadison &#8211; defended in Spring 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently Defended Honors in the Major Projects from MPACT Lab: Honors Undergraduate Thesis &#8211; Ana Garcia &#8211; Mediation analysis of a broader conceptualization of the three-step theory of suicidallity. 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