Psychology Department


Research

Summer Research

Here are the most recent summer research projects that were conducted in the Psychology Department at Occidental College. You can get more information and summer research projects from previous years from the Undergraduate Research Center.

Summer 2007:

  The Importance of Goal Priorities in Adolescence
Michael Adams (Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman)
  Unpopularity and Disliking among Peers
Molly Frolich (Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman)
  The Interviewee Rating Study
Philip Guerrero (Brian Kim)
  Faking on Personality Tests: A Meta-Analytic Review
Vanessa Lammers (Brian Kim)


Summer 2006:

  Female Athletes’ Pain Coping Style Based On a Personality Profile
Alessandra (Alex) Farley (Lynn Mehl)


Summer 2005:

  Adolescents' Self-Perception of Friendship
Helen Huynh (Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman)
  Creative Dissent: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Activist Art of Mexican Women in the Context of Gender Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Travel: Mexico
Rita Molestina (Alexandra Puerto and Raul Villa)
  Tolerance to the Ataxic Effect of Alcohol in Rats Selectively Bred for Saccharin Intake
Cheryl Prigodich (Nancy Dess)
  A Case Study of Mobile Hospitals in Tamil Nadu, India
Travel: India
Johanna Quist (Roberta Mancuso)
  Stress Differently Affects Meal Pattern in Selectively Bred Rats
Jocelyn Richard (Clinton Chapman and Nancy Dess)
  The New “Nature” of Prejudice: Measuring Stereotypes Implicitly and Explicitly-A Pilot Study
Andrea C. Rodriguez-Scheel (Anne Schell)
  "Where Girls Grow Strong": Assessing the Benefits of the Girl Scouts Summer Games Program
Felicie Standley (Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman)
  African-American Nomenclature: What we call ourselves and why…
Kenjus T. Watson (Jaclyn Rodriguez)