Senior Project is a unique opportunity at Bard College that provides Seniors with a year-long intensive academic experience in which you gain expertise in an area of particular interest to you. Regardless of the type of project you choose, your question must be novel, in an area of strong interest to you, and grounded in your academic background.
All Senior Projects can be found on:
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All Senior Projects can be found on:
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Senior Projects
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Senior Projects 2024
Senior Projects 2024
- Breath of Forgetfulness: Respiratory Effects of Memory Suppression, L. Jijieshvili
- Angry Men Versus Happy Women: A Study of Facial Expression Bias in Young Adults and preschool children, A. David
- Effects of Animosity on Smoking Stigma: The Moderating Effects of Race, J. Ingwu
- Education in Changing Times: How to Identify and Rehabilitate Issues in Education Post-Crisis, G. Forsyth
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Senior Projects 2023
Senior Projects 2023
- Gender and Theory of Mind: The Complex Relationships Between the Depiction of Emotion in Preschool Age Children and Moderating Variables, by A. Skamser
- Teacher Diversity Training: Revealing Biases and Changing Practices, by D. Bass
- Analyzing the effects of Video Games on Social Anxiety and Communication, by A. Quigley
- A Repulsive Inquiry: Evaluating the impact of cognitive load on aversive gaze behaviors following exposure to disgusting and fearful stimuli, by A. Kaplan
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Senior Projects 2022
Senior Projects 2022
- The Effects of D2 Receptor Modulation on Locomotor Development in Danio rerio, by I. McRoberts
- Eww vs. Taboo: The Effect of Physical Contamination and Moral Transgressions on Feelings of Mental Contamination, by K. Fallon
- Is Transphobia Conditional? The Effects of Coming Out Before or After an Interaction, by C. Goldberg
- The Effects of Divorce on Middle-Childhood and Adolescent Cognitive Development, by E. Heffron
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Senior Projects 2021
Senior Projects 2021
- Caregiver Cues: The Role of the Body in Infant-Caregiver Relationships, by A. Alvarez
- Drag Participation as a Mechanism for Dealing with Minority Stress in LGBTQIA+ Populations, by S. Bass
- How Fast are “Fast-Friends”? Do People Make Accurate Friendship-relevant Judgements of Strangers Within the First Minute of Interaction, by D. Benson
- The Effects of Social Media on Mental Health: A Proposed Study, by G. Bossard
- Online Waiting: Are You Anxious Yet?, by C. Campbell
- Merging the Waves: An Eclectic Approach to Practicing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, by D. Chittavidya-Ananda
- Cultural Taxation and College Students: Undergraduate College Students and Their Experiences With Unfair Cultural and Identity Taxation, by S. Chowdhury
- Fitting In: A Study on Adolescent Identity-Uncertainty and Group Entitativity, by I. Cruz-Vespa
- “Light skin is the Right Skin? and Long Hair Don’t Care?”: An Investigation of Colorism and Texturism Amongst Black and Latina Women, by R. Griffin
- Clarifying the Relationship Between Instagram Use and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Individual Differences in Problematic Instagram Use and Goal Pursuit, by A. Guaba Perez
- Framing Narratives for Resilience: A Proposal on Utilizing a Narrative Intervention for Remote College Students, by D. Hernandez Muztafa
- Solitary Confinement: An Examination of the Use of Torture in United States Correctional Facilities, by P. Kamvisseli Suarez
- Reducing Youth Incarceration Through Protections in Childhood Development: A Case Study of West Virginia, by C. Lindsay
- Art as Therapy: Using Fictional Written Accounts in the Treatment of PTSD, by N. Matos
- The Intersectionality of Anti-fat Prejudice, by L. Moerschel
- The Effect of Theatre of the Oppressed on “The Cop in the Head”, by S. Niles
- A Bilingual Advantage for Children with Autism: Effect of a Bilingual Education on Set Shifting in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, by C. O’Reardon
- The Differences in Visuospatial Attentional Distribution Between Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes, Identified Through Covert Visual Search, by K. Ostbirk
- The Role of a Polyrhythm’s Pitch Interval in Music-Dependent Memory, by H. Parum
- Exercise as a Moderating Variable of Social Media Usage and Life Satisfaction, by G. Profumo
- The Pressure Cooker of Higher Education: Multiple Predictors of Pressure to Succeed Among Today’s College Students, by J. M. Richards
- Music as Medicine: Supporting NASA’s Advancement into Long-Duration Space Missions, by G. Rosado Torres
- Communicating With Play: Helping Adults Recognize Separation Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder In Preschool Children, by K. Shamro
- Back to Wonderland: Can imaginative play improve creativity in adults and children within a single session of play?, by P. Sheehan
- The Incorporation of Indigenous Tradition in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Pathway to Cultural Inclusivity Within Mental Health, by A. Winings
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Senior Projects 2020
Senior Projects 2020
- The Effects of Virtual Reality on Motor Performance in the First Person Point of View, by A. Augustin
- Where Words Fail, Music Speaks: Investigating the Role of Psychopathy in Predicting the Level of Emotion and Frisson in Music Listening, by Emma Champeau
- Cultural Membership as a Moderator in the Relationship Between Social Motivation and Anthropomorphization Tendencies, by U. Desai
- How Our Public Education System Discourages Curiosity and Encourages Depression and Anxiety, by M. Greenberg
- Whose Eyes Are We Seeing Through?: A Proposed Investigation of the Effect of Self-Stigma Reduction Therapy on Quality of Life and Clinical Symptoms in Individuals Living with Schizophrenia, by C. Griffin
- The Way You Hear It, the Way You Judge It: Moral Decision-making and Moral Reasoning in Accented Speech, by Y. Gu
- Friend or Foe? Outstanding Peer’s Unexpected Impact on Test Taking Ability, by W. Lee
- Existing but Not Living: A Discussion and Proposal for the Acute Social Withdrawal Syndrome Hikikomori in Japan, by A. Otey
- Regulating Self-Image on Social Media: Associations Between Social Anxiety and Instagram Control Behaviors, by I. Polletta
- Motivation and Emotion in Second Language Learning: Predictors of Objective Language Performance and Sustained Learning in Undergraduate Foreign Language Students, by A. Rauso
- Family Separation along the US/Mexico Southwest Border: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Trauma, Human Rights and Childhood Needs, by C. Secor
- Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder: A Diagnosis More Hopeful Than Harmful, by B. Tyborowski
- The Cost of Avoidance: Predicting Avoidant Behavior versus Confrontational Behavior in Response to Interpersonal Conflict, by C. Wood
- Does the Direction of Current Flow Using Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation (tDCS) Affect One’s Ability to Perform Motor Tasks?, by Z. Zhang
- Do You Have What It Tastes? The Effects of Physiological Stress on Human Taste Thresholds, by E. Zimmerman
- The Effect of Smartphone Separation and Dependence on Selective Attention, by I. Zion
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Senior Projects 2019
Senior Projects 2019
- Motivation in Minority Populations: Perceived Locus of Control and The Effect of Ethnic Matching, by M. Agosto
- Do You See What I See? Investigating the Efficacy of a Novel Body-scaled Action Intervention in Reducing Body Size Overestimation in Anorexia Nervosa, by B. DePietro
- Does Aerobic Exercise or Cardiovascular Exercise Facilitate Explicit Memory?, by N. Ellin
- Stimulus Regulation in Pediatric Trichotillomania, by T. Lee
- A Wizard Hat for the Brain: Predicting Long-Term Memory Retention Using Electroencephalography, by N. Libby
- Dual Images and Dual Languages: A Study on Bilingual College Students and Reversal of Abstract Images, by E. Loughlin
- A Test of Obedience or Patience? A Modified Replication of “Nothing by Mere Authority” by Haslam et al. (2014), by J. Machen
- An Exploration of Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) and Its Relation to Perfectionism and Performance, by G. Marko
- Keeping It In the Family: How Family Functioning and Environment Impacts Social Anxiety in College Students, by S. Prusky
- Can Brain Training that Consists of Making Replication of a Three-dimensional Object Improve Visuospatial Performance?, by R. Rice
- The Influence of the Harmonic Series on the Perception of an Unfamiliar Musical System, by L. Sandbank
- Helping Adolescents with Autism: Can Music Therapy Counteract the Effects of Hyperacusis?, by S. Sinclair
- Body Dissatisfaction: Searching for a Link between Depressive Symptoms, Body Image, and Eating Patterns, by L. Sorrell
- The Corporeal Specificity of Women: Gender Perception Along the Dimension of Mind and Body, by T. Su
- “Only girls play with those”: An Analysis of Preschoolers’ Gender Schema Development through Gender Stereotype Knowledge and Recognition of Gendered Information, by A. Sullivan
- Idioms of Distress in Myanmar, by M. Thuyein
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Senior Projects 2018
Senior Projects 2018
- They Always Do What They Ought To Do: A Historical Analysis, and Exploratory Examination of the “Woman Problem” and the Function of Gender in American Psychology, by W. Baigelman
- The Effect of Facebook on Body Dissatisfaction: Ethnicity as a Possible Moderator, by H. Brown
- Lost in Translation: The Conceptual-Empirical Language Barrier between Criminal Law and Psychology, by E. Broughton
- Justice Might be Blind but Many Jurors are Not: Exploring the Mechanisms of Aversive Racism and Normative Decision Making in Juridical Decisions, by C. Brontë
- Trust and Satisfaction in Long Distance vs. Proximal Relationships in Individuals Aged 18 to 22, by B. Ciallela
- Does the Punishment Really Fit the Crime? Exploring the Detrimental Perception of Motherhood in the United States as it Relates to Pregnancy Status and Race, by S. Nielsen
- Towards Improving Learning with Consumer-Grade, Closed-Loop, Electroencephalographic Neurofeedback, by Z. Hirschstein
- Cream of the Crop or Bottom of the Barrel: An Exploration of the Variability in Susceptibility to Social Influences Present in Genocides, by S. Sinclair
- Pronounceability and Visual Recognition Processing: The Role of Phonology in Word Identification Under the Mixed-Case Situation, by L. Zhu
- Nothing tastes as good as starvation feels: Anorexia nervosa as a maladaptive mechanism of emotion regulation, by E. Fitzgerald
- The Unwilling Spectator: How Secondary Exposure to Trauma Through Journalism Affects Our Emotional Processing, by C. Riddick
- Not All Bad: Exploring The Link Between Psychopathy and Success, by L. Harker
- Everyday Ghosts: An Examination of Memory in Social Interactions, by S. Murphy
- “Boys Will Be Boys”: Examining the Relationship Between Men’s Conformity to Masculine Norms and Perceptions of Psychological Abuse, by A. Lian
- The Way You Make Me Feel: Semantic Response Behavior Following a Status Prime in the Context of Romantic Relationships, by R. Konefal
- Attachment, Ethnicity, and Identity Development: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Non-Familial Care, by S. Such
- אמהות ותינוקות: The Adaptation of a Prenatal Postpartum Depression Intervention for Orthodox Jewish Women, by S. Klein
- Fostering Success: Factors Impacting Life Outcomes of Foster Care Youth in New York City, by W. Checo
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Senior Projects 2017
Senior Projects 2017
- Distortion in Body Schema: The Influence of Body Fat and Mass on Perceptions of Personal Size, by K. Ferrucci
- Human chameleons: Are biracial individuals with integrated racial identities more prone to body dissatisfaction?, by S. Genung
- An Obsession Matched Intervention Improves the Facial/Emotional Recognition Deficit in Children with Asperger’s Syndrome, by A. Hoffman
- I Am Not The Phantom Hand! Exploring the Effects of Illusory Ownership of an Other-Race Rubber Hand on Racial Identity In Racial Minorities, by E. Jacoby
- Executive Skills Training for Treatment of ADHD in Children, by V. Kokorina
- Proposed Intervention to Improve Recently Immigrated Hispanic Adolescents’ Academic Performance and Psychological Well-Being, by S. Lagville-Graham
- Facial Emotion Recognition Impairments in Subclinical Depression, by C. Leighton
- Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels, by A. Malloy
- From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Early Childhood Development, by H. McCarley
- Media and the Shooter Bias: Investigating the Relationship Between Implicit Racial Biases and News Coverage, by M. Phelps
- Can You Feel Your Heart Beat? Exploring the Relationship Between Interoception and Suicide, by M. Rile-Schmidt
- Excluded from Humanity: the Effects of Implicit Dehumanizing Views Toward Black Individuals in the Media, by J. Velette
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Senior Projects 2016
Senior Projects 2016
- Immigrants in America: The Relationship Between Acculturation and Well-Being, and the Validation of Self-Report as a Measurement Tool, by B. Williams
- Does the Combination of Music and Movement Have Similar Benefits as Dopaminergic Medications? The Effects of the Ronnie Gardiner Rhythm and Music Therapy on Patients with First Stage Parkinson’s Disease, by A. Obbagy
- The Effects of Reactive Aggression and Proactive Aggression on Heart Rate Reactivity to an Anger Induction, by B. Bertoldi
- Could an Attachment Theory-Based Intervention Prevent Childhood-Onset Conduct Disorder?, by A. Cruz
- Look Who’s Talking Now: Representation of Female Characters in Children’s Chapter Books, by R. Swanson
- If It Looks Like a Dax, But I Call It a Wug, What Is It? Examining the Role of Essentialism in Children’s Social Categorizations, by H. Wippick
- Phonophobia Mediates the Relationship Between the Myelinated Vagus and Selective Mutism, by A. Batzdorf
- Do You Chill When I Chill? Exploring Strong Emotional Responses to Unfamiliar Musical Traditions, by E. Beier
- Do the Emotions ‘Shame’ and ‘Pride’ Alter Responses to Sexually Explicit Words in an Emotional Stroop Task?, by D. Iserlis
- What’s Your Type? Readability of Fonts Across Native and Non-Native English Speakers, by M. Eldar
- Primed for addictive behavior: Can popular mobile games act as triggers for addicts?, by Z. Goodman
- The Effects of Affective Arousal on Color Perception and Memory, by N. Lang
- The Effect of Empathy on Implicit Bias, by C. Beckford
- The Effects of Mindset and Perceived Support on STEM Pursuit in Single-Sex and Coeducational High Schools, by L. Henry
- The Effect of Controllability Beliefs on Attitudes about Weight and Socioeconomic Status, by M. Dunne
- The Analysis of Moral Education in China and its Effect on Chinese Children’s Moral Development, by G. Shu
- Effects of Early Life Stress on Anhedonia and Striatal Dopamine Concentration Depends on Variation in catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Genotype, by S. Cole
- Mad Men or Bad Men? How Gender Stereotypes, Individual Symptoms, and Participant Gender Affect Non-Expert’s Evaluations of People with Borderline Personality Disorder, by Q. McLamore
- Just the way you are(n’t): Does identity disturbance contribute to romantic difficulties in borderline personality disorder?, by C. Thigpen
- An Attachment Style Based Experimental Design to Maximize Dog Adoption Success, by C. Weinman
- The Differences in Motor Memory in Music Performance Based on the Movement Characteristics of the Musical Instruments, by V. Mojzesova
- Actual and Ideal Self-Concept Appeals in Cosmetic Advertising for Mass-Market, Luxury, and Prestige Brands, by M. Stevens
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Senior Projects 2015
Senior Projects 2015
- Fear Conditioning and Reconsolidation-Blockade in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Emergency Responders, by M. Ananthasayan
- Slouching Towards Jerusalem: A View from a Psychological Negotiation Theory, by A. Cooper (SSt project)
- Are You a Criminal?: A Senior Project Examining the Relationship Between Stereotype and Power Using Signal Detection Analysis, by P. Lichtenstein
- Sociality of Gaze Following in Black and White Ruffed Lemurs: Following a Live Person versus a Photograph, by H. Mason
- A Dialectical Approach: Reducing Reactive Aggression by Targeting Emotion Dysregulation in Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorder and a History of Trauma, by L. Walker
- The Influence of Gender and Diagnosis on Parent Perception of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, by R. Anders
- Cognitive Enrichment Intervention for Captive Orcas, by E. Copeland
- Beneath the Human Capital Investment: Modelling student debt awareness and a Critical examination of financial aid materials using Construal-level Theory, by S. Sutcliffe
- A Shifting Standards Perspective on the Gender Gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, by S. Rieschl
- Game and Train: A Targeted Game-Based Mobile Intervention for the Treatment of Incarcerated Psychopathic Offenders, by S. Abualy
- Establishing an anxiety paradigm adapted for larval zebrafish: The effects of an anxiogenic on standard and color-enriched open field tests, by C. Spratt
- The Effects of High and Low Valence Affective Faces on Facilitation of Learning in Children with Autism, by M. Weil
- Exploring Gender Differences in STI Testing Behavior of College Students Using the Health Belief Model, by Y. Singh
- The Influence of Television on Attitude Change and Culture in the United States, by E. Stieker-Epstein
- Neuroplasticity in Art Therapy for Depression, by S. Avsyuk
- A Mind-Body Approach to Healing: Investigating the Use of Yoga for PTSD and Trauma-Related Symptoms, by A. Fronsman
- Effects of Acute Nicotine on Larval Zebrafish Exploratory Behavior in a Complex Environment, by B. Chen
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Senior Projects 2014
Senior Projects 2014
- The Sense Behind Senseless Violence: The Influence of Masculine Ideals, Self-Complexity, and Shame on Coping with Stress Through Extreme Violence, by C. Taggart Barone
- In Other Worlds: Word Play in Children’s Fantasy and Children’s Language Production, by A.S. Benowitz
- Teaching Regulation Without Repression: Using the Jungian Shadow to Inform an Adaptive Socialization of Emotion, by W.J. Cordes
- Language and Sensibility: Bilingualism and a Broader Conceptual Store, by L. Wistar Craighill
- Incidental Emotions and Trust Decisions: Visceral Influences on Economic Behavior, by I.A. Elmelech
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stigma, and Survivor Guilt in Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, by B. Greenwald
- Reaching New Heights: An Examination of Cognitive Dissonance and the Attitude Toward Height and Leadership, by E.F. Harris
- “I’m Just Not a Math Person:” The Effect of Preconceived Notions of Failure or Success and Mindset on Math Performance, by B.K. Hoffman Patalona
- Meditation-as-Therapy: How Buddhist Psychology Can Improve Health, by A.M. Kidd
- Assessing the Validity of Danio rerio as a Model Organism for Nootropic Research: The Effects of Phenylpiracetam on Larval Zebrafish Behavior, by M.C. Mueller
- “Am I Math Compatible?”: How Stereotype Threat Relates to Gender and Math Identification in Women, by E.M. Neubauer
- The Effect of Rehabilitative-Oriented Training and Mission Statement on Prison Guard Attitudes and Behavior Towards Inmates With Mental Disorders, by D.N. Pitts
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Through the Lens of the Self-Medication Hypothesis, by R.J. Samuels
- Storm and Text: Considering Social Anxiety and Communication Tendencies in Adolescence, by M. Smillie
- How Traditional is the Romance? Heroines, Stereotypes, and the Heterosexual Script, by T.L. Sorenson
- Transcending The Divide: Integrating Epigenetic and Psychoanalytic Explanations of Psychopathology, by S.A. Walser
- Decision Making and a Future Self: An Evaluation of Adolescents’ Self-Efficacy Following Peer Intervention, by M.M. Williams
- The Effect of Induced Self-Efficacy on Team Performance: A Task Involving Hand-Eye Coordination, by W.H. Williams
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Senior Projects 2013
Senior Projects 2013
- The Photovoice Process in Stress-Induced Depression: How Giving a Voice to the Unheard through Pictures May Reduce Stress, by A.O. Okubadejo
- Determining the Efficacy of Medical Marijuana for Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with ADHD, by A.C. Vance
- Conventionally Unconventional: Learning About Words I Already Learned About, by A. Blank
- Differences in Playboy Magazine Advertisements From 1960 to 2010: Gender Role Stereotype and Routes to Persuasion, by A.S. Levenshus
- When Time Drags On: Does Anger Experience Enhance Time Perception Distortion?, by D.L. Zhou
- The Moderating Effect of Siblings on the Relationship Between Theory of Mind and Executive Function in Preschool Children, by D.L. Kalish
- Contrasting Stigma: Negative Implicit Attitudes and Attributions about Depression Relative to ADHD, by D.J. Gazarian
- Destruction In Disguise? Examining Relationships Between Eating Disorders and Vegetarian and Vegan Diets, by E.C. Walsh
- The Potential Exacerbation and Earlier Onset of Bipolar Disorder in an At Risk Child Population Due To Methylphenidate Treatment, by G.A. Rudensky
- The Close-End Fund Paradox in Country Funds: A Conventional and Behavioral Perspective: Do news reports affect the movement of discounts?, by G.P. Tsolova
- Do you really want another slice? Overeaters’ implicit and explicit food preferences, by L. Ovadia
- Stereotype Threat Spillover in New Group Formation amongst Individuals of High and Low Socioeconomic Status, by M. Flowers
- Talking About the Mind: Mental-State Language and Theory of Mind Performance in Preschoolers, by M. Andersen
- Combating Pediatric Obesity with a Universal Intervention for Elementary School-Age Children: A Tailored Program for Hinds County, Mississippi, by N.M. Haaser
- Cultural Perspectives and Aesthetic Preference: Comparing the Framing in Photographs between East Asians and Americans, by Q. Qin
- Theory of Mind as Empathy: Cognitive and Affective Empathic Deficits Counterbalanced in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Antisocial Personality Disorder, by R.A. Bell-Gurwitz
- Psychobiological Influence of Estrogen on the Serotonin System in Anorexia Nervosa: A Grant Proposal for Treatment Effects, by R.L. Siuta
- Fingerprints of Nature: The Effect of Fractal Geometry on Emotion, Cognition and Creativity, by S. Seto
- Neurofeedback as a Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury, by U. Radovanovic
- “Follow your heart” – Chinese urban post-80 mothers’ expectations for their children, by W. Chen