Master's Thesis Projects 2019 Danielle Deloach Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz THESIS: The persuasiveness of jailhouse informants: the role of ulterior motives, inconsistencies, and specific details in unreliable testimony Justin HughesCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program, Southern Mississippi Faculty Advisor: Seemann THESIS: An examination of the systematic error in three common outcome measures of cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain using generalizability theory Alexander MarbutCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program, University of Alabama Faculty Advisor: Zheng THESIS: ethical leadership: conditional indirect effects of machiavellianism on followership 2018 McKenzie Alden Faculty Advisor: Seemann THESIS: Development of the Alabama prisoner quality of life survey Tori CastilleCurrent Employment: HR Coordinator at Invenergy LLC Faculty Advisor: Carpenter THESIS: The effects of preparatory information, acute stress and transactive memory systems on virtual team performance Jeffrey Dyas Faculty Advisor: Carpenter THESIS: is deliberate knowledge sharing useful? impacts of reflexivity, diversity, and motivation on team decision making Hillary ErwinCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program, University of Alabama Faculty Advisor: Price THESIS: The Impact of font size on reading comprehension Samineh GillmoreCurrent Employment: Research Associate, UAH Systems Management & Production Center (SMAP) Faculty Advisor: Zheng THESIS: forgiveness in the workplace: the contribution of perceived organizational support and perceived organizational competence Midori Roman Faculty Advisor: Zheng THESIS: understanding boundary conditions surrounding the glass cliff phenomenon Cynthia Stanley Faculty Advisor: Torres THESIS: the impact of humor on stress responses during a listening span task 2017 Brandi CookCurrent Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Intergraph Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz THESIS: misleading identification Elizabeth EastCurrent Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman Faculty Advisor: Carpenter THESIS: Cybersecurity and Subliminal priming Cesar GonzalezCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program, University of Alabama - Birmingham Faculty Advisor: Seemann THESIS: the utility of self-report measures in the detection of malingered chronic pain Kenneth HammettCurrent Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman Faculty Advisor: Price THESIS: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF PRESSURE IN MATH ANXIETY AND MATH PERFORMANCE Alan HarrisonCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program, Louisiana State University Faculty Advisor: Price THESIS: EXAMINING THE ROLES OF FLUENCY AND MEMORY BELIEFS IN PARTICIPANTS' ENCODING STRATEGIES, JUDGMENTS OF LEARNING, AND MEMORY PERFORMANCE Wilson LesterCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program in Educational Psychology, Auburn University Faculty Advisor: Price THESIS: The Sequencing order of math problems and its impact on math anxiety Donald SkinnerCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program, University of Mississippi Faculty Advisor: Price THESIS: The roles of schematic support and fluency in value-directed remembering Preston SmithCurrent Employment: Doctoral Program, University of California - Riverside Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz THESIS: The influence of jailhouse informant testimony on eyewitness identification 2016 Kelly ArnoldCurrent Employment: Faculty Advisor: Torres THESIS: The Theory of Planned Behavior as applied to helmet use in equestrians Cassandra BaldwinCurrent Employment: Texas A&M doctoral program Faculty Advisor: Torres THESIS: Effects of Expressive Suppression on Emotion Recognition and Cardiovascular and Subjective Reactivity Heather BeardCurrent Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman Faculty Advisor: Carpenter THESIS: Cybersecurity Message Framing Victoria BlakelyCurrent Employment: Research Associate, UAH Systems Management & Production Center (SMAP) Faculty Advisor: Price THESIS: Examining the roles of Fluency, Working Memory, and Pressure in Math anxiety and math performance Thomas Fleming Faculty Advisor: Carpenter THESIS: THE EFFECTS OF stress, communication, and transactive memory systems on team performance Katherine LuechtCurrent Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz THESIS: The effects of Post-identification feedback and exposure duration on eyewitnesses Robert NonemanCurrent Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman Faculty Advisor: Torres THESIS: lateralization of tempo processing and sensorimotor synchronization Barbara WrightFaculty Advisor: Price THESIS: Goal and Data-Driven Influences in Swahili Language Learning 2015 Payton BrownCurrent Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Intergraph Faculty Advisor: Carpenter THESIS: The Effectiveness of Warnings on Personal Identity Disclosure Kylie Key Current Employment: University of Oklahoma Cognitive Psychology doctoral program Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz Thesis: Response Latency and Confidence as Postdictors of Witness Accuracy Matthew Frazier Current Employment: HR Talent Development Analyst, Sentry Insurance Faculty Advisor: Carpenter Thesis: The Influence of Face-to-face Interaction on Virtual Team Performance Michael Shreeves Current Employment: Clemson University Human Factors Doctoral Program Faculty Advisor: Carpenter Thesis: Risk Processing, Affect, and Efficacy in Online Privacy Behavior 2014 Kimberly Beam Faculty Advisor: O’Brien Thesis: EXAMINING The role of incomplete information on tornado warning response Daniella Cash Current Employment: Doctoral Program, Louisiana State University Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz Thesis: Disentangling the three theories of unconscious transference Kelsey McElroy Current Employment: Support Staff, Alabama Psychological Services Center Faculty Advisor: Price Thesis: Perceived stimuli size and font size influences on judgments of learning Jennifer Brown Morgan Current Employment: HR Assistant, Polaris Faculty Advisor: Carpenter THESIS: Effects of Personality, communication, and cross-training on virtual team performance Mia Park Faculty Advisor: Price Thesis: Boundary Conditions of Font Size Effects Amanda Pryor Current Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman Faculty Advisor: Carpenter Thesis: Cross-training in Virtual Teams Casey Thomas Current Employment: Statistical Data Analyst at The University of Southern Mississippi Faculty Advisor: Carpenter Thesis: Understanding the Components of Online Identity Disclosure: Trust and Risk Perceptions 2013 Kristin Weger Current Employment: Doctoral Program, The University of Braumbach, Germany Faculty Advisor: Carpenter Thesis: Virtual Team Performance: Effects of Reflexivity, Transactive Memory, and Situation Awareness Michael Graham Current Employment: User Experience Researcher at Intergraph Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz Thesis: Judgments of Learning as Postdictors of Accuracy Alex Wooten Current Employment: Doctoral Program, Texas A&M - Commerce Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz Thesis: Showups vs. Lineups: Can Showups Be Reliable? 2012 Lindsey Clement Faculty Advisor: Price THESIS: NUMBER ESTIMATION AND FEEDBACK William Exley Current Employment: Learning Manager, Leadership Development Department, Progress Rail Faculty Advisor: Carpenter/Neuschatz Thesis: The Effects of Expert Testimony Regarding Secondary Confessions on Jury Decision Making and Perceptions Sarah Meacham Current Employment: Project Manager/Research Associate, UAH Systems Management & Production Center (SMAP) Faculty Advisor: Price Thesis: The Influence of Feedback on Self-Regulated Learning in a Chinese Language Task David Stephenson Current Employment: Doctoral Program, The University of New Orleans Faculty Advisor: Torres Thesis: The Influence of Worry on Ratings of Visual Pain Stimuli 2011 Devin Harker Current Employment: QuickBooks Advisor & Intuit Solution Provider at Diversified Business Solutions Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz Thesis: The Effects of Courtroom Identifications and Defense Warnings on Mock Juror Decision Making Stacy Wetmore Current Employment: PhD, The University of Oklahoma; Visiting Assistant Professor - Butler University Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz Thesis: On the Power of Secondary Confession Evidence Joy McClung Current Employment: Senior Administrative Assistant, Provost Office, UAH Faculty Advisor: Torres Thesis: The Effect of Stress on Story Generation Cassie Stutts Current Employment: Doctoral Program, Florida State University Faculty Advisor: Torres Thesis: The Presence of Sound Symbolism Effects for 3-D Objects 2010 Lauren (Jones) Harris Current Employment: Ph.D., Mississippi State University Faculty Advisor: Price Thesis: Does Increasing Metacognitive Awareness Alleviate Retrieval-induced Forgetting Effects? Abigail Harris Current Employment: PhD, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Instructor at UAB Faculty Advisor: Seemann Thesis: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Perceived Quality of Life