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 Hughes
Current 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 Marbut
Current 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 Castille
Current 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 Erwin
Current Employment: Doctoral Program, University of Alabama
Faculty Advisor: Price
THESIS: The Impact of font size on reading comprehension
Samineh Gillmore
Current 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 Cook
Current Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Intergraph
Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz
THESIS: misleading identification
Elizabeth East
Current Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman
Faculty Advisor: Carpenter
THESIS: Cybersecurity and Subliminal priming
Cesar Gonzalez
Current 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 Hammett
Current 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 Harrison
Current 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 Lester
Current 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 Skinner
Current Employment: Doctoral Program, University of Mississippi
Faculty Advisor: Price
THESIS: The roles of schematic support and fluency in value-directed remembering
Preston Smith
Current Employment: Doctoral Program, University of California - Riverside
Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz
THESIS: The influence of jailhouse informant testimony on eyewitness identification
2016
Kelly Arnold
Current Employment:
Faculty Advisor: Torres
THESIS: The Theory of Planned Behavior as applied to helmet use in equestrians
Cassandra Baldwin
Current Employment: Texas A&M doctoral program
Faculty Advisor: Torres
THESIS: Effects of Expressive Suppression on Emotion Recognition and Cardiovascular and Subjective Reactivity
Heather Beard
Current Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman
Faculty Advisor: Carpenter
THESIS: Cybersecurity Message Framing
Victoria Blakely
Current 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 Luecht
Current Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman
Faculty Advisor: Neuschatz
THESIS: The effects of Post-identification feedback and exposure duration on eyewitnesses
Robert Noneman
Current Employment: Human Factors Engineer, Northrop Grumman
Faculty Advisor: Torres
THESIS: lateralization of tempo processing and sensorimotor synchronization
Barbara Wright
Faculty Advisor: Price
THESIS: Goal and Data-Driven Influences in Swahili Language Learning
2015
Payton Brown
Current 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
