The Science Directorate congratulates the outstanding graduate students who have won 2009 APA Dissertation Research Awards.  These awards are made annually by the Directorate to promising graduate students to assist with the costs of their dissertation research.  Students may apply for funding of up to $5000.  (See the award website for additional information.)

Out of 145 applications this year, eight students with the highest rated proposals received awards of over $1000, and thirty-eight students received awards of up to $1000.   Listed below are the names and dissertation projects of each of the winners.

Recipients of Awards over $1000

Ursula S. Anderson
Georgia Institute of Technology
Investigating Relational Learning About Numerical Equivalence and Subsequent Concept Formation in Two Species of Apes

Jennifer M. Brielmaier
George Mason University
Effects of Stress on Initial Sensitivity to Nicotine Reward in Adolescent Rats: Role of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor 1 Receptors

Philip M. Fernbach
Brown University
Understanding Predictive and Diagnostic Reasoning

Cecilia Martinez-Torteya
Michigan State University
Prenatal Intimate Partner Violence and Depression During Childhood: The Role of Physiological Stress Response Dysregulation

R. Kathryn McHugh
Boston University
Assessing the Amplification of Distress: Factor Analytic, Experimental, and Genetic Evaluation of Distress Intolerance

Meaghan V. Parlade
University of Pittsburgh
The Development of Multimodal Communication in Infants at High Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders

Crystal Edler Schiller
University of Iowa
The Hormone Withdrawal Model of Postpartum Depression: A Translational Approach

Jane C. Sun
University of California, Los Angeles
Affective Modulation of Motivated Attention in Schizophrenia: Examining the Interplay between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes

Recipients of Awards up to $1000

Sarah J. Barber
Stony Brook University - SUNY
Collaborative Memory Impairment: The Role of Executive Control

Cheri Chan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
How do Children Across Cultures Acquire Knowledge from Others? The Role of Prior Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in Children's Trust in Testimony

Lauren K. Dobbs
Oregon Health & Science University
Involvement of the Mouse Lateral Dorsal Tegmental Nucleus in Neurochemical and Behavioral Measures of Methamphetamine Reward

Katie M. Edwards
Ohio University
Leaving an Abusive Relationship: A Prospective Analysis of the Investment Model and Theory of Planned Behavior

Kristin E. N. Gainey
University of Iowa
A Lower Order Structural Examination of the Neuroticism/Negative Emotionality Domain: Relations with Internalizing Symptoms and Selected Traits

Peter A. Groblewski
Oregon Health & Science University
The Neurobiology Underlying Extinction of Ethanol-Seeking Behavior in Mice

Christopher B. Harte
University of Texas, Austin
Effects of Smoking Cessation on Sexual Health in Men

Erin C. Hastings
University of Florida
The Achievement Goal Framework and Learning in Adulthood

Li Huang
Northwestern University
Mind-Body Emotional Dissonance: A Drive to Form Creative or Illusory Patterns in the Chaos

Lindsey J. Jasinski
University of Kentucky
Assessment of Malingered Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Replication and Extension

Ashley L. Johnson
Binghamton University - SUNY
Attention Biases in Children with Depression

Karim S. Kassam
Harvard University
Automated Assessment of Well-Being Through Facial Expression

Abigail L. Kerr
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Facilitation Associated with Exercise

Katharina Kircanski
University of California, Los Angeles
Translating Language-Emotion Interactions in Exposure Therapy

Michael W. Kraus
University of California, Berkeley
Social Class, Essentialism, and Public Policy Decisions

Casey Lew-Williams
Stanford University
Spanish Immersion vs. Spanish Instruction: Children's and Adults' Learning Environments Influence Real-Time Language Processing

Chao Liu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
What's in a Name? How Different Languages Result in Different Brains in English and Chinese Speakers

Keith L. Main
Georgia Institute of Technology
Visual Rehabilitation and Reorganization: Case Studies of Cortical Plasticity in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Kathleen C. Matthews
Idaho State University
Sources of Strength and Stress: Mitigating Factors in the Relationship Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Mental Health Outcomes in School-Aged Children

James W. McKowen
Boston University
Predictors of the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Problematic Substance Use in Youth

Alisa B. Miller
Boston University
Ethnic Identity, Intergenerational Conflict and Mental Health Outcomes of Somali Refugee Adolescents Resettled in the United States

Saul L. Miller
Florida State University
Affiliative Responses across the Menstrual Cycle

Rachel A. Montague
Seattle Pacific University
Affective Decision Making: Relations to Social Competence and Problem Behaviors, and Adaptive Skills for Children with Autism

Joel T. Nadler
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Explicit and Implicit Gender Bias in Workplace Appraisals: How Automatic Prejudice Affects Decision Making

Kymberlee M. O'Brien
Brandeis University
Moral Congruity: The Influence of Social-Evaluative Stress on Decision-Making

John J. Panos
Western Michigan University
Neurochemical Effects of Amyloid-Beta Oligomers in Rats

Matthew Price
Georgia State University
The Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy On Post Event Processing Among Those With Social Anxiety Disorder

Gila Z. Reckess
University of Florida
Temporobasal Sulcal Morphology: Configural Patterns and Neurocognitive Relevance in Healthy Adults and Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Laura D. Scherer
Washington University in St. Louis
Response Mapping in Evaluative Priming

Angela C. Scibelli
Oregon Health & Science University
m4 and m5 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtype Involvement in Acute Locomotor Stimulation to Ethanol

Tae Seob Shin
Michigan State University
The Effects of Providing a Rationale for Learning a Lesson on Students' Motivation and Learning in Online Learning Environments

Jessica R. Simon
Georgetown University
Neural Basis of Aging and Implicit Probabilistic Learning

Mahesh Srinivasan
Harvard University
Flexibility in Language and in Thought

Elaine M. Tamez
Washington University in St. Louis
Understanding the Relation between Learning and Fluid Intelligence in Younger and Older Adults

Janet Palmer Trammell
University of Virginia
Personal Moderators of Situational Sources of Arousal on Memory

Jennifer C. Veilleux
University of Illinois, Chicago
Affective Chronometry of Cue-Induced Cigarette Craving

Shauna B. Wilson
Florida State University
Externalizing Behavior Mediates the Relation between Temperament and Emergent Literacy

Alyson K. Zalta
University of Pennslyvania
Testing Perceived Control as a Risk Factor in a Diathesis-Stress Model of Anxiety