Current Senior Thesis Students:
Danielle Tilden ’26
Research Assistants for Spring 2026:
Ava Cedillo ’27
Previous Senior Thesis Projects:
Howard Fung, ’25 (Brian Chin, Co-Advisor) “HIGHER ED AND HIGH STAKES: MOTIVATIONS AND CORRELATES OF ONLINE SPORTS BETTING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS”
Aimee Schneider, ’25 (Brian Chin, Co-Advisor) “CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, HEALTH & PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES IN INDIVIDUALS WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME”
Allison Macht, ’24 “DOES RESILIENCE MODERATE THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ADHD, QUALITY OF LIFE, AND TREATMENT SATISFACTION?”
Alisson Paredes-Naveda, ’24 “RELATIONS AMONG ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, FAMILY PRESSURE, RESILIENCE, AND SUBSTANCE MISUSE IN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE STUDENTS”
Allison Futter, ’23 “TESTING THE FEASIBILITY OF A POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY MOBILE HEALTH APP FOR COLLEGE ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE USERS”
Leah Latimer, ’23 “E-CIGARETTE EXPECTANCIES, CONSEQUENCES, AND PREFERRED QUIT STRATEGIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS”
Angela Delucia, ’22 “PREDICTORS OF MEDICAL MISUSE AND DIVERSION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS PRESCRIBED STIMULANT MEDICATIONS”
Madelyn Shapiro, ’22 “CHANGES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS’ SUBSTANCE USE HABITS AND MOTIVATIONS DURING COVID-19”
Alice Verdier, ’22 “PREDICTORS OF PRESCRIPTION STIMULANT MEDICAL MISUSE AND DIVERSION: CONDUCT PROBLEMS AND PERCEPTIONS OF RISK”
Nicole Zeien, ’21 “SUBSTANCE USE AMONG TRAJECTORIES AMONG COLLEGE GRADUATES: ASSOCIATIONS WITH EMPLOYMENT STATUS, LIVING CONDITIONS, AND NEGATIVE MOOD STATES”
Asa Wint, ’21 “NICOTINE AND CANNABIS VAPING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INITIATION, PATTERNS OF USE, AND DEPENDENCY”
Tina Zhu, ’21 “DEPRESSION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING: THE INFLUENCE OF AFFECTIVE CUES ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ MEMORY RETRIEVAL”
Clara Pingeon, ’20 “HOW DO PERSONALITY AND THE MEDIA SHAPE PERCEIVED RISKS AND BENEFITS OF E-CIGARETTES?
Carolyn Najarian, ’20 “THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND PEER PRESSURE ON EMERGING ADULTS’ VAPING”
Megan McCarthy ’19, “Predictors of Prescription Stimulant Misuse in College Graduates”
Joanne Chambers ’19, “Racial/Ethnic Identity Expression at Trinity College: An Exploration of the P.R.I.D.E. Program”
Eliza Marsh, ’18, “Efficacy of Refusal Strategies for Prescription Stimulant Requests”
Annabel Stanley, ’18, “Alcohol Use in Student Athletes: The Influence of Injunctive Norms, Trait Urgency and Competitiveness”
Kayla O’Connor, ’18, “The Influence of Protective Behavioral Strategies, Coach Management Strategies, and Player-Coach Relationship on Athletes’ Alcohol Behaviors” A Mixed-Methods Study”
Ali Chalfin, ’17 “The Role of Family Dynamics in a Preventive Intervention Study for Childhood Anxiety”
Paige Marut, ’17 “Pursued for Their Prescription: Prescription Stimulant Diversion among College Students with ADHD who are Approached for their Medication”
Jade Lee, ’17 “A Preliminary Investigation of Connecting Through Literacy Incarcerated Parent and Their Children: Assessing the Experiences of Child Participants”
Lyndsay Brattan, ’16 “FACTORS THAT AFFECT ENGAGEMENT IN A YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM”
Tyler Hightower, ’16 “PREVENTING AND REDUCING NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION STIMULANT USE: AN INTERVENTION STUDY”
Katherine Rorer, ’15 “The Effects of Relationship Education on College Students’ Negative Affect, Relationship Beliefs, and Risky Sexual Behavior”
Dana Engle, ’15 “Preventing and Reducing Non-Medical Prescription Stimulant Use in College Students through a Group Motivational Interviewing Intervention”
Michelle Long, ’15 “LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF PARENT AND PEER ATTACHMENT AND THEIR RELATION TO COLLEGE ADJUSTMENT, SUBSTANCE USE, AND RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR.
Henry Eff, ’14 “The Content and Malleability of College Students’ Perceptions of Non-MEDICAL Prescription Stimulant Use”
Constance Minot, ’14 “PSYCHOLOGICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS OF NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION STIMULANT EXPECTANCIES AND USE IN TRINITY COLLEGE STUDENTS”
Rachel Reingold, ’14 “AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF COLLEGE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES ABOUT ECSTASY.”
Maria Young, ’14 “COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PERCEIVED RISKS OF ECSTASY USE AND THE STATE OF ECSTASY PREVENTION”
Michael Benson, ’13 (Dina Anselmi, Co-Advisor) “Effects of Perceived Opportunity and Ego Depletion on Collegiate Academic Misconduct”
Jasmine Washington, ’13 (Randolph Lee, Co-Advisor) “The Relations among Psychological and Demographic Factors in Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation”
Jenny Ley ’12 (Dina Anselmi, Co-Advisor) “The Effects of a School-based Arts Program on Youths’ Social, Personal, and Academic Functioning”
Geraldine Fernandez ’12 (Dina Anselmi, Co-Advisor) “Dysfunctional Beliefs, ADHD Symptoms, and Early Developmental Influences as Predictors of Symptom Severity in Compulsive Hoarding and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”
Jasmine Owarish-Gross ’12 “Do Gender and Relationship Composition Affect College Students’ Perceptions of Domestic Violence Severity?”
Jamie Callahan ’11 (Carol Shilliday, Co-Advisor) “RELATIONS AMONG PARENT AND PEER ATTACHMENT, EMOTION REGULATION, SELF-ESTEEM, AND RISKY BEHAVIOR IN FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS”