Bryn Mawr College

CDPP students are actively engaged in research throughout the program. All CDPP students are required to complete predissertation and dissertation research projects. Faculty members run research groups that meet regularly and provide support and collegiality for ongoing research.

The CDPP runs a weekly Research Brown Bag lunch, held on Wednesdays, for students and faculty. Students present their research at different stages of development. The Research Brown Bag gives students a chance to see what their fellow students are working on, enables them to get feedback about their own research, and gives them an opportunity to make constructive suggestions about the research of others in an informal and collaborative context.

Recent Dissertations

• The Effect of Mindfulness on Racial Stereotype Activation &Aapplication/ Carmelinda Mann 2012

• The Relationship Between Relational Family Values and Identity Status of First-Generation and Non-First-Generation College Students/ Alisa J. Horwitz 2011

• THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG STYLES OF MINDFULNESS
  ENGAGEMENT, COMPONENTS OF EMOTION REGULATION,
  AND HEART RATE VARIABILITY/ Heejin Kim 2011
• Dyadic Emotion Processes in the Prediction of Intimate Partner Violence/ Sarah Marvin 2011
• Acculturation and Relational Family Values in Korean Immigrants/ Soo Hyun Sung 2011
  
• An Ecological Perspective on Theory of Mind: The Development of Understanding Other Minds Within the Context of Adverse Childhood Experiences/ Megan Austin Pashley 2010
• Cross-Informant Agreement between parents and Adolescent in 20 Cultures/ Sofia Artom -Ginzburg 2009
• "What do lots of kids like?": How the Understanding of Normative Preferences Affects Desire-Based Reasoning in Preschool Children/ Julie James 2009
• The effect of race in therapy/ Elizabeth May 2009
• Pre-Exposure and Recovery in Activity-Based Anorexia/ Yevgeniya Ratnovsky 2009
• Preschoolers' Use of Personality Traits to Predict Behavior/ Mary Riggio 2009
• An Investigation of the Predictive Validity of Kindergarten Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills to the Third Grade Pennsylvania System of School Assessment/ Danielle Davis Trucksess 2009

• Gender Differences in Rate and Associations of Attention Problems: Effects of Informant, Age, and Referral Status / Kristin Leren 2008
• Unpacking Mindfulness: Psychological processes underlying the health benefits of a mindfulness-based stress reduction program / Emily Malcoun 2008
• Dyslexic Hearts: Links between Couples’ Interpersonal Sensitivity, Emotional Arousal, Situational Intentions and Emotional Expression / Emily Weiss 2008
• The Physiological Consequences of the Emotional Suppression of Anger: Investigation in both Non-social and Interpersonal Contexts / Ginny Zimmerman 2007
• The Longitudinal Relationship Between Competence and Psychopathology Over the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence to Young Adulthood / M. Erin Stevens 2007
• The Outcome of Early Childhood Behavior Problems / Sarah McClure 2007
• Graded Exposure as an Adaptation Procedure in Activity-Based Anorexia / Nicole Williams 2006
• Children’s Beliefs About Emotion Expression / Lynne Kaplan 2006
• Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents Following the 1994 Northridge, CA Earthquake / Kelly Marie Johnson 2006
• The Context-Dependent Effect of Chlordiazepoxide on Lateral Septal Activity in the Rat Brain / Debra Burock 2006
• False Recognition and the Distinctiveness Heuristic / Chris Lorah 2006
• Exposure to Violence and Mental Health in Inner-city Children: Concurrent, Longitudinal, and Process Outcomes / Joelle McGovern 2006
• Adult Attachment and Emotion: An Examination of Work-stress Spillover in Firefighter Couples / Timothy F. Edge 2005
• Power of Positive Thinking: Do Positive Emotions Broaden the Cognitive Repertoire of Preschoolers? / Deanna Hladek Hamilton 2005
• Double Dose Message of Slimness Among Adolescent Female Athletes: Existence and Potential Origins of Pressure / Mary Elizabeth Ertel 2005
• Use of Psychological State Words by Late Talkers at Ages 3, 4, and 5 Years / Eliza Carlson Lee 2005
• Cultural Construction of Emotional Experience: The Influence of Cultural Values in Presbyterian and Hindu Samples / Bhavna M. Shyamalan 2005
• Psychological Understanding and Social Behavior in Young Children / Jessica L. Spatz-McNeary 2005