Honors in the Major Student
In her honors thesis, Hailey explored the implications of both couple members’ approach and avoidance motivations for their daily relationship and sexual satisfaction. She presented her findings in at FSU's undergraduate research day, for which she won second place talk. After graduating with her B.S. in psychology, Hailey was accepted into FSU's MSW/MBA program.
Hailey Miller, B.S.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Students
As a part of the UROP program, Elijah and Skylar spent two semesters assisting with a project examining stability and change in people's partner preferences and perceptions of their partners' traits. They assisted with data collection, analyzed the data, and summarized their findings in a poster, which they co-presented at FSU's annual Undergraduate Research Symposium and the Psychology Department's annual Undergraduate Research day.
Skylar Yam and Elijah Gardiner
Directed Individual Study (DIS) Students
As a DIS student, Joanna investigated whether hormonal contraceptive users experience different levels of relationship satisfaction, relationship commitment, relationship investments, or attention to alternatives compared to normally-cycling women. She developed the hypothesis, analyzed existing data to test it, and summarized her findings in a poster, which she presented at the Psychology Department's annual Undergraduate Research day.
Joanna Gerges
As DIS students, Devon and Mateo explored the associations among women's self-estem, self-perceived mate value, and objective physical attractiveness. They developed the hypothesis, analyzed data they helped code to test it, and summarized their findings in a poster, which they presented at the Psychology Department's annual Undergraduate Research day.
After graduating with his B.S. in psychology, Mateo additionally presented a poster at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Conference, which explored a bidirectional association between people's own and their partners' approach and avoidance motivations and their relationship satisfaction. Mateo is currently an incoming first-year Ph.D. student the in Organizational Behavior program at University of Washington.
Devon Glicken, B.S.
Mateo Roldan, B.S.
As a post-baccalaureate volunteer, Sofia we investigated whether people with faster (versus slower) life history strategies would engage in more frequent risky relationship cognitions and behaviors (e.g., deception, infidelity, intimate partner violence). She analyzed the data and summarized her findings in a poster, which she presented virtually at the annual NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Conference. Sofia is currently a research analyst for a hospital system in central Florida.
Sofia Alzado, B.S.