Doctor of Philosophy students

Thesis title

Arielle DeSousa (In progress)

Cognitive and emotional predictors of empathy and its impact upon social functioning in patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Cristina Bornhoffen (2007)

Remediating deficits in emotion processing following acquired brain injury

Ingerith Martin (2004)

Cognitive explanations for pragmatic impairment

Heather Palmer (1999)

Prospective memory: A clinical and neuropsychological investigation

Master of Psychology (Clinical) students

Thesis title

Implicit Social Cognition in traumatic brain injury

Christopher Hunt (2006)

Emotional regulation in adults with severe traumatic brain injury

Julia Rosenfelt (2005)

Psychophysiological correlates of emotion responsivity after traumatic brain injury

Blanche Savage (2005)

Effectiveness of reminders for enhancing recall in people with severe traumatic brain injury

Therese Hilton (2004)

Validity of a depression scale in a cardiac population

Esther Long (2004)

The efficacy of a social group on improving self-esteem in people with chronic traumatic brain injury

Clare Saunders (2004)

Deficits in emotion responsivity after TBI? A study using the  startle procedure

Stuart Hayes (2004)

Emotion recognition after lesions to the left versus right hemisphere

John Blythe (2004)

Evaluation of a home-based treatment program for learning disabilities in school children

Janet Hodgson (2003)

Evaluation of treatment for social anxiety in people with traumatic brain injury

Valerie Rendle (2002)

Effectiveness of reminders for improving recall of complex events in people with traumatic brain injury

Helen Bibby (2002)

Theory of Mind after traumatic brain injury

Vanessa Croker (2002)

The cognitive underpinnings of failure to recognize emotions after traumatic brain injury

Shelly Acland (2002)

Re-reading as a strategy to increase reading comprehension in learning disabled children

Lissy Abrahams (2001)

The impact of depression on the interpretation of natural emotional expression

Rebecca Bowen (2001)           

The perception of complex emotional stimuli by CVA patients with damage to the Left or Right hemisphere.

Ben Schueler (2000)

Social perception ability in adolescents with Asperger’s disorder

Jae Lee (1999)

The effect of depression on the recognition of dynamic emotional displays

Julianne Kinch (1999)

TBI and prospective memory: Examining the influences of executive function and prospective memory.

Natalie Crino (1999)

How positive and negative thoughts mediate the effect of dispositional optimism on Depression

Jamie Sims (1998)

Characterising methadone maintenance patients: Psychosocial and cognitive features

Agi Wachala (1997)

Cognitive flexibility in the normal elderly and in dementia patients as measured by the Trail Making Test

Belinda Pratt (1996)

The Neuropsychology of the AIDS Dementia Complex: MRI brain imaging abnormalities and the therapeutic efficacy of a new antiretroviral drug.

Lisa Lorentz (1996)

The Neuropsychology of the AIDS Dementia Complex: MRI brain imaging abnormalities and the therapeutic efficacy of a new antiretroviral drug.

Stephanie Rosser (1995)

An investigation of cognitive and memory impairments and psychosocial disability following ruptured aneurysm of the anterior communicating artery.

Jacqueline Manners (1996)

The components of test-anxiety and performance on untimed Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale –revised subtests and the Californian Verbal Learning Test.

Sue Vaughn (1993)

The application of modified cognitive behaviour therapy to dependent personality disorder

Samanatha Pearce (Macquarie, 1993)

The effect of frontal lobe lesions on the ability to interpret ambiguous advertisements

Honours in Psychology Students

Thesis title

Dani Wang (2006)

Repetition blindness for anger and fear

Sarah Larney (2003)

Good girls don’t swear: The use of non-standard English and tentativeness features in the communication of gender identity

Adriana Reynolds (2003)

Differences in requests to speakers with standard versus non-standard accents

Istvan Schreiner(2002)

Memory for emotionally arousing events

Eunice Wu (1999)

A cross cultural study on the inference of sarcasm

Elaine Su (1999)

Recognition of seven basic emotions in three modes of presentation by Caucasians and Chinese

Tammy Pollack (1999)

The influences of executive functions on time based prospective memory.

Lisa McKay (1998)

Negative emotions in preadolescence: The structure and nature of depression and anxiety and their relationship to expectations of future positive and negative experiences.

Susie Briscoe (1998)

Explicit and implicit memory for material learned before hypnosis in posthypnotic amnesia

Sophie Reid (1997)

Personality and Health: Do optimism and pessimism explain health related issues?

Natalie Freer (1996)

“Understanding sarcasm” A comparison of the standard theory and the echoic mention theory

Jacqueline Manners (1995)

Memory, confidence and threat appraisal in nonclinical compulsives.

Dale Harrison (1994)

Effects of gender and expertise on linguistic dominance

Adele Crosier (1994)

An exploration of the relationship between intelligence and learning

Sonya Yates (1993)

Linguistic indicators of role and gender in conversation.