CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

Analyzing Climate Change Awareness and Responsibility Effects

Connor Clancy, Colby College
Sarah Beth Solomon, Colby College

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12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

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Post-Conflict Child Soldier Networks in Africa

Andrew Currier, Colby College

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12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

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The Causes of the Civil Wars in Côte d'Ivoire

Matthew Ayers, Colby College

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12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

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Wins and Revenues

Kenny Jacobson, Colby College
Thomas Brewster, Colby College
Grace McVey, Colby College
Peter McAuliffe, Colby College

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12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

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Competitive Balance and Attendance in Major League Baseball

Gary Koplik, Colby College
Christopher Kennedy, Colby College
Ryan Jann, Colby College
Daniel Meyer, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Controls on Farmland Prices in the Midwestern United States, a time-series Econometric Analysis from 1970-2014

William Kearney, Colby College
Paco DeFrancis, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Cost Benefit of Cafe Standards

Brian Levinson, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Effects of War-Time Escalation on Immigration Attitudes in the United States

Dylan Smith, Colby College
Anthony Ramirez, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Efficient Market Hypothesis and Environmental Stocks: Market Reactions to Capital Investment in Renewable Energy Projects and the Pricing of Environmental Securities

John Crampton, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Equity Returns: Low-cost vs. Full-service Airline Carriers

Austin Murphy, Colby College
Mitchell Maffeo, Colby College
William Kunin, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Everyday Care: The Fluctuating and Dynamic Nature of Care in Pediatric Oncology

Anne Friedrich, Colby College

Diamond 323

9:00 AM - 11:25 AM

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From Progress to Collapse: Mountain Elites and the Transformation of Society in Western North Carolina from the Antebellum Period to the Civil War

Colin Hull, Colby College

Diamond 241

9:00 AM - 10:25 AM

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Gertrude Bell and the Formation of the Modern State of Iraq

Alice Gauvin, Colby College

Diamond 241

9:00 AM - 10:25 AM

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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation through Grassland Restoration in the Upper Midwest, United States: A Spatially-controlled Cost-benefit Analysis

Paco DeFrancis, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Hedonic Analysis of Museums and their Impact on Surrounding Real Estate

John Eder, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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How Perfect Are You? Exploring the Link Between Perfectionism, Self-Esteem, and Sensitivity to Feedback Across Multiple Dimensions

Molly Wylie, Colby College

Diamond 122

9:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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Land Reform and the Use of Violence: Creating a Set of Conditions Using the Case of Zimbabwe

Dylan Ciccarelli, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Optimal Land Conservation by State in Terms of GDP

Carolyn Fuwa, Colby College
Robert McCormick, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Outside Spending in the 2014 Midterm Elections: The Lasting Effects of Citizens United

Lucas Fortier, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Patient-Centered Care

Holly Hogan, Colby College
Danielle Bagley, Colby College
Jessica Aronis, Colby College
Anna Krauss, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Predicting Need-based Financial Aid

Connor Whitley, Colby College
Camden Regan, Colby College
Daniel Hyszczak, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Predicting Oil Prices

Andrew Dengler, Colby College
David White, Colby College
William Hayes, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Preferences for Coral Reef and Fishery Management in Okinawa

Nils Carlson, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Preferences for Eco-labels in Seafood and Underutilized Fish

Xiaojie Chen, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Priming Semantic Categorization of Size through Sound Symbolism

Melissa Preziosi, Colby College

Diamond 122

9:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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Ranking of the NESCAC Schools

Jillian Palladino, Colby College
Robin Doroff, Colby College
Sylvia Xu, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Rethinking How to Efficiently Fund Public Goods: An Agent-Based Modelling of a Group Funding System Accommodating Different Human Behaviors and Influences Affecting Decision-Making

Shama Ramos, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Self-Control and Risk-Taking: Possible Mechanisms and Interventions

Katherine Kimball, Colby College

Diamond 122

9:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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Shall We Dense?: A Comparison of the Testing Effect and the Enactment Effect

Abigail Fontaine, Colby College

Diamond 122

9:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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South African Survivor: The National Party’s Survival in the Context of the Cold War

John Hartigan, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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State-building and Intrastate Conflict in Africa

Lillian Holland, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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The Conditions Susceptible to the Rise of Islamic Militant Groups in Africa: What is Boko Haram's Potential for Growth?

Andrew Jones, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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The Ecological and Economic Value of Maine Golf Courses

Gregory Ladd, Colby College
Jason Buco, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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The Economics of the Audubon Society Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses

Daniel Hyszczak, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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The Effects of Marijuana Legalization on High School Graduation and School Suspension Rates

Alexander Tuan, Colby College
Alexander Wilsterman, Colby College
Roderic Curtis, Colby College
Gaurav Ohri, Colby College

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The Influence of Normative Feedback on the Stigma of Mental Health

Carly Taylor, Colby College

Diamond 122

9:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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The Value and Preferences for Improved Cook Stoves: A Choice Experiment in Ethiopia

Gilbert Kiggundu, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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The Value of Dune Width in Avalon, New Jersey: A Hedonic Pricing Analysis

Matthew Mignon, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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'This is How We Dance': How Irish-Americans Use Dance to Construct A Global Identity

Grace DeNoon, Colby College

Diamond 323

9:00 AM - 11:25 AM

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Using Choice Experiment Valuation Methods to Evaluate Public Preference of a New National Park in Maine

Alexander Wilsterman, Colby College

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9:00 AM - 10:55 AM

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Communist Civilian Resistance Movements in Greece and Yugoslavia during World War 2

Lily Steig, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Communist Development in a Post-Soviet World: the Comparative Stragegies of Vietnam and Cuba

Samuel Chase, Colby College

Diamond 241

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Estonia under Nazi Occupation: Collaboration for the Sake of National Preservation?

Artur Fass, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Forging an Identity in The Yugoslav Partisans

Kevin Scott, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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How Does Successful Microfinancing in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi Work?

Divya Bisht, Colby College

Diamond 241

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Irish Neutrality During the Emergency: Ideology and Practicality

Christopher Gallogly, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Moral Considerations of Resistance Movements in Nazi Occupied France

Bryden Nugent, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Politics of Development in Rwanda

Joseph Long, Colby College

Diamond 241

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Politics of Development: An Analysis of Chilean Neoliberalization

Meghan Harwood, Colby College

Diamond 241

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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The Italian Disappointment: Assessing the Poor Italian Performance in the Second World War

Julien Lauretti, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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The Tipping Point in the North African Campaign

Julian Wise, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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The Untold Story of Civilian Strafing in the Second World War

Samuel LeFeber, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Turkey's Economic Takeoff

Kardelen Koldas, Colby College

Diamond 241

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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World War 2 Tank Warfare

Jeremiah Burns, Colby College

Diamond 153

10:30 AM - 11:55 AM

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Applying computational genomics to investigate the dual diagnosis of mental disorders.

Astrid Moore, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Augusta Food Bank

John Bengtson, Colby College
Jongwon Lee, Colby College
Paige Shortsleeves, Colby College
Emily Glaenzer, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Concussions and Retrieval from Semantic Memory

Shanna Grant, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Cooking Outside of States and Markets: Food as a Common

Christopher Abbott, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Cooking Solo: Complicating Off-Campus Culinary Independence

William Harley, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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#Foodies Feeding Gender and Social Class

Catherine Powell, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Gender Performances and Virtual Community in Women's Cooking Blogs

Alicia Fawcett, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Hip Fractures in Central Maine: A Retrospective Study of Hip Fracture Patients Treated at MaineGeneral Medical Center

James Johnston, Colby College
Kali Stevens, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Hot-Pots and Microwaves: Understanding Chinese Identity and Home

Jonathan Lee, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Inducing False Memory in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children and Adults: The Role of Item Relation and Presentation on DRM Performance

Meng Zhao, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Is that Cake Moist? Contextual and Lexical Contributions to Word Aversion

Kyle McBrierty, Colby College
Kimberly Bourne, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Maine Children's Home For Little Wanderers

Aquib Yacoob, Colby College
Bradley Gaffin, Colby College
Jordan Nathan, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Mild traumatic brain injury in male and female rats: Characterization of a new injury paradigm

Jennifer Liao, Colby College
Waylin Yu, Colby College
Peter Wirth, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Phonological and Semantic Effects on False Memory

Abigail Fontaine, Colby College
Melissa Preziosi, Colby College
Monique Legault, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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The Feminized Culture of Dieting As A Social Construct

Molly Cox, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Variability in the Benefits of Retrieval Practice: An Individual Differences Approach

Meredith Minear, Colby College
Leah Cooney, Colby College
Sarah Boland, Colby College

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11:00 AM - 1:55 PM

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Innovation And Productivity: Evidence From China

Jingying Xu, Colby College

Diamond 341

1:00 PM - 3:25 PM

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International Legal Norm Mobilization in Israel: Meaningful Pressure or Cheap Talk?

Molly Robertson, Colby College

Diamond 241

1:00 PM - 2:25 PM

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Memories of Meals Past: How Expertise Mediates Olfactory and Gustatory Memory

Melissa Preziosi, Colby College

Diamond 122

1:00 PM - 2:25 PM

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The Triple Alliance War and the Latin American Identity

Julian Wise, Colby College

Diamond 223

1:00 PM - 2:25 PM

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The Role of Narrative Texts in a Liberal Arts Curriculum

Samantha Sturchio, Colby College
Anne Epstein, Colby College

Diamond 242

1:20 PM - 2:25 PM

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War and American Film

Matthew Lara, Colby College

Diamond 223

1:50 PM - 2:25 PM

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Announcement effects of convertible debt: Which firm and market characteristics affect the magnitude of abnormal stock returns?

Charles Madden, Colby College

Diamond 341

2:00 PM - 3:25 PM

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Effect of Music and Place Relevance of Place on Moral Judgment

Emma Kuehn, Colby College
Julia Perlmutter, Colby College
Talia Richkin, Colby College
Michelle Boucher, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Effects of Pride and Guilt on Moral Decision Making

Henry Levine, Colby College
Jaritza Abreu, Colby College
John Pintauro, Colby College
Sarah Peck, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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How do co-witness credentials affect the incorporation of post-event information?

McKayla Blanch, Colby College
Brian Westerman, Colby College
Elisa Stern, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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How Loud Does Your Identity Speak? Exploring Extraversion, Social Support, and Social Identity Synthesis in College Students

Jared Scharf, Colby College
Janie O'Halloran, Colby College
Molly Wylie, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Identity and the Likelihood of Green Behaviors

Megan Giblin, Colby College
Margaret Hojlo, Colby College
Sarunas Genys, Colby College
Alexandra Belzer, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Impact of Source on Memory for Social Media and News Headlines

Grace Carroll, Colby College
Kimberly Bourne, Colby College
Sarah Boland, Colby College
Shanna Grant, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Life inside the bubble: Social belonging at Colby College

Anna Herling, Colby College
Monica Li, Colby College
Meredith Zakon, Colby College
Anna Rabasco, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Moral Licensing Research Project

Faiyaz Islam, Colby College
Yangyang Chen, Colby College
Ji Song, Colby College
Emily Middendorf, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Morality and Blame Conformity

Anna Herling, Colby College
Elizabeth Noyes, Colby College
Michaela Garrett, Colby College
Seth Butler, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Piloting an E-Trier: Comparing the Effects of Face-to-Face Versus Online Elicited Social Stress on Emotion Identification

George Humphrey, Colby College
Anna Rabasco, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Regulating anger experience: The benefits of distraction over rumination, acceptance, and reappraisal

Anna Rabasco, Colby College
Meredith Zakon, Colby College
Monica Li, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November - A Look into the Failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605

Matthew Lounsbury, Colby College

Diamond 344

2:00 PM - 2:55 PM

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The Do's and Don'ts of Studying

Samuel Glaisher, Colby College
Sarah Carrigan, Colby College
Michele Strage, Colby College

Diamond 242

2:00 PM - 2:25 PM

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The Effects of Motivation and Photography on Memory

Nicholas Morriss, Colby College
Emily Doyle, Colby College
Owens Strawinski, Colby College
Hannah Piersiak, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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The Impact of Music and Lyrics on Levels of Sadness in Listeners

Hannah Moy, Colby College
Lucas Hickok, Colby College
Michaela Athanasopoulos, Colby College
Abigail McOsker, Colby College

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The Influence of Personality Traits on Emotional Responses in Social Acceptance and Rejection

Nils Martin, Colby College
Juliana Pham, Colby College
Mikaela Johnson, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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The Relationship Between Personality Traits, Personality Gender, and Romantic Partner Preferences

Katherine Tang, Colby College
Emily Carney, Colby College
Caroline Minott, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Understanding the Aesthetic Judgements and Art Viewings

Ashley Vandal, Colby College
Lucy Bainbridge, Colby College
Jenna Athanasopoulos, Colby College
Kalen Gabow, Colby College

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2:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Unrested Souls: A Look at Fear, Ghost Stories, and Hauntings in Premodern London

Elena Schreiner, Colby College

Diamond 344

2:10 PM - 2:55 PM

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Investigating the Endogeneity of Risk Attitudes: Experimental Evidence Involving Cooperation and Competition

Erik Solli, Colby College

Diamond 341

2:30 PM - 3:25 PM

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The Life of Gloria Steinem

Maeve Dolan, Colby College

Diamond 342

2:30 PM - 3:55 PM

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The National Alzheimer's Project Act: A Sociological Analysis of Federal Alzheimer's Policy

Kayla Turner, Colby College

Diamond 241

2:30 PM - 3:55 PM

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Who'e the Fairest Witch of Them All: Storytelling and the Witch Crazes of 16th and 17th Century Europe

Elisabeth Chee, Colby College

Diamond 344

2:30 PM - 2:55 PM

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Making Whiteness Strange—An Unveiling of White Privilege at Colby

Lucinda Gulino, Colby College

Diamond 223

2:42 PM - 3:55 PM

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Virginia Apgar

Gillian Morris, Colby College

Diamond 342

2:48 PM - 3:55 PM

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Rachel Carson

Frederick Bower, Colby College

Diamond 342

2:54 PM - 3:55 PM

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Eleanor Roosevelt On Her Own

Eleanor Irish, Colby College

Diamond 342

3:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Façade of Activity: The Persistence of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by United Nations Peacekeepers

Eleanor Powell, Colby College

Davis 217

3:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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Investigation of Disc1 gene status and stress exposure in female rats on behavior and hippocampal plasticity

Julia Mitchell, Colby College

Diamond 242

3:00 PM - 3:55 PM

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The interaction between Colby and Sodexo

Emily Muller, Colby College

Diamond 223

3:06 PM - 3:55 PM

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Optimization of Land Conservation Site Selection

Zachary Schutzman, Colby College

Diamond 241

3:15 PM - 3:55 PM

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The Assessment and Comparison of Behavior in a Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia-1 Knockout Model of Schizophrenia Combined with the Administration of MK-801

Ariel Batallan Burrowes, Colby College

Diamond 242

3:15 PM - 3:55 PM

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Marjorie Lee Browne

Samantha Carter, Colby College

Diamond 342

3:18 PM - 3:55 PM

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Women in History

Emily Glaenzer, Colby College

Diamond 342

3:24 PM - 3:55 PM

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Prenatal choline availability, exposure time thresholds, and object recognition memory in adult Sprague Dawley rats

Waylin Yu, Colby College

Diamond 242

3:30 PM - 3:55 PM

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The Thing About Imagination

Matthew Hoffman, Colby College

Diamond 223

3:36 PM - 3:55 PM

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Social Interaction, Social Arenas, and the Creation of Community: Student Experiences of Senior Bar Night

Jake Lukach, Colby College

Diamond 223

3:42 PM - 3:55 PM

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