Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts: WUSHTA, Volume 4 (Spring 2012)

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Abstracts: College of Arts & Sciences

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The Role of Shame in Qing Dynasty Law
Elaine Chow
Department: International and Area Studies

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Identification of miR-186 As a Novel Regulator That Represses BACE1 Expression
Dah-eun Chung
Department: Biology

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Failing the Future: Discourses on Postwar Reconstruction and Society in Italian Neorealist Film
Sophia Cinel
Department: International and Area Studies

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Interactions Between Emotion and Semantics in Linguistic Processing
Emily Carras Cokorinos
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology

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“I Propose Poverty in Theatre”: The Role of Poverty in Jerzy Grotowski’s Theatre Laboratory
Anna Constantino
Department: Performing Arts

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A Screening Model on the Transfer of Nuclear Goods
Eleanor Cooper
Department: Economics

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Becoming Singapore and Rich: Singapore and Malaysia’s Natural Experiment with Property Rights and Economic Growth
Stuart Davis
Department: Political Science

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The Life of the (Tea) Party: The Tea Party and the Efficacy of Social Movements
Ariel Dobkin
Department: Political Science

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A Tough Balancing Act: Institutional and Political Factors in the Budget Process
Corey Donahue
Department: Political Science

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This Book Will Change Your Life: Perceptions of Religion in Musical Theatre
Stephanie Drahozal
Department: Performing Arts

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Morales’ Bolivia: A New Paradigm in Egalitarian Governance?
Alieza Scurlock Duranna
Department: International and Area Studies

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Health, Healing and Religiosity in the Ritual Practice of Bikram Yoga
Elan Elyachar-Stahl
Department: Anthropology

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The Qing Crackdown on the Miao in Southwest China
Paul Fetter
Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures

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Examining Carbon Isotopic Gradients Across a Basin-Seamount Paleobathymetry in Jurassic-Cretaceous Limestones of the Umbria-Marche Basin, Italy
Rachel Folkerts
Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences

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The Whole Loop: The Science of the Adaptive Unconscious and Implications for a Naturalized Account of Human Agency
Owen Footer
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology

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Fabrication and Characterization of a Whispering Gallery Mode Microtoroid Add-Drop Filter
Jacob Friedlein
Department: Physics

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Volumetric Changes in Subcortical Regions in Children with Tourette Syndrome
Olivia Hawley Frosch
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology

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Laterality for Simple Behaviors and Tool-Use Tasks in Captive and Wild Apes
Chris Fuertges
Department: Anthropology

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Deficiency in Hepatic MTTP Reverses Gallstone Susceptibility in L-Fabp Knockout Mice by Reducing Canalicular Cholesterol Secretion
Ho Yee Joyce Fung
Department: Biology

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La femme et la mode de la Belle Époque : une étude du rapport entre la femme, la mode et la société à la fin du 19ième siècle / Fashion and the Woman of the Belle Époque: A Study of the Relationship Between Women, Fashion and Society at the End of the 19th Century
Catherine Garabrant
Department: Romance Languages and Literatures

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“My Daughter Will Choose”: Shifting Centres of Morality and Accessing Claims in Maasai Sexual Narratives
Alannah Glickman
Department: International and Area Studies

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Fighting the “Free Market”: Rethinking Community Benefits Agreements and Fourth-Wave Gentrification Resistance in Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Project
Molly Dobbins Gott
Department: Urban Studies

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Targeting Exercise Self-Efficacy to Increase Physical Activity in Older Adults
Jacqueline Greb
Department: Psychology

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Personality, Close Relationships, and Depression: The Impact of Depression on Personality Perception of Family Members
Sarah Griffin
Department: Psychology

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Influences of Prime Type and Age on Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon
Julia M. Habbert
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology