Examples of Undergraduate Research with Department Faculty

Bold denotes an undergraduate student researcher.

  • Coughtry, S., Watson, V., & Coppens, N. (2005). Cambodian Youth Dance: Bridging the Cultural Gap. Department of Psychology Research Colloquium Series, UMass Lowell.
  • Coppens, N., Pitts, K., Rivard, D., & Valdez, A. (2004). Are UMass Lowell Students Living Healthy? Department of Psychology Research Colloquium Series, UMass Lowell.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Young K., Beecy T., Beals K. Is visual thinking “imageless thought”? Perceptual and Motor Skills 2000; 91:981-982.
  • Kunzendorf RG, DeJesus N., Chicos N., Avalos H. Resolving existential sentiments with music: Evidence for a “mental chemistry” of emotions. Imagination Cognition and Personality 2000-2001; 20:59-69.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Paroskie J. Emotionally directing visual sensations: II. Lowering the threshold for tinted percepts. Imagination Cognition and Personality 2000- 2001; 20:179-187.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Hall S. Electroretinographic after-effects of visual imaging: Individual differences in imagery vividness and reality testing. Journal of Mental Imagery 2001; 25(3&4):79-92.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Sansom R., Davis A. Envisioning other minds: The artistic drawing and psychometric rating of images and percepts. Imagination Cognition and Personality 2001-2002; 21:33-46.
  • Hartmann E, Kunzendorf RG, Baddour A., Chapwick M., Eddins M., Krueger C., Latraverse T., Shannon R. Emotion makes daydreams more dreamlike, more Symbolic. Imagination Cognition and Personality, 2002-2003; 22:255-274.
  • Kunzendorf RG, McGlone M., Hulihan D., Boulia K., Portuese J., Dinsmore T, Bramhall E. Reframing cognitive therapy to integrate recent research on emotion, imagery, and self-talk. Imagination Cognition and Personality 2003-2004; 23: 309-323.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Reynolds K. On the cognitive function of visual images and the development of individual differences. Imagination Cognition and Personality, 2004-2005; 24:245-257.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Acevedo J, Barrasso D, Leger S, Lima D, Lynn C, Williams S. The fine line between fantasizing torture and countenancing Abu Ghraib. Imagination Cognition and Personality, 2004-2005; 24:301-314.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Deignan M, Galva M, Latorre K, Masotta E. The psychological boundaries delineating truth and falsehood. Imagination Cognition and Personality, 2005-2006; 25:283-297.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Leszkiewicz J, Hamill K, McAleer S, Geoffroy S, Ciampaglia A, Pereira D, Brito C. Dreaming and daydreaming about dreadful possibilities: Primal fears versus existential fears. Imagination Cognition and Personality, 2006-2007; 26:249-257.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Treantafel N, Taing B, Flete A, Savoie S, Agersea S, Williams R. The sense of self in lucid dreams: “Self as subject” vs. “self as agent” vs. “self as object.” Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 2006-7; 26:303-324.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Watson G, Monroe L, Tassone S, Papoutsakis E, McArdle E, Gauthier A. The archaic belief in dream visitations as it relates to “seeing ghosts,” “meeting the Lord” as well as “encountering extraterrestrials.” Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 2007-2008; 27:71-85.
  • Kunzendorf RG, Buker F. Does existential meaning require hope, or is interest enough? Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, in-press.