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2021 APS Prize winners

The APS Prize is awarded to each student who gains first place at the end of an accredited fourth-year program in psychology through an Australian higher education provider.

Full name Higher education provider name Thesis title
Bryony Sinnot Australian Catholic University Anticipated Weight Stigma Scale: Development And Validation
Lucy Chapple Australian College of Applied Professions The Relationships Between Personality, Organisational Culture and the Impostor Phenomenon in Australian Employees
Suzanne Chu Australian National University When the Wrench Turns a Few Heads: Semantic Relatedness and Expectation in Inattentional Blindness
Youmna Hassan Bond University The Effect of Bidirectional Travel on Spatial Learning and Route Integration in a Virtual Campus Environment
Emma Craige Central Queensland University Efficacy of Non-Pharmacological Interventions on Sleep in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials
Cathryn Doney Charles Darwin University Modifiable antecedents to employee resistance to organizational change: Communication, participation, resources, and paradoxical leadership
Tracy MacMillan Charles Sturt University It Takes a Village: Psychologists Supporting Student Mental Health in Schools
Ethan Luxton Curtin University Comparing the motivational effects of different pay systems on job performance: A simulation Study
Suiyin Cheah Deakin Acceptability and Preliminary Efficacy of an Expressive Writing Intervention to Reduce Stress and Improve Quality of Life in People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Susan Wills Edith Cowan University Validating the Reflective Practice Questionnaire for Parents (RPQ-P) against Parental Reflective Function, and Affect Regulation Strategies
Lauren Salajan Federation University Subjective memory complaints in chemotherapy patients: Investigating the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
Sian Wanstall Flinders University Associations Between Shift Work, Sleep, Mental health, and Workplace Support in Young Australian Workers: Findings From the Raine Study
Richard Ronayne Griffith University Gamma Entrainment via Chromatic Flickering Light: A More Comfortable Alternative for a Promising Alzheimer’s Treatment
Sophia Walsh ISN Psychology Fatigue in Children Following Chemotherapy Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: A Longitudinal Study
Judith Warner James Cook University Diagnostic Overshadowing in Australia: Does Exposure or Knowledge Make a Difference for People with Disability?
Sarah Murphy La Trobe University Women seeking an autism diagnosis in Australia: A qualitative exploration of factors that help and hinder
Maral Jkorkozian Macquarie University The Role of Cannabidiol and GOO in Modulating Relapse to Methamphetamine and The Involvement of The Serotonergic System. 
Mia Moses Monash University Cognitive Mechanisms Linking the Genetic Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder to its Behavioural Traits in a Large Population-Based Sample.
Sarah Durrant Murdoch University Yoga and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Improve Transdiagnostic Emotion Regulation: A Pilot Study
Sophie Kruger  Queensland University of Technology  Authoritative parenting: A protective factor against anxiety related life interference in children with anxiety 
Isabella Barlow RMIT University A Disorder or Virtue? Anxiety, Perfectionism, and Mindfulness as Risk and Preventative Factors of Distress: Healthy Orthorexia and Orthorexia Nervosa
Jonathan Gafen Southern Cross University Navigating Unchartered Waters: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Career-Related
Michael Diamond Swinburne University of Technology Wellbeing and Future Career Aspirations of Young University Students
Holly Vella The Cairnmillar Institute Self-Esteem, Self-Compassion and Depressive Symptoms in Individuals with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 
Andy Sitoh The University of Melbourne Using the Linear Ballistic Accumulator to Understand How List-Length Affects Decision-Making in Free Recall
Fenella Palanca The University of Sydney Moral Judgment Under Uncertainty: The Impact of High Probabilities on Sacrificial Moral Decision-Making
Karuna Nair The University of Western Australia Dealing With My Feelings: The Relationship Between Perceived and Observed Emotion Regulation Ability
Olivia  Madden Univeristy of Wollongong Splitting Within Borderline Personality Disorder: An Attachment Perspective
Thomas Pearson University of Adelaide Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Men’s Experiences of Perinatal Death in Australia 
Amelia Ishikawa University of Canberra The Relationship Between Self-Reliance and Help-Seeking for Mental Health Problems in Young People: The Role of Perceived Social Support and Resilience
David Batten University of New England Beyond Mindfulness: How the Light Triad Predicts Unique Variance in Well-Being
Gemma Evans University of Newcastle The Effect Of Nutritional Intake And Cerebral Arterial Health On Cognition In Older Adults
Phillippa Sison University of Queensland Efficacy and Moderation of Brief Mindfulness Meditation and Clinical Hypnosis for Experimental Pain 
Thivina Thanabalan University of South Australia Capturing early statistical learning during the exposure phase of an artificial grammar paradigm.
Stephanie Vialle University of Southern Queensland Understanding the Digital Detox
Emilia Hawkey University of Tasmania He gave Rose a rose: The Use of Cues to Capitalisation by Children and Adults
Jordan Sibley University of the Sunshine Coast Identifying the Belief-Based Predictors of Parents’ Decisions to Restrict Their Children’s Sugar Consumption
Caitlin Tedesco UNSW Sydney Neuropeptide Y neurons in the central amygdala and the regulation of feeding behaviour following bariatric surgery
Rachel Sherlock Victoria University Does Superior Emotional Understanding and Management Lead to Better Decisions? The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Affective Decision Making
Hollie Hammond Western Sydney University Policy and Place for Mothers in the Academic Precariat