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2024 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. The APS is thrilled to announce our 2024 APS Prize winners below.

Full name Higher education provider Thesis title
Megan Spina ACAP University College “That kind of Venn diagram”: A Qualitative Exploration of Registered Psychologists’ Clinical Decision-Making Processes with Sex-Working Clients
Lauren Blackman Australian Catholic University Adverse Childhood Experiences and Therapist Burnout: The Mediating Role of the Unrelenting Standards, Self-Sacrifice, and Subjugation Schemas
Gabrielle Guillermo-Tregoning Australian National University The Effect of Varying Levels of Descriptive Norm Feedback on Performance and Exertion During an Exercise Task
Jodie Kelly Bond University Midfrontal Aperiodic Activity Increases as a Function of Increasing Stimulus Conflict: Insights into E:I Balance
Carley Garantziotis Central Queensland University Feel-Good Naps? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Sleep Inertia and Subjective State Benefits after Night-Naps in Healthy Adults
Noemi Busano Charles Darwin University Why Do Narcissists Phub? The Role of Emotion Regulation
Vesna Markwick Charles Sturt University Internalised Heterosexism and Depressive Symptoms Among Gay and Bisexual Men: The Moderating Roles of Self Coldness and Self Warmth
Alice Muir Curtin University Emotional Reactivity, Experiential Avoidance, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: Does Distress Tolerance Play a Moderating Role?
Holly Ellis Deakin University Fine Motor Control in Developmental Coordination Disorder: Investigating the Role of Corticospinal Tract Organisation and ADHD Symptoms
Larissa Sharman Edith Cowan University The Impact of Social Media and Social Norms on Women’s Activewear Wearing Behaviour
Lily Waugh Federation University Australia Exploring the Effect of Direct Contact with Incarcerated Individuals on the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Fear of Crime in Adult Australians
Eliza Le Mire Flinders University Participation in Colorectal Cancer Screening: Health Belief Model Predictors of Time Taken to Engage in Faecal Occult Blood Testing
Rebecca Howard Griffith University Examining Intimate Partner Violence Typologies
Teresa Lamanna ISN Psychology The Effects of a Four-week Online Mindfulness-based Intervention on Worry: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis
Wade Cardilini James Cook University But R They OK? The Risk of Vicarious Traumatisation in the Untrained Population
Tri Nghia (Kai) Le La Trobe University Acute Technostress, but not Schizotypy, Increases Strength of the Muller-Lyer Illusion
Mia Lavee Macquarie University Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Cue-Sensitisation, Sex, and the mPFC-NAc Core Pathway in the Incubation of Alcohol Craving in Rats
Ella-Rose Dissegna MONASH UNIVERSITY The Impact of Pre-Bedtime Screen Use on Sleep Onset Timing, Total Sleep Time, and Sleep Onset Latency in Young Adolescents
Rebecca Thomson Murdoch University The Fear of Missing Out is not Fear: Evidence of Parallels and Distinctions Between FoMO and Regret
Madeline Jarvis Queensland University of Technology The Biological Stress Response and PTSD: Plasma Endocannabinoid and Cortisol Stress Responses as a Mechanism of Intrusive Memory Development in Healthy Humans
Marley Berger RMIT University Lonely Beginnings: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Loneliness on Parent’s Mental Health During the Perinatal Period
Isabella Taylor Southern Cross University The Effects of Goal Setting on Mental Wellbeing and Physical Activity
Jessica Cornish Swinburne University of Technology Procedural Fairness Improves Substantive Outcome Fairness, Regardless of Perpetrator Sensitivity
Nancy Goletsos The Cairnmillar Institute Outcome Expectancy and Treatment Credibility as Time-Varying Predictors in Group Transdiagnostic-CBT for Anxiety Disorders
Sarah Bakker The University of Adelaide Think Like a Man: Masculine Gender Role Stress and Hostile Attribution in Alcohol and Non-alcohol Related Contexts
Annabel Hudson The University of Melbourne Utility of the Sydney Language Battery Naming Subtest and Error and Latency Analyses in Characterising Language Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis
Jonathan Lee The University of Notre Dame Australia Engagement of Australian men in therapy: A Systematic Review
Leanna Santostefano The University of South Australia Secular Trends in Nurses Sleep Duration and Quality: Systematic Search and Synthesis of Available Evidence
Adrian Dawson The University of Sydney A Novel Task to Probe the Neural Circuits Involved in Model-Based Learning Using Optogenetics
Emma Minter University of Canberra Attributing Intentionality to Robots: The Role of Sociality Motivation and Social Context
Angela Adams University of New England Cue-Reactivity in Poker-Machine Gamblers: Attentional Equanimity, State Mindfulness, and Cue-Reactive Urge to Gamble
Ziyi Que University of New South Wales Exploring Collaborative Neuromodulation During Prediction Error Encoding
Jarred McElligott University of Newcastle Development and Preliminary Validation of the Social Inner Sight Questionnaire (SISiQ)
Megan Gipey University of Queensland Historical Knowledge and Voting Behaviour: Understanding on-Indigenous Australians Support for the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum
Elisabeth Jones University of Southern Queensland Social Media Made Me Do It: Understandings Attitudes Towards Non-Fatal Strangulation in Queensland’s Young Women
Chia-Wei Chang University of Tasmania How Do Repeated Images Boost Misbelief? Testing the Application of Referential Theory
Sea Sternbaum University of the Sunshine Coast Sharing Loss Online: What Role Do Social Media Groups Play in Australian Women’s Grief Journey through Stillbirth?
Shelby Rideout-Andrews University of Western Australia High and Low Trust in Peers: Associations with Social Vulnerability in Middle Childhood
Georgia Denmeade University of Wollongong Psychosocial Development and Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Renae McElligott Victoria University “Feels Like Home”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Positive Body Image Among Gender Diverse People
Nicaela Singh Western Sydney University “Brain Health Heroes”: Feasibility and Acceptability of an Educational Brain Health Preschool Program in the Context of Dementia Prevention