The 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.
Freya Hanly
Australian Catholic University
Thesis title – Choosing to be blue: A study of contra-hedonic emotion regulation in daily life
Kathy Plumridge
Australian College of Applied Psychology
Thesis title – It was the elephant in the room: Experiences of same sex attracted students in all-boys catholic schools
Kelly Battocchio
Australian National University
Thesis title – Inattentional blindness: The role of expectation and perceptual similarity outside of semantic category
Wayne Arnold
Bond University
Thesis title – The relationship between autistic traits and compulsive internet use: A comparison of psychopathological and social mediators
Jessica Robinson
Cairnmillar Institute
Thesis title – The subjective wellbeing of first-time fathers
Roy Hamilton
Central Queensland University
Thesis title – Examining change fatigue and organisational structure and process change
Brenna Schroeder
Charles Darwin University
Thesis title – Exploring the relationship between personality and bullying: An investigation of parental perceptions and expectations
Sarah Bowman
Charles Sturt University
Thesis title – Virtual healthcare: LGBT young adult perceptions of Internet-based mental health services in regional, rural and remote Australia
Kim Christian
Curtin University
Thesis title – Religious and spiritual beliefs in the development of prolonged grief disorder
Sarah Knor
Deakin University
Thesis title – Reciprocity between sleep rhythmicity and behaviour problems in early childhood
Nicholas Tan
Edith Cowan University
Thesis title – An unsatisfied need for relatedness potentially feels painful
Emily Pattison
Federation University Australia
Thesis title – The Role of perceived threat in Australians: Endorsement of Asylum Seeker Policies
Victoria Bridgland
Flinders University
Thesis title – Is forewarned always forearmed? Effects of trigger warnings on reactions to negative and neutrally valenced stimuli
Chloe Kidd
Griffith University
Thesis title – Junk food advertising moderates the indirect effect of reward sensitivity and food consumption via the urge to eat
Rosa Quintieri
James Cook University
Thesis title – When guessing helps: Hyper-retention of correct guesses
Priscilla Savopoulos
La Trobe University
Thesis title – Using orthographic and semantic priming to examine hemispheric differences in the processing of compound words
Maia Zucco
Macquarie University
Thesis title – Neurophysiological measure of auditory discrimination
Ria Jumabhoy
Monash University
Thesis title – Validation of wrist-worn sleep measurement devices against polysomnography in healthy adults
Kym Wansbrough
Murdoch University
Thesis title – The efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation protocols for inducing neuroplasticity in the primary motor cortex
Julie Vermeir
Queensland University of Technology
Thesis title – Effects of attentional bias modification on pain and associated health outcomes in a community-based sample with chronic pain: A double-blind, randomised, controlled trial
Danielle Dabley
RMIT University
Thesis title – Exploring the protective role of fathers’ and mothers’ involvement in adolescent suicidal ideation
Emma Murphy
Southern Cross University
Thesis title – Continuous and discrete reciprocal hand movements differentially impact performance on a concurrent verbal serial recall task
Toni Pikoos
Swinburne University of Technology
Thesis title – Influence of COMT gene variation on performance of the stop-signal task: An MEG study
Tassia Oswald
University of Adelaide
Thesis title – Stress and academic success at university: Exploring student stress, the nature of the stress-academic success relationship, and the association of stress mindsets
Kathleen Myer
University of Canberra
Thesis title – Episodic future thinking and decision-making
Madeline Anderson
University of Melbourne
Thesis title – The effects of alcohol mixed with energy drinks on the sleep electroencephalogram in young adults
Katherine Doutney
University of New England
Thesis title – Purity versus harm: Increasing climate-change engagement through moral framing
Savannah Minihan
University of New South Wales
Thesis title – Imagining as an observer: Manipulating visual perspective in prospective obsessional imagery
Aimee Mitchell
University of Newcastle
Thesis title – Binocular rivalry dynamics of social verses non-social stimuli: relevance for autism
Brendan Farrugia
University of Queensland
Thesis title – The effect of social group prototypicality on role model choices
Nicola Brewer
University of South Australia
Thesis title – Debugging a path towards acceptance of edible insects
Diana Le Clercq
University of Southern Queensland
Thesis title – The Trail Making Test: Comparing the original and Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System versions
Chloe Watson
University of Sydney
Thesis title – Shape constancy and symmetry: Are certain 3D objects viewpoint invariant?
Laura Brumby
University of Tasmania
Thesis title – The metacognitive monitoring and study decisions of incremental theorists
Darren Pinks
University of the Sunshine Coast
Thesis title – Experiences of partners of prostate cancer survivors:
A qualitative study
Anna Jorgensen
University of Western Australia
Thesis title – The relationships between aerobic physical activity, prospective memory and resting brain glucose metabolism in older adults
Naomi Mansell
University of Wollongong
Thesis title – The effect of radio frequency electromagnetic field exposure on sleep in children and adolescents
Sarala Muttiah
Victoria University
Thesis title – The conscientiousness conundrum: Does the personality trait and its facets predict performance on objective measures of executive functioning?
Madison Hannon
Western Sydney University
Thesis title – Using body shapes to alter food preferences: Does the relationship matter?
Nominations are now open for the 2017 APS Awards