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.
Madeleine Sicard
Australian Catholic University
Can social media facilitate social change? #MeToo and attitudes towards gender equality and feminism
Angela Colson
Australian College of Applied Psychology
Australian consumers with chronic pain: Exploring barriers to evidence-based psychological interventions
Ellen Shi
Australian National University
Pandemic and prejudice: How a realistic threat differentially undermines contact with out-groups
Lauran Sharam
Bond University
A room with a view: The influence of environmental features on mood and cognitive performance
Sarah O’Connell
Cairnmillar Institute
The relevance of music in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people: A qualitative study
Ryan Eather
Central Queensland University
Association between healthful plant-based dietary patterns and depressive mood in Australian omnivores, vegans, and vegetarians
Jennifer Packer
Charles Darwin University
Subtypes of gamblers across variables of impulsivity, outcome expectancies, psychological distress, and cognitive distortions
Adam Dalton
Charles Sturt University
Partnered gay and bisexual men’s construction of non-monogamous sexual agreements in an era of biomedical HIV prevention: An Australian qualitative study
Tara Swindells
Curtin University
Thinking about friends: Friendship and cognitions in nonsuicidal self-injury
Elias Economou
Deakin University
Comparing the effectiveness of hopeful versus mixed emotions message frames on climate change policy support in the United States
Erin Nichols
Edith Cowan University
Psychological distress in Australian psychology undergraduates: Exploring the role of self-care, dispositional mindfulness, and autonomous functioning
Victoria (Molly) Branson
Federation University Australia
Dangerous dating in the digital age: Jealousy, hostility, narcissism, and psychopathy as predictors of cyber dating abuse
Catherine Keeping
Flinders University
Intrusions with and without meta-awareness: Do they differ?
Claire Pryor
Griffith University
An examination of current compassion measures and the relationships between compassion for others, self-compassion and well-being
Jennifer Ann Bullers
ISN Psychology
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the subjective wellbeing of the Australian population: Does it matter who you live with?
Taylor-Jane Sharouni
James Cook University
Self-affirmations in the ‘real’ world: Use, content and associations with wellbeing
Timucin Sezai
La Trobe University
Visual processing abnormalities in the interictal period between migraines: A meta-analysis
Christine Inkley
Macquarie University
Getting the point across: Using immersive virtual reality to investigate the role of eye gaze during point-based joint attention
Jill Hwang
Monash University
A qualitative study on the attitudes and approaches of Australian health professionals in addressing sexuality after acquired brain injury
Varun Gandhi
Murdoch University
Visual perceptual-cognitive performance in submarine-task relevant domains
Emma Carpendale
Queensland University of Technology
Impaired verbal learning among children at risk for schizophrenia
Jasmine Randone
RMIT University
The victim-offender overlap: An analysis of high-risk youth
Sophia Barry
Southern Cross University
The impact of open goals on psychological outcomes and physical activity maintenance in a 10-week walking program
Ellie Hall-Prvulj
Swinburne University of Technology
Patterns of emotional regulation and expression in adulthood: The role of childhood emotional invalidation and adult attachment
Minling Tan
University of Adelaide
Single or dual processing in reasoning development? An application of state-trace analysis to a systematic database of studies
Amy Eades
University of Canberra
The modern understanding of supraspinal pain processing and novel interventions for the modulation of pain
Vinay Mepani
University of Melbourne
Reaction time does not positively correlate with midfrontal theta power in a time-pressured non-conflict task
Sophie Yoko Steains
University of New England
Efficacy of psychological interventions for selective mutism: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Gabrielle Lambert-Bridges
University of New South Wales
The structure of aversive learning
Jessica Grimmond
University of Newcastle
To see or not to see (correlations): The effects of similarity and attribute correlation on mental representations
Manikya Alister
University of Queensland
Prioritisation under pressure: The effect of deliberation time on multiple goal pursuit
Chloe Dziego
University of South Australia
The N400 as a marker of differential neural processing of pain-related language in persistent pain patients
Alison Moss
University of Southern Queensland
Considering psychological flexibility in the relationship between job demands and burnout
Daelin Coutts-Bain
University of Sydney
Are fear of cancer recurrence and fear of progression equivalent constructs? An empirical investigation
Simon Webber
University of Tasmania
Reward and punishment as sources of motivation and response bias in perceptual decisions
Darrell Eckley
University of the Sunshine Coast
COVID-19’s impact on the processes of learning in Australian university students
Tom Fiocco Walton
University of Western Australia
Sleep discrepancy and insomnia: An investigation using polynomial regression with response surface analysis
Megan Jane Wells
University of Wollongong
Preliminary validation of the substance use motives measure (SUMM) among young people in Australia
Christopher Rainbow
Victoria University
Suicide risk in online help-seekers: Exploring psychosocial factors contributing to increased suicidal ideation
Dean Berg
Western Sydney University
Use of mobile mindfulness apps in young adults with depression