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The Psychological Harms of Incarceration
No full textThis project encompasses a review paper synthesizing the existing information of the harms that many prisoners face in the course of incarceration, specifically focusing on the United States prison system. My research will include the increasingly harsh policies and conditions of confinement, the de-emphasis on rehabilitation as a goal of incarceration, the position of power an individual abuses (as a prison guard), comparisons to other countries who do focus more on rehabilitation, and the several psychological changes that prisoners face in order to endure the prison experience.
Faculty Sponsor: Or\u27Shaundra Benso
The Underview Effect
No full textThe Underview Effect is an art installation that is draped in remembering. It is a place for memory to live and intermingle with modernization, and create a meeting point where they both can rest side by side. Interacting with this piece, you are surrounded by memory, by everything that has ever existed and all that still does: tree trunks, fabric, music, light, our own bodies, etc. You will come away a little different, stained by all this time. It is a cave carved above ground, a point between here and history that serves as an introduction to how we think about how we interact with time, legacy, and existing, in comparison to all that has come before, all that is here right now, and all that will come after.
Faculty Sponsor: Jackie Weave
The Women of Wrath
Get PDFOur group decided that we wanted to research the Ancient Greek myths of Pandora, the Harpies, the Fates, and the Furies to discover what these mythological figures stood for in the eyes of the Ancient Greeks. Once our research in our respective topics was complete, we came back together to look for comparisons between our separate figures, and the similarities we found eventually led us to the name of our project: The Women of Wrath.
Faculty Sponsor: Lisa Higgin
Violinist at the Metro Revisited: Why a Violin Virtuoso Was Virtually Ignored
No full textThis literature review recounts the Violinist at the Metro Experiment, where a violin virtuoso was disguised as a street performer in the train station. In this paper, we connect social psychology to the experiment by using common cognitive biases and errors to show why the prolific performer was mostly ignored. Helpful suggestions for solutions to these cognitive issues are also provided