Student Award Winners
Retirement Research Foundation
1996 Competition

Undergraduate Awards

Research Proposal ($312)

Bridget Redman, The effects of gender, activity level, and reasoning ability on body perception in older adults Allegeny College; Sponsor: L. McGuire

Graduate/Masters Awards

Completed Research ($1250)

Karen Kemtes, Younger and older adults’ working memory and on-line processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences University of Kansas; Sponsor: S. Kemper

Completed Research:Honorable Mention ($200)

Yingye Zheng, Information-processing speed: The interaction of age differences and ability differences Washington University; Sponsors: Joel Myerson and Sandra Hale

Lisa Laumann, Adult age differences in vocabulary acquisition West Virginia University; Sponsor: Raymond Shaw

Elizabeth J. Meinz, Musical experience, musical knowledge, and age effects on memory for music Georgia Institute of Technology; Sponsor: T. Salthouse

Xiaohui Guo, Age and forgetfulness: Manipulating the degree of age stereotypes. Florida International University; Sponsor: J. Erber

Research Proposal ($1000)

Roxanne Thorn, Goal setting, memory performance and self-efficacy in younger and older adults University of Florida; Sponsor: R. West

Research Proposal: Second Prize ($500)

Patricia P. Vignola, Moderating effects of perceived self-efficacy in the relationship between cognitive ability and functional ability in the elderly. Barry University; Sponsor: C. Starratt

Graduate/Doctoral Awards

Completed Research ($1250)

Jamila Bookwala, Perceptions of the care recipient and elderly caregivers’ psychological well-being: The role of neuroticism and mastery. University of Pittsburgh; Sponsor: R. Schulz

Research Proposal ($2000)

Lisa E. Norris, Everyday problem solving goals: Contributions of age and individual differences Louisiana State University; Sponsor: K. Cherry

Research Proposal: Second Prize ($1000)

Miriam E. Harthill, Psychosocial factors and respiratory health: A biopsychosocial investigation. University of California at Riverside; Sponsor: M. R. DiMatteo

Postdoctoral Awards

Completed Research ($1250)

Paul Verhaeghen, Growing slower and less accurate: Adult age differences in time-accuracy functions for recall and recognition University of Leuven; Sponsor: A. Marcoen

Research Proposal: Tie ($1500)

Lisa Jenkins, Adult age differences in the acquisition of lexical and nonlexical automaticity. Washington University; Sponsors: S. Hale and J. Myerson

Mary C. Newman, Awareness of deficit and Parkinson’s disease University of Arizona; Sponsor: A. W. Kaszniak


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