USC Undergraduate Honors Projects
- Natural Language Processing Techniques to Detect Deception in Child Forensic Interviews
- Zane Durante, 2019
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Award
- “Tell me if your clothes were off”: Forensic Interviewers’ Difficulty with Invitations
- Questioning Children About Their Understanding of Truth-Telling to Physicians
- Hania Adib, 2015
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Award
- “You Said Sad, Tell Me More About That”: Exploring the Subjective Reactions of Children Disclosing Sexual Abuse
- Effects of Question Type and Case Characteristics on Children’s Disclosure of Sexual Abuse
- Wendy Garcia-Nava, 2015
- Pseudo Temporal Questions in Interviews of Children
- Tyler Vestal, 2012
- Social Sciences Second Place
- Young Children’s Ability to Generate False Statements as a Precursor to False Belief Understanding
- Dana Jabreel, 2011
- Social Sciences Honorable Mention
- Child Sexual Abuse Stereotypes and Their Effects on Jury Decisions
- Jenna Tomei and Emilie Winckel, 2010
- Social Sciences First Place
- Published as Stolzenberg, S. N., & Lyon, T. D. (2014). Evidence summarized in attorneys’ closing arguments predicts acquittals in criminal trials of child sexual abuse. Child Maltreatment, 19,119-129.
- Preschool Children’s Understanding of Approximation Using the Word “Almost”
- Nicole Moody, 2009
- Effects of Narrative Rapport and Putative Confessions on Children’s Disclosure
- Jonathan Ortega, 2009
- Children’s Explanations of Delaying Disclosure of Sexual Abuse
- Debi Ogbonna, 2008
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Award
- Children’s Knowledge of Temporal Terms
- Jennifer Wang, 2008
- Reluctance and Response in Child Sexual Abuse Victims
- Charlina Gozali, 2008
- Social Sciences Honorable Mention
- Do Attorneys Follow Good Practice in Preparatory Examination of Child Sexual Abuse Victims?
- Hilary Feybush, 2008
- Social Sciences Honorable Mention
- Are They Crying for Justice? Children’s Testimony in Sexual Abuse Trials
- Sally Handmaker, 2007
- Child Witnesses’ Difficulties With Pragmatics and Referential Ambiguity
- Kwok Yin Karen Choi, 2007
- Finding an Effective Way to Question Children Using “Before” and “After”
- Camille Boudreau, 2007
- Social Sciences Second Place
- Young Maltreated Children’s Ability to Answer and Understand Oath-Taking Competency Questions
- Melanie Billow, 2007
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Award
- The Ability of Child Witnesses Alleging Sexual Abuse to Make Numerosity Judgments
- Lauren Baron, 2006
- Emotional Responses in Children’s Disclosure of Sexual Abuse
- Rebecca Blank, 2005
- Social Sciences Second Place
- Published as Lyon, T. D., Scurich, N., Choi, K., Handmaker, S., & Blank, K. (2012). “How did you feel?”: Increasing child sexual abuse witnesses’ production of evaluative information. Law & Human Behavior, 36, 448-457.