SNaPP Lab Honors Theses
Students are able to investigate original research through the SNaPP lab in the form of an Honors Thesis or independent study. Additionally, all first-year students will complete individual research projects during Boot Camp (for more information, see ‘Apply to Join’ page).
| Political Chameleons: An Exploration of Personality and Political Conformity
By: Taylor Feenstra | When Social Pressure Fails: Evidence from Two Direct Mail Experiments
By: Meg Schwenzfeier |
| Disgust: An Emotional Component of Conservative Attitudes Toward Transgender Individuals
By: John Stuart | “Yes”-Women: The Impact of Gender on Agreement in Online Political Discussio
By: Emily Draper |
Summer Research Projects
| State-level Ideology and Newspaper Coverage of the Affordable Care Act in August 2009
By: Joanna Borman | Content Analysis of Egyptian Newspapers |
| “Like”-minded Views on the Ferguson Grand Jury Decision: An Experimental Test of the Spiral of Silence in a Social Media Setting
By: Zarine Kharazian | The Effect of Facebook on Political Ideology
By: Dan Brown |
| Causes of European Public Opinion Polarization
By: Sahil Mehrotra | Local Newspaper Coverage of Ideologically Contentious Legislation: A Case Study on the Affordable Care Act in Massachusetts, Florida, and Texas
By: Will Evans |
| The Effects of Facebook Posts on Partisan Polarization
By: Dan Brown |
McGlennon Scholarship Projects
| The Impact of Gender on Evaluations ofOnline Political Arguments
By: Michael Payne |