In Psychology, a capstone represents a piece of independent scholarship, usually with an experimental component. The Psychology major page on capstones provides more information and requirements, as well as some advice. I provide more advice here as well.
The capstones I have supervised or co-supervised are listed below. The subsequent section contains similar independent research projects, such as NUS honors theses. Students whose projects I am currently supervising or co-supervising are listed under Research Groups.
The full text for each of the capstones below can be found in the Capstone Repository created by the Yale-NUS Library.
Benjamin Philip Chong Yi Quan (2023-2024, with Sarah Wong). The impact of psychoeducation on perceptions of psychotherapy effectiveness in Asia.
Sundarimaa Erdembileg (2023-2024, with Jean Liu). Seeking help or spiraling? Examining the effects of mental health content on help-seeking and self-diagnosing behaviour.
Nicholas Benedict Tan Hock Ann (2023-2024, with Goh Tze Jui). Investigating the impacts of ACEs and BCEs on children with gender dysphoria.
Danan Lee (2023-2024, with Kat Agres). Cross-modal interactions in expectations for audiovisual stimuli and the influence of musical training.
Sherwin Tey Kai Ze (2023-2024, with Geoffrey Tan). Children's vitamin D levels at birth negatively predict callous-unemotional traits with mediation by regional grey matter volume in left parietal and temporal lobes.
Lee Puei Yee, Jane (2023, with Marvin Chun). Does priority matter? The effects of task prioritization on multitasking.
Wah Tzy Hyi (2023, with Raynor Tan). How do knowledge and perceptions of trauma-informed care influence the application of trauma-informed care?
Callista Anne Yin Kai Ren (2023, with Evangeline Ng). Investigating the psychiatric clinical youth population in Singapore: Do current assessments work and what demographic factors are associated with severity of clinical presentation?
Wang Ziying (2023, with Geoffrey Tan). The use of self-referential data to identify subtypes of depression through a clustering approach.
Ng Kye Been (2023, with Geoffrey Tan). Investigating the impact of childhood trauma on depressive symptoms: Testing for mediation by attachment and self-referential processing in brain and behaviour.
Maria Paula Leon Mora (2023, with Geoffrey Tan). Exploring the genetic and environmental mechanisms of parent to child transmission of mood and anxiety symptoms.
Youngbean Kim. (2022). Effect of ambient noise and arousal-seeking tendency on sustained attentional task performance.
Chua Yun Da. (2022). Brain connectivity models predict and reveal the network differences of attentional and executive control tasks.
Kyle Foo. (2022). Resemblance in role-play: Effects of perceived similarity to role-playing game characters on self-knowledge and immersion.
Ariel Cheung Yik Ka. (2022). A meditation on medicalization: A feasibility study on an online mindfulness training program for college students with self-reported ADHD symptoms.
Leong En-Lin. (2021). An EEG study of attention.
Ten Ting Yu. (2021). Mental stretching: Awe and cognitive flexibility performance in tests of task-switching and divergent thinking.
Angad Srivastava. (2021). Can distracting vibrotactile stimuli improve exercise quality?
Maleyka Mammadova. (2020). The effect of stimulus-target similarity on surprise-induced blindness.
Eda Şemsioğlu. (2020). Do the syntactic differences between Turkish and English affect semantic processing?
Grady Ng Shi Kai. (2020). A cognitive exploration of intuition in touchscreen interactions: The effects of explicit physical metaphor and simulated physics on intuitive processes in touchscreen scrolling.
Kho Kian Hao. (2020). The cost of paying attention: Vigilance and the vigilance decrement.
M Linggeswar Rao. (2019). Assessing the relationship between extracurricular activity participation and cognitive dissonance.
Clin Lai Kam Yuue. (2018). Change detection or blindness in synaesthetes: Are grapheme-colour synaesthetes better at detecting changes?
Glen Kilian Koh Eng Kai. (2018). Optimism and disengagement in attentional bias for affective images.
Yong Kai Yi. (2018, with Simon Perrault). Using haptic and auditory feedback for diagram perception.
Felicia Tan Fang Yi. (2017). Psychology of consent to online privacy policy: Effects of display layout and agreement method on privacy content engagement and comprehension.
Kevin Low Eng Meng. (2017). Assessing the relationship between working memory capacity and theory of mind.
Victoria Jane En Long. (2017, with Stuart Derbyshire). Hot or Not: Effects of stimuli pattern and duration on offset analgesia.
Parag Bhatnagar. (2017, with Simon Perrault). Effects of inter and intra-modal distraction on haptic feedback perception.
Natasha Ureyang. (NUS Psychology Honors Thesis, 2021). Effects of secondary tasks on the auditory attentional blink.
Goh Rui Zhe. (Yale-NUS Special Project in Science, 2018). Connectome-based predictive modelling of attentional tasks. (Yale-NUS College public affairs write-up)
Alvin Wong. (NUS Independent Research Project, 2018, with Stuart Derbyshire). Detecting timing differences in BOLD responses involving very short stimulus durations: A multiband fMRI study.
Iris Loh. (NUS Psychology Honors Thesis, 2018). Autistic individuals catch up with peers: Multisensory temporal order judgment in neurotypical adults and adults with autism spectrum disorder.
Alicia Chee. (NUS Engineering Honors Thesis, 2018, with BT Thomas Yeo). Predicting attentional performance with machine learning of fMRI data.
Fung Tak Shun. (NUS Independent Research Project, 2015). No Rest: Determining the nature of the relationship between sleep deprivation and time-on-task.