SCRANTON, PA (07/20/2012)(readMedia)-- Karen Hudzinski of Pittston Township was among just 25 members of The University of Scranton's Class of 2012 to graduate from the Jesuit university's Honors Program. She received a bachelor of science, magna cum laude, in psychology. She was mentored by Jessica M. Nolan, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, and her thesis was "Social Influence and Fleeting Attraction: Generating Compliance through Conversational Pausing." Hudzinski will attend Cleveland State University's master's program in consumer/industrial research in psychology. Standing from left are Hudzinski and Joseph Kraus, Ph.D., director of the Honors Program and associate professor of English and theatre.