Dissertations from 2020
Object Relations, Identity Formation, and Transitional Space in Religious Conversion, Arielle Rubenstein
Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making, Patricia Y. Sanchez
Gender Differences in Personality: An Item-Level Analysis, Casey C. Smith
The Effects of Two Kinds of Stereotype Threat on Implicit Racial Bias in African-Americans, Brad Thomas
A Comparison of Strain, Social Learning, Control, and Trauma Theories of Crime, Nicole Trauffer
Stalking and Attachment Theory: Causes and Management, Zoe Turner
Experience-Dependent Changes in Nucleus Accumbens Activity Predict Cued Approach Learning: Contribution of NMDA Receptors, Mercedes Vega Villar
Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Visual Percepts Elicited by a Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Technique, Kelly Webster
PrEP Use and Barriers to Use Among Adult and Young Sexual Minority Men in the United States, Thomas Whitfield
Diversity Rhetoric and Practice: A Critical Examination of “Diversity” in Graduate Education, Tellisia M. Williams
Affect, Behavior and (Dys)Regulation: Integrating Youth's Projective Tests and Self-Reports, Laurel Wright
Dissertations from 2019
Environmental Adaptations and Agency: An Ecological Reframing of Design and Implementation Practices for Disability, Jennifer Adler
Different Strokes for Different but Reasonable Folks: Comparison of Legally Relevant Observers’ Perceptions of Custody, Fabiana Alceste
Post-Synaptic Mechanisms of Early and Late Prepulse Inhibition in the Goldfish, Daniel Bronson
Memory-Guided Selective Attention: An Instance Theory of Automatic Attentional Control, Nicholaus Paul Brosowsky
Training as Restructuring: Cases from Entry-Level Healthcare and Manufacturing Workforce Training in Eastern Connecticut, Shelley Buchbinder
Recognition by Flickering Components: The Effect of Temporal Modulation on Image Recognition, Alla Chavarga
Examining the Effects of a Multi-Component Neurocognitive Intervention for School-Aged Children with Co-Occurring ADHD and Reading Difficulties, Alyssa L. Chimiklis
The Social Cost of Pain: Rejection Sensitivity, Social Rejection, and Cannabis Use in Young Adults, Naomi Dambreville
Relational Processes in Support-Related Communication Among Young Adults with Cancer, Kathleen Darabos
Novel Biobehavioral Methods for Assessing the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias, Samantha Denefrio
The Development and Validation of an Ideal Point Measure of Work Engagement, Michael M. DeNunzio
Neural Correlates of Automatic Emotional Processing and Emotion Regulation in Empathy and Psychopathy-Related Coldheartedness, Danielle diFilipo
Contested Development: A Poor People's Movement for a Better Los Angeles, 1960–2018, Deshonay R. Dozier
Assessment of Third Wave Therapy Assumptions about the Relation between Emotional Schemas and Psychoemotional Functioning, Emily Rachel Edwards
Internal and External Attention in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tehila Eilam-Stock
Emotion Processing Deficits in Psychopathy: Does Cueing to Relevant Facial Features Increase Cognitive and Emotional Empathy?, Shawn E. Fagan
Systems Analysis of Faculty Hiring Process Within Academia, Nicole P. Farrell
Impact of Religiosity and Level of Acculturation on Cultural Alignment: An Exploration of Terror Management Mechanisms among Muslim American Women, Farah T. Goheer
Examining the Use of Hebephilia and Paraphilia Non-consent in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Evaluations, Nicole Graham
Visual Entrainment of Perception-Related Neural Oscillations as a Mechanism for Maintaining Rhythmic Temporal Expectations Across a Wide Range of Frequencies, Michael James Gray
The Impact of Mentalization and Self-Compassion on Psychological Adjustment in Adolescents, Jaleh Hamadani
The Use of Infographics to Assess Context Processing, Beliz Hazan
Racial Becoming: How Agentic (Self-Initiated) Encounter Events Inform Racial Identity Refinement, Devin A. Heyward
Electroencephalographic Asymmetry, Emotion Regulation, and Their Relationships with Depression Risk, Aliza Jacob
The Development of Face Morphing Task to Assess Self Other Differentiation, Esen Karan
Officers’ and Community Members’ Evaluations of Police–Civilian Interactions, Mawia Khogali
Components of Fluency-Based Instruction in the College Classroom, Jennifer Kourassanis Velasquez
Murine Genetic Variance in Sugar and Fat-Conditioned Flavor Preferences: Roles of Dopamine, Opioid and NMDA Receptors and Nutritive Sensing, Tamar T. Kraft
A Meta-Analysis of Information Processing Measures of Intelligence, Performance, and Group Score Differences, Elliott C. Larson
Facial Identification: A Meta-Analysis of 50 Years of Research, Jungwon Lee
The Impact of Racial Microaggressions and Major Discriminatory Events on Mental Health, Florence Lui
Cognitive Models of Defense Behaviors in Hosts of Brood Parasites, Thomas J. Manna
Getting the Benefit of the Doubt: The Effect of Randomization Ratio on the Placebo Response, Taiki Matsuura
Perceptions of Sexual Violence: An Investigation of Sexual Harassment, Sexual Coercion, and Sexting, Jennifer J. McMahon
Dermatoglyphic Measures in Relation to Depressive Symptoms Among Non-Clinical Adolescents and Young Adults, Yosefa A. Modiano
The Interaction of Attention and Memory on the Reorienting Negativity, John C. Moses
Clinical Characteristics and Neuroanatomical Predictors of Acute Antidepressant Outcome for Patients with Comorbid Depression and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Jeffrey N. Motter
Structure and Function of Dopamine in the Inner Ear and Auditory Efferent System of a Vocal Fish, Jonathan T. Perelmuter
Neurogenesis is Altered Between and Across Brain Regions After Neurodegeneration and Injury, Alice Perez
Diet, Inflammation, Gut Microbiome, and Mental Health, Ashley R. Polokowski
Does Ethnic Identity, In-group Preference, and Acculturation Protect Latinas with a History of Interpersonal Trauma From Developing Symptoms of PTSD?, Evelyn M. Ramirez
Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System, Whitney Richards-Calathes
Estradiol and Daily Affective Experiences in Trauma-Exposed Women, Jenna Rieder
Mindfulness in Medicine: Modified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program among Future Doctors, Virtue Sankoh
Captives of a New Alcatraz: The New York City Department of Correction from 1954 to 1990, Jarrod Shanahan
“We are all the decline”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Presbyterian Clergywomen’s Talk About Denominational Decline, Miriam Shelton
Childhood Neglect and Risk of Revictimization by an Intimate Partner: A Prospective Investigation of Mediational Pathways, Rebecca M. Spizzirri
Investigating the Feasibility of Advanced Law Enforcement Resilience Training (A.L.E.R.T.): An Innovated and Practical Intervention to Enhance Police Mindfulness and Resilience, Stephanie B. Stern
Dissertations from 2018
Dietary Curcumin Promotes Resilience to Chronic Social Defeat Stress in a Highly Susceptible Mouse Strain, Antonio V. Aubry
Parents Frame Childhood for the World to See in Digital Media Postings, Aysenur Benevento
The Effect of a Voice Treatment on Facial Expression in Parkinson’s Disease: Clinical and Demographic Predictors, Amanda D. Bono
Curcumin Inhibits the IKK:NF-kappa B Pathway in Neural Fear Circuits, Miguel A. Briones
Educational Relevance as a Motivating Operation for Equivalence Class Formation: Implications for Application, Julia Brodsky
The Inter-Subject Correlation of EEG in Response to Naturalistic Stimuli, Samantha S. Cohen
A Narrative Approach to Investigating the Contextual Nature of Adolescent Self-Regulation, Kelly Conover
A Qualitative, Phenomenological Study of Psychotherapists’ Perception of Ethnic Identity Shifts in Immigrant Patients, Ricardo Corbetta
Leadership Ineffectiveness: The Interactive Effects of Leader Personality, Job Demands, and Job Resources on Ethical Climate and Employee Turnover Intentions, Michelle D. Corman
A Comparison of Quiz Grading Criteria, Exam Question Type and Novelty, and their Effects on Exam Scores, Samantha Dalfen
Bias-Motivated Homicides: Toward a New Typology, Lindsey Sank Davis
The Relationship Between Parenting and Child Trauma: An Intergenerational Investigation, Miriam A. Dreyer
Determinants of the Acquisition and Display of Behaviors Associated with “Guilt” (Appeasement Behaviors) by Companion Dogs, Parvene Farhoody
Beyond the Binary: Gender Identity and Mental Health Among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults, Chassitty N. Fiani
Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Youth With Gender Dysphoria, Felix L. Garcia
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Neural Bases of Metamemory Judgments, Alexandra M. Gaynor
Perceived Knowledge and Defense of Political Attitudes, Matthew H. Goldberg
The Development of Affect and Defense in Childhood and Adolescence, Kari Gray
A Preliminary Program Evaluation of a Narrative Therapy Intervention for Persons Incarcerated for Violent Crime, Brooke C. Greene
A Comparison of the Effects of Various Feedback Presentations on Typing Accuracy and Speed, Julieanne Guadalupe
The Narration of Conflicting Accountabilities in the Era of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation, James Christopher Head
The Effect of an Extinction Procedure on Level of Responding to Visual Stimuli in an Evaluative Conditioning Procedure, Allison Hirsch
Absences and Epistemologies of Ignorance: A Critical Multi-Sited Study on the Teaching of the Danish Colonial and Slave Trading Past, Naja B. Hougaard
Socialization Trajectories of Civic Development: Examining Variation Among Children in Black Immigrant and African American Families, Juliana Karras-Jean Gilles
Broad Skill Focused Job Seeking: A Study of Intervention and Employment Outcomes, Eric A. Knudsen
Delivering Justice: Food Delivery Cyclists in New York City, Do J. Lee
The Effects of Pyramidal Training on Staff Acquisition of Five Behavior Analytic Procedures, Lindsay M. Maffei-Almodovar
Neural Underpinnings of Walking Under Cognitive and Sensory Load: A Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Approach, Brenda R. Malcolm
Colorism in Assessor Ratings: Exploring the Roles of Social Dominance Orientation, Metaphorical Associations and Skin Tone Stereotypes, Tiwi D. Marira
Adults’ Perceptions of Children with Mental Illness Labels Who Tell Truths and Lies, Jessica Lynn McCurdy