Dissertations from 2025
Synchronizing Work and Teaching Practices with the Spatial DNA of Distributed Work and Learning, Manju Aishwarya Adikesavan
Distress, Desire, and Care: Young Adults and Suicidality in Rural India, Varnica Arora
Alerted and Anxious? The Effects of Mobile Crime Alerts on Perceptions of Personal and Public Safety, Amanda C. Benjamin
Breaking Out of Burnout: Leveraging Informal Learning to Encourage Needs Satisfaction to Reduce Employee Burnout, Kaitlin Busse
The Interaction of Multilingualism and Depressed Mood on Cognitive Set-Shifting, Annalise Caviasco
Blurred Borders: Women of Mexican Descents’ Experiences in the US Across Space and Time, Allison LC Das
Medication Adherence Among Partnered, Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV: What’s Love, Interdependence and Comorbidities Got to Do with It?, Kendell M. Doyle
Wavelength and Luminance Interaction on Spatio-Temporal Contrast Sensitivity Function, Taylan S. Ergun
Seeing and Sanctioning Structural Unfairness, Grace Flores-Robles
Reproductive Liberation on Ice (?): A Qualitative Exploration of Black Women’s Egg Freezing Experiences, Frances M. Howell
The Elephant (and Donkey) in the Room: The Effects of Political Ideology on Diversity Training Effectiveness, Luke P. Kayga
Understanding Why Individuals Maltreated as Children Do Not Retrospectively Self-Report, Kristin S. Lynch
Between Structure and Agency: Professional Identity Development in Social Work's Neoliberal Transformation, Johan Melchior
“Justice, Justice Pursue”: Coworker Reactions to Religious Workplace Accommodations, Joshua A. Nagel
Tracing Reverberations: Vietnamese Refugee Mothers' Adaptations to Complex Structural Forces and Intergenerational Engagements, Kim Khanh Nguyen-Nalpas
Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks, Cristina Onea
Proximity in Pixels: The Moderating Roles of Structural and Psychological Distance on Behavioral Leadership Effectiveness, Ethan J. Ray
Collaborative Memory and Metamemory: The Impact of Normative and Informational Motivations on Conformity, Karen Rodriguez
Characterization of the Attentional Profile in Women and Girls with a Fragile X Premutation Allele, Shira Russell-Giller
Receptions of Mental Health Emergency Services in New York City, Daniel R. Samost
Overturning of Roe v. Wade as a Mega-Threat: Effects on Women’s Identity Fusion and Disidentification in the Workplace, Shivani Shah
The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on the Play Behavior of Juvenile Rats, Rebecca S. Smart
The Role of Parent Psychiatric Symptoms in the Intergenerational Continuity of Child Neglect: A Prospective Examination, Cody D. Stitzel
Psychosocial Adjustment to Stigma among Young Adults with Chronic Visible Skin Disease, Caroline Faye Zimmermann Stuhlmann
The Perspectives of Play Advocates on Children’s Unstructured Play in Turkey, Bengi Sullu
The Sonic Hedgehog Effector Smoothened Modulates Cholinergic Interneuron Activity, Physiology, and Striatum-Dependent Behaviors, Santiago Uribe-Cano
Interoceptive Forecasting and Recall: The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity and Disgust Sensitivity, David Lloyd Yap
Dissertations from 2024
Seeing Safety in Red: Expressions of Interpersonal Gratitude Affects Conservatives’ Political Attitudes in the United States, Kyle M. Anderson
Original vs. Simplified Miranda Rights: The Impact on Miranda Rights Comprehension and Subsequent Waiver Decisions, Sydney Baker
Complicating Confidence: A Critical Analysis of Confidence in a Girls' Empowerment Organization, Kimberly M. Belmonte
Relationship Quality, Predictors, and Outcomes in Adolescent Age-Gap Relationships: An Exploratory Study, Alexandra Bonagura
Imaging Markers of Future Neurodegeneration Following Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Daniel Brennan
Examining Visual Processing of Hierarchical Figures through Behavioral Measures and Pupillometry in Relation to Autistic Traits in Adults, Chloe Brittenham
The Effects of Mood and Anxiety Sensitivity on Attentional Engagement and Disengagement in Sleep Disturbance, Kara L. Buda
Measuring Intersectional Strength and Stigma Among Racially Minoritized Gender Diverse Young Adults, Joseph Carter
Enhancing the Accuracy of the Mild Cognitive Impairment Diagnosis in Community-Based, Racially/Ethnically Diverse Older Adults, Katherine H. Chang
A Candidate Needs Approach to Job Advertisements, Yuliya M. Cheban-Gore
In My Softest & Most Liberatory Dreams: Reflections on Holding Complexity & Decentering Whiteness, Richard C. Clark
Intimate Partner Violence and Negotiation During COVID-19: Stressors, Resources, and Perception, Victoria P. Diamond
Religious Communication in Interfaith Romantic Relationships: Positive Approaches to Improve Relationship Outcomes, Jaclyn K. Doherty
Late-Life Depression: The Interplay Between Cerebrovascular Risk, Cortical and Subcortical Atrophy, and Treatment Response, Dakota Egglefield
Creatively Addressing the Employment Gap: Using Creativity and the Arts to Help Autistic Adolescents and Young Adults Build Skills for Employment, Eliana Rachel Grossman
Unpacking the Contested State of Public Housing in New York City, Kristen Hackett
Individual Differences in Wild Asian Elephant Behavior: Links Between Innovation and Responses to Novelty Across a Mosaic Landscape, Sarah L. Jacobson
The Impact of Playing as a Non-Stereotypical Woman in a Role-Playing Video Game on Players’ Real World Gender Role Attitudes, Hunter Kincaid
Supporting Social Equity Through Informal Spaces on an Urban Campus, Eve B. Klein
Brain Injury and Psychosocial Trauma: Outcomes Among Justice-Involved Individuals, Mahathi D. Kosuri
In-Work Recovery Among Hybrid Employees: Examining the Relationships Between Stressors, Recovery Experiences, and Strains, Stefanie Larsen
The Cultural Complexity of Immigrants and the Implications for Personality Assessment: Exploring the Role of Frame Switching, Patrick Jay Lee
Staying Power: The Struggle for Space and Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Erin E. Lilli
Health Behaviors and Physical Health Among Young Adults with Varying Psychometric Schizotypy, Christopher Liong
Just Transitions: Critical Exploration of Environmental Policy and Decision-Making Through the Lens of Lived Stories, Mariya Marinova
Relationship Interventions for Autistic Children and their Non-Autistic Siblings, Susan Vanessa McHugh
Helpful Intentions? Impact of Intentionality on Children's Memory for Forensically-Relevant Information, Ella P. Merriwether
Self-Perceived Cognitive Functioning in Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome: Enhancing Risk Detection in Health Disparity Older Adults, Caroline O. Nester
The Role of Glutamate in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Acquistion and Expression of Conditioned Approach, Rudolf Nisanov
Park Use, Urban Environmental Justice, and Place Attachment in Parks in Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City, Javier Eduardo Otero Peña
Values in Evidence-Based Policy: Bridging Socio-Political, Moral, and Epistemic Domains, Karyna Pryiomka
The Effect of Working Memory Performance Under Stress on the Relationship Between Trauma History, PTSD Symptoms, and Intimate Partner Violence, Gabriella Robinson
LGBTQ+ Employees’ Disclosure and Selective Incivility Experiences: Implications for Their Health and Well-Being, Wiston A. Rodriguez
Investigating the Impact of Affect in Suicide-Specific Attentional Biases, Beverlin Rosario-Williams
Computerized Cognitive Training in the Treatment of Depression: Individual Differences and Perceptions of CCT, Sophie Schiff
Gendering Diaspora Across Generations: Lebanese Motherhood and Daughterhood Post-Emigration, Janan Shouhayib
The BlackGIRL Project: Examining the Impact and Manifestation of Colorism among Black Adolescent Girls in the United States: A Critical Participatory Action Research Approach, Gina (Diagou) R. Sissoko
Defining Resilience in Young People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Theory Informed Approach, Barbara Storch
The Beautiful and the Bullshit: Speaker and Listener Mental Representations Influence Bullshit Receptivity, Ryan Tracy
Building Networks, Producing Spaces for Play: Local Geographies and National Organizing in the History of Adventure Playgrounds in the United States, 1949-1999, Reilly B. Wilson
Challenging Beliefs: Examining the Efficacy of Corrections for Conspiratorial and Partisan Misinformation, Ava Zwolinski
Dissertations from 2023
Examining the Prevalence and Psychopathological Correlates of Paraphilic Interests in a Non-clinical Sample, Dylan H. Abrams
Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories, Donald V. Brown Jr
Epistemic Virtue and Receptivity to Science in Policing, Braden L. Campbell
Understanding the Experiences and Associated Symptomology of Disclosers and Non-disclosers of Sexual Victimization, Kaitlin Carson
Wanting Under Surveillance: A Critical Analysis of Young Women’s Sexual Desire, Jennifer Chmielewski
Salty: A Diffractive Inquiry of Visceral Knowing and Embodied Aesthetics, Mei Ling Chua
The Role of Intersectional Stigma and Social Anxiety in Black, Latino, and Multiracial Young Sexual Minority Men, Jorge L. Cienfuegos Szalay
Understanding the Relationship Between Working Memory and Long-Term Memory, Kelly Cotton
Examinations of the Close Relationship Processes and Health Framework Among Adult and Adolescent Sexual Minority Men, Trey Victor Dellucci
Motor Milestone Acquisition and Sleep-Related Learning and Development in Infancy, Aaron DeMasi
Abuse Victimization and Impulsivity in Incarcerated Males: Examining the Roles of Affective Instability and Trauma Symptoms, Jacqueline K. Douglas
Association Strength between Concepts as the Origin of the "Foreign Language Effect", Emilia Ezrina
An Offer You Cannot Refuse: Understanding the Elusive Construct of "Voluntary" Plea Decisions, Melanie B. Fessinger
Health Care Providers' Attributions of Blame for Unintended Pregnancy and HIV Acquisition Among Cisgender Women, Alison J. Goldberg
Avoiding Success: How Does Fear of Success Impact Today's Workforce?, Bradley E. Gray
Social and Cultural Processes that Impact Physical Activity among South Asian Americans Managing Hypertension: A Mixed Methods Study, Sugandha Gupta
Tongues Out of Place: Narratives of Hereness and Images of Be(long)ing, Christopher Hoffman
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Studies Investigating the Role of the DLPFC in Memory and Metamemory, Casey M. Imperio
Speech in Noise: Effects of Attention, Effort, and Reward, Ivan Iotzov
Concerned Student: Institutional Violence and Embodied Abolition in the University of Missouri Protests, Gaurav Jashnani
Examining the Role of Evidence-Based Suspicion in Racial Disparities in Wrongful Convictions, Jacqueline Katzman
Does the APOE-ε4 Allele Differentially Influence Cognition: A Longitudinal Investigation in Healthy Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease, Aditya Kulkarni
Losses and Gains of Teletherapy: The Impact of the Pandemic on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Dan-Bi Lee
