Dissertations from 2022
The Role of Mortality Salience and Social Identity in Police Officers and Students Reporting Misconduct, Anna M. Stenkamp
The Impact of Cannabis Use on Neuropsychological and Neural Biomarkers of Treatment Response in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Melanie B. Thies
SSRI-Induced Emotional Blunting: A Study of Cognitive Changes in Pharmaceutically Treated Depression, Carly Tocco
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Daily Diary Investigation of Appraisals of Illegitimate Tasks, Danielle Robyn Wald
Teaching Siblings to Encourage and Praise Play: Supporting Interactions When One Sibling has Autism, Holly R. Weisberg
Countertransference and the Patient's Experience: Exploring How Engagement with Affect is Related to Short-Term Psychotherapy Outcomes, Ariel R. Westerman
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Epistemic Value of Moral Ambiguity, Jordan Wylie
Linguistic Abstractions in Children’s Very Early Utterances, Qihui Xu
Dissertations from 2021
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
Telehealth Caregiver Training: Treating Food Selectivity without Extinction, Christina M. Alaimo
Barriers and Bridges to Intimacy: A Constellation of Same-Sex Female Couples’ Experiences, Struggles and Strengths, Jenna K. Bennett
Smartphones and Somatizing, Jonathan Berkowitz
Environmental Cues and the Sociospatial Imaginary: An Examination of Spatial Perception and Meaning-Making in a Gentrifying Neighborhood, Todd Levon Brown
The Effects of Constant and Descending Criterion-Level Frequencies on Skill Acquisition Outcomes, Anna Budd
Early Emotion Regulation in the Children of Superstorm Sandy, Jessica L. Buthmann
The Space Love Maps: A Blackgirl Legend in Three Plots, Loren S. Cahill
The Influence of Prosecutorial Overcharging on Defendant and Defense Attorney Plea Decision Making: Documenting and Debiasing the Anchoring Effect, Stephanie Aurora Cardenas
Connect or Protect: The Impact of Ghosting on Potential Partner Perception and Pursuit, Maureen Coyle
Food Restriction and Body Image Distortion in Pregnant Mothers: Outcomes for Exposed Children, Kathryn M. Dana
An Evaluation of An Application Designed for the iPad® to Measure Stimulus Overselectivity for Future Use in Autism Research, Adrienne A. Fitzer
Reimagining What it Means to be Black in the United States: Family Cultural Socialization Practices that Shape Racial Identities among Diverse Young Adults, Latifa T. Fletcher
The Influence of Evidence-Based Sex Discrimination Policies on Women’s Perceptions of Organizational Climate, Sexism, and Identity Safety, Maya A. Godbole
Improving the Accuracy of Juror Self-Reports of Bias During Rehabilitative Voir Dire, Natalie Gordon
Traces of Absence: How the Trauma of the Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan Kidnapped Children Affair Is Present in Photographs and Home Movies, Natalie Haziza
The Psychological Allure of Alford: Why Innocents Plead Guilty, Johanna Hellgren
Childhood ADHD, Impulsivity, and Alcohol-Related Impairment Among Diverse College Students, Mariely Hernandez
An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Infant Sleep: How We Study It, What It Means for Other Areas of Development, and Where Methodological Creativity Can Take Us, Melissa Noel Horger
Social Production of Intellectual Disability and the Mechanics of Moral Exclusion: Past, Present, and Future, Emese Ilyes
The Role of Perceived Warmth and Competence in Civil Trials with Corporate Litigants, Alexander C. Jay
The Online Impossible Anagram Task: Development and Testing of a Novel Online Cheating Paradigm, Emily Joseph
The Effect of Psilocybin on Personality, Ravital LaBua
Semantic Network Activation Contributes to the Relationship between Mood and Inhibition, James S. Maniscalco
The Relationship of Pathological Narcissism to Empathic Functioning, Antonia M. McMaster
Antecedents of Borderline Personality Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder: An Examination of Gene X Environment Interactions, Amy L. Medina
Illegitimate Tasks and Performance Outcomes: The Moderating Role of the Perception of Coworker Sharing Illegitimate Tasks Experiences, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi
Training and Individual Predictors of Attitudes Toward Serious Mental Illness Amongst Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students, Lauren K. O'Connor
The Relationship Between Arts Education and Beliefs About Equality and Social Action, Naomi B. Podber
Effects of Prenatal Cannabis Exposure on Offspring Emotional Development and Stress Response, Alexandra Pritchett
Improving the Assessment of Practical Judgment Ability in Older Adults, Crystal G. Quinn
Treatment, Diagnostic, Demographic, and Historical Factors Affecting Mental Health Diversion Outcomes, Amanda L. Reed
Examining the Transient Neural Dynamics Underlying Working Memory Maintenance for Complex Visual Stimuli, Chelsea Reichert Plaska
A Comparison of Simulated Schizophrenia in Mental Health Experts and Genuine Schizophrenia in Psychiatric Patients, Amanda Rosinski
Exploring the Effects of Coworker Ostracism on Feedback Inquiry and Voice: The Mediating Role of Proactive Motivation, Ethan G. Rothstein
Motivation of Networking Behavior: A Study of Novel Interventions, Jeremy D. Rothstein
Pilot Study Of The Effects Of Mobile Based Resonant Frequency Breathing On Cognitive Performance In Healthy Young Adults With Elevated Stress, Daniel Saldana
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Psychological Outcomes of Mobile Guided Resonant Frequency Breathing in Young Adults with Elevated Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Al Amira Safa Shehab
Information Justice: The Histories and Futures of Technology and Social Categories, Patrick Sweeney
Young People’s Perception of Opportunities to Participate in Democratic Governance, Jennifer Nga Yu Tang
How Psychotherapists Practice In the Digital Era, Josh Weinstein
From Psychology to Phylogeny: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Cultural Evolution, Mason Youngblood
Targeting AMPA Receptor Modulation during Early Life Adversity: A Mediator for Threat Associated Memories, Roseanna M. Zanca
How Frustration Impacts the Relationship Between Potential for Child Physical Abuse Perpetration and Emotion Processing, Amanda L. Zwilling
Dissertations from 2020
Young Children's Play in High-rise Housing: A Window into the Changing Lives of Urban Middle-class Families in Pune Metropolitan Area, Sruthi Atmakur-Javdekar
A Grounded Theory Investigation of the Subjective Responses From Partners in Couples Where Infidelity Has Occurred, Malika Bhowmik
Psychoanalytic Determinates of the Love/Work Balance in a Cohort of African-American Men, Joseph Ellison Brown
The Functional Role of the Anterior Insular Cortex in Cognitive Control, Yu Chen
Tamalin/GRAS-1 Connects Glutamate Receptor Activity to the Insulin/IGF Signaling Cascade to Regulate Neuroprotection in a Nematode Model of Excitotoxicity, Ayesha Chowdhury
Exploring Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Plea Bargain Decisions, Melanie Close
Integrating Affect Perception Tasks from the New York Emotion Battery into a Comprehensive Measure of Neuropsychological Change across the Lifespan, Melinda A. Cornwell
An Affective Events Theory Analysis of Conflict Perception Emergence, Michael J. Covell
Intra-familial Microaggressions, Object Relations, and Racial Identity Formation in Multiracial Individuals, Ashley Danies
Developmental Predictors of Adolescent Mental Health Stigma and a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of "Ending the Silence" in New York city, Joseph S. DeLuca
Do Criminal and Successful (Non-Institutionalized) Psychopaths Differ on Internal, Environmental, and Contextual Characteristics?, Ahmed E. Enaitalla
The Temporal Dynamics of Ensemble Perception, Michael L. Epstein
Taking It to Heart: Trauma and Cardiovascular Risk in Court-Involved People of Color, Tanya Erazo
Extra-Legal Information Transfer During Eyewitness Identification, Andrew J. Evelo
Using Brief Session Duration During Functional Analysis to Inform the Treatment of Problem Behavior in 13 Consecutive Cases, Theresa Fiani
Attachment, Exploration, and Internalized Homonegativity, Gregory J. Gagnon
Sex/Gender Differences in Serial Position Profiles in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Controls, Emnet Z. Gammada
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil? On the Interpersonal Effects of Boredom Expression, Manuel F. Gonzalez
Grassroots Tales: Journeys of Inward Healing and Outward Movement Building – “A story of youth development and healing”, Andrew Cory Greene
Mobile Cognitive Training for the Cognitive Symptoms of Depression in Young Adults: A Double-Blind, Randomized Pilot Study with Active Control, Alice Grinberg
From One Period to the Next... : Menstruation and the Psychoanalytic Process of Working through to the Feminine, Loryn L. Hatch
The Role of Mentalized Affectivity in Romantic Love and Relationship Satisfaction, Camilla P. Hegsted
Overcoming Challenges in the Assessment and Treatment of Problem Behavior in Adults with Autism, Julia A. Iannaccone
Misuse of Social Behavior in Down Syndrome: Caregiver Conducted Functional Analysis, Sally M. Izquierdo
Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms of Adverse Trauma Outcomes in Emerging Adulthood, Olena Kleshchova
Investigating the Neural Mechanisms of Unconscious and Illusory Touch Perception, Lua Koenig
New Tower of Babel: Probing the Antecedents and Consequences of Linguistic Ostracism, Julia N. Leone
Can a Growth Mindset Intervention Increase Individuals’ Intentions to Engage in Intergroup Dialogue?, Noelle A. Malvar
Compulsive Doubting: Self and Other in the Psychology of Judgment, Certainty, and Indecision, Michael Marcus
The Role of Attentional Processes in the Associations Between Syndemics and HIV Risk, Raymond L. Moody
The Contribution of Trait Emotional Intelligence to the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Pscyhiatric Symptoms in Adulthood, Aura-Maria Morales
Self-Determination in Transportation: The Route to Social Inclusion for People with Disabilities, Jessica Murray
#Fired: Survivor Reactions to Facebook Firing in Organizations, Rachel Omansky
Therapist Mentalization and Patient Outcomes in the First Year of Psychotherapy, Michael Palumbo
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors Predicting Distress and End-of-Life Planning among Individuals with Advanced Cancers, Aliza A. Panjwani
Age-Related Effects on Gait Parameters in Healthy Normal Aging Adults, Jamie C. Park
Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language, Olga Parshina
Exploring Influences on Autistic Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood, Ariana Riccio