Dissertations from 2018
Statistical Regularities in Melodic Phrases: Effects on Aesthetic Ratings, Daniel Meredith
Impact of Neurodevelopmental Genes on the Trajectory of ADHD Severity: A Pilot Study, Agnieszka Mlodnicka
Testing the Efficacy of Interventions to Decrease Racial Bias in Jury Selection, Karima Modjadidi
The Effects of a Voice Treatment on Facial Emotional Expression in Parkinson's Disease: Expressivity, Experience, and Gender, Elizabeth M. Murray
Biological Signatures of Emotion Regulation in Children, Sarah Myruski
Manipulating Goal States and Brain States: Using EEG and HD-tDCS to Investigate Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Achievement Goals on Declarative Memory, Yuliya Ochakovskaya
Stereotype Threat and Racial Disparities at the Front End of the Criminal Justice System, Megan J. O'Toole
A Functional Neuroimaging Study of Self-Regulatory Control in Adults with Gambling and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, Nidhi Parashar
Casualties of Racism: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Emerging Adults, Lillian Anais Polanco
Unveiling Chaim Shatan: An Analyst Unveiling War Wounds, Andrea Recarte
Event-Related Potential Studies of Error Monitoring to Affective and Non-Affective Stimuli in Adolescents and Emerging Adults, Rebecca K. Reed
Stereotype Threat as an Explanation for Sexual Risk Taking Behavior in Gay Men: A Multi-Study Exploration of Mechanisms, Inna Saboshchuk
Persistence of Cultural Heritage in a Multicultural Context: Examining Factors that Shaped Voting Preferences in the 2016 Election, Anna M. Schwartz
The Nature of Defenses Used by School-Aged Children with ADHD, Laurie G. Slodounik
The Role of Self-Disclosure in Improving Workplace Cross-Race Mentoring Outcomes, Christine R. Smith
Subthreshold PTSD and Associated Psycholgical Distress in Trauma Exposed Male and Female Veterans, Matthew A. Southard
“I Am Going to College…Now What?!”: Becoming a College Student, Renata Strashnaya
What’s Your Story? Assessing Childhood Maltreatment Using the Thematic Apperception Test in An Adult Inpatient Population., Thachell C. Tanis
Linking Hostile/Helpless Maternal Representations in Pregnancy and Later Child Protection Involvement: A Pilot Study, Madeleine Terry
The College Application Essay Mediating Inequality Along the Path to Higher Education, Ralitsa S. Todorova
The Prediction of Personal Narrative on Features of Recovery Among People with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders, Beth Vayshenker
Cross-Race Effect of African-Americans and Caucasians, Bianca Vidal
Detecting Cognitive, Functional and Behavioral Response to Donepezil in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Attention Tasks, Clara Vila-Castelar
The Impact of Defendant Gender and Attractiveness on Juror Decision-Making in a Sexual Offense Case, Georgia M. Winters
Neural Hypervigilance in Trauma-exposed Women, Seungyeon A. Yoon
Parent Childhood Abuse and Neglect and Offspring Mental Health: An Examination of Potential Mediators, Joanna Young
Can Mindfulness Training Reduce Stress Reactivity in First-Year College Students?, Liat Zitron
Dissertations from 2017
Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning, Julie Ackerman
Narrating the Future: Understanding How Student Narratives Relate to Outcomes in Community College, Tanzina Ahmed
Minding the Baby®: Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Treatment Outcomes in a Mother-Infant Home Visiting Program, Jessica G. Albertson
Patterns of Injury in Homicide Relationships: Clinical, Psychological, and Investigative Implications, Shea L. Alvarez Cussen
Why Some Take Pleasure in Other People’s Pain: The Role of Attachment, Competition, and Cooperation on Schadenfreude, Alison Baren
Harm and Victim Age as Factors in the Determination of Intentionality and Culpability, Donal David Barnard Jr.
Spatial-Relational Learning and Memory Deficits Associated with NMDAR Autoantibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Brittany L. Bascetta
The Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect in Men, Robert A. Beattey Jr.
Diversity's Impact on the Quality of Deliberations, Amanda N. Bergold
Persistent Pleasures: Agency, Social Power, and Embodiment in Women's Solitary Masturbation Experiences, Christin P. Bowman
Personalizing an Implicit Measure of Job Satisfaction, Brittany Boyd
Semantic Attention: Effects of Modality, Lexicality and Semantic Content, David Britton
Expanding Intersectionality Praxis: Informing Culturally-Responsive Programming for Black and Latino Gay and Bisexual Young Men, Justin T. Brown
The Effects of Presession Attention on the Acquisition of Tacts and Intraverbals, Mirela Cengher
Psychoanalysis and Modernity: A Failure to Find Relief from Existential Terror, Erin Liat Claridge
Preventing Sexual Violence Where It Most Often Occurs: An Investigation of the Situational and Structural Components of Child Sexual Abuse in Residential Settings, Nicole Colombino
Women’s Sexual Fantasies in Context: The Emotional Content of Sexual Fantasies, Psychological and Interpersonal Distress, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships, Sarah Constantine
Automatically Guilty: Associations Between Evidence and Guilt, William E. Crozier IV
The Effects of Social Power Bases Within Varying Organizational Cultures, Ayanna Cummings
Racial Microaggressions and Health Status: The Moderating Effect of Emotion Regulation, Kristin C. Davidoff
The Role of Language in the Development of Temporal Cognition in 6- to 10-Year-Old Children, Danielle DeNigris
Thinking About the Self While Talking to Someone Else: Investigating Self-Focus in Conversation, Carrie DiMatteo
The Nucleus Accumbens Core Dopamine D1 and Glutamate AMPA/NMDA Receptors Play a Transient Role in the Performance of Pavlovian Approach Behavior, Veronica Dobrovitsky
Coping, Accommodations, and Strategies: An Interview Study on Academic and Employment Experiences with Adults with Dyslexia, Rita W. El-Haddad
The Contributions of Child and Romantic Attachment to Sleep Quality, Karen Estefane
Estradiol, Substance P, and the PI3K-Akt-mTOR Pathway in the Dorsal Horn of the Spinal Cord During Inflammatory Pain, Zane Ferguson
Sex Differences in the Anxiety Effects of Cannabinoids, Helen T. French
Dopamine D1 and D3 Receptor Polypharmacology in Cocaine Reward and Cocaine Seeking, Ewa J. Galaj
The Effects of Pre-Trial Event Stimulus Properties on Timing in the Peak Interval Procedure, Daniel A. Garces
Are You With Me? The Impact of Losing a Conversation Partner’s Attention to a Mobile Device, Zachary A. Geller
Mental Illness Stigma and Community Integration: Linking Perceived Experiences with Reported Behavior, Lauren L. Gonzales
The Role of Glutamate Neurotransmission in the Ventral Tegmental Area in the Expression of Conditioned Approach Learning, Priscila Hachimine-Merli
Behavioral Responses to Pulses of Light in the Longfin Inshore Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii (Lesueur, 1821), Stavros P. Hadjisolomou
From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist, Alexis Halkovic
The Transgenerational Transmission of Emotion Regulation: The Effect of Maternal Coping on Child Executive Functioning, Devon J. Harrison
The Effects of Childhood Irritability on Adolescent Outcomes and Treatment Response in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Estrella Heber
Development of Authoring and Agency in Early Childhood Through Play, Pi-Chun Grace Ho
Song Rhythm Development in Zebra Finches, Julia Hyland Bruno
The Impact of Spirituality and Trauma on Appraisals of Psychotic-Like Experiences, Kathleen Isaac
Narrating Power and Injustice: How Young People Make Sense about Fairness, Svetlana Jovic
Words of Change: How Linguistic Shifts Over the Course of a Short-Term Exposure Therapy Represent Movement Towards Psychological Health, Zachary A. Kahn
Criminal Responsibility: Meta-analysis and Study Space, Lauren E. Kois
Who Am I to You? Using Function Words as a Measure of Transference, Jon William P. Lentz
Cruising Borders, Unsettling Identities: Toward a Queer Diasporic Asian America, Wen Liu
The Relationships Among Different Traits of Masculinity and Intimate Partner Violence, Jennifer E. Loveland
Cognitive and Affective Control Deficits in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Melissa-Ann Mackie
Why Do Negative Employment Outcomes for Workers with Disabilities Persist?: Investigating the Effects of Human Capital, Social Capital, and Discrimination, Martine Maculaitis
Latino/a Adolescents and Young Adults Coping with Parental Cancer within a Cultural Context, Amanda Mia Marin-Chollom
The Effects of Parametrically Manipulating the Ratio of Complimentary to Constructive Feedback Statements on Performance, Amanda Mentzer
The Under-Explored Role of Tiredness in Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Gay and Bisexual Men, Brett M. Millar
Exploring the Relationship between Sequence Learning, Motor Coordination, and Language Development, Rita Obeid
An Examination of Therapeutic Alliance During Prolonged Exposure in the Treatment of a Comorbid PTSD and SUD Population, Annelisa Pedersen
Cortical Thickness Abnormalities Within the Salience and Reward Networks in Older Depressed Adults with Apathy, Monique A. Pimontel
Encountering Place, Pedagogy, and Culture: Study Abroad and Experiential Learning in Morocco and Indonesia, Jennifer M. Pipitone
Social Media Use and Media Literacy in Relation to Adolescents' Understanding of the Internet, Kasey L. Powers
Stress as a Cultural Tool in Higher Education, Nadia Ramjit
Making Sense of Missing Sessions: Attendance Patterns in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorder Treatments, Margaret Rauen
A Conceptualization of the Body in Psychodynamic and Body-Based Psychotherapies: Areas of Overlap and Possibilities for Integration, Aleksandra Rayska
Brief and Extended Experimental Analysis of Spelling Deficits, Kimberly Reyes-Giordano
Letter to the President: Longitudinal Critical Discourse Analysis of Academic and Hip Hop Genres in a Rap Narrative Program, Debangshu Roygardner
Embodying Rhythm Nation: Multimodal Hip Hop Dance as a Site for Adolescent Social-Emotional and Political Development, Lauren M. Roygardner
A Playful Context Enhances Bilingual and Monolingual Preschoolers’ Mastery Motivation and Private Speech, Jeremy Sawyer
The Conceptualization of a Crime Event as a Process to Analyze Crime Commission and Behavioral Consistency in Serial Sexual Assaults, Kimberley R. Schanz