Dissertations from 2009

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Coping in court-involved adolescents and the relationship with stressors, delinquency, and psychopathology, Yariv Hofstein

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Do actions speak louder than knowledge? Action manipulation, parent-child discourse and children's mental state understanding in pretense, Dawn Kathleen Melzer

Dissertations from 2008

Investigating the role of stimulus and goal driven factors in the guidance of eye movements, Ibrahim H Dahlstrom-Hakki

Parent-centered values among Latino immigrant mothers, Candice Fischer

Differences between European and Lebanese Americans' values about marriage, Bilal M Ghandour

Emotion regulation in late adolescent couples: Temperament, attachment, and HPA reactivity, Heidemarie K Laurent

Predictors of quality of life in individuals with end stage renal disease, Kristen L McDonald

Doubly at risk: Internalizing symptoms and early academic skills, Susan M Meagher

Dyadic parenting and children's externalizing symptoms, Karen B Meteyer

Experiences of gay men who choose to become parents, Sean Barnett Robins

American identity crisis: The relation between national, social, and personal identity in a multiethnic sample, Liliana Rodriguez

The computation of subject-verb number agreement: Response time studies, Adrian Staub

Physiological signs of stress during conflict: The role of attachment style, sexual passion, and love, Michael L Vernon

The road to mathematics in elementary school: Social and cognitive influences on performance and response to intervention, Rena L Walles

Dissertations from 2007

Offending in every way: Toward an understanding of physically violent girls, Lindsey Berkelman

Psychosocial processes at the end of life: The relationship between generativity and fear of death, Joshua R Bringle

Do preschoolers make behavioral predictions based on a 'teleological' framework?, Erin Nicole Cannon

Understanding the properties of televised images, Laura Jamie Claxton

Psychotherapy with difficult patients: Personal narratives about managing countertransference, Jennifer Davidtz

The quiet clam is quite calm: Foveal and parafoveal transposed-letter neighborhood effects in reading, Rebecca Linn Johnson

Age differences in eye movements during video viewing, Heather L Kirkorian

Attention and eye movement control: Interaction of top-down and bottom-up information, Xingshan Li

The impact of baby videos on parent-child interaction, Tiffany A Pempek

HPA-axis responses to an interpersonal stress task among socially anxious older adolescents, Elizabeth Seeley

Neighbor frequency effects during reading: Is there a parallel with lexical ambiguity?, Timothy James Slattery

Facets of the self in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: Implicit self-esteem, explicit self-esteem, and shame, Brian J Stoessel

Learning how to fight: Connections between conflict resolution patterns in marital and sibling relationships, Elizabeth Kristine Turner

Dissertations from 2006

The nature of phonological representation in reading: Evidence from eye movements and event-related potentials, Jane Ashby

Gender ideology, depression, and marital quality in working-class, dual-earner couples across the transition to parenthood, Heather Bourne

Emotional aftereffects of stereotype suppression, Kathleen C Burns

The impact of idealized images of female beauty on women's self-concept: Who does it affect and when?, Ahrona Eleanor Chand

Teachers' ratings of preschool children's behavior: Inter-teacher agreement, correlation with observations, and the prediction of teacher behavior, Jennifer Ellen Dobbs

The relationship between parental psychopathology and children's subtypes of disruptive behavior problems, Lauren H Goldstein

Late adolescents' coping strategies and their physiological reactivity to romantic relationship conflict: Self, partner, and couple effects, Meredith L Gunlicks

Effects of word length and sentence context on compound word recognition: An eye movement investigation, Barbara J Juhasz

When feeling good is bad: The detrimental effect of self-affirmation on prejudice, Luis M Rivera

Through the eyes of others: The role of relational value cues and self-regulatory resources in monitoring one's social environment, James M Tyler

From the discovery to rationalization of others' lies: How perceivers process and judge deception, Brent Weiss

The role of feature accessibility in memory conjunction errors, Mungchen Wong

The student-athlete: One identity or two separate identities? The role of identity salience and stereotype threat in athletic and academic performance, Darren J A Yopyk

Dissertations from 2005

Attention during action in infancy, Renee L Carrico

Narratives of second-generation Asian American experience: Legacies of immigration, trauma, and loss, Amy S Cheng

How parents and children do homework together: The relation between observed parenting, behavior problems, and academic development in elementary school children, Greta L Doctoroff

The transition to parenthood for lesbian couples: The creation and construction of roles and identities, Abbie Elizabeth Goldberg

Sense of control and psychological well-being during the transition to parenthood, Courtney P Pierce

Barriers to treatment in an ethnically diverse sample of women with serious mental illness, Stacy L Simon

An interactional model of pubertal timing, interpersonal interaction, and HPA-axis reactivity, Anne Emilie Smith

Spatial components of mathematical problem solving, Rachel E Wing

Dissertations from 2004

Early math interest and the development of math skills: An understudied relationship, Paige H Fisher

Transporting to TV-land: The impact of idealized character identification on self and body image, Dara N Greenwood

Gender inequality, normative violence, social disorganization and sexual violence against women: A cross-national investigation, Alexandra Gubin

Impulsivity as a predictor of athletic success and negative consequences in NFL football players, Sara A Hickmann

Romantic partner ideals and dysfunctional relationship beliefs cultivated through popular media messages: Implications for relationship satisfaction, Bjarne M Holmes

Parafoveal preview effects in reading: Orthographic uniqueness point as a source of constraint in lexical processing, Brett Miller

The number line: Young children's knowledge of fractions and whole numbers, Christopher R Poirier

Emotional communication in the family of origin of women with borderline personality disorder, Ellen M Prairie

Assessing adaptation equivalence in cross-lingual and cross-cultural assessment using linear structural equations models, Urip Purwono

Individual and environmental predictors of attrition from a court-mandated anger management group for adolescents, James D Slavet

Dissertations from 2003

Relations among psychosocial risk factors, coping behaviors, and depression symptoms in late adolescent West Indian girls, Sharlene Tanica Beckford

A pragmatic definition and measure of sexual orientation for social science research, John H. Bickford

The effects of background television on very young children's play with toys, Marie K Evans

The availability of salient and conceptually central properties of concepts in different contexts, Ferne Joi Friedman-Berg

Early gender differences in arithmetic strategy proficiency, Laura Mitchell Garofoli

The relationship between cultural background and the experience of patients in primary care medical settings, Joseph A Greer

Psychometric properties of several computer-based test designs with ideal and constrained item pools, Michael Glen Jodoin

The effects of a parent delivered direct instruction reading curriculum on the early literacy skills of first grade children, Shannon Kay

The relationship between depression and occupational, household, and leisure-time physical activity, Linda Lin

The effect on creativity of individual differences in affective processing and day-to-day affective experiences, Christopher R Long

HPA-axis reactivity to interpersonal stress in young adults who self-injure, Eliza T McArdle

Building different types of causal relationships: With implications for special populations (the case of right hemisphere damage), Mohamed Taha Mohamed

The processing of affixed English words during reading: Frequency, word length, and affixal homonymy, Elizabeth Niswander

The psychological effects of hate-crime victimization based on sexual orientation bias: Ten case studies, Monique Noelle

Motor, attentional, and haptic development in full-term infants and in infants born preterm, Laura Paradise O'Sullivan

Influences on condom use and the prevention of HIV transmission, Christopher E Overtree

Standard setting methods for complex licensure examinations, Mary Jean Pitoniak

An investigation of mental health service utilization by older adults, Karyn M Skultety

Experiences of successful second-generation Chinese American women with cultural stereotypes and parental expectations, Frieda Wong

Dissertations from 2002

Can complement frames help children learn the meaning of abstract verbs?, Kristen Nicole Asplin

Coping in adolescent-mother conflictual interactions as a predictor of adolescent depression, Cheryl A Bonica

Is habitual behavior dependent on the stability of the situation in which it originated?, Franklin O Carvajal

The use of identity processes in response to specific age-related physical changes and overall sense of age in older adults, Kathleen J Collins

Two-year-olds' comprehension of television: Do they believe their eyes or their ears?, Alisha M Crawley-Davis

Supervisor and trainee perspectives on clinical report writing as narrative, Gaiana Germani

Do therapists address differences in cross-cultural psychotherapy?, Aprile C Maxie

Using children's errors in single-word reading to explore a theory of dyslexia within the reading process, Kenneth Allan Rath

A 34-year sequential study of psychosocial development in adulthood, Joel Reeves Sneed

Three-year-olds' reasoning about deceptive objects: Can actions speak louder than words?, Monica R Sylvia

Identity functions among the stigmatized: More evidence for the schematically guided interpretation of negative social feedback, Sarah Ellen Zemore

Dissertations from 2001

A social cognitive model of detecting deception, James Anthony Forrest

The role of nonverbal behavior in persuasion, Daniel Anthony Hrubes

Development of an inventory to assess coping skills among PTSD diagnosed combat veterans, Sandra L Hunt

Parafoveal versus foveal processing of morphologically complex (prefixed) words, Gretchen Kambe

Body image attitudes of Asian American and Caucasian American women and men, Kathleen Yumi Kawamura

Resolution of the antecedent of a plural pronoun, Sungryong Koh

Eye movements during recognition of a rotated scene, Chie Nakatani

Personality pathology, criminal careers, and disciplinary problems of women in a county jail, Douglas Richard Rau

Self-injurious behavior in university undergraduate students, Alyssa Rulf Fountain

A meta-analysis of structural differences in framing problems, Mary Seburn

Pretest item calibration within the computerized adaptive testing environment, Sharon Cadman Slater

Practice, problem size, and working memory resource use in mental arithmetic: Group and individual differences, Loel Nicholas Tronsky