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Theses from 1978
Signal: a study in Geman propaganda of the Second World War., Jeffrey Alan Hanson, History
Social desirability and aggression under trans-situational conditions., Robert Alan Hines, Psychology
High shear viscometry of high polymer solutions., Paul Li Horng, Polymer Science & Engineering
Case study of a female juvenile offender: a social ecological analysis., Maureen M. Mcandrews, Psychology
Attributions of poverty and affluence: an information processing analysis., Robert L. Miller, Psychology
Nitrification activity in an aquatic ecosystem., John Edward Perkins, Plant & Soil Sciences
Nose-poke responding and locomotor activity in mice with septal lesions., Susan J. Rice, Psychology
Army rule in Pakistan : a case study of a military regime., Marguerite Maude Riley, Political Science
Chilling injury in young cucumber (Cucumis sativus) hypocotyls., Nathaniel Sasson, Plant & Soil Sciences
The importance of speech recoding in reading., Maria Louisa Slowiaczek, Psychology
Isolation and partial characterization of the intercellular pectic enzyme complex from Erwinia carotovora isolate 14., James Peter Stack, Plant Pathology
The effect of an actor's social identity on the type of information the decision maker seeks and his subsequent decision to sanction., David A. Wagstaff, Psychology
The role of nutrition in the reproductive biology of the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh)., Reginald Paul Webster, Entomology
A comparison of fading, non-fading and a combination of procedures in training word recognition with moderately retarded adults., Leslie Ellen Weidenman, Psychology
Characterization of a bacterial chitinase., Mary Pickett Weir, Plant & Soil Sciences
The use of individual difference data in determining the effects of environment on developmentally disabled persons., William H. Weitzer, Psychology
Amino acid analysis and technical aspects of gel electrophoresis on vitellin from Aedes aegypti (L.) the yellow fever mosquito., Gail Vanessa Willard, Entomology
Generality of the causal inference mediation of opinion change., Wendy Wood, Psychology
Theses from 1977
Semantic differences as a function of type of bilingual and cognitive development., Ana Isabel Alvarez, Psychology
Responsibility for accidents: an information-processing analysis., Daniel P. Blyth, Psychology
DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its involvement in crown gall disease., Judith A. Cigna, Plant Pathology
Alienation: from critique to conformity., Howard. Cohen, Psychology
Stimulus control of lever-holding responses by rats along a light intensity dimension., Michael A. Crowley, Psychology
The localization of function: a developmental study of the localization of emotion and the self., Susan Rubin Davidson, Psychology
A study of the blushing response using self-reported data from college students., Maynard Kirk Davis, Psychology
Children's perception of depth in random dot stereograms, John Myron Dowd, Psychology
Transfer in problem solving., Anna E. Fiszman, Psychology
Natural feedback systems and organizational self-evaluation: a case study of a psychology department clinic., Joseph P. Gabbert, Psychology
Row width and growth habit influence on light interception and leaf area development in beans., Thomas Robert Gardiner, Plant & Soil Sciences
The relationship between therapist empathy in therapy and nontherapy settings and some contributing components to empathic understanding, Ted William Grubb, Psychology
Problem adolescents: adolescent growth in the context of an urban junior high school/, L. Franklin Harrell, Psychology
Host habitat influences on oviposition by Parasetigena silvestris (R-D), a tachinid parasite of the gypsy moth., Eugene Arthur Harrington, Entomology
The political posture of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America with specific reference to Colombia and Chile., Ronnie Glantz Harrington, Political Science
Unfinished as a person: the first twenty years of a seventy-five year life history/, Alexander R. James, Psychology
ABC's (Activity Based Curriculum) and cognitive abilities., William H. James, Psychology
The legal philosophy of Ronald Dworkin., Gial Victoria Karlsson, Philosophy
Reflections upon the scientific study of personality., Rod Kessler, Psychology
Relative discriminability of configuration and brightness differences in a monitoring task, Joanna C. Kosakowski, Psychology
The processing of irrelevant information., Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch, Psychology
The effects of external rewards on interest and quality of task performance in children of high and low intrinsic motivation., Kathryn Kernodle Loveland, Psychology
Effects of gonadal hormones on food intake and body weight in adult Mongolian gerbils., Christie A. Maass, Psychology
Electrical resistance, physical characteristics and cation concentration in xylem of sugar maple infected with Verticillium dahliae., Margaret Evelyn Malia, Plant Pathology
Effects of phosphorus, potassium, and calcium compounds on the growth and zinc accumulation in Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) grown in zinc treated soils., Martin Peter Mascianica, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effects of synthetic chemical soil conditioners on the structure of compacted turfgrass soils., Edwin Dennis McGuire, Plant & Soil Sciences
The status of West Indian immigrants in Panama from 1850-1941., Sadith Esther Paz B., History
The effects of instructions for performance and consequence imagery in covert reinforcement., John Thomas Peters, Psychology
Effects of extrinsic rewards on the subsequent choice behavior of academically delayed children., George Ramey, Psychology
A reflection of cognitive styles in the heart rate of paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics., Brian F. Reynolds, Psychology
Perceived control and the management of information overload., Judah Charles Safier, Psychology
The physiological status of isolated oat leaf protoplasts., Renée Irma Shapiro, Plant & Soil Sciences
Continuity vs. change in Southern Africa : the reality of legal reform and social change in Portuguese speaking Africa, (1950-early 1960's), Betty J. Shaw, Political Science
The Massachusetts generic drug law : a history, 1967-1976., James A. Smith, Political Science
Issues of challenge, coping, and support for first semester clinical psychology graduate students., Andrea G. Sodano, Psychology
The effects of the plant parasitic nematodes, Xiphinema americanum and Meloidogyne hapla on the endomycorrhizae of sugar maple, Acer saccharum., Roberta Spitko, Plant Pathology
Long term memory for verbal and non-verbal material in Korsakoff patients., Sunita Mahtani Stewart, Psychology
The electrical resistance properties of tree tissues in cankers incited by Endothia parasitica and Nectria galligena., D. M. Sylvia, Plant Pathology
The relative influence of favorable and unfavorable evaluations on emotional, behavioral and cognitive reactions and as a function of level of self-esteem and of level of depression., Jean Losco Szpiler, Psychology
The symptomatology and sequence of events in psychosis, Barbara Ann Tinker, Psychology
Teaching virtue., Nancy N. Von Staats, Philosophy
Personality and creativity variables associated with the belief in paranormal phenomena., Schuyler Cleveland Webb, Psychology
The Peace of Nicias/, Milo Milton Williams, History
An adaptation of the critical incidents technique to evaluate the process of developmentally disabled persons toward normal behavior., Craig Zimring, Psychology
Theses from 1976
Mosquito vectors of dog heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis (Nematoda: Filariodea) in western Massachusetts., John James Arnott, Entomology
A systems analysis of cooperative federalism : the disability insurance program as a case study., David Carl Baker, Political Science
Family at dinner., Jeffrey Baker, Psychology
Tracking and change of orientation of the child or the stimulus in preschoolers' spatial localization., Katherine A. Benson, Psychology
Factors affecting penetration of calcium into apples dipped in calcium chloride solutions after harvest., Heather A. Betts, Plant & Soil Sciences
A comparison of the arthropods found in two integrated control blocks, a commercial control block, and an abandoned block of apples in Hampshire County, Massachusetts., Edward J. Blyth, Entomology
Investigation of the nature of amylase enzymes in incubated, de-embryonated Zea mays kernels /, Alice Jean Chapman, Plant & Soil Sciences
The word familiarity effect as a function of the number of response alternatives., Robert Laurence Cohen, Psychology
A study of therapists' attitudes towards the treatment of seriously suicidal individuals., Byrl Robert Crago, Psychology
Self-disclosure and attraction: effects of intimacy and desirability of information about another person., Carol Ann Dalto, Psychology
Mobilization of heavy metals from urban runoff sediment by organic ligands. and the subsequent effect on selected freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate species /, David R. Dominie, Plant & Soil Sciences
The external setting of contemporary Japanese foreign policy., Douglas Clarke Durham, Political Science
Contingencies of reinforcement and levels of success in a learned helplessness paradigm among college females., Barbara L. Fibel, Psychology
Development of vitellogenic competence in the fat body of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti., Thomas Raymond Flanagan, Entomology
Sequential blanking and the word superiority of effect., Michael E. Fotta, Psychology
The interrelation of the life and the written work of a creative writer., Ann C. Greif, Psychology
The British War Office ;: from the Crimean War to Cardwell, 1855-1868., Paul H. Harpin, History
The effects of pictures and spatial array on two-year olds' memory for location., Hilary Anne Horn, Psychology
Photoperiod and temperature effects on root cold acclimation., James Robert Johnson, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effects of manipulations of Cs duration on blocking., Elizabeth Adams Kohler, Psychology
Genesis and morphology of two soils with fragipans in Massachusetts :: the Paxton and Mills series., J. T. Krohelski, Plant & Soil Sciences
Implicit theories of relationship: an intergenerational study, Marylyn. Lacey, Psychology
The Santa Cruz strikes: a case study in labor relations in the Yrigoyen era/, Robert Nelson Landback, History
From Kelly to Kuhn: an exploratory search for a paradigm in psychology., Helen A. Lekisch, Psychology
The processing of false propositions/, Robert Frederick Lorch, Psychology
Emg biofeedback ;: controlled for three placebo conditions., Jeffrey L. Lukens, Psychology
The insanity defense., Jesse William Markham, Philosophy
Phonemic processing in reading printed words :: effects of phonemic relationships between words on semantic categorization response time., Margaret L. Mcmahon, Psychology
The relationship between electrical resistance of cambial tissues of acer saccharum and physiologic stress., Dennis Newbanks, Plant Pathology
Increasing levels of noncontingent feedback, nature of noncontingent feedback, and task difficulty in the learned helplessness paradigm., Martha Jane Nugent, Psychology
Family and school influences on disordered adolescent behavior: a study of young adolescents in trouble in school., Patricia. Owens, Psychology
The Yippies.: an inquiry into the concept of cultural revolution., Joseph R. Porcari, Political Science
The effect of test orientation training on children's achievement test scores., Sarah. Powell, Psychology
Work satisfaction amoung doctors and nurses: the case of an outpatient clinic at Humacao, Puerto Rico., Gretchen M. Ramirez, Psychology
Locus of control, social activism, and sex roles in Puerto Rican college and non-college individuals., Julia Mercedes Ramos-mckay, Psychology
Client fee payment as an issue for therapists-in-training ;: an analysis of the institution of a fee system in a training clinic., Karel E. Rubinstein, Psychology
An examination of the laws of William the Conqueror., Steven D. Sargent, History
Review effects of adjunct questions on learning from prose/, Susan Bennett Sefkow, Psychology