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Theses from 1974
The effects of different proctoring systems upon examination performance and preference in a contingency-managed course., Kent R. Johnson, Psychology
Wavelength, brightness and pattern discrimination following wulst lesions in the northern bluejay (cyanocitta cristata)., Thony B. Jones, Psychology
Effects of extended exposure to the truly random control procedure, Richard John Keller, Psychology
The emotional reactions of college gymnasts as a function of time to a meet, level of experience and level of success., Robert M. Koenig, Psychology
The effect of the institution of a fee system on client motivation for psychotherapy., Christine Nelson Koerner, Psychology
The effect of alienated and anomic perceptions of social structure on intention to vote, registration, and attitudes toward political participation: the 1972 presidential election., Fred Egon Koerner, Psychology
Identification and epidemiology of viruses affecting cucurbit crops in Massachusetts., Dean Albert Komm, Plant Pathology
An evaluation of the Planning for Living Workshop., Herbert P. Koplowitz, Psychology
Manpower programs : government's response to the occupational needs of the poor., Philip D. Lerner, Political Science
Stimulus determinants of children's attention to Sesame Street, Stephen R. Levin, Psychology
Object preferences, trial 1 outcome effects, and intra-session transfer during minimal stimulus object-discrimination learning-set acquisition by bluejays (Cyanocitta cristata)., John Eugene Mauldin, Psychology
Namibia : the trust territory., Olugbemi Moloye, Political Science
National Convention Reform: revision of delegate selection procedures in the Democratic Party 1968-1972., Joseph J. Nogueira, Political Science
Anarchist social science : its origins and development., Rochelle Ann Potak, Political Science
Evoked potential correlates of perceived fluctuations in an ambiguous visual display., Bruce Edward Rideout, Psychology
Equality and the mentally retarded., Robert W. Ritchie, Philosophy
Verbalization in young children as a function of part-whole perception and specific training., Patricia A. Robertson, Psychology
The nature of the information stored in the perceptual learning of letter strings., Robert M. Schindler, Psychology
Descriptive and behavioral childhood antecedents of psychosis., Eva Schoenfeld, Psychology
Needs and successes in achievement and affiliation as partial determinants of career-orientation., Mary Anne Sedney, Psychology
Influence of communication on reactions to "unconditionally cooperative" behavior in a prisoner's dilemma game., Dorothy Sejwacz, Psychology
Therapeutic intervention with maladjusted junior high school pupils., Joseph Jacob Shay, Psychology
Split brains and the unity of consciousness., Sharon K. Stout, Philosophy
Computer simulation of polymer crystallization., John M. Thornton, Polymer Science & Engineering
John Foster Dulles : pragmatist or moralist., Harry Park Tolles, Political Science
Alienation and emotional well-being., Allison C. Twaite, Psychology
Nonconducting pores in soils., Olaf Lee Weeks, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effects of reinforcement upon the prepecking behaviors of pigeons in the autoshaping experiment., Michael G. Wessells, Psychology
Conditioned inhibition of fear from negative Cs-us contingencies with shocks in the inhibitory Cs., Elizabeth Snyder Witcher, Psychology
Theses from 1973
Studies on crystallization of trans-polybutadiene in stretched networks., Yoshinori Akana, Polymer Science & Engineering
The public-private dichotomy : two contemporary case studies., Timothy W. Armour, Political Science
Denitrification in heavily manured soils., Alfred Merrill Blackmer, Plant & Soil Sciences
Reactivity to positive and negative incentives and their combination, Louis Arthur Boudreau, Psychology
Student movement, political development and modernisation in India., Rita Braz, Political Science
Intolerance of ambiguity and anxiety: physiological reactivity to an unavoidable noxious stimulus, Lewis. Breitner, Psychology
The effects of information sources in the purchase of consumer services., Barry Mason Bresnick, Business Administration
Mitochondrial behavior during the respiratory climacteric and ripening of detached apples., Wing-Yee Chan, Plant & Soil Sciences
Changes in the international oil industry and the roles of oil exporting countries /, Ahmed A. Daghman, Business Administration
A selective spatial discrimination deficit following fornicotomy in the rat., John Manuel De Castro, Psychology
An exploratory investigation into the perception of price as a function of latitudes of acceptance., Susan Lynn Downey, Business Administration
Altruism, sharing, and reciprocity in children as related to friendship status., John J. Falkowski, Psychology
An exploratory investigation into the effects of unit pricing on food shopping behavior., Ronald Fine Fishman, Business Administration
The effect of frequency transition on the detection of temporal gaps within a tonal sequence., Peter J. Fitzgibbons, Psychology
College student nonprofessionals in mental health settings: the effects of participation., Avraham Allen Frydman, Psychology
Television advertising and children :: processes and effects of a proposed model of the child-parent purchasing process., Barry Martin Godowsky, Business Administration
Political development, the People's Party of Pakistan and the elections of 1970., Meenakshi Gopinath, Political Science
Antagonism of Trichoderma spp. to sclerotia of Typhula incarnata., Paul Richard Harder, Plant & Soil Sciences
The influence of ovarian hormones on the recovery period following lateral hypothalamic lesions., Lindy E. Harrell, Psychology
An analysis of commitment., William H. Holmes, Psychology
Arousal and reactivity of schizophrenics and normals as a function of event expectancy., Raymond L. Hoobler, Psychology
The utility of soil-phosphorus equilibrium studies as an indicator of phosphate concentration in surface and ground water., Lewis Michael Horzempa, Plant & Soil Sciences
The association of Lophodermium pinastri with the eastern white pine and Scots pine., Jules J. Jaeger, Plant Pathology
Discrimination of aperiodic two-dimensional patterns: a comparison of feature detection and frequency analysis models/, Clinton F. Jenne, Psychology
Patterns of leadership and facilitation in a collaborative task-oriented group/, Mark A. Karpel, Psychology
Predicting consumer acceptance of a service :: an empirical study., Jalal Ameen Khorasanee, Business Administration
A study of the effects of lesions of the ventromedial hypothalamus in the mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus., Allen Benfield Koenig, Psychology
NASA's patent policies and the problem of technology transfer., Philip Joseph Lang, Political Science
Prediction of hospital readmission among male problem drinkers using demographic variables., Richard Lawrence Leavy, Psychology
The effects of mode of instruction and media of presentation as related to imageability and verbal ability., Steven M. Marantz, Psychology
Conditioned inhibition: a below zero effect/, Horace G. Marchant, Psychology
The effects of various menstra on the thermal resistance and leakage of metabolic products from Escherichia coli /, Eugene J. Mariani, Plant & Soil Sciences
Gas chromatographic analysis of succinate in the face fly, Musca autumnalis De Geer., Warren B. Meeks, Entomology
The extraction of frequency information from electrical stimulation of the medial geniculate body., Frederick W. Mis, Psychology
The electrical stimulation of human fungiform papillae., Claire. Murphy, Psychology
The role of trust in helping behavior., Susan Miriam Mydlarz, Psychology
Between a crown and a gibbet: Benjamin F. Butler and the early war years., David M. Nellis, History
Histopathology of scar skin disease of apple., Paul Edmund Parker, Plant Pathology
Molecular weight control in ringopening polymerizations., Daniel Martin Pauk, Polymer Science & Engineering
Some aspects of natural control of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), in Massachusetts., Frank Byers Peairs, Entomology
A model for rational decision-making in administration of mental retardation services., Ellsworth Alden Pearl, Political Science
The mechanism of suppression of shock-induced fighting by chlordiazepoxide., Linda F. Quenzer, Psychology
Rheological studies of the kinetics of gelation., Thomas A. Riihimaki, Polymer Science & Engineering
Effects of electrical stimulation of the mammillary bodies on autonomic and regulatory functions in the anesthetized cat., Gail Lee Risse, Psychology
Occurrence and importance of maize dwarf mosaic virus in Massachusetts., Robert A. Schall, Plant Pathology
Personality correlates of meditation practice., Cora Annette Scott, Psychology
The effect of group influence on consumer behavior :: a social comparison approach., Alvin Jay Seronick, Business Administration
The emergence of Bangla Desh., Bannu A. Shrikhande, Political Science
The Hotline: an application of achievement motivation and attribution theory/, Linda Jane Sobelman, Psychology
Solar energy in the housing sector., Pritchard L. Strong, Business Administration
Developmental trends in the effects of irrelevant information on speeded classification., George F. Strutt, Psychology
Availability of an avoidance response as related to fear and anxiety, Jack Alexander Szpiler, Psychology
Expectation-outcome discrepancy and social reality as factors in the attribution of success and failure to self and other: an attributional analysis of achievement motivation., Howard. Tennen, Psychology
The effect of perceived therapist warmth on the effectiveness of deep muscle relaxation training, Christopher Charles Tolsdorf, Psychology
Dimensions of religious growth and development in the college years., Hendrika. Vande Kemp, Psychology
Color term comprehension and the perception of focal color in young children., Charles G. Verge, Psychology
Desirability of position as a determinant of anticipatory opinion change., Rebecca M. Warren, Psychology
Theses from 1972
Classical reward conditioning of the heart rate response to auditory stimulation in 3 month old infants., Christina Perry Appleton, Psychology
Studies on rheo-optical properties of ethylene-propylene random copolymers., Kenichi Baba, Polymer Science & Engineering
Gas chromatographic determination of house fly respiration., Rollas W. Batten, Entomology
Effects of freezing on mature 'Richared Delicious' apples., Richard Edward Bir, Plant & Soil Sciences
A comparison of four skin cleansing products., Eli Boroda, Plant & Soil Sciences
Perceived freedom, reinforcement schedules, and cost., Robert G. Bringle, Psychology
A survey of industrial water pollution in the pulp and paper industry of the United States., Stephen Wayne Campbell, Business Administration
Reinforcement and punishment effects on human operant behavior, Edwin N. Carter, Psychology
Evidence for serial learning of multiple cues in concept identification., Marc A. Clement, Psychology
Processing capacity in a letter-matching task., Elizabeth Mclean Comstock, Psychology
The evolution of the Yugoslav policy of nonalignment., Donald S. Connors, Political Science
The effect of stimulus materials and pretraining on children's performance and error choice behavior in a two-trial inference task., Bonnie Blake Drucker, Psychology
Verbal participation in videotape feedback group therapy., James Gilbert Durfee, Psychology
An examination of the perceptual aspects of personal space., Gary W. Evans, Psychology