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Theses from 1977
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
The process of sex-role socialization in traditional and non-traditional families., Ester R. Shapiro, Psychology
Differences between anxiety patients and normals in phasic skin conductance reactions to heteromodal stimulation/, David Babcock Smith, Psychology
Farmer's daughter, innkeeper's daughter, minister's daughter ;: young women of the early republic., Thomas Paul Smith, History
Septal lesion-induced hyper-reactivity anatomical and neurochemical aspects., Leanna J. Standish, Psychology
Recruitment behavior, orientation, and the organization of foraging in the carpenter ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus DeGeer (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., James Francis Anthony Traniello, Entomology
Adolescent moral development ;: effects of sex role variables in projective stories., Diane Josephine Wagner, Psychology
Computer simulation of an ethylene plant, Charles David Weinstein, Chemical Engineering
The involvement of cyclic nucleotides in the regulation of endo-polygalacturonate trans-eliminase synthesis in Erwinia carotovora., John Williams, Plant Pathology
Locus of control and response to predictable and unpredictable noise., Edward L. Yeats, Psychology
Theses from 1975
An investigation into the mode of action of alachlor., James Russell Bates, Plant & Soil Sciences
A humanistic philosophy of education as applied to the teaching of an introductory psychology course., Michael H. Berkowitz, Psychology
Vicarious eyelid conditioning in a discrimination learning paradigm., Guillermo. Bernal, Psychology
Helping in children;: the effects of recipient-centered verbalizations, the role of empathy., Michael Roy Bernstein, Psychology
Ovarian influences on the meal patterns of the female rat., Jeffrey D. Blaustein, Psychology
Experimental separation of facilitation and priming., Eric Niron Brewer, Psychology
A quantitative analysis of the distribution of the retinal elements in frogs and toads with special emphasis on the Areae retinalis, Russell G. Carey, Psychology
An information-processing analysis of the effects of communication modality on opinion change., Rochelle Lynne Chaiken, Psychology
Getting 'Up' for the Meet: A Sociological Analysis of Drug Usage in the Sport of Olympic Weightlifting, Douglas C. Cooney, Sociology
Limits on the use of category in visual search/, Lorenz H. Digman, Psychology
The nature of the memory impairment in Korsakoff patients., Fred El-wakil, Psychology
Influence of the lesion nematode, Pratylenchus pentrans (Cobb) on the physiology of leaves of three tomato cultivars and the effect of exogenous phenol applications on penetration., Paul Alan Friedman, Plant Pathology
Shifts in perception of size after adaption to gratings., Francine Frome, Psychology
Quantitative comparison of histone proteins in healthy and crown gal-infected vicia faba stem tissue., Donald Louis Gantz, Plant Pathology
Urban renewal and the Springfield Health Department : effect of a federal program on a local unit of government., Max Garber, Political Science
The effects of agreement, similarity, kind of information and amount of information on interpersonal attribution/, Grover C. Gentry, Psychology
Sex difference in estrogen and progestin effects on food intake, body weight and running wheel activity in rats., R. Thomas Gentry, Psychology
An investigation of the effect of social desirability on the I-e scale's predictability using the bogus pipeline paradigm., William Gerald Harris, Psychology
The 1966 Maryland gubernatorial election : the political saliency of open occupancy., Michael S. Hatfield, Political Science
Several inheritance and related studies in the tomato., Paul Brent Howes, Plant & Soil Sciences
Critical movements in American politics: the vote for George Wallace in 1968., Walter S. Jonas, Political Science
The influence of lesion nematode infection on plant water relations and root integrity., David Todd Kaplan, Plant Pathology
Coping ;: the application of a conceptual framework to a case study., Sarah Bishop Kinder, Psychology
Awareness and the classical conditioning of attitudes., David King, Psychology
Cytokinin-virus interactions in tobacco ringspot virus infected cowpea plants., William E. Kuriger, Plant Pathology
Effect of suggested compatibility upon verbal conditioning., Stuart Burton Lerner, Psychology
Female competitive task persistence as a function of sex-role orientation and prior success and failure., Judith G. Levy, Psychology
Emergence of stimulus bound drinking with a reinforcement contingency,, Herman Henderson Lewis, Psychology
A weight loss program aimed at the facilitation of weight loss maintenance, Deborah Lee Mack, Psychology
One trial simultaneous conditioning., William J. Mahoney, Psychology
Sex differences in fantasy patterns ;: a replication and refinement., Roslyn Karen Malmaud, Psychology
Prediction of later development from preschool psychological tests of autistic and schizophrenic children, Patricia Matzelle Marx, Psychology
Childhood overprotection and fear of death., Anne L. Mccomb, Psychology
Utilizing comparative information from memory ;: the symbolic distance effect., Judy Elin Mckinley, Psychology
The hydrogeology of Agawam, Longmeadow, East Longemeadow, and Hampden, Massachusetts, John Archer Moser, Geology
The effects of high rates of dairy manure on soil fertility, crop growth, and water quality., Seth Harris Mosler, Plant & Soil Sciences