Dissertations from 2022
The Roles of the ADOS-2 and Cognition in Measuring and Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder, Phebe Albert
“It’s Always a Combination of Things”: An Intersectional Approach to Post-Migration Discrimination and Mental Health in Refugee Women, Jessica L. Kumar
Dissertations from 2021
Household food insecurity, depression, and disordered eating symptoms in adolescents with severe obesity, Meredith Bishop
NEIGHBORHOOD DISADVANTAGE AND GENDER INEQUALITY: EXPLORING COMMUNITY-LEVEL RISK FACTORS FOR SEXUALLY-VIOLENT CRIME, Robyn A. Borgman
Relationships Between Cerebello-Cortical Functional Connectivity and Executive Functioning Across Childhood and Adolescence, Sarah V. Clark
A Novel Task to Assess Outcome Probability Bias for Social Anxiety, Amanda A. Draheim
Effect of Family Socioeconomic Status on Brain Structures Involved in Statistical Learning in Children, Leyla Eghbalzad
Cognitive and Psychiatric Functioning Among Cushing's Syndrome Patients in Remission, Mary Fernandes
Exploring Sexual Minority Stress Related Aggression, Miklos B. Halmos
Does imaging genetics reveal shared mechanisms behind psychotic symptom profile?, Wenhao Jiang
Youth Profiles of Program Quality Perceptions and Their Associations with Social Competence, Scot R. Seitz
Behavioral, Cognitive, and Genetic Factors Underlying Socio-Communicative Development in Bonobos, Sara Skiba
Fear and Loathing: Understanding Risk Perception for Terrorism and its Relationship with Islamophobia, Daniel W. Snook
White Matter Hyperintensities and Symptom Profiles of Late-Onset Depression: A Latent Class Analysis, Zinat Taiwo
Why Should I Help You? An Exploration of the Contextual and Individual Factors Influencing Capuchin Monkeys' Prosocial Behavior, Mackenzie F. Webster
Maternal and Paternal Overcontrol: Relationships with Child Anxiety, Rachel Weinstock
Dissertations from 2020
An Investigation of Criminal Face Bias in the Innocence Project Cases, Amanda Clevinger
Examining the Impact of Urban Neighborhood Disparities on the Treatment of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity Using Mixture Modelling, Matthew Donati
Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity to Others' Emotions as Predictors of Internalizing Symptoms during Middle Childhood, Jackson Gray
Evaluating Best Practices in Group Mentoring: A Mixed Methods Study, Katherine E. Hale
Impact of Perceived Peer Attitudes and Social Network Diversity on Violent Extremist Intentions, Wojciech Kaczkowski
Staff- and Youth-reported Youth Voice as Predictors of Community Service through Empowerment, Nadim khatib
Gesture Gives Bilingual Children a Hand with Spatial Vocabulary, Valery D. Limia
The Impact of Concurrent Racial and Religious Discrimination on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Muslim Young Adults, Zahra Murtaza
The Role of Reward Sensitivity in the Perpetration of Reactive and Proactive Aggression, Olivia Subramani
Learning From Mistakes: Decision-making Biases Within the Primate Lineage, Julia Watzek
Modifiability Of Strategy Use In Probabilistic Categorization By Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta) And Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus [Sapajus] Apella), William Whitham
Dissertations from 2019
Determining Relationships among Executive Functioning, Empathy, and Autism Spectrum Disorder Traits in Neurotypical Adults, Danielle N. Abrams
The Role of Executive Function in Impulsive Consumer Purchasing Behavior, Holly Adams
Low Flexibility of Depressed Mothers' Emotional Behaviors During Mother-Child Discussions, Alyssa Ames-Sikora
Shame, Masculine Identity Threat, and Acceptance of Emotions Predicting Sexual Aggression: An Application of the I3 Model, Carolyn Brennan
HIV Disclosure and Family Processes Among Mothers Living with HIV and Their Children: A Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Investigation, Nada M. Goodrum
Effects of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Bystander Decision Making and Intervention Behavior for Sexual Violence, Ruschelle Leone
Examining a Cumulative Risk Index for Language Delay in Infants at High- and Low-Risk for Autism, Nonye Nwosu
Mixed-Methods Analysis Of Pica In Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease, Nikita Rodrigues
Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Statistical Learning in Adults with and without Reading Disorders, Sonia Singh
Semantic Network Alterations in Early Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Stella Tran
Racial Socialization from Parents and Peers: Implications for Coping with Discrimination, Christyl Y. Wilson
The Relation Between Working Memory and Reading Intervention Outcomes in Children with Developmental Dyslexia, Rebecca Winter
Campus Racial Climate and Academic Outcomes: Examining the Moderating Role of Racial Identity for African American College Students, Allana Zuckerman
Dissertations from 2018
Maternal Responses to Children’s Exposure to Violent/Tragic News Media in a Sample of Multiply-Traumatized, African-American, Low-Income Youth, Susanna Crowell McQuarrie
Functions of Guilt and Reparative Behaviors in Middle Childhood, Meghan R. Donohue
¡Arriba, Abajo, al Centro, pa’ Dentro!: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study of Path- and Manner-Sensitivity and Motion Expression, Samantha N. Emerson
Emerging Language Comprehension in Toddlers with Significant Developmental Delays, Evelyn Fisher
Longitudinal Structure of Expressive and Receptive Language Among Young African American Children: An Examination of the Preschool Language Scale-5, Leslie E. Hodges
Altering Attitudes and Improving Intentions: An Evaluation of the Safe Zone Workshop at Georgia State University, Rebecca H. LeCroix
Tool Use in Pan: Two Modalities, Two Species, Lindsay M. Mahovetz
A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLIMATE AND ACHIEVEMENT: TESTING A PROTECTIVE RESILIENCE MODEL, Katelyn Cleary Plescow
The Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Interracial Anxiety and Avoidance, Lee Schaefer
Dissertations from 2017
Alcohol Outlet Density, Heavy Episodic Drinking, and Sexual Violence Perpetration: A Multilevel Mediation Model, Alexandra L. Bellis
Linking Adolescents' Leadership Exposure to Transformational Leadership: The Mediating Effects of Leadership Self-efficacy and Social Intelligence, Jacque-Corey Cormier
Exploring Resilience and Adaptation in Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease, Laura Ann Cousins
Validation of the Contact with Sexual Minorities Questionnaire, Irene Daboin
Negatively Biased Facial Affect Discernment and Socially Inhibited Behavior in Middle Childhood, Sarah Elizabeth Garcia
Cognitive control as a mechanism linking regular physical activity and emotional health, Nicole J. Hegberg
The role of individual and classroom moral disengagement in bullying and bystanding behaviors, Schell Hufstetler
Amygdala Volume and Social Anxiety Symptom Severity: A Mutli-method Study, Reema Jayakar
Associations Between Stress and Resourcefulness Among Parents of Children at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Delays, Meena Khowaja
The Cognitive And Linguistic Underpinnings Of Mathematical Abilities Of Children With Reading Disabilities, Nicole C. Lim
Social Attribution in Toddlers At Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Natasha Ludwig
Perceived Racial Discrimination in Adolescents Hospitalized for Sickle Cell Pain Crises: An Exploratory Examination, Ifigenia Mougianis
Factors Influencing Species Performance in a Cross-Taxon Comparative Research Program, Laurent Prétôt
Exploring the Unique and Interactive Contribution of Temperament and Executive Functioning to Parenting Behaviors, Yuri Shishido
The Association Between Structured Sequence Processing and Grammatical Language Processing: The Neurocognitive Mechanisms and the Potential to Enhance Them, Gretchen NL Smith
Black Scholars Matter: Development and Validation of a Campus Racial Climate Measure for African American College Students, Dominique Thomas
Dissertations from 2016
Phonological awareness in preschool age children with developmental disabilities, Andrea Barton-Hulsey
White Matter Correlates of Verbal Memory in Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Study of Structural Connectivity, Ryan Brewster
Bridging Early Diagnosis and Intervention: Enhancing Recommendations and Facilitating Access to Early Intervention, Bianca A. Brooks
Examining Cognitive Predictors of Parental Rescue Behavior and Potential Malleability of Behavior Using a Psychoeducation Intervention, Sara M S Francis
An Examination of Associations among Components of Mindfulness and Women's Attention Bias to Sad Faces, Cheryl Garn
The Influence Of Others' Goals On Young Children's Sharing Decisions, Melissa L. Glasser
Adults' and Children's Identification of Faces and Emotions from Isolated Motion Cues, Anna Gonsiorowski
Anonymity and Anti-Gay Aggression in an Online Sample: The Effect of an Audience on Gender Role Enforcement, Bradley Goodnight
Returning to Presence: The Effects of Mindfulness on Emotion Regulation Following Worry among Individuals with Analogue Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Jessica Rose Morgan Goodnight
Risk Factors for Sexual Assault: Can Existing Theories Explain Bisexual Women's Disproportionate Risk?, Tracy N. Hipp
The Impact of Social Identities on the Presentation and Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder, Suzanne Johnson
Cognitive Biases in Social Anxiety Disorder: Examining Interpretation and Attention Biases and Their Relation to Anxious Behavior, Natasha Mehta
Intergenerational Transmission of Violence: Parent-Child Profiles and Dating Violence in Latino Adolescents, Rebecca Rodriguez
Corpus Callosum and Word Reading in Adult Survivors of Childhood Posterior Fossa Tumors, Kristen M. Smith
The Time Is at Hand: The Development of Spatial Representations of Time in Children’s Speech and Gesture, Lauren Stites
Discrimination of Faces, Sex, and Relationships by Capuchin Monkeys, Catherine F. Talbot
Understanding and Promoting Children's Use of Weight, Zhidan Wang
Dissertations from 2015
Exploring Relational & Goal-Directed Interactions in Community-Based Mentor Relationships, Kandi Felmet
Modeling Reading Constructs with Struggling Readers at Different Ages, Cortney M. Fritz
Assessing Learning Strategy Use in English- and Spanish-Speaking Older Adults During Verbal Learning Tests, Cynthia Funes
Líderes Comunitarias: Evaluation of Community Workshops on Domestic Violence, Rosemarie L. Macias
Peer Support in Adolescents Hospitalized for Sickle Cell Pain Crises, Sarah R. Martin
An Investigation of Emergent Perceptual Phenomena in Primates: Illusions and Biases in Decision-Making, Audrey E. Parrish