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Psychology Theses

Theses from 2024 2024

Factors Influencing Prosocial Behavior in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys, Matthew H. Babb

Understanding Individual Differences in Executive Function in Older Adults, Gabriell Champion

Examining the Relations of Foundational Reading Skills, Readiness to Learn, and Demographic Characteristics to Reading Comprehension with College Students, Christina Doan

Self-Directed Learning in Nonhuman Primates, Joseph McKeon

Shaping Futures: The Influence of Mentoring on the Future Expectations of Youths Affected by Family Member Incarceration, Renita D. Moore

Intergroup Anxiety and Related Fear Constructs: Confirmatory Factor Analysis within Privileged and Marginalized Racial Groups, Kathleen Murphy

Capuchin (Cebus [Sapajus] apella] Monkeys Change Their Choices Due to Social Context in an Iterated Prisoners Dilemma, Sierra Simmons

Theses from 2023 2023

Individual and Prison Factors Influencing Incarcerated Adults’ Literacy and Numeracy Skills in the United States, Roula Aldib

Black American Parents’ Experiences Of Racial Discrimination And Youths’ Depression Outcomes: An Examination Of The Potential Mediating Role Of Parental Racial Socialization Practices, Ashanti Brown

Parent’s Emotion Coaching of Positive and Negative Emotions as it Relates to Children’s Communication of Emotions, Kyrsten A. Buote

Neural Correlates of Empathic Responding towards Mothers’ Happiness and Sadness in Middle Childhood, Katrina Farris

For the Sake of Curiosity: Do Monkeys Choose to View Counterfactual Information?, Elizabeth Haseltine

Effects of Prior Task Experience on Older Adults’ Encoding Strategy Selection, Changrui Li

File, Save, Forget: Cognitive Offloading in Non-Human Primates, Stella R. Mayerhoff

After They Leave: A Thematic Analysis of Post-Exit Distress and Coping in Former Violent Extremists, Katharina Meredith

The Impact of Conversational Turn-Taking on Vocabulary Size in Children with Developmental Disabilities Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Syrina Merilan

The Roles of Sexual Relationship Power and Sexual Assertiveness for Condom Use in the Association Between Sexual Victimization History and Condom Use Frequency, Anna Peddle

Pre-Assault Diagnoses Associated with Post-Assault Emergency Department Visits After Recent Sexual Assault, Jessica Prince

Examining Factors Associated with Alcohol Use and Consequences among Latine College Students, Nashalys K. Salamanca

Can explicit processes support implicit category learning?: The effect of relevant rule-oriented selective attention on implicit learning, Andres Sanchez

Racism and Psychopathology: Investigating the Interactive Roles of Neighborhood Poverty and Racial Discrimination on Pathologized Reactive Psychological Responses among Black Women, Aliyah Sanders

Does Parental Acceptance/Warmth Moderate Longitudinal Bidirectional Associations Between Parents’ and Children’s Internalizing Psychopathology?, Kaitlyn Tobin

Perceptions of Sexual Minoritized Women’s Sexual Orientation and Masculine Gender Expression as Predictors of their Experience of Enacted Stigma and Problematic Drinking, Brynne Velia

Worry as Coping: The Roles of Worry Beliefs, Anxiety, and Emotion Regulation, Anne Werkheiser

Theses from 2022 2022

Children’s Physiological Regulation as a Predictor of Adaptive and Maladaptive Guilt, Arden Cooper

Neural Underpinnings of Social Withdrawal Analyzed Through Schizotypy, Jesse Edmond

Identifying Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Symptoms: a Diffusion Tensor Imaging Machine Learning Study, Olivia Haller

The Impact of Witnessing Violence in the Context of Racism Among Black Americans: Depressive Symptoms and Accelerated Epigenetic Aging, Jacob Julian

Identifying Neural Correlates of Positive and Negative Empathy in Middle Childhood, Erin McDonald

Is Dominance One Size Fits All?: The Influence of Face-Type and Emotional Expression on Memory, Ashley M. Meacham

Parental Emotion Socialization and Self-Criticism in Emerging Adulthood: The Roles of Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness, Jena Michel

The Impact of Recalled Parental Emotion Socialization Responses on Internalizing Psychopathology in Emerging Adults: The Roles of Emotion Regulation and Emotion Recognition, Sarah E. Moran

“Writing all this is helping me justify my plan and to see the futility of continuing:” An Exploratory Study on the Use of Neutralization Techniques in Incel Manifestos, Katerina Papatheodorou

Neurophysiology of Mental Imagery and Reality Monitoring, Thomas Pietruszewski

Do Monkeys Save the Best for Last? Examining Sequence Order Preference in Capuchin Monkeys, Jhonatan M. Saldana

Perspectives of Clinicians Towards Mobile Health Applications, Caitlin Stern

Criminal and Remorseful Face-type Effects on Legal Decision Making, Beth B. Stevens

Theses from 2021 2021

A Comparative Perspective on the Paradox of Choice, Maisy D. Bowden

Comprehension of Collocations In English and Spanish: Exploratory Study with Spanish Speakers, Stephanie Diaz

Informant Discrepancies in Perceptions of Family Functioning: Association with Child Internalizing Symptoms, Martha N. Ishiekwene

Does Perceptual Learning from Pre-exposure Affect Category Learning?, Brooke Jackson

The Influence of Executive Functioning Impairment and ADHD Symptoms on Response to Reading Skill Intervention, Alexandra Ossowski

The Impact of Social Disruption as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children with Gastrointestinal Disorders, Abigail Robbertz

What is the Power of Identity? Examining the Moderating Role of Racial Identity Latent Profiles on the Relationship between Race-Related Stress and Trauma Symptomatology among African American Women, Ifrah S. Sheikh

The Influence of Pain Catastrophizing and Parent Behavior on Health-Related Outcomes for Youth with Sickle Cell Disease, Caitlin E. Shneider

Within-Individual Neural Variability in the N-Back Task: Relation to Neuropsychological Assessments of Executive Function, Reading, and Language, Stephanie Steinberg

When Gestures Do or Do Not Follow Language-Specific Patterns of Motion Expression in Speech: Evidence from Chinese, English & Turkish, Irmak Su Tutuncu

Theses from 2020 2020

Quantification of White Matter Hyperintensities in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Brain Tumor: Relationships with Cognition, Holly A. Aleksonis

Counterfactual Thinking and Racial Bias when Judging Crime Scenarios, Megan M. Capodanno

Improving The Acceptability Of Internet-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Among Black Americans, Donovan Ellis

Assessing the Perception of Face Pareidolia in Children and Nonhuman Primates, Molly Flessert

Measuring the Thresholds of Extremism: Testing for Measurement Invariance Between Muslim Converts and Muslim Non-Converts of Radicalism With an Ordinal Model, Ari Fodeman

The Assessment of Cognitive Bias in Capuchin Monkeys Using a Computerized Task, Kristin French

The Posttraumatic Growth Process in Young Adult Survivors of Adolescent Cancer: The Relevance of Peer Relationships and Self-esteem, Jensi Gise

Exploring the Relationships Among Mindfulness, Attention and Interpretation Bias, and Depressive Symptoms in Emerging Adults, Meghan Goyer

Default Mode Functional Connectivity, Aerobic Exercise, and Depressive Symptoms: A Resting-State fMRI Study, Andrew Gradone

The Buffering Effect of Perceived Social Support on the Relationship between Mother-Child Attachment and Anxiety in Youth Affected by Maternal HIV, Sae-Jin F. Kim

Moderating Effect of Cardiovascular Risk Factors on the Relationships of Physical Activity with Mood and Cognitive Function in a Diverse Sample, Alexia Minto

Multiple Minority Stress, Problematic Drinking, and Intimate Partner Violence in Sexual Minorities of Color, Kevin Moino

The Role of Family Background in Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Teachers? Evaluations, Chelsea V. Moodie

Psychopathology in Children: the Transdiagnostic Contribution of Affiliative Capacity and Inhibitory Control, Isabella Palumbo

School Resource Officers, School Safety, and School Climate in a Large Urban School District, Melinda Reed

Access and Engagement of MoodTools, an mHealth Application for Depression, Langting Su

The Effects of Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on the Speeded Identification of Happy Faces in Depressed Adults, Brian L. Tang

Maternal and Adolescent Depression: The Role of Genetic Variability and Telomere Length, Amanda Thompson

Racism Stress and Self-Concept: The Moderating Role of Ethnic-Racial Socialization, Aisha Noni Walker

An Investigation of the Effects of Free Writing on the Scope and Control of Attention, Melany Williams Love

Theses from 2019 2019

Exploring the Contribution of Racially-based Harassment and Personality to Variation in Native and American Identity in Immigrant-origin Youth, Maria Alejandra Arce

Residential Mobility, Parental Stress, & Parenting, CHELSEA BARROWS

Experiences of Uncertainty Among Latinx Immigrant Parents in the U.S., Claudia A. Delbasso

Associations Between Pupillary Response Patterns to Emotional Faces and Self-Reported Social Anxiety, Mary Fernandes

Animacy's Effect on Attention and Memory in Humans and Macaques (Macaca mulatta), Jennifer Johnson

Peer Influence in Group Mentoring: A Source of Peer Contagion or Prosocial Behavior Change?, Hannah Joseph

GSTP1 Polymorphisms Sex-Specific Association with Cognitive Outcomes in Survivors of Pediatric Medulloblastoma Tumors, Rella J. Kautiainen

Dimensions of Depression and Cerebellar Subregion Volumes in Older Adults, Hannah R. Michalak

Evaluating Traditional and Newer Indices of Attention Bias Among People with Social Anxiety Disorder, Anthony Molloy

Effect of Sex and Dyad Composition on Speech and Gesture Development of Singleton and Twin Children, hatice sumeyra ozturk

Effect of Child Sex and Sibling Composition on Parental Verbal and Nonverbal Input, Ebru Pinar

Attentional Bias for Threat in Intergroup Anxiety, Michelle Rattinger

Cerebellar Volume and Executive Function in Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease, Eric Semmel

Zeal of the Convert? Comparing the Structure of Islamic Religiousness between Convert and Non-Convert Muslims, Daniel Snook

"Choking" Capuchins: Hormonal Correlates of Performance Failure Under High Pressure, Meghan Sosnowski

Validation of a modified Balloon Analogue Risk Task and the Role of Hormones on Risk Behavior in Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus apella), Olivia Tomeo

Theses from 2018 2018

Patterns of Communication, Cognition, and Adaptive Behavior in Children with Developmental Delays, Phebe Albert

Social Skills and Language Development in Preschool Children with Developmental Disabilities Following Augmented Language Intervention, Candace L. Evans

Forms and Functions of Aggression in Adults: Validation of a Measure of Aggression to Assess Intimate Partner Aggression, Miklos B. Halmos

Remembering More Than Met the Eye: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying Visual Boundary Extension in Humans (Homo sapiens), Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta), and Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella), Brielle T. James

Capuchin (Cebus [Sapajus] Apella) Change Detection, Jesse Leinwand

The Role of Racial Ideology in the Relation Between Racial Discrimination and Psychological Well-being Among African American College Students, Ciera B. Lewis

Sexual Health among Female Refugee Youth: An Ecological Approach, Jessica L. Miller

The Effects of Gender in Violent Video Games, Samantha Sabin

An Exploratory Study of Mindfulness in Adolescents Diagnosed with Chronic Pain, Sharon Shih

The Relationship between Executive Function and Empathy: An fMRI Investigation in Healthy Adults, Zinat Taiwo

Analyzing Brain Networks Associated with Social Evaluation and Uncertainty in Subclinical Social Anxiety, Khalil Thompson

Spoken Vocabulary Outcomes of Toddlers with Developmental Delay Receiving Parent-Coached Augmented Language Intervention: A Phonetic Description and Analysis, Casy E. Walters

Randomness and Structure to Humans and Rhesus Macaques, William Whitham

A Comparative Analysis of the Implicit Motives of Violent Extremist Groups, Rebecca Wilson

Theses from 2017 2017

How Child Gestures Relates To Parent Gesture Input in Older Children with Autism and Typical Development, Stephanie D. Baumann

Outcome Expectancy, Working Alliance, and Symptom Reduction in Social Anxiety Disorder, Amanda Benbow

Like Father, Like Son: Stereotypical Black Facial Features in Children Causing Trouble, Alesha D. Bond