Recent Dissertations

2005

Barker, Mae (under the direction of D. Bailey). "Expanding the Tact Repertoire of Preschool Students with Developmental Disabilities by Embedding Direct Instruction into Everyday Classroom Activities"

DeGraff, Amanda (under the direction of Dr. Torgesen). "A Validation of the Computerized Monitoring of Early Reading Skills Test"

Gerhardstein, Rebecca (under the direction of Dr. Kistner). "The Creation and Validation of an Early Identification Measure of Children's Social Dysfunction"

Lyons Johnson, Orenda (under the direction of Dr. Ouimet). "Regulation of Dendritic Spine Proliferation"

Muse, Andrea (under the direction of Dr. Wagner). "The Nature of Morphological Knowledge"

Nicholas, Alexander (under the direction of Dr. Hyson). "Afferent Regulation of Neuronal Survival in the Chick Cochlear Nucleus"

Plowman, Jeanine (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "Measuring and Changing Employee Work Behavior: AnApplication of the Performance Matrix"

Reitzel, Lorraine (under the direction of Dr. Carbonell). "The Effectiveness of Sexual Offender Treatment for Juveniles as Measured by Recidivism: A Meta Analysis"

Schmeichel, Brandon (under the direction of Dr. Baumeister). "Ego Depletion, Working Memory, and the Executive Function of Self"

White, Brad (under the direction of Dr. Kistner). "The Role of Selective Attention in Illusions of Social Acceptance and Aggression in Children"

Wright, Cecil Baker (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "The Efficacy of Brief Functional Analysis Procedures in the Assessment of ADHD Behavior and the Effect of Stimulant Medication"

2004

Aragona, Brandon (under the direction of Dr. Wang). "Dopamine Regulation of Social Attachment"

Casbon, Todd (under the direction of Dr. Lang). "Drinking and Cognitive Control: Evidence that Acute Alcohol Intoxication Impairs Performance through its Effects on Two Distinct Cognitive Processes"

Driscoll, Kim (under the direction of Dr. Kistner). "Response styles theory: An explanation for the emergence of sex differences in depression"

Fowler, Christie (under the direction of Dr. Wang). "The Influence of Social Environment and Gonadal Steroid Hormones on Adult Neurogenesis in Voles"

Madden, Carol (under the direction of Dr. Zwaan). "The Effects of Contextual Constraints on Meaning Selection in the Mental Lexicon"

Minnix, Jennifer (under the direction of Dr. Joiner). "Frontal Asymmetry, Depression, Gender, and Excessive Reassurance-Seeking: A Contextual Analysis"

Perez, Marisol (under the direction of Dr. Joiner). "Differentiation of Obsessive-Compulsive, Anxiety Disordered and Non-Disordered Individuals by Variation in the Promoter Region of the Serotonin Transporter Gene"

Reardon, Maureen (under the direction of Dr. Lang). "Prediction of Comorbid Alcohol Use Disorders Using Factors Derived from the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale in an Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital"

Rhodes, Matthew (under the direction of Dr. Kelley). "Age-Related Differences in Memory Accuracy and Memory Monitoring: Relationship to Executive Processes"

2003

Cukrowicz, Kelly (under the direction of Dr. Berler). "Prevention of Anxiety and Depression"

Heberlein-Riley, Wendy (under the direction of Dr. B. Licht). "The Relation between Two Models of How Children's Achievement-Related Beliefs Affect Academic Task Engagement and Achievement"

Hilliard, Amy (under the direction of Dr. Wagner) "The Interaction between the Reader and the Reading Situation: The Roles of Text Cues, Reading Tasks, and Individual Differences in Reading Ability"

Jennings, Marilyn (under the direction of Dr. Kline). "Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Psychophysiological Examination of the Recovery Cycle of Emotion: Responding in BPD"

Kaiser, Andrew (under the direction of Dr. Torgesen). "College Students with Learning Disabilities: Using Psychoeducational Test Results to Predict Accommodations and Learning and Learning Disability Type"

Kirk , Elizabeth (under the direction of Dr. Kelley). "The Effect of Elaborative Encoding on Attention Use at Retrieval"

Normand, Matthew (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "The Use of Job Aids to Facilitate Accurate Visual Analysis of Graphed Within-Subject Data"

Phillips, Beth (under the direction of Dr. Taylor) "Effortful Control as a Temperamental Trait in Children and Adolescents: Construct Validation and Relation to Symptoms of Psychopathology"

Smith, Patrick (under the direction of Dr. Smith). "Temperature as a Stimulus in Ingestive Behavior"

Thompson, Kara (under the direction of Dr. Boroto). "The Development of Standard Recovery Curves for the Life Status Questionnaire as a Means of Identifying Patients at Risk for Psychotherapy Treatment Failure"

Wallander, Robert (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "Employing Protocol Analysis in the Study of Visual Interpretation of Functional Analysis Data"

Watson, Teknaya (under the direction of Dr. Carbonell). "Issues of Intent and Injury: A Comparative Analysis of African-American College Students' Perceptions of Dating Violence"

Whitney, Osceola (under the direction of Dr. Johnson). "Experience-Dependent Gene Expression for Learned Vocal Behavior in the Zebra Finch Songbird"

2002

Buck, Julie (under the direction of Dr. Brigham). "The Influence of Interview Quality and Age on Hearsay Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Trials"

Chambers, J. Brad (under the direction of Dr. Rashotte). "Effects of Ambient Temperature on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Status"

Dore, Heather (under the direction of Dr. Brigham). "The Own-Race Bias in Children's Eyewitness Memory"

Elliott, Robert (under the direction of Dr. Charness). "Contextual Interference: The Serial Practice Schedule"

Hooe, Eric (under the direction of Dr. Lonigan). "Negative and Positive Affectivity: Toward a Hierarchical Structure of Temperament in School-Age Children"

Jensen, Sandra (under the direction of Dr. Megargee) "Descriptive and Developmental Characteristics of Chronically Over-Controlled Hostile Women Offenders"

Larowe, Steven (under the direction of Dr. Kline). "Physiological Reactivity and Attention in Defensiveness"

Meiselman, Adam (under the direction of Dr. Wagner). "A Cross-National Examination of Diagnostic Tendencies and Diagnostic Agreement of U.S. and U.K. Clinicians' Ratings of Standard Case Vignettes"

Owusu-Ansah, Emily (under the direction of Dr. M. Licht). "Culture, Control and Age: Implications for Coping and Well-Being"

Pettit, Jeremy (under the direction of Dr. Joiner). "Mechanisms of Recurrent Suicidality: An Application of the Kindling and Behavioral Sensitization Models to Suicidality"

Sahakyan, Lili (under the direction of Dr. Kelley). "A Contextual Account of the Directed Forgetting Effect"

Wilkinson, Brandy (under the direction of Dr. Hyson). "Afferent Influences on Cell Death Cascades in the Avian Cochlear Nucleus: Nucleus Magnocellularis"

Young, Robert (under the direction of Dr. M. Licht). "Implicit Theories and Goal Orientations: Implications for Their Role in Coping with Memory Challenges"

2001

Abblett, Mitchell (under the direction of Dr. Boroto). "Motivation for Change in Psychotherapy: The Relationship Between the Trans-theoretical Model and Self-Determination Theory and Prediction of Clinical Services Utilization"

Bakan, Megan (under the direction of Dr. Wagner). "Multidimensional Models of the Structure of Orthographic Knowledge"

Bradshaw-Wilcox, Heather (under the direction of Dr. Berkley). "Behavioral and Neuronal Responses to Pelvic Organ Stimulation as a Function of Changes in the Hormonal Milieu of the Female Rat"

David, Corinne (under the direction of Dr. Kistner). "A Longitudinal Investigation of the Causal Relationship Between Positive Perceptual Bias and Interpersonal Aggression Among Children"

Davidson, Alec (under the direction of Dr. Stephan). "Physiological and Neuroanatomical Bases for Circadian Meal Entrainment"

Levenston, Gary (under the direction of Dr. Patrick). "A Longitudinal Analysis of Childhood Externalizing and Internalizing Psychopathy as Risk Factors for Criminal Offending in Adulthood"

Meissner, Christian (under the direction of Dr. Brigham). "The Influence of Perceptual Learning in Memory for Faces: A Process-Tracing Approach to Investigating the Own-Race Bias"

Norrholm, Seth (under the direction of Dr. Ouimet) "Dendritic Spine Plasticity in Animal Models of Depression and Substance Abuse"

O'Connor, David (under the direction of Dr. Patrick) "The Female Psychopath: Validity and Factor Structure of the Revised Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) in Women Inmates"

Pittman, David (under the direction of Dr. Contreras). "Dietary Sodium Chloride Experience Influences the Development of Salt Taste Mechanisms in Rat: An Anatomical and Neurophysiological Analysis"

Thurkow, Niki (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "Using Behavioral Technology in a Total Quality Management Environment: A Systems Level Analysis"

Walker, Rheeda (under the direction of Dr. Joiner). "An Investigation of Acculturative Stress and Ethnic Identification as Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation in African-American Vs. Anglo-American Men and Women: The Moderating Effects of Religiosity and Social Support"

2000

Anthony, Jason (under the direction of Dr. Lonigan). "Examination of a Developmental and Multidimensional Conceptualization of Phonological Sensitivity"

Begault, Laura (under the direction of Dr. Carbonell). "The Effect of Gender, Power and Confederate Influence Styles on Participants' Influence Strategy Use"

Delaney, Peter (under the direction of Dr. Ericsson). "Influence of Long-Term Memory on Working Memory during Problem Solving: Evidence from Planning in the Water Jugs Task"

Foster, Kim (under the direction of Dr. Kistner). "Use of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control with Children"

Goodwin, Kerri (under the direction of Dr. Kelley). "Implicit and Explicit Memory Retrieval of Prior Information during Problem Solving"

Lartigue, Kate (under the direction of Dr. Brigham). "Perceptions of Sexual Harassment: The Influences of Physical Attractiveness of the Victim and Comparative Status"

Lucker, Kim (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "Investigating Individual and Organizational Performance Changes under a Process-Based, Performance Contingent Pay System"

Lund, Coby (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "The Effects of a Peer-Mediated Intervention on the Classroom Behaviors of Token Earners and Peer Helpers: An Investigation of Stimulus Generalization"

Nicolson, Amanda (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "A Behavioral Intervention for Shaping the Resumption of Exercise After Drop-out: Implications for Practice and Theory"

Pena-Morgens, Liana (under the direction of Dr. Megargee) "The Association of MMPI-A Scales with Measures of Adjustment Among Institutionalized Male Juvenile Delinquents"

Risi, Susan (under the direction of Dr. Kistner). "Children's Classroom Peer Relations and Subsequent School Adjustment"

Verona, Edelyn (under the direction of Dr. Patrick). "A Direct Assessment of the Role of State and Trait Negative Emotion in Aggressive Behavior"

Wagner, Kenneth (under the direction of Dr. Bailey). "An Experimental Analysis of Process Re-Engineering"

Ziegert, Dannah (under the direction of Dr. Kistner). "Response Styles Theory: Downward Extension to Children"