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Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Neural and Behavioral Associations of Drinking and Empathic Processing, Charles Samuel Henry Robinson

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The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the resting state functional brain connectivity in a sample of individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Carlos I. Rodriguez

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Psychological Factors And The Relation Between Neighborhood Conditions And Latino Health: A Mixed Methods Study, Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa

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EVALUATION OF A ROLLING MINDFULNESS-BASED RELAPSE PREVENTION GROUP IN A RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT SETTING: SHORT-TERM EFFECTIVENESS AND PROCESSES OF CHANGE, Corey Roos

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Associations among Desirability of First Sexual Experience, Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors and Attitudes, and Substance Use in Justice-Involved Male Adolescents, Ryan S. Ross

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Neurocognitive Markers of Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia and Functional Outcomes, Sephira Ryman

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Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Impairs Performance in an Object-Place-Paired-Associate Task, Lilliana May Sanchez

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NEUROBEHAVIORAL SIGNATURES IN CHILDREN-VICTIM OF BULLYING, Isabel Solis

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ALTERATIONS IN RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOL USE SEVERITY AND IMPULSIVITY IN A COMMUNITY SAMPLE, Elena R. Stein

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The Effect of Sublingual Testosterone on Ischemic Pain Sensitivity, Chance Strenth

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Gray Matter Correlates of Emotional Intelligence in Incarcerated Males, Devin Marie Ulrich

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Religiosity/Spirituality and Cancer Risk Assessment for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Latina and non-Latina women in New Mexico, Belinda Vicuna Tellez

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Women's Response Performance in Sexually Risky Situations: Associations with Sexual Victimization History, Alcohol Use, Psychopathology, and Sexual Attitudes, Kristen N. Vitek

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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Improves Performance on Spelling and Word Detection Tasks, J. Kevin Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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An Investigation of the Neural Components and Saccade Sequences that Enable Direct Navigation through Virtual Space, Daniel R. Barto

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Understanding Behavioral Health and Treatment Engagement with Former Users of Prenatal Substances: A Strengths-Focused Mixed Methods Inquiry, Jennifer G. Benson, Peggy MacLean, Andrew Hsi, and Sarah J. Erickson

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SEX SPECIFIC SPATIAL NAVIGATION AND MEMORY IMPAIRMENT IN THE TGF344-AD RAT MODEL OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Laura Elizabeth Berkowitz

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A Community Well-Being Model: Considering AUDIT Scores and Social Class in non-Hispanic White and American Indian College Students, Violette Marie Cloud

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THE MODULATION OF REWARD TO NICOTINE AND ETHANOL BY SEX AND STAGE OF EXPOSURE, Kyle L. Dixon

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Functional Neural Connectivity Associated with Moral Processing in Healthy and Antisocial Samples, Samantha Jean Fede

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Modeling the Trauma-Antisociality Relationship as Mediated by World Assumptions: Associations with Gender and Drinking Outcomes, Kathryn Fokas

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Alone in a Crowd: Perceived Social Relationships and Health Outcomes for Clergy, Christopher G. Ford

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The role of perceived stress in the relationship between purpose in life and mental health., Anne Guzman

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as an Intervention for Chronic Pain Management, Elizabeth A. McCallion

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Seeking an Operational Definition of Dieting: A Daily Diary Study, Elizabeth Anne McLaughlin

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Defining High Functioning OCD (HFOCD), Samuel Meyer

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Social Risks as Costly Trait Signals, Ruth E. Sarafin

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The Effects of Comorbid Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Alcohol Use Disorder, Brandi Seaman

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Relationship Between Structure and Functional Connectivity Within the Default Mode Network, Andrei A. Vakhtin

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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EXAMINING COMMITTED ACTION IN CHRONIC PAIN: FURTHER VALIDATION AND CLINICAL UTILITY OF THE COMMITTED ACTION QUESTIONNAIRE, Robert Bailey

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Psychologically Healthy Eating and Nutritionally Healthy Eating: Exploring a Two-Factor Theory of Healthy Eating, Katherine E. Belon

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Increasing Sexual Offenders Motivation to Engage in Mandated Substance Abuse Treatment: A Brief Motivational Intervention', Julie Brovko

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THE RELATION OF VOCATIONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT TO COLLEGE FRESHMEN RETENTION: A SHORT-TERM LONGITUDINAL STUDY, Cheryl Ann Bryan

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A New Kind of Therapeutic Relationship: Exploring Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Computer-Delivered Interventions for Alcohol Use Disorders, William P. Campbell IV

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Partially and fully time-unstructured residual variance-covariance matrices in growth curve modeling: Consequences of ignoring variability in times of assessment, Patrick Coulombe

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COMPETING GOALS: THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS ON WOMEN'S JUDGMENTS OF AND RESPONSES TO SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION RISK, Jennifer Crawford

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Incorporating Alternative Sources of Reinforcement through Online CRA Goal Setting and the Effect on Substance Use in College Students, Shirley Mae Crotwell

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Cancer experience modulates the relationship between child and parent Hypothalamic Pituiatary Adrenal (HPA) axis functioning, Sarah Dinces

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The malleability of university students' beliefs, values, and attitudes in the classroom setting, Glory Emmanuel

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Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity and Client Change: Using ROC Analysis to Explore the Relationship Between MI Fidelity Level and Drinking Outcome., Daniel Fischer

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FRONTAL PARIETAL NETWORK FUNCTION DURING A VISUOMOTOR TASK IN FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER: A MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY STUDY, Christopher M. Garcia

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From Norway with Love: A Study of Oxytocin, Social Bonding, and Life-history Trade-offs, Nicholas Grebe

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INFLUENCE OF ANTERIOR THALAMIC INACTIVATION ON THE RETRIEVAL OF SPATIAL REFERENCE MEMORY AND WORKING MEMORY IN THE RADIAL ARM MAZE, ryan E. harvey

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Expanding Your Cognitive Capacity: An Assessment of the Neuroplastic Changes Associated with Mindfulness Training and Transcranial Stimulation, Michael Hunter

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A Time to Plan, A Time to Remember: An EEG Double Dissociation of Cognitive Control Instantiation Due to Temporal Delay, Jacqueline R. Janowich

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Dyslexia and Mindfulness: Can Mental Training Ameliorate the Symptoms of Dyslexia?, Julia Keller

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The Development of the Sexual Assault Script Scale, Kari A. Leiting

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ASSOCIATIONS AMONG SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES, COPING STRATEGIES, AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN HETEROSEXUAL AND SEXUAL MINORITY WOMEN, Gabriela Lopez

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Development of a Group Dynamic Functional Connectivity Pipeline for Magnetoencephalography Data and its Application to the Human Face Processing Network, Per Lysne

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Investigating error-related processing in incarcerated adolescents with elevated psychopathic traits, James M. Maurer

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PRIMARY LANGUAGE, MATERNAL LANGUAGE USE, AND COGNITIVE OUTCOMES AMONG PRESCHOOLERS BORN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, Natalia Moss

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A Randomized Clinical Trial of a Brief Motivational Intervention for Incarcerated Drinkers, Mandy Owens

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Maternal Interactive Behaviors and Developmental Outcomes in Preschoolers Born Very Low Birth Weight, Rebecca E. Rieger

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Measurement Invariance of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) in a College Sample of Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic Women, Kelsey Serier

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Minority Adolescent Health: A Factor Analytic Approach towards Conceptualizing Health Behaviors and Resilience Constructs from the New Mexico Youth Risk Resiliency Survey, Jeremiah Simmons

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Feasibility of Daily Assessment and Predictors of Daily Quality of Life during Treatment for Lung Cancer, Laurie Steffen

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Using Brain Stimulation to Enhance Working Memory: A Charged Topic, Michael Christopher Stefan Trumbo

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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMIC MEASUREMENT OF MISTRUST: ASSOCIATIONS WITH TREATMENT SEEKING, ENGAGEMENT, AND OUTCOME IN A SEXUAL OFFENDER POPULATION WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, Adam Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Social Network Influences and College Student Drinking, Adrienne Borders

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MUTABILITY OF THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN BENIGN AND HOSTILE ENVY, Rachael G. Falcon

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Neural basis of positive, negative, and controversial moral processing in incarcerated adult males with psychopathic traits, Samantha Fede

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Oxytocin and Romantic Relationships: A Functional Perspective, Nicholas Grebe

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Discrimination, Substance Use, and Cultural Buffers among Native American College Students, Brenna L. Greenfield

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The Functional Impact of Neurocognitive Deficits in Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Associated Risk Factors, Sarah Hile

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Sensorimotor Synchronization and Individual Differences in Intelligence: A Chronometric Perspective on Music Evolution, Christopher Jenkins

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Latino in the U.S.: Do ethnic identity and family support protect against ethnic discrimination?, Yajaira Johnson-Esparza

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Contribution of Far Field Effects of Cortical tDCS in the Cerebellum to Learning in an Object Detection Paradigm, Aaron P. Jones

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MEASURE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSESSMENT OF 'HITTING BOTTOM' FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ALCOHOL PROBLEMS, Megan Kirouac

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Examining the effects of a sub-chronic exposure to phencyclidine: An analysis of functional network connectivity, behavior, and mRNA expression, Christy M. Magcalas

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The Development of Preschoolers' Living Kinds Concept: A Longitudinal Study, Jordan Tessa Margett

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The effects of sexual victimization history, sexual attitudes, and psychopathology on women's responses to increasingly coercive sexual and nonsexual social situations, Erica Nason

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Bridging the Gap: Adapting Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Latino Populations, J. Alexis Ortiz

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USING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY TO ASSESS RISK TAKING BEHAVIOR IN VARYING LEVELS OF CONGRUENCY, John F. L. Pinner

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Detecting Executive Function Subtypes in Individuals with Schizophrenia and Healthy Controls, Jessica Pommy

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THE EFFECTS OF MODERATE PRENATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE ON RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO BEHAVIOR, Carlos Rodriguez

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PATTERNS OF ALCOHOL-SPECIFIC COPING AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH ALCOHOL USE DISORDER: DOES COPING REPERTOIRE MATTER?, Corey Roos

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INVESTIGATING JOINT ATTENTION BEHAVIORS AND EPISODES IN 18-MONTH TODDLERS BORN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT COMPARED TO TODDLERS BORN NORMAL BIRTH WEIGHT, Lauren Rowell

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Perceived Social Support and Loneliness as Predictors of Cardiac Rehabilitation Outcomes, Elizabeth Stein

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Aberrant Development of Post-Movement Beta Rebound in Young Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Andrei Vakhtin

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The Development of Identity in Preschoolers, Jin Xiaoshen

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Children's self-representations, cultural developmental goals, and social behavior in Mexican and Euro-American children, Mary Bancroft

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Spatial Discrimination in the Virtual Morris Water Task: The Influence of View Similarity, Daniel Barto

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Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Outcomes: Mediating Role of the Home Environment, Jennifer Gwendolyn Benson

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Coping Strategies Mediate the Relationship Between Alexithymia and Health, Jennifer Bernard

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Functional Interactions Between the Cannabinoid System and Memory Consolidation in the Hippocampus: A Synthesis of Findings from Behavior, Morphology, Physiology, and Synaptic Signaling in the Rat, Felicha Candelaria-Cook

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INCREASING YOUR BRAIN POTENTIAL: TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION FOR ENHANCEMENT OF BEHAVIOR AND EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS IN TESTS OF ATTENTION AND IMPUSLIVITY, Brian Coffman

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Ignoring individual differences in times of assessment in growth curve modeling, Patrick Coulombe

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Can Irrelevant Onsets Capture Attention? Searching for a Unified Model of Attention Capture, Nicholas Gaspelin

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RELATING CLIENT CHANGE LANGUAGE AND SAFER-SEX OUTCOMES IN A GROUP-DELIVERED MOTIVATIONAL ENHANCEMENT THERAPY (GMET) INTERVENTION FOR DETAINED ADOLESCENTS, Lisa Glynn

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Normative Beliefs about Drinking and Alcohol Use among Native American and non-Hispanic White College Students, Kylee Hagler

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Simulation of Social Networks to Maximize the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders, Kevin Hallgren

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The Psychology of the Supreme Court: Modeling Judicial Semantics from Written Opinions, Anne Lippert

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Memory Profiles in Schizophrenia: A Neuropsychological Comparison with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, S. Laura Lundy

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Expert constrained navigation in hypertext learning and the effects of working memory capacity, Brenda L. Martinez-Papponi

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Effects of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction on Anxiety & Depression in Primary Care Patients, Elizabeth McCallion

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Measuring disability in chronic pain: Factor structure and revision of the Sickness Impact Profile, Mindy McEntee

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The EAT-16: Validation of a Shortened Form of the Eating Attitudes Test, Elizabeth McLaughlin

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White matter integrity and alcohol use disorders, Mollie Monnig

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Consequences and Protective Factors for Sexual Victimization Among Ethnically Diverse Women: An Online Study, Rosa Muñoz

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MODERATE FETAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE, THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS, AND ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN ADULTHOOD, James Rice