Psychology ETDs
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Substance Use Treatment Accessibility for Pregnant and Postpartum Women, Adrienne Borders
AN ERP INVESTIGATION OF REWARD SIGNALS FOR DIFFERING CLASSES OF REINFORCING STIMULI, Darin R. Brown
HOW DO TRAINERS IN EMPIRICALLY SUPPORTED TREATMENTS DECIDE WHAT TO TRAIN?: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE TRAINER’S ROLE IN THE SCIENCE-TO-SERVICE PATHWAY, David Pendleton Forman
Understanding the Learning Benefits Associated with Transcranial Direct Current Simulation of the Right Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Benjamin C. Gibson
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS FOR PREPARING CONTROL IN TIME, Jacqueline Rosemary Janowich
Effect of a Learned-Threat on Pain Perception and Behaviors, Eric Kruger
Addressing Content, Convergent and Predictive Validity of Implicit Pain-Related Fear in Chronic Low Back Pain, Eric S. Kruger
EFFECTS OF CHEMOGENETIC INHIBITION OF VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPAL GLUTAMATERGIC NEURONS ON ANXIETY-LIKE DEFENSIVITY IN MALE LONG-EVANS HOODED RATS, Carlos R. Maestas-Olguin
Bilingualism and executive functioning in children born very low birth weight and normal birth weight, Natalia Carr Moss, Sarah Erickson, Jean Lowe, Steven Verney, and Judy Ho
PRESCRIPTION OF OPIOIDS TO YOUTH 2005-2016: AN EXAMINATION OF TRENDS, PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS, AND OUTCOMES THROUGH 12 MONTHS, Melissa Pielech
PILOT RCT OF MBRP IN OUTPATIENT METHADONE CLINIC: A NEUROPSYCHOLOGICALLY-INFORMED APPROACH, Jessica Pommy
CLEARING THE MUDDY WATERS: IS LACK OF MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING QUALITY ACCOUNTING FOR MIXED FINDINGS AND CAN MEASURING FIDELITY HELP?, Lauren N. Rowell
A Functional Perspective on Everyday Sadism, Marley Russell
Patient-Provider Communication in Community Mental Health: How Perceptions of Engagement in Decision-Making Influence Patient-Perceptions of Well-Being, Elizabeth R. Stein
Cerebellar Vermis: Contributions to the Phenomenology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Moriah Eve Stern
The Influence of Infant Temperament on Maternal Sensitivity in Preterm Infants, Suzanne Vaccaro
Patterns of Polysubstance Use Among Those with Tranquilizer or Sedative Misuse: Predictors and Functional Consequences, Victoria R. Votaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Maternal sexuality during lactation: The influence of breastfeeding recency and relationship quality, Melissa A. Eaton
The Role of Descriptive Social Norms in Opioid and Other Substance Use Among College Students, Karlyn A. Edwards
Drinking Norms and College Student Alcohol Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Kylee Hagler
EXPLORING CLINICALLY USEFUL DEFINITIONS OF TREATMENT SUCCESS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ALCOHOL USE DISORDER, Megan Kirouac
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes toward Physical Appearance among Recurrent and Non-Binge Eating College Women, Mindy L. McEntee
Analysis of Covariance with Heterogeneity of Regression and a Random Covariate, Christopher J. McLouth
DOES THE RELATIONSHIP MATTER?: EMPATHY, HOSTILITY, AND DRINKING OUTCOMES IN THE COMBINE STUDY, Anthony J. O'Sickey
Ethnic and Racial Group Differences in Attitudes towards Undocumented Latino Immigrants, Juan M. Pena
Neural and Behavioral Associations of Drinking and Empathic Processing, Charles Samuel Henry Robinson
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
Psychological Factors And The Relation Between Neighborhood Conditions And Latino Health: A Mixed Methods Study, Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa
Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Impairs Performance in an Object-Place-Paired-Associate Task, Lilliana May Sanchez
NEUROBEHAVIORAL SIGNATURES IN CHILDREN-VICTIM OF BULLYING, Isabel Solis
ALTERATIONS IN RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOL USE SEVERITY AND IMPULSIVITY IN A COMMUNITY SAMPLE, Elena R. Stein
The Effect of Sublingual Testosterone on Ischemic Pain Sensitivity, Chance Strenth
Gray Matter Correlates of Emotional Intelligence in Incarcerated Males, Devin Marie Ulrich
Religiosity/Spirituality and Cancer Risk Assessment for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Latina and non-Latina women in New Mexico, Belinda Vicuna Tellez
Women's Response Performance in Sexually Risky Situations: Associations with Sexual Victimization History, Alcohol Use, Psychopathology, and Sexual Attitudes, Kristen N. Vitek
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Improves Performance on Spelling and Word Detection Tasks, J. Kevin Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
An Investigation of the Neural Components and Saccade Sequences that Enable Direct Navigation through Virtual Space, Daniel R. Barto
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
SEX SPECIFIC SPATIAL NAVIGATION AND MEMORY IMPAIRMENT IN THE TGF344-AD RAT MODEL OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Laura Elizabeth Berkowitz
A Community Well-Being Model: Considering AUDIT Scores and Social Class in non-Hispanic White and American Indian College Students, Violette Marie Cloud
THE MODULATION OF REWARD TO NICOTINE AND ETHANOL BY SEX AND STAGE OF EXPOSURE, Kyle L. Dixon
Functional Neural Connectivity Associated with Moral Processing in Healthy and Antisocial Samples, Samantha Jean Fede
Modeling the Trauma-Antisociality Relationship as Mediated by World Assumptions: Associations with Gender and Drinking Outcomes, Kathryn Fokas
Alone in a Crowd: Perceived Social Relationships and Health Outcomes for Clergy, Christopher G. Ford
The role of perceived stress in the relationship between purpose in life and mental health., Anne Guzman
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as an Intervention for Chronic Pain Management, Elizabeth A. McCallion
Seeking an Operational Definition of Dieting: A Daily Diary Study, Elizabeth Anne McLaughlin
Defining High Functioning OCD (HFOCD), Samuel Meyer
Social Risks as Costly Trait Signals, Ruth E. Sarafin
The Effects of Comorbid Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Alcohol Use Disorder, Brandi Seaman
Relationship Between Structure and Functional Connectivity Within the Default Mode Network, Andrei A. Vakhtin
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
EXAMINING COMMITTED ACTION IN CHRONIC PAIN: FURTHER VALIDATION AND CLINICAL UTILITY OF THE COMMITTED ACTION QUESTIONNAIRE, Robert Bailey
Psychologically Healthy Eating and Nutritionally Healthy Eating: Exploring a Two-Factor Theory of Healthy Eating, Katherine E. Belon
Increasing Sexual Offenders Motivation to Engage in Mandated Substance Abuse Treatment: A Brief Motivational Intervention', Julie Brovko
THE RELATION OF VOCATIONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT TO COLLEGE FRESHMEN RETENTION: A SHORT-TERM LONGITUDINAL STUDY, Cheryl Ann Bryan
A New Kind of Therapeutic Relationship: Exploring Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Computer-Delivered Interventions for Alcohol Use Disorders, William P. Campbell IV
Partially and fully time-unstructured residual variance-covariance matrices in growth curve modeling: Consequences of ignoring variability in times of assessment, Patrick Coulombe
COMPETING GOALS: THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS ON WOMEN'S JUDGMENTS OF AND RESPONSES TO SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION RISK, Jennifer Crawford
Incorporating Alternative Sources of Reinforcement through Online CRA Goal Setting and the Effect on Substance Use in College Students, Shirley Mae Crotwell
Cancer experience modulates the relationship between child and parent Hypothalamic Pituiatary Adrenal (HPA) axis functioning, Sarah Dinces
The malleability of university students' beliefs, values, and attitudes in the classroom setting, Glory Emmanuel
FRONTAL PARIETAL NETWORK FUNCTION DURING A VISUOMOTOR TASK IN FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER: A MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY STUDY, Christopher M. Garcia
From Norway with Love: A Study of Oxytocin, Social Bonding, and Life-history Trade-offs, Nicholas Grebe
INFLUENCE OF ANTERIOR THALAMIC INACTIVATION ON THE RETRIEVAL OF SPATIAL REFERENCE MEMORY AND WORKING MEMORY IN THE RADIAL ARM MAZE, ryan E. harvey
Expanding Your Cognitive Capacity: An Assessment of the Neuroplastic Changes Associated with Mindfulness Training and Transcranial Stimulation, Michael Hunter
A Time to Plan, A Time to Remember: An EEG Double Dissociation of Cognitive Control Instantiation Due to Temporal Delay, Jacqueline R. Janowich
Dyslexia and Mindfulness: Can Mental Training Ameliorate the Symptoms of Dyslexia?, Julia Keller
The Development of the Sexual Assault Script Scale, Kari A. Leiting
ASSOCIATIONS AMONG SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES, COPING STRATEGIES, AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN HETEROSEXUAL AND SEXUAL MINORITY WOMEN, Gabriela Lopez
Investigating error-related processing in incarcerated adolescents with elevated psychopathic traits, James M. Maurer
PRIMARY LANGUAGE, MATERNAL LANGUAGE USE, AND COGNITIVE OUTCOMES AMONG PRESCHOOLERS BORN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, Natalia Moss
A Randomized Clinical Trial of a Brief Motivational Intervention for Incarcerated Drinkers, Mandy Owens
Maternal Interactive Behaviors and Developmental Outcomes in Preschoolers Born Very Low Birth Weight, Rebecca E. Rieger
Feasibility of Daily Assessment and Predictors of Daily Quality of Life during Treatment for Lung Cancer, Laurie Steffen
Using Brain Stimulation to Enhance Working Memory: A Charged Topic, Michael Christopher Stefan Trumbo
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Social Network Influences and College Student Drinking, Adrienne Borders
MUTABILITY OF THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN BENIGN AND HOSTILE ENVY, Rachael G. Falcon
Neural basis of positive, negative, and controversial moral processing in incarcerated adult males with psychopathic traits, Samantha Fede
Oxytocin and Romantic Relationships: A Functional Perspective, Nicholas Grebe
Discrimination, Substance Use, and Cultural Buffers among Native American College Students, Brenna L. Greenfield
The Functional Impact of Neurocognitive Deficits in Pediatric Cancer Survivors and Associated Risk Factors, Sarah Hile
Sensorimotor Synchronization and Individual Differences in Intelligence: A Chronometric Perspective on Music Evolution, Christopher Jenkins
Latino in the U.S.: Do ethnic identity and family support protect against ethnic discrimination?, Yajaira Johnson-Esparza
Contribution of Far Field Effects of Cortical tDCS in the Cerebellum to Learning in an Object Detection Paradigm, Aaron P. Jones
MEASURE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSESSMENT OF 'HITTING BOTTOM' FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ALCOHOL PROBLEMS, Megan Kirouac
Examining the effects of a sub-chronic exposure to phencyclidine: An analysis of functional network connectivity, behavior, and mRNA expression, Christy M. Magcalas
The Development of Preschoolers' Living Kinds Concept: A Longitudinal Study, Jordan Tessa Margett
Bridging the Gap: Adapting Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Latino Populations, J. Alexis Ortiz
