Psychology ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
SPIRITUALITY, WELL-BEING, AND THE ROLE OF ONENESS, Kelly S. Erickson Albonico
“FINDING THE POSITIVE” IN RECOVERY: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF A MEASURE OF HUMAN FLOURISHING IN AN ALCOHOL USE DISORDER RECOVERY SAMPLE, Hannah A. Carlon
Psychosocial and Neuroprediction of Criminal Recidivism in a Sample of Adult Female Offenders, Bethany G. Edwards
Neurobiology of Human Navigation Strategies in the virtual Morris Water Task, Monica Goncalves-Garcia
Exploring Components for a Family-Focused Intervention for Families with a Child Diagnosed with Cancer and Other Chronic Illnesses, Nicole Kubinec
A Meta-Analysis and Investigation of Attention Bias for Facial Expressions of Emotion, Joshua W. Maxwell
Development of a Measure of Physical Distancing: The O'Sickey Distancing Test, Anthony J. O'Sickey
Neuroanatomical and Environmental Correlates of Psychopathy Subtypes in Incarcerated Youth and Implications for Recidivism, Devin Marie Ulrich
Measurement Invariance of Relationship Intimacy and Attachment Across Hispanic and non-Hispanic White College Women, Kristen N. Vitek
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Directional Integrity and Landmark Anchoring of the Head Direction Cell System in the TgF344-AD Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Laura E. Berkowitz
EEG Features of Explore-Exploit Decision-Making in Alcohol Use Disorder, Ethan Campbell
Changes in Pain During Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment among Patients with Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain, Karlyn A. Edwards
The Trauma, Substance Use, and Crime Connection: Characteristics and Recidivism Outcomes of Adult Offenders, Kathryn F. Fokas
Of Mindfulness and Men: Mindfulness and Quality of Life of Distressed Prostate Cancer Survivors, Christopher G. Ford
Factors Contributing to Activism among Advantaged-Group and Disadvantaged-Group Undergraduate Students, Anne Guzman
Hippocampal functional activity following prenatal alcohol exposure, ryan E. harvey
Challenging the Empirical Utility of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale: Revisiting Factor Structure Across Race/Ethnicity and Gender Through Measurement Invariance, Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant
CLOSING THE LOOP AND OPENING THE POSSIBILITIES: AUGMENTING SLEEP-DEPENDENT CONSOLIDATION TO IMPROVE LONG TERM MEMORY, Aaron Paul Jones
Moderate Prenatal Ethanol Exposure, Sex, and Housing Modify Spatial Navigation Behavior and Hippocampal Cell Firing in Adult Rodents, Christy Magcalas
Are Only the Unskilled Overconfident? Deconstructing the Dunning-Kruger Effect Through an Individual Differences Approach, Danielle N. Sanchez
The Personal and Relational Impact of Varying Responses to Fat Talk in the Context of Female Friendship, Riley M. Sebastian
THE EFFICACY OF BRIEF ATTITUDINAL FAMILISM AND BODY IMAGE INTERVENTIONS ON DIET AND EXERCISE SELF-MONITORING ADHERENCE IN HISPANIC/LATINX WOMEN, Kelsey Nicole Serier
THE INTERACTION AND PROGRESSION OF ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USE AND CO-OCCURRING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT: A LATENT GROWTH MODELING APPROACH, Jeremiah D. Simmons
The Reward Positivity in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder, Garima Singh
Examination of Intuitive Eating at the Momentary Level, Jamie M. Smith
Client Heart Rate Variability in Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Use, Brigitte R. Stevens
Relief and Reward Drinking Across Time in Community and Treatment-Seeking Samples, Julia E. Swan
The Role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the Link between Physical Activity and Psychosocial Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder, Adam D. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
INTERSECTIONALITY BETWEEN SEX/GENDER AND RACE/ETHNICITY ON COGNITIVE TRAJECTORIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Justina Frances Avila-Rieger
SOCIOECONOMIC AND NEUROANATOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE IN CHILDREN BORN VERY PRETERM AT PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL AGE, Rebecca E. Avila-Rieger
Predictors of Recovery in Advocacy-Based Refugee Treatment Outcome: The Role of Prior Traumatic Experiences and Current Chronic Stressors, Meredith A. Blackwell
Effects of Chronic Stress on Anxiety-like Behavior and Fear Learning in the TgF344-AD Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Samuel James Bouquin
Cultural Factors and Alcohol Use in American Indian Adults: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Contingency Management, Jalene L. Herron
SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION, MENTAL HEALTH, AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS AMONG WOMEN WITH MULTIPLE MARGINALIZED STATUSES, Gabriela López
Effects of Anodal tDCS on Neural Correlates of Cognitive Control in Mild-to-Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury, Nickolas A. Mertens
EFFECTS OF CLOSED LOOP TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION TARGETING SLOW OSCILLATION SLEEP ON POST-SLEEP OBJECT LOCATION LEARNING, Bradley M. Robert
MANIPULATION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR BY SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED ORGANISMS: STO INFECTION STATUS AS A PREDICTOR OF LATER SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, Ruth Sarafin
Subjective Cognitive Complaints, Affective Distress, and Objective Cognitive Performance in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Brandi Seaman
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
Neurocognitive Markers of Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia and Functional Outcomes, Sephira Ryman
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
