Boggs Center for Energy and BiotechnologyDepartment of Psychology

 

 

 

Graduate Studies: Dissertation Titles

Department of Psychology Doctoral Dissertations 1994 - 2007

 

Doctoral Dissertations 2007

Samantha Morrison, 2007
Chair: Stacy Overstreet
Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Adolescent Females Following Hurricane Katrina: Coping as a Moderator

Devin L. Wallace, 2007
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
If you've met one, you've met them all? Moderating outgroup homogeneity using the Stereotype Content Model

 

Doctoral Dissertations 2006

Kristine Bourgeois, 2006
Chair: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Infant manual exploration of objects, surfaces, and their interrelations

Jill C. Bradley, 2006
Chair: Ronald S. Landis
Rejection and deflection: The case of the "poor white trash" stereotype

Dana Foney, 2006
Chair: Michael Cunningham
Why are you following me? The impact of perceived negative youth experiences on the behavioral and emotional outcomes in African American urban youth

Deborah Kruglak Gilman, 2006
Chair: Stacy Overstreet
Toward a greater understanding of community violence: Event features that shape the experience and impact mental health functioning.

Seth A. Kaplan, 2006
Chairs: Mary Waller and Ronald S. Landis
The affective basis of team performance during nonroutine events: The case of nuclear power plant control room crews

Alexa Walthall Khawar, 2006
Chair: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Infants' Use of Handled Objects

Christopher Linn, 2006
Chair: Terry E. Christenson
Mate guarding intensity in relation to degree of potential sperm competition in the orb weaving spider Nephila clavipes (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)

Salimar Ashley Ayub Neal, 2006
Chair: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Infants' use of multi-surfaced objects with and without handles

Eden Renee Pruitt, 2006
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
The influence of role conflict on stress and hypertension in African Americans

Christopher R. Warren, 2006
Chairs: Michael J. Burke and Ronald S. Landis
On the importance of balancing organizational stakeholders: Investigating climate perceptions using referent cognitions and polynomial regression

Mike Zyphur, 2006
Chair: Ronald S. Landis
Acting ethically in the face of threat: The effect of identity and personality

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Doctoral Dissertations 2005

Jennifer J. Brightwell, 2005 (Neuroscience)
Chair: Paul Colombo
CAMP Response Element-Binding Protein Is Essential for Long-Term Memory Formation in Hippocampus and Striatum

Yael Efreom, 2005
Chair: Stacy Overstreet
Resilience and Vulnerability in the Face of Exposure to Community Violence: Exploring the Impact of Parental Monitoring and Perceptions of Safety on Children's Mental Health

Amy M. Jensen, 2005
Chair: Gary Dohanich, Joseph Constans (co-chair)
PTSD-related Biases in the Assessment of Ambiguous and Unambiguous Affective Faces

DeMarquis Hayes, 2005
Chair: Michael Cunningham
Parent's rating of involvement to predict adolescent's achievement scores

Brian P. Mackey, 2005
Chair: Melanie McGrath and Michael Cunningham
Are Hypermasculine Attitudes a Risk Factor for Smoking In Men?

Sterett Mercer, 2005
Chair: Michael Cunningham
A multidimensional investigation of the racial identity of White American college students

Devi Miron, 2005
Chair: Barbara Moely
College students' community service involvement: Preferred approaches, match, satisfaction, and plans to continue

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Doctoral Dissertations 2004

Adam P. Barsky, 2004
Chair: Ronald S. Landis and Arthur P. Brief
The Ethical Cost of Assigned Performance Goals

Katherine Bevans, 2004
Chair: Stacy Overstreet
Relations between Life Stressors and Salivary Cortisol: The Moderation Roles of Trauma Exposure, Perceptions of Impact, Depressive Symptoms, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Renee Countryman, 2004
Chair: Paul J. Colombo
Involvement of c-Fos and CREB in Cortical and Subcortical Brain Regions During Acquisition and Recall of Socially Transmitted Food Preferences

Christy L. McLendon, 2004
Chair: Ronald S. Landis
The Differential Perception and Reactivity Model of Occupational Stress

Alecia M. Santuzzi, 2004
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
Perceptions and Metaperceptions of the Stigma Experience: Accuracy and Bias in a Social Relations Model

Kristin Smith-Crowe, 2004
Chair: Michael J. Burke and Ronald S. Landis
An Interactionist Perspective on Ethical Decision-Making: Integrative Complexity and the Case of Worker Safety

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Doctoral Dissertations 2003

Germaine Allison, 2003
Chair: Stacy Overstreet
The Influences of Gender, Parents, and Friends on the Alcohol-Related Problems of College Freshman.

Arleen Cerbone, 2003
Chair: Stacy Overstreet
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children: Relationship between Parental Stress, Chronic Stress Exposure, and HPA-axis Dysregulation

Chanda D. McGhee, 2003
Chair: Michael Cunningham
Enhancing the Motivation of African American High School Students: Improving the Environmental Fit of Racial Identity

Leslie K. Sutro, 2003
Chair: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Early Copying: Relating Perception and Action

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Doctoral Dissertations 2002

Lori A. Carroll, 2002
Chair: C. Chrisman Wilson
Violence and Coping: Perceptions of Controllability and Social Support as Moderators

Elizabeth A. Deitch, 2002
Chairs: Arthur P. Brief and Ronald S. Landis
Concealable Stigma and Well-Being: The Role of Social Identity as a Buffer against Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace

Jennifer D. Kaufman, 2002
Chair: Michael J. Burke
Development and Test of a Multiple Stakeholder Citizenship Performance Taxonomy in a Service Setting

Kimberly J. O'Farrell, 2002
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
Relational Devaluation and the Self: Testing an Integrative Model of Self-motivations and the Theory of Hurt Feelings

Katherine A. Robison, 2002
Chair: Barbara E. Moely
Student Perceptions of Middle School: Relation to Academic Motivation, Learning Strategies, and Academic Achievement in Science.

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Doctoral Dissertations 2001

Heather Kristl Davison, 2001
Chair: Arthur P. Brief and Michael J. Burke
The Paradox of the Contented Female Worker: A Revision and Test of the Theories

Lisa Jackson, 2001
Chair: Margaret Dempsey
An Analysis of Coping in Inner-city Adolescents in Relation to Exposure to Community Violence

Cathy Maraist, 2001
Chair: Ronald Landis
Alternative Test Modalities: Can Black-White Subgroup Differences be Reduced?

William T. Robinson, 2001
Chair: William P. Dunlap
A Comparison of Structural Equation and Moderated Multiple Regression Methods for Detecting Interaction Effects among Manifest Variables

Barry Row, 2001
Chair: Gary P. Dohanich
The Role of Corticotropin-releasing Hormone in the Modulation of Spatial Memory

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Doctoral Dissertations 2000

Daniel J. Beal, 2000
Chair: Edgar C. O'Neal
Aggression and Racism: Affective and Inhibitory Mechanisms

Jill M. Daniel, 2000
Chair: Gary P. Dohanich
The Role of Acetylcholine in the Estrogen-Induced Increase in Hippocampal NMDA Receptor Binding and in the Associated Enhancement of Working Memory Performance

Aric J. Fader, 2000
Chair: Gary P. Dohanich
The Effects of Estrogen Delivered to the Medial Septal Area and Hippocampal Formation on Spatial Performance in a Radial Arm Maze

Jennifer P. Tonglet, 2000
Chair: Barbara E. Moely
Influences on Math Homework Completion and Achievement: Students' Attitudes Toward Teacher-Related Factors, Student Motivational Factors, and Environment-Related Factors in Fifth and Eighth Graders

Margaret A. Vaslow, 2000
Chair: Barbara E. Moely
Educational Resiliency: The Effects of Motivation on Academic Achievement

Melissa Poche Venezia, 2000
Chair Barbara E. Moely
Juvenile Offenders: Profiles and Predictions

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Doctoral Dissertations 1999

David Marshall Corey, 1999
Chair: William P. Dunlap
Averaging Correlations: An Examination of Alternative Procedures

Elizabeth Leigh Cralley, 1999
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
Effortful Egalitarianism: Stereotype Suppression Requires Both Motivation and Cognitive Resources

Michelle S. Dusig, 1999
Chairs: Arthur P. Brief and Michael J. Burke
Enhancing Team Confidence: Collective Efficacy as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Team Leadership Style and Team Outcomes

Karen S. Galambos, 1999
Chair: Michael J. Burke
Development And Test Of A Work Satisfaction-Job Performance Framework

Janet Kristin Merritte, 1999
Chair: Professor Barbara Moely
A Domain-Specific Investigation of Goal Orientation, Related Cognitive And Behavioral Variables, And A Prediction Model For Academic Achievement

Sherry B. Schnake, 1999
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
The Subtle Communication of Prejudice in Speech to Outgroup Members

Joel B. Vaslow, 1999
Chair: Michael J. Burke
The Multiple Stakeholder Model of Psychological Climate: Beyond Employees and Customers

Zhinuan Yu, 1999
Chair: William P. Dunlap
The Bivariate Normality Assumption of the Tetachoric Correlation Coefficient

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Doctoral Dissertations 1998

Todd Bukowski, 1998
Chair: Terry Christenson
Reproductive Behavior of the Spiny Orb-Weaver Micrathena Gracilis

Bin Dai, 1998
Chair: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Infant Exploratory Play Behavior As A Function Of Texture Of Objects

Bin Duan, 1998
Chair: William P. Dunlap
The Robustness Of Trimming And Winsorization When The Population Distribution Is Skewed

Jane Goins, 1998
Chair: Edgar C. O'Neal
Achievement Motivation in Children: The Development and Validation of a New Instrument

Marie Claude Huynen, 1998
Chair: Terry Christenson
Social Interactions of the Adult Female Rhesus (Maceca Mulatta): Variation with Adult Sex Ratio and Social Rank

Deedrah Marie Respess, 1998
Chairs: Clarissa S. Holmes; William P. Dunlap
Adherence Behaviors in Puerto Rican Children With Diabetes

Volkan Topalli, 1998
Chair: Edgar C. O'Neal
Retaliatory Motivation as Attunement to Hostile Information in Point Light Displays

Zhenping Zhao, 1998
Chair: William P. Dunlap
Empirical Critical Values of Box's Epsilon for Testing the Sphericity Condition

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Doctoral Dissertations 1997

Margaret Barton, 1997
Chair: Michael J. Burke
Modeling the Prediction of Demonstrating Effort and Maintaining Personal Discipline

Melissa Marie Deichmann, 1997
Chairs: Clarissa S. Holmes; William P. Dunlap
Nonverbal Intelligence and the Speed/Accuracy Trade-Off in Children with Diabetes: A Longitudinal Follow-Up

Laura Lawson Duval, 1997
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
The Effect of Communicated Exemplars on Stereotyping and Impression Formation

William Evans, 1997
Chair: Gary P. Dohanich
Attentional Mechanisms of Saccadic Eye Movements in Schizophrenics

Paul Ivan Frankel, 1997
Chair: Edgar C. O'Neal
Control of Mentation from Within and Without: Mood Management and Thought Suppression

Robin Michele Reizenstein, 1997
Chairs: Arthur P. Brief; Michael J. Burke
To Comply or Not to Comply: A Study of the Function of Authority Situations and Prejudice in Employment Decisions

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Doctoral Dissertations 1996

Faith Louise Cohen, 1996
Chair: Clarissa S. Holmes
The Interrelationships Between Demographic, Stress, Disease and School-Related Variables in Understanding Academic Performance in Children with Diabetes

Lisa Maye Finkelstein, 1996
Chair: Michael J. Burke
A Quasi-Experimental Examination of Hypothesized Contextual Factors Contributing to Age Bias in the Workplace

Nancy Barbara Goldstein, 1996
Chairs: Arthur P. Brief; Michael J. Burke
Group Role Ambiguity: The Dark Side of Work Groups

Richard E. Goodwin, 1996
Chair: William P. Dunlap
Tests of Generalizability: A Comparison of the Power and Accuracy of Hoben Thomas' Likelihood-based Model of Validity Generalization and the U Statistic

Elliott Dannatt Hammer, 1996
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
Willing But Not Able: Even Low-Prejudiced Perceivers Sometimes Make Stereotypic Attributions

Thomas Joseph Hebert, 1996
Chair: Gary P. Dohanich
Gonadal Steroid Regulation of NADPH-Diaphorase Histochemistry in the Male and Female Rat Brain

Charley C. Morrow, 1996
Chair: Michael J. Burke
Human Resource Utility Models: An Investigation of Current Models' Assumptions and Perceived Accuracy

Beth Ann O'Brien, 1996
Chairs: William P. Dunlap; Lee Zimmerman
Luminance and Chromatic Contrast Effects on Skilled and Disabled Reading Performed With and Without Required Eye Movements

Leigh Schmitt, 1996
Chair: Jefferson Sulzer
A Test of the Karasek Job Strain Model for a Sample of Civil Service Clerical Workers and Supervisors

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Doctoral Dissertations 1995

Theresa Constans, 1995
Chair: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Prematurity Stereotype: Maternal Perceptions of Premature Infants Among Low and Middle Income African-American Mothers of Full-term and Premature Infants

Mifrando Salcedo Obach, 1995
Chair: Barbara E. Moely
Developmental Changes in Children's Metacognitions about Study Activities, Motivational Beliefs for Learning, and Academic Self-Efficacy During Middle School

Stacy Lee Overstreet, 1995
Chair: Clarissa S. Holmes
Effects of Chronic Hyperglycemia and Race on Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Diabetes

Lisa Kay Tesvich, 1995
Chair: Jefferson Sulzer
A Construct Validation Study of a Police Entrance Examination

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Doctoral Dissertations 1994

Patricia Lynn Blackwell, 1994
Chair: Jeffrey J. Lockman
Mother-Infant Interaction in Cocaine Affected Dyads and Infant Development Over the First Nine Months of Life

Ligia Maria Chavez, 1994
Chair: Edgar C. O'Neal
The Cognitive Cost of Mood Regulation

Lior Givon, 1994
Chair: Arnold Gerall
Expression of mRNA for the Estrogen Receptor in Neonatally Androgenized Female and Castrated Male Rats

Tammy Greer, 1994
Chair: William P. Dunlap
The Effects of Skew on Internal Consistency

Michele Elizabeth Ann Jayne, 1994
Chair: Michael J. Burke
Family Role Identification as a Source of Gender Differences in the Relationship between Parenthood and Organizational Commitment

Cheok Yuen Lee, 1994
Chair: William P. Dunlap
Averaging Performance Across Trails of Skill Acquisition: Maximizing Reliability with Matrices Having Superdiagonal Form

Michelle Marcia Pettaway, 1994
Chair: Jefferson Sulzer
The Development and Validation of the New Orleans Police Department Written Communication Test

Lina Merle Wiessman, 1994
Chair: Clarissa S. Holmes
A Motivational Approach to Psychological Predictors of Adherence Behaviors in Adolescents with Diabetes Mellitus

Elizabeth Ann Yost, 1994
Chair: Janet B. Ruscher
What Do We Think of Her Now? The Role of Motivation and Cognitive Capacity in Transactive Impression Formation

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