Boggs Center for Energy and BiotechnologyDepartment of Psychology

 

 

 

Graduate Studies: Master's Thesis Titles

Department of Psychology Master's Thesis Titles 1994 - 2008

Master's Thesis Titles 2008

Heather Brandt, 2008
Director: Denise Newman
Blurring The Signal: The Impact of Parental Distress on the Congruence of Parent and Adolescent Report of Internalizing Symptoms

Elizabeth Carey, 2008
Director: Lisa Szechter
Encouraging Young Scientists: Parent-Child Interactions at an Informal Science Education Center

Lauren Hitt, 2008
Director: Professor Enrique R. Varela
Fears in Hispanic Youth

Kyle Hucke, 2008
Director: Mike Cunningham
Sports as a buffering variable on the relationship between negative youth experiences and bravado attitudes in male African American adolescents

Bjorn Alexander Kahrs, 2008
Director: Jeff Lockman
Trial Based Learning of a Manual Task

Kathryn Moore, 2008
Director Enrique Varela
Moderators in the Relationship between Exposure to Hurricane Katrina and Long-term Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Shaefali Pillai Rodgers, 2008
Director: Paul Colombo
Memory System-Specificity in The Molecular Mechanisms of Spatial Learning

 

Master's Thesis Titles 2007

Lee Ann Carnes, 2007
Director: Jeff Lockman

Bernice Kaufman, 2007
Director: Dave Corey
An ERP study of the Stroop task and emotional Stroop task

Laura Manning, 2007
Director: Edward Golob
A Neurophysiological Perspective on Speech and Music Perception

Master's Thesis Titles 2006

Jeffrey Beyers, 2006
Director: Professor Wallace
On the nature of situational judgment tests: A meta-analysis of constructs assessed and criterion validities of SJT's

Michael Christian, 2006
Director: Professor Edwards
Conscientiousness and regulatory focus: Narrowing the bandwidth to predict escalation of commitment in the face of failure

Samantha Francois, 2006
Director: Professor Cunningham
Where We Live: How Perceived Social Support Moderates the Relationship between Neighborhood Contexts and Academic Functioning for African American Adolescents

Lauren Hensley , 2006
Director: Professor Varela
Pediatric Somatization and Anxiety Sensitivity following Hurricane Katrina

Faye Kim, 2006
Director: Professor Wilson
Increasing Social Interation in High Functioning Kindergarteners With Autism Spectrum Disorder Through the use of Reinforcement, Pivotal Response Training, and Self-Monitoring with Countoons

Lucinda Lang, 2006
Director: Professor Cunningham
Perceived social support and ego resiliency in African American adolescent females

Timothy Luis, 2006
Director: Professor Varela
Parenting Practices and Childhood Anxiety Reporting: A Comparison of Mexican, Mexican American and Europeon American Familities.

Amanda Shull, 2006
Director: Professor Wallace
Emotional labor questionnaire: Scale development and validation

Flannery Stevens, 2006
Director: Professor Edwards
What's your MOTIF? A framework measuring orientations of cross-race feedback giving

Kristin Walker, 2006
Director: Professor Ruscher
Virtual jigsaw classroom: A modern application of a classic method

Danielle (Annie) Weiss , 2006
Longitudinal Contribution of Effortful Control for School Readiness
Director: Professor Newman

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Master's Thesis Titles 2005

Yamile Molina, 2005
Director: Professor Christenson
Copulatory plugs in the cobweb spider nesticodesrufipes

Rebecca Salvato, 2005
Director: Professor Newman
Anxious expectations, identity, and rejection sensitivity in American Indian youth

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Master's Thesis Titles 2004

Jonathan Becker, 2004
Director: Professor Cunningham
Understanding the role of future expectations in low-resource, high-achieving African American students

Sophia Belay, 2004
Director: Professor Cunningham
The Function of Protective Factors in Urban African American Adolescent Females.

Samantha Morrison, 2004
Director: Professor Overstreet
Exploring the Relation between Exposure to Community Violence and Peer Rejection: The Role of Gender Specific Mechanisms

Samantha B. Siegel, 2004
Director: Professor Lockman
Topological Landmark Use in Children

Christopher R. Warren, 2004
Director: Professor Thoresen
Ego Depletion and Disinhibition: Situational and Individual Difference Effects on Self-Regulation

Cristina M Weeks, 2004
Director: Professor Overstreet
The effects of the School Domain on the Expression of Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology in Children Exposed to Community Violence

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Master's Thesis Titles 2003

Jill C. Bradley, 2003
Director: Professor Landis
Homogeneity of Personality Types Within Occupations and Organizations: Another Look at Schneider's Attrition-Selection-Attrition Model

Michael Franklin, 2003
Director: Professor Dien
An Event-Related Potential Study of Automatic, Expectancy-Based, and Post-Lexical Processes in Semantic Priming

Seth Kaplan, 2003
Director: Professor Thoresen
Self-Concordance as a Mediator between Goal Orientation and Worker Well-Being: Testing a Theoretical Model

Megan McFarland, 2003
Director: Professor Cunningham
Determinants of Future Expectations and Learning Responsibility in African American Adolescents

Devi Miron, 2003
Director: Professor Moely
The Impact of Service Learning on Community Agencies

Issac Perkins, 2003
Director: Professor Cunningham
The Relation of Negative Events and Depressive Symptoms as a Function of Protective Factor

Eden-Reneé Pruitt, 2003
Director: Professor Ruscher
Manifestation of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias Under the Motivation to Control Prejudice

Alexa Walthall, 2003
Director: Professor Lockman
Topological Landmark Use by Children

Mike J. Zyphur, 2003
Professor Landis
The Effects of Prior Self-Regulation on Ability to Respond To Feedback: An Empirical Investigation

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Master's Thesis Titles 2002

Lisle Hites, 2002
Director: Professor Landis
Training Non-Traditional Rating Sources for Improved Interrater Agreement And Accuracy

Deborah L. Kruglak, 2002
Director: Professor McGrath
Stress, Coping, Depression and Smoking During the Transition to College

Christy L. McLendon, 2002
Director: Professor Ruscher
The Effects of Stereotype Threat and Evaluator Sexism on Women's Performance in Male-type Work Domains

Brian Mackey, 2002
Director: Professor Wilson
The Effects of Simultaneous Presentation of Audio-Recorded and Written Examinations on the Test Performance of Students with Learning Disabilities

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Master's Thesis Titles 2001

Katherine Bevans, 2001
Director: Professor Overstreet
The Family Environment as a Moderator of the Effects of Exposure to Community Violence on Child Symptomatology

Arleen Cerbone, 2001
Director: Professor Dien
Effects of Personality Differences on Attentional Tasks

Yael Efreom, 2001
Director: Professor Overstreet
Aggressive Behavior and Exposure to Community Violence: Exploring the Roles of Emotional Numbing and Gender

Dana Foney, 2001
Director: Professor Cunningham
Characteristics and Predictors of Antisocial Fighting Behavior in African American Youth

DeMarquis Hayes, 2001
Director: Professor Cunningham
Family and School Microsystems: Influences on Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents

Christopher Linn, 2001
Director: Professor Christenson
The Ability of Male Spiders to Travel to Female Webs: Implications for Sexual Size Dimorphism

Sterett Mercer, 2001
Director: Professor Cunningham
Racial Identity in White American College Students: Issues of Conceptualization and Measurement

Amy Rozelle, 2001
Director: Professor Landis
Relationships Between Recruitment Sources and Student Attitudes: The Impact of Using the Internet as a Recruitment Source

Alecia M. Santuzzi, 2001
Director: Professor Ruscher
Stigma Salience and Paranoid Social Cognition: The Role of Stigma Disclosure and Self-consciousness in the Inferences and Task Performance of the Stigmatized Target

Kristin Smith-Crowe, 2001
Director: Professor Burke
Organizational Climate as a Moderator of the Relationships Between Proceduralization of Knowledge and Safety Performance

Leslie K. Sutro, 2001
Director: Professor Lockman

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Master's Thesis Titles 2000

Germaine Allison, 2000
Director: Professor McGrath
Parent And Friend Influences On College Student Alcohol Use

Adam Barsky, 2000
Director: Professor Landis
Toward an Understanding of the Feedback-Performance Relationship: A Theoretical Extension and Empirical Test of The Feedback Intervention Theory

Elizabeth A. Deitch, 2000
Directors: Professors Arthur P. Brief and Janet B. Ruscher
Dressing For Successful Fit: Selection Decisions As A Function Of Job Type, Applicant Clothing, And Evaluator Prejudice.

Chanda Domingue, 2000
Director: Professor Cunningham
The Process of Academic Achievement among African American Second Graders: Testing a Mediational Model

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Master's Thesis Titles 1999

Catherine C. Maraist, 1999
Directors: Professors Arthur P. Brief and Michael J. Burke
Work Context and Personal Antecedents of Work-Family Conflict: A Meta-Analysis

Kimberly J. O'Farrell, 1999
Director: Professor Janet B. Ruscher
Close Friendship and Information Processing In Response To Overhearing Self-Relevant Information

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Master's Thesis Titles 1998

Sylvia Cochran, 1998
Director: Professor Stacy Overstreet
Cognitive and Achievement Profiles of Puerto Rican Children With Diabetes

Jennifer Kaufman, 1998
Director: Professor Paul E. Tesluk
Collectivistic Orientation and Organizational Cynicism As Moderators Of The Relationship Between Perceived Organizational Support And Citizenship Behaviors

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Master's Thesis Titles 1997

Anh Thu Burks, 1997
Director: Professor Janet B. Ruscher
Persuasiveness Of Proattitudinal and Counterattitudinal Messages: Message Relevance And Speaker Group Membership

David M. Corey, 1997
Director: Professors Steven B. Flynn and William P. Dunlap
Perception Of Event Properties In Point-Light Displays: Is Form Perception Required?

Jill Daniel, 1997
Director: Professor Gary P. Dohanich
The Effects Of Estrogen and Environment of Radial Maze Performance of Female Rats

Aric J. Fader, 1997
Director: Professor Gary P. Dohanich
Estrogen Prevention of The Manestic Effect of Muscarinic Receptor Blocker Applied Directly To The Hippocampus

Christine Mangus, 1997
Director: Professor Barbara E. Moely
Relations Among Strategy Use, Attributional Style, and Academic Achievement in High School Students

William Robinson, 1997
Director: Professor William P. Dunlap
A New Approximation for Analysis of Covariance When Within Groups Variances Are Not Equal

Katherine Robison, 1997
Director: Professor Barbara E. Moely
The Effects of Mastery-Oriented Program of Instruction on the Motivational Beliefs of High School Students

Barry Row, 1997
Director: Professor Arnold Gerall
The Effect of Aging on Forebrain Responses to Social Isolation and Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Administration

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Master's Thesis Titles 1996

Daniel Beal, 1996
Director: Professor Edgar C. O'Neal
Covert and Overt Aggression as a Function of Modern Racism

Sherry B. Schnake, 1996
Director: Professor Janet B. Ruscher
Nonverbal and Linguistic Indicators of Prejudice in Communication: The Effects of Anticipated Audience and Modern Racism

Joel B. Vaslow, 1996
Director: Professor Arthur P. Brief
Romancing the Charismatic Leader

Margaret A. Vaslow, 1996
Director: Professor Barbara E. Moely
Influences on Academic Achievement: Goal Orientation, Strategy Use, and Self-Regulation in High School Students

Melissa G. Venezia, 1996
Director: Professor Barbara E. Moely
Conceptions of Individual Rights Survey of a College Sample

Zhinuan Yu, 1996
Director: Professor Clarissa S. Holmes
Stressors and Their Moderators as Related to Behavior Problems in Children with Diabetes

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Master's Thesis Titles 1995

Kim R. Cassell, 1995
Director: Professor Barbara E. Moely
Motivational Beliefs and Children's Achievement

Bin Dai, 1995
Director: Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman
The Effects of Landmark - Target Distance on Infant Localization

Heather K. Davison, 1995
Director: Professor Michael J. Burke
A Meta-Analysis of Sex Discrimination In Simulated Selection Contexts

Melissa Deichmann, 1995
Director: Professor Clarissa S. Holmes
Speed of Responding and Visuomotor Performance in Children with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Kristin Kirby, 1995
Director: Professor Barbara E. Moely
Influences on Academic Achievement: Goal Orientation, Strategy Use, and Self-Regulation in University Students

Deedrah M. Respess, 1995
Director: Professor Clarissa S. Holmes
Scoring Adaptions of The Child Behavior Checklist for Children with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Mary M. Wall, 1995
Director: Professor Terry Christenson
Proximate Factors Limiting Multiple Insemination in Male Nephila Clavipes Spiders

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Master's Thesis Titles 1994

Laura L. Duval, 1994
Director: Professor Janet B. Ruscher
Gender Based Inference on Others' Knowledge: Excessive Linguistic Detail as Subtle Sexism

Karen S. Galambos, 1994
Director: Professor Robert Folger
The Effect of Information Presentation on Wage Determination

Sonja D. Nelson, 1994
Director: Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman
Children's Perception of the Writability of Surfaces as They Relate To Writing Tool

Robin M. Reizenstein, 1994
Director: Professor Arthur P. Brief
When Racial Discrimination is Part of The Job Individual Differences Don't Matter

Jennifer P. Tonglet, 1994
Director: Professor Barbara E. Moely
The Influence of Monitoring On Mathematics Test Performance and Achievement in Middle School Children

Volkan Topalli, 1994
Director: Professor Edgar C. O'Neal
The Influence of Retaliatory Motivation on Attribution of Hostile Intent

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