Psychology Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2010
Attitudes Toward Holistic and Mechanical Judgment in Employee Selection: Role of Error Rate and False Positive and False Negative Error, Maya Yankelevich
Dissertations from 2009
Service Without a Smile?! Exploring the Roles of Customer Injustice, Anger, and Individual Differences in Emotional Deviance, Patricia Barger
Understanding the Relationship between Spiritual Struggles and Physical Health: A Physiological Study, Kavita Desai
To Be Or Not To Be…Motivated: A Comparison Of Students' Goal Orientation Within Direct Instruction And Constructivist Schools, Courtney Galliger
Modification of Weight Bias: Examining the Effects of Social Influence on the Expession of Anti-Fat Attitudes, Jessica Harper
Goal Location Memory in Pigeons: Roles of the Hippocampal Formation and Visual Wulst, Meghan Kahn
A longitudinal analysis of the role of religious appraisals and religious coping in adults' adjustment to divorce, Elizabeth Krumrei
Risky Living: A Comparison of Criminal Risk-Taking and Risk Perception in Adolescent and Young Adult Non Offenders and Offenders, Kimberly Laurene
Why Do Mommy and Daddy Love You More? An Investigation of Parental Favoritism from an Evolutionary Perspective, Anthony Lauricella
Theory of Mind, Social Information Processing, and Children's Social Behavior, Sarah Martin
Role of Meaning Making in the Association between Multiple Interpersonal Traumas and Post-Traumatic Adaptation, Sarah McElroy
Physical and Psychological Correlates of the Drive for Muscularity: Gender and Grade Differences, Jennie Neufeld
A Multitrait-Multimethod Approach to Isolating Situational Judgment from Situational Judgment Tests, Nicholas Salter
Role of Calling in Emotional Labor, Jennifer Yugo
Dissertations from 2008
A Psychological Measure of Islamic Religiousness: Evidence for Relevance, Reliability and Validity, Hisham Abu Raiya
Motivated Stereotyping of Women: Sources of Justification for Derogating Female Therapists, Amy Barnhart Miller
The influence of representational processes on the numerical distance effect, Neil Berg
Comparing the Dominance Approach to the Ideal-Point Approach in the Measurement and Predictability of Personality, Alison Broadfoot
Estimating Performance Mean and Variability With Distributional Rating Scales: A Field Study Towards Improved Performance Measurement, Mahyulee Colatat
Job Demands, Control, and Support: Looking at Engagement, Gabriel De La Rosa
How Much Diversity is Diversity?, Ashley Guidroz
Going With Your Gut: An Investigation of Why Managers Prefer Intuitive Employee Selection, Michael Lodato
Sacred Sport: A Study of Student Athletes' Sanctification of Sport, Quinten Lynn
The Role of User Motivations in Moderating the Relation Between Video Game Playing and Children's Adjustment, Valerie Moyer
A Test of Elaborated Intrusion Theory: Manipulating Vividness of Imagery Interventions on Cigarette Craving, Shanna Murray
The Relationship Between Geometric Shape and Slope for the Representation of a Goal Location in Pigeons (Columba livia), Daniele Nardi
Living with Serious Mental Illness: The Role of Personal Loss in Recovery and Quality of Life, Danielle Potokar
The Effectiveness of an Acceptance and Commitment Intervention for Work Stress, Heather Schwetschenau
Social Cognitive Mediators and Moderators of the Relation Between Experiences of Community Violence and Adolescent Outcomes, Cheryl Sybesma
Social Networks of NCAA Division I College Athletes: Relationships Between Network Structure, Personal Goal Orientation, and Well-Being Correlates, Erin Vasconcelles
Dissertations from 2007
Impact of Vividness of Smoking Imagery and Complexity of a Task on Intensity of Nicotine Craving, Chelsea Baylen
The Role of Acceptance in Appraisal and Coping with Migraine Headaches, Christine Chiros
Work Relationships as Investments: The Unexplored Component of Continuance Commitment, Melissa Cohen
Need for Recovery and Ineffective Self-Management, Christopher Cunningham
From Worker to Retiree: a Validation Study of a Psychological Retirement Planning Measure, Guyla Davis
Positive and Negative Affect: How Do They Impact Hackman’s (1987) Model of Group Effectiveness, Jesse Erdheim
Reasoning and Recall in Scientific and Religious Contexts, Lauren Gonce
Bayesian Principles and Causal Judgment, Amanda Kelley
Metabolic and Psychological Predictors of Weight Regain Among Behavioral Weight Loss Participants, Krista Konrad
Revisiting the Relationship Between Conscientiousness and Job Performance: Linearity or Non-Linearity?, Ian Little
Adolescents’ Anticipated Emotional and Behavioral Responses to Alcohol and Drug Offers, Erica Pristas
Binge Eating Antecedents Among Female College Students: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Sofia Rydin-Gray
Analogy Between Two Approaches to Separately Identify Specific Factors in Factor Analysis, Jing Wang
Dissertations from 2006
“A Me Dis”: Jamaican Adolescent Identity Construction and its Relations with Academic, Psychological, and Behavioral Functioning, Gail Anderson
Motivated Reasoning: A Framework for Understanding Hiring Managers' Intentions to Use Personnel Selection Instruments, Jessica Blackburn
A Stepped-care Approach to Smoking Cessation and Harm Reduction, Holly Cacciapaglia
Attachment to Parent and Peers as a Moderator of the Relation Between Parent/peer Religious Coping and Adolescent Religious Coping, Ellen Cullman
Brain-Behavior Adaptations to Sleep Loss in the Nocturnally Migrating Swainson’s Thrush (Catharus ustulatus), Thomas Fuchs
Applying Neural Networking Techniques to Improve Performance and Turnover Prediction, Eyal Grauer
Lying Happily Ever After: Altruistic White Lies, Positive Illusions, and Relationship Satisfaction, Mary Kaplar
Neurophysiology of Auditory Inhibitory Gating in Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Ryan Mears
The Effects of Diversity Initiatives on the Distortion of Applicant Qualifications and Decision Standards, Jason Moore
The Occurrence and Impact of Parent Involvement on Child Outcomes for Children Participating in an After-School Program, Jennifer Schroeder
Children's Social Goals and Retaliation Beliefs: A Comparison of Multiple Relationship Contexts, Nicole Sirrine
Determinants of Symbolic Inferences About Organizations Among Job Market Entrants, Erin Thornbury
Efficacy of Imagery and Cognitive Tasks Used to Reduce Craving and Implications for the Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Craving, Amelia Versland
Does Spirituality Matter? Effects of Meditative Content and Orientation on Migraineurs, Amy Wachholtz
Employed Youth: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Job Quality and Counterproductivity, Linda Whinghter
Dissertations from 2005
The Neurobiology of 50-Khz Vocalizations in Rats, Jeffrey Burgdorf
Concurrent and Lagged Effects of Leadership Behavior on Subordinate Stress and Health, Jennifer Burnfield
Perceived Similarity to Employees and Organizational Attraction: An Examination in the Retail Industry, Shelba Devendorf
Identifying the Traits That Differentiate Chief Executive Officer Performance Levels, Amanda Julian
Effects of the NMDA Receptor Antagonist MK-801 on the Timing and Temporal Processing of Short-Intervals in Rats, Jonathan Miller
Applying the Relapse Model to Harm Reduction: The Development and Evaluation of the Harm Reduction Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, Kristina Phillips