Theses/Dissertations from 2025
An Intervention to Empower People to Confront Sexism, Rebecca Grace Drake
A Novel Way of Conceptualizing and Measuring Situation Selection, Jiyoung Kwak
Associations between Prenatal Inflammation and Dimensions of Depressive Symptoms across the Perinatal Period, Margaret M. Redic
Bias Regulation Strategy Selection in Daily Life: Using Daily Diary Methodology to Study Personal Bias Regulation Strategies, Jennifer Frances Beatty
Cumulative Lifespan Stress and Inflammation are Associated with Black-White Racial Disparities in Mortality Among Americans, Isaiah Spears
Do all Components of Psychological Wellbeing Predict Cognitive Function?, Karysa Britton
Effects of Surprisal and Prediction Uncertainty on Detailed and Gist Aspects of Memory, Thanh Tan Nguyen
Everyday Virtue Expressions as a Function of Virtue Traits and Situational Affordances, Benjamin Hardin
Food Insecurity and Family-based Treatment for Pediatric Obesity, Genevieve Davison
Incentives Influence Congruency Pre-Cue Utilization in the Stroop Task, Christopher O. Nuno
Investigating the Differential Effects of Narrativization and Causal Structure of Stories on Memory, Savannah J. Born
Learning-Based Strategic Monitoring in Prospective Memory, Madeline R. Valdez
Reliability of Longitudinal Sleep Monitoring in Amyloid-Negative and Amyloid-Positive Older Adults., Taylor Pedersen
Segmentation and Memory in Interactive, Inferential Events, Ata Baris Karagoz
The Effect of Talker Intelligibility on Adaptation and Generalization to an Unfamiliar Accent, Kaitlyn L. Matthews
The Impact of Blood-Based Biomarkers and Disease-Modifying Medications on Anticipated Reactions of Learning Alzheimer Disease Risk Information, Matthew Charles Picchiello
Top-down Control and Bottom-up Salience Guide Attention During Visual Search, Christopher Ahn
Trust and Learning in Early Childhood, Anjuii Barrett
Validation of the National Institutes of Health Toolbox for Use in Phenylketonuria Clinical Trials: A Pilot Study, Clarissa Thin Tardiff
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Adjustment to College following the COVID-19 Pandemic, Neco Xyavier Johnson
Age, Slow Wave Sleep, and Hippocampal-Dependent Memory: Insights into Cognitive Mapping, Hannah R. Maybrier
Age, Slow Wave Sleep, and Hippocampal-Dependent Memory: Insights into Cognitive Mapping, Hannah R. Maybrier
A Naturalistic Examination of Dietary Lapses in Low-Income, Treatment-Seeking Families with Obesity, Anne Claire Grammer
Audio-Visual Benefit Across English and Mandarin, Hao Chen
Cardiovascular Risk as a Mediator of Associations between Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor with Longitudinal Brain and Cognitive Trajectories in Older Adults, Jennifer Shearon
Examining the Role of Language in Inhibitory Control Development Within the Context of Early Poverty, Rita Lynn Taylor
Individual Differences in the Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Chronic Back Pain in Patients Receiving Spine Surgery: Towards Precision Phenotypes, Madelyn Frumkin
Inferring Mind Wandering from Perceptual Decision Making, Cathy Zhang
“It's More Than a Book Club”: Counterspaces and Bibliotherapic Wellness Among Black Undergraduate Women, Khrystal Johnson
Listen Up: Children’s and Adults’ Listening Effort for Intelligible L1 and L2 Speech, Ruth Altmiller
Measuring Listening Effort in Bilingual Listeners for Speech Perception in Noise, Sita Carraturo
Objects are Subordinate to Spatial Features as Cues for Control, Abhishek Dey
On the Advantages of Hierarchical Bayesian Regression for Cognitive Control Studies: A Case Study with the DMCC task battery, Thomas Dudey
Patterns of Grief and Bereavement Following a COVID Death, Karuna Thomas
Recollective Features in the Natural Language Used to Justify Memory Decisions, Xinran Zhang and Ian G. Dobbins
Self-Generated Narratives Enhance Associative Inference at the Cost of Memory Specificity, Shuran Tang
Temporal Order Memory in Naturalistic Events Is Influenced by Semantic Knowledge and Hierarchical Event Structure, Yining Ding
The Domain Specificity and Conscious Awareness of Learned Memory Biases, Gizem Filiz
The Impact of Age on Second Language Vocabulary Learning, Steven J. Dessenberger
"We live in an unjust system by design, schools included...": Exploring the Perceptions of Black K-12 Administrators on Social Justice in Schools, SynClaire Arthur
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Adapting Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) for Adolescents: Preliminary Testing of Mechanisms of Change, Molly Fennig
A Mega-Study of Stereotypes and Attitudes Toward Nationality Groups in the United States, Ayse Selin Toprakkiran
A Quantitative Analysis of Preschoolers’ English Consonant Spellings: Teasing Apart the Influences of Frequencies, Phonetics, and Children’s Own Names, Jayde Elizabeth Homer
Between-Task Transfer of Learned Control Settings: How Far Can It Go?, Merve Ileri Tayar
Brain Structure Correlates of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits, Allison Moreau
Characterizing the Relationship between Accented Speech Intelligibility and Listening Effort, Mel Mallard
Comparison of self- and informant-reported change in memory, attention, and spatial navigation in predicting preclinical Alzheimer disease, Taylor Fama Levine
Conceptual Understanding of Skin Color Inheritance Among Immigrant Children and Adults, Fateme Mohseni
Consistent Across Situations? A Person Specific Approach to Examining a Long-standing Paradox., Muchen Xi
DARE App for Social Anxiety: App Use, Anxiety, and Affect via EMA, Jason Ted Grossman
Discounting of Delayed and Probabilistic Outcomes Across the Adult Lifespan, Haoran Wan
Discrimination and Health Disparities: Sense of Purpose as a Mitigating Factor, Megan Elizabeth Wilson
Disrupting Perceptions of Color Blindness as the Norm: Children’s Talk about Race, Grace Reid
Effects of Target Saliency on Inhibition of Salient Distractors, Xiaojin Ma
Emotion Regulation Flexibility: Investigating Perseverative Thinking as a Novel Context, Beatris Garcia
Grasping Type Affects Configural Encoding in Visual Working Memory, Shinhae Ahn
How Prefixation, Onset Length, and Coda Length Determine Lexical Stress Assignment when Reading Aloud, Kayla Hensley
Inflammation and Reward-related Neural and Behavioral Phenotypes, Erin Bondy
Neural Coding Dynamics of Cognitive Control as Measured by Representational Similarity Analyses of Electroencephalographic Signals, Michael C. Freund
Opportunistic Exploration: Humans Consider Not Just Whether, but Also When, to Sample Unfamiliar Options, Jack Dolgin
Predictive Looking and Predictive Looking Errors in Everyday Activities, Sophie Su
Putting Attentional Control on the Map: An Investigation of Meaningful Boundaries and Context-Specific Control, Jackson Stuart Colvett
Sleep, Cognition, and Alzheimer’s Disease: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Hannah Wilks
Social Anxiety and Romantic Conflict: Examining Prospective Interpersonal Dynamics, Julia Levitan
The Dual-Task Costs of Audiovisual Speech Processing Across Levels of Background Noise and Semantic Constraint, Violet Aurora Brown
Transdiagnostic Predictors Of Everyday Functioning: Examining The Relationships Of Depression And Reinforcement Learning, Nada Dalloul
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Aging and the Costs of Cognitive Effort, Jennifer Crawford
A Hybrid Model of Event Comprehension Predicts Human Activity at Human Scale, TAN NGUYEN
An Online Vignette Study to Examine the Outcomes of a Preclinical Alzheimer Disease Diagnosis, Matthew John Wynn
A Personalized Intervention to Increase Regulatory Capacity for Anti-Racist Action, Jennifer Frances Beatty
Behavioral, Neural, and Psychiatric Correlates of Responses to Social Feedback, Brent Rappaport
Construction and Use of Cognitive Maps in Model-Based Control, Ata Karagoz
Effects of a Patient Question Prompt List on Outpatient Palliative Care Appointments, Meghan McDarby
Extrinsic Emotion Regulation at the Global and Daily Level: Strategy Choice and Associations with Regulator Well-Being, Jiyoung Kwak
Genetics Of Hippocampal Subregions Across Development, Jacob Pine
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Current and Remitted Major Depressive Disorder: An Experience Sampling Study, Yunjing Liu
Narratives Close the Gap: The Limited Role of Temporal Distance in Binding Events into Coherent Memories, Angelique Delarazan
Testing of a Novel Combined Eating-Disorder and Weight-Loss Online Guided-Self Help Intervention for Young Adults with a Binge-Type Eating Disorder and Overweight or Obesity, Grace Elise Monterubio
The Effect of Social Primes on the Perception of Native- and Nonnative-Accented Speech, Drew J. McLaughlin
The role of affect and exercise goals in physical activity engagement in younger and older adults, Marta Stojanovic
The roles of time and measurement in within-person purpose variability, Gabrielle N. Pfund
Who Has My Back? Perceptions of Anti-Racist and Anti-Sexist Allyship Are Predicted by Race, Gender, and Past Behavior, R. Grace Drake
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Adapting to Context: Emotion Regulation Flexibility Across Adulthood, Tabea Springstein
Altered Network Organization and Screen Time Use in Childhood Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Elizabeth Jane Hawkey
An Integration of Attachment and the Investment Model: Joint Predictors of Accommodation in Romantic and Friendship Dyads, Samuel Y. Chung
A Secondary Data Analysis of the Prevalence of Reported Dementia and Subjective Cognitive Decline Across U.S. National Surveys, Matthew C. Picchiello
Blood Phenylalanine Trajectory and Executive Function Outcomes in Individuals with Phenylketonuria, Clarissa Tardiff
Clear Adjustment: Status Self-Concept Clarity and Emotion Regulation, Isidro Landa
Development and Validation of a Novel Social Networking Site Use Measure, Alison Tuck