Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Training Individuals in Function-Based Behavior Intervention Plans Using Modeling, Rehearsal, and Self-Monitoring, Aimee F. Giles
Examination of Mediational Models of the Hostility-Health Link, Carol Goulet
Choice of Signaled or Unsignaled Onset of Differential Reinforcer Magnitudes, Ezra G. Hall
Developing a Practical Consumable Reinforcer for the Experimental Analysis of Human Operant Behavior, Emily Hill Morris
Avoidance of Timeout from Response-Independent Schedules of Food or Sucrose Water with and without a Limited Hold on Consumption, August F. Holtyn
Risk Perception among Sexually Abused Female Adolescents, Andrea M. Jones
Age, Expertise, and the Sunk-Cost Fallacy, Tara E. Karns
Potential Empathy Deficits, Motivations, and Desistence in Traditional and Cyber Bullies, Colleen M. Keelan
Discrimination of Temporally Remote Causal Relations by Pigeons: Effects of Signals that Mediate the Temporal Gaps, Toshikazu Kuroda
Psychosocial Concerns in Pediatric Obstetric Brachial Plexus Injury Patients, Janelle M. Mentrikoski
Treatment of Nightmares Using Imagery Rehearsal Therapy: A Multiple Baseline Study, Michael R. Nadorff
Influence of Parent-Child Communication Styles on Social Anxiety: Observation During a Film Discussion Task, Jonathan M. Ortega
Evaluation of Treatment Integrity Errors on Mand Acquisition, Sacha T. Pence
Validation of the Calgary Symptoms of Stress Inventory (C-SOSI) for Predicting Adherence to a Stress Reduction Technique, Lauren M. Penwell
Impulsivity and Suicidal Ideation or Attempt in Younger and Older Adults, Elizabeth C. Price
Predicting Emergency Dental Care over a Decade: Investigating Dental Care-Related Fears in Symptomatic Treatment-Seeking Behavior, Cameron L. Randall
Effects of Reinforcer Magnitude and d-Amphetamine on Delay Discounting in Rats, William J. P. Reilly
Evaluation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and a Standard Parenting Program within a Women's State Prison Facility, Ashley B. Tempel
Vocal Variability in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Intervention to Increase Novel Vocalizations in Non-Verbal Children, Allison Serra Tetreault
Effectiveness of Biofeedback in Improving Heart Rate Variability Recovery Following Stress, Amanda L. Wheat
Health Literacy and Self-efficacy as correlates of Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Middle-Aged and Older Adults, Tomorrow D. Wilson
Early Postpartum Awakenings, Neurocognitive Performance, and Feeding Methods, Michael A. Winser
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Effects of Delay Order and d-Amphetamine on Delay Discounting in Rats, Shana R. Bailey
A Comparison of Methods for Evaluating Descriptive Analyses, Ellen N. Brosh
Response Elimination, Reinforcement Rate and Resurgence of Operant Behavior, Carlos Renato Xavier Cancado
Differentiating Faking-good Parents from Non-faking Parents on the Child Abuse Potential Inventory, Amanda H. Costello
Rate of Response-Independent Events as Discriminative Stimuli, Andres Garcia Penagos
Contributing Factors to Health Anxiety in Older and Young Adults, Lindsay Gerolimatos
Effects of a Worry Induction on Heart Rate, Emotion and Self-reported Arousal in Younger and Older Adults, Christine E. Gould
Clinician Detection of Depression in Late Life, Jeffrey J. Gregg
Effects of Acute and Repeated Administration of Diazepam on Delay Discounting in Lewis and Fischer 344 Rats, Sally L. Huskinson
Self-Reported Posttraumatic Stress and Borderline Personality Behaviors in Relation to Reports of Traumatic Events, Attachment, Parental Behavior, and Social Support, Vanessa M. Jacoby
Rapid Assessment of Delay-of-Reinforcement Effects on Key Pecking Maintained by Fixed-Ratio Schedules, David P. Jarmolowicz
Perceptions of Parent-Initiated and Coach-Created Motivational Climate and their Influence on Youth Athlete Achievement Goal Orientation, Peter Kadushin
The Impact of State and Trait Anxiety on Performance in a Source Monitoring Task, Kristina M. Kania
Preference Reversals and Effects of d-Amphetamine on Within-Session Delay Discounting in Rats, Christopher A. Krebs
Effects of Fixed-Time Reinforcement Schedules on Resurgence of Positively Reinforced Problem Behavior, Tonya M. Marsteller
Variances in Diurnal Fatigue Patterns and Mood among Postpartum Women, Amanda L. McBean
The Sharing of and Reactions to Positive Events in Romantic Relationships, Jennifer N. Morey
Pain and Suicide in a Population-Based Sample, Sarra Nazem
Parental Support and Pressure in Sports and Children's Anger, Sadness, and Worry Regulation, Cara A. Palmer
Mothers' Accuracy and Bias in Predicting their Toddlers Performance on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, Darcey N. Powell
Dyadic Interaction: The Effects of Controlling and Critical Behavior versus Warm and Responsive Behavior on Participant Behavior and Emotional Response, Joanna T. Prout
Psychological Impact of Cyberbully Victimization among College Students, Allison M. Schenk
Following Advice Because it's Been Paid For: Age, the Sunk-Cost Fallacy, and Loss Aversion, Leo Schlosnagle
Comparison of Parent-Child Interactions in Abusive and Control Families: An Observational Study, Jocelyn F. O. Stokes
Emotional Pain and Acute Nociception, Alison M. Vargovich
The Effects of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy on Symptoms and Impairment in Young Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Stephanie M. Wagner
Development of an Emotional Pain Interview, Ben Weinstein
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Effects of prenatal stress on lever-press acquisition, delay discounting, and ethanol self -administration in rats, Natalie R. Bruner
Resurgence of temporal patterns of responding, Carlos Renato Xavier Cancado
Prediction of response to escitalopram across multiple outcomes in older adult GAD patients, Caroline M. Ciliberti
Nonmedical Psychostimulant Use and Sleep among Adolescents and Emerging Adults, Megan M. Clegg-Kraynok
Assessing the psychometric properties of the Childbirth Stages of Readiness Questionnaire (CSORQ), Suzan Walsh Clemens
Sex segregation and young adults' gender-typed attitudes about occupations, Lisa M. DiDonato
A comparison of parent-child interaction therapy and treatment as usual with families with a history of child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence, Kimberly P. Foley
Religiousness, future time perspective, and death anxiety among adults, James A. Henrie
Escape from stimuli correlated with transitions across lean and rich schedules of reinforcement, August F. Holtyn
Sleep and sleepiness among first-time postpartum parents, Salvatore Insana
Boys' and girls' strategies for managing peer conflict in adolescence, Emily Keener
The influence of anxiety, depression, and negative affect on recall of dental pain, Brandon N. Kyle
The role of autonomy in suicidal ideation among older adults, Alisa A. O'Riley
Dissociating the Reinforcing and Discriminative Roles of a Warning Signal in a Free-Operant Avoidance Situation, Bobby E. Phillips
Emotional Intelligence and Facial Affect Recognition among College Psychopaths versus Controls, Rebecca L. Schwartz
Observing responses of chain-schedule stimuli and effects of d-amphetamine and morphine, Jonathan M. Slezak
Goal framing of health related behaviors: What factors contribute to the persuasiveness of a message?, Sarah A. Stoner
Predicting restoration of competence to stand trial: Demographic, clinical, and legal variables, Tracy A. Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Consolidation of parental monitoring variables and scales: Preliminary evidence for construct validity, Ryan J. Anderson
Behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation in college students: The effects of aversive control, Chad S. Brice
Factors associated with treatment acceptance and compliance among incarcerated male sex offenders, Carl B. Clegg
Historical response rates, reinforcement context, and behavioral persistence, Chata A. Dickson
Effects of response effort, delay, and stimulus changes on the sunk -cost effect, James W. Diller
A daily process analysis of short -term physical activity goal pursuits in midlife: Changes in goal processes, physical activity, and subjective well -being, Eric A. Goedereis
An examination of adolescent nicotine withdrawal symptoms: A validation of the Nicotine Withdrawal Assessment for Youth, Matthew E. Goldfine
Conditioned reinforcing value of the sample stimulus and resistance to change of delayed matching -to -sample performance in pigeons, Yusuke Hayashi
How influential are they? The role of parents, social support, attachment, and autonomy in college students' likelihood to experience social anxiety, Andrea M. Jones
An experimental analysis of jackpotting, Toshikazu Kuroda
An experimental analysis of preference for rate building, Andrew R. Lightner
Paradoxical effects of shock: The role of shock intensity and interresponse times followed by shock, Jessica B. Long
Examining the efficacy of parent -child interaction therapy with high -functioning autism, Joshua J. Masse
Insomnia symptoms, nightmares and suicidal ideation in a university sample, Michael R. Nadorff
Dispositional mindfulness and cardiovascular reactivity to sensory rejection and sensory intake tasks, Paula R. Prentice
Age differences in younger and older adults' experience of interpersonal problems, Leo Schlosnagle
Choice between schedules of reinforcement with and without response-pacing requirements, Leigh Schrimpf
Gender differences in the impact of perceived social support on the relation between disability and depressive symptoms, Merideth Smith
The effect of attentional bias on suggestibility, Elizabeth E. Stacom
Health promotion during midlife: The influence of internal health locus of control and future time perspective, Sarah T. Stahl
Predictors of anticipated parenting efficacy in younger adults, Danielle K. Tomczewski
Understanding emotional pain: A preliminary investigation, Ben Weinstein
The introduction of forgiveness into a path analytical model of the association between parental divorce and adult attachment, Amanda L. Wheat
The influence of forgiveness and apology on cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress, Matthew C. Whited
Characterizing the relation between depressive symptoms and Parkinson's disease in a sample of Swedish twins, Rebecca K. Widoe
A process examination of the framing effect in younger and older adult medical decision making, Erin L. Woodhead
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Social anxiety and facial affect recognition in preschool children, Chelsea M. Ale
Effects of alternative -food sources on operant behavior, Raquel Moreira Alo
Discriminative-stimulus and time-course effects of kava-kava (Piper methysticum) in rats, Natalie R. Bruner
Delayed disruption of temporally controlled behavior, Mirari Elcoro
Impulsivity and trauma exposure in adolescents, Lisa B. Greene