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Author:: Sasser, Tyler Roland
Title:: Children's self-regulation and their academic and social-emotional adjustment to school: The roles of executive function skills, attention control, and impulse control.
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: self-regulation
executive function
children
preschool
Head Start
attention
school readiness
File:: Download Tyler_Sasser_Thesis_4-30-2012.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Linn Bierman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Fesi, Jeremy Daniel
Title:: Spatiotemporal sensitivity of cortical responses to self- and object-related motion in human adults
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: vision
EEG
visual motion
electrophysiology
File:: Download psu_diss_jfesi_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Rick Owen Gilmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rick Owen Gilmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member

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Author:: Roben, Caroline Knox
Title:: Parental depressive symptoms over time and transmission of risk to adopted toddlers' emotion regulation
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: emotion regulation
depression
gene x environment
prenatal
depressive symptoms
parental depression
early childhood
anger
File:: Download Roben_Dissertation_for_Graduate_School.pdf
Committee Members:: Pamela Marie Cole, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Ginger A Moore, Committee Member
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member

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Author:: Powers, Christopher
Title:: Aggressive disruptive students in restricted educational placements: Moderated influence of placement history on adolescent outcomes
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: aggressive-disruptive behavior
restricted educational placement
special education
propensity scoring
causal inference
File:: Download Powers_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Karen Linn Bierman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Linn Bierman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia L Huang Pollock, Committee Member
Thomas W Farmer, Committee Member
Donna Coffman, Committee Member

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Author:: Zawadzki, Matthew Jason
Title:: Examining an Intervention to Reduce Under-diagnosis of Cad for Older Women
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: Coronary Artery Disease
Emotion
Stereotypes
Under-diagnosis
File:: Download Zawadzki_Dissertation_Defense._Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephanie A Shields, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Gasper, Committee Member
William Gerin, Committee Member
Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

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Author:: Deckert, Paige Janelle
Title:: Putting the "US" into trust: The effects of dyadic congruency on performance appraisal outcomes.
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: Trust
performance appraisal
dyadic data analysis
File:: Download Deckert_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Rick R Jacobs, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Wright, Aidan Gregory
Title:: Comparing Methods to Model Stability and Change in Personality and its Pathology
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: Personality Disorders
Personality Traits
Interpersonal Theory
Longitudinal Modeling
File:: Download Aidan_Wright_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Aaron Lee Pincus, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David E Conroy, Committee Member
Kenneth Levy, Committee Member
D Wayne Osgood, Committee Member

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Author:: Whyte, Elisabeth M
Title:: predictors of figurative and pragmatic language comprehension in children with autism and typical development
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: language
autism
theory of mind
pragmatic language
figurative language
File:: Download Elisabeth_Whyte_dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Keith E Nelson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Adams Jr., Committee Member
Rick Owen Gilmore, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member

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Author:: Chester, Charlene Elizabeth
Title:: Transracial Adoptive Family Development: The Implications For Adoption And Contextual Factors On Social Support, Parenting Self-efficacy And Cultural Socialization
Graduate Program:: Psychology
Keywords:: transracial adoption
cultural socialization
social support
parenting self-efficacy
File:: Download Chester_Final__Dissertation_for_submission.pdf
Committee Members:: Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alysia Yvonne Blandon, Committee Member
Pamela Marie Cole, Committee Member
Susan S Woodhouse, Committee Member

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