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Author:

Gertel, Victoria Haley

Title:

Prediction is Production? Exploring the Relationship Between Language Prediction and Production in Younger and Older Adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

language prediction
language production
cognitive aging
language processing
self-paced reading

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Committee Members:

Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Diaz, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Field Member

Author:

Williamson, Jason

Title:

WORKPLACE LONELINESS: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL IDENTITY DISSIMILARITY, IDENTITY STRENGTH, AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Workplace Loneliness
Political Ideology
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Committee Members:

Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Daniel DellaPosta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Major Field Member
Susan Simkins, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Brown, Kayla

Title:

Parent-Child Coregulation in Early Childhood: Novel Methodological Approaches and Influences of Individual Differences

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

temperament
coregulation
self-regulation
externalizing

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Martha Wadsworth, Major Field Member
Nilam Ram, Special Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Sunny Bai, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Griffin, Jason

Title:

Evaluating Eye Gaze Perception Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorders Using a Computational Modeling Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

eye-tracking
eye gaze perception
hidden Markov model
Autism Intervention
Serious game intervention

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Committee Members:

Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Diane Williams, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pamela Cole, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Janet Hsiao, Special Member

Author:

Walters, Kayla

Title:

A Profile Approach to the CIP Model of Leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

CIP
leadership
person centered
LPA

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Committee Members:

Samuel Hunter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Donald Hambrick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Simkins, Major Field Member
James LeBreton, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Burke, Vanessa

Title:

Negotiating the Middle: A Promotion-Prevention Explanation of Midlife Identity Negotiation and Leadership

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Midlife
leadership
generativity
disengagement
acceptance
successful aging
Aging workforce

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Committee Members:

Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Samuel Hunter, Major Field Member
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Alicia Grandey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
David Almeida, Outside Field Member

Author:

Maereg, Tiyobista

Title:

The Interactive Relationship between Ethnic-Racial Identity, Academic Expectations, and Neighborhood Ethnic-Racial Concentration: Variation by Gender and Ethnicity-Race

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

ethnic-racial identity
neighborhood ethnic-racial concentration
gender differences
academic expectations
ethnic-racial differences

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Committee Members:

Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jenae Marie Neiderhiser, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Mayra Bamaca, Committee Member

Author:

Carpenter, Catherine

Title:

Memory Processes as we Age: A Dissociation of Unitization, Association and Item Memory Over Time

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

psychology
memory
aging
associative memory
unitization

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Committee Members:

Nancy Anne Coulter Dennis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Frank Gerard Hillary, Committee Member

Author:

Slotkin, Becca

Title:

Impact of a School-Based Social Skills Intervention on Parent-Child and Parent-School Relationships

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Peer rejection
Parent-Child Relationships
Parent-School Relationships
Social Skills Training
Intervention

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Committee Members:

Karen Linn Bierman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Janet Agnes Welsh, Committee Member

Author:

Schillinger, David

Title:

I Can't Work Like This: The Effects of Action-State Orientation Diversity on Relationship Conflict in Teams

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

action-state orientation
relationship conflict
interpersonal processes
process conflict
transition processes

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Mohammed, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rustin David Meyer, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member

Author:

Vallorani, Alicia

Title:

SENSITIVITY OF MENTALIZING NETWORK TO DYADIC SYNCHRONY DURING A NATURALISTIC PEER SOCIAL INTERACTION

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

naturalistic
social interaction
mentalizing
second-person neuroscience

File:

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Major Field Member
Michael N. Hallquist, Special Member
Erika Forbes, Special Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Reginald Adams, Major Field Member

Author:

Carney, Dever Marie

Title:

The Clinical Load Index And Clinical Model As Predictors Of Collegiate Psychotherapy Outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

psychotherapy process and outcome
college mental health
clinical load index
CCMH
center effects

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Committee Members:

Louis Castonguay, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Ben Locke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Simkins, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Diercks, Catherine

Title:

Parental Attributions and Harsh Parenting Across Infancy and Early Childhood

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

parental attributions
harsh parenting
child behavior problems
infant sleep

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Committee Members:

Douglas Teti, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Erika Lunkenheimer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

English, Mary Samantha

Title:

Bidirectional Mother-Child Influences in Attempts to Regulate Children's Behavior

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

self-regulation
early childhood
parenting
bidirectional transactions

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Committee Members:

Rina Eiden, Major Field Member
Cynthia Stifter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ginger Moore, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gerver, Courtney R

Title:

The creativity-specificity induction: A memory-based creativity strategy can enhance creative divergent thinking but not memory in older adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

memory
creativity
aging
cognition

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Committee Members:

Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Nancy Dennis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Grossner, Emily

Title:

Identifying Distinct Metacognitive Phenotypes Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Neuropsychology
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Metacognition
Neuroimaging

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Committee Members:

Sarah Rajtmajer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gunther, Kelley

Title:

Multi-modal measurements of top-down influences on anxiety risk

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Temperament
Anxiety
Attention

File:

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guty, Erin Theresa

Title:

Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Outcomes and Recovery in Sports-Related Concussion

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

neuropsychology
sports-related concussion
assessment
cognition
cognitive reserve

File:

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Committee Members:

Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Semyon Slobounov, Outside Unit & Field Member
Peter Arnett, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lebkuecher, Amy

Title:

Attention, Statistical Learning, and Language Outcomes in Adults With and Without a History of Language Disorder

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

attention
statistical learning
language
language disorder
attentional bias

File:

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Committee Members:

Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Daniel Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carol Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Janet van Hell, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Bradley Wyble, Major Field Member

Author:

Lewis, Kathrine Annette

Title:

It Takes More Than A Mile: A Feminist Social Psychological Approach To The Study Of Empathy

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Perspective taking
Empathy
Standpoint Theory

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Theresa Vescio, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jes Matsick, Major Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Denise Solomon, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Lengieza, Michael

Title:

Growth, Authenticity, And Meaning: The Effects of Eudaimonic Reflections On Self-Expansiveness

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Eudaimonia
Hedonia
Connectedness to Nature
Self-expansion

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Swim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Jonathan Cook, Major Field Member
Carter Hunt, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Yushuang

Title:

Listening to a foreign friend in a noisy restaurant: Neural correlates of listening to foreign-accented speech in noisy conditions in children and adults

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

accent
background noise
ERP
Time frequency analysis
children
speech processing
semantics

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Committee Members:

Koraly Perez-Edgar, Major Field Member
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Anne Olmstead, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tessa Bent, Special Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Albrecht Soto, Sara

Title:

Reclaiming agency: Examining resilience in Black and Latine students in the face of racial/ethnic discrimination

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Resilience
racial discrimination
well-being
civic engagement

File:

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Committee Members:

Jose Angel Soto, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn Paula Witherspoon, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Aviste, Rosemary

Title:

Developing the Animacy Scale: A Counter to Western Environmental Philosophy

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Relationship with nature
Environmental Psychology
Scale Development
Beliefs about nature
Posthumanism

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Committee Members:

Janet Kay Swim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jes Matsick, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Michelle S Bae-Dimitriadis, Committee Member

Author:

Guerriero, Joseph

Title:

Testing the differential effects of death anxiety and death reflection on pro-environmental outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Environmental psychology
Terror Management Theory
climate change
death reflection
sustainability
generativity

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Committee Members:

Janet Kay Swim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melvin Michael Mark, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Mary Katherine Shenk, Committee Member

Author:

Halberstadt, Alexandra

Title:

Personality Traits and Interpersonal Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

agency
communion
personality traits
personality dynamics

File:

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Committee Members:

Aaron Lee Pincus, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Emily B Ansell, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Michael Hallquist, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Anna

Title:

Continuity and Change in Reactivity and Regulation during Early Childhood: The Role of Genetic Influences and Parental Internalizing Symptoms

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

temperament
negative emotionality
parasympathetic nervous system
behavioral genetics
internalizing symptoms

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Committee Members:

Lorah Dorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenae Neiderhiser, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Yo Jackson, Major Field Member

Author:

Hu, Danfei

Title:

Useful and Affordable? Examining the Role of Costs in Motivated Emotion Regulation

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

costs
benefits
motivation
emotion regulation
negative emotion
anger

File:

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Committee Members:

Karen Winterich, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Jose Soto, Major Field Member
Karen Gasper, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hedayati Zafarghandi, Shekoofeh

Title:

Model of Visual Working Memory Based on Visual Knowledge

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

Working Mmeory
Visual Knowledge
Computational Models

File:

Download DoctoralDissertation_SheHed_2022_Revised2.pdf

Committee Members:

Sharon Huang, Outside Field Member
Abhronil Sengupta, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradley Wyble, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Carlson, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zainal, Nur Hani

Title:

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a 14-Day Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention (MEMI) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

generalized anxiety disorder
mindfulness
ecological momentary intervention
executive functioning

File:

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Committee Members:

Kyle Murdock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Michelle Newman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Cameron, Major Field Member
Peter Arnett, Major Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Anya

Title:

Investigating the Impact of Language Experience on Second Language Reading Comprehension Using a Resting-State Connectome-based Predictive Model

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

L2 reading
immersion
resting-state fMRI
machine learning
implicit learning

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Committee Members:

Roger Beaty, Major Field Member
Frank Hillary, Major Field Member
Janet van Hell, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Peggy Van Meter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schwob, Natalie

Title:

Sequencing Biases in Langauge and Motor Planning: A Comparative Study of Humans And Bonobos

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

sequencing
planning
evolution
motor planinng
language planning
domain general
bonobos

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Committee Members:

Elisabeth Karuza, Major Field Member
Daniel Weiss, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Navin Viswanathan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vazquez, Lauren C

Title:

Children's Neural Processing of Affective Prosody: Speaker and Emotion Effects

Graduate Program:

Psychology (PHD)

Keywords:

: affective prosody
speaker familiarity
affective prosody
speaker familiarity

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Committee Members:

Pamela Cole, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Wilson, Major Field Member
Suzy Scherf, Major Field Member
Charles Geier, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair