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• When “Self-Harm” Means “Suicide”: Adolescent Online Help-Seeking for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors  Lind, Monika ( University of Oregon , 2024-03-25 ) The sensitive period of adolescence facilitates key developmental tasks that equip young people to assume adult roles. Adolescence features important strengths, like the need to contribute, and some risks, like vulnerability ...
• Stereotypes and Social Decisions: The Interpersonal Consequences of Socioeconomic Status  Hughes, Bradley ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) Interpersonal perceptions of socioeconomic status (SES), those formed in face-to-face interactions, can perpetuate inequality if they influence interpersonal interactions in ways that disadvantage people with low SES. There ...
• Utilization of Linguistic Markers in Differentiation of Internalizing Disorders, Suicidality, and Identity Distress  Ivie, Elizabeth ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) The adolescent period of development is associated with a significant increase in the occurrence of mental illness. In addition, death by suicide is one of the leading causes of death amongst adolescents. Identity formation ...
• The Role of Fractal Fluency on Visual Perception  Robles, Kelly ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) From quarks to galaxies, the natural world is organized with fractal geometry. Fractal fluency theory suggests that due to their omnipresence in our visual world, fractals are more fluently processed by the visual system ...
• The Anatomy of Antagonism: Exploring the Relations of 20 Lexical Factors of Personality with Machiavellianism, Grandiose Narcissism, and Psychopathy  Kay, Cameron ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) Despite being the focus of extensive research over the past two decades, the structure of the “Dark Triad”—or, as I will refer to it here, the “Aversive Triad”—is still shrouded in confusion. Much of this confusion stems ...
• Content Representation in Lateral Parietal Cortex  Zhao, Yufei ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) While the lateral parietal cortex (LPC) in the human brain is traditionally investigated for its functions in visual perception, more recent evidence has highlighted its substantial contribution to supporting human episodic ...
• Sociocultural Contexts of Emotion Socialization in BIPOC Families  Lee, Angela ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) Having effective emotion regulation skills is critical to socioemotional well-being, and parents play a key role in the development of children’s emotion regulation through emotion socialization behaviors. However, since ...
• Cross-ideological Communication: The Impact of Real Conversations Compared to Imagined Ones  Niella, Tamara ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) Political polarization has visibly increased in the last few years. A sense of divisiveness has been exacerbated by a surge in social media communication about contentious issues which has been replacing face-to-face ...
• Inflammation, Mental Health, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Study with Child Welfare Service Involved Families  Horn, Sarah ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has posited unique challenges for families and significantly disrupted several aspects of children’s environments. The pandemic is an ongoing risk experience, with young children being ...
• Testing Novel Norm Interventions for Promoting Pro-environmental Consumption  Lieber, Sara ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) The purpose of the current project was to investigate how a social psychology approach could be used to develop an effective climate-change mitigation tool. A commonly used technique in the social psychology literature for ...
• Understanding the Misunderstood Emotion: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Variants of Anger  Razavi, Pooya ( University of Oregon , 2023-07-06 ) In cultural accounts and scholarly writings about anger, we see conceptualizations that reflect the existence of two variants: an anger perceived as moral, appropriate, and justified; and an anger considered wrong and ...
• Measuring long-term memories at the feature level reveals mechanisms of interference resolution  Drascher, Maxwell ( University of Oregon , 2023-07-06 ) When memories share similar features, this can lead to interference, and ultimately forgetting. At the same time, many highly similar memories are remembered vividly for years to come. Understanding what causes interference ...
• The Role of Hierarchical Structures in Cognition  Moss, Melissa ( University of Oregon , 2023-07-06 ) Individuals routinely execute complex tasks that involve multiple, dependent levels of information, such as driving a car or cooking dinner. It is amazing that our cognitive system is able to represent such complex, ...
• A Contextual Psychology Approach to Improving Health Outcomes in the Perinatal Period  Lightcap, April ( University of Oregon , 2023-07-06 ) The United States holds alarming records for highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the developed world. The US infant mortality rate is on par with many low and middle income countries, and despite the decline in ...
• The Study of Behavior Settings as an Aid in Mental Hospital Analysis: A Methodological Exploration  Rose, David William ( University of Oregon , 1969-06 ) The ultimate goal of all mental hospital analyses is to provide information which by direct implication or through analysis might act as a guide in restructuring environment in which the mental patient lives. The goal of ...
• Personality-Driven Social Media Curation: How Personality Traits Affect Following Decisions on Twitter  Bedford-Petersen, Cianna ( University of Oregon , 2023-03-24 ) As social media occupies an increasingly important place in people’s lives, new opportunities are presented for people to select and modify their online environments. On many platforms, users have significant control over ...
• Stability of Mind-Mindedness Across the Transition to Motherhood and its Longitudinal Association with Children’s Theory of Mind & Executive Function  Gluck, Stephanie ( University of Oregon , 2023-03-24 ) Parental mind-mindedness refers to caregivers’ propensity to attribute mind-like and intentional qualities in their interactions with or representation of their young children. It is proposed to be associated with positive ...
• Dating and Mating in Adolescence: How Hormones and Puberty Influence Adolescent Mating Motivation  Donaldson, Sarah ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-26 ) Puberty marks the physical transition towards sexual maturity, culminating in the ability to reproduce. It follows that maturing cognitive, affective, and social skills develop concurrently to support reproductive competence, ...
• Individual Differences in Memory Functions and Their Relation to Hippocampal Connectivity  Frank, Lea ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-26 ) The hippocampus plays an important role in many aspects of learning and memory. It is most known for its role in episodic memory and spatial navigation, though it has also been shown to contribute to other processes like ...
• Collective Ongoing Betrayal Trauma: Gendered and Racialized Police Violence toward the Black Community  Barnes, Melissa ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-26 ) Racialized and gendered police violence is a pernicious problem for Black communities. For my dissertation, I empirically tested a novel theoretical concept, Collective Ongoing Betrayal Trauma (COBT). COBT integrates the ...

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Improving the Subjective Well-Being of Autistic Youth Utilizing a Positive Psychology Intervention , Nicolette Bauermeister

An Experimental Study of Negative Performance Feedback: Consideration of a Cognitive Pathway and Individual Difference Factors , Ansley M. Bender

A Critical Analysis of the Graduate Socialization of Racially Minoritized School Psychology Students , Tatiana J. Broughton

The Influence of COVID-19 on Tobacco Racial Health Disparities: Testing the Differential Effects of COVID-19 on Smoking Motivation Variables across Black and White Smokers , Patricia F. Calixte-Civil

An Evaluation of Measurement Invariance of DSM-5 Borderline Personality Disorder Criteria Across Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults , E. Elisa Carsten

The Development of a Behaviorally Based Mentoring Workplace Scale , Christina N. Falcon

Examining the Role of Executive Functions on the Intention-Behavior Gap of Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy Use , Becky K. Gius

The Effect of Psychopathy Trait Descriptions on Mock Juror Decision-Making , Bailey A. Hall

Context matters: Profiles of emotion regulation at work and home , Roxanne C. Lawrence

Planning to Behave Impulsively to Feel Better: An EMA Study of College Students' Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, Binge Eating, and Exercise Behaviors , Rose H. Miller

One Year Impact of the Advancing Coping and Engagement (ACE) Program on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Student Success , Amanda C. Moseley

The Effects of Divided Attention in Free Recall: Affecting Trace Accumulation by Dividing Attention , Anne Olsen

Investigating Risk Factors of the Development of Compulsive Exercise and Eating Disorder Symptoms in College Students , Madeline Palermo

Invisible Families, Clear Consequences: Work-Family Integration Among Employees in Same Gender Presenting Romantic Relationships , Joseph Regina

Threats to School Safety: Examining Levels of Community Violence and Its Relation to School-Related Threats , Dorie Ross

The Social Anxiety Stigma Scale (SASS): Development, Factor Structure, and Validation , Ruba Rum

Socio-emotional effects of rejection: An experience-sampling examination , Gabriella Silva

Observed Error Monitoring as an Index of Theory of Mind , Kipras Varkala

I'll Make a Man Out of You: Precarious Manhood Beliefs among Heterosexual-Cisgender Men and Queer Men , Serena L. Wasilewski

From Other and From World: Expanding the Current Model of Existential Isolation , Roger Young Jr.

Temporal and Spatial Properties of Orientation Summary Statistic Representations , Jacob S. Zepp

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Boredom, Interoceptive Ability, and Emotional Eating , Erica Ahlich

Environmental Transmission of Career Interests Through a Genetic Lens: Understanding the Confounding Around Parental Occupation , Tyler Allan

Do Suicide Attempt Survivors Have Reduced Long-Term Well-Being? A Study of Veterans Across Three Nationally Representative Cohorts , Bradley A. Brown

Depersonalized, Dysregulated, and Demanded: The Impact of Burnout on Appraisal and Emotional Events , Katrina M. Conen

Breast Health Esteem to Motivate Breast Health Behavioral Intentions: An Application of the Terror Management Health Model , Emily P. Courtney

Gender Differences in College Drinkers: The Role of Masculine Norms , Jared A. Davis

Prevalence and Predictors of Careless Responding in Experience Sampling Research , Alexander J. Denison

Perceptions of Workplace Discrimination: A Closer Look , Jeremiah Doaty

The Impact of Cannabis on Motivational Processes for Smoked Tobacco and Cigarettes , Claire M. Gorey

Outcomes of a Telehealth Adaptation of a Trauma-Based Parent Training Program , Holland Hayford

Why Don’t They Just Ask?: Barriers to Directly Requesting Affirmative Sexual Consent by Gender and Sexual Orientation , Jessica A. Jordan

Examining the Social Validity of Parent Training: Post-Participation Parent Perceptions and Reflections of Group Triple P , Nycole C. Kauk

Individual Differences in Response to Hostile and Benevolent Sexism in a STEM Interview Context: The Moderating Role of Behavioral Activation , Elizabeth Kiebel

Do Sociability Expectancies Moderate Social Anxiety Predicting Alcohol Consumption Following a Social Stressor Speech Task , Jacob A. Levine

An Object for Sexual Pleasure: Does Viewing Sexualized Media Predict Increases in Self and Partner Objectification Impacting Feelings of Sexual and Romantic Closeness? , Kaitlyn Ligman

Influences of Sentence Context and Individual Differences in Lexical Quality on Early Phonological Processing during Silent Reading , Sara Milligan

Testing the Effects of Social Exclusion on Emotional Arousal: An Examination of the Effects of Psychological Pain and Rumination , Amanda L. Peterson

Creating a Short, Public-Domain Version of the CPAI-2: Using an Algorithmic Approach to Develop Public-Domain Measures of Indigenous Personality Traits , Mukhunth Raghavan

Equitable Implementation of the Good Behavior Game , Faith D. Reynolds

Ethnic-Racial Minoritized Adolescents’ Perceptions of Cyberhate, School Connectedness, Ethnic-Racial Identity, and Life Satisfaction , Alexis Taylor

Predicting Future Well-Being Among United States Youth Who Attempted Suicide and Survived , Bingjie Tong

Approach and Avoidance Food Craving: A Dual Cue Reactivity Investigation , Christina Lee Verzijl

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

School Professional Coaching on Facilitation of Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) Model for Students with Persistent Problem Behavior , Rachel Ayres

Influencing Motivation for Alcohol through Social Bonding , Bryan Benitez

Case Studies in Applied Behavior Analysis: Using a Desensitization Procedure to Decrease Problem Behavior Towards Peers and Using a Treatment Package to Increase Time Spent in a Small Group , Mallamy I. Camargo Pena

Testing the Congruence of Espousals and Enactments Predicting Team Innovation , Rylan M. Charlton

The General Psychopathology Factor ( p ) From Adolescence to Adulthood: Disentangling the Developmental Trajectories of p Using a Multi-Method Approach , Alexandria M. Choate

An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Disordered Eating Behaviors within Alcohol Use Episodes: Determining Temporal Sequencing in Food and Alcohol Disturbance , Emily M. Choquette

The Influence of Maternal Body-Shaming Comments and Bodily Shame on Portion Size , Savannah R. Flak

Mental Health Problems, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Offending Behavior Among Persons Incarcerated in a County Jail , Lauren F. Fournier

The Adaptive, Social, Communication, and Cognitive Skills of Monolingual and Bilingual Toddlers with Autism , Marcela A. Galicia

Good Intentions Go Awry: Investigation of Unhelpful Supportive Leadership , Cheryl E. Gray

Hello Traitor: An Examination of Individual Differences in Perceptions of Technology-Related Incivility , David J. Howard

Measuring State Empathy: Exploring the Efficacy of a Film Clip Task and Examining Individual Differences in Empathic Responding , Stephanie R. Hruza

The Relationship of Hope to Goals and Psychological Outcomes in Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer: A Test of Hope Theory , Kelly A. Hyland

Decisions and How Doctors Make Them: Modeling Multilevel Decision-Making within Diagnostic Medicine , Michelle S. Kaplan

Cultural Values as a Moderator of the Emotion Suppression to Strain Relationship: A Comparison of Two Dominant Theoretical Mechanisms , Roxanne C. Lawrence

How Enduring is Global Precedence? , Jong Lee

Cool Under Fire: Psychopathic Traits and Decision-Making in Law Enforcement-Oriented Populations , Sean J. McKinley

Cognitive Ability and Ambivalence toward Alcohol: An Examination of Working Memory Capacity’s Influence on Drinking Behavior , Emily T. Noyes

The Relationship Between Parenting Stress, Attendance, and Attrition in a Group-Based Parent Management Training Program , David Rubio Jr.

Unintended Consequences? Testing the Effects of Adolescent-Targeted Anti-Vaping Media upon Adult Smokers , Leslie E. Sawyer

“Just Joking”: Women’s Cardiovascular Responses to Sexist Humor , Samantha Shepard

Negative Performance Feedback and the Self-Regulatory Benefits of Mindfulness , Jeremiah Slutsky

Examining the Potential Interactions of Expectancies and Disordered Eating Behavior , Cody B. Staples

The nature of resilience: A person-centered approach using latent profile analysis , Yuejia Teng

Evaluation of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Fit Indices in Distinguishing between Circumplex and Other Factor Models , Andrew J. Thurston

Comparison of Parameter Estimation Approaches for Multi-Unidimensional Pairwise Preference Tests , Naidan Tu

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Impact of Cues on Autobiographical Memory Recall in Depression , Ena Begovic

Perfectionism, Negative Life Events, and Cognitive Appraisal: A Contextual Model of Perfectionism’s Maladaptive Nature , Ansley M. Bender

The Effect of Acute Interpersonal Racial Discrimination on Smoking Motivation and Behavior among Black Smokers , Patricia F. Calixte-Civil

Parent Coping and Sibling Relationship Quality in Pediatric Cancer: The Moderating Effects of Parental Emotion Socialization Beliefs , Esther Davila

Higher Sense of Control Predicts Long-term Well-being After Depression , Andrew R. Devendorf

Villains or Vermin? The Differential Effects of Discrimination and Dehumanization on Immigrant Cardiovascular Responses , Mona El-Hout

Alcohol Expectancy Associates as a Probe of the Motivational Processes that Lead to Drinking , Daniel C. Faraci

Features of borderline personality and related psychopathologies as a contemporaneously and temporally connected network , Haya Fatimah

Editing the Self Away: The Effects of Photo Manipulation on Perceptions of the Self , Roxanne N. Felig

Motivation Matters: The Interaction of Approach and Avoidance Alcohol Motivation and Self-Control Demands in College Drinkers , Becky K. Gius

Facilitators and Barriers to Treatment Engagement in a Behavioral Parent Training Program , Holland Hayford

Effects of Inter-Male Status Challenge and Psychopathic Traits on Sexual Aggression , Amy M. Hoffmann

If at First You Don’t Succeed...Your Coworkers Just Might Be Pleased: A Story of Workplace Schadenfreude , Kim Johnson

Motivation to Volunteer , Lendi N. Joy

Exploration of Drive for Leanness in Relation to Drives for Thinness and Muscularity, as well as their Concurrent Associations with Health-Related Outcomes , Brittany Lang

Affect and Craving: Examining the Differential Influences of Positive and Negative Affect on Inclinations to Approach and Avoid Alcohol Use , Jacob A. Levine

Threat-Induced Alterations in Cognition and Associations with Disinhibited Behavior , Julia B. McDonald

A Prospective Examination of Psychosocial Outcomes Following Gynecomastia Surgery , D. Luis Ordaz

Assessing the Impacts of Sensorimotor Stimuli and Nicotine Content on Cravings and Other Outcomes of E-Cigarette Use , Amanda M. Palmer

The Threat of Virality: Digital Outrage Combats the Spread of Opposing Ideas , Curtis Puryear

Why Are Women Leaving STEM? An Examination of Workplace Rivalry , Joseph Regina

A Fidelity-based Integration Model for Explicit and Implicit Ensemble Coding , Ke Tong

Care in Context: Constructing a Theory of Care in One Fifth Grade Classroom , Emily J. Wingate

Depression, Music Choice, and Affective Outcomes in Daily Life , Sunkyung Yoon

The Immediate Effect of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Attention and Acceptance , Xiaoqian Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Understanding the Mechanisms Between Job Stress and Employee Sleep: A Daily Diary Study , Marijana L. Arvan

The Effects of Mortality Salience on Interest in Death (and Life) Among High Openness Individuals , Patrick Boyd

Linking Sleep and Aggression: The Role of Response Inhibition and Emotional Processing , Melanie L. Bozzay

Mapping Reward Values to Cues, Locations, and Objects: The Influence of Reward Associations on Visual Attention , Constanza de Dios

From C++ to Conscientiousness: Modeling the Psychosocial Characteristics Influencing Cybersecurity Personnel Performance , Rachel C. Dreibelbis

Personality and Process: The Role of Dyadic Homophily , Christina N. Falcon

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Psychology Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Theses/projects/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Impact of Perinatal Escitalopram Exposure on Adolescent Behavior , Jessica Bezenah - Bottorff

EFFECTS OF APOLIPOPROTEIN E, DEPRESSION, AND ANXIETY ON COGNITIVE DECLINE AMONG OLDER ADULTS AT RISK FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE , Lea Hemphill

Career motivation as mediator between cultural self-construal and interest , Mengxuan Zhang

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2023 2023

WHY WE LEAVE: THE ROLE OF APPROACH AND AVOIDANCE MOTIVATIONS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP DISSOLUTION , Emily Connard

THE IMPACT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND WORKPLACE RELATIONSHIPS ON EMPLOYEE BURNOUT AND THEIR CORRELATION TO TURNOVER INTENTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT , Teni Davoudian

Development and Validation of the Employee-Supervisor Attachment Scale , Johnny Doherty

Adverse Childhood Experiences Effects on Hot and Cool Executive Functioning , Miriam Gabrielle Fenton

BIOMARKERS OF OBJECTIVE CRITERIA FOR SUBTLE COGNITIVE DECLINE IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE , Mary Ellen Garcia

THE EFFECTS OF INNOVATIVE WORK CULTURE AND TRAINING QUALITY ON COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORK BEHAVIORS , Emily Anne Garreton

Perceptions of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Gains Following a Therapeutically Applied Tabletop Role Play Game Group , Tyler Giatroudakis

Pathways Through Care of Latinx Individuals Experiencing First-Episode Psychosis , Estevan Hernandez

BURNING OUT OF TIME: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE, WORKAHOLISM, PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, AND BURNOUT , Hira Ikram

AUTHENTICITY, SUPPORT, AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE FOR TRANSGENDER EMPLOYEES , Raeven Jones

EMPLOYEE PERCEPTIONS OF STRESSORS AT WORK: AN ATTACHMENT PERSPECTIVE , Emma Josephine Naudet

Psychological Distress and Problematic Video Gaming: The Role of Psychological Inflexibility and Emotion Dysregulation , Frank Nieblas

IMPACT OF SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE COMPLAINTS ON MCI DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE , Rhiannon Rivas

One of Us: Monoracial Latinx Perspectives of Multiracial Latinx-White Individuals , Rosemary Rojas

Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers Not Associated with Neurologic Compromise Among Mild Cognitively Impaired Reverters with Parkinson's Disease , Cameron Ryczek

THE EFFECT OF RESPONSE FORMAT ON FAKING IN PERSONALITY MEASUREMENTS USED FOR PERSONNEL SELECTION , Gilberto Sanchez

An Evaluation of Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games for Psychological and Social Functioning Amongst Youth/Young Adults , Adam Thomas Soleski

REPEATED TREATMENT WITH 5-HT1A AND 5-HT1B RECEPTOR AGONISTS: EVIDENCE OF TOLERANCE AND BEHAVIORAL SENSITIZATION , Jordan Taylor

Toxic Leadership and its effect on Employees' Subjective Well-Being , Vaishnavi Waldiya

GRIEF, DEPRESSION, AND WELL-BEING: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLEXIBILITY , Ashley Wicochea

The Effects of Organizational Justice , Anneliese Yuenger

Overtime Worked and Its Effect on Burnout, Illness, and Health outcomes , Haoqiu Zhang

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2022 2022

THE EFFECT OF NUMERACY AND MATH ANXIETY ON WHOLE NUMBER BIAS , Jasmine Jessica Leanna Bonsel

THE INFLUENCE OF MOTIVATION, ROLE IDENTITY, AND PERCEIVED MEANINGFULNESS OF WORK ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOLUNTEER SATISFACTION AND VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTION , Tonia Christine Caraveo

The Influence of Work-Life Balance Directionality on Retirement Decisions , Joshua Craig

The Relationship Between COVID-19 Stress, Psychological Inflexibility, and Psycholoical Well-Being , Alyx Duckering

AS SEEN ON TV: REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN ADVERTISEMENTS AND THE EFFECTS ON WOMEN’S SELF-PERCEPTIONS, SELF-OBJECTIFICATION, AND SELF-DEHUMANIZATION , Kori Gearhart

Social Comparison and Shifting in Quantitative Performance , Ashlee Pardo

TO PREVENT OR TO DECEIVE: THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE ON MALINGERING AND WORKPLACE INJURY VIA PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT BREACH AND SAFETY CLIMATE , Abraham Rico

THE ROLE OF TRAUMA COPING SELF-EFFICACY AND SHAME IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARIANTS OF SELF-BLAME AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES , Melody Robinson

OBSERVING GENDER ROLE SALIENCE AND GENDER ROLE FLEXIBILITY AS POTENTIAL BUFFERS BETWEEN LEVELS OF HOUSEHOLD RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPERIENCES WITH WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT AND ROLE OVERLOAD , Roberta Alexis Salgado

PREDICTORS OF DEPRESSION IN DIFFERENT SUBGROUPS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE: A NEUROIMAGING STUDY , Yenny Gabriela Valenzuela

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2021 2021

I AM OUT, NOW WHAT?: THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF BEING JUSTICE-INVOLVED , Eric J. Cazares

What Impact Can Conflict Resolution Skills Have on Conflict Experienced Within Culturally Heterogenous Virtual Teams? , Kellen Dohrman

ANTECEDENTS AND OUTCOMES OF EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONAL ORIENTATION PERCEPTION , Kaleb Garcia

HOUSEHOLD RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPERIENCES OF WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT AND WELL-BEING AMONG FATHERS: THE ROLE OF IDENTITY AND GENDER ROLE BELIEFS , Rita Garcia

I’M ATTACHED TO MY WORK: AN INVESTIGATION OF JOB EMBEDDEDNESS AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN WORKAHOLISM ON EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION, SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING, AND TURNOVER INTENTIONS , Cristian Hernandez

HOW THE LEVEL OF JOB COMPLEXITY IMPACTS THE GENDER WAGE GAP ACROSS OCCUPATIONS , Zytlaly Magaña Corona

LGB EMPLOYMENT AND CIVIL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS: EMPHASIZING EXISTING AND POTENTIAL POLICY FOR IMPROVING THE LGB HIRING , Alexa Nicole Massiquet

FAMILY-SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISOR BEHAVIOR AND FATHERS’ WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT , Talar Ohanian

SEROTONIN 1B/1A RECEPTOR MODULATION ON BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY IN C57BL/6J MICE , Brandon L. Oliver

EFFECTS OF NEONATAL ETHANOL EXPOSURE IN NORMAL AND DOPAMINE DEFICIENT RATS , Jessica Luz Razo

THE WEIGHT OF SCOPE, PACE, AND PRACTICES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE DURING EVALUATIONS OF ACCEPTANCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE , Lewis Schneider

Inducing Proactive Control with High Load AX-CPT , Mina Selim

INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF EXPECTATIONS OF DISCLOSURE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRAUMA-RELATED SHAME AND SEEKING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES , Holly Rachelle Timblin

Does Working Memory Capacity Modulate the Relationship between Intentional Mind-Wandering and Task Demand? , Stephen Ware

Spirituality, Inclusivity, Workplace Well-Being, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior , Rebecca Williams

HELPING YOUR CHILDREN DEVELOP POSITIVE, SUCCESSFUL SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS: A 4-SESSION PARENTING WORKSHOP , Caitlin Marie Younger Sackett

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2020 2020

THE IMPACT OF EXPERIENCING AGEISM AND SOCIAL SUPPORT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGE AND PERCEPTIONS OF SELF-EFFICACY , Sean Alexander

Working Women’s Cognitive Attributions and Self-Perceptions After Experiences of Subtle Sexism and Internalized Sexism , Amanda Bain

THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE AFFECT ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING THROUGH AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT, ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS, AND EMPLOYEE BURNOUT , Michelle Balesh

BIOLOGICAL SIBLINGS: CAN YOU TRUST THEM WITH YOUR MATE? , Elisha Barron

THE INCREMENTAL EFFECT OF VOLUNTARINESS OF PART TIME WORK STATUS OVER AGE IN PREDICTING WORK MOTIVATION IN PART TIME WORKERS , Daniel A. Caro

INVESTIGATING WORK ENGAGEMENT AND AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WORK UNDERLOAD SCALE, MEDIATED BY WORK-RELATED BOREDOM , Jessica Clemons

REFINEMENT OF THE SPITEFULNESS CONSTRUCT , Arturo Covarrubias-Paniagua

Anticipated Stigma and Chronic Illness: The Impact of Psychosocial Safety Climate , Michelle DeOrsey

A PARENTING CURRICULUM FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH A FOCUS ON ATTACHMENT THEORY , Alexandria Driscoll

ESTABLISHING THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AS AN OUT-OF-SCHOOL PARTNER IN STEM/STEAM EDUCATION , Gwyneth Fernandez

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AUTOMATION THREAT AND EMPLOYEE RELATED OUTCOMES USING SUPPORT AS A BUFFER AND MODERATED BY TRANSFORMATIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP , Monica Garcia

A FOUR-SESSION WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM: UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS, AND SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH ASD , Vanessa Huizar

SELF-STIGMA AND HELP-SEEKING IN FIRST GENERATION STUDENTS: THE MODERATING ROLE OF EMPOWERMENT , D'Andra P. Johnson

Virtuality Now: Redefining Virtuality from an Individual Perspective , Trinity Kerr

SUPPORTING EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOOL READINESS IN INFANTS AND TODDLERS: A 4-SESSION PARENTING WORKSHOP , Elaine Krzeminski

Work-Related Communications After Hours: The Influence of Communication Technologies and Age on Work-Life Conflict and Burnout , Alison Loreg

The Myers-Briggs Personality System and its Moderating Effects on the Relationship Between Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction , Rebecca Marshall

THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL ACCEPTANCE AND AWARENESS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOMS AND POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH AMONG SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT , Cecilia Maria Melendez

DUAL MECHANISMS OF COGNITIVE CONTROL: AN EYE TRACKING STUDY , Kyle Mobly

SCOPE OF ATTENTION VARIATION AS A FUNCTION OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION , Kathleen O'Donnell

The Role of Numerical Processing and Working Memory Capacity on the Relationship Between Math Anxiety and Math Performance , Pilar Olid

DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN THE PERCEIVED INVASION OF PRIVACY WHEN SOCIAL MEDIA IS USED IN PERSONNEL SELECTION , Zayna Osborne

RETIREMENT PLANNING MOTIVATION FROM A REINFORCEMENT SENSITIVITY THEORY (RST) PERSPECTIVE , Luke Poulter

Developmental Implications of Parentification: An Examination of Ethnic Variation and Loneliness , Bertha Preciado

Helping Young Girls Build a Positive Body Image: A Training Workshop for Parents , Jennifer Richardson

HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A PARENT EDUCATION WORKSHOP , Lauren Rivera

The Relationship Between Subtle Sexism and Women's Careers Explained by Cognitive Processes and Moderated by Attachment Styles , Patricia Carolina Rivera

The Consequences of Social Exclusion on Women's Negative Emotions and Self-Regulation of Unhealthy Eating , Caitlin Shaw

The Importance of Nutrition for Development in Early Childhood , Kaitlyn Sue Suha

FELT INCLUSION AMONG SEXUAL MINORITY EMPLOYEES: THE ROLES OF THE ORGANIZATION AND SUPERVISOR , Jamie Michael Tombari

The Importance of Recess in the Lives of Children , Kayla L. Villanueva

THE INFLUENCE OF SPIRITUALITY ON MOTIVATION IN THE WORK PLACE , Tong Yao

Theses/Projects/Dissertations from 2019 2019

How Prototypicality Influences Inferences and Discrimination Towards Gay Men , Adam Beam

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JUSTICE PERCEPTIONS, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS AND WORKPLACE BEHAVIORS AMONG OLD AND YOUNG EMPLOYEES , Martha P. Blanco Villarreal

THE IMPORTANCE OF FIT: FOSTERING JOB SATISFACTION AND RETENTION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS , Heather Carrasco

THE IMPACT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT DISCLOSURE REACTIONS ON INTERPERSONAL FACTORS AND MENTAL HEALTH , Lindsey Chesus

Women's Perceptions of Sexual Assault Perpetrators and Fear of Rape , Aaron George Cisneros

DIVERSITY STRUCTURES AND WHITES' CLAIMS OF BIAS , Princess Egbule

IMPACT OF CONDITIONAL JOB OFFER ON APPLICANT REACTIONS TO SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE SELECTION PROCESS , Ashley Gomez

THE EFFECTS OF WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY AND TRAIT ANXIETY ON VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY PERFORMANCE , Celene Gonzalez

THE DARK SIDE OF FAMILY SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISOR BEHAVIORS: IS GETTING HELP WITH FAMILY NEEDS DETRIMENTAL TO WOMEN'S CAREERS? , Gino Howard

EARLY-LIFE METHYLPHENIDATE DECREASES SOCIAL ANXIETY IN ADULT FEMALE RATS WITHOUT CENTRAL DOPAMINE DEFICIENCY , Graham James Kaplan

The Impact of Sexual Assault Training and Gender on Rape Attitudes , Monica Krolnik Campos

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REPRESENTATION AND STRESS FOR WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE WORKPLACE , Aurora Luksetich

EFFECTS OF ANXIETY AND WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY ON PERFORMANCE IN THE EMOTIONAL STROOP TASK , Gia Macias

THE ROLE OF SELF-COMPASSION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORAL INJURY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG MILITARY VETERANS , Mernyll Manalo

Development of the Mate Expulsion Inventory , Nestor Maria

Sexual Harassment, Justice Perceptions, and Social Identity: Cognition and Group Dynamics , Devon Marrott

THE ROLE OF SEXUAL SELF-SCHEMA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION AND SEXUAL FUNCTIONING AND SATISFACTION , Alexandra Medina

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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States , Aeleah M. Granger

It Takes a Village: An Examination of Social Relationships and Mental Health , Em Francis Trubits

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Examining Factors Impacting the Service Needs of Unhoused Women , Holly Brott

Main, Mediated, and Moderated Effects of Participating in an After-School Social and Emotional Learning Program on Young Children's Development of Social-Emotional Skills , Amy L. Cordier

Who Puts the "Support" in Supportive Housing? The Impact of Housing Staff on Resident's Well-Being, and the Potential Moderating Role of Self-Determination , Kenna Estell Dickard

Motivation to Collaborate: A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Service Providers on an Alternative First Response Program , Desiree' J. DuBoise

Tell Me, Do You Feel It Too? A Meta-analysis of Dyadic Emotional Contagion in the Workplace , Stefanie Fox

Left on "Read" and All Alone: Instigated Cyber Incivility, Shame, and Experienced Ostracism at Work , Alison Lucia Hunt

Exploring Associations between Military Identity and Well-being Outcomes among Post-9/11 Veterans after Separation , James David Lee

Experiences of People with Serious Mental Illness Seeking Services at Community Mental Health Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Emily Leickly

Why So Serious? Using the Belongingness Need Tenet from the Self-Determination Theory to Examine Workplace Humor and Its Outcomes , Katharine Lucille McMahon

Stress-Reduction from Positive Support: Impacts of Receiving Partner Capitalization Support on Veteran Stress/Work Stress , MaryAnn Dona Samson

Diversity in Recruitment: The Role of Realistic Website Job Previews for Racial and Ethnic Minority Applicants , Jennifer Saucedo

Antecedents of FSSB: Evaluating the Demographic Basis of Support , Erika Ann Schemmel

A Daily Investigation of the Recovery Paradox: Examining the Dynamic Interplay of Workload, Recovery Experiences, and Microbreaks , Morgan Rose Taylor

Not on the Menu: Customer Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry , Fernanda Wolburg Martinez

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Model.Disclose(): Examination of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Disclosure at Work , Timothy Allen Carsey

Transforming Learning Communities, Transforming Ourselves: A Qualitative Investigation of Identity Processes in a Participatory Action Research-themed Undergraduate Course , Julia Sara Dancis

Clarifying and Measuring Inclusive Leadership , Kelly Mason Hamilton

Intersections of Masculinity, Culturally Relevant Factors, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Asian American Men , Jason Z. Kyler-Yano

Sleeping to Support: An Examination of the Relationship Between Leader Sleep and Positive Support Behaviors , Jordyn Jan Leslie

Work-Related IPV Among Latinos: Exploring the Roles of Fatherhood Status, Gendered Expectations, and Support for Intimate Partner's Employment , Adrian Luis Manriquez

Masculinity Instability and Ideologies as Predictors of IPV Perpetration: The Mediating Role of Relationship Power , Emma Christine Marioles O'Connor

The Benefits of Social Support on Health and Well-Being in Military Populations: Examining Mechanisms, Source of Support, and the Reach of a Workplace Well-Being Intervention , AnnaMarie Sophia O'Neill

Do Motives Matter? The Role of Motivation in Shaping the Impact of Mindfulness Training on Teachers' Psychological Distress and Wellbeing , Cristi N. Pinela

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Longitudinal Effects of a Family and Sleep Supportive Intervention on Service Member Anger and Resilience , Shalene Joyce Allen

Drug Conviction and Employment Restriction: Experiences of Employees with Drug-Related Criminal Histories , Liana Bernard

Sustaining Boys' Motivation Over the Transition to Middle School: Can Interpersonal Resources Protect Boys from Engagement Declines Across Sixth Grade? , Brandy Anne Brennan

Returning to Rejection: Outcomes and Boundary Conditions of Mental Illness Stereotypes , Stefanie Fox

Guarding Against Strain: The Moderating Role of Nonwork Experiences in the Relationship Between Work-Related Hypervigilance and Strain in Correctional Officers , Samantha Getzen

Anti-Muslim Bias: Investigating Individual Differences, Threat Perceptions, and Emotions in Islamophobic Policy Support , Aeleah M. Granger

Black Children's Development of Self-Regulation within Stressful Contexts of Parenting: Investigating Potential Buffering Effects of a Kindergarten Social-Emotional Learning Program , Eli Labinger

"Like I Was an Actual Researcher": Participation and Identity Trajectories of Underrepresented Minority and First-Generation STEM Students in Research Training Communities of Practice , Jennifer Lynn Lindwall

Claiming Miscommunication to Justify Rape: The Role of Liking the Perpetrator , Alyssa Marie Glace Maryn

An "I" for an "I" : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Instigated and Reciprocal Incivility , Lauren Sarah Park

Parenting and Children's Academic Coping as a Dynamic System: Feedforward, Feedback, and Mediators of Changes Across the School Year , Kristen Elizabeth Raine

Does Experiencing Spousal Support and Strain Impact the Quality of Family-Based Support that Supervisors Provide to Employees? , Joseph Alvin Sherwood

"B-ing Flexible" : Examining Creativity in Bisexual Employees , Megan Jane Snoeyink

Exploring the Relationships Between Community Experiences and Well-Being among Youth Experiencing Homelessness , Katricia Stewart

Mothers' Drinking Motives , Sheila Kathleen Umemoto

An Examination of Nurses' Schedule Characteristics, Recovery from Work, and Well-Being , Sarah Elizabeth Van Dyck

Preventing Sexual Violence Through Understanding Perceptions of Sexual Offenders , Judith G. Zatkin

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Examining Employee Needs at Work and Home: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective , Dana Anuhea Auten

Trajectories, Time Windows, and Alternative Pathways of Engagement: Motivational Resources Underlying Academic Development during Middle School , Heather Anne Brule

Examining Mindfulness Training for Teachers: Theoretical and Methodological Extensions of Intervention Effectiveness , Jaiya Rae Choles

Detecting Reinforcement Patterns in the Stream of Naturalistic Observations of Social Interactions , James Lamar DeLaney 3rd

An Investigation of the Temporal Relationship Between Agitation and Sleep Disturbances , Emily Catherine Denning

Peers' Academic Coping as a Resource for Academic Engagement and Motivational Resilience in the First Year of Middle School , Daniel Lee Grimes

Home Resources Supporting Workplace Resources: an Investigation of Moderated Intervention Effects From the Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe) , Sarah Nielsen Haverly

"It Puts a Face to All the Knowledge We've Gotten" : a Program of Research on Intimate Partner Violence Surrogate Impact Panels , Kate Louise Sackett Kerrigan

A Daily Examination of Anger and Alcohol Use Among Post-9/11 Veterans , James David Lee

An Examination of Daily Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors, Perceived Supervisor Responsiveness and Job Satisfaction , Luke Daniel Mahoney

Nurse Can't Even: the Immediate Impact of Incivility on Affect, Well-being, and Behavior , Katharine Lucille McMahon

Perceptions of Police Use of Force at the Intersection of Race and Pregnancy , Emma Elizabeth Lee Money

The Impact of Paternal Caregivers for Youth Who Commit Sexual Offenses , Miranda Hope Sitney

Human Energy in the Workplace: an Investigation of Daily Energy Management Strategies, Job Stressors and Employee Outcomes , Morgan Rose Taylor

Individual and Community Supports that Impact Community Inclusion and Recovery for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses , Rachel Elizabeth Terry

Investigating Sexual Fantasy and Sexual Behavior in Adolescent Offenders , Hayley Lauren Tews

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Integrating Work Ability into the Organizational Science Literature: Advancing Theory and Developing the Nomological Network , Grant Brady

Family Linked Workplace Resources and Contextual Factors as Important Predictors of Job and Individual Well-being for Employees and Families , Jacquelyn Marie Brady

The Role of Teacher Autonomy Support Across the Transition to Middle School: its Components, Reach, and Developmental Effects , Julia Sara Dancis

Does X Mark the Applicant? Assessing Reactions to Gender Non-Binary Job Seekers , Kelly Mason Hamilton

Urbanicity as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Stigma and Well-being Outcomes for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses , Emily Leickly

The Relationship Between Undergraduate Research Training Programs and Motivational Resources for Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM: Program Participation, Self-efficacy, a Sense of Belonging, and Academic Performance , Jennifer Lindwall

Perceived Partner Responsiveness, Sleep and Pain: a Dyadic Study of Military-Connected Couples , AnnaMarie Sophia O'Neill

Recruitment Marketing: How Do Wellness and Work-Life Benefits Influence Employer Image Perceptions, Organizational Attraction, and Job Pursuit Intentions? , Amy Christine Pytlovany

The Combined Effects of Parent and Teacher Involvement on the Development of Adolescents' Academic Engagement , Nicolette Paige Rickert

Examining the Development and Classroom Dynamics of Student Disaffection Over Multiple Time Periods: Short-term Episodes and Long-term Trajectories , Emily Anne Saxton

Drinking on a Work Night: a Comparison of Day and Person-Level Associations with Workplace Outcomes , Brittnie Renae Shepherd

Development and Validation of the Workplace Mental Illness Stigma Scale (W-MISS) , Nicholas Anthony Smith

Relational Thriving in Context: Examining the Roles of Gratitude, Affectionate Touch, and Positive Affective Variability in Health and Well-Being , Alicia Rochelle Starkey

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse and Juvenile Offending Through Parental Monitoring , Kelly E. Stewart

"To Call or Not to Call?" The Impact of Supervisor Training on Call Center Employee Attitudes and Well-Being , Whitney Elan Schneider Vogel

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Impact of Leader Race and Gender on Perceptions of Organizations in Response to Corporate Error , Nicolas Derek Brown

Impacts of Mindfulness Training on Mechanisms Underlying Stress Reduction in Teachers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial , Jaiya Rae Choles

Student Motivation Profiles as a Diagnostic Tool to Help Teachers Provide Targeted Support , Cailin Tricia Currie

Insufficient Effort Responding on Mturk Surveys: Evidence-Based Quality Control for Organizational Research , Lee Cyr

Affirmative Consent Endorsement and Peer Norms Supporting Sexual Violence Among Vulnerable Students on College Campuses , Alyssa Marie Glace

Gendered Partner-Ideals, Relationship Satisfaction, and Intimate Partner Violence , Sylvia Marie Ferguson Kidder

Organizational Calling and Safety: the Role of Workload and Supervisor Support , Layla Rhiannon Mansfield

Bystander Intervention to Prevent Campus Sexual Violence: the Role of Sense of Community, Peer Norms, and Administrative Responding , Erin Christine McConnell

Benevolent Sexism and Racial Stereotypes: Targets, Functions, and Consequences , Jean Marie McMahon

Perceived Overqualification and Withdrawal Among Seasonal Workers: Would Work Motivation Make a Difference? , Anthony Duy Nguyen

Differential Well-Being in Response to Incivility and Surface Acting among Nurses as a Function of Race , Lauren Sarah Park

Financial Strain and the Work-Home Interface: a Test of the Work-Home Resources Model from the Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe) , MacKenna Laine Perry

Neighbor Perceptions of Psychiatric Supportive Housing : the Role of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors , Amy Leigh Shearer

The Role of Caregiver Disruption in the Development of Juvenile Sexual Offenders , Miranda Sitney

Intrapersonal and Social-Contextual Factors Related to Psychological Well-being among Youth Experiencing Homelessness , Katricia Stewart

Age-based Differences in the Usefulness of Resources: a Multi-Study Investigation of Work and Well-being Outcomes , Lale Muazzez Yaldiz

Pathways to Kindergarten Growth: Synthesizing Theories of the Kindergarten Transition to Support Children's Development , Rita Yelverton

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Force of Manhood: the Consequences of Masculinity Threat on Police Officer Use of Force , Aurelia Terese Alston

Supervisor Mindfulness and Its Association with Leader-Member Exchange , Dana Anuhea Auten

Combat Experiences, Iso-strain, and Sleep Quality Affect Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress among Working Post-9/11 Veterans , Gilbert Patrick Brady Jr.

A Study of Shame-proneness, Drinking Behaviors, and Workplace Role Ambiguity Among a Sample of Student Workers , Sarah Nielsen Haverly

Intraminority Support For and Participation In Race-Based Collective Action Movements: an Intersectional Perspective , Jaboa Shawntaé Lake

Patients and Nurses and Doctors Oh My!: Nurse Retention from a Multi-Foci Aggression Perspective , Kevin Oliver Novak

Intimate Partner Violence Impact Panels for Batterer Intervention: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Restorative Justice Process , Kate Louise Sackett

Investigating the Relationship Between Supervisor Status and the Modus Operandi of Juvenile Sexual Offenders: a Routine Activity Theory Perspective , Kelly E. Stewart

The Influence of Sense of Community on the Relationship Between Community Participation and Recovery for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses , Rachel Elizabeth Terry

Profiles of School Readiness and Implications for Children's Development of Academic, Social, and Engagement Skills , Elizabeth Jane Tremaine

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The Psychology Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Psychology Department doctoral and master's students.

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Sexual Minority Behavioral Health Outcomes: The Role of Social Stressors and Self-Regulation , Zane B. Ballard

Cultural Differences in Reactions to Tics , Jordan Stiede

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Perspectives on Social Support and Stigma in PrEP-related Care Among Gay and Bisexual Men on PrEP: A Qualitative Investigation , Juan Pablo Zapata

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Relations of Discriminatory Experiences and Marianismo Beleifs with PTSD Symptoms in Latinx Women , Claire Maria Bird

Family Functioning in Latino Families of Children with ADHD: The Role of Parental Gender and Acculturation , Anne Malkoff

The Famous Names Discrimination Task as a Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease Risk: An ERP Study , Elizabeth Rose Paitel

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Objective and Subjective Influences on Cognitive Performance in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes , Natalie E. Benjamin

Is It Just Me or Was That Sexist? Perception of Hostile and Benevolent Sexism in the Context of Race , Mackenzie S. Kirkman

A Statistical Examination of Impaired Performances Across Concussion Screening Instruments , Kathryn Ann Ritchie

Implicit Regulation of Emotion: Priming Non-Conscious Reappraisal and Suppression During Stress , Sydney Clare Timmer-Murillo

Caregivers' Role in Fostering Resilience in Preschoolers , Kristen Yule

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Suicidal Risk at a College Counseling Center: Correlates at Intake and Therapeutic Outcomes , Maha Baalbaki

The Relationship Between Cognitive Flexibility, Coping, and Symptomatology in Psychotherapy , Benjamin Todd Johnson

Video Game Interventions to Improve Cognition in Older Adults , David E. C. Marra

Acute Stress Exposure and Expression of Instrumentally Conditioned Financial Preferences: An fMRI Study , William Travis McCuddy

A Replication and Extension of the PEERS for Young Adults Social Skills Intervention , Alana J. McVey

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Mechanisms of Regulation: Profiling the Impact of Emotion Regulation on Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms , Samantha Ann Chesney

The Effects of Emotional Arousal on False Recognition in Alexithymia , Anthony N. Correro

Global Self-Worth and Perceptions of Competence in Latino Youth: The Role of Acculturation and Acculturation Risk Factors , Theresa Lauer Kapke

Invariant Two Component Structure of the RBANS , Elisabeth M. Vogt

Reading between the Lines: Cultural Sexual Scripts and Collegiate Sexual Behaviors , Lauren Yadlosky

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Using I Cubed Theory to Predict the Perpetration of Violence in Adolescent Romantic Relationships , Christina Caiozzo

Who Confronts Sexual Prejudice? How Gender and Ideologies are Related to Heterosexual Allies Challenging Hate Speech , Kelly L. LeMaire

Parent-Adolescent Communication about Health Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus , Ashley Charlene Moss

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Assessment of Intervention Effects on In Vivo Peer Interactions in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders , Bridget Kathleen Dolan

Reinforcement Learning in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease , Christina Marie Figueroa

Predicting Depression And Help-Seeking Attitudes Among Latinos: Acculturation And Cultural Values , Natasha Suhail Najar

The Influence of Anger on Implicit Biases , Katherine Reiter

Alcohol Use In Mexican-Americans By Nativity: The Role Of Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, And Acculturative Stress , Leticia G. Vallejo

The Role Of Maternal Attributions In Treatment Outcomes For Children With Adhd , Kelsey Ann Weinberger

The Faith Lives Of Lesbians And Psychological Health: The Moderating Role Of Internalized Homonegativity , Dane Robert Whicker

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Effects of Fashion Ads on Young Adults' Physical Self-Assessments , Michaela Engdahl

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Standardized and Personally Relevant Stimuli in Two Mood Induction Procedures , Kathleen Hazlett

Effects of Violence on Youths' Perceptions of Peer and Sibling Aggression , Jessica Houston

A Factor Structure of a Presenting Problems Checklist: Comparing Levels of Distress and Impairment , Julia Rubinshteyn

The Peers Intervention: Social Anxiety, Physiological Regulation, and Core Autistic Symptoms in Adolescents with Autism , Kirsten A. Schohl

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Long Term Effects of Chronic Variable Stress Administered during Different Developmental Stages in Mice , Henry Boeh

Ambivalent sexism and the expected distribution of power in romantic relationships , Teni Davoudian

Parents' Influence on Child Social Self-Efficacy and Social Cognition , Denise Marie Gardner

Acculturation, Cultural Values, and Latino Parental Beliefs About the Etiology of ADHD , Kathryn E. Lawton

Emotional Responses to Gender-Based Inequality: Justifications and Consequences , Erin Quasney

Effects of Chronic Variable Stress Across Developmental Stages in Mice , Sheryl Jayne Stevens

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Functional Resting State Connectivity in Individuals At-Risk for Alzheimer's Disease , Alissa M. Butts

Neural Dedifferentiation in Relation to Risk for Alzheimer's Disease , Nathan C. Hantke

The neuropsychological functioning of men residing in a homeless shelter , Sara Murray Hegerty

Child and Caregiver Social Behavior and Joint Attention Change following P.L.A.Y. Project Intervention , Jeffrey Scott Karst

Religious Coping and Social Support as Mediators and/or Moderators and Acculturative Stress in a Latino Community Sample , Priscilla Vasquez

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Treatment Attrition and Relapse Readmission in Psychiatric Inpatients: Predictors of Treatment Engagement and Psychiatric Relapse , Nicholas W. Bowersox

The primary prevention of sexual violence against adolescents in Racine County and the Community Readiness Model , Theresa A DeWalt

Depression Among the Oneida: Case Studies of the Interface Between Modern and Traditional , Mark R. Powless

Client characteristics and treatment retention in an outpatient drug-free chemical dependency program , Jessica A Thull

Submissions from 2007 2007

Consenting to unwanted sexual activity in heterosexual relationships: A sociocultural examination , Brianna Bartels

Investigating processes of positive adaptation in children living in violent homes , Renee L. DeBoard

Predictors of behavior during mother-child interactions , Elizabeth A. Heideman

Resilience in victims of intimate partner abuse , Sharon R. Shatil

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

The role of an implicit power/sex association in the confluence model of sexual aggression , Kristine M. Chapleau

The relationship between exposure to interparental conflict and social cognitive processes in children's peer relations , Kara L. Lindstedt

Cognitive style patterns among those at high risk for eating disorders , Valerie J. Lucas

The effect of a small unexpected extrinsic reward on memory performance in humans , Mark R. Powless

Lesbian Lives: An Exploration of Faith, Quality of Life and Personal Ideology , Beth Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Witnessing Parental Violence: A Retrospective Analysis of the Effects on Partner Violence in a Sample of Ethnically Diverse Women , Terri A. deRoon

Age-related asymmetry reduction indicative of functional recruitment and plasticity : an FMRI study of inhibitory control , Veronica M. Dixon

Emotional Processes in the Family: Context for Interparental Conflict , Gregory M. Fosco

The role of attunement in relationship satisfaction and conflict resolution , Patrick R. Gunderson

Interparental Conflict and Children's Internalizing Psychopathology: Examining the Role of Children's Appraisals and Emotions , Jennifer K. Hauser

Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes Following Anterior Temporal Lobectomy for Intractable Medical Temporal Lobe Epilepsy , Tiffany Warren

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

The state-trait empathy model of helping : does state empathy moderate the relationship between trait empathy and helping? , Robert W. Bond

ADHD symptoms and creative vocational and recreations interests , Karla M. Felske

Goal setting by women in battered women's shelters , Kathleen McHugh

Four components of lesbian community , Gregory J. Simons

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Psychological outcomes of dating violence: the moderating effects of ego-resiliency and social support , Michelle Dennis

The role of attachment in shaping children's adjustment to interparental conflict , Sarah R. Raynor

Modulation of memory storage processes associated with emotionally arousing narratives , Douglas Yee

Submissions from 2001 2001

A comprehensive model of dating violence: Testing the integration of social learning and attachment theories , Kristen M Kingsfogel

Submissions from 2000 2000

Outcome effects of receiving a spiritually informed vs. a standard cognitive-behavioral stress management workshop , Robert William Nohr

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Clinician attitudes about a behavioral health questionnaire as a function of level of support , Jennifer L. Close-Goedjen

A scale for measuring attitudes toward people with psychological problems , Lynn M. Servais

Submissions from 1998 1998

The role of personal meaning and multiple risk and protective factors in adolescent alcohol abuse , James K. Giese

Detection of impression management on the COMPASS measure , Wendy Martinez Schneider

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

Religious orientation and antihomosexual prejudice , Kristina M. Kracht

Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996

The effects of sex-type on hiring decisions , Robert Glowacki

Schematic processing and memory for schema-relevant stimuli in bulimia-prone and normal undergraduates , Kelly M. Gustavson

The formulation of the Remoralization Scale , Tracy Rand

Concurrent validity of the current life functioning scale , Darci Shook-Woolley

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

Perceptions of adopted children and adoptive parents , Christa B. Crawford

Gender differences in mate selection preferences : effects of sex-role orientation and involvement levels , Erin Drawz

Adolescent risk-taking and alcohol use / , James K. Giese

The effects of schemata development on information recall after reading a newspaper article , Lee Ann Kahlor

The Michill Adjective Rating Scale (MARS) and the MMPI-2 : concurrent validation , Rosemary Lynn Kleman

Depression and engagement in mood-related activities in learning disabled and non-learning disabled adult students , Patric W. Mattek

Predictors of response to two types of mood-induction procedures: an analogue of depression , Bryan C. Smyth

Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994

Frontal-lobe functioning among conduct disordered adolescents in an institutional setting , James Dabrowski

Performance as a function of body esteem of elite speedskaters and a comparison with college undergraduate students , Jeff Klaiber

An attempt to predict change in mood in response to cognitive and behavioral induction techniques , Kathleen McHugh

Parenting of young children by employed and nonemployed mothers , Margaret Anderson Rodriguez

Gender differences in the completion of sequential reasoning patterns , Beatrix Schieffer

Detecting malingering on the MMPI-2 with and without a head injury correction factor , Lisa L. Schwartz

The comparability of the WPPSI-R, WPPSI, and WISC-R , Rainer Seitz

Beck and Hamilton Rating Scales as measures of treatment outcome for depression , Li Tan

Risk taking behavior in delinquent and nondelinquent adolescent boys , Monica L. Weiss

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Submissions from 2022 2022

The Influence of Environmental Sounds on Cognition and Mood , Huda Ahmed

The Impacts of Researcher Attire on Participant Performance in Psychological Experiments , Jesse S. Basi

ABSTRACT VS. CONCRETE MINDSETS IN MORAL INJURY , Paige J. Hallman

The Effects of Peer Connectedness and Popularity in Predicting Adolescent E-Cigarette and Binge Drinking Patterns Across the COVID-19 Pandemic , Kyla N. Lamb

Exploring Parent and Peer Support as a Predictor of Adolescent Adjustment During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Madeleine M. MacDonald

The Cross-Modal Relationship Between Language and Mathematics: A Bi-Directional Training Paradigm , Urvi Maheshwari

Mismatched Music: How Conflicting Musical Information Impacts Emotional Judgements , Matthew W. Tiplady

Mindsets for Goal Attainment and Experiences of Unethical Transgressions , Hallie Wiltzer

Are Conspiracy Beliefs Induced by Thinking Disposition and Economic Uncertainty? , Sean E. Yilmaz

Submissions from 2021 2021

Interactions between Brief Virtual Exposure to Natural Environments and Psychological Well-Being , Giuliana GN Brancato

Values Affirmation in The Treatment of Moral Injury: A Pilot Study , Eve G. Chapnik

To Sing Or To Speak: Closeness Between Mother-Infant Dyads In Different Contexts , Aislinn M. Connor

Examining the role of Diverted Attention on Musical Motion Aftereffects , Hannah D. Cormier

Defining Mother-Infant Synchrony in a Speech and Song Context , Roisin A. Delaney

Social Media as a Predictor of Depression Rates Among Male Versus Female Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Kaylee A. Fishback

Do Social Media Usage and The Endorsement of Collective Values Predict Loneliness? , Caoyu Cy Pan

Submissions from 2020 2020

A Nature Walk a Day, Keeps Unhappiness Away: Restorative Campus Environments and Student Well-Being , Justine Albert

DOES WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE PLAY VIDEO GAMES PROMOTE AGGRESSION , Kimberly M. Clarke

The Relationship Between Extracurricular Activities and the Well-Being of Undergraduate Students , Angelica C. Galluzzo

Evaluating Success in Addictions Treatment , Cole G. Granger

Parental Marital Status and Perceived Parental Marital Stability as Predictors of Avoidant Attachment Style in Young Adult Romantic Relationships , Eden G. C. Jacobson

“Send Me Your Location”: Examining Cyber Dating Abuse Victimization and Self-Esteem in Adolescents , Grace K. Millett

Conformity and Persuasion: The Moderating Roles of Interpersonal Closeness and Interaction Partner Sex , Christianne Morrison

There is More to Snapchat than Snapping: Examining Active and Passive Snapchat Use as Predictors of Anxiety in Adolescents , Nicole A. Orlan

Narcissism and Attachment Anxiety Predicting the Impact of Hiding Instagram “Likes” In Canada , Madeleine T. Visca

Who's to Blame? How Attributions of Blame Impact Perceptions of Effective Leaders , Emily M. Wildeboer

DEPTH PERCEPTION IN VIRTUAL PERIPERSONAL SPACE: AN INVESTIGATION OF MOTION PARALLAX ON PERCEPTION- VS ACTION-ESTIMATIONS , Hongyao Zhu

Submissions from 2019 2019

Moral Perceptions in the Workplace , Leonid V. Beletski

Influences on Early Creativity: Examining the Role of Affect, Movement and Autonomy During Play on Divergent Thinking Skills of Preschool Children , Taylor S. Boyd

A Safe Place for Morally Corrupt Judgements: The Effect of Trust on Moral Decision Making , Robin C. Doyle

"Challenge Accepted": Exploring Predictors of Risky Online Behaviour in Emerging Adults , Shannon Ward

The Role of Extraversion, Sensitivity to Music Reward, and Music Tempo on Word Recall , Mingyang Xu

Submissions from 2018 2018

Examining the Effects of Framing on Probability Discounting , Owen M. Chevalier

The Effects of Aromatherapy on Stress in a University Population , Theresa L. Flagler

The Effects of Fantasy Role-Play on Bravery, Motivation, and Physiological Fear Responses While Playing Horror Video Games , Paul A. Giulietti

Every Other, Every Time - Rat Imitative Pattern Learning , Peter A. Khouri

Me or We? The Effect of Team and Individual Sports Activity on Executive Functioning , Alexander I. McKenzie

Snapchat and its Relationship to Alcohol Consumption and Associated Behaviours , Kellie S. Thomas

The Impact of Age and Social Media Preference on Facebook and Instagram Users Reactions to Social Media , L. E. Taylor Trelford

Submissions from 2017 2017

Cognition and Commerce: The Impact of Intuitive Judgment and Rational Analysis on Business Decisions , Bridget A. Bicknell

The Relationship Between Self Perceived Versus Peer Perceived Popularity and Alcohol Consumption in University Students , Dayna A. Blustein

Improving Workplace Commitment to Change: A Test of Impact Reflection and Motivation on Perceived Commitment Constructs , Trenton J. MacDuff

Attention to Melodic versus Phonetic Cues in 8-Month-Old Infants , Alexandra M. Ryken

The Effects of Interpersonal Relations in the Workplace on Cognitive Performance: Does Working with Irritating People Decrease your Performance? , Kristin Skritek

The Effects of Conformity on Eyewitness Testimony and Confidence , Kaitlyn B. Sluys

Submissions from 2016 2016

Stress Interventions for First-Year Undergraduate Students , Shawna N. Allen

Speech to the Beat: Infants' Processing , Alix Altow

Peer Group Belonging, Group Norms and Alcohol Consumption in Emerging Adulthood , Angelica Bell

The Effects of Video Feedback on Public Speaking Anxiety , Nicole M. Donovan

The Effect of Past Experiences on Forgiveness Intentions in Romantic Relationships , Morgane E. Lashkari-Moghaddam

Guilt as a Mediator in the Relationship between Transgression Severity and Transgressors’ Feelings of Forgiveness in Romantic Relationships , Laura Matias

Effects of Visual and Geometric Cues in Rat Foraging , Kyle Rubini

The Effects of Self-Care Meditation Behaviour on Undergraduate Students’ Reported Stress , Anna Smallwood

Resting State fcMRI in the Social Cognition Network as a Predictive Measure for Scores of Socialization of Preterm Neonates , Angela Westgate

Submissions from 2015 2015

Do Our Perceptions Affect Our Decision Making in Legal Contexts? , Scott Benedict

Infants' Memory for Melody and Words in Sung Songs , Leanna De Lucia

The Effects of Visual Cue Facilitation in Spatial Pattern Learning in Rats , Sachia M. Grogan

Infants' Sensitivity to Fine Durational Cues in Speech Perception , Alyssa K. Kuiack

Rhyming versus Repetition in Children's Stories: The Role of Reading Strategies in New Word Recognition , Katherine Stover

Submissions from 2014 2014

Observational Pattern Learning In Rats , Tristan J. Bell Knowlton

Reach-to-Grasp Actions Under Direct and Indirect Viewing Conditions , Ashley C. Bramwell

The Role of Future Time Perspective on Forgiveness: A Study of Transgressions Among Undergraduate University Students , Emily B. Briggs

The Effects of Arousal Induction on Infants' Tempo Preferences , Erin G. Eisen

The Role of Native Language Acquisition in Infant Preferences of Speech and Song , Emma J. Fogel

Working Memory and Music Perception and Production in an Adult Sample , Keara L. Gillis

Singing Competency and Language Abilities in Children , Rebecca Herbert

The Effect of Mood Context on the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony , Ashley R. Lanys

Music-induced mood improves retention in visuomotor adaptation , Kristina Waclawik

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Educational Psychology student researchers develop models that support practitioners' and caregivers' implementation and evaluate evidence-based practices.

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Collaborative Emotion Interpretation: Investigating Participation and Power in Naturalistic Parent-Child Emotion Interactions in Families Participating in a Non-profit Outdoor Education Network in the United States Ashley Hufnagle, 2023 Advisors: Geoffrey Maruyama, David Deliema

The role of numerical cognitive processes for bar graph comprehension Jimin Park, 2023 Advisors: Keisha Varma, Sashank Varma

Data-Based Decision Making in Early Childhood: Teachers’ Competencies, Beliefs, and Practices Kelsey Will, 2022 Advisor: Panayiota Kendeou

"Let's (fire)Work Together!": Exploring the Potential for Intergroup Contact between Nonbinary and Cisgender Individuals through a Cooperative Commercial Board Game Yu-Chi Wang, 2021 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama

Social-emotional learning in higher education: Examining the relationship between social-emotional skills and students’ academic success Isabel Lopez Hurtado, 2020 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama

Revising Misconceptions Using Multiple Documents Reese Butterfuss, 2020 Advisor: Pani Kendeou

Pulling back the curtain on stereotype threat: Testing a mediation framework of identity change and belongingness Anthony Joseph Schulzetenberg, 2020 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama

The Roles of Convergent, Divergent Thinking, and Contextual Focus during Scientific Reasoning: Birth of the “Z” Model Jean-Baptiste Quillien, 2019 Advisors: Keisha Varma and Wilma Koutstaal

Social Capital, Self-Control, and Academic Performance in School-Age Children and Adolescents: Patterns Associated with Race/Ethnicity Wei Song, 2018 Advisors: Geoffrey Maruyama and Zha Xiong

The Development of Arithmetic Sense and Its Predictive Relationship to Mathematical Achievement Soo-hyun Im, 2018 Advisor: Sashank Varma

Gender, Leadership, and Navigating through the Hierarchy: Behavioral Patterns and Managers’ Assessments of Performance, Promotion Potential and Career Derailment Carolyn R Dienhart, 2018 Advisor: Geoffrey Maruyama

Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change Jeremy Y Wang, 2018 Advisor: Keisha Varma

Exploring the Accuracy of School Rankings for Accountability Decisions Yi F. Vue Advisors: Michael Rodriguez, Leah McGuire

A Multi-Modal Multiple Descriptive Case Study of Graduate Students’ Statistical Thinking in Statistical Tests Seven Months After Completing a Simulation-Based Introductory Level Course   Vimal Rao, 2023  Advisors: Jeffrey Bye, Robert delMas

Incorporation of Covariates in Bayesian Piecewise Growth Mixture Models Rik Z. Lamm, 2022 Advisors: Nidhi Kohli and Michael Rodriguez

Understanding the Development of Students' Multivariate Statistical Thinking in a Data Visualization Course   Chelsey Legacy, 2022 Advisors: Robert delMas and Andrew Zieffler

Reliability and Validity Evidence of Diagnostic Methods: Comparison of Diagnostic Classification Models and Item Response Theory-Based Methods   Yoo Jeong Jang, 2022 Advisor: Michael Rodriguez

A Monte Carlo Study of the Effects of Number of Clusters and Level-2 Residual Distributions on Multilevel Models   Hao Jia, 2021 Advisors: Michael Harwell and Nidhi Kohli

Modeling Response Processes in Early Literacy Measures   Jose Rosalio Palma Zamora, 2021  Advisor: Michael Rodriguez

Student Understanding of the Hypothetical Nature of Simulations in Introductory Statistics   Jonathan M Brown, 2021  Advisors: Robert delMas and Andrew Zieffler

Using psychometric models to measure social and emotional learning constructs   Mireya Carmen-Martinez Smith, 2020  Advisor: Micheal Rodriguez

Use of Aggregated Covariates in Propensity Score Analysis of Clustered Data Kyle Nickodem, 2020 Advisor: Ernest Davenport

IRT Branching Models for Individual Differences in Dual-Processing Theory of Reading Comprehension   Bowen Liu, 2020  Advisor: Mark Davison

Standardized Bilingual Assessments: A Means to Reduce Construct-Irrelevant Variance and Ethnic/Racial Stereotype Threat   Julio Caesar, 2020  Advisor: Michael Rodriguez

Growing Certain: Students’ Mechanistic Reasoning about the Empirical Law of Large Numbers   Ethan Brown, 2019  Advisors: Robert delMas and Andrew Zieffler

Asian Americans in Educational Research: The Use of Disaggregated Racial and Ethnic Subgroup Data   Mao Jacobson, 2019  Advisor: Frances Lawrenz

The Effect of Test Speededness Control Within A Computerized Adaptive Multi-Stage Framework   Qinjun Wang, 2019  Advisor: Ernest Davenport

Bayesian Modeling of Associations in Bivariate Mixed-Effects Models for Segmented Growth Curves   Yadira Peralta Torres, 2018  Advisors: Mark Davison and Nidhi Kohli

Using Multiple Regression to Ascertain Group Differences in the Relationship of Predictors to a Criterion: Ethnic Group Differences in the Relationship between Course- taking and Achievement in Mathematics   Kyungin Park, 2018  Advisor: Ernest Davenport

Evaluating the Role of Classroom Behavior Management in Promoting Equitable Discipline Outcomes Alexandria Robers, 2023 Advisors: Faith Miller, Jennifer McComas

Technical Adequacy of the Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener - Teacher Rating Scale: A Systematic Review, Quantitative Synthesis, & Measurement Invariance Study Annie Goerdt, 2023 Advisor: Faith Miller

“What Should We Do Now?”: Family Service Use and Decision-Making in Autism Stacey C. Brandjord, 2022 Advisors: Amanda Sullivan and Amy Esler

Student Perceptions of Caring Adults in Schools: A Qualitative Multi-Case Study Jenna McGinnis, 2022 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Amanda Sullivan

Advancing Tailored Implementation of Evidence-based Practice in Schools Madeline Francis Larson, 2022 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Faith Miller

The Impacts of Intervention Modality on Student Mathematics Operations Knowledge Kourtney Rebecca Kromminga, 2021 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan

The Relations between Academic Achievement and Externalizing Behavior: Separating Fact from Fiction Tara Kulkarni, 2021 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan

Teacher Attitudes Toward Evidence-Based Practices: Confirmatory and Predictive Analyses of the School-Adapted Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale James Lorenz Merle, 2021 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Faith Miller

Evidence-Based Instructional Principles and Sequences for Effective Fraction Instruction Kristin Elizabeth Running, 2021 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan

The Association Between SWPBS Implementation and Exclusionary Discipline in U.S. Schools Mollie Rose Weeks, 2021 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan

A Cross-Validated Approach Towards Identifying the Unique and Cumulative Contributions of Child and Family Factors Predictive of Speech-Language Therapy Start Time Marianne Elmquist, 2021 Advisors: Scott McConnell and Veronica Fleury

Planning for Students Who Struggle with Whole Number Computation Nicole McKevett, 2021 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan

How Teacher Self-efficacy and Mindset Influence Student Engagement and Math Performance Andrew Thayer, 2020 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Theodore Christ

Supporting Fidelity of Implementation of Class-wide Behavioral Interventions Jenna Klaft, 2020 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan

Universal Factors and Tier 1 Interventions Associated with Quality Student-Teacher Relationships Laurie Kincade, 2020 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan

Screening for Social-Emotional and Behavioral Aspects of Kindergarten Readiness: A Systematic Review of Screeners and Validation of BASC-3 BESS Teacher for Somali Students Alaa Houri, 2020 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan and Faith Miller

An Exploratory Study of Trauma Screening Procedures and Instruments in Schools Sophia Frank, 2020 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Amanda Sullivan

Profiles of Parental Mental Health and Children’s Academic Coping Aria Fiat, 2020 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Amanda Sullivan

The Differential Effects of Elaborated Task and Process Feedback on Multi-digit Multiplication Rebecca Edmunds, 2020 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan

Sources of variance in reading comprehension research: The role of measures and interventions Calvary Diggs, 2020 Advisor: Theodore Christ

Mathematics Computation: Generalizability and Dependability of Student Performance by Sample Size Danielle Becker, 2020 Advisors: Theodore Christ and Amanda Sullivan

Exploring Relationships among Organizational Factors, Teachers' Attitudes toward Evidence-Based Practices, and Implementation of Universal Prevention Programs Yanchen Zhang, 2019 Advisors: Clayton Cook and Amanda Sullivan

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Mathematics Word Problem Solving with English Learners Leila C Jones, 2019 Advisors: Robin Codding and Amanda Sullivan

Influence of Head Start Lead Teacher Profiles on the Relation between Coaching and Intervention Fidelity Stephanie Brunner, 2019 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan

Effectiveness and Key Components of School-Based Anxiety Interventions Victoria Erhardt, 2019 Advisors: Annie Hansen-Burke and Faith Miller

Engagement versus Motivation: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Motivation and Engagement Wheel Alyssa Schardt, 2019 Advisor: Faith Miller

Examining the Structural Validity of the My Class Inventory – Short Form for Teachers (TMCI-SF) in Early Elementary School Classrooms Chloe Webb, 2019 Advisors: Amanda Sullivan, Clayton Cook

The Effects and Generalization of a Choice-Based Intervention with Highly preferred Items on Student Off-Task Behavior Gregory R Simonson, 2018 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan

Training Educators to Implement Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Evaluating the Effects of In-Service and Coaching on Intervention Fidelity Laura Marie Potter, 2018 Advisor: Scott McConnell

An evaluation of the use of oral reading fluency as a screening tool with emerging biliterates Kirsten Newell, 2018 Advisor: Robin Codding

Influence of Child Find Referral Mechanisms on Early Childhood Special Education Participation Elyse McCullough Farnsworth, 2018 Advisor: Amanda Sullivan

Summer Learning Loss in Reading Achievement: Effects of Demographic Variables and Summer Activity Julia Baker, 2018 Advisor: Theodore Christ

The Relation between Parent Involvement and the Development of Kindergarten Self-Regulation and Literacy Skills Amber Hays, 2018 Advisor: Scott McConnell

Investigating Young Children’s Attitudes toward Mathematics: Improved Measurement and the Relation to Achievement Allyson Kiss, 2018 Advisor: Theodore Christ

Perspectives of Teachers of Students with Learning Disabilities on Parental Involvement in Jazan, Saudi Arabia: Experience, Obstacles, and Attitudes Mohammed A. Almalki, 2023 Advisor: Jennifer McComas

Word Problem Solving Tasks in Third-Grade Mathematics Textbooks: How Well Do They Align with Effective Teaching Practices? Ahmed A. Alghamdi, 2023 Advisor: Kristen McMaster, Asha Jitendra

Using Behavior Skills Training to Promote Caregivers’ Generalized Skill Instruction with Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Shawn Girtler, 2023 Advisor: Jennifer McComas

Effects of Data-Based Writing Instruction on the Reading Outcomes of Elementary Students with Writing Difficulties Emma Shanahan, 2023 Advisors: Kristen McMaster, Scott McConnell

How Can We Enable Hmong Parents to Take Steps Towards Autism Identification?: Hmong Parents’ Beliefs about Autism and Their Experiences in the Identification Process Pang Xiong, 2022 Advisors: Jason Wolff and Rose Vukovic

An Investigation of Methods Toward Mitigating Resurgence and Renewal in A Human Operant Model Emily Unholz-Bowden, 2022 Advisor: Jennifer McComas

The Impact of COVID-19: Special Education Student Teachers' Practicum Experience during the Spring of 2020 Cristina Umana-Rojas, 2022 Advisor: Kristen McMaster

Validating Movement-Based Sleep Assessment in a Pediatric Sample with Developmental Disabilities and Associated Motor Impairment and Intellectual Disability Alyssa Maria Merbler, 2022 Advisor: Frank Symons

A Comparative Analysis of Self-Injurious Behavior and Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors Between Samples of Children With and Without Developmental Delay or Disability Stephanie Sarah Benson, 2021 Advisor: Frank Symons

Characteristics of Students with Persistent Intensive Needs in Reading Comprehension and the Impact of Response Criteria Britta Johnn Cook Bresina, 2021 Advisor: Kristen McMaster

Sensory Features in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Measurement Quality and Empirical Investigation of Sensory Responsivity in Children at High and Low Familial Risk for Autism Jaclyn Gunderson, 2021 Advisors: Frank Symons and Jason Wolff

A Meta-analysis on the Effects of Vocabulary Instruction for English Learners Ellina Xiong, 2020 Advisors: Jennifer McComas and Kristen McMaster

Child and Evaluation Characteristics Predicting Educational Eligibility of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Examining the Role of Race and Ethnicity Kelsey Ann Young, 2020 Advisors: LeAnne Johnson and Jason Wolff

Exploring Determinants of Early Childhood Special Educators' Practice Selections for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Maria Lemler Hugh, 2020 Advisors: LeAnne Johnson and Veronica Fleury

The Use of Generalizability Theory to Inform Sampling of Language Learning Environments for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Andrea Lynn Boh Ford, 2020 Advisor: LeAnne Johnson

Examination Of Three Practice Schedules for Single Digit Math Kyle B Wagner, 2019 Advisor: Kristen McMaster

The IEP Data Collection Intentions Scale (IDCIS): Scale Development and Validation for Intended Score Interpretation and Use in Early Childhood Brenna Noland Rudolph, 2019 Advisor: LeAnne Johnson

Using Brief Experimental Analysis to Identify Effective Mathematics Fluency Intervention for Students in Middle School John Mouanoutoua, 2019 Advisor: Jennifer McComas

The Effect of Parent-Implemented Functional Communication Training on Challenging Behavior and Communication: A Meta-Analysis Brittany Pennington, 2019 Advisors: Jason Wolff and Kristen McMaster

Redefining the Word Gap from a Cumulative Risk Perspective Erin Lease, 2018 Advisor: Scott McConnell

Conflicting Relations Paradigm: The Effects of A Stimulus Equivalence-Based Approach to Changing Bias Robert Henery, 2018 Advisor: Jennifer McComas

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Love research? Interested in taking what you learned in a PSYCH 4998 lab further? Consider completing a undergraduate thesis in psychology!

To Graduate “With Research Distinction in Psychology” a Student Must:  

• Be a psychology major (if you are an honors student, see "Honors Research Distinction in Psychology" below
• Graduate with at least a 3.0 overall GPA
• Take PSYCH 4999.01 and 4999.02 (Both of these course are  only  offered in Spring semester)
• Write and successfully defend a Psychology Thesis

The Thesis is independent research conducted by the student and supervised by a psychology faculty member. The Psychology Department requires completion of a two-course sequence (PSYCH 4999.01 and 4999.02). Each course is taught in subsequent spring semesters. For example, students on a traditional four-year plan would take Psychology 4999.01 in spring semester of their junior year and PSYCH 4999.02 in spring semester of their senior year. However, with support of the Faculty Thesis Advisor, a students may begin a Thesis and Psychology 4999.01 in spring of their sophomore year.

To Graduate “With Honors Research Distinction in Psychology” a Student Must:  

• Be a psychology major
• Be a member of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program
• Graduate with at least a 3.4 overall GPA
• Complete the psychology major Honors Contract Requirements
• Take PSYCH 4999.01H and 4999.02H (Both of these courses are  only  offered in Spring semester)
• Write and successfully defend a Psychology Honors Thesis

The Honors Thesis is independent research conducted by the student and supervised by a psychology faculty member (only tenured or tenure-track faculty may advise an Honors Thesis). The Psychology Department requires completion of a two-course sequence (PSYCH 4999.01H and 4999.02H). Each course is taught in subsequent spring semesters. For example, a student on a traditional four-year plan would take PSYCH 4999.01H in spring semester of their junior year and PSYCH 4999.02H in spring semester of their senior year. However, with support of the Faculty Honors Thesis Advisor, a student may begin an Honors Thesis and Psychology 4999.01H in spring of their sophomore year.

Frequently Asked Questions

Talk to your psychology advisor, attend our annual Psychology Enrichment Program “Getting Involved in Research in the Psychology Department,” attend the annual Psychology Undergraduate Research Colloquium, explore the PSYCH 4998 opportunities, or talk to your fellow students who are in research labs.

Students interested in pursuing a Thesis or Honors Thesis should begin participating in research (PSYCH 4998) no later than their sophomore year.

Students should secure a Faculty Thesis Advisor by fall semester of the junior year (typically this will be a faculty member with whom you completed 4998 research).

Go to the Be a Research Assistant webpage and find a project that sparks your interest. Check out the lab websites and start applying. It is recommended to apply to 5-7 labs. Once accepted, you can negotiate your hours and responsibilities (this will determine the number of credit hours you receive), have the faculty member sign a course enrollment form (s/he will have the class number), take the course enrollment form to the Psychology Advising Office (PS 015) or email it to [email protected] .

To enroll in PSYCH 4999.01 or 4999.01H, students should complete the Psychology Thesis/Honors Thesis Application. The application requires the signature of the Faculty Thesis Advisor. Once this is turned in to [email protected], students will be enrolled in PSYCH 4999.01 or 4999.01H.

For non-Honors students:

You must submit a Thesis Application with the  College of Arts and Sciences  (under Research Distinction) at least one term before your graduating term. You will need to submit a research proposal and your Faculty Thesis Advisor’s signature on the application form. You will need to schedule an appointment with your Psychology Advisor to complete the Major Program Form on the application.

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Ann-Marie Creaven , Katherine S. Button , Heather Cleland-Woods , Emily Nordmann; Maximising the Educational and Research Value of the Undergraduate Dissertation in Psychology. Collabra: Psychology 3 January 2023; 9 (1): 90216. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.90216

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The undergraduate research dissertation in psychology is the capstone demonstration of research skills including project planning and design, considering and resolving ethical issues, and the analysis and dissemination of findings. The dissertation represents an opportunity for learning as well as an opportunity to contribute to the research literature in the student’s chosen area; however, few articles have considered both dimensions in detail. This article provides a roadmap for undergraduate thesis supervision, for early-career supervisors and supervisors aiming to better align their supervision and research activities and/or engage their students in open research practices via the dissertation.

Specifically, we review prior literature on undergraduate psychology research supervision and identify several dimensions that vary in existing approaches. Drawing on our own supervision experiences, we describe four key recommendations for undergraduate supervision in psychology and discuss how these can support student learning as well as benefit research.

The undergraduate (UG) research dissertation/thesis in psychology requires the student to carry out an empirical piece of research over the course of a single academic year. Students must individually demonstrate a range of research skills including project planning and design, considering and resolving ethical issues, and the analysis and dissemination of findings (British Psychological Society [BPS], 2019; Psychological Society of Ireland [PSI], 2019) . Although the dissertation is an important learning process for individual UG students, it may also contribute to the research literature in the student’s chosen area, in the form of grey literature, or a peer-reviewed publication. Therefore, completing a dissertation has individual pedagogical benefits for the student, and potentially wider benefits for the research literature. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the dissertation as both a pedagogical exercise and a research endeavour and consider how to best support students’ learning while also enhancing the potential benefits for research. In doing so we hope to make the “private realm” (Wiggins et al., 2016, p. 11) of dissertation supervision explicit.

There is an extensive literature already on the value of undergraduate involvement in research (Perlman & McCann, 2005) , models of research involvement aside from the dissertation (e.g., Lloyd et al., 2019 ), considerations specific to qualitative dissertations (e.g., Freeman et al., 2020 ), effective mentorship (e.g., Boysen et al., 2020 ), and postgraduate research (e.g., S. Williams, 2019 ). To be clear, our focus is not on those topics but on principles of undergraduate dissertation supervision that increase both the quality of undergraduate research and of the student learning experience. This is timely given advances in open science practices intended to improve the efficiency, reliability, and accessibility of research outputs.

Traditionally, the dissertation has been conducted in the context of a dyadic relationship between supervisor and student and involves the collection of new data. Thus, while the student learns from the supervisor, there can be limited opportunities for peer learning or collaboration outside of this dyadic relationship, and limited scope to learn from intellectual dialogue between the supervisor and other researchers (colleagues, or students). Besides this, the sheer numbers of student projects conducted can generate numerous small-scale quantitative studies with low statistical power, and an increased chance of false positive findings; some of which will ultimately be published. Thus, the traditional model has limitations not only for students’ learning, but for the research literature more broadly. In recent years, alternative models of supervision have been documented (see Table 1 ) that involve some variation on a team approach, and which may address some of the limitations of the traditional model.

In addition to a shift from the traditional dyadic model, explicit consideration of how to raise awareness of and avoid questionable research practices (QRPs; John et al., 2012 ) at undergraduate level is necessary. One study of PhD researchers (Lubega et al., 2023) indicates that the majority experienced issues in reproducing published findings and tended to attribute this “failure” as indicative of a lack of skill on their own part. Participants described experiencing self-doubt, frustration, and depression; in some instances this interfered with their health and/or ability to work. Given undergraduate students typically develop their dissertation based on findings from published literature; they are likely to be vulnerable to these same issues, to some degree. Also, undergraduate students themselves may unknowingly engage in QRPs, particularly in relation to analysis and reporting (Krishna & Peter, 2018) . Because dissertation supervisors are key in shaping students’ attitudes towards QRPs (Krishna & Peter, 2018) , modelling best practice and actively training students in relation to QRPs if needed, should be a priority for undergraduate dissertation supervision.

Given an increased discourse around models of undergraduate dissertation supervision (e.g., Giuliano et al., 2019 ), it is timely to consider how best to support learning and research in the context of the dissertation. Based on our collective supervision experiences, we argue that adopting four key recommendations may help increase the quality of the research generated as part of the UG dissertation, without compromising, or indeed potentially increasing, the quality of student training and learning:

These recommendations are:

Consider efficient use of data (e.g., by using secondary and/or meta-data)

Consider team science approaches

Promote openness and transparency

Raise awareness of and avoid incentivising ­QRPs

We discuss each recommendation below with examples drawn from quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods projects. We begin by discussing the efficient use of data (recommendation 1) with examples from (1) secondary data and (2) evidence synthesis. Given a limited literature on supervision processes in psychology, we describe our own experiences of team science approaches in relative depth across quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods projects (recommendation 2). We then discuss how to promote openness and transparency in the context of the dissertation (recommendation 3), with a particular focus on planning (primarily via pre-registration), and open data. Finally, and to some degree in parallel with our recommendation to promote openness and transparency, we discuss how to raise awareness of and avoid incentivising QRPs (recommendation 4).

First, when planning a dissertation project, consider whether data needs to be collected at all, to address the research question. Data collection involves practical skills development (e.g., learning how to manage an experimental testing session); however, if these skills can be acquired outside of the dissertation, the use of existing data such as publicly available data, data already held by the supervisor, data not intended for research purposes, meta-data, or meta-synthesis, may be appealing. Meta-research projects are likely becoming more popular (e.g., Clarke et al., 2023 ) and can provide students with the opportunity to engage deeply with methodological issues in the literature. Replication studies using existing data are also feasible (e.g., Coyle et al., 2020 ) and the advantages of replication for learning and guidance on choosing what to replicate for teaching purposes are discussed in-depth elsewhere (see Janz, 2016; Wagge et al., 2019 ). Using existing data reduces research waste by minimising the unnecessary collection of new data, reducing the overall burden on potential participants, and reducing the burden on research ethics committees. In addition, a large sample size or dataset is typically available, and sampling is more representative of the general population than would be achieved with convenience or snowball sampling, leading to potentially better-quality research. Here, we discuss the benefits and drawbacks of conducting (1) a secondary analysis, and (2) of evidence synthesis.

In addition to the benefits for research, there are several potential benefits for learning. Secondary data allow students to gain hands-on experience with real-world datasets and all their idiosyncratic messiness. Students’ skills in data wrangling may require support at the start, particularly where they have previously encountered only unrealistically “clean” data and the skills required to obtain data from sources like Twitter are likely to only be available to those students who are enrolled in psychology programmes that have incorporated data skills and programming into their curriculums (e.g., PsyTeachR, n.d. ). However, these are skills that are useful for a range of graduate jobs beyond those focused on research.

An important consideration for secondary data projects is that students will not gain first-hand experience of participant recruitment or data collection. Depending on individual School/Department requirements, students may not gain experience of developing a formal research ethics application, so considering how to develop competency in ethics is necessary, for example, by creating ethics forms to relate directly to secondary data and/or internet-mediated research. Ethics is particularly important for data not originally collected for research purposes. Researchers relying on data from online forums, for example, need to consider if individual forum members should be contacted for permission to analyse their online discussions. If appropriate, researchers need to consider if it is feasible and if it could alter the nature of the online discussions. There may be alternatives such as seeking permission from a forum administrator, or there may be grounds for researchers to choose not to seek consent. These considerations are complex (see e.g., Ahmed et al., 2017; Buchanan, 2017 for further discussion) and there is no clear answer. Indeed, for large-scale Twitter analyses that scrape data from a particular hashtag, informed consent is practically impossible to obtain. Instead, it is important to consider a formal application for access via Twitter’s Academic Research application, and to ensure users are granted anonymity in the write-up and/or the publication of data and analysis code. For example, Attard and Coulson (2012) used data in the public domain and thus did not seek consent. To preserve anonymity, they omitted not only participants’ names/ pseudonyms but also the names of the online support groups themselves, and only short segments of the original posts were quoted to reduce their traceability through search engines. In addition to this example, useful guidance on relevant ethical issues is available from the BPS (2017) (see also Granger et al.  (2021) , Sugiura et al.  (2017) and Williams et al.  (2017) ).

As an alternative to secondary data analysis, conducting an evidence synthesis allows students to engage deeply with the literature and develop their methodological and appraisal skills. For dissertation projects adhering to British and Irish standards, our interpretation of current accreditation guidelines is that data analysis must be conducted; therefore, a systematic review without a meta-analysis (or equivalent) is unlikely to be acceptable in Britain and Ireland (e.g., BPS, 2019), while U.S. guidelines are less prescriptive. University libraries often offer training in systematic review techniques and there are many published exemplars available. An evidence synthesis can be undertaken even if others have previously been conducted addressing the same question. For example, Ahern and Semkovska (2017) addressed some limitations of an earlier meta-analysis (Lee et al., 2012) of cognitive functioning in the first episode of major depressive disorder. For qualitative evidence synthesis (QES, see Noyes et al., 2019 ) a student will ideally have prior experience with the methodology they are synthesizing (e.g., students undertaking thematic syntheses will have experience in thematic analysis), which is unlikely at UG level. However, working with data in existing papers where themes are already summarized is arguably more accessible than working with raw qualitative data, making qualitative evidence synthesis a viable option for some students under some specific circumstances. Students undertaking an evidence synthesis can use pre-registration templates and the PRISMA (Page et al., 2021) reporting guidelines to help scaffold and guide their project, as well as encouraging transparent reporting.

It is important to ensure students appreciate the distinction between the narrative and selective literature review that forms part of an assignment or research project, and the substantial workload involved in undertaking a systematic review prior to even conducting a meta-analysis. In contrast to narrative reviews, at least some steps of a systematic reviews should be conducted as part of a team (Jahan et al., 2016) . The availability of team members may determine whether a systematic review is a feasible option for the dissertation. Additionally, the supervisor must consider the accreditation requirement for meta-analysis. Given the typical timeframe for UG dissertations, it may be helpful to consider if the research question and process can be constrained to reduce the burden associated with the searching and screening phases of the process. For example, it may be possible to update a previous review, or conduct a review of research during the last five years, or from the date a key research recommendation was made. Finally, supervisors and students should also plan for insufficient or inadequate reporting of data for meta-analysis. Although contacting the study authors is commonly done to access data, there is no guarantee authors will be responsive. If at least some data are available, conducting a meta-analysis while acknowledging the limitations of available data may demonstrate students’ computational skills. However, given the considerable time required to conduct evidence syntheses well, and the accreditation requirement for data analysis, this option is often sub-optimal for UG students.

Our second broad recommendation is to consider team science approaches to supervision. As illustrated in Table 1 , several models of supervision involve a form of team approach. Teaming up across institutions as in the consortium model (Button et al., 2019) can lead to very large datasets and more generalizable results. However, many of the benefits for learning and for research can be achieved by groups of students working together within an individual department. The BPS/PSI accreditation guidance endorses group projects as long as the student can individually demonstrate each of the skills involved in conducting the empirical project, whilst the APA guidelines include refining project-management skills and enhancing teamwork capacity as core goals. Depending on the institution’s interpretation of the guidance, this could be as simple as each student writing up their dissertations separately (based on identical research questions and a common dataset) or ensuring that each student has a different research question.

The benefits for research include the generation of better-powered datasets to address a specific research question. Team approaches can provide opportunities for peer learning and peer support that are absent from the one-to-one supervision model. A team approach can facilitate practical data collection skills while making efficient use of the data collected and students are potentially more likely to have an opportunity for co-authorship on a resulting publication from the pooled, better-powered dataset.

Because the literature on undergraduate dissertation is relatively limited, and because team approaches vary in how they are implemented, we outline below how team approaches might be implemented for quantitative, mixed methods, and qualitative studies, and conclude by considering drawbacks to team approaches.

Quantitative studies

For quantitative studies, similar to the consortium model, group lab or survey projects can be supported by having an overarching primary hypothesis or project aim that is pre-registered and forms the primary focus of any paper written up for publication. Students then build in a series of secondary questions and hypotheses to become the focus of their individual dissertations. A key concern of this approach is the tension between pedagogy and research. The consortium lab-based example incorporates multiple outcomes and/or moderator variables for pedagogical reasons (i.e., to facilitate individual student research questions), and this complexity increases with the number of students in the team. However, the integrity of the overarching project (on which all students will be co-authors) is supported by pre-registering the primary aims, enabling easier detection of QRPs. Thus, any resulting publication will be confirmatory for the primary aims, with the students’ dissertation aims treated as secondary. Pre-registering (even informally) individual student hypotheses ensures that the dissertation projects retain their individuality, both in terms of academic integrity, and the perception of the process from the students’ point of view. It also minimizes the temptation to make use of measures other than those that were pre-registered, without a justifiable rationale for doing so.

Mixed methods

Mixed methods designs involve the collection and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data and as such lend themselves well to a team dissertation project. Mixed methods provide both breadth and depth to the question under investigation (Johnson et al., 2007) and in the case of exploratory mixed methods, can support the formation of evidence-based hypotheses for NHST (Erzberger & Prein, 1997) . Specific to the dissertation process, mixed methods projects have several advantages. First, the shared topic means that students can engage in peer support such as sharing papers and discussing theoretical models and the interpretation of their data; however, the divergence in methods and subsequent write-up ensures that the dissertation project retains its individuality. Additionally, students can support each other with participant recruitment and reviewing and proofreading study materials. Team mixed method designs also allow (or indeed may require) multiple supervisors to be involved on the project who have different methodological expertise. Students still benefit from an individual supervisor, but group meetings and reviews help promote a team science approach.

One important consideration with mixed method dissertations involves the timeline and the choice of core design. Explanatory and exploratory designs (see Creswell & Clark, 2017 ) require one student to “go first” in the collection of their qualitative or quantitative data, which may make convergent designs (where qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis is conducted largely in parallel) more appealing. Supervisors should be clear upfront about the nature of the project and be prepared to support those students with different timelines than they may have expected; for example, completing drafts of the introduction and methods in advance of any data collection. It is crucial that contingency plans (e.g., switching to a convergent design) are developed for if the primary study does not take place in the expected timeline, so that for example, issues impacting student A do not disadvantage student B. Additionally, the quantitative component remains susceptible to the limitations of individual quantitative projects (e.g., small sample sizes). There are of course higher-level concerns with mixed method designs regarding how to meaningfully integrate studies that have different epistemological positions into a single paper (Clark, 2019) , although this is not specific to mixed method research as a dissertation model.

Qualitative dissertations

For qualitative dissertations, team approaches are effective when students are interested in distinct but related questions with the same participant group (e.g., exploring experiences of (a) social support and (b) self-management for students with Type 1 diabetes). It is most straightforward when students also plan to use the same analytical approach (e.g., thematic analysis), as the same “thickness” of data is sought during interviews, and there are no differences in transcription requirements (e.g., text only transcription is acceptable for both research questions).

In addition to sharing participant recruitment, students can review each other’s materials such as interview or focus group questions before finalising a common schedule. Students can divide the conduct of interviews/focus groups and transcribe those they do not conduct, to gain familiarity with the data. In contrast to exploratory or explanatory mixed methods designs, students work to the same timeline for data collection.

The key concern with teaming up for qualitative studies involves assuring the quality and originality of the two (or more) individual research studies within the common research process. Students must clearly articulate their own specific research questions prior to combining question schedules. Otherwise, they may end up conducting several interviews or focus groups around the broad topic while ending up with very little material pertinent to their specific research question. Each student must also be sufficiently familiar with the others’ research question(s), to probe and follow up on participant responses relating to that question (and vice versa ). Students can decide a priori to analyse the interviews in their entirety, or alternatively, that only about half of each interview will be relevant for each dissertation. Even with training, there is potential for a high level of variability in interview skills and establishment of rapport, and any section on reflexivity will be increasingly complex with increasing number of interviewers/researchers.

What are the drawbacks to team approaches?

Supervisors contemplating a team approach may be concerned about students’ ability to generate a truly independent project while working as part of a team. However, clarifying to students which activities can be shared (e.g., circulating relevant research papers), and which should not be done collaboratively (writing one’s individual results sections), can be helpful in supporting the retention of individual research integrity within a larger team project. Other strategies include balancing team meetings with some individual meetings focused on the student’s own specific research question and intellectual development and bringing the team together for particular activities (e.g., pilot testing in the lab), before dispersing for other activities.

In our experiences, students have valued both the informal peer support that comes from working in this way, and the tangible advantages of shared data collection (e.g., sharing efforts to recruit participants; generation of a larger sample size in the time allowed, and opportunities to gain teamwork skills); these benefits have been highlighted by others, also (e.g., Dautel, 2020 ). Moreover, if social loafing is a concern, this may be mitigated a priori by clear discussions and agreement on roles and responsibilities, potentially supported by the CRediT taxonomy, and/or by requiring individuals to collect a certain proportion of data to access the larger shared data set. Students value opportunities for one-on-one discussions with their supervisor, so a combination of team and individual meetings is possibly most beneficial (Dautel, 2020) . There may also be instances where students have very legitimate concerns about working together and in these cases, individual projects may be more appropriate.

Besides this, the social and emotional aspects of learning and of the dissertation are also important to consider. Students can gain a sense of pride having completed a dissertation that they may not feel to the same degree working on a team-based project; this could be addressed by highlighting individual achievements within the team as well as team-work overall. Students progressing from a team-based dissertation to a traditional student-supervisor project for masters or PhD research may be vulnerable to “impostor syndrome” or find the transition disconcerting. Therefore, scaffolding transitions from team to traditional projects (as you would for transitions from traditional to team projects) may be necessary.

Having described the use of secondary/meta-data, team science approaches, and methods of, we move to our third recommendation:

There are several ways in which openness and transparency can be promoted; including pre-registration, open data, code, and/or materials, reporting contributions (e.g., using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy [CRediT]) and planning for dissemination of study findings (e.g., via conference presentation and/or journal submission). We discuss pre-registration and open data practices in further detail below.

Pre-registration

Full pre-registration with detailed analytic specificity is not appropriate for all research designs and analytic approaches (and indeed there is ongoing debate as to its efficacy and purpose for any research, see e.g., Nosek et al.  (2019) vs. Szollosi et al.  (2019) ). However, incorporating the development of a study protocol, lighter-touch pre-registration of hypotheses for confirmatory work, or the explicit registration that the work is exploratory/intended solely as a learning experience, is entirely feasible. Preregistration (or a similar a priori plan) can also be a tool to support transparency in qualitative research. In terms of benefits for research, pre-registration can help promote transparent ways of working and protect against the increased risk of publication bias in the wider literature (Pownall, 2020) . From a learning perspective, working through a detailed plan prior to data collection will inevitably lead to clarity of thinking and better research questions and higher quality dissertations. Indeed, van’t Veer and Giner-Sorolla (2016) note that a focus on theory testing and/or methodological replication and validation over results is likely to benefit researchers at an earlier stage of their career, specifically students and post-doctoral researchers. Further, the importance of transparency has long been recognised in qualitative constructs such as reflexivity , the process of a continual internal dialogue and critical self-evaluation of a researcher’s positionality as well as active acknowledgement that this position may affect the research process and outcome (Berger, 2015) . Students doing qualitative or mixed methods research can also include reflexivity and/or positionality statements in their theses to enhance transparency.

Open data and code

Similarly, students can consider making the data “open” in line with FAIR data principles (Wilkinson et al., 2016) . Although there is debate about the value of open data initiatives (e.g., Kitchin, 2013 ), and it is highly challenging to truly anonymise data (e.g., Rocher et al., 2019 ), making a conscious decision to make data open (or not, particularly for qualitative research) is an important element of student training. Except when the thesis will be published, the benefits of open data and code are primarily for student learning. For quantitative studies, students can be asked to provide syntax files to ensure the results reported in the dissertation can be reproduced. This exercise will better prepare students for subsequent research projects, given increasing emphasis on open data and data management in general. It also supports students’ awareness of ethical use of data. For qualitative studies, there is considerable debate about the relevance of open data guidelines for qualitative data (see Branney et al., 2019; Prosser et al., 2023 , for discussions of this issue). Nonetheless, even when data are not open, generating a data availability statement to accompany the dissertation can facilitate students’ learning, given these are commonly required by journals regardless of whether the research is quantitative or qualitative.

Alongside promoting openness and transparency, our final recommendation is to explicitly raise awareness of and avoid incentivising QRPs. The literature indicates that QRPs exist in psychology, that some students engage in some QRPs (Krishna & Peter, 2018) , that students learn about QRPs from supervisors (Krishna & Peter, 2018) , and that early-career researchers can be disheartened when their project findings do not replicate existing published work (potentially owing to QRPs in that original work; Nelson et al., 2022). To be clear, we do not want to overemphasize the impact of QRPs, nor create a descriptive norm that QRPs are common (Fiedler & Schwarz, 2016) . However, given QRPs are documented as problematic, it falls to the dissertation supervisor to model appropriate research practices and to provide specific training as needed both to promote transparency (as noted in recommendation #3) and to avoid QRPs.

The benefits of avoiding QRPs for research are perhaps obvious. The main benefit is that published research arising from undergraduate theses is more likely to be of good quality.

In terms of benefits for learning, supporting students to be aware of and avoid QRPs themselves, means developing research integrity and ethical awareness in these students. Supervisors can achieve this by modelling best practice themselves and by promoting openness and transparency as outlined above. Supervisors can also explicitly emphasize the methods used over the results generated by those methods, join in critical discussions of prior literature, guide students in adhering to their pre-registration (or explaining deviations from this), and emphasize caution in interpreting statistically significant findings. Otherwise, given the literature available to students disproportionately favours statistically significant results, students may be disappointed with null or counter-intuitive findings arising from their own projects (e.g., Nelson et al., 2022).

In summary, the above recommendations are intended to increase both the quality of undergraduate research and of the student learning experience during the undergraduate dissertation. By reflecting on our own collective supervision experiences across three institutions we hope to illuminate aspects of supervision practices that typically remain private or inaccessible to early-career academics embarking on supervision for the first time. Given the many approaches to dissertation supervision, what does supervision that adopts the recommendations look like? At their core, our recommendations are not revolutionary: careful consideration of the need to collect data and the merits and challenges of using existing data, early planning, with an interim deadline for a written plan (using a pre-registration template if preferred) and including early planning for dissemination. Implementing these recommendations also involves incorporating and scaffolding some element of collaboration (e.g., by formally sharing data collection, or discussing plans with peers), clear consideration of transparent and open practices (e.g., even if the decision is to not share data), and a focus on methodological rigour and appropriate interpretation of results, supported by guidance from the supervisory team. This paper combining our supervision experiences with the available relevant literature aims to provide researchers and educators with pragmatic solutions to support learning outcomes as well as the overall quality of undergraduate research. Given the increasing emphasis on open science practices, and increasing popularity of team approaches, formal evaluation of the impact of these approaches on student learning is an important next step in this area. In addition, further elaboration of emerging forms of undergraduate dissertations like meta-research projects is also required to ensure that early-career supervisors are well-supported to support their dissertation students.

Contributed to conception and design: AMC, KB, HCW, EN

Contributed to analysis of literature: AMC, KB, HCW, EN

Drafted and revised the article: AMC, KB, HCW, EN

Approved the submitted version for publication: AMC, KB, HCW, EN

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

We are very grateful to Professor Neil Coulson (University of Nottingham) for his helpful contribution to and feedback on an earlier draft of this manuscript and to Dr Peter Branney (Bradford University) for feedback also.

We are also grateful to the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education who supported a seminar on this topic as part of the 2020/2021 seminar series (recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iBVt2ZqPCo )

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Finding Johnson & Wales

When a counselor at her Colorado high school suggested Johnson & Wales for college, Sierra knew she was headed in the right direction. JWU offered the opportunity to explore both Psychology and baking, unlike other schools. She came for a tour of the university, loved what she saw and submitted her application. Even though she was advised that it would be difficult to have both an academic and culinary major, Sierra channeled some determination and enrolled anyway. She now majors in psychology and plans to take intro-level baking classes as electives in the future.

In her short time at JWU, Sierra has already found an ever-flowing channel of creativity that she is able to touch upon both in and out of the classroom. “I love being creative, but I also think there’s times where it needs to be within the box,” she said. “Especially with psychology, it’s important that you follow the rules and are taking care of your clients. Johnson & Wales has really provided a lot of space for different creativity, especially my professors. I’ve been able to share rough drafts of my book to get feedback and hear what they're thinking of it, which is really useful because that helps the creative process.”

She has found that the JWU community always strives to celebrate and uplift student work, whether you’re perfecting your craft in the classroom or pursuing a passion project. “My professor connected me with the JWU media team, who put out pictures of my book and everything,” Sierra said. “That’s been really amazing.”

Looking ahead

As of now, Sierra’s published work is rooted in her own experience and journey with NF1, but in the future, she hopes her books can be used as a platform to explore other conditions. As far as illustration and art style, Sierra says she’d be open to working with other artists and writers who suffer from chronic conditions.

Unfortunately, Sierra was also recently diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a condition that causes the heart rate to increase very quickly after getting up from a sitting or lying position. She was inspired to write another book focusing on that condition. She hopes to work alongside someone else who deals with POTS in order to accurately portray the experience, as well as give them an opportunity to share their story and have their voice heard.

After graduation, Sierra shared that she hopes to become a counseling therapist — with a twist. She hopes to combine therapy with her passion for baking to open a shop where she can teach children dealing with chronic illness how to channel their energy into baking.

“I want to teach kids how to bake so they can have it as a life skill, but also as a healthy coping mechanism,” she explained. “The proceeds of this baking therapy could be donated to charity, future college funds or medical expenses.”

Sierra Miller is a remarkable example of a student who not only thrives academically and creatively but is a figure of inspiration for the entire JWU community. Her advocacy for those with chronic conditions comes from a truly selfless mindset and approach to life, and her journey serves as a testament to the exciting opportunities that await prospective students at Johnson & Wales.

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