Theses, dissertations, professional papers, and doctoral projects from graduate students in the Psychology department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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The Formation of Situation Models in Multimedia, Kris Gunawan

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School climate, absenteeism, and psychopathology among truant youth, Marisa Charlene Hendron

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The Effect of Early Life Stress on Methamphetamine Damage in the Striatum, Emily Hensleigh

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Maltreated Multiracial Youth, Harpreet Kaur

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Unfinished Business in Bereavement: A Mixed Methods Study, Kara Lee Klingspon

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The Mental Organization of People's Permanent and Situational Attributes, Kathleen Larson

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Family Environment and Severity of Absenteeism in Youth, Rachel Marie Loftis

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Who or What Should I Be Like? The Self-Assessment of Sexual Desire, Caroline Maykut

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Dual Task Interference in Low-Level Abilities: The Role of Working Memory and Effects of Mathematics Anxiety, Alex Michael Moore

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The Effect of Acute LPS-Induced Immune Activation and Brain Insulin Signaling Disruption in a Diabetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Andrew Scott Murtishaw

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What's age got to do with it? Examining how the age of stimulus faces affects children's implicit racial bias, Erica Cheree Noles

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Sex in the Brain: The Relationship between Event Related Potentials and Subjective Sexual Arousal, Taylor Lynn Oliver

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WISC-IV Profiles in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbid Learning Disabilities, Elyse Parke

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Possible Benefits of Playing Music Video Games, Amanda Pasinski

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Development and Testing of the Home Safety and Beautification Checklist with Mothers Referred for Child Neglect and Substance Abuse, Michelle Pitts

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Exploring the Inner Experience of Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stacy Reger

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Impaired Theory of Mind in Psychotic and Affective Disorders, Erik Nelson Ringdahl

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Hemispheric asymmetry in the perception of musical pitch structure, Matthew Adam Rosenthal

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Identifying Maltreated Youths at Heightened Risk for Posttraumatic Symptoms, Emma H. Ross

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Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Learning a Novel Mathematics Task, Nathan Oehme Rudig

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Weight-Based Microaggressions Experienced by Obese Women in Psychotherapy, Kerri Jo Schafer

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Relationship Between Child Behavior Problems, Parental Stress, Child Abuse Potential, and Substance Use Among Mothers in the Child Welfare System, Kendra Tracy

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Auditory Processing Deficits in Bipolar Disorder with and without a History of Psychotic Features, Ryanna Verbiest

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Factor Structure of the CPT-II, Mary Vertinski

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective, Alyson Kay Baker

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Examining the Testing Effect using the Dual-Process Signal Detection Model, Nicole Jessica Bies-Hernandez

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Alternations of NMDA and GABAB Receptor Function in Development: A Potential Animal Model of Schizophrenia, Monica Bolton

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Exploring the Relationships Between Rap and Hip-Hop Music Use and Objectified Body Consciousness, Body Dissatisfaction, and Gender Norms in Female Juvenile Delinquents, Nina Simone Brathwaite

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The Role of Body Surveillance, Body Shame, and Body Self-Consciousness during Sexual Activities in Women's Sexual Experience, Kimberly Claudat

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The Influence of Person Familiarity on Children's Social Information Processing, Andrew J. Cummings

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Investigating Potential Factors that Influence Recruitment for Parenting Skills Classes, Rachel Elizabeth Davis

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Resilience and Trauma in Maltreated Youth, Timothy Day

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Assessing the Conceptual Equivalence of Measure of Suppression in Culturally Diverse Samples, Amanda Louise Haboush

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The Impact of Sexual Arousal on the Category Specificity of Women's Visual Attention to Erotic Stimuli, Sarah Jones

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The Relationship Between Sex-Typing and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Adults, Joshua Juvrud

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Examining the Inner Experience of Four Individuals with Bipolar Disorder Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Johanah Kang

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Eating Pathology, Supplement Use, and Nutrition Knowledge in Collegiate Athletes, Holly Beth Lapota

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Examining the Inner Experience of Three Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder and Three Individuals with Bipolar Disorder, Janell Marie Mihelic

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Examining the Inner Experience of Left-Handers Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Aadee Mizrachi

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The effects of chronic calcium dysregulation on behavioral and pathological features of Alzheimer's disease, Jonathan Sabbagh

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The Role of Music-Specific Representations When Processing Speech: Using a Musical Illusion to Elucidate Domain-Specific and -General Processes, Christina M. Vanden Bosch Der Nederlanden

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An Empirically-Supported Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Maltreated Youth, Adrianna Wechsler

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The Role of Social Physique Anxiety and Social Appearance Anxiety in the Body Checking Behaviors of Male and Female College Students, Emily Katherine White

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Visual attention to erotic stimuli in androphilic male-to-female transsexuals, Sarah A. Akhter

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The Relationship of child maltreatment potential and mothers’ satisfaction with their neglected children, Kelsey M. Bradshaw

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To consult or not to consult? Investigating barriers to dysparenia treatment-seeking in young women, Robyn L. Donaldson

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Operation span task’s susceptibility to math anxiety: Support from fluid intelligence, Robert T. Durette

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Bilingualism and math cognition, Michelle M. Guillaume

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Examining experience in depressed and nondepressed individuals, Jedidiah D. Gunter

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Enhancing therapists' clinical judgments of client progress subsequent to objective feedback, Michael M. Haderlie

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The Relationship of Ethnicity and Familial Factors in the Expression of School Refusal Behavior in Clinical and Community Samples, Courtney Marie Haight

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School refusal behavior: The relationship between functions and symptom sets, Marisa Charlene Hendron

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The Effect of early environmental manipulation on locomotor sensitivity and methamphetamine condition place preference reward, Emily Hensleigh

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The Development and evaluation of a safety skill intervention for child victims of neglect, Heather H. Hill

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The influence of ethnic identity and family support on posttraumatic symptoms in maltreated youth, Harpreet Kaur

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The Effect of working memory and math ability on decision making, Jeremy A. Krause

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The effect of endpoint knowledge on dot enumeration, Alex Michael Moore

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Examining the experience of recent war veterans who report posttraumatic stress disorder, Neda C. Raymond

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Executive function profiles in pediatric traumatic brain injury, Erik Nelson Ringdahl

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The role of metrical structure in tonal knowledge acquisition, Matthew Rosenthal

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The relationship between the functions of school refusal behavior and family environment, Rachel Marie Schafer

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Testosterone and vasopressin in men’s reproductive behavior, Eric T. Steiner

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Pain tolerance and thresholds in women with dyspareunia: Do pain and sex primes have differential effects?, Lea Thaler

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Challenges in Researching the Relationship Between Delinquency and Family Dynamics in Juvenile Sex Offenders, Dio Kevin Turner II

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The Dilemma of minors’ access to adult content on the Internet: A proposed warnings solution, Helen Zaikina-Montgomery

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

Neuropsychological and emotion processing deficits in adults with bipolar disorder, Christina M. Armstrong

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The Advisor-advisee relationship: A qualitative study of advisee perspectives, Paula M. Emke-Francis

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Altering explicit and implicit racial prejudice towards African American males, Veronica A. Glover

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Relative deprivation, relative gratification, status, and health, Samuel A. Holland

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The Influence of perspective and gender on the processing of narratives, Jeremy A. Houska

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Initial development of a healthy living curriculum within family behavior therapy for substance abuse, Holly B. LaPota

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A Longitudinal study of neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in bipolar disorder, Brian D. Leany

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The Experience of feelings in depression, Noelle L. Lefforge

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Inferring rules from sound: The role of domain-specific knowledge in speech and music perception, Aaronell Shaila Matta

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Exploring the phenomena of inner experience with descriptive experience sampling, Janell M. Mihelic

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Examining the inner experience of left-handers using descriptive experience sampling, Aadee Mizrachi

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Neuropsychological and emotion processing abnormalities in bipolar disorder I and II, Carol Randall

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Donepezil and galanin interactions in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease, Jonathan J. Sabbagh

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Narrative comprehension for functional survival spatial relations, Paul James Schroeder III

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Verbal and visual learning and memory deficits as trait markers for psychosis in bipolar disorder, Griffin P. Sutton

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Cluster analysis of the TOMAL standardization sample, Nicholas Shizuo Thaler

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Mediating and moderating variables between discretionary purchases and happiness, Rebecca L. Thomas

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The Effects of cultural experience and subdivision on tapping to slow tempi, Sangeeta Ullal

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African American and Caucasian males' evaluation of racialized female facial averages, Rhea M. Watson