Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Psychology Department.
For the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations, visit UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Bilingualism and math cognition, Michelle M. Guillaume
Examining experience in depressed and nondepressed individuals, Jedidiah D. Gunter
Enhancing therapists' clinical judgments of client progress subsequent to objective feedback, Michael M. Haderlie
The Relationship of Ethnicity and Familial Factors in the Expression of School Refusal Behavior in Clinical and Community Samples, Courtney Marie Haight
School refusal behavior: The relationship between functions and symptom sets, Marisa Charlene Hendron
The Effect of early environmental manipulation on locomotor sensitivity and methamphetamine condition place preference reward, Emily Hensleigh
The Development and evaluation of a safety skill intervention for child victims of neglect, Heather H. Hill
The influence of ethnic identity and family support on posttraumatic symptoms in maltreated youth, Harpreet Kaur
The Effect of working memory and math ability on decision making, Jeremy A. Krause
The effect of endpoint knowledge on dot enumeration, Alex Michael Moore
Examining the experience of recent war veterans who report posttraumatic stress disorder, Neda C. Raymond
Executive function profiles in pediatric traumatic brain injury, Erik Nelson Ringdahl
The role of metrical structure in tonal knowledge acquisition, Matthew Rosenthal
The relationship between the functions of school refusal behavior and family environment, Rachel Marie Schafer
Testosterone and vasopressin in men’s reproductive behavior, Eric T. Steiner
Pain tolerance and thresholds in women with dyspareunia: Do pain and sex primes have differential effects?, Lea Thaler
Challenges in Researching the Relationship Between Delinquency and Family Dynamics in Juvenile Sex Offenders, Dio Kevin Turner II
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
The Advisor-advisee relationship: A qualitative study of advisee perspectives, Paula M. Emke-Francis
Altering explicit and implicit racial prejudice towards African American males, Veronica A. Glover
Relative deprivation, relative gratification, status, and health, Samuel A. Holland
The Influence of perspective and gender on the processing of narratives, Jeremy A. Houska
Initial development of a healthy living curriculum within family behavior therapy for substance abuse, Holly B. LaPota
A Longitudinal study of neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in bipolar disorder, Brian D. Leany
The Experience of feelings in depression, Noelle L. Lefforge
Inferring rules from sound: The role of domain-specific knowledge in speech and music perception, Aaronell Shaila Matta
Exploring the phenomena of inner experience with descriptive experience sampling, Janell M. Mihelic
Examining the inner experience of left-handers using descriptive experience sampling, Aadee Mizrachi
Neuropsychological and emotion processing abnormalities in bipolar disorder I and II, Carol Randall
Donepezil and galanin interactions in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease, Jonathan J. Sabbagh
Narrative comprehension for functional survival spatial relations, Paul James Schroeder III
Verbal and visual learning and memory deficits as trait markers for psychosis in bipolar disorder, Griffin P. Sutton
Cluster analysis of the TOMAL standardization sample, Nicholas Shizuo Thaler
Mediating and moderating variables between discretionary purchases and happiness, Rebecca L. Thomas
The Effects of cultural experience and subdivision on tapping to slow tempi, Sangeeta Ullal
African American and Caucasian males' evaluation of racialized female facial averages, Rhea M. Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in bipolar disorder, Danielle T. Bello
Descriptive experience sampling interactive multimedia training tool, Arva Bensaheb
Exploring erotic plasticity as an individual difference variable: Theory and measurement, Lorraine Benuto
Race stereotypic crimes and juror decision making: Hispanic, black, and white defendants, Joseph Francis Boetcher
Studying Personality In Juvenile Prostitutes: Aren't All Delinquents The Same?, Nina S. Brathwaite
Diversity issues in recruitment and retention of clients for parenting classes, Rachel Elizabeth Davis
Adult estimation, eye movements and math anxiety, Robert T. Durette
Patient-focused research: Examining the psychotherapist as a feedback receiver, Michael Haderlie
Descriptive Expierence Sampling Of Individuals With Bulimia Nervosa, Sharon Jones-Forrester
Parental substance abuse and child neglect: A controlled trial of a developed treatment manual, Valeria Romero
Evaluating the response styles theory of depression using descriptive experience sampling, Theresa A. Scott
The Inner Experience Of Older Individuals, Todd Michael Seibert
Functions and correlates of deliberate self-harm among adjudicated male adolescents, Jenna Silverman
Posttraumatic stress disorder and other consequences of a PICU admission, Stephanie Ann Stowman
Child neglect and trauma: The additive traumatic effects of neglect on maltreated adolescents, Adrianna Rachel Wechsler
Health motivation in health behavior: Its theory and application, Xiaoyan Xu