Human Development Ph.D.  Report

Spring 1989 through Autumn 2006

1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 |

1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006

 

Spring 1989

Ehrenberg, Sara Jean (Human Development); The Effects of Analytic Instructions on Young Children's Ability to Solve Scientific Problems Systematically

Swenson, Jill Dianne (Behavioral Sciences:Human Development); TV News Viewers:  Making Meaning Out of Iran Contra

Tarragona, De Oliveres (Human Development); Patients' Experiences of Psychotherapy between Sessions:  Their Relationship to Some Input, Process, and Output Variables of Psychotherapy

Summer  1989

Browning, Margaret Masters (Human Development); Self-Regulation in the Strange Situation:  Assessment of Developmental Vulnerabilities in Premature Infants

Lorek, Patricia Ann (Behavioral Sciences: Human Development); The Academic and Emotional Sequelae of Parental Divorce in Talented Adolescents

Pool, Debora Leman (Human Development); A Study of Children's and Adults' Understanding of "Moral," "Traditional," and "Prudential" Breaches


Autumn  1989 

Donner, Edward J. (Human Development); The Contributions of Arousal and Mood to Health and Illness

Rathunde, Kevin Raymond ( Psych: Human Development); Family Context and Optimal Experience in the Development of Talent

Winter 1990

Brooks, Lonna K. (Psych: Human Development); Temperament in Five- and Six-Year-Old Anglo-American, Korean-American, and Adopted Korean Children

Burke, Nancy (Psych: Human Development);  Freud, Time, and the Content of Philosophy

Spring 1990

Raffaelli, Marcelli (Psych: Human Development); Sibling Conflict in Early Adolescence

Summer 1990

Boxer, Andrew Mark (Human Development); Life Course Transitions of Gay and Lesbian Youth: Sexual Identity of Development and Parent-Child Relationships

Ham, Mark Patrick (Psych: Human Development); Competence in Daily Living:  A Study of Children and Adolescents at Risk for Depression

Levesque, Roger J. R. (Psych: Human Development); Adolescents in Love:  An Exploration of Adolescent Love Experiences across and within Five Socio-Cultural Groups 

Pickett, Susan Ann (Psych: Human Development); Parental Burden and a Chronically Mentally Ill Offsprings' Vocational Outcome:  Exploring the Connections


Autumn 1990

Fitzgerald, Linda Mae (Human Development); Contributions of Home and Child Care to Competence in Early Childhood

Sullivan, Maria Ann (Psych: Human Development); The Cultural Meanings of Mental Illness:  Depression and Alcoholism Among the Irish

Winter 1991

Lombard, Lisa Sharon (Psych: Human Development); Narcissistic Consequences of Female Infertility:  Disruption and Restoration

Spring   1991

Clark, Cynthia Marie Dell (Psych: Human Development); The Cultural Psychology of Christmas and Easter-with Special Reference to Children

Davila, Norma (Psych: Human Development); Patients' Experiences of Therapeutic Support Early in Treatment: The Effects of Current Social Network, General Expectations, and Anticipated Difficulties on Patients' Evaluations and Response to Individual Psychotherapy

 Summer  1991

Daly, John Joseph (Human Development); Magical Thinking in Everyday Life:  Coping with Lung Cancer

Nordmann, Nancy House (Human Development);  An Autogenetic Approach to Interpersonal Development


Spring  1992

Brachman, Jr., Malcolm K. (Human Development); Effects of Patient and Therapist Age and Gender on Psychotherapeutic Process in Early Sessions:  Patients' Experiences of Relationships and Involvement.

Summer  1992  

De Vos, Eric Stephen (Psych: Human Development); Complications of Labor:  Newborn Behavioral Correlates, and Prenatal Psychological Mediation.

Wortham, Stanton Emerson Fisher (Human Development); Participant Examples and Classroom Interaction.


Autumn  1992

Wakschlag, Lauren S. (Psych: Human Development); Intergenerational Continuities:  The Influence of Mother-Grandmother Relationships on Parenting in the African-American Young Mother Families.

Spring  1993

Wong, Maria Mei-Ha (Psych: Human Development);  Autonomy, Quality of Experience, and Academic Performance


Winter  1994

Bell, Douglas Norman (Psych: Human Development); Meetings on the Horizon of Meanings: A Cultural Analysis of Adolescents "Reading" AIDS

Fung, Heidi-Han-Tih (Psych: Human Development); The Socialization of Shame in Young Chinese Children

Spring  1994

Cox, Susanne Marie (Psych: Human Development); Attachment in Preterm Infants and Their Mothers:  Neonatal Risk Status and Maternal Representations

Levesque, Helen LaCrosse (Psych: Human Development);  Women's Definitions of Feminity:  An Investigation of Social Class Differences

Myers, Jr., Olin Eugene (Human Development); Young Children's Sense of Connection to Animals:  The Developmental Basis of an Ecological Self

Taylor, Dorothy L. (Human Development); The "I" Entity:  A Treatise on the Self-Other Relation

Summer  1994

Freel, Karen Alta (Human Development); The  Guardians of Childhood Safety: The Role of Parents in Injury Prevention

Sawyer, Robert Keith (Human Development); The Performance of Pretend Play:  Enacting Peer Culture in Conversation

Webb, Catherine Mary (Human Development); Recollected Early Life Experience and Hardiness


Autumn 1994

Glaessner, Barbara Elizabeth (Psych: Human Development); Bilingual Children in School:  The Negotiation of Language Use in a First Grade Classroom

Spring  1995

Menon, Usha (Human Development); Receiving and Giving: Distributivity as the Source of Women's Wellbeing

Summer  1995

Bernas, Ronan Surtida (Psych: Human Development); Choosing and Maintaining a Position oin a Socio-moral Issue:  An Argumentative Reasoning Approach

Choe, In-Soo (Human Development); Motivation, Subjective Experience, Family and Academic Achievement in Korean High School Students

Corcoran, Katherina Charle (Human Development); Perceptions of Self-Change in Adolescent Development from an Interpersonal Therapeutic Perspective

Voight, Janet Dianne (Psych: Human Development); The Relation of Positive and Negative Social Network Characteristics to the Adjustment of Low-Income, African-American  Mothers


Autumn  1995

Mockros, Carol Ann (Psych: Human Development); The Social Construction of Extraordinary Selves:  A Life Span Study of Creative Individuals

Spring  1996 

Jensen, Lene Arnett (Psych: Human Development); Different Habits, Different Hearts: Orthodoxy and Progressivism in the United States and India                            

Summer 1996

Choi, Sung Aie Christina (Human Development); The Survival Strategies of Middle-Aged Women in Korea

Joo, Eunsun (Psych: Human Development); The Psychotherapeutic Relationship in Korea: Cross-National and Internal Cultural Comparison


Autumn  1996

Hektner, Joel (Psych: Human Development); Exploring Optimal Personality Development: A longitudinal Study of Adolescents

Parks, Barbara Kirshner (Psych: Human Development);  Flow, Boredom, and Anxiety in Therapeutic Work: A Study of Psychotherapists Intrinsic Motivation and Professional Development

Spring 1997

Huang, Pei-Lin (Psych: Human Development); Family Context and Social Development in Adolescence  

Walker, Janet (Psych: Human Development); Manufacturing Reality: Gender, Culture, and the Resolution of Everyday Moral Conflicts      

Summer 1997

Asakawa, Kiyoshi (Human Development); The Experience of Interdependence and Independence in the Self-Construal Asian American and Caucasian American Adolescents: Feelings, of Connectedness and Academic Motivation                      


Autumn 1997

Schiff, Brian (Psychology: Human Development); Telling Survival and the Holocaust


Autumn 1998

Borhan, Lihanna (Psych: Human Development); Self-Image of Malaysian Adolescents      

Brodsky, Nicole (Psych: Human Development); Art Imitates Life Imitates Art : Evolving Themes in the Lives and Works of Creative Artists           

Futorian-Salzman, Jody (Psych/Human Development); Culture and Deafness: Influences on the Mother-Child Interaction

Larvie, Sean Patrick (Psych: Human Development); Managing Desire:  Sexual, Citizenship and AIDS in the Contemporary Brazilian

Patton, John Douglas (Psych: Human Development); Exploring the Relative Outcomes of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Factors of Entropy and Order in Adolescence

Schmidt, Jennifer (Psych: Human Development); Overcoming Challenges: Exploring the Role of Action, Experience, and Opportunity in Fostering Resilience among Adolescents

Smith, David Paul (Psych: Human Development); Patterns of Religion Experience among Psychotherapists and their Relation to Therapeutic Orientation

Winter  1999

Mintz, Judith Marsha (Psych: Human Development); The Social Construction of Self-esteem: Narrative Discourse Practices among Parents and Preschool Children in a Middle-class  European-American Community

Spring 1999

DeBoer, David Scott (Psych: Human Development); Vicissitudes of Hope in the Lazarus Effect: Psychological Responses of HIV-Positive Gay Men in the Post Era of HIV and AIDS

Gianino, Lawrence (Psych: Human Development); ChildrenÕs Understandings of Everyday Economic Practices

Summer 1999

Michele E. J. Koven (Psych: Human Development); French-Portuguese BilingualsÕ  Enactments of Self In Two Languages


Autumn 1999

Axelman, Michael (Psych/Human Development); The Rational Experiences of African-American Adolescents and the Role of Significant Adults: An Examination of Teenage Lives During the Transition to High School

Winter 2000

Nicoletti, Patrick Robin Tempest (Psych/Human Development); The Impact of Social Status on Preschoolers Display of Direct and Ritualized Responses to Peer Conflict

Spring 2000 

Furdyna, Jadwiga E. (Psych/Human Development); Parential Behavioral Control in Response to Neighbohood Adversity: Postitive and Negative Effects on Adolescent Rick Behavior, Peer Relationships, and Emotional Wellbeing

Reischer, Erica (Human Development); Muscling In: The Female Body Aestthetic and WomenÕs Roles in Contemporary American Society

Richardson, Jerome (Psych/Human Development); Maternal Teaching Strategies: Their Impact beyond the Task Being Taught


Autumn 2000

Jenuine, Michael (Psych/Human Development); Narratives of Suicidal Adolescents

Suth, Andrew (Human Development); Adolescent Fathers: The Meanings of Their Experience and Their Commitment to Fatherhood 

Winter 2001

Bae, Sue Hyun (Human Development); The Experience of Professional Autonomy among Psychotherapists in Korea and the West

Spring 2001

Spencer, Natasha Anne (Human Development); Diversity in Human Ovarian Aging: Social and Race-Linked Context of Reproductive Aging in Women


Autumn 2001

Kinnunen, Leann Helka (Psych, Human D evelopment); Evidence Concerning the Etiology of Sexual Orientation in Human Males: Differential Effects of Fluoxetine on Cerbral Glucose Metabolism of Exclusively Homosexual and Exclusively Heterosexual Men

Rich, Grant Jewell (Psych:HD ); Aspiring Adolescents: Optimal Career Development

Hostetler, Andrew Jon (Psych:HD ); Single Gay Men: Psychology Well-Being, Cultural Models of Adult Developments and the Meaning of Being Single by Choice

Joseph, Michael Craig (Psych:HD )The Virtues as a Cultural Domain: a Study of Arabic-Speaking Muslims

Hunter, Jeremy Paul (Psych:HD ); Vital Powers and Wasted Possibilities; Engaged and Bored Teenagers in America

Pietersz, Ruvanee (Psych:HD ); Making the Connection: Psychosocial Well-Being Group Psychotherapy and On-Line Support Groups for Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Bartoli, Eleonora (Psych:HD/Mental Health Research ); Psychoanalytic Practice and the Religious Patient: The Politics of Agency and Responsibility

Winter 2001

Pietersz, Ruvanee (Ph.D. Psych:HD/Mental Health Research); Making the Connection: Psychosocial Well-Being Group Psychotherapy and On-Line Support Groups for Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Hoogstra, Lisa (Ph.D. Psych:HD); Divergent Paths after High School: Transitions to College and Work

DaCosta, Kneia (Ph.D. Psych:HD); Eyes on the Prize or Head in the Sand?: Urban Black Adolescents’ Constructions of the Future

Summer 2002

Nakamura, Jeanne (Ph.D. Psych:HD); Sustaining Engagement: Continuity and Change into Later Life

Harlem, Andrew (Ph.D. Psych:HD); The Making of the 'Culturally Competent" Psychologist: A Study of Educational Discourse and Practice

Roney, James (Ph.D. Psych:HD); Psychological and Hormonal Responses of Men to Sensory Cues form Women. (William Henry Prize)


Autumn 2002

Wang, Ning (Ph.D. Psych/HD); The Making of a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community

Sandhya, Shaifali (Ph.D. Psych/HD); A Study of Hindu Married Couples: The Role of Family Living Arrangements and Gender in Maintaining Happiness and Well-Being

Stolpe, Brigitta; Cultural endocrinology: Menarch, Modernity and the Transformative Powers of Social Reconfigurations

 

Summer 2003

Karel, Ernst; Kerala Sound Electricals: Amplified Sound and Cultural Meaning in South India

McDonald, Mary; A Phenomenological Study of Adult Development: Older Women, Growth Seeking, and Experiencing Turning Point Events


Autumn  2003

Hermes, Gretchen; The Embodiment of Social Isolation: Bio-Behavioral Systems, Pre-Disease Pathways, and Patterns of Aging

Reichman, Jill; The Relationship of Acculturation and Folk Medical Beliefs IN Recently Emigrated Mexican Nationals

Glover, Christine; What Women Want: The Role of the Social Environment on Romantic Partner Preferences

 

Winter 2004

Bennis, Will; Experience, Values, Beliefs,  and the Sociocultural Context In  Gambling Decision Making: A Field Study of Casino  Blackjack

 

Spring 2004

Gortner, David; Varieties of Young Adult Personal Theologies: Content, formative Influences, and Current Relationships to Everyday Life

 

Summer 2004

Guest, Andrew; Cultural processes of psychosocial competence and middle childhood: Play, self-esteem, and teamwork in two distinct impoverished communities

Davies, Elizabeth; Retrospective Reevaluation of Personally Salient Events: A Longitudinal Study

Singer, Melissa; Gesture speech Mismatches During Instruction and Learning: Handing Out More Information

Pyati, Aarti; Going the Cultural Distance: Worldview-relevant counseling at India’s Premiere Psychiatric Institute

 


Autumn 2004

Allen, Jacqueline; From “Stinkin” Thinkin’” to “Easy Does It”: Narratives of Enculturation and Psychological Transformation in Alcoholics Anonymous

 

Spring 2005

Zuker, Pam; Working Marriages: Marital Interaction, Flow, and Marital Satisfaction

Epstein, Richard; Beyond the Yellow Door: Outcome and Follow-Up Studies in a Residential Treatment Center

Pelka, Suzanne; Lesbian Couples Using In-Vitro Fertilization to Co-Mother: A Cultural Study of Biological Ties

Abramson, Amy; Playing with Power: An Exploratory Study of How Generation and Gender are Linked to Assertvie Behavior in Mother-Child Interaction in  African-American families

Summer 2005

Novotny, Doug; The Interpersonal Significance of Conflicting Messages in Couple Communication: An Examination of Relational Patterns Among Adolescent African-American Expectant Parents in Chicago

 


Autumn 2005

Tirodkar, Manasi; Adaptations of Contemporary Ayurvedic Medical Practice in Urban India

Spring 2006

Persun, Nadia; Choosing Marriage or Cohabitation: Understanding Psychosocial Precedents and Effects on Personal and Relationship Satisfaction

Calabrese, Joseph; Mirror of the Soul: Cultural Psychiatry, Moral Socialization and the Development of the Self in the Native American Church

Horton, Randall; Refining Theory and Practice in the Cultural Psychology of Emotion: Tibetan "Anger" and the Roots of the Modern Tibetan Commitment to Non-Violence

 

Summer 2006

Bromer, Juliet; Beyond child care: The family support and community roles of African-American child care providers



Autumn 2006

Finger, Brent; Exploring the Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment Disorganization

Hammack, Phillip; The Narrative Stalemate: Conflict, Identity and the Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Adolescence