Past Dissertations
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 2002
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
Summer 2007
Iskra, Annette; Nobody Wins: Psychological Effects of War and Repatriation in Croatia
Ahmed, Karen; The "Business" of Culture: Morality and Practice in Islamic Finance
Autumn 2007
Sosa, Stephanie; Emotion Display Rules and Well-Being in Small Town Yucatan: How Adaptive Emotion Response Alternatives Vary By Cultural Context.
Honde, Christina; The Relation of Atypical Maternal Behavior ("Disruptive Communication") to Maternal Risk Factors and Infant Attachment
Winter 2007
Whitham, Jessica; The Grunt and Girney Vocalizations of Free-Ranging Female Rhesus Macaques
Spring 2008
Marrow, Jocelyn
Summer 2008
Xue, Wenping; Meaning in transmission: A case study of the psychological consequences of globalized consumption in China
Abuhamdeh, Sami
Autumn 2008
Fricano, Guy
Yee, Jason
Winter 2008
Phillips, Sarah Van Deusen; When Looking is Listening: Gesture, Multi-Modal Language, and the Socialization of Deaf Children in Castellano-Speaking Families
Spring 2009
Guy Friancano, Guy
Perez Felkner, Lara; Cultivating College Dreams: Social Pathways to Educational Attainment
Winter 2009
Cassaniti, Julia; Control in a world of change: Emotion and Morality in a Northern Thai town
