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Recent Ph.D. Dissertation Titles
  • Susan Birch, Social Cognition Across Development: Abilities and Limitations In Mental State Reasoning. (2004)

  • Jessica Borelli, Emotional Reactivity and Children’s Representational Models of Attachment Relationships (2008)

  • Jessica Brauner, Stability and Subgroups of Peer Rejected Children (2006)

  • Judith Danovitch, Beyond the Sciences: Children's Understanding of the domain of Morality. (2005)

  • Brian Detweiler-Bedell, Mood and Perceived Success: Self-Focused Attention Moderates the Influence of Mood on Perceived Success.(2002)

  • William Cunningham, Neural Components of Implicit and Explicit Social Evaluation. (2003)

  • Sharon C. Furtak, Structure and function of Rat Perirhinal Cortex. (2006)

  • Kathrine Gapinski, Changing Antifat Attitudes and Behavior by Inducing Empathy for Obese Persons and Creating Positive Associations.(2003)

  • Jennifer Harris, Automatic Effects of Food Advertising on Unhealthy Consumption Behavior (2008)

  • Jennifer Jordan, Business Experience and Moral Awareness: When Less May be More (2005)

  • Nancy Kim, Clinical Psychologists' Theory- Based Representations of Mental Disorders Affect Their Diagnostic Reasoning and Memory (2002)

  • Edward Lemay, You Think You Reap What You Sow: The Functional Projection of Communal Responsiveness (2008)

  • Paulo Lopes, Emotional Abilities and the Quality of Interpersonal Interaction. (2004)

  • Koleen C. McCrink, Mathematical Operations in Infancy and Adulthood (2007)

  • Katie McLaughlin, A Public Health Approach to the Study and Prevention of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety (2008)

  • Christina S. Meade, HIV Risk Behavior Among Adults with Severe Mental Illness. (2005)

  • Weihua Niu, Individual and Environmental Influences on Chinese Student Creativity.(2003)

  • Matthew Nock, Parent Participation in Child Psychotherapy: Predictors of Attrition and evaluation of a Participation Enhancement Intervention. (2003)

  • Deborah O'Donnell, The Mediating Role of Alienation in the Development of Maladjustment in Youth Exposed to Community Violence (2002)

  • Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Reducing Intergroup Prejudice and Conflict with the Mass Media: A Field Experiment in Rwanda. (2007)

  • John Perez, Spirituality and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Potential Mediators (2002)

  • Christopher Rate, What is Courage? A Search for Meaning (2007)

  • Deidre Reis, Mindfulness Meditation and Emotion Regulation: Experienced Meditators Show Distinct Brain and BehaviorResponses to Emotional Provocations (2008)

  • Susan Rivers, Discrete Emotions in Emotion Regulation: The Case of Anger and Sadness. (2005)

  • Gregory M. Walton, A Role for Societal Identity Processes in Motivation. (2005)

  • Deena Weisberg, The Creation and Comprehension of Fictional Worlds (2008)