This page collects the digitized full text Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations of the Department of Psychological Science at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

The following broadly describes library holdings for UA theses and dissertations:

Category print online
Dissertations 1953-2006 in MAIN

1950s-2012 in Special Collections
1989 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

1950s - present indexed in ProQuest
Master's theses 1910s-2006 in MAIN

1910s-2012 in Special Collections
2006 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

Theses were not systematically indexed in ProQuest prior to 2006.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Does Diversity Ideology Moderate Participants’ Perceptions of Therapists Who Do and Do Not Broach?, Emily Allen

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Intellectual Humility and the Role of Feedback on Children’s Intellectual Humility Expression, Christina M. Barnes

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A Brief Values-Based Intervention for Increasing Distress Tolerance in Overcontrol, Katherine Hyde Brott

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How Others Affect Identity: The Roles of Mere Presence, Self-Disclosure Extent, and Partner Responsiveness, Josephine Collins

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Evaluating the Association Between Daily Fluctuations in Sleep and Blood Pressure, Mara Elizabeth Egeler

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To EACH Their Own: The Relationship Among Regret, Habits, and Academic Performance in College Students, Chandler Ann Findley

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A Mobile Application Intervention for Insomnia among College Students, Veronica Floyd

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Strategies for Misinformation Correction: Evidence for the Power of Negation, Angel Houts

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‘Catching Zzz’s and feelings’: A Study Examining the Link between Sleep and Emotional Intimacy among Sexual Assault Survivors, Anna Marie Thi Thanh Nguyen

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The School Lunchroom as an Important Context in Children’s Social Development: The Link Between Lunchtime Peer Acceptance and Peer Victimization, Jake Callaway Steggerda

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Will These Feelings Last Forever? Examining the Relationship Between the Longevity Belief About Emotion and Avoidance, Elise Warner

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The Interplay of Chronic Alcohol Misuse and Facial Recognition Abilities, Morgan Hannah Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Emergency Service Use in Autistic Youth and Young Adults, Rebecca S. Bradley

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The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on the Ability to Reappraise Negative Situations, Rebecca Campbell

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The Dynamics of Emotion-Related Impulsivity: An Analysis of Emotional Control and Daily Emotion-Driven Urges and Actions via Ecological Momentary Assessment, Jeremy B. Clift

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(Nearly) All Roads Lead to Polarization: Cognitive Dissonance and the Inverse Relationship Between Polarization and Trivialization in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, Austin D. Eubanks

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How Systematically Increasing Estimator Variables Affects the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship, Amber M. Giacona

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Enhancing Depression Screening and Treatment for Latinxs Residing in the U.S., Linda Esperanza Guzman

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Components of Emotional Functioning Among People with Substance Use and Posttraumatic Stress Difficulties: An Idiographic Perspective, Danielle Higuera

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Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning, Kent F. Hubert

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What Cognitive Processes Drive Attentional Bias, and How Does Stress Affect Them?, Colton L. Hunter

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Children’s Disclosure of School Bullying: The Relation Between Peer Victimization, Internalizing Symptoms, Negative Affect, and Gender, Julia L. Kiefer

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Considering Contextual Factors in the Perception and Attribution of Racial Microaggressions, Roselee Ledesma

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Examining Task-related Differences in the Error-Related Negativity (ERN) as a Function of Cognitive Control Strategy and Trait Anxiety, Russell Mach

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Equity and Access to Care: Barriers to Diagnostic and Treatment Services for Black Families of Autistic Youth, Harlee Onovbiona

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Statewide Implementation of Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE) in Early Childhood Educational Centers: Examination of Implementation Determinants, Kathryn Parisi

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Juvenile Justice System Involvement and the Transition to Early Adulthood: Does Direct Intervention Help or Harm?, Cameron Miller Perrine

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Examining the Hormonal Underpinnings of Affiliation Motivation in Oral Contraceptive Users, Hormonal IUD Users, and Naturally Cycling Women, Mikayla Tolliver

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Presentation Matters: Effects of Presentation Order of Personality Feedback and Need for Structure on Participant Response to Feedback, Alita Marie Mobley Tu

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Freedom, Abortion, and Hypocrisy: The Effect of Hypocrisy on Pro-Life Abortion Attitudes, Emily M. Vance

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Therapists’ Demonstrated Multicultural Competence in Treating Latinx Immigrants, Dulce Diaz Benitez

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Concurrent Load and Construal on Planning, Maximilian Fey

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Hurting to Helping: Regret as a Potential Motivator of Helping Behavior, Chandler Ann Findley

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Female Adults’ Experiences of Sexual Harassment and Assault in the Presence of Others: A Qualitative Analysis of the Effectiveness and Consequences of Bystander Intervention Strategies, Kayla Ford

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An Innocent Bystander Walks into a Bar: The Influence of Temporal Proximity and Familiarity on Unconscious Transference, Nia Gipson

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An Evaluation of the Convergent Construct Validity of the Boldness Inventory of Psychopathy using a Five-Minute, 10% Carbon-Dioxide-Enriched Air Challenge, Morgan Alexandra Hill

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The Impact of Video-Taped Social Modeling on Alcohol Outcome Expectancies of Young Adults and the Role of Social Anxiety, Kyle Kevin Jackson

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Thinking About Episodic Future Events as a Way to Reduce Smoking Behavior: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Stephanie Joann Kane

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Mentors in Violence Prevention: Differential Impacts on Adolescent Bystander Intentions about Bullying, Dating Violence, and Sexual Harassment, Ayla Mapes

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“All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk”: Attributions of Race-Based Discrimination When an Ingroup Member is the Perpetrator, Christin Alexandra Mujica

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Children’s Positive Peer Relationships and their Bullying Behaviors: A Latent Profile Analysis, Lauren Mutignani

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Children’s Social Judgments of Others on the Basis of Dialect-Specific Vocabulary, Madison Myers-Burg

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Collaborating with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Parents to Develop CareGiver-Initiated Mentoring, Meredith J. Scafe

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The Self-Invalidation Due to Emotion Scale (SIDES): Development and Psychometric Properties, Regina E. Schreiber

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Trauma Treatment for Youth in Foster Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of Clinician Perspectives and Treatment Model Use, Allison Blake Smith

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Reactionism: The Motivation to Resurrect the Past, Derrick F. Till

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Algorithms vs. Human Nature: A Tale of Selective Exposure, Dené E. M. Wamsley

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The Influence of Beliefs about Emotion on Avoidance Behaviors, Elise Warner

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Combating Conspiracy Theories: An Attitudes-Based Approach, Marie Altgilbers

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Distress Tolerance as a Potential Target for Change: The Relationship Between Distress Tolerance, Craving, and Alcohol Consumption in a Lab-based Experiment, Isabel F. Augur

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Does Whispering Improve Children’s Memory? Comparing Auditory Vigilance and Salience Hypotheses, Christina M. Barnes

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Disgust versus Anger-Relevant Trauma Analogues: Associations with Affect and Disclosure Behavior, Teah-Marie Bynion

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Facts from Fiction: Packaging Misinformation, Angel Ray Houts

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An EEG Source-Space Analysis of the Neural Correlates Underlying Self-Regulation, Stephanie M. Long

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Effects of Sleep on Intrusive Symptoms and Emotional Reactivity in a Laboratory-Based Film Analog Study, Anna Marie Thi Thanh Nguyen

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What Makes a Lie? A Novel Study Investigating the Difference Between Deliberate Lies and Honest Mistakes, Andrew Christopher Provenzano

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The Effect of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Attention and Cognitive Control as a Function of Smartphone Notifications., Joshua D. Upshaw

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Negative Urgency's Influence on State-level, Emotion-based Changes in Alcohol-related Cognitions, Noah Wolkowicz

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Barriers to Integrated Primary Care and Specialty Mental Health Services: Perspectives from Latinx and Non-Latinx White Primary Care Patients, Elizabeth A. Anastasia

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Distress Tolerance in Relation to Treatment Persistence, Engagement, and Improvement in an Exposure-Based Treatment for Sexually Abused Incarcerated Women, Ilana S. Berman

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An Experimental Test of the Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Approach Behavior, Rebecca L. Campbell

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Perceptions of Help-Seeking Likelihood for Depression: Examining the Relative Predictive Value of Ethnicity and Barriers to Care, Linda Esperanza Guzman

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Drinking to Cope: Effects of Anxiety on Generation of Self-Regulation Strategies, Lauren Hurd

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Rejection Sensitivity and Social Support as Predictors of Peer Victimization among Youth with Psychiatric Illness, Katherine C. Hyde

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Are Individual Differences in Media Multitasking Habits Associated with Changes in Brain Activation: An ERP Investigation of Multitasking and Cognitive Control, Morgan Middlebrooks

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Effects of Alcohol Intoxication on Hostile Attribution Bias and Relational Aggression in Women, Alita M. Mobley

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Practitioner Use of and Attitudes toward Video-Conferencing for the Delivery of Evidence-Based Telemental Health Interventions, Kathryn Parisi

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Peer Acceptance in the Lunchroom and Children’s Internalizing Symptoms, Jake Steggerda

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Children's Use of Accent as a Cue for Cooperative Potential, Rachel Stevens

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Calling Out the Trolls: Responses to Witnessing Use of the “Troll” Label as a Defense in an Online Group Context, Dene E. M. Wamsley

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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The Impact of Mother and Adolescent Offspring Distress Reduction Training on Maternal Anxiety and Alcohol Related Behaviors Following Conflict, Sarah Ann Bilsky

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Emotion Identification and Beliefs about Emotions as Mediators of PTSD and Parenting Meta-Emotion Philosophies, Maegan Calvert

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Turn that Frown Upside-down! The Effectiveness of Opposite Action in Changing Emotion, Kaitlyn Diane Chamberlain

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Preliminary Outcomes, Acceptability, and Feasibility of a Brief Crisis Response Planning Intervention for Reducing Suicide Risk in Primary Care Behavioral Health Patients, Aubrey R. Dueweke

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Components of Mindfulness Training: Impacts on Attention and Affect, Maximilian Fey

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Changes in Cortical Processing Following Unilateral Visual Cortex Deafferentation, Matthew Gannon

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Familiarization through Ambient Images Alone, Nia Imani Gipson

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Social Anxiety Reduction in the Context of Social Modeling Utilizing a Placebo Alcohol Beverage, Kyle K. Jackson

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Are Two Unmatched Minority Statuses Worse Than One? The Impact of Social Status Similarities on Alliance in a Mock Clinical Interview, Roselee Jeannette Ledesma

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Electrophysiological Correlates of Visual Object Category Formation in a Prototype-Distortion Task, Stephanie Marie Long

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How Does Alcohol Intoxication Impair Risk Detection of Sexual Assault? Testing an Integration of Alcohol Myopia and Social Information Processing Theories, Alexander James Melkonian

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Hating Evil: Understanding the Role of Evil in Interpersonal Hate, Carmen Merrick

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Parametric Indices of Peer Victimization as Predictors of Children’s Internalizing Outcomes, Freddie Aníbal Pastrana Rivera

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Like Me, Do What I Say, & Think About My Influence: The Effects on Witness Choosing and Metacognition, Brittany Race

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The Feedback-Related Negativity is a Time-Dependent Brain Mechanism that Facilitates Aversive Learning: Implications for the Reinforcement Learning FRN Hypothesis, Eric Rawls

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Music, Language, and Rhythmic Timing, Rhimmon Simchy-Gross

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Dynamics of Momentary Perceived Self-Regulation Abilities as Novel Predictors of Overeating in Daily Life, Kayla Dawn Skinner

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Cost-benefit Analysis of Enhanced Mentoring for Delinquency Prevention, Allison Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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How Want vs Need Self-Talk Facilitates Goal-Directed Behavior, Danielle Elyse Baker

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A Multimodal Assessment of Disgust in Response to Traumatic Event Reminders Among Adolescents, Teah-Marie R. Bynion

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Values vs. Self-Interest as Determinants of Attitudes: Through a Construal Level Theory Lens, (Sometimes) Self-Interest Wins, Austin D. Eubanks

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Acculturation and Internalizing Problems among Latino Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review, Juventino Hernandez Rodriguez

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Investigating Affective Pathways for the Influence of Justification on Self-Control, Morgan Hill

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A Support Program for College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Functioning of Participants Versus Non-Participants and the Role of Program-Sponsored Mentoring, Ayla Raven Mapes

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The Role of Dialect Words in Children’s Social Decisions, Madison Rose Myers-Burg

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Long-Term Focus of Attentional Biases, Garrett Pollert

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A Laboratory-Based Experimental Test of Reasons for Living: Effects on Behavioral Approach Toward a Suicide-Related Stimulus, Sasha Micaella Rojas

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Community- versus School-Based Mentoring Matches: Do Mentees’ Parents Differ in Family Risk, Perceived Support or Reasons for a Mentor?, Meredith Sourk

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Multiculturalism, Colorblindness, and Prejudice: Examining How Diversity Ideologies Impact Intergroup Attitudes, David Sparkman

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Relations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Current Maladaptive Beliefs in a College Sample, Ilana Starr Berman