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Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Interrupted Time Series Analysis: Computer Programs and Accuracy of Intervention Parameter Estimates, John W. Harrop

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The Effectiveness of Response Prevention in the Reduction of Avoidance Behavior in Young Rats, Sara Hazard

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Stability of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised with Learning Disabled Children, Martha J. Lally

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EFFECT OF THE CONTENT OF MORAL DILEMMAS UPON RESPONSES ON THE DEFINING ISSUES TEST, Gail M. Lawson

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THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL/COGNITIVE PROCESSES TO SOCIAL COMPETENCE, Diane Marques

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Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior: Effects of the Response-Reinforcement Interval, Thomas S. Rieg

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Rehabilitation and Psychological Evaluations of Claimants of Portuguese and Puerto Rican Background, Rui R. Rodrigues

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Biological and Environmental Influences on the Cognitive Development of Children with Developmental Disabilities, Ruth H. Schennum

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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An Investigation of the Effect of Holocaust Survivor Parents on Their Children, Cynthia Budick

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Conditioned Reinforcement: Order Out of Chaos, Robert Stephen Harris

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Some Factors Related To Self-Esteem in Women, Robin H. Hasenfeld

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Causal Inferences Among Perceived Work and Nonwork Stress and Satisfaction, and Psychological Distress: Empirical Tests of Path-Analytic Models, Jocelyn J. Johnson

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The Role of the Orientation Response in the Cognitive Control of Leveling and Sharpening, David J. Libon

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The Effects of Consciousness-Raising Groups on Sex Role Stereotyping with Fifth Grade Children in an Urban School Setting, Susan Maria Lotto

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Short Stature in Caucasian Males: Personality Correlates and Social Attribution, Leslie F. Martel

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Creativity, Attention Deployment, and Equilibration, Joseph R. McAllister Jr.

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The Relationship of Linguistic Awareness to Reading Skill in Children and Adults, Anne Csroline Pratt

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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The Development and Validation of the Student Personality Assessment Form, Earl H. Baker

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Covert Visual Attention and Distractibility, Charles E. Folkers

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An Empirical Investigation of the Concept of Transference, Cornelia E. Franek

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The Relationship of Sample Size to the Stability of Component Patterns: A Simulation Study, Edward Guadagnoli

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Personality Correlates of Parental Maltreatment, Lorraine Helen Huckel

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Understanding the Participation of Blacks in Voluntary Community Organizations, Eric T. Jones

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Social Facilitation and the Type A Behavior Pattern, Kim H. Knight

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The Impact of Personality and Systems Variables on Smoking Cessation and Recidivism: An Extension of the Transtheoretical Model of Change, Duane Valentine Lapsanski

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Relationships Among Stages of Change, Types of Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy Outcome, Eileen A. McConnaughy

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Discrimination of Leaders Members and Non-Members in Neighborhood Block Organizations, Marc S. Mednick

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Statistical Power of Psychological Research: The Artifactual Basis of Controversial Results, Joseph S. Rossi

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Adolescent Cigarette Smoking Acquisition: Measurement and Sample Profiles, Robert Andrew Stern

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A Comparison of Extinction and Reinforcement-Based Response Elimination Technique, Stuart Vyse

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Subject Characteristics as Predictors of Self Change in Smoking, Nancy S. Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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Race, Gender, Socioeconomic Status and Self-Disclosure, Stanley Gene Cosby

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The Role-Taking Construct and Its Relationship to Social Acceptance, William P. Geary

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Factors Predicting Pattern of Math Courses and Mathematical Aptitude Test Scores Among High School Women and Men, Mary A. Kanarian

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The Use of Isolate Children as Peer Modifiers in the Treatment of Social Skills Deficits, Diane Marques

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The Effects of Story Consequence and Story Theme on the Moral Reasoning of Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Graders, Kevin Plummer

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RELATIONSHIPS OF VISIBLE NONVERBAL BEHAVIORS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TEACHERS TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF TEACHERS' ABILITIES IN CLASSROOM CONTROL, Mary Cecil Weyhing

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A Comparison of Five Rules for Determining the Number of Components in Complex Patterns, William R. Zwick

Theses/Dissertations from 1982

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The Interaction of Participant Conceptual Level and Structure of Groups Teaching Interpersonal Communication, Valerie L. Brewer

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The Relationship Between Ethnicity and Self-Concept in Italian-Americans, Paul Robert Cassarino

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Children’s Fears: The Development of a New Measure and Preliminary Findings Regarding Age and Sex Differences, Michael Hayden Davies

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Investigation and Interpretation of an Event with Multiple Causes, Stephen A. Ginpil

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A Comparison of Multi-Dimensional Measures of Aggression, Joseph Michael Govia

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Reliability, Faking Susceptibility, and Discriminant Validity of the Basic Personality Inventory, Raymond A. Kilduff

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The Effects of Delayed Response Prevention on Fear Reduction and Enhancement, Stephen Abbot Neill

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A Social Cognitive Analysis of Stereotyping, Cathryn M. Noseworthy

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Review and Evaluation of Two Models of Moral Development, Kevin Plummer

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Nicotine Self-Regultion in Heavy and Light Smokers, Gwendolyn A. Underhill

Theses/Dissertations from 1981

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The Child's Adjustment and Development Following the Death of a Parent: A Critical Analysis of the Research and its Implications, Ellen B. Berlinsky

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The Establishment of Conditioned Reinforcement in Rats: Information Value or Contiguity, Robert Stephen Harris

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Development of the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA) Scale: A Device for the Measurement of Stages of Change, Eileen A. McConnaughy

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The Effect of Forced Warm Swim on Escape Learning in Rats, Katherine A. O'Neill

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THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL PROBLEM SOLIVING TO HIGH SCHOOL PREFORMANCE, Barry Alan Plummer

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National Stereotypes and Their Relationship to Self-Perceptions in Irish, Italian, and American College Students, Caroline M. Salvatore

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The Effect of Adrenalectomy and Stress on Autoanalgesia in the Rat, Patricia A. Seymour

Theses/Dissertations from 1980

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Perceived Motivation and Evaluation: Effects of Intention Cues and Effort Cues on Attribution of Responsibility and Evaluate Judgements of Elementary School Teachers, Mary Ann Ford

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The Effects of Hue and Lightness Upon Color Preference and Their Relationship to Five Manifest Needs, Elaine Puntch Gelineau

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Persistence of Fear Reduction Resulting from Response Prevention, Stephen Abbot Neill

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An Investigation of Grief and Adaptation in Parents Whose Children Have Died from Cancer, Therese Ann Rando

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Factors Influencing Four Rules for Determining the Number of Principal Components to Retain, William R. Zwick

Theses/Dissertations from 1979

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The Development of Imagination: The Relationship Between College Students’ Retrospective Reports of Parent-Child Interactions and Imaginal Activity in Everyday Life, Martin W. Ham

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The Modification of Impulsive Behavior with Learning Disabled Boys: A Verbal Self-Instructional Approach, Vicki Lynn Moss

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Is There a Threshold For Mental Rotation?, Joseph S. Rossi

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A Psychophysiological Investigation of Sexual Responding in Heterosexual Males and Females, Debra L. Steinman

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Some Factors Affecting College Students' Willingness to Interact with Hospitalized Mental Patients, Joan E. Wilkins

Theses/Dissertations from 1978

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Nonlinguistic Communication of Emotion, Martha Estina Banks

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The Effect of Systematic Desensitization and Information on Attitudes Toward the Physically Disabled, Susan F. Cohen

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A Direct Comparison of Three Fear Assessment Techniques, Donald Paul Corriveau

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The Effects of Priming and Subliminal Oedipal-Related Stimuli on Competitive Behavior of College Males, Katherine C. Haspel

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Personality and Background Characteristics of Women in Asextypical Occupations, Jeanne Parr Lemkau

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Evaluation of Pain as a Discriminative Stimulus in the Rat, Stephen Miksic

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Facilitation of Fear Reduction Following Electrical Stimulation of the Brain in Rats, William A. Pacitti

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The Relationship Between “Rapid Induction” and Placebo Analgesia, Hypnotic Susceptibility, and Chronic Pain Intensity, Lorraine Luke Snow

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An Investigation of Methodological Problems in the Cognitive Developmental Diagnosis of Transitivity, Elizabeth S. Thayer

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Closedmindedness as a Positive Behavior, Herbert Wax

Theses/Dissertations from 1977

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An Investigation of a Simulated Spatial Technique as a Measure of Interpersonal Distancing Behavior, Max C. Alovisetti

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Word Meanings in Semantic Memory: Separating, Defining and Characteristic Features, Ageliki Nicolopoulou

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An Empirical Investigation of an Existential Theory as it Appears to the Elderly: The Will to Live, Ann M. Varna Garis

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Children’s Attitudes Towards the Crippled, the Retarded and the Mentally Ill, Joan Wilkins

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LIFE SATISFACTION IN MOBILE AND NON-MOBILE ADULTS IN THE EARLY 30s, William Lawerence Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 1976

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The Effect of Two Competitive Conditions and a Non-Competitive Condition on Performance and Retention on a Recognition Task, Thomas J. Comiskey

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Hypnotic Susceptibility of Undergraduates: Class Standing, Major, and Sex, Randall B. Plourde

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An Exploration of the Relationship Between Self-Reported Anxiety and Belief in Internal Versus External Control of Reinforcement, Caroline Salvatore

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The Effects of Self-Imposed and Externally Imposed Rewards of Children's Intrinsic Motivation, Douglas Lee Schooler

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Cognitive Complexity of Clinical Psychology Students in Relation to Their Evaluation of Contributions to Psychology, Dannel Hussey Starbird

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Agency/Communion Balance and its Relationship to Sex Role Stereotyping, Dorothy Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 1975

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Fear Reduction Following Response Prevention in the Rat, Donald P. Corriveau

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Goal-Directed Fantasy, Imaginative Involvement, and the Development of Suggestibility, Martin W. Ham

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Sex-Role Development in Psychiatrically Disturbed Adolescent Females and Their Parents, Judye Gershman Hess

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Assessment of Visual Memory in Elementary School Children Under Motivating Conditions, Charles Walter Paskewicz

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The Relationship of Black Ethnicity to Field Dependence and Adjustment, Theodore Conway Schmults

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Information Seeking Behavior, Dennis L. Sternlight

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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Performance of Hyperkinetic and Normal Children Under Two Conditions of Reinforcement, Howard Israel Benesch

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The Effect of Extinction on the Delayed Learning of a Conditioned Taste Aversion in the Rat, John J. Colby

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Durability of Secondary Reinforcement as a Function of Manipulations in the Training and Testing Situations, Lee E. Doerries

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Symptom and Dynamic Hierarchies in the Systematic Desensitization of Test Anxiety: An Incentive Approach, William A. Hancur

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Residual Fear of the CS as a Function of Response Prevention After Avoidance or Classical-Defensive Conditioning in the Rat, Peter M. Monti

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A Direct Comparison of Four Response Elimination Procedures in Rats, William A. Pacitti

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Acute Grief in Adulthood: Toward a Cognitive Model of Normal and Pathological Mourning, Allen G. Schor

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High Risk Pro-Social Behavior: Who Will Respond Heroically in an Emergency, Ira Silverman