University of Pittsburgh

PAST Dissertation Defenses

Clinical | Cognitive | Developmental | Biological and Health | Social | Clinical/Developmental | Clinical/Health | Individualized

 

clinical program defenses

9/09 L. Ian Reed
Advisor: Ronald E. Dahl
The Effect of Guilt on Cooperation in a One-shot, Anonymous Prisoner's Dilemma Game
9/09

Sarah Tarbox
Advisor: Michael Pogue-Geile, PhD

The Nature of Schizotypy among Multigenerational Multiplex Schizophrenia Families
6/07

Karen Petersen
Advisor: Stephen Manuck, PhD

Socioeconomic Status as a Correlate of Plasma Inflammatory Markers: An Association that May Be Modulated by the Interleukin-6 (-174) G/C Promoter Polymorphism

11/06

Shannon Lenze
Advisor: Ellen Frank, PhD
"The Role of Life Events on Treatment Outcome During Acute and Maintenance Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder"
7/06

Judy Thompson
Advisor:
Michael Pogue-Geile, PhD

"Pre-onset Abnormalities, Psychosocial Stressors, and the Development of Psychosis: A Prospective Population-based Study"

cognitive program defenses

8/09

Kathryn Russell
Advisors: Joseph Ricker, PhD
Julie Fiez, PhD

Hemispheric and Executive Influences on Low-Level Language Processing After Traumatic Brain Injury
4/09 Charles Geier
Advisor: Beatriz Luna, PhD
Incentive Processing and Inhibitory Control in Adolescents and Young Adults

9/07

Anthony Harrison
Advisor: Chris Schunn, PhD

Online or Offline? Exploring Working Memory Constraints in Spatial Updating
8/07

Rod Roscoe
Advisor: Michelene Chi, PhD

Opportunities and Barriers for Tutor Learning: Knowledge-Building, Metacognition, and Motivation
8/07

Anita Barber
Advisor: Walter Schneider, PhD

Task Preparation and the Switch Cost: Characterizing Task Preparation through Stimulus Set Overlap, Transition Frequency and Task Frequency
9/06 Elizabeth Tricomi-Shiflett
Advisor: Julie Fiez, PhD
"Imaging the Role of the Caudate Nucleus in Feedback Processing During a Declarative Memory Task"
8/06 Donald J. Bolger
Advisor:
Charles Perfetti, PhD
"The Development of Orthographic Knowledge: A Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of the Self-Organizing Principles of the Ventral Visual Cortex for Reading"
7/06 Rhiannon Ellis Hart
Advisors: Julie Fiez, PhD and Jonathan Schooler, PhD
"Applications of Intentional Suppression: the Effect of Suppression on Recognition Memory of Ecologically Valid Stimuli"
4/06

Elizabeth Wheeler
Advisor:
Walter Schneider, PhD

"Examining Theories on Ventromedial Prefrontal Function"

4/06

Vincent Van Veen Advisors:
Cameron Carter, PhD
Julie Fiez, PhD

"A Neuroimaging Approach to the Relationship Between Attention and Speed-Accuracy Trade-off"

4/06

Amy Overman Advisor:
James T. Becker, PhD

"Characterization of the Nature of the Age-related Memory Impairment "
8/05 Nicole Landi
Advisor: Charles Perfetti, PhD
"Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigations of the Relationship Between Semantic Processing and Reading Comprehension"
7/05 Robert Hausmann
Advisor: Michelene Chi, PhD
"Elaborative and Critical Co-Construction: Two Potential Collaborative Problem-solving Mechanisms"
4/05
Lesley Anne Hart
Advisor: Charles Perfetti, PhD
"A Training Study Using an Artificial Orthography: Effects of Reading Experience, Lexical Quality and Text Comprehension in L1 and L2"
10/04
Robert S. Goldberg
Advisor: Charles Perfetti, PhD
"The Cortical Distribution and Interaction of Semantic Knowledge"
9/04 Roger Taylor
Advisor: Kevin Crowley, PhD
"Informal Science Learning: Influences of Explanatory Elaboration and Learner Control on Knowledge Acquisition"
8/04
Stephanie Siler
Advisor: Kurt Van Lehn, PhD
"Does Tutors' Use of Their Knowledge of Their Students Enhance One-on-One Tutoring?"
8/04
Kwang-Su Cho
Advisor: Christian Schunn, PhD
"When Experts give Worse Advice than Novices: The Type and Impact of Feedback given by Students and an Instructor on Student Writing"
4/04
Jason Chein
Advisor: Julie Fiez, PhD
"Evaluating Models Working Memory: FMRI and Behavioral Evidence on the Effects of Concurrent Irrelevant Information"

developmental program defenses

8/07

Clare Holt

Advisor: Susan Campbell, PhD

Maternal Harshness and the Mother-Child Relationship in the Toddler Years: Associations with Internalizing Problems at School Entry
8/05

Geetha Balaraman Ramani
Advisor: Celia Brownell, PhD

"Cooperative Play and Problem Solving in Preschool Children"
7/05 Michael Schonberg
Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD
"Risk Factors for Boys' Conduct Problems Within and Across Neighborhoods"
4/05 Lisa Newell
Advisor: Mark Strauss, PhD
"The Development of Pure vs. Co-Occurring Externalizing and Internalizing Symptomatology in Children"
3/05
Wendy Etheridge Smith
Advisor: Robert McCall, PhD
"Structural Characteristics that Predict Quality in Preschool Classrooms in Child Care Centers"
8/04
Shannah Tharp-Taylor
Advisors: Robert McCall, PhD, Sharon Nelson-Le Gall, PhD
"The Effects of Early Deprivation on Social and Emotional Development after Adoption from Russian Orphanages"
BIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH PROGRAM DEFENSES
1/06 Denise Janicki
Advisor: Thomas Kamarck, PhD
"Chronic Stress, Inflammation,and Progression of Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis: A Mediation Model"

social program defenses

5/05 Leslie Hausmann
Advisor: John Levine, PhD
"Developing Group Perceptions through Communication: Extensions of the Saying-is-Believing Effect"
4/04
Debbie Robinson
Advisor: Richard Moreland, PhD
"Group Reactions to Risky Prospective Members"

clinical/developmental program defenses

5/21/09


Ella Vanderbilt-Adriance
Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD

Psychosocial, Cognitive, and Physiological Protective Factors and the Absence of Antisocial Behavior in a Longitudinal Study of Low Income Boys
8/08

Patricia Matestic Advisor: Susan Campbell, PhD

Trajectories of Observed Maternal and Paternal Sensitivity in Early and Middle Childhood:  Predicting Children’s Social Competence from Sensitive Parenting.
6/08

Brandi Jones
Advisor: Robert McCall, PhD

Pathways to Maladjustment and Resilience in Inner-city Minority Youth: Examining Academic Failure and Hopelessness as Mediators between Contextual Risk Factors and Child Maladjustment from a Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
5/07

Stephanie Zerwas
Advisor: Celia Brownell, PhD

Imagination in Motion: Pretense Representation as Perceptual Simulation
7/06 Amanda Thompson
Advisor: Anna Marsland, PhD
"Close Relationships Among Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis"
6/06 Larry Kalb
Advisor: Rolf Loeber, PhD
"Screening for Violent Recidivism in the Juvenile Justice System: Establishing Accuracy"
3/06


Joyce Giovannelli
Advisor:
Mark Strauss, PhD
"Face Processing Abilities in Children with Autism"
6/05 Joy Beck
Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD
"Trajectories, Antecedents, and Outcomes of Childhood Somatization in School-age boys"
3/05
Alyssa Oland
Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD
"The Development of Pure vs. Co-Occurring Externalizing and Internalizing Symptomatology in Children"
4/04 Miles Gilliom
Advisor: Daniel Shaw, PhD
"Desistance from Childhood Physical Aggression"

clinical/health program defenses

7/09

Deborah Scharf
Advisor: Saul Shiffman, PhD

Rigid and Flexible Styles of Smoking Restraint
8/08

Stephen Wilson
Advisor: Michael Sayette, PhD

Self-focused versus Other-focused Strategies for Coping with Smoking Cue Exposure
6/08

Thomas Kirchner Advisor: Saul Shiffman, PhD

Relapse Dynamics During Smoking Cessation: Recurrent Abstinence Violation Effects and Lapse-Relapse Progression
9/06 Edie Goldbacher
Advisor: Karen Matthews, PhD
"Depression and the Metabolic Syndrome in Middle-Aged Women: A Longitudinal Investigation"
7/06 Rebecca Ringham
Advisor: Marsha Marcus, PhD
"Eating Behaviors in Overweight Children of Binge Eating Mothers"
7/06 Tamara Somers
Advisor: Andrew Baum, PhD
"Risk Reducing Behaviors in a Community Sample of Women with a Family History of Breast Cancer"
5/05 Sonya Brady
Advisor: Karen Matthews, PhD
"Impact of Violence Exposure on Hostility, Physiological Arousal, and Health in Youth"
5/05 Wendy Troxel
Advisor: Karen Matthews, PhD
"Marital Quality, Communal Strength, and Physical Health"

individualized program defenses

8/08


Sybil Streeter
Advisor: Donald McBurney, PhD

Odor, Adult Attachments and Emotions in Romantic Relationships
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