• Understanding the Misunderstood Emotion: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Variants of Anger 

  Razavi, Pooya (University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)

  In cultural accounts and scholarly writings about anger, we see conceptualizations that reflect the existence of two variants: an anger perceived as moral, appropriate, and justified; and an anger considered wrong and ...
• Measuring long-term memories at the feature level reveals mechanisms of interference resolution 

  Drascher, Maxwell (University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)

  When memories share similar features, this can lead to interference, and ultimately forgetting. At the same time, many highly similar memories are remembered vividly for years to come. Understanding what causes interference ...
• The Role of Hierarchical Structures in Cognition 

  Moss, Melissa (University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)

  Individuals routinely execute complex tasks that involve multiple, dependent levels of information, such as driving a car or cooking dinner. It is amazing that our cognitive system is able to represent such complex, ...
• A Contextual Psychology Approach to Improving Health Outcomes in the Perinatal Period 

  Lightcap, April (University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)

  The United States holds alarming records for highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the developed world. The US infant mortality rate is on par with many low and middle income countries, and despite the decline in ...
• The Study of Behavior Settings as an Aid in Mental Hospital Analysis: A Methodological Exploration 

  Rose, David William (University of Oregon, 1969-06)

  The ultimate goal of all mental hospital analyses is to provide information which by direct implication or through analysis might act as a guide in restructuring environment in which the mental patient lives. The goal of ...
• Personality-Driven Social Media Curation: How Personality Traits Affect Following Decisions on Twitter 

  Bedford-Petersen, Cianna (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  As social media occupies an increasingly important place in people’s lives, new opportunities are presented for people to select and modify their online environments. On many platforms, users have significant control over ...
• Stability of Mind-Mindedness Across the Transition to Motherhood and its Longitudinal Association with Children’s Theory of Mind & Executive Function 

  Gluck, Stephanie (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Parental mind-mindedness refers to caregivers’ propensity to attribute mind-like and intentional qualities in their interactions with or representation of their young children. It is proposed to be associated with positive ...
• Dating and Mating in Adolescence: How Hormones and Puberty Influence Adolescent Mating Motivation 

  Donaldson, Sarah (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

  Puberty marks the physical transition towards sexual maturity, culminating in the ability to reproduce. It follows that maturing cognitive, affective, and social skills develop concurrently to support reproductive competence, ...
• Individual Differences in Memory Functions and Their Relation to Hippocampal Connectivity 

  Frank, Lea (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

  The hippocampus plays an important role in many aspects of learning and memory. It is most known for its role in episodic memory and spatial navigation, though it has also been shown to contribute to other processes like ...
• Collective Ongoing Betrayal Trauma: Gendered and Racialized Police Violence toward the Black Community 

  Barnes, Melissa (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

  Racialized and gendered police violence is a pernicious problem for Black communities. For my dissertation, I empirically tested a novel theoretical concept, Collective Ongoing Betrayal Trauma (COBT). COBT integrates the ...
• Associations between Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms, Parenting, and Mother-Child Cortisol Levels 

  O'Brien, Jacqueline (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

  Children of mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are at heightened risk for developing mental health difficulties but the pathway through which this risk is conferred is unclear. Developmental psychopathology ...
• Counter-Projection in a Polarized Political Climate: Examining the Role of Threat and Ways to Reduce It. 

  Denning, Kathryn (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

  The term “polarization” is often associated with “opposition.” Yet, how do people come to see others as their opposites? There is likely a social cognitive process at play. One such process is counter-projection, where ...
• The Transition to Parenthood and the Family System: Links from Grandparents, Parents, and Infants to Perinatal Medical Risk and Early Parent Affect 

  Loi, Elizabeth (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

  Biopsychosocial factors in early childhood set the foundation for later neurocognitive and language competence. This dissertation aimed to identify and characterize the early psychosocial correlates of perinatal medical ...
• Individual Differences in Learning and Memory Abilities: The Influence of Self-Efficacy 

  Miller, Ashley (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

  The present study examined whether individual differences in memory self-efficacy (MSE)—one’s perception and evaluation of their memory abilities—predicts learning and memory ability in a sample of healthy young adults. ...
• The Development of Moral Evaluations in Children and Adults 

  Ochoa, Karlena (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

  Although the influence of intent understanding on children’s moral development has been long studied, limited research has examined the influence of belief understanding on that development. The purpose of this dissertation ...
• Memory Consolidation. 

  Shofner, Steven (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

  This proposal synthesizes the work of other researchers (Hawkins et al. 2019) (Kim, Gulati, and Ganguly 2019) (Wei et al. 2018) (Tononi and Cirelli 2006) (Grossberg 2013) (Li et al. 2017) into a framework of memory ...
• Sensitive Periods for Social Development in Adolescence: Exploring Mechanisms Relating Experience and Timing to Neural Change 

  Cheng, Theresa (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

  Social relationships during adolescence have outsized effects on long-term physical and mental health. The theory that adolescence is a sensitive period suggests that adolescent experiences might profoundly shape development. ...
• The Psychology of Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States 

  Ludwig, Rita (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

  Effective, evidence-based public policy is of critical importance to address issues of socioeconomic inequality, poverty, and class mobility. Psychological science has a valuable opportunity to inform the development of ...
• The Personal Relevance of Psychotherapy for Asian Americans 

  Huang, Ellen (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

  Purpose: For at least 50 years, significant mental health disparities between people of color and White Americans have existed. There has been minimal movement in decreasing mental health disparities, particularly among ...
• Coping with Complexity: Characterizing High and Low Learning During On-Line Acquisition of a Seminatural Micro Language 

  Konyn, Amy (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

  Natural language is highly complex and can be challenging for some learners, yet the contribution of complexity to individual differences in language learning remains poorly understood. This poor understanding appears due ...

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