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Psychology Theses and Dissertations
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This collection contains some of the theses and dissertations produced by students in the University of Oregon Psychology Graduate Program. Paper copies of these and other dissertations and theses are available through the UO Libraries.
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Emotion regulation is an important transdiagnostic symptom of psychopathology and a key treatment target for intervention. It has been extensively researched in psychology using multiple measurement methods. Despite the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Over the first few years of life, infants acquire the ability to make sense of, predict, respond to, remember, and learn from a variety of everyday human actions. Finding segmental structure within unfolding activity – in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Approximately half of all children in Laos fail to reach their full developmental potential as a result of exposure to poverty-related risks. Early interventions that encourage sensitive and responsive caregiving in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Observed biases in how people value human life have sparked an area of research investigating the mental processes leading to the devaluing of mass suffering. Parallel lines of research in psychology, economics, marketing, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The high rates of psychopathology in parents and children means that many families are living with a member with psychopathology. The availability of psychotherapeutic interventions that are able to improve outcomes in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)How we learn and remember has been the focus of centuries worth of psychological research. Category learning has been a convenient domain to study these concepts, where modern imaging evidence has shown that the brain uses ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Despite the important role of mothers’ emotion regulation as a component of parenting, and the evidence for bidirectional effects in parent-child relationships, there is a dearth of literature that has examined how difficult ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Analogical reasoning is a foundational skill necessary for enabling learners to draw inferences about new experiences, to transfer learning across contexts, and to make abstractions based on relevant information from daily ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)The visual system integrates information over space to see surfaces, contours and edges. This integration can be described by a divisive normalization framework in which surrounding contextual information normalizes response ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)The 24 items of the original English version of the Social Justice Scale (Torres-Harding et al., 2012) were translated into Korean by four translators, who discussed and agreed upon consensus versions. Four different ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Science thrives when there is a continuous flow of new ideas and diverse generations of scholars contributing to the field. Although academic institutions aim to encourage diverse viewpoints, a culture of atheism among ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)The study of self within psychology has been limited in a number of ways. Two sets of empirical studies extended the study of self beyond traditional trait-based self-perception. In the first set of studies, seven hundred ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)The study of decision making during adolescence has received considerable attention throughout the history of developmental psychology, justifiably, given the marked increases in morbidity and mortality that belie otherwise ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Infant faces represent highly salient visual stimuli that have been shown to elicit intuitive caregiving behaviors in healthy adults. However, the temporal dynamics of infant face processing in parents of young children ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Children’s language and social-emotional development are important predictors of academic success. Children raised in poverty enter school already at-risk academically due to lower levels of language and social emotional ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)College women face high rates of sexual violence and rarely report their experiences to school officials. Even when victims do report, their cases infrequently result in the expulsion of their perpetrators. As such, many ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Though current personality models provide a starting point for measuring ethical virtues, ethical content may not be fully captured in existing personality inventories due in part to the systematic elimination of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Infants acculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life (e.g., Hannon & Trehub, 2005a; Werker & Tees, 1984). This perceptual tuning of early auditory skills requires integrating across experiences that repeat ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Humans are highly motivated to avoid boredom. What is the functional role of boredom, and why is it so aversive? An empirical study tested the hypothesis that a need for agency, or control over one’s actions and their ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Value based decisions are among the most common types of decisions made by humans. A considerable body of work has investigated how different types of information guide such decisions, as well as how evaluations of their ...