Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Psychology, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2025, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Donepezil’s Effect on Cardiac Function in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease through an In Vivo, Non Invasive Measure of Cardiac Autonomic Function, Lewis P. Hackett
Thesis: The Effects of Task Criticality and Target Modality on a Simulated Battlefield Search Task, Julie A. Hanson
Thesis: Risk Factors for Military Sexual Trauma: Pre-Military Trauma, Psychological Adjustment, Combat Exposure, and Alcohol Use at the Time of the Trauma, Brittany Hollis
Dissertation: Motivation, Marital Quality, Maternal Gatekeeping, Breadwinning, and Father Identity: Models Of Biological Fathers’ And Stepfathers’ Involvement In Childcare, Jessica E. Ladage
Thesis: Support for Gestalt Versus Business-As-Usual Theories of Insight Depends on Operational Definition of Insight, Kimberly D. Lee
Dissertation: A Daily Diary Investigation of Discrimination and Binge Eating Among Lesbian Women, Tyler Mason
Dissertation: Effects of Varying Degrees of Fixed and Random Responding on the Validity of Score Interpretation for the SP and PSY-5 Scales of the MMPI-2-RF, Joseph Brooks Minifie
Thesis: The Differential Effect of Anticipated Work-Family Conflict on the STEM Major Embeddedness of Men and Women, Dante P. Myers
Thesis: Examining the Factors Related to Bisexual Individuals' Preference for Future Parenting Partner, Laurin Beth Roberts
Dissertation: PTSD Symptom Severity and Neurocognitive Performance as a Function of Combined TMS and Imaginal Exposure in OIF/OEF Combat Veterans with Treatment Resistant PTSD, Katharine Seagly
Thesis: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Interval Estimation and a Visual-Spatial Secondary Task as Measures of Mental Workload During Laparoscopy, Levi Parker Warvel
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Thesis: Effects of Simultaneous Alarms on Resolution Heuristics, Amanda C. Allen
Thesis: Default Effects in the Endorsement of Environmental Policies, Blake J. Bent
Thesis: Default Effects in the Endorsement of Environmental Policies, Blake J. Bent
Thesis: Mutual Performance Monitoring in Virtual Teams, Nathan Haugejorde Bjomberg
Thesis: Mutual Performance Monitoring in Virtual Teams, Nathan Haugejorde Bjornberg
Thesis: Protective Effects of Social Support and Self-Esteem on Sexual Minority Young Adults' Mental Health, Sara Bock
Thesis: Aggression Exposure to Parental Violence and Resilience as Predictors of Dating Violence Perpetration in Female College Students, Jessica A. Bodkins-Kite
Dissertation: Applying Leadership Theory to the Work-Family Interface: Examining the Interactive Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Leader-Member Exchange Quality, Heather M. Bolen
Thesis: The Effects of Religious Coping and Drinking to Cope on the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Alcohol-Related Problems, Adrian J. Bravo
Thesis: The Effects of Religious Coping and Drinking to Cope on the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Alcohol-Related Problems, Adrian J. Bravo
Thesis: The Effects of Primary and Secondary Assortative Mating for Alcohol Misuse on Relationship Satisfaction Alcohol use and Alcohol Consequences, Michelle Katherine Holt Crewe
Dissertation: Health Promotion in Multiple Domains: Capitalizing on the Spillover Effect, Gabrielle Maria D'Lima
Dissertation: Interrelationships Between Sensation Seeking and Psychopathy, Casey S. Iwai
Thesis: The Role of Leader Support for Safety Within the Leader Justice-Safety Performance Relationship, Benjamin R. Kaufman
Thesis: The Role of Leader Support for Safety Within the Leader Justice-Safety Performance Relationship, Benjamin R. Kaufman
Thesis: Effects of Parental Alcoholism and Trauma Exposure on Depressive Symptoms: A Path Model with Resilience, Social Support, and Family Satisfaction, Erin Doty Kurtz
Thesis: Effects of Parental Alcoholism and Trauma Exposure on Depressive Symptoms: a Path Model with Resilience Social Support and Family Satisfication, Erin Doty Kurtz
Thesis: The Relationship Between Gender Match and Leader-Member Exchange in Supervisor-Subordinate Dyads from Information Technology, Michael L. Litano
Thesis: Balancing Parenthood: Men's Prenatal Expectations and the Family System, Ralitsa Stoyneva Maduro
Dissertation: The Influence of Affective Valence and Task Uncertainty on Visual Threat Detection and Automation Use, Rachel R. Phillips
Dissertation: Workload Transitions and Stress: Changes Over Time, Erik G. Prytz
Thesis: Environmental Context and Aggression: An Experimental Demonstration of the Role of Alcohol Expectancies, Brynn E. Sheehan
Thesis: Effects of Vibrotactile Display Position and Shape on Extrapersonal Localization, Adam D. Sitz
Thesis: Gender Stereotypes in Leadership: How Threatening Are They?, Valerie N. Streets
Dissertation: The Effects of Serial Position, Evaluation Format, and Behavioral Isolate on Verbal and Nonverbal Clinical Cue Recognition and Performance Ratings, Timothy Robert Turner Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: The Impact of Trainee Characteristics on Transfer of Training Over Time, Kristina N. Bauer
Thesis: Individual Differences and Usage of Learner Control, Katelyn J. Cavanaugh
Thesis: Individual Differences and Usage of Learner Control, Katelyn J. Cavanaugh
Thesis: The Role of Trust as a Mediator Between System Characteristics and Response Behaviors, Eric T. Chancey
Thesis: The Role of Trust as a Mediator Between System Characteristics and Response Behaviors, Eric T. Chancey
Dissertation: Effects of Signal Ambiguity and Signal Location on Target Detection Under Varying Degrees of Time Constraint, Kimberly E. Culley
Thesis: The Effects of Intent and Consequences on the Assignment of Penalties Related to HIV Non-Disclosure Situations, Yang Deng
Thesis: The Effects of Intent and Consequences on the Assignment of Penalties Related to HIV Non-Disclosure Situations, Yang Deng
Thesis: Relationships of Work-Family Conflict with Safety, Performance, Occupational Injuries, and Pain Among Construction Workers, Lori A. Gelinas
Thesis: Moderating Effects of Daycare on Cognitive Development of Children with Depressed Mothers, Emily Oettinger
Thesis: Protective Behavioral Strategy Subtypes as Moderators of the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Problems, Benjamin A. Kite
Thesis: Protective Behavioral Strategy Subtypes as Moderators of the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Problems, Benjamin A. Kite
Thesis: Depression, Social Anxiety, and Attachment as Predictors of the Use and Quality of Cyber Communication, Stefan E. LaTulip
Thesis: Depression, Social anxiety, and Attachment as Predictors of the Use and Quality of Cyber Communication, Stefan E. LaTulip
Dissertation: The Effect of Emotionally Arousing Negative Images on Judgments About News Stories, Martin Daniel Smith-Rodden
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: The Effects of Personalized Boosters for a Computerized Intervention Targeting College Student Drinking, Abby L. Braitman
Thesis: The Effects of Task Experience and Learner Control on Time and Learning in Training, Rachel C. Callan
Dissertation: Emotion Management Skills of School-Age Children in the Context of Risk: The Role of Parent Socialization Strategies, Carla Damiani Correia
Dissertation: The Effects of Combat Exposure on Post-Deployment Coping Deficits in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans, Alex Emerson Dryden
Dissertation: The Effects of an Online Sleep Hygiene Intervention on Students' Sleep Quality, Giuliana Farias
Dissertation: Investigating the Roles of Time Perspective and Emerging Adulthood in Predicting Driving Behavior, Kristie L. Johnson
Thesis: Inattentional Blindness in a Simulated Driving Task, Kellie D'Hanis Kennedy
Thesis: The Effect of Depth Judgments on Mental Workload in Laparoscopy Measured by a Visual-Spatial Secondary Task, Rebecca A. Kennedy
Dissertation: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation in the Relations of Between Somatization and Internalizing Disorders in Children, Priscilla A. Khuanghlawn
Thesis: Caffeinated Alcohol Use and Anxiety Symptoms Among College Students, Ashley N. Linden
Thesis: A Mediated Model of Minority Stress and Binge Eating in Sexual Minority Women, Tyler Bruce Mason
Dissertation: The Impact of Sleepiness and Sleep Constructs on Driving Performance, Jennifer Freeman May
Dissertation: The Hindsight Bias: Judgment Task Differentiation, Ross May
Dissertation: The Association of Cognitive Function with Autonomic-Cardiovascular Reactivity to and Recovery From Stress, Sanjay Mehta
Dissertation: A Comparison of Relaxation Techniques on Blood Pressure Reactivity and Recovery Assessing the Moderating Effect of Anger Coping Style, Catherine J. Mills
Thesis: Barriers to Capitalization in Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduates: Investigating the Moderating Effects of Individual Differences, Thivia Mogan
Dissertation: When Cognitive Bias Masquerades as Intervention Efficacy: Drinking Norms as Anchors and Norm Interventions as Anchoring Effects, Matthew R. Pearson
Dissertation: Psychometric Properties of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) FBS-r, Fs, and RBS Scales in a Neuropsychological Setting, Danielle M.E. Ransom
Dissertation: Mood and Creativity: The Mediating Role of Attention, Viktoria Tidikis
Thesis: The Role of Just Desserts, Deterrence, and an Apology in Recommending Punishment for Violations of HIV Non-Disclosure Laws, William Alexander Woody
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation: Relations of Self-Criticism and Dependency to Depressive Symptomatology: Tests of Blatt's and Greenberg and Watson's Theories, David B. Canose
Thesis: Emerging Adults' Perceptions of Normative Drinking Perceived Susceptibility to Different Types of Alcohol Consequences and Use of Protective Behavioral Strategies, Gabrielle Maria D'Lima
Dissertation: Testing of a Brief Internet Cyberbullying Prevention Program in College Students, Ashley Nicole Doane
Thesis: Do Different Styles of Self-Monitoring Yield Different Outcomes in Ego Depletion and Anxiety?, Katelyn Brittany Ealer
Dissertation: Relationships Between Religious Orientation and Academic Attitudes, Lauren Everitt
Thesis: Factors of Paternal Involvement and Their Association with Developmental Outcomes of Nine-Month Olds, Heather A. Keefe
Thesis: Stigmatization as a Barrier to Help-Seeking Among Individuals Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Tatyana Kholodkov
Thesis: Stigmatization as a Barrier to Help-Seeking Among Individuals Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Tatyana Kholodkov
Thesis: Contextual Cueing Effects in Visual Threat Detection, Molly M. Liechty
Dissertation: The Effects of Rumination, Hostility, and Distraction on Cardiovascular Reactivity and Recovery From Anger Recall in Healthy Women, Meghan K. McLain
Dissertation: Stability and Change in Goal Orientation and Their Relationship with Performance: Testing Density Distributions Using Latent Trait-State Models, Michael Charles Mihalecz
Thesis: Social Issues in Living with Sickle Cell Disease Pain, Jeannie L. Miranda
Dissertation: Coping with Customer Sexual Harassment: Examining Retaliation as a Coping Strategy and Testing a Contextual Model, Valerie J. Morganson
Thesis: Examining the Roles of Attachment Theory and Sensitivity to Reward and Punishment in Predicting Driving Behavior Among Young Adults, Elaine M. Murphy
Dissertation: Comics as a Cognitive Training Medium for Expert Decision Making, Amber Nalu
Dissertation: The Effect of improvisations and Observations on Standardized Patient Encounters, Subjective Workload and Stress, Elizabeth T. Newlin-Canzone
Dissertation: A Field Experiment to Test the Effects of Automated Feedback and Monetary Incentive on Speeding Behavior, Ian J. Reagan
Dissertation: The Association Between Depressive Symptoms, Relationship Satisfaction, and Self- and Partner-Attributions, Amy Harrison Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Thesis: Examining the Dual Process Model of Decision Making in Visual Threat Detection and Human-Automation Interaction, Patricia Chin Brennan
Thesis: The Impeding Role of Initial Unrealistic Goal-Setting on Training Performance: Identifying Underpinning Self-Regulatory Processes and Solutions, Robert C. Brusso
Thesis: Weight Stigma Consciousness and the Effects on Attitudes and Behaviors: The Stigma of Obesity in America, Eric J. Clayton
Dissertation: Women's Compliance in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment: The Role of Children and Mental Health, Cathy Gertrude Cooke
Dissertation: The Effective Use of Confrontation in Family Therapy: A Process Study, Timothy Michael DiGiacomo
Dissertation: The Applicability of the Megargee Classification System for the MMPI-A, Joel Andrew Dillon
Thesis: Predicting Speeding in Young Adults: Expanding the Focus of Problem-Behavior Theory, Jenny E. Dozier
Thesis: Understanding the Relationship Between Peer Mentoring and Undergraduate Capitalization, Jonathan M. Holland
Thesis: Understanding the Relationship Between Peer Mentoring and Undergraduate Capitalization, Jonathan M. Holland
Thesis: Development and Validation of a Measure: Preventive Coping with Work-Family Conflict, Meghan P. Jones
Thesis: Coping with Work-Life Conflict: Antecedents to Seeking Policy-Based and Individually Negotiated Accommodations, Heather M. Lauzun