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The downstream well-being effect of encounters with the criminal justice system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This dissertation explores the relationship between encounters with the criminal justice system and well-being in a large nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Previous literature has documented several negative health and well...
BIPoC perspectives of behavioral sleep treatment: a mixed-methods examination of ways to better address sleep health disparities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Growing evidence suggests that there are sleep health disparities in the United States that disadvantage Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color (BIPoC), and other socioeconomically marginalized groups in medical and mental ...
Subjective-objective sleep discrepancy in older adults : examining the roles of cognition and arousal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] The difference between subjective (self-report) and objective (e.g., polysomnography, wrist-worn wearables) measures of sleep is referred to as subjectiveobjective sleep discrepancy (SOSD) and ...
A behavioral genetic examination of the relation between adolescent polysubstance use and educational attainment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
in regard to educational attainment. However, whether this association reflects a causal relationship or a shared liability giving rise to both adolescent substance use and early school dropout was unclear. In this dissertation project, I conducted a series...
A diffusion model analysis of transitivity and lexicographic semiorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The primary aim of the present dissertation is to examine the underlying cognitive processes of transitivity and lexicographic semiorders. To this end, I apply the diffusion model to preferential choice data, where transitivity or lexicographic...
Examining the time course under which specific and gist episodic memory representation are established at encoding among young and older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] One of the most pervasive adult age-related declines in episodic memory is in the ability to remember associations between components of an episode, such as between a person and a location where ...