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Gender differences in risks for antisocial behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Adolescent girls have always been a relevant presence in the juvenile justice system but have received limited attention from researchers. In response to the dearth of studies on female juvenile offenders, federal study ...
Family-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders : a multilevel meta-analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Violent criminal acts and other serious crimes committed by youths result in considerable emotional, physical, and economic effects on these youths, their families, crime victims, and the larger community. Researchers have ...
Investigating how bottom-up and top-down systems relate to alcohol use and alcohol use disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Throughout the field of psychology, there has been increasing interest in dual-systems models of explaining behavior. Specifically, these models propose that behaviors is due to a bottom-up, emotional system (e.g., reactions ...
Structural-morphometric examination of thalamic nuclei in individuals with autism spectrum disorders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The thalamus has been implicated as a potential source of neural disruption in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This subcortical nuclear complex is ...
A Bayesian hierarchical model of lexicographic choice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
I present a lexicographic, threshold-based model of choice used to evaluate decision makers' preferences among risky alternatives. Using a hierarchical Bayesian frame-work, this model is able to account for observed ...
Framing effects : a fresh perspective from the health and retirement study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The current study examines framing effects using two different problems (disease outbreak and investment), while attempting to replicate earlier ...
Youths' cross-ethnic friendships and associations with socioemotional adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Relationships with peers and friends are important and influential in the lives of youth, especially in adolescence (Buhrmester & Furman, 1987). Although attention recently has been drawn to the important roles of race, ...
Can the focus of attention accommodate multiple, separate items?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Researchers of working memory currently debate capacity limits of the focus of attention, the proposed mental faculty in which items are most easily accessed. Cowan (1999) suggested that its capacity is about 4 chunks, ...
Understanding delusions : the role of aberrant salience and self-relevant information processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The current dissertation contains six studies that examine the roles of aberrant salience and self-relevant information processing in the development and maintenance of psychotic and psychotic-like experiences. Aberrant ...
Association measures : comparison of performance across binary matrices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Investigation of the performance of Dice (1945) measure of association when applied to three dimensional data. Variance for the measure is developed ...
Adapting multisystemic therapy for disruptive behavior problems in youth with autism spectrum disorder : conceptual and empirical development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Youths with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often engage in serious disruptive behaviors that interfere with their ability to successfully manage ...
The impact of sexual experience on the development of sexual self-concept and global self-esteem during adolescence and young adulthood : a prospective analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The development of an understanding of one's self as a sexual person is an important developmental task for adolescents and young adults. Yet little ...
Sibling conflict and relationship quality during the transition to emerging adulthood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In recent years, family researchers have acknowledged the importance of sibling relationships across the lifespan, but there has been little investigation of the emerging adult years and how this relationship functions ...
Anhedonia and deficits in positive emotional experience in individuals with genetic liability for schizophrenia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
There is growing evidence that anhedonia--the extent to which an individual reports pleasure or interest in social and physical stimuli--is important to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. At the same time, some research ...
The differential effects of presentation rate and retention interval on memory for items and associations in younger adults : a simulation of an age-related associative deficit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Older adults show an associative deficit in episodic memory compared to younger adults. Previous research suggests two underlying brain areas, the frontal lobe (FL) and the medial temporal--hippocampal area (MTL/H), as ...
Internalizing symptoms and friendships in adolescence: considering the role of interpersonal behavior in rejection and contagion effects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The present research considered associations among internalizing symptoms, interpersonal behaviors, and friendship adjustment in a sample of 642 seventh and tenth graders. Effects of youths’ internalizing symptoms on ...
Examining the comorbidity of boderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in a community sample
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), both relatively prevalent disorders in our society, overlap and/or co-occur in ways that are not yet well understood, especially outside of ...
Long-term preventive effects of multisystemic therapy on criminality in siblings of juvenile offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
In this study, the author examined the long-term criminal outcomes of 110 nonreferred siblings of serious and violent juvenile offenders who had participated in either multisystemic therapy (MST) or individual therapy (IT) ...
Experimentally exploring how the awareness of existential freedom influences support for autocratic leadership styles among individuals high and low in neuroticismExperimentally exploring how the awareness of existential freedom influences support for autocratic leadership styles among individuals high and low in neuroticism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The present dissertation builds on classic existential philosophy and psychological theory to suggest that personal freedom can be burdensome to the self and may, ironically, motivate people to displace their freedom to ...
Opioid use disorder and borderline personality disorder : evidence for dysregulation of the endogenous opioid system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may involve a dysregulation of the Endogenous Opioid System (EOS) characterized by a tonic deficit of endogenous ...