Browsing Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Psychological sciences (MU)"
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Acute & subchronic NMDA receptor blockade alters nicotine-evoked dopamine release
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Blockade of ionotropic glutamate receptors can induce changes in central dopamine and glutamate circuits, which model the symptoms of schizophrenia. Nicotine evokes dopamine release through activation of nicotinic acetylcholine ... -
Adolescent friendship quality and emotional adjustment: examining the role of mothers' own friendships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)The present study examines associations between youths' friendships and the friendships their mothers have with other adults. It was hypothesized that youth whose mothers have friendships high in positive qualities would ... -
Affective instability and impulsivity in borderline personality disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Affective instability and impulsivity are primary features of borderline personality disorder (BPD). We examined the effect of an interaction between these features, represented by FFM analogues of negative affectivity and ... -
Alcohol consumption, executive function and risky decision making
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Previous research has shown that alcohol intoxication can adversely affect behavior by impairing higher cognitive function (e.g., Giancola, 2000) and can lead to increased risk-taking (Leigh, 1999) via impaired executive ... -
Alcohol cues, approach bias, and inhibitory control : applying a dual process model to alcohol sensitivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Low sensitivity to the acute effects of alcohol, or needing a relatively large amount to feel alcohol's effects, is a risk factor for developing AUDs ... -
Alcohol placebo effects on cognitive control of race bias : investigating neural mechanisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The present study investigated the effects of alcohol expectancy on the exercise of control over racial bias. Participants consumed either a placebo ... -
Analysis of affective instability on ecological momentary assessments data: successive difference, variance decomposition, and mean comparison via multilevel modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Temporal instability of affect is a defining characteristic of some psychological disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder and mood cycling disorders. Use of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) enables researchers ... -
Antecedents and motives for smoking in borderline personality disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Though borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with higher rates of substance use, including cigarette smoking (Carpenter, Wood, & Trull, 2016; Rohde, Lewinsohn, Brown, Gau, & Kahler, 2003; Trull, Jahng, Tomko, ... -
Assessing the associative deficit of older adults in long-term and short-term/working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Older adults exhibit a deficit in associative long-term memory relative to younger adults. However the associative deficit of older adults is less apparent in short-term memory or working memory; the literature is inconclusive ... -
An assessment of inhibition in the Simon task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Different from some other context tasks, the Simon task is featured with a congruency effect decreasing with increasing RT. Ridderinkhof proposed a two route model to account for the negative slope of this congruency effect ... -
Association between positive emotion regulation strategies and the reward positivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Emotion regulation dysfunction is a core feature of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Recently, research has begun to focus on positive emotion regulation strategies such as dampening and savoring of positive emotion. ... -
The association of externalizing behavior with individual DSM-5 alcohol use disorder criteria
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The externalizing spectrum contains a range of disinhibition-related conditions. Comorbidity among externalizing disorders is commonly investigated ... -
Associations between cumulative genetic influence for risk-taking and hazardous alcohol use in two independent samples
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A propensity for risk-taking may be associated with hazardous alcohol-related behaviors especially in men. Prior research indicating substantial ... -
Associations between executive functioning, affect-regulation drinking motives and alcohol use and problematic drinking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Extant literature confirms the direct effects of two key constructs on alcohol use and problematic drinking: (1) motivations to use alcohol to regulate ... -
Associations between genetic risk for trait aggression and alcohol use predicting alcohol-related aggression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)A propensity for aggression and/or alcohol use may be associated with alcoholrelated aggression. Previous research has shown genetic overlap between alcohol use and aggression, but has not looked at how alcohol-related ... -
Associative learning and thiamine based flavor preference
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The current experiment explored the extent to which thiamine deficiency at the time of conditioning is important as well as the importance of thiamine deficiency at the time of testing. This experiment controlled for ... -
Attempts to reduce the high false alarm rate in older adults' associative memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Whereas memory for individual items stays relatively intact with age, associative memory, (e.g., memory for pairs of items), seems to show a noticeable decline (what is known as older adults� associative memory deficit). ... -
Autonomous orientation and self-differentiation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Objective: Self-determination theory hypothesizes that behaviors enacted with a sense of autonomy allows individuals to express their natural tendencies ... -
Autonomy development and the influence of temperament
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This study examined how perceptions of adolescent temperament are related to parent-child conflict and the development of autonomy and how temperament might interact with sibling ordinal status. Participants were 145 ... -
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 ...