Department of Psychological Sciences (MU): Recent submissions
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The significance of mothers' attachment for vagal responding during interactions with infants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Little is known about the significance of mothers' attachment for neurobiological responding during interactions with infants, as research has primarily examined neurobiological responding to unfamiliar infant stimuli. To ... -
Using ecological momentary assessment to identify risk factors for simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] Using alcohol and cannabis simultaneously, such that their effects overlap, is prevalent among individuals who drink alcohol and is associated with greater negative consequences than use of either ... -
What is the evidence base supporting best practice supervision guidelines? A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the association between supervision and therapist performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] Clinical supervision is widely considered to be integral to effective clinical training, with best practice guidelines of each mental health discipline proposing common supervision elements for ... -
Multivariate analyses of polygenic risk for impulsivity and alcohol use: a study of longitudinal trajectories of binge drinking in emerging adulthood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] This dissertation aimed to extend previous genetic and neurobiological studies of the shared etiology of impulsive personality traits (IPTs), alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder (AUD). ... -
Hedonic processing and associations with depression and emotion regulation: a joint ERP and behavioral study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] Major Depressive Disorder is widely believed to be a disorder of impaired hedonic processing, and research on the development and maintenance of depression indicates that a blunted neural and ... -
The role of anxiety in the relationship between Phenylketonuria and working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a rare genetic condition associated with disruption in the synthesis of tyrosine, a precursor for dopamine. Although early diagnosis and treatment largely prevent the ... -
BIPoC perspectives of behavioral sleep treatment: a mixed-methods examination of ways to better address sleep health disparities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] 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 ... -
Examining the association between extreme drinking and prefrontal cortex functioning in young adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The aim of this thesis is to examine whether a single extreme drinking episode in young adults is associated with harmful effects on prefrontal cortex (PFC) functioning as assessed with task-based functional magnetic ... -
Parental psychological factors of mother-child and father-child reminiscing about negative and positive emotional past experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Little is known about the significance of parent factors, including attachment representations, depressive symptoms, and personality, in shaping parental elaborative reminiscing, as research has primarily examined child ... -
Mathematical modeling of intoxicated risky decision-making
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The goal of the present project was to use mathematical models of decision-making to enhance understanding of processes underlying alcohol-related risk-taking. The project aimed to (1) model alcohol effects on decision-making ... -
Considering the role of cardiac vagal tone in adolescents' behaviors within friendships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Despite the theorized importance of cardiac vagal tone for functioning in close relationships (Porges, 2001) and the critical role of friendships in adolescents' development (Furman and Rose, 2015), there is a lack of ... -
Working memory in reinforcement learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The ability of an individual to learn from delayed action outcomes helps them to better adapt to their environment. In order for learning to take place, they might utilize working memory to hold in mind a response they ... -
Mother adolescent storytelling: associations between maternal emotion socialization and adolescent well-being and emotional development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 6/1/2023] Within the context of family storytelling, parent-adolescent conversations are a rich, yet underexplored, means of capturing parental emotion socialization and its impacts on adolescents' emotional ... -
Subjective cognition and objective cognitive performance: the role of sleep
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 6/1/2023] Subjective cognitive complaints and objective cognitive dysfunction are common in aging populations, however research investigating the associations between them is inconclusive. Given the high ... -
Inhibitory control in male and female adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 6/1/2023] Recent research suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience particular difficulty resisting interference from visual distractors (RIVD) relative to other aspects of ... -
Post-encoding interference and the persistence of emotional memory encoding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 6/1/2023] Research on the emotional enhancement of episodic memory has largely focused on the inherent stimulus characteristics that might contribute to this effect. Less attention has been devoted to ... -
Understanding genome composition of eusocial hymenopteran insects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2023] Genome sequencing of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera), a model for the biology and evolution of eusocial behavior, has revealed unusual genome compositional characteristics, including a low ... -
Imaging structural and mechanical properties in cardiovascular tissue using optical polarization tractography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2023] Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the US. Every 36 seconds, one person dies from CVD [1]. Structural deficiencies and secondary changes induced by ... -
Single and multi-object video tracking using local and deep architectures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2023] Moving object tracking is a fundamental computer vision task with a wide variety of real-life applications ranging from surveillance and autonomous systems to biomedical video analysis. A robust, ... -
A GIS protocol for enhancing the selection of agricultural runoff sampling locations and predicting the locations of potential pollutant transport in the upland environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This study presents an ArcGIS geoprocessing protocol for quickly processing large amounts of data from publicly available government sources to consider both water quality standards (WQS) and nonpoint pollution source (NPS) ...