• Investigating the early processes of person construal using ERPs 

  Volpert, Hannah I. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  According to the dynamic interactive theory of person construal (Freeman & Ambady, 2011), upon perception of a person, multiple social categories become simultaneously active and are refined through the integration of ...

• Socioeconomic status and adolescent alcohol involvement: evidence for a gene-environment Interaction 

  Davis, Christal (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Adolescent alcohol use patterns stem from both genetic and environmental influences. In addition to these factors contributing additively to risk for use, genetic and environmental factors interact with each other to inhibit ...

• The social ecology of aggression in youths with autism spectrum disorder 

  Brown, Cynthia E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  More than half of youths with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) behave aggressively toward other individuals. Although a wide range of individual and social ecological(e.g., family, peer) variables have been linked with ...

• The costs and benefits of dampening of positive affect in youth 

  Hausman, Estee M. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The main goals of the current study were to a) extend the literature on dampening, or positive emotion regulation strategies, affective, cognitive, and behavioral, used to decrease the frequency, intensity, or duration of ...

• Multisystemic therapy with juvenile sexual offenders : a 10.2-year follow-up to a randomized effectiveness trial 

  Sheerin, Kaitlin M. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Multisystemic Therapy for Problem Sexual Behavior (MST-PSB; Borduin, Letourneau, Henggeler, & Swenson, 2009) is a family- and community-based treatment for juvenile sexual offenders that has shown long-term efficacy in two ...

• Differentiating psychosis risk and mania risk scales and their associations with spontaneous eye blink rate 

  Hua, Jessica P. Y. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Psychosis risk and mania risk scales are strongly correlated, and both psychosis and mania are linked to alterations in striatal dopamine. However, previous research has not examined whether measures of psychosis and mania ...

• Family relationships during emerging adulthood : longitudinal course and associations with emotional and academic adjustment 

  Lindell, Anna K. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  During emerging adulthood (ages 18 through the mid-twenties), parents and siblings become more peripheral in daily life compared to earlier in development. While family relationship quality often improves significantly ...

• The effect of estrogen deficiency on learning and memory in two novel rat models of Alzheimer's disease 

  Klakotskaia, Diana (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that results in synaptic and neuronal loss in regions of the brain responsible for memory and cognition. To date, transgenic animal models have played a crucial ...

• A Bayesian hierarchical model of lexicographic choice 

  Park, Sanghyuk (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 ...

• Structural-morphometric examination of thalamic nuclei in individuals with Autism spectrum disorders 

  Sokoloff, Jennifer Lea (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The thalamus has been implicated as a potential source of neural disruption in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This subcortical nuclear complex is critically involved in sensory processing, an area of deficit in ASD. ...

• Associations between executive functioning, affect-regulation drinking motives and alcohol use and problematic drinking 

  Martins, Jorge (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 ...

• The effects of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) treatement on nonverbal working memory-related brain activations and connectivity in individuals with phenylketonuria 

  Bellesheim, Katherine R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Previous research suggests that phenylketonuria (PKU) is associated with disruptions in structural and functional connectivity that may contribute to ...

• Model-based recursive partitioning of structural equation models 

  You, Dongjun (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The goal of this dissertation is to describe the algorithmic method of model-based recursive partitioning, and to compare different estimation techniques ...

• The Cognitive Reflection Test: a measure of intuition/reflection, numeracy, and insight problem solving, and the implications for understanding real-world judgments and beliefs 

  Patel, Niraj (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) has quickly become a popular measure of individual differences in propensity to reflect versus rely on intuition (Frederick, 2005). The test consists of three questions, and it has been ...

• Stability of risk attitude across choice contexts and frames 

  Brown, Nicholas Robert (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  We report the results of the large-scale study of risk attitude demonstrating substantial heterogeneity both between and within decision makers across three risky choice contexts: financial, mortality and climate change. ...

• Age at first use and later substance involvement: characterizing genetic and environmental pathways for tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis 

  Richmond-Rakerd, Leah S. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Behavioral genetic studies have provided insights into why early substance use initiation is associated with increased risk for disorder. Few ...

• The nonsymbolic quantitative rudiments of mathematics proficiency in early childhood 

  Seok, Jin H. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A broad synthesis of comparative and developmental research on numerical cognition suggests that humans share with nonhuman animals, an evolutionarily ...

• Striatal functional activation and psychosis risk 

  Karcher, Nicole (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The striatum is involved in learning from feedback. Psychosis is strongly related to increased striatal dopamine. The goal of the current research is ...

• Examination of choice preference structures in a sexual risk paradigm 

  Hatz, Laura E. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a serious public health concern worldwide. In the United States, young adults are at particularly high risk ...

• Can mindfulness meditation reduce the tendency to justify the status quo? 

  Price-Blackshear, Mollie A. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)

  System justification theory suggests that advantaged groups in society frequently express ingroup favoritism and outgroup bias, whereas disadvantaged groups express outgroup favoritism. These tendencies are likely to occur ...

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