Browsing 2016 Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Psychological sciences (MU)"
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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 ... -
Effects of common and rare GABAergic gene variation on alcohol use and antisocial behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Epidemiological estimates suggest that nearly half of individuals diagnosed with AUD will also be diagnosed with another mental health disorder, with ... -
The effects of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) treatement on nonverbal working memory-related brain activations and connectivity in individuals with phenylketonuria
(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 ... -
Evaluation of risk attitude as a predictor of substance related risk taking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Decision making is a complex process influenced by a number of factors. Mathematical models of risk have been developed to deconstruct the decision making process into the components that are most influential. Risk attitude, ... -
Event-related potential correlates of feedback anticipation during motor learning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN), an ERP component that reflects the anticipation of feedback and other motivationally salient stimuli, has been proposed to play an important role in reinforcement learning. However, the ... -
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 ... -
Investigating the early processes of person construal using ERPs
(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 ... -
Lay theories and the correction of mood influences on judgments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] When people believe their judgments are being unduly influenced by an emotion, how do they attempt to mitigate the influence? This study examined ... -
Metaphor as a communication strategy for reducing health disparities for Latina women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Racial and ethnic health disparities exist in a multitude of health domains, including higher incidence rates of cancer within minority populations and premature deaths associated with cancer. To address this problem, it ... -
Prepulse inhibition of the post-auricular reflex
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)It is well established that a weak lead stimulus will inhibit the startle response to a more intense subsequent stimulus, given an appropriate lead time (i.e. 80-400 ms). This effect is termed prepulse inhibition (PPI), ... -
Rate learing in infancy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There is a preponderance of nonhuman animal studies that suggest an evolutionary conserved ability to represent time, number, and rate. Infant cognition ... -
The social ecology of aggression in youths with autism spectrum disorder
(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 ... -
Testing for incidental reactivation of episodic information during memory retrieval : an electrophysiological study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Neuro-computational models of memory posit that successful episodic retrieval is accompanied by reactivation of the cortical representations that were active during encoding. Several fMRI and EEG studies have shown that ...