2011
Thomas Armstrong, Vanderbilt University
The Effects of Fear Conditioning on Attentional Bias in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An Eye Tracking Study
Joanna Chango, University of Virginia
The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Associations between a Lack of Adolescent Social Competencies and Psychological Adjustment in Early Adulthood
Debra Glick, Suffolk University
A Comparison of the Effects of Two Interventions for Reducing Academic Procrastination: Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy vs. Time Management
Amanda Morrison, Temple University
Attention Bias and Attentional Control in the Development of Social Anxiety Disorder
Stephanie Rabin, Drexel University
The Interaction of Therapist Experiential Avoidance and Extraneous Clinical Information in Predicting Therapist Preference for Exposure Treatment for OCD
Matthew Rouse, Emory University
Physiological Mediators of Parenting Behaviors in Depressed Mothers
Erin Ward-Ciesielski, University of Washington
Brief Skills Training for Suicidal Individuals
2010
Faith Brozovich, Temple University
Examining mental imagery and
post-event processing among socially anxious individuals
Advisor: Richard Heimberg, Ph.D.
Social anxiety disorder
(SAD) is characterized by an intense fear of negative evaluation from others in
social and/or performance situations according to the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR, American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Research has demonstrated
that socially anxious individuals’ post-event processing, or post-mortem review
of a social situation, often affects their levels of anxiety, negative
emotions, interpretations, and memories of events (for a review see Brozovich
& Heimberg, 2008). Furthermore, research has shown that processing negative
descriptions using imagery is more emotion-evoking than semantic processing of
the same material (Holmes & Mathews, 2005). The present study aims to
investigate post-event processing involving mental imagery and its effects on
mood, anxiety, and interpretations of social and nonsocial events. Socially
anxious and control participants will be told they will give a 5 min impromptu
speech at the end of the experimental session. After they are told about the upcoming
speech, they will be randomly assigned to one of three manipulation conditions:
post-event processing imagery (PEP-Imagery), post-event processing semantic
(PEP-Semantic), or control. In the post-event processing conditions they will
be recalling a past anxiety-provoking speech as well as thinking about the
anticipated speech either using imagery (PEP-Imagery), or focusing on the
meaning (PEP-Semantic). Following this the participants will complete a variety
of affect, anxiety and interpretation measures. We predict socially anxious
individuals in the PEP-Imagery condition will show the greatest increases in
anxiety and negative affect as well as heightened interpretation biases.
Kristen Gainey, University of Iowa
A lower order structural
examination of the neuroticism/negative emotionality domain: Relations with
internalizing symptoms and selected clinical traits
Advisor: David Watson, Ph.D.
The study of how personality traits
relate to psychopathology has flourished in the past three decades, with strong
evidence for systematic links between personality and psychological disorders.
Great progress has been made in our understanding of the associations between
broad traits and the mood and anxiety disorders (or internalizing disorders). In particular, it is clear that the broad trait
neuroticism/negative emotionality (N/NE; stress reactivity and a tendency to
experience negative emotions) is moderately to strongly associated with all of
the internalizing disorders, both concurrently and longitudinally. However,
researchers have noted the importance and relative dearth of studies that
examine associations with more narrow facet-level traits. The current study
examines the relations of N/NE facets with six of the internalizing disorders.
In addition, associations with four clinical traits related to N/NE (i.e.,
anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, perfectionism, and intolerance of
uncertainty) will be examined. Self-report and clinical interview data will be
collected from a college student sample (N = 350) and a psychiatric outpatient sample (N = 250), with multiple measures of each internalizing
disorder and personality trait described above. Structural equation modeling
will be used to remove shared variance among the six disorders and among the traits,
allowing for the examination of relations among the unique variances of each
construct. These results may lead to a better understanding of which clinical
traits and which specific components of N/NE are associated with the
internalizing disorders, potentially improving differential assessment, foci of
treatment, and knowledge of etiological sources.
Ashley Johnson, Binghamton
University
Attention biases in children with
depression
Advisor: Brandon Gibb, Ph.D.
According to cognitive theories of depression, information
processing biases are theorized to contribute to the development and
maintenance of depression in both adults and children (for reviews see, Jacobs
et al., 2008; Mathews & MacLeod, 2005). Although there is growing evidence
to support the presence of attentional biases in depression, there are several
key limitations of existing research. In seeking to address these limitations,
the current study aims to extend previous findings of attentional biases in
depressed adults by assessing similar biases in depressed children. In
addition, the proposed project will focus on the direct assessment of
attentional allocation using eye tracking technology as well as the more
traditional response time data to allow for a more precise quantification of attention
and for a comparison of the two methodologies. Additionally, the study will
combine eye tracking with a task designed to specifically assess the
hypothesized difficulty disengaging attention, and a more naturalistic passive
viewing task to investigate the generalizability of past attention biases
findings.
Lisa Talbot, University of
California-Berkeley
The relationship between sleep
and affect in bipolar disorder and insomnia
Advisor: Allison Harvey, Ph.D.
Accruing evidence in healthy individuals
suggests that disturbed sleep has adverse consequences on daytime affective
functioning (e.g., Yoo et al., 2007). Moreover, sleep and affect are important
across psychiatric disorders (e.g., Benca et al., 1997). A bidirectional
relationship has been proposed whereby disruptions in nighttime sleep and
daytime affect may be mutually reinforcing (e.g., Harvey, 2008, Wehr et al.,
1987). The present study examines this potential bidirectional sleep-affect
relationship in individuals with interepisode bipolar disorder (n = 49), individuals with insomnia (n = 34), and individuals with no psychiatric history (n
= 52) using experience sampling
methodology. Eligible participants completed seven days of time-locked sleep
diaries upon waking and affect measures upon waking and at bedtime. Three
hypotheses will be tested. First, I predict that the bipolar and insomnia
groups will exhibit more sleep disturbance and greater sleep variability than
the control group. Second, I hypothesize that there will be differences in daytime
affect parameters and variability across the groups. Specifically, I predict:
(a) the bipolar group will exhibit higher levels of positive affect compared to
the insomnia and control groups (b) the insomnia group will demonstrate higher
levels of negative affect compared to the bipolar and control groups; and (c)
the bipolar affect variability will be greater than the insomnia affect
variability, which in turn will be greater than the control variability.
Finally, I predict that there will be a bidirectional sleep-affect association
in all groups, but that the relationship will be stronger in the psychiatric
disorder groups and that the strength of the effects will depend on valence.
Specifically, I hypothesize: (a) previous evening positive affect will predict greater subsequent sleep
disturbance in the bipolar group, relative to the insomnia and control groups,
while previous evening negative affect
will predict greater subsequent sleep disturbance in the insomnia group,
relative to the bipolar and control groups; and (b) sleep disturbance will
predict greater next morning positive affect in the bipolar group, relative to the insomnia and control
groups, while sleep disturbance will predict greater next morning negative affect in the insomnia group, relative to the bipolar
and control groups. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) will be employed to
illustrate the temporal relationships between sleep and affect across the three
groups (e.g., Bryk & Raudenbush, 1992). Advances in the understanding of
the specific relationships between sleep and affect could yield important
information for the development of sleep disturbance interventions for
individuals with disorders characterized by affect impairment.
Jennifer Veilleux, University of
Illinois- Chicago
Affective chronometry of
cue-induced cigarette craving
Advisor: Jon Kassel, Ph.D.
A recent model of craving,
the elaborated intrusion model of desire (Kavanaugh, Andrade & May, 2005),
suggests that an initial experience of positive affect will give way to negative
affect when the individual notes an internal sense of deficit. However, cigarette craving studies that
measure affect only at a single time point following introduction of a smoking
cue likely obscure the dynamic temporal shifts in emotion during craving. Moreover, because craving is a
component of most models of addiction, development of craving is inherent in
the transition from increased use to dependence. Thus, regular users experience higher levels of craving
compared to light users (e.g. tobacco “chippers”), and should also experience a
different pattern of dynamic emotional responses to cigarette cues due to a
stronger sense of deficit. The
proposed study will utilize multilevel modeling to compare a sample of
dependent smokers with tobacco chippers on emotional responses to smoking and
emotionally laden cues.
Participants will provide continuous ratings of positivity and
negativity (Larsen et al., 2009) as they view positive, negative, neutral and
smoking-related pictures. It is
predicted that regular smokers will exhibit a higher initial level of
positivity that will decrease steeply during smoking cue exposure, whereas
negativity will increase throughout cue viewing. Chippers are predicted to maintain relatively stable levels
of positivity and negativity throughout cue exposure. Importantly, dynamic emotional responses (e.g. strength of
positive affect decline) will be investigated as predictors of smoking behavior
(smoking topography, impulsivity when a cigarette is available).
2009
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2009.
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Katherina Hauner
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Northwestern University
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Advisor:
Susan Mineka
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Title:
Functional neuroanatomical substrates of fear extinction during exposure therapy..
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David Johnson
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University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
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Advisor:
David Penn
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Title:
A
preliminary investigation into the feasibility and clinical benefits of
loving-kindness meditation to enhance the psychological recovery of
individuals with persistent negative symptoms .
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Eunyoe Ro
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University of Iowa
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Advisor:
Lee Anna Clark
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Title:
Examining Relations Between Psychosocial Functioning and Personality Pathology.
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Keiran M. Rump
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University of Pittsburgh
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Advisor:
Mark S. Strauss
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Title:
Affective Experiences in Adolescents with Autism: An EMA Study.
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Amanda Steiner
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University of Virginia
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Advisor:
James Coan
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Title:
The Self- and Social- Regulation of Emotion in Older Adults.
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2008
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2008.
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Courtney Beard
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University of Georgia
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Advisor:
Nader Amir
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Title:
Information Processing Modification in Social Anxiety: Combining Attention and Interpretation Training.
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Frank Farach
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Yale
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Advisor:
Teresa Treat
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Title:
Effects of trait anxiety and induced mood on the temporal allocation of attention to emotional information.
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Ashley Peitrefesa
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Binghamton University
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Advisor:
Meredith Coles
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Title:
Temporal Relations Between Daily Negative Life Events and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms.
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Sarah Tarbox
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University of Pittsburgh
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Advisor:
Michael Pogue-Geile
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Title:
Social Functioning and Familial Liability to Schizophrenia.
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Ursula Whiteside
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University of Washington
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Advisor:
Mary Larimer
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Title:
Beyond BASICS: Enhancing Interventions for College Students Drinking to Cope.
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2006
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2006.
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Marcel Bonn-Miller
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University of Vermont
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Advisor:
Michael Zvolensky, Ph.D.
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Title:
Frequency of Marijuana Use and Anxious and Fearful Responding to Bodily Sensations: A Laboratory Test.
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Jill M. Holm-Denoma
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Florida State University
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Advisor:
Thomas Joiner, Ph.D.
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Title:
The
Latent Structure of Restrictive Eating Behaviors: Taxometric
Investigation and Construct Validation Using Genetic and Personality
Indicators.
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Brant P. Hasler
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University of Arizona
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Advisor:
Richard Bootzin, Ph.D.
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Title:
Diurnal rhythms in co-sleeping couples.
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Valerie Grant
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Dalhousie University
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Advisor:
Sherry Stewart, Ph.D.
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Title:
Emotional
Antecedents of Alcohol Cognitions & Consumption in Drinkers with
Coping-Anxiety, Coping-Depression, &/or Enhancement Motives.
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Peter D. Yeomans
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Drexel University
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Advisor:
James Herbert, Ph.D.
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Title:
The
effect of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder psychoeducation on the nature
and severity of traumatic stress symptoms in a Burundian sample.
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2005
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2005.
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Lea R. Doughtery
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Stony Brook University
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Advisor:
Daniel Klein, Ph.D.
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Title:
Temperamental Low Positive Emotionality and HPA Reactivity in Preschoolers.
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Eva M. Epstein
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Temple University
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Advisor:
Denise Sloan, Ph.D.
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Title:
Emotional Reactivity in Eating Pathology.
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Coreen A. Farris
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Indiana University
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Advisor:
Richard Viken, Ph.D.
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Title:
Feature
Integrality Between Diagnostic and Non-Diagnostic Cues of Women's
Sexual Interest: Influence of Alcohol Intoxication and Sexual Coercion
History.
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Kelly O'Brien
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University of Florida
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Advisor:
Sheila Eyberg, Ph.D.
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Title:
A Preliminary Examination of Coaching in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Parenting Skill Acquisition.
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Brian Wymbs
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University at Buffalo, SUNY
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Advisor:
William Pelham, Ph.D.
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Title:
Does Disruptive Child Behavior Cause Interparental Discord? An Experimental Manipulation.
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2004
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2004.
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Stephanie Cassin
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University of Calgary
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Advisor:
Kirstin von Ranson, Ph.D.
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Title:
The Effect of Brief Motivational Enhancement Intervention on Binge Eating.
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Lindsay M. Collins
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University of Maryland
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Advisor:
Jack J. Blanchard, Ph.D.
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Title:
Behavioral Indicators of Schizotypy in the Biological Parents of Social Anhedonics..
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Susan C. South
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University of Virginia
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Advisor:
Eric Turkheimer, Ph.D.
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Title:
Personality Disorders and Marital Adjustment.
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2003
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2003.
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Anil Chacko
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University at Buffalo, State University of New Yor
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Advisor:
William E. Pelham, Ph.D.
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Title:
The
Treatment for Single-Mothers of Children Diagnosed with
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Comparison Between a
Traditional and an Enhanced Behavioral Parenting Program.
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Gail H. Chang
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Temple University
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Advisor:
Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D.
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Title:
Lifestyle Regularity and Affective Symptomatology in Individuals Exhibiting Cyclothymic Symptoms.
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Rebecca E. Ford
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DePaul University
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Advisor:
Kathryn Grant, Ph.D.
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Title:
Acculturation and Problem Behaviors of Latino Youth: A Development Perspective.
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Amy Przeworski
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Penn State University
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Advisor:
Michelle Newman, Ph.D.
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Title:
The Efficay of Internet-based Treatment for Children with Anxiety Disorders.
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Jennifer A. Steinberg
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Temple University
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Advisor:
Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D.
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Title:
Implicit and Explicit Self-Esteem Level and Rectivity as Predictors of Depression.
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2002
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2002.
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Todd Kashdan
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University at Buffalo, State University of New Yor
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Advisor:
John E. Roberts, Ph.D.
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Title:
Excessive
Social Anxiety Among Persons with Depressive Disorders: Perceived
Therapeutic Relationships and Slf-Focused Attention as Determinants of
Change in Group Treatment.
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Shireen L. Rizvi
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University of Washington
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Advisor:
Masha Linehan, Ph.D.
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Title:
Treatment of Shame in Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Jasper Smits
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University of Texas - Austin
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Advisor:
Michael J. Telch, Ph.D.
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Title:
Facilitating Public Speaking Fear Feduction by Increasing the Salience of Disconfirmation Evidence .
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Jelena Spasojevic
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Temple University
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Advisor:
Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D.
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Title:
Interpersonal Context of Depression: A Study of Individuals Involved in Newly Formed Romantic Relationships..
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Mariann R. Weierich
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Yale University
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Advisor:
Teresa A. Treat, Ph.D.
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Title:
Attentional Processing in Specific Phobia. | |
2001
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2001.
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Winnie Eng
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Temple University
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Advisor:
Richard G. Heimberg, Ph.D.
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Title:
An Examination of the Interpersonal Problems Associated with Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
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Elizabeth H. Flanagan
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Auburn University
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Advisor:
Roger K. Blashfield, Ph.D.
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Title:
An Investigation of Clinician Taxonomies.
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Lori Brotto Fontana
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The University of British Columbia
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Advisor:
Boris Gorzalka, Ph.D.
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Title:
Examining the Clinical Untility of Laboratory-Based Measure of Sexual Arousal in Women with and without Arousal.
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Erin L. Scott
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Temple University
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Advisor:
Richard G. Heimberg, Ph.D.
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Title:
Misimterpretation of Bodily Symptoms: Specificity of Responses in Individuals with Panic Attacks and Hypochondriacal Concerns.
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2000
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
2000.
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Meredith E. Coles
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Temple University
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Advisor:
Richard G. Heimberg, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Implicit and Explicit Memory for Critical Faces in Individuals with Social Phobia".
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Katrina Keil
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University of Arizona
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Advisor:
Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Examining Executive Function in Those With Brain Injury".
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Michael F. Lorber
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State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Advisor:
Susan G. O'Leary, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Cognitive and Emotional Mechanism of Harsh Parenting and Toddler".
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Katy L. Lynch
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University of Montana
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Advisor:
Christine Fiore, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Resiliency and the Mother-Child Relationship".
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Jeneva L. Ohan
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University of British Columbia
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Advisor:
Charlotte Johnston, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Aggression in Girls with and without ADHD".
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1998
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
1998.
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Gretchen Clum
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University of Georgia
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Advisor:
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Title:
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Carrie Bearden
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University of Pennsylvania
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Advisor:
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Title:
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Amy Gorin
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SUNY Stony Brook
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Advisor:
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Title:
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Cassandra L. Lehman
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Boston University
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Advisor:
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Title:
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Amy Wenzel
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University of Iowa
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Advisor:
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Title:
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Kelly Bickel
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Ohio State University
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Advisor:
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Title:
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1997
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
1997.
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Maureen H. Carrigan
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Medical University of South Carolina
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Advisor:
Stephen A. Lisman, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Reactivity to Alcohol Cues: The Effect of Perceived Availability on Responding".
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Travis Paul McNeal
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University of Mississippi
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Advisor:
Nathan C. Weed, Ph.D.
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Title:
"The Longitudinal Impact of Personality Assessment on Undestanding Clients During the Course of Psychotherapy".
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Teresa Ann Treat
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Indiana University
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Advisor:
Richard M. McFall, Ph.D.
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Title:
"The Structure adn Plasticity of Bulimics' Perceptual Organization of Body Size and Affect Information.
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Kari A. Merrill
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Indiana University
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Advisor:
Richard J. Rose, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Effects of Anxiety and Anxiety Sensitivity on Alcohol Consumption in Females".
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Catherine Chaffee Pears
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University of Oregon
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Advisor:
Beverly Fagot, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Perspective-Taking and Adjustment in Preschoolers".
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Scott N. Compton
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University of Nevada
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Advisor:
William C. Follette, Ph.D.
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Title:
"Interpersonal skills in depression: A topographical and funtional analysis".
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1996
Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in
the fall of
1996.
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Mary Jo Coiro
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University of Virginia
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Advisor:
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Title:
"Maternal Depressive Symptoms as a Risk Factor for the Development of Children in Poverty".
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Denise M. Sloan
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Case Western Reserve University
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Advisor:
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Title:
"Emotional Experience and Expression in Depression".
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Jan Mohlman
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University of Oregon
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Advisor:
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Title:
"What kind of Attention is Necessary for Fear Reduction".
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Gregory L. Stuart
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Indiana University
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Advisor:
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Title:
"Impulsive as a Predictor of Marital Violence: Testing a Mediational Model".
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David J. Moser
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University of Florida
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Advisor:
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Title:
"Biobehavioral Sources of Variance in Presurgical Neuropsychological Performance Among Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy".
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Mark W. Miller
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The Florida State University
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Advisor:
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Title:
"Anxiety and Emotional Stroop Interference: A Startle-Probe Investigation of Affective and Attentional Mechanisms".
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