Browsing Psychology Masters Theses by Title
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The Psychological Benefits of Positively-Focused Writing
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Writing about potent positive events has been shown to be associated with physical health benefits in a manner similar to the expressive writing paradigm originally espoused by Pennebaker and Beall (1986). Little has been ... -
Re-Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Massachusetts General Hospital Hairpulling Scale
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Trichotillomania is characterized by recurrent hair pulling resulting in hair loss and has been shown to have a significant impact on the health and social functioning of individuals with the disorder. Despite a growing ... -
The Relationship Between Features and Edge Types in Natural Images
(North Dakota State University, 2011)One of the most important processes in the human visual system involves detecting and understanding edges. Edges allow humans to break a visual scene up into meaningful chunks of information. Without edges, a visual scene ... -
The Role of Distress Tolerance in Cognitive Control Training for Dysphoria
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Cognitive Control Training (CCT) is an area of research which has been hypothesized as a way to decrease symptoms of depression. The purpose of this study was to replicate the results found by others using the PASAT, and ... -
Rumination and Problem Solving: A Focus on Dispositions, Processes, and the Five-Step Framework
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Rumination is a method of responding to and coping with negative moods that involves repetitively and passively focusing on the causes, consequences, and symptoms of negative mood (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991 ). Research has ... -
Sex Differences in Response to a Large 200-Person Audience using the Trier Social Stress Test in Pre-Recorded Virtual Reality
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) induces stress in the lab by having participants complete challenging tasks in front of an audience. The TSST has been adapted to virtual reality (VR), eliminating in-person audience ... -
Sleep Quality and Sympathovagal Balance during Stress
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Sleep has been shown to be associated with the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system at rest and during stress. However, sleep has not been examined in the context of sympathovagal balance ... -
A Test of an Interactive Model of Binge Eating in Men
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Past research has shown that a combination of high perfectionism, high body dissatisfaction, and low self-esteem is predictive of binge eating in college women (Bardone-Cone et al., 2006). The aim of the present study was ... -
To Be or Not To Be: An Empirical Test of English Prime as Theory
(North Dakota State University, 2012)English Prime is a language prescription advocating the abolition of all forms of the verb “to be” from usage. Such benefits of a “to be”-less form of communication might include an increased appreciation for the essential ... -
Treating Objects like Women: The Impact of Terror Management and Objectification on the Perception of Women's Faces
(North Dakota State University, 2014)According to terror management theory, humans are threatened by the awareness of death and counter this threat by investing in cultural systems that make them feel like they are more than mortal animals. Based on this ... -
A Unitary Framework Defining the Functional Significance of Neural Oscillations in the Alpha Frequency
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Neural oscillations in the alpha frequency band (8-12 Hz) are among the most salient and ubiquitous phenomena observed in human electroencephalographic recordings. There have been various proposals regarding the functional ... -
Urgency Predicts Differences in Cigarette Consumption
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Smokers have been classified into three separate groups based on cigarette consumption where regular smokers consume more than 5 cigarettes a day, chippers consume 5 cigarettes a day or less, and social smokers only smoke ... -
Visuospatial Attention and Autism Spectrum Trait Expression
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Pseudoneglect (PN: Bowers & Heilman, 1980) references neurotypical leftward attentional bias reflective of right hemisphere (RH) specialization for spatial attention. Phasic visual cues can alter PN magnitude (McCourt et ...