Psychology Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Rethinking Diversity Ideologies: Critical Multiculturalism and its Implications for Social Justice Issues
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Social psychologists have long explored how colorblind and multicultural ideologies may improve intergroup relations. Criticisms from an epistemic standpoint of mainstream social psychological research discuss the ... -
An examination of the role of social factors in the stability of proactive and reactive aggression from late childhood to early adolescence
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)There is substantial research indicating adverse outcomes associated with childhood aggression. The functions of aggression, proactive and reactive aggression, have been widely examined with distinct correlates associated ... -
Discrepancies between Objective and Subjective Sleep Assessment in Older Adults
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Older adults are a growing segment of the population who experience disturbed sleep. In using actigraphy and self-report (e.g., sleep diaries) to measure/characterize sleep in this population, researchers have found that ... -
Cognitive process modeling of spatial ability: a construct validity study of an assembling object task
(University of Kansas, 2002-12-31)The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive processes involved in completing a spatial task in which a participant must mentally assemble a two-dimensional objects. These tasks are used to measure spatial ability ... -
A new theory of the visual resolution threshold
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A typological approach to the study of human behavior
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Toward a dynamic theory of feeling and emotion
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A psychological study of curricula in beginning arithmetic
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Psychological tests in the study of frontal lobotomy
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A study of successive discriminations of brightness in chicks
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The theory and technique of child guidance with special reference to Australian conditions
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The structure of the personality in mentally retarded children
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The dynamics of spiral movement in man
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Tension systems and unconscious processes: An exploratory study
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Test taking strategies in computer adaptive testing that will improve your score: Fact or fiction?
(University of Kansas, 2007-05-31)The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the claim made by test review companies that spending more time and attention on the first five or ten items on a computer adaptive test will improve an examinee's ... -
Evaluating Reasonableness Tests for Longitudinal Measurement Invariance in Structural Equation Modeling using Confirmatory Factor Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Researchers are typically interested in comparing groups of people and/or comparing people across time. If researchers are to conclude differences are due to group dynamics or time, we must establish that the measure(s) ... -
Bidirectional Associations between Affective Empathy and Proactive and Reactive Aggression
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Background: Preliminary evidence indicates that affective empathy is differentially associated with proactive and reactive functions of aggression, and anger dysregulation may impact these associations. However, more ... -
Gay Black man does not equal gay + Black + man: An Intersectional Analysis of Race and Sexual Orientation Stereotypes
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Intersectionality theory suggests that group identities based on the intersection of different social categories are unique and cannot be understood by simply adding together the elements of each separate identity (Cole & ... -
A Matter of Time? Temporal Framing, Race, and the Perception of Anti-Black and Anti-White Discrimination
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)When asked to rate anti-Black and anti-White discrimination across six decades (the 50s – 00s), research suggests that Whites (but not Blacks) see discrimination as a zero-sum game that they have been losing since the 2000s ... -
Not Quite White: Arab Americans and the Boundaries of Racial/Ethnic Similarity
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Across four studies, we examined the implications of shifting racial designation of Arab Americans. The studies primarily concerned multiple factors influencing the ways that Arab and European Americans respond to ...