Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Psychology by Title
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ADOLESCENT PLEA BARGAINS: DEVELOPMENTAL AND CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES OF PLEA BARGAIN DECISION MAKING
(Georgetown University, 2017)Problem. Plea-bargaining is the most common conviction process in the United States yet there is a lack of research on how plea bargain decisions are made within the judicial process. By accepting a plea bargain, a defendant ... -
Aging, implicit sequence learning, and white matter integrity
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Amygdala Connectivity during Involuntary Attention to Emotional Faces in Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Disorders
(Georgetown University, 2013)Involuntary attention to faces is a behavior seen from birth and is a key factor underlying the development of social skills. Maturation of social skills continues through increased regulation of involuntary attention to ... -
BELIEFS ABOUT THE SPREAD OF EMOTIONS: RELATIONSHIPS TO REPORTED AND OBSERVABLE EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR THROUGH INTERPERSONAL GOALS
(Georgetown University, 2016)Beliefs about emotions play an important role in guiding emotional behavior. Though emotions are interpersonal phenomena, we know little about individuals’ beliefs about the consequences of their emotions for others. My ... -
Bilingualism and Memory Processing During Infancy and Early Childhood
(Georgetown University, 2022)In 2011, approximately 60.6 million people in the U.S. above the age of 5 spoke a language other than English at home (Ryan, 2013). By 2018, this number increased to 67.3 million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2018). Despite this ... -
Child Development at the Intersection of Early Care and Education and Child Welfare
(Georgetown University, 2012)Empirical interest in the developmental outcomes of young foster children has surged in recent years, leading to a large knowledge base describing the risks associated with their experiences of trauma and toxic stress, and ... -
Children's Mathematical Learning from Male and Female Intelligent Characters
(Georgetown University, 2019)Two studies utilized data from an experiment that examined how preschool-aged children’s (N = 90; 49 girls, 41 boys; Mage = 4.42 years) parasocial interactions (e.g., talking about math) with a same-or opposite-sex unfamiliar ... -
Creativity Anxiety: An Investigation of Anxiety Specific to Creative Thinking and Its Implications for Creative Performance and Avoidance of Creativity
(Georgetown University, 2022)Creativity is a necessary component of any society that seeks to continuously improve. It is crucial, then, to identify and understand potential barriers to creativity if we wish to optimally support human flourishing. ... -
Distress Communication in Cultural Context: Examination of Koreans and Americans
(Georgetown University, 2014)Previous research has documented that Asians tend to somatize negative experiences to a greater degree than Westerners. It is posited that somatization may be a more functional communication strategy in Korean than American ... -
Educational Resilience in Children from Immigrant Families: The Protective Role of Culture and Self-Regulation
(Georgetown University, 2014)A growing literature on children's developmental outcomes indicates that children from immigrant families enjoy academic and behavioral advantages over their native-born co-ethnic peers. Aided by the release of rigorous, ... -
Examining factors associated with visuospatial working memory development from infancy through the preschool years
(Georgetown University, 2016)In early childhood, the development of executive functioning (EF) takes place. This complex system comprised of working memory, inhibitory control, and shifting is crucial for successful cognitive and socio-emotional ... -
FIRST I AM MY TRIBE: AN INVESTIGATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF AFGHANS
(Georgetown University, 2016)Identity centrality is important to the study of intergroup conflict because it defines identity priorities for ingroup/outgroup affiliation. A key question in understanding identity centrality, particularly for ethnic ... -
Generosity Across Time and Space: Examining the Roles of Temporal Delay, Social Distance, and Risk in Altruistic Decisions
(Georgetown University, 2019)In a series of three related studies, this dissertation builds on previous research on the implications of psychological distance on prosocial behavior. Across five samples, we used ecologically valid participants and ... -
Implicit learning in typical development and children with developmental disorders
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Implicit Sequence Learning in People with Parkinson's Disease
(Georgetown University, 2014)People with Parkinson's disease (PD) have known deficits in striatal dopamine, and compared to age-matched healthy older adults, increased striatal deficits, and difficulties with maintaining postural stability and complex ... -
Infant and Toddler Engagement in Video Mediated Interactions
(Georgetown University, 2016)When families – especially those with very young children under 2 years old – are geographically separated, forming warm family relationships can be a challenge. Fortunately, rapid developments in communication technology ... -
Infant transfer of learning across 2D/3D dimensions : a touch screen paradigm
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Infants' learning from videos : influence of character interaction & character familiarity
(Georgetown University, 2010)
