Friday, September 20, 2019

August 2019 PhD Graduates

The Department of Psychology would like to congratulate the most recent group of graduate students that have completed their long journey to a PhD.

Lisa Auster-Gussman
Area: Social
Advisors: Alex Rothman, Traci Mann
Dissertation: You Are What You Think: The Development and Initial Examination of a New Measure of Weight Mindset

Samuel Cooper
Area: CSPR
Advisor: Shmuel Lissek
Dissertation: Normative and Pathological Personality Predictors of Generalized Conditioned Fear, Instrumental Avoidance, and the Covariation of Generalized Fear and Avoidance

Richard Lenne
Area: Social
Advisors: Alex Rothman, Traci Mann
Dissertation: What sustains behavioral changes? A dynamical systems approach to improving theories of change in physical exercise

Julia Longenecker
Area: CSPR
Advisors: Bob Krueger, Scott Sponheim
Dissertation: Electrophysiological and Personality Factors Associated with Aberrant Visual Processing in Psychosis

Kyle McNeal
Area: I/O
Advisor: Nathan Kuncel
Dissertation: The Effects of Rater Performance and Perspective on Rating Leniency

Viann Nguyen-Feng
Area: Counseling
Advisor: Pat Frazier
Dissertation: A randomized controlled trial of a mobile ecological momentary stress management intervention for students with and without a history of emotional abuse

Zhuoran Wang
Area: Quant/PsyM
Advisors: Chun Wang, Niels Waller
Dissertation: Grid Multi-classification Adaptive Classification Testing with Multidimensional Polytomous Items

Xiang Zhou
Area: Counseling
Advisor: Rich Lee
Dissertation: Construction and Cross-Cultural Validation of Parenting Regulatory Focus Scale