Graduate Student Research
A collection of Graduate Student Research by students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The social origin of violent behavior, Todd Arthur Mensink Open Access Thesis
Transforming lives: Exploring the impact of transitioning on female-to-male transpersons and partners of female-to-male transpersons, Megan Marie Tesene Open Access Thesis 2012 Award
From a weak tribual to a branch of government: The Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to Marshall, Dale Edward Paul Yurs Open Access Thesis 2012 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Cultural Tolerance of Americans in Canada, Benjamin Campbell Barclay Open Access Thesis
Language exclusionary behavior and attitudes toward immigrants, Christine L. Bennett Open Access Thesis
The Effect of Race on Eyewitness Identification Lineup Processing Strategies: An Analysis of Eye Movements, Ryan Betts Open Access Thesis
Obscenity and pornography: A historical look at the American Library Association, the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, and the Supreme Court, Gretchen Brooke Gould Open Access Thesis
Testing the selective chivalry theory in Iowa : gender sentencing of rural property offenders, Maria Dorothy Herring Koeppel Open Access Thesis
The effects of OWI victim impact courses on offender recidivism, Sarah Emily Johnson Open Access Thesis
A late-Quaternary record of environmental variability from lake sediment cores, Wind River Range, Wyoming, Tyler Johnson Open Access Thesis
Status is fine for the in-group but out-group members watch out: Examining an optimal model of face processing using eye-tracking, J. Daniel McCarthy Open Access Thesis 2011 Award
The new childbirth : an analysis of planned cesarean sections, Loren Wilbers Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Effects of Different Types of Background Music on Preschoolers’ Aggressive Classroom Behavior, Marissa Anne Arnett Open Access Thesis
Employee Personal Wellness Programs: Benefits and Barriers to Participation, Amanda Bakeris Open Access Thesis
Voluntary Simplicity and its effects on personal identity, family life, and relationships, Julie Ann Fox Open Access Thesis
An analysis of state-by-state variations in African American incarceration rates, Kristen Laura Johnson Open Access Thesis
Evaluating the sentencing of non-violent drug offenders, Christopher Joseph Koch Open Access Thesis
Institutional racism and public policy : a critical discourse analysis of the war on drugs, Kyle L. Mahannah Open Access Thesis
The effects of Indian-accented English and need for cognition on message evaluation: A field study, Duoc V. Nguyen Open Access Thesis 2011 Award
When networks matter : Mexican migrants' access to the welfare state through social ties, Margaret Louise Ralston Open Access Thesis
Those magnificent men or their flying machines?: Tradition and modernity in the 1928 National Air Races, Joshua James Waddle Open Access Thesis
A test of TMT: Mortality salience and avoidance of worldview threats, Taylor Wayne Wadian Open Access Thesis 2010 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Pain stages of change: Variations in pain acceptance, catastrophizing, and emotional distress across a model of readiness for behavior change, Melinda J. Collingwood Open Access Thesis
Surface temperature mapping of the University of Northern Iowa campus using high resolution thermal infrared aerial imagery, Alexander Savelyev Open Access Thesis 2010 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Employee Engagement as a Mediator of the Relationship between Management Support and Job Performance and Turnover, Liliya Akbulatova Open Access Thesis
Life Threatening Communication: Assessing Suicide Threat and Its Relation to Psychological Factors in Adolescent Inpatient Sample, Jennifer Bailey Open Access Thesis
The effects of facial attractiveness, weight, and immediacy on social influence: A test of dynamic social impact, Melinda Bullock Open Access Thesis 2009 Award
Gender inequalities in toddler confrontation teachers' responses, Jessica Hermeyer Open Access Thesis
Cedar Falls Civil War, Cynthia Rae Huffman Sweet Open Access Thesis
Tree species identification in an urban environment using a data fusion approach, Matthew A. Voss Open Access Thesis 2008 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Self-Esteem, Locus of Control, Conformity, and the Psychology behind Body Modification, Brianne Renae Arends Open Access Thesis
The Authority of Traditional Islamic Leaders: A Sociological Study of Kyai's Authority in Pesantren, Achmad Zainal Arifin Open Access Thesis
The Relationship between Sexual Behavior and Relational Aggression in College Students, Hiliary Baethke Open Access Thesis
Gender Socialization through Children’s Literature: Body and Beauty Image, Meera Basnet Open Access Thesis
Athletic Training Education: A Review of Literature, Abigail S. McCorkel Open Access Graduate Research Paper
Gender and policing : an analysis of police departments as gendered organizations, Kimberly L. Seavey Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
GIS-Based Site Suitability Analysis for Planning Confined Animal Feeding Operations in Iowa, Brian Lance Bakker Open Access Thesis
Monitoring spatial and temporal water quality changes in Iowa lakes using airborne hyperspectral imagery, Nathan Robert Green Open Access Thesis 2007 Award
Sticks, stones, & stigmas: A social-cognitive account of stereotype threat mechanisms, Michael C. Philipp Open Access Thesis 2006 Award
Emotional intelligence as a protective factor for risk behavior in adolescence, Nicole Renee Skaar Open Access Thesis
We're not "free-loading jocks" : the presentation of the self in the everyday lives of the collegiate level student athlete, Katie Leanne Sorrell Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Protecting us from pictures : gender and support for legal restrictions on pornography, Elizabeth Lynne Chivers Open Access Thesis
Drug use and pool performance : an exploratory study, Robert P. Hansen Open Access Thesis
Mapping wetlands and potential wetland restoration areas in Black Hawk County, Iowa using object-oriented classification and a GIS-based model, James Harken Open Access Thesis 2005 Award
Impact of the child-parent relationship on affectual solidarity between grandchildren and grandparents : the perspective of young adults, Maria A. Monserud Open Access Thesis
The John Deere Ceres program: The decision to locate assembly of a German tractor in Waterloo, Iowa, Chris T. Simenson Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The effects of social identity salience on the cohesion of demographically diverse groups, Michael Anderson Open Access Thesis 2004 Award
Culture from chaos: The formation of social norms from the dynamic self-organization of individuals' attitudes and behavior, Jerry G. Cullum Open Access Thesis 2005 Award
Portrayal of women in magazine advertisements targeted toward three age groups of women : a content analysis, Stephanie Lynn Cummings Open Access Thesis
Body image, eating disturbance and estrogen levels across the menstrual cycle, Mei-Chuan Wang Open Access Thesis 2004 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Coping responses among aged home health care clients : a qualitative study, Bobbie Kay Grother Open Access Thesis
The new social discipline : a critical analysis of federal drug-free workplace legislation and employee drug testing, Matthew T. Lammers Open Access Thesis
The effects of individual factors on punitive attitudes toward juvenile offenders, Jennifer Keely Mac Connell Open Access Thesis 2003 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Assessing the classification accuracy of digitized National Aerial Photography Program imagery: Comparison with botanical data, Mark Arthur Alexander Open Access Thesis 2001 Award
Civilian Conservation Corps Rubble and Masonry Dams and Gully Morphology in Northeastern Iowa, Timothy Robert Beerman Open Access Thesis
Gender, Self-Efficacy, Anxiety, Experience, and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition, Short Form (WAIS-III), Laura Jean Blalock Open Access Thesis
Similarities in aggression, inattention/hyperactivity, depression, and anxiety between friends and nonfriends, Kristin A. Clark Open Access Thesis 2001 Award
Family structure and children's academic achievement : the role of income and parental control, Jean M. Hoth Open Access Thesis
The double edged sword of depersonalization: An examination of depersonalization's role in the police profession, Michael J. O'Connor Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Personality Characteristics Associated With People Who Frequently Experience Flow, Mark A. Ackerman Open Access Thesis
Differential Effects of Game Structure and Sociomoral Atmosphere on the Social Behaviors of First Grade Students, Taunjah Patrease Bell Open Access Thesis
Gender, religion, causal attributions, and correctional orientations among juvenile justice personnel, Amy Lynn Lyons Open Access Thesis
Adolescent depression : further examination of gender differences, Elizabeth Marie O'Neill Open Access Thesis
The Reasons for living inventory for adolescents (RFL-A) : validation in three adolescent populations, Joe S. Rich Open Access Thesis
The Commonweal in the heartland: Charles T. Kelly and Iowa's industrial army, Ryan James Sprau Open Access Thesis 2000 Award
Dramaturgical perspective in modern police work : an analysis of interviews and observations, Michael P. Wagner Open Access Thesis
In their own words : women's caregiving experiences, Loralie L. Wiebold Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Gender, Gender Role Socialization, and the Tripartite Model of Anxiety and Depression in Male and Female College Students, Sarina E. Abel Open Access Thesis
Awareness of Deficits in Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and Normal Aging, Jay D. Anderson Open Access Thesis
Prospective Memory and Age-Related Impairment, Barry Robert Ardolf Open Access Thesis
Gangs, drugs, and delinquency, Tina Renea Engstrom Open Access Thesis
The morality issue: How Darlan influenced the Allied unconditional surrender pledge in World War II, Brian Fiderlein Open Access Thesis 1999 Award
The social history of a moral vision : a qualitative study of the Ulster Project in Decorah, Iowa, Mark Murray McCrory Open Access Thesis
Estimating the potential available labor supply for mid-sized Iowa communities, Randal Robert Pilkington Open Access Thesis 2000 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Soil Catenas of Calcareous Tills, Whiskey Basin, Wyoming, Michael Todd Applegarth Open Access Thesis
Correctional management : the systemic impact and consequences of truth-in-sentencing legislation, Timothy S. Sexton Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Validation of the Reasons for Living Inventory-II (RFL-II) in a College Sample, Monty T. Baker Open Access Thesis
The Study of Optimism in a Freshman College Student Population: An Analysis of the Optimism about College Life Scale, Patrick John Barlow Open Access Thesis
Invisible walls: Milliken v. Bradley and America's urban apartheid, Sonia E. Ingles Open Access Thesis 1998 Award
Evaluating intensive home supervision : a community based juvenile corrections program, Laone K. Kishman Open Access Thesis
An exploratory look at university students' attitudes toward welfare recipients, Glen Leonard Lantz Open Access Thesis
Another look at social learning theory and dating violence, Samantha Smith O'Hara Open Access Thesis
The aftermath of teenage childbearing : the characteristics of successful adjustment, Sarjo Sanneh Patrick Open Access Thesis
Expressive individualism in a midwestern situated youth subculture group, Jeffrey Michael Webb Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The political geography of a Palestinian state: Main problems of implementation, Saed Jamal Abu-Hijleh Open Access Thesis 1996 Award
Development and Initial Psychometric Properties of the Adolescent Reasons for Living Inventory (ARFL), Tricia M. Besett Open Access Thesis
Is the error-reaction time correlation in category verification tasks evidence of fuzzy limits in categories?, Sergio Chaigneau Open Access Thesis 1996 Award
The influence of relative campus prestige between dating partners on dating behaviors, Jennifer Meehan Open Access Thesis
An analysis of racial bias in revocation rates among felony probationers in Black Hawk County, Iowa, Ross Thomas Todd Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Iowa's wolf in populist clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936, Eric Scott Juhnke Open Access Thesis 1995 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Acceptance of Persons with Mental Illnesses: Labeling Effects and Sex Differences, Laura J. Anderson Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Egypt-Palestine/Israel boundary: 1841-1992, Thabit Abu-Rass Open Access Thesis 1993 Award
A review and modification of Wilson and Herrnstein's integrated theory of criminality as it pertains to serial murder and serial rape, Karen Bower Mead Open Access Thesis
A pretension of place: The industrialization of corn belt agriculture, 1940-1965, Philip Jeffrey Nelson Open Access Thesis 1993 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Sociological implications of technology: The historical treatment of technology in sociological theory and a proposal for empirical research, Martin E. Hansen Open Access Thesis 1992 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union, Michael Torrance Prahl Open Access Thesis 1991 Award
Occupational outcomes of bachelor's degrees earned by nontraditional students, Mary Ellen Ellyson Wacker Open Access Thesis 1991 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Racial discrimination in the Big Ten Athletic Conference sports of football and basketball, Reginald John Green Open Access Thesis
Native trees in an urban area: A case study of the Waterloo metropolitan area Black Hawk County, Iowa, Alice Christine Robbins Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Potential differences in self-concept among adult children of problem drinkers, Thomine Sue Wilson Open Access Thesis
