Theses & Dissertations Digitization Project

William & Mary Libraries worked for two years on a project to digitize and catalog W&M dissertations and theses going back to 1920 and up until 2015.  The project helps to accomplish many goals:

  • share the developments and research conducted here with scholars around the world
  • preserve the scholarly record
  • increase the impact of theses and dissertations
  • raise the profile of graduate students
  • grow the reputation of William & Mary
  • demonstrate the institution’s impact on local and global communities

As of October 22, 2018, you are now able to view the dissertations and theses included in this retrospective project as well as those which have been submitted electronically since 2016 in W&M ScholarWorks, the university's open access institutional repository.

Below, please find a list of W&M theses and dissertations which have been digitized as part of this retrospective conversion project . The information includes the authors associated with the project, along with their degree-granting department and year of completion. If you wrote a thesis and/or dissertation between 1920 and 2015 would like to opt-out of the project by restricting access to your work to on-campus access only, then you will need to contact scholarworks@wm.edu with your name, date of graduation and thesis or dissertation title. Theses and dissertations will continue to be made available through interlibrary loan (ILL) to other libraries, as they were when they were available in print. If you are a copyright holder for one of these works, and would like to provide additional information about a work, or discuss rights and access to the work, please contact us at scholarworks@wm.edu.

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Title Author Department Year Degree
Motives of uncertainty : accurate self-assessment or self- handicapping? Slaughter, Jean G., 1963- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
Pain perception and perspective taking in spinal cord injury patients Duckett, Caitlin J. Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Habit reversal in parakeets, chickens, and rats Pschirrer, Martin Edward, 1944- Psychology 1968 Master of Arts
Effects of excitotoxic and immunotoxic lesions of the posterior parietal cortex on attention Howe, William M., 1980- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Sexual assault and emotional intimacy Karageorge, Kathryn J., 1971- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Neuropsychological function, recidivism, and community adjustment of the mentally ill chemically addicted (MICA) patient Smith, Robert Warren, 1962- Psychology 1996 Master of Arts
Susceptibility to activity-based anorexia Stanley, Eric Zane, 1968- Psychology 1996 Master of Arts
Cognitive developmental differences in source monitoring Cimini, Katharine L., 1944- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
A phenomenological analysis of schizophrenic delusional systems as a regression toward a shared, primordial thought structure Savage, Ronald, 1942- Psychology 1976 Master of Arts
Child-rearing attitudes of process schizophrenics, alcoholics and their mothers Ratnow, Steven Marc, 1945- Psychology 1968 Master of Arts
Transitivity of probability and strength : a test of three discounting models Carosella, Ann Marie. Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Motive-goal congruence : normative congruence, ipsative congruence and mindfulness Hurst, Anne Lytton, 1982- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Incorporating the feedback of combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in the construction of a sleep disorders inventory Michaels, Stase Mikalajunas, 1947- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Hassles, major life events, humor, and coping as predictors of mood disturbance, depression and somatization Catz, Sheryl L., 1967- Psychology 1991 Master of Arts
The influence of nouns on stereotypes Zyzniewski, Linda Elaine, 1973- Psychology 1996 Master of Arts
Coercive behavior's effects on identity formation Savastano, Lisa A., 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Similarities in analgesia produced by cervical probing and intracranial stimulation to the mesencephalic grey matter Westlake, Kathleen Casey, 1948- Psychology 1976 Master of Arts
Field-dependency and process-reactive schizophrenia Stelle, Walter William, 1944- Psychology 1968 Master of Arts
Changes implemented pursuant to the Insanity Defense Reform Act : Effect on trial by jury outcome Dring, Kathleen, 1954- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Application of dimensional personality models to personality disorders Pettersson, Erik, 1979- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
Card sort performance and syndromes of schizophrenia Rowe, Ellen Winston, 1961- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Group status and inter-group trust in Nepal and India Atreya, Gagan, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Coping with siblings and peers : how college students deal with stress on interpersonal and individual bases Kennerson, Deborah J., 1966- Psychology 1991 Master of Arts
Humor appreciation and the right hemisphere Waller, Melissa Beth, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Attachment security and partner presence as moderators to automatic responses to stress in women Feeney, Brooke C., 1969- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Perception of binary visual patterns by pre-school children and by school children Dyer, Dorothy Watson, 1936- Psychology 1960 Master of Arts
Children's decision to help : the effects of causal attributions and affective role-taking Schultz, David Arthur. Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Evaluation of a brief neurometric battery for the detection of neurocognitive changes associated with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and probable alzheimer's disease Cunningham, Emily Christine, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Interpretation of nonverbal communication by individuals exhibiting schizotypal traits Puccini, Cecilia, 1964- Psychology 1991 Master of Arts
Physiological responding in anhedonic and perceptually aberrant college students Stauffer, Kathryn Elizabeth, 1966- Psychology 1991 Master of Arts
HIV status and perceptions of people living with AIDS Weber, Molly Allison, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Generation boundaries in divorced and intact families Funkhouser, Barry Lee, 1964- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Voluntary consent to police searches : a result of the foot-in-the-door technique Howe, Julie E., 1968- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
The effect of punishment at specific points in the response chain of the white rat Canestrari, Robert E., 1932- Psychology 1956 Master of Arts
Influence of emotional stimuli on working memory in schizotypy Demmin, Docia L., Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Influences of science fiction and fantasy fandom on bias Gomez, Melissa Anne, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
The compulsive eater : the role of objective self awareness in conflict situations Dunn, Patricia K. Psychology 1980 Master of Arts
The experience of imagery in relation to memory and problem solving Welch, Melissa Kae, 1967- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Disagreements in relationships : the attributions partners make Hamby, Sherry Lynne, 1963- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Patterns and prevalence of metabolic syndrome among persons receiving treatment with antipsychotic medications Harte, Brittany Marie-Bach, 1983- Psychology 2007 Master of Arts
Structural incongruity and humor appreciation Staley, Rosemary Evans, 1964- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Examining cultural specificity in the relationships between daily events and daily psychological adjustment Allen, Monica Robin, 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Suspicion : assimilation and contrast effects of a primed social evaluative mind-set Boyle, J. Patrick, 1977- Psychology 2001 Master of Arts
Stressed, pregnant, and behind bars Kelsey, Caroline Malory, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Loose coupling and parallel interaction in family systems Phillips, Kay, 1949- Psychology 1980 Master of Arts
Predictors of social support and well-being for low income women Wright, Debra Lee, 1967- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
A construct validity study and comparison of four measures of Eriksonian ego identity development Burt, Charles E., 1951- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Differential family characteristics of high and low aggressive children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Lease, Cynthia Ann, 1953- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Development of the Involuntary Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire (IAMQ) Kang, Song Hee, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
A study in the interrelations of measures of learning, five motor and two verbal problems Wilkerson, Woodrow W., 1913- Psychology 1938 Master of Arts