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
Thoughfulness and psychological well-being Tyree, Seth D., 1976- Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
The relationship of early parental loss and later stressful life events to the onset of depression Burch, Mary. Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
Resource-allocation behavior when payoff is not equal Nolan, Eric C., 1975- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Attribution of behavioral and characterological fault towards the victims of a disaster Davis, Matthew Scott, 1958- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Meaningful nonsense: Invented words reveal characteristics of emotional stimuli Moldovan, Emil G. Psychology 2014 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
Attitudes toward women and levels of personality development Capasso, Deborah Richardson, 1950- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
Aggression changes and social influence during testosterone induced sex reversal in betta splendens Baura, Lori Linn, 1961- Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Components of reminiscence as correlated with level of psychological adjustment in institutionalized geriatrics Kepler, Karen L., 1959- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
Integration and differentiation as distinct dimensions of personality Oleynick, Victoria Claire , Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
Cognitive and physiological moderators of daily smokers' early neural attentional biases to smoking and nonsmoking cues Hammett, Patrick John, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Theory of mind impairment and schizotypy Meyer, Joseph Francis, 1980- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
Emotions and ego defenses Healy, Donald, 1948- Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
The development of emotional intelligence : identifying components and correlates in preschool-aged children Penick, Claire T., 1971- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
A test of the partial reinforcement effect Dowell, Richard Edward, 1956- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Within-person relationships among prayer, well-being, and daily events Newman, David Benjamin, Psychology 2014 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
Motivational effects of electrical brain stimulation producing analgesia in rats Moeschl, Thomas P., 1947- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
Factors influencing the accessibility of the HIV/AIDS schema Washington, Tracee, 1974- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Giftedness and perceived paternal child-rearing practices : nurturance and restrictiveness Monson, Christine Anne, 1959- Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Effects of personal similarity and situational possibility on attributions of personal responsibility for institutionalization Oksner, Phyllis White, 1951- Psychology 1977 Master of Arts
Effects of short and long study times on learning by maps versus navigation Rauch, Thyra, 1959- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
Neurocognitive mechanisms of social influence on emotion Willroth, Emily Catherine, Psychology 2015 Master of Arts
The impact of warning label exposure on attentional bias to smoking cues in smokers and nonsmokers Harris, Anna Kathleen, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Interpersonal behavior in borderline personality Ryan, Kimberly Ann, 1975- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
The relationship between need for achievement in women and achievement goals : an application of Atkinson's expectancy-value theory Henry, Daina Paupe. Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
Personality qualities associated with visual image preference and creativity Stemme, Marlene H., 1975- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
The perception of clothing and situational formality and their relationship to public and private self-consciousness Harris, Susan Mozley, 1955- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Maternal and paternal socialization of children's sadness : links to emotion regulation, psychopathology, and social functioning Poon, Jennifer Ann, Psychology 2014 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
Structural incongruity and humor appreciation Staley, Rosemary Evans, 1964- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Cognitive complexity and etiological conflict areas of paranoid schizophrenics by James Michael Willis. Willis, James Michael, 1943- Psychology 1974 Master of Arts
Domain-specificity of self-esteem : an evolutionary approach Williams, Tudor E., 1972- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Multiple cause and the discounting principle : a linear or nonlinear function? Payne, Portia. Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Locus of control, extraversion and preferred style of defense Ozer, Daniel Jeremy, 1953- Psychology 1977 Master of Arts
Active minorities and social influence Russ, Gail Susan, 1952- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
The effect of pronunciability, familiarity, and mode of presentation on acquisition of CVC trigrams Williams, John Marion, 1937- Psychology 1962 Master of Arts
The independent effects of amounts of reinforcement and consummatory behavior on the acquisition of a BPR Hageman, Kenneth Charles, 1920- Psychology 1959 Master of Arts
The relationship between neural reorganization and neuropsychological functioning in normal aging Hershaw, Jamie Nicole, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
The work ethic, daily activities, and their relationship to satisfaction in retirement Hooker, Karen, 1955- Psychology 1981 Master of Arts
Investigating the executive flexibility model Yanchus, Nancy Jane, 1969- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Early recollections, future events and social interest Hollar, William David, 1953- Psychology 1982 Master of Arts
Individual differences in cognitive representations of social environments Austin, Joy Lyn, 1966- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Direct vs. indirect aggression tactics as a function of domin-specific self-esteem Wyckoff, Joy Plumeri Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
Professional training and attributions of blame for sex offenses and other crimes by Florence K. Super. Super, Florence Kristen, 1968- Psychology 1993 Master of Arts
Interaction of preoptic and arcuate nuclei of the hypothalamus and the medial amygdala in the reproductive behavior of the female rat Petty, Linda C., 1940- Psychology 1972 Master of Arts
Personality characteristics and two types of relaxation associated with personal adjustment and anxiety reduction Schwartz, Steven Michael, 1960- Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Effects of pre-conception parental stress on sex ratio in rat litters Parent, Pamela L., 1950- Psychology 1977 Master of Arts
Motives of uncertainty : accurate self-assessment or self- handicapping? Slaughter, Jean G., 1963- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
The effect of rest interval and intertrial interval on the acquisition of an instrumental avoidance response in rats Kirby, Raymond Hope, 1933- Psychology 1959 Master of Arts