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
Sex differences in the relationship between academic performance, social behavior, and planned activities Sullivan, Linda Ann, 1961- Psychology 1986 Master of Arts
An adaptationist perspective on humor : humor and mate selection Haselton, Martie Gail, 1970- Psychology 1997 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
The effects of startle stimulus probability on the human electromyographic startle response Toukatly, John Louis, 1950- Psychology 1975 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
Rehearsal and modality effects on delayed recall of continuously presented paired-associates Breitenstein, Donna Lynn, 1947- Psychology 1971 Master of Arts
Socio-cognitive skills : a possible determinant of life satisfaction in the elderly Gray, Gale René, 1958- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
Intention, subject gender, victim and perpetrator gender, and the attribution of responsibility and blame. Ambady, Nalini. Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Effects of Orexin A on attention in rats Zajo, Kristin Nicole, Psychology 2014 Master of Arts
College students' implicit attentional and affective responses to alcohol cues Young, Chelsie Marie, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Parental bereavement and hospice participation : an evaluation of the Edmarc Hospice Program Biddle, Linda Diane, 1960- Psychology 1988 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
Differential family characteristics of high and low aggressive children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Lease, Cynthia Ann, 1953- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Investigating the bulimia-depression relationship using sleep deprivation Reiter, Jeffrey Thomas, 1965- Psychology 1990 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
Differences in judging styles of law-students and the effect on sentencing Hamby, Beverly Annette, 1972- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
A comparison of the effects of Head Start with and without the use of a newly developed resiliency-based curriculum McGee, Elizabeth Holt, 1972- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Motive-goal congruence : normative congruence, ipsative congruence and mindfulness Hurst, Anne Lytton, 1982- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
The end-segregation effect in tachistoscopic perception of binary patterns Monti, Peter Michael, 1947- Psychology 1971 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
Aggression changes and social influence during testosterone induced sex reversal in betta splendens Baura, Lori Linn, 1961- Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Unloved, unlovable, both, or none of the above ? : a contruct validity study of the depressive experiences questionnaire Fuhr, Susan K., 1964- Psychology 1988 Master of Arts
The relative effectiveness of three methods of teaching an elementary mathematical task Pugh, Michele. Psychology 1972 Master of Arts
Effects of mood state on memory for positive, negative, neutral, and humorous phrases in college students McAninch, Cecile Burford, 1963- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Adrenal histology and reproductive function in peromyscus maniculatus bairdii and peromyscus leuropus noveboro censis Rouleau, Peggy Alicia, 1964- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
Social interaction and clinical depressive disorder Hampton, Christianne Parisi, 1966- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
A mental health survey of four hundred white children of the sixth grade in the Portsmouth public schools Greenfield, Eugene, 1905- Psychology 1943 Master of Arts
Anxiety sensitivity and panic among college students : cognition, emotion, and somatic symptms Messenger, Carla Lynn, 1972- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Application of dimensional personality models to personality disorders Pettersson, Erik, 1979- Psychology 2006 Master of Arts
The effectiveness of systematic desensitization employing muscle relaxation and positive imagery Schopp, Robert, 1948- Psychology 1971 Master of Arts
Effects of short and long study times on learning by maps versus navigation Rauch, Thyra, 1959- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
Giftedness and perceived paternal child-rearing practices : nurturance and restrictiveness Monson, Christine Anne, 1959- Psychology 1985 Master of Arts
Self-concept reflected in humor production Hurley, Michael E., 1961- Psychology 1988 Master of Arts
The influence of induced value on perceived heaviness of weights Sasaki, Kozi, 1933- Psychology 1972 Master of Arts
Self-report measures of family hierarchy : construct and predictive validity Wilson, Richard J., 1958- Psychology 1989 Master of Arts
Involvement and information : how do they affect the price consumeres are prepared to pay? Symes, Corinne Ann, 1965- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
Sexual assault and emotional intimacy Karageorge, Kathryn J., 1971- Psychology 1995 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
The emotional consequences of exposure to sexual orientation inappropriate humor on television comedies Caruthers, Allison S., 1975- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
The self-evaluation maintenance model as a moderator of similarity-attraction vs. dissimilarity-repulsion Nimpfer, John Adam, 1973- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
A verbal behavior analysis of speech patterns in psychiatric populations Steele, Richard Lowell, 1942- Psychology 1971 Master of Arts
Active minorities and social influence Russ, Gail Susan, 1952- Psychology 1987 Master of Arts
Multiple cause and the discounting principle : a linear or nonlinear function? Payne, Portia. Psychology 1985 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
A synthesis of general principles in the field of human development Wright, Nelle Blanche. Psychology 1947 Master of Arts
Information processing during high and low EEG alpha activity Slocumb, Frances Gilliam, 1937- Psychology 1972 Master of Arts
The effects of computer-based instruction on college students' comprehension of classic research Welsh, Josephine Amy, 1966- Psychology 1990 Master of Arts
Card sort performance and syndromes of schizophrenia Rowe, Ellen Winston, 1961- Psychology 1995 Master of Arts
Surface and structural similarity in analogical reasoning : transfer from a card game to the Monty Hall problem Franco-Watkins, Ana M., 1968- Psychology 1999 Master of Arts
Organizational dynamics, issue importance, and creativity in problem-solving Palmer, Jennifer Lynn, 1971- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts