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
Misperception of romantic and sexual interests Koenig, Bryan L., 1975- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
The effect of harmonic and inharmonic frequency components on the perception of loudness and annoyance in complex sounds Carroll, Ann Berenson, 1930- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
Thoughfulness and psychological well-being Tyree, Seth D., 1976- Psychology 2003 Master of Arts
Individual differences in three types of motive congruence : normative, configural and temporal Martin, Chris Clement, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Development of a scale to predict patterns of cognitive appraisal of stress Schmaltz, Eileen A., 1949- Psychology 1973 Master of Arts
Alexithymia as related to the use of language and symptom reporting Boutemy, Gabrielle C., 1962- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Effects of pre-conception parental stress on sex ratio in rat litters Parent, Pamela L., 1950- Psychology 1977 Master of Arts
Relationships among skin conductance activity, averaged evoked potential amplitude, and behavior in chronic schizophrenia Powell, C. Michael, 1951- Psychology 1977 Master of Arts
An evolutionary-psychological interpretation of self-esteem Glenn, Jeffrey Edward, 1973- Psychology 1998 Master of Arts
The 2008 election : prior belief strength, cognitive dissonance, and voter reactions Lair, Elicia Chelsey. Psychology 2010 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
Theory of mind impairment and schizotypy Meyer, Joseph Francis, 1980- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
Suppression of the galvanic skin response by cognitively mediated behavior Hughes, William Gresby, 1942- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
Catalogue of interventions for systemic family therapy assessment Tafuri, Sydney Marissa, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
Classical conditioning of a phase-shift response in tau-mutant golden hamsters Bockweg, Sarah Allyn. Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Trait and state determinants of preference for abstract art Brady, Tara, 1976- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Individual differences in cognitive representations of social environments Austin, Joy Lyn, 1966- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Comparing relationships : Same-sex friendships, cross-sex friendships, and Romantic love Bilbro, Kathryn Gray, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
The influence of similarity to an actor on an observer's attributions for negative behaviors Gudleski, Gregory Daniel, 1967- Psychology 1998 Master of Arts
The chills as a psychological response : affective composition, trait antecedents, and factor structure Maruskin, Laura Anne. Psychology 2010 Master of Arts
Interpersonal behavior in borderline personality Ryan, Kimberly Ann, 1975- Psychology 2005 Master of Arts
The combined effects of d-amphetamine sulfate and bilateral lesions of the medial hypothalamus on food and water deprived rats Reynolds, Edward Vicar, 1946- Psychology 1970 Master of Arts
College students' implicit attentional and affective responses to alcohol cues Young, Chelsie Marie, Psychology 2013 Master of Arts
The predictive value of emotional intelligence : using emotional intelligence to predict success in and satisfaction with romantic and friendship relationships and career Colburn, Andrea Adams, 1973- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Getting back to one's roots : a study of the self-discrepancies prevalent in the propensity to view the self as an object in the eyes of others Calogero, Rachel Marie, 1976- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Relationship schemas : knowledge of risks, benefits, and schema complexity Guerrero, Rosalie Belle, 1975- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Cognitive developmental differences in source monitoring Cimini, Katharine L., 1944- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Romantic relationship schema complexity Preacher, Kristopher J., 1974- Psychology 1998 Master of Arts
Environmental hypocrisy-- or environmental quota? Sadza, Peter Bernard. Psychology 2010 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
Neuropsychological correlates of syndromes of schizophrenia Eckman, Preston Scott, 1972- Psychology 1997 Master of Arts
Resource-allocation behavior when payoff is not equal Nolan, Eric C., 1975- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
Coercive behavior's effects on identity formation Savastano, Lisa A., 1968- Psychology 1992 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
An adaptationist perspective on humor : humor and mate selection Haselton, Martie Gail, 1970- Psychology 1997 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
Humor appreciation and the right hemisphere Waller, Melissa Beth, 1968- Psychology 1992 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
Investigating scale errors : independent systems of object representation or simple motor priming Brito, Natalie Hiromi, 1983- Psychology 2008 Master of Arts
Interpretation of nonverbal communication by individuals exhibiting schizotypal traits Puccini, Cecilia, 1964- Psychology 1991 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
Personality qualities associated with visual image preference and creativity Stemme, Marlene H., 1975- Psychology 2000 Master of Arts
HIV status and perceptions of people living with AIDS Weber, Molly Allison, 1968- Psychology 1992 Master of Arts
Cortical signal modulation with mental practice Cole, Whitney Graham, 1984- Psychology 2008 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
Factors influencing the accessibility of the HIV/AIDS schema Washington, Tracee, 1974- Psychology 1999 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
Spontaneous categorization : assessment of implicit stereotype content awareness Gyurovski, Ivo Ivanov. Psychology 2011 Master of Arts
The effects of high versus low imagery humor on spatial and verbal problem solving Belanger, Heather Gail, 1969- Psychology 1994 Master of Arts
Physiological responding in anhedonic and perceptually aberrant college students Stauffer, Kathryn Elizabeth, 1966- Psychology 1991 Master of Arts