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(Kaiqi Zhang)<\/p>\n<p>Dissertation Project: &#8220;Measurement invariance of cognitive measures between united states and chilean older adults.&#8221; (Nicole McClure)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current\u00a0Research Projects of MPACT Lab\u00a0Graduate Students (from UCF Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program): Master&#8217;s Thesis Project: &#8220;Existential nihilism and negative symptoms: Associations with motivational and social disengagement in a nonclinical sample.&#8221; (Lauren Jennings) Master&#8217;s Thesis Project: &#8220;The relationship between nightmare severity, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/current-independent-research-projects-of-graduate-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Current Independent Research Projects of Graduate Students - Mood, Personality, and CogniTion (MPACT) Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/psychology\/mpact\/current-independent-research-projects-of-graduate-students\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Current Independent Research Projects of Graduate Students - Mood, Personality, and CogniTion (MPACT) Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Current\u00a0Research Projects of MPACT Lab\u00a0Graduate Students (from UCF Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program): Master&#8217;s Thesis Project: &#8220;Existential nihilism and negative symptoms: Associations with motivational and social disengagement in a nonclinical sample.&#8221; 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