• Mise-en-scène : MFA Thesis - Painting and Drawing 

  Coté, Amy (2014-02-27)

  My work is an amalgam of personal experience, imagined narratives and a subconscious response to the infinite, available currents of information and imagery present in our world today. It celebrates color, humor and the absurd.
• Untangling the complexities of female sexuality: a mixed approach 

  Carmen, Rachael A. (2014-01-28)

  Human sexuality is fascinating. Though it is such an integral part of our everyday lives, our understanding is lacking (to say the least)--especially when it comes to female sexuality. "Human" sexuality has been studied ...
• Recall disruption produced by noise-vocoded speech: a study of the irrelevant sound effect 

  Dorsi, Josh (2013-11-11)

  The Irrelevant Sound Effect (ISE) is the finding that serial recall performance is impaired under complex auditory backgrounds such as speech as compared to white noise or silence (Colle & Welsh, 1976). Much of the current ...
• "Revolting Behavior" Conference papers: Finding Aid, Press Release 

  Sojourner Truth Library (2013-08-15)

  Local finding aid for papers related to the SUNY NP Women's Studies Program conference titled "Revolting Behavior" held November 1, 1997 on the New Paltz Campus. Materials cataloged include planning minutes, correspondence, ...
• Women on hormonal contraception: a behavioral biopsychosocial perspective 

  Newmark, Rebecca L. (2013-06-28)

  Normally cycling females experience natural cyclic shifts in their physical appearance and in various psychological traits (Haselton & Gildersleeve, 2011; Alvergne & Lummaa, 2009). When women use hormonal contraception ...
• Factors influencing parental investment : does parental financial allocation vary as a function of perceived child sexual orientation? 

  Trouton, Grant Thomas (2013-06-26)

  An evolutionary perspective on parental investment suggests that natural selection might have favored mechanisms by which parents can evaluate the likelihood of a given offspring’s chances of successful reproduction. ...
• Implicit attitudes towards sexually and reproductively relevant stimuli : do female attitudes vary based on sexual orientation, conception-risk, and hormonal contraceptive use? 

  Guitar, Amanda E. (2013-06-26)

  Previous research has suggested that females at high fertility may be more sensitive to cues of sexual-relevance as opposed to reproductive-relevance. The current study examined this issue by having females of varying ...
• Patterns of past and present body esteem: do they matter? 

  Fish, Jennaleigh (2013-06-25)

  The present study examined the relationship between patterns of perceptions of body image/esteem (past and present) and sexual behavior in young women during emerging adulthood. One hundred and forty-eight participants ...
• Is he the one?: courtship as a mechanism to predict male long-term commitment 

  Freuman, Ari (2013-02-15)

  Human courtship is a process whereby one tries to seek the affections of another, usually with the intent of marriage (Merriam-Webster, 2012). In modern society, courtship appears to be a universal precursor to marriage: ...
• Look @ me 2.0: self-sexualization in Facebook photographs, self-objectification, and body image 

  Ruckel, Lindsay M. (2013-02-04)

  Growing attention has been paid to examining people’s self-presentation on Social Networking Sites (SNSs). To date, one study has explored the extent to which women present themselves in a sexualized way in their profile ...
• Moderating effects of situational and interpersonal variables on perceived overqualification and job crafting relationships 

  Rokitowski, Leigh (2012-09-20)

  The present study addresses an aspect of perceived overqualification, or the belief of being employed in a position for which one possesses excess education, work experience or knowledge, skills and abilities relative to ...
• Factor structure of OCD: toward an evolutionary neuro-cognitive model of obsessive-compulsive disorder 

  Glass, Daniel (2012-06-28)

  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a disorder characterized by its clinical heterogeneity, but also a commonality of symptom clusters that are known as “symptom dimensions.” Previous research among clinical samples ...
• The benefits of pet companionship in emerging adults 

  DeMarco, Leighann (2012-06-28)

  The present study examines the benefits associated with pet companionship in emerging adults. Past research suggests that pet companionship can have many positive impacts on individuals’ lives; however, little research ...
• Need for cognition, need for affect and their relationship to hypnotic susceptibility 

  Salerno, Michael (2012-02-27)

  Previous research on hypnosis has revealed that imaginative involvements, absorption, and fantasy proneness predicted hypnotic susceptibility. Attempts at examining personality correlates of hypnotic susceptibility have ...
• Variability in mating strategies: do individual differences in dispositional traits predict sexual preferences? 

  Peterson, Ashley (2012-02-27)

  Prior research by evolutionary psychologists has examined dispositional predictors, such as personality, sociosexuality, life history, and attachment style, in relation to mating, yet only one study has examined how these ...
• An Evolutionary Analysis of Partner Perceptions within Mateships: The Beauty and the Beast Effect, the Role of Trait Factors, and the Nature of Mate Settling 

  Dillon, Haley Moss (2012-02-27)

  Evolutionary psychology brings new interest and excitement to old topics. The study of human mating systems has always been on the academic landscape, but evolutionary theory has recently revived the study of mating ...
• Navigating Cultures: Immigrant Mothers’ Parenting Beliefs 

  Mangione, Heather (2011-09-12)

  Parenting beliefs of immigrant mothers typically emerge from their culture of origin; each woman negotiates the new challenges that are presented in parenting their “American” children through her own cultural lens ...
• Lesbian and Bisexual Identity in Multiple Ecological Contexts 

  Belmonte, Kimberly (2011-09-12)

  Although sexual minority individuals are embedded in a series of complex systems—legal, political, cultural, and institutional—little is known about how these diverse contexts affect sexual identity and well-being. Using ...
• Heterosexual male’s attitudes and experiences of help seeking for dating violence 

  Chitkara, Anjuli (2011-08-31)

  The present study sought to understand the degree to which conformity to masculine norms influenced heterosexual males (a) attitudes towards psychological help seeking in general, (b) attitudes towards physical common ...
• Adjustment Challenges for East Asian International Students 

  Wang, Mian (2011-08-31)

  The process of adjusting to a new cultural environment is often considered to be quite stressful. International students of East Asian backgrounds sometimes experience even greater adjustment challenges (e.g., language ...

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