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Pervasive Developmental Disorders: A Golden Section Study
(2010-03-18)Objectives. Pervasive developmental disability theories are combined with golden section research in an effort to understand how people organize and process interpersonal/social information. In order to comprehend theories ... -
No Influence of Articulatory Suppression on the Word and Pseudoword Superiority Effects
(2010-03-18)In this study, we explored the role of phonological recoding in word and pseudoword superiority effects, previously characterized as pure orthographic effects. Participants were asked to identify letters embedded in briefly ... -
Ambiguous Loss: A Critical Review of Current Research
(2010-03-18)This paper reviews past and current literature pertaining to Ambiguous Loss (AL), provides critique of current research, outlines possible directions for future research, and evaluates the most effective practices for ... -
The Golden Section and Attitudes Towards Mental Illness: How does Stigma Influence Golden Section Ratings?
(2010-03-18)Studies have shown that when people are asked to make judgments about others using a list of bipolar adjective pairs, they consistently produce ratings that are approximately 62% positive and 38% negative. The precise ... -
Age-Related Stigma and the Golden Section Hypothesis
(2010-03-18)The present study used the golden section hypothesis to examine age-related identities. The golden section hypothesis predicts that people will organize incoming information in a ratio-type pattern. When rating phenomena ... -
Exploring The Relationship Between Oral and Orthographic Skills in Deaf Individuals
(2010-03-18)This study examines the relationship between speech production skills and orthographic skills in deaf readers using behavioral indices of word form processing. The Reicher- Wheeler forced-choiced paradigm was used to ... -
Self-Promotion and Gender in the Work Place
(2010-03-18)Gender role attitudes are blamed for problems women have self-promoting in the workplace. This study examines the differences in the perceptions between men and women on self-promotion. It was expected that men would find ... -
Effects of Geographical Upbringing and Intergroup Contact on Racial Attitudes
(2010-03-18)The repercussions of racism can range from ignorance and neglect to injury and even death. Ways to decrease attitudes of racism have been debated for centuries, resulting in various theories. The contact hypothesis, a ... -
The Influence of Body Art on Personnel Selection
(2010-03-18)Previous research on physical appearance and personnel selection suggests physical appearance significantly affects hiring decisions. With individuals dramatically changing their physical appearance with body art, such ... -
Does Self-Compassion affect Stress? Testing a Decreased Vulnerability Hypothesis
(2010-07-28)Self-compassion is a trait newly developed by Neff (2003a, 2003b, 2004) that is comprised of self-kindness, perceptions of common humanity, and mindfulness, which uniquely captures affective tranquility and the ability ... -
A Quantitative Study of Nonstructural Carbodyrates in Eastern Hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, and the effects of hemlock woolly adelgid, adelgis tsugae, and elongate hemlock scale, florinia externa ferris, infestation
(2010-07-28)Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC), starch and sugars, in eastern hemlock infested and not infested with hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) and elongate hemlock scale (EHS) were analyzed. The use of microwave dried and Wiley ... -
2011 Student Research Symposium (SRS) Abstract Book
(2011)The Student Research Symposium is an event for the presentation and recognition of student scholarship (both graduate and undergraduate). Students with any major in the university, in any college or school of the university, ... -
Using the IPSQ-Sort to Examine Identity Style of Mandarin speaking Adolescents
(2011-08-16)Berzonsky (1992) described three identity processing styles (informational, normative, and diffuse/avoidant) which people use to manage identity challenges. Different people can utilize different styles to deal with ... -
Heterosexual male’s attitudes and experiences of help seeking for dating violence
(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
(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 ... -
Navigating Cultures: Immigrant Mothers’ Parenting Beliefs
(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
(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 ... -
Variability in mating strategies: do individual differences in dispositional traits predict sexual preferences?
(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 ... -
Need for cognition, need for affect and their relationship to hypnotic susceptibility
(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 ... -
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
(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 ...
