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Spritiuality as a coping mechanism for African-American college students facing bereavement

Lewis, Nigel (2007-01-18)

Research indicates that many African Americans rely on spirituality more than psychotherapy to deal with traumatic life experiences such as bereavement. This review explores the psychotherapeutic benefits of spirituality ...

The effects of family patterns on social anxiety and differentiation in emerging adulthood

Colucci, Janine (2007-01-18)

This research examined the relationships between family patterns, differentiation, and social anxiety. Cohesive, conflictive, and expressive patterns of family interaction were examined within a sample of 98 undergraduate ...

Proto-Absurdist strides and leanings: Alfred Jarry’s Shakespearean spirit in Ubu Roi

Mittenberg, Corey (2007-04-04)

Although it is generally accepted that Alfred Jarry’s influential 1896 play, Ubu Roi, was revolutionary for its language, innovative staging, and use of black comedy, little has been written to analyze the work’s many ...

Judgements of cross-sex infidelity responses as a component of mating intelligence

Johnson, John D. (2007-04-26)

Mating Intelligence (MI; (Geher, 2005) is operationally defined as the ability to correctly guess the mating relevant thoughts of mates or potential mates. This study focuses on one specific aspect of MI, known as infidelity ...

Gender differences in intelligence theory, achievement, motivation, and attributional style: effects on choice of science, math, and technology careers

Froehlich, Sharon Walling (2007-09-11)

This study explores potential reasons for why more females become math avoidant than males during middle and high school and tend to skip all but the most necessary math classes in college, leading to a dearth of women who ...

Influence of career self-efficacy beliefes on career exploration behavior

Nasta, Kristen A. (2007-09-11)

The study involved 211 female and 47 male (259 total) college students from the State University of New York at New Paltz general population. All data were collected online. It was hypothesized that the sources of career ...

The effects of stereotypical communication on the perception of leadership behavior for male and female leaders

Willis, Toni L. (2007-09-25)

The goal of the present study was to investigate how affiliative and agentic styles of communication affect the perception of leadership behavior (initiating structure and consideration) for male and female leaders. One ...

Hypothesized fitness indicators and mating success

Camargo, Michael A. (2007-09-25)

This study will attempt to create a valid measure of mating success (a proxy for reproductive success), which focuses on the quality of a person’s most recent long-term and short-term sexual relationship from an evolutionary ...

Mating Intelligence, Machiavellianism, and Self-Monitoring as Predictors of the

Diffenderfer, Jason (2007-10-02)

Miller (2000) and Buss (2004) suggest that the human mind has evolved its complex qualities to make beneficial mating decisions for the individual and, more generally, to attract and retain mates. According to Miller ...

Preschoolers' attachment to grandparent caregivers

Filangeri-Parashar, Jessica (2008-03-28)

Currently, there are over 2.4 million children in the United States living in the custodial care of their grandparents. Grandparents as caregivers and the problems their grandchildren face have received little attention ...

Perceptions of People Who Use Non-Heterosexist Language by People of Different Sexual Orientations

Reisner, Michael (2008-04-02)

One hundred fifty participants who self-identified as heterosexual and 152 participants who self-identified as queer were asked to read a vignette containing a character who used either heterosexist or non-heterosexist ...

Conceptualizing and defining romantic love

Krass, Justin K. (2008-04-09)

Two studies investigated how individuals conceptualize romantic love using the Love Word Conceptualization Survey to examine how strongly 119 emotions, behaviors, and attitudes were associated with romantic love. Study 1 ...

Generational differences in work life balance attitudes

Parker, Catherine C. (2008-05-13)

A study was conducted with 543 SUNY New Paltz alumni representing three generations to determine if there were generational differences in attitudes about work life balance. A paper and pencil survey was mailed to 3000 ...

A personal construct psychology perspective on sexual identity

Morano, Laurie Ann (2008-05-13)

This paper examines four of the most widely known homosexual identity development models, as well as some of the literature that explores sexual identity as a fluid process. The suggestion is made that sexual identity can ...

The Effect of Music Therapy Techniques in a Coping Skills Group for Individuals with a Dual Diagnosis of Mental Illness and Substance Dependence

Davis, Adrienne (2010-03-18)

The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of the use of music versus non-music treatment conditions in a coping skills therapy group with individuals who are dually-diagnosed with a mental illness and substance-related ...

Pervasive Developmental Disorders: A Golden Section Study

Davison, Mitzie (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

Stillwell, Monica (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

Purcell, Jessica (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?

Harasym, Melanie T. (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

Widrick, Rebekah M. (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 ...

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