Browsing SUNY New Paltz Masters Theses Collection by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Are cognitive processes affected by evolutionary precepts? Iconic memory and mating strategies
(2013)Evolutionary psychologists criticize cognitive psychology for using arbitrary stimuli that ignore presumed evolutionary constraints on cognition. In two experiments, we explored how the Sperling paradigm in iconic memory ... -
The benefits of pet companionship in emerging adults
(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 ... -
Brain MRI landmark identification and detection
(2015-12)Knowledge of the location of anatomical landmarks on the brain is important in neuroimaging. Applications include landmark-based image registration, segmentation of brain structures, electrode placement in deep brain ... -
The caregiver experience : the impact of environmental music therapy in the surgical intensive care unit
(2016-12)This study examines the effects of an Environmental Music Therapy (EMT) protocol on the caregiver experience in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU). For the purpose of this study, EMT may be understood as a music therapy ... -
The cognitive effort of lying
(2015-07)Being able to directly measure if an individual is lying or not can have many advantages. The current study set out to determine if there were differences in cognitive effort when lying and telling the truth. Participants ... -
A collaborative autoethnographic exploration of experiences of three international music therapy interns during their clinical training
(2016-04)There has been little written about the experiences and concerns of music therapy students during their clinical training. Even more scarce are studies examining the experiences and concerns of international music therapy ... -
A comparison of mainstream and evolutionarily informed physical fitness
(2014-05)This study aimed to explore the health and fitness activities, perceptions, expectations, motivations, and outcomes of Gold’s Gym members (representative of a mainstream gym experience) and CrossFit members (representative ... -
Conceptualizing and defining romantic love
(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 ... -
Creating a mesh sensor network using Raspberry Pi and XBee radio modules
(2017-05)A mesh network is a type of network topology in which one or more nodes are capable of relaying data within the network. The data is relayed by the router nodes, which send the messages via one or more 'hops' until it ... -
Cross-language neighborhood density effects in early and late bilingual word recognition
(2015)A central debate in research involving bilinguals is related to how the languages possessed by bilinguals interact while orthographic processing of one language occurs. Past research suggests that there is influence from ... -
Current trends in music therapy and pain management
(2017-12)The purpose of this study is to examine music therapy (MT) as it is currently used in the treatment of individuals who are coping with pain. A 36-question survey, offering both multiple choice and short answer questions, ... -
Deception-detection and trust as major elements of mating-relevant behavior
(2014-05)From an evolutionary perspective, there is nothing more important than mating and reproductive success. According to modern evolutionary psychology, humans have evolved various adaptive mating-related traits, which include ... -
Does female promiscuity increase religious beliefs? testing the male control theory versus the female control theory
(2017-07)Most psychological articles examining religion treat this construct as either an independent or controlled variable. Few studies have addressed the possibility that religiosity may shift as a function of environmental cues ... -
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 ... -
Edge detection using parallel ant colony optimization with Hadoop MapReduce: implementation and scalability
(2017-05)The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a popular optimization algorithm that finds use in multiple application areas. Though not among the common uses of this algorithm, edge detection in image analysis is a very functional ... -
The effect of a values affirmation intervention on perceived threat of genetically modified organisms
(2017-09)By self-affirming core values, individuals appear to be able to assess threatening information more objectively and less defensively (Cohen et al., 2000; Correll, 2000; Steele & Liu, 1983). In spite of a scientific consensus ...
