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Description:: Obesity is a multifactorial disease reflecting the interplay of biological and social factors. Lower socioeconomic status (SES), food insecurity, and poor sleep quality are risks factors for obesity; yet, our understanding of the physiological mechanisms behind overweightness is limited. Leptin, a hormone which modulates hunger, could be a potential mechanism...
Keyword:: poverty, sleep quality, global health, obesity, leptin, and socioeconomic status
Creator:: William Leonard, Aaron Miller, and Khaqan Ahmad
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/08/2020
Date Modified:: 07/23/2020
Date Created:: 2020-04-21
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding

Description:: Prejudice based on a person’s low socioeconomic status (SES) has been largely understudied in social psychology. In my dissertation research, I argue that understanding a perceiver’s mental model of SES is crucial to explaining anti-poor prejudice. I borrow from work in anthropology to characterize two main mental models of SES—ascribed...
Keyword:: attitudes, socioeconomic status, motivation, prejudice, and mental representation
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Ryan Lei Fleming
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/16/2018
Date Modified:: 10/19/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Studies on consolidated democracies have long concluded that there is a positive relationship between socioeconomic status and turnout. The strength of the empirical findings that linked electoral participation to socioeconomic variables elevated this correlation to a law-like principle and made it possible to assume that this electoral behavior would prevail...
Keyword:: socioeconomic status, USA, Mexico, Elections, and turnout
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Irina Natalia Alberro
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/27/2018
Date Modified:: 06/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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