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- Dynamic decision-making is a complex process that relies on our ability to generate, evaluate and implement a variety of strategies. Understanding how people navigate this process is a difficult problem that requires a wide range of methodologies. This study details a combination of behavioral experiments, computational modeling, and neuroimaging that...
- Keyword:
- Memory Systems, Decision Making, Computational Neuroscience, Learning, Cognitive Modeling, and Category Learning
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Reuveni, Ben
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15045 and etdadmin_upload_732002
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- Description:
- Interactions between working memory and long term memory systems are still not well understood, as the systems have long been thought to be mostly separate. An interesting intersection of these memory systems is domain-specific expertise, whereby individuals are able to show supra-span memory for information related to the area of...
- Keyword:
- Domain-specific expertise, Long term memory, Working memory, and Expertise
- Subject:
- Psychology and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Gigler, Kathryn Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_743356 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15112
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the relationship between melancholy and the development of American and Iranian literary discourses as responses to the crisis of postwar sovereignty. While situating itself against the complicated backdrop of US/Iran relations since the Second World War, it explores the impact of religion on the formation of political...
- Keyword:
- melancholy, paranoia, guilt, narration, Sovereignty, and politics
- Subject:
- Literature, Psychology, and Political science
- Creator:
- Mohammadi, Marjan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_731789 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15044
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- Description:
- Agency is a broad orientation aimed to advance the self and one’s own abilities, whereas communion is a broad orientation aimed to interact with others and connect to people in a larger social context. In Chapter 1, I introduce a new framework to conceptualize the constructs of agency and communion....
- Keyword:
- gift giving, agency, communion, pessimism, and optimism
- Subject:
- Behavioral sciences, Social psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Cannon, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15050 and etdadmin_upload_733191
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- Description:
- The groups that we identify with help to make us who we are. This dissertation investigates the impact of the way that each of us understands those identities, through the newly introduced construct of collective self-concept clarity (Gardner & Garr-Schultz, 2017). Two aspects of collective self-concept clarity are introduced and...
- Keyword:
- intragroup motivation, collective self-concept clarity, authenticity, intergroup bias, well-being, and identity
- Subject:
- Social psychology and Psychology
- Creator:
- Garr-Schultz, Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15100 and etdadmin_upload_742713
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates two ways in which personality psychology should move beyond the traditional approach of measuring personality with broad domains composed of trait descriptors, as exemplified by the Big Five taxonomy. The first study (Chapter 2) suggests an alternative to the traditional approach of aggregating personality items into domains....
- Keyword:
- Statistical learning, Behavioral frequency, Behavior, Nuance, Personality, and BISCUIT
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Elleman, Lorien Grey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15260 and etdadmin_upload_764195
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- Description:
- Orienting attention enables us to select, process, and react to relevant objects in complex environments. Just as we can orient attention in space and to certain object features, recent research has shown that we can also orient attention in time (temporal orienting). This dissertation investigates the mechanisms and the effects...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Menceloglu, Melisa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_750298 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15167
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- Description:
- Exposure to violence, which includes child abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic or community violence, crime, and sexual assault, is a national concern. Over the course of a year, 68% of children under age 17 are exposed to at least one form of violence (Finkelhor, Turner, Shattuck, & Hamby, 2015). Young children...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Hosoda, Tamaki
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_717876 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14987
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- Description:
- Interpersonal hierarchies are one of the most fundamental structures by which human interactions are organized (Yu & Kilduff, 2019), and dual-strategies theory suggests that humans navigate these hierarchies through the use of dominance (force and coercion) or prestige (display of valued traits to gain respect; Maner & Case, 2016). In...
- Keyword:
- Status, Hierarchy, Power, Prestige, and Dominance
- Subject:
- Management and Psychology
- Creator:
- McClanahan, Kaylene
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15279 and etdadmin_upload_764705
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- Description:
- Difficulties in prosody (e.g., intonation, volume, rate), turn-taking, and overly formal speech constitute common social communication deficits in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which can significantly hinder social interactions (Paul et al., 2009). Subtle parallel differences in social communication have also been noted in parents of individuals with ASD, suggesting that...
- Keyword:
- broad autism phenotype, autism spectrum disorder, prosody, verbal entrainment, alignment, and neural entrainment
- Subject:
- Speech therapy, Clinical psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Patel, Shivani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15123 and etdadmin_upload_743898
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- Description:
- People need to feel authentic at work, but authenticity is not always a priority in organizations. This dissertation shows feeling authentic is essential to feeling human. Chapter 1 provides an overview of research on authenticity and self-dehumanization, describing why feeling inauthentic leads to self-dehumanization. Chapter 1 empirically supports the association...
- Keyword:
- self-dehumanization, social connection, burnout, authenticity, and autonomy
- Subject:
- Management and Psychology
- Creator:
- Dobson, Kyle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_747613 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15155
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- Description:
- The study of employee engagement and its consequences in the workplace has gained traction in the business world over the past decade, with dramatic claims of the direct consequences of engagement including lower absenteeism, higher sales, improved productivity, and increased profitability for organizations that are more engaged (The Gallup Organization,...
- Keyword:
- Employee Engagement, Personality, Workplace Engagement, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Personality psychology and Psychology
- Creator:
- Hall, Andrew N
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15380 and etdadmin_upload_779877
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- Description:
- Speech recognition in complex acoustic environments is dependent on myriad bottom-up (i.e., peripheral) and top-down (i.e., central) processes. While bottom-up processes remain fairly stable during childhood, the development of top-down processes persists into young adulthood. The immaturity of top-down processes places younger children at considerable risk for poorer speech recognition...
- Keyword:
- Selective Attention, Speech Recognition, Hearing Loss, and Children
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Audiology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Ward, Kristina M.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15217 and etdadmin_upload_761232
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- Description:
- Background. Rates of common bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at an all-timereported high in the United States, while rates of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are declining. Among HIV-negative men and transgender women who have sex with men, whom are theoretically at risk for both HIV and bacterial...
- Keyword:
- sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, men who have sex with men (MSM), social cognitive theory, transgender women, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, and structural equation modeling
- Subject:
- Behavioral sciences, Psychology, and Public health
- Creator:
- Fleming, John Barnard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_791656 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15444
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- Description:
- Stories and fantasy represent an important aspect of consumer life and comprise a huge marketing enterprise within consumer entertainment. Each year, upwards of $82 billion is spent on books, games, and other fantasy industries in the United States alone. Likewise, fantasy has important implications for consumers’ sense of identity. In...
- Keyword:
- Similarity, Fantasy, Self, Motivation, Villains, and Stories
- Subject:
- Marketing and Psychology
- Creator:
- Krause-Galoni, Rebecca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15499 and etdadmin_upload_801395
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- Description:
- Stories and fantasy represent an important aspect of consumer life and comprise a huge marketing enterprise within consumer entertainment. Each year, upwards of $82 billion is spent on books, games, and other fantasy industries in the United States alone. Likewise, fantasy has important implications for consumers’ sense of identity. In...
- Keyword:
- Similarity, Fantasy, Self, Motivation, Villains, and Stories
- Subject:
- Marketing and Psychology
- Creator:
- Krause-Galoni, Rebecca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15499 and etdadmin_upload_801395
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines caregiving contexts in early childhood. Specifically, I look at how caregiving contexts are related to or influenced by other caregiving contexts and broader social contexts. The dissertation is composed of an introductory chapter that provides a theoretical overview and summary of the dissertation followed by two additional...
- Keyword:
- parent, teacher, home, child development, neighborhood, and violence
- Subject:
- Early childhood education and Psychology
- Creator:
- Busby, Andrea Kinghorn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15588 and etdadmin_upload_819838
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- Description:
- Health literacy has been shown to be a key component of patient understanding of medical diagnoses, adherence, and self-efficacy. Limited health literacy has been associated with a number of negative outcomes— including more severe illness, increased use of emergency services, and mortality. The concept of mental health literacy has arisen...
- Keyword:
- rumination, health literacy, and depression
- Subject:
- Health education, Clinical psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Slesinger, Noel C
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_833405 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15649
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- Description:
- Competitive gaming, or esports, is a high-skill endeavor embedded in a highly gendered social context. Using multiple methodological approaches, this dissertation argues that gender-gaming inequality is a result of changeable stereotypes that impact women throughout their lives. Specifically, gender-gaming stereotypes limit women’s initial access to gaming, discourage their continued interest...
- Keyword:
- video games, learning, esports, expertise, stereotypes, and performance
- Subject:
- Social psychology and Psychology
- Creator:
- Nolla, Kyle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844861 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15748
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- Description:
- We structure our lives around social groups – belonging to them and thinking about them. In this dissertation, I develop a new stereotype content measure to assess the attributes associated with groups in America today, propose and support a theory of sociocultural essentialism, and explore the strategic activation of sociocultural...
- Keyword:
- Entitativity, Common Fate, Social Groups, Stereotype Content, Marginalization, and Essentialism
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Gallagher, Natalie McDaniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15722 and etdadmin_upload_843660