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- Sexual orientation is conventionally understood as relative attraction to men versus women. It has recently been argued that male sexual orientation in particular can be extended to include other dimensions of sexual attraction besides gender, such as sexual maturity and location. With respect to the dimension of location, most men...
- Keyword:
- sexual orientation, adult baby/diaper lovers, paraphilias, eunuchs, furries, and erotic target identity inversions
- Subject:
- Sexuality, Clinical psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Hsu, Kevin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14573 and etdadmin_upload_658199
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- Introduction: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of gut-brain interaction associated with reduced quality of life, increased rates of depression and anxiety, and high economic burden to society and the individual. Current behavioral interventions, which target well-known symptom exacerbating factors such as catastrophizing and gastrointestinal- specific anxiety, have demonstrated...
- Keyword:
- health psychology, IBS, psychological flexibility, gastrointestinal disorders, Irritable bowel syndrome, and cognitive flexibility
- Subject:
- Health sciences and Psychology
- Creator:
- Bedell, Alyse R
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_666937 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14699
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- Description:
- Selective attention enables people to focus on a small number of objects, features, or events with good resolution. Sometimes attention may also be less selective and distributed across numerous items, which allows more information to be processed at a lower resolution. The degree to which attention is more or less...
- Keyword:
- creativity, attention, insight problem solving, analytic problem solving, and problem solving
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ng, Tiffani
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14815 and etdadmin_upload_685804
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- Description:
- 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, Category Learning, and Cognitive Modeling
- 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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- The concealed information test (CIT) has garnered more empirical support than other methods of recognition detection and has a firm theoretical foundation. Because it occurs involuntarily, even when recognition is denied, P300 amplitude is a robust indictor of concealed information. Although the P300-based CIT shows great promise for field use,...
- Keyword:
- retroactive interference, concealed information test, complex trial protocol, bootstrapping, and P300-based concealed information test
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ward, Anne Cable
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_619142 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14417
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- Young children can sometimes acquire new vocabulary words—even property terms—through indirect learning (e.g. Carey & Bartlett, 1978). We explore two factors that contribute to this ability—perceptual alignment and linguistic contrast. We propose that spontaneous comparison processes lead children to notice key commonalities and differences that facilitate indirect property word learning....
- Keyword:
- alignment, property words, linguistic contrast, and indirect word learning
- Subject:
- Developmental psychology, Cognitive psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Shao, Ruxue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14711 and etdadmin_upload_668558
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- 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:
- Clinical psychology, Health education, 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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- 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:
- Expertise, Working memory, Long term memory, and Domain-specific 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:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15112 and etdadmin_upload_743356
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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:
- Machine Learning, Workplace Engagement, Personality, and Employee Engagement
- Subject:
- Psychology and Personality 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:
- etdadmin_upload_779877 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15380
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- Description:
- Rhythmic fluctuations of electrical activity in the brain provide insights into the proposed mechanism by which we encode experiences and then maintain, forget, modify, and retrieve them. Yet there is still much to learn about how neural oscillations relate to memory function. The purpose of this research is to discover...
- Keyword:
- Reactivation, EEG, Consolidation, Sleep, Memory, and Oscillation
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Creery, Jessica Danielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14395 and etdadmin_upload_615973
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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:
- neighborhood, violence, child development, home, parent, and teacher
- 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:
- etdadmin_upload_819838 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15588
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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:
- Hearing Loss, Children, Selective Attention, and Speech Recognition
- 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:
- 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:
- Prestige, Power, Status, Hierarchy, 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:
- etdadmin_upload_764705 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15279
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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:
- Motivation, Fantasy, Stories, Villains, Self, and Similarity
- 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:
- A greater number of strategies in one’s coping repertoire (i.e., the number of diverse strategies used across stressors or use habitually across several situations) may be beneficial and a precursor to coping flexibly across situations (Bonnano & Burton, 2013). Indeed, previous studies have demonstrated a benefit of having larger number...
- Keyword:
- coping and well-being
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Bastarache, Emily Diane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_855481 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15815
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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:
- Behavioral frequency, Personality, Behavior, BISCUIT, Nuance, and Statistical learning
- 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:
- Women living with human immunodeficiency virus (WLWH) have unique health challenges. Understanding psychological strengths that help WLWH manage their disease and improve health outcomes could reduce disease burden. Although spirituality, a multidimensional construct that includes a search for meaning and purpose, connection with a higher dimension, and experiences and feelings...
- Keyword:
- program development, HIV, women's health, spirituality, biopsychology, and positive affect
- Subject:
- Social psychology, Health sciences, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Bassett, Sarah Margaret Ray
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14769 and etdadmin_upload_679594
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- Description:
- How do people make meaning of risk-taking? The present dissertation proposes a normative lay theory of risk-taking. The proposed model promotes the following core ideas: (a) Risk-taking is generally an ambiguous construct and requires the illumination of at least some dimensional parameters to disambiguate the risk behavior and risk-taker; (b)...
- Keyword:
- risk-taking, perceptions, reckless, lay theory, attitudes, and responsible
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Social psychology, and Psychology
- Creator:
- Wages, James Ellis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_845373 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15769
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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, performance, expertise, learning, stereotypes, and esports
- 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:
- 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:
- social cognitive theory, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, structural equation modeling, transgender women, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, and men who have sex with men (MSM)
- Subject:
- Public health, Psychology, and Behavioral sciences
- 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:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15444 and etdadmin_upload_791656
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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:
- Marginalization, Essentialism, Common Fate, Entitativity, Social Groups, and Stereotype Content
- 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:
- etdadmin_upload_843660 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15722
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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:
- 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:
- optimism, gift giving, communion, agency, and pessimism
- Subject:
- Social psychology, Psychology, and Behavioral sciences
- Creator:
- Cannon, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_733191 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15050
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- Description:
- This thesis focuses on the development of a cochlear implant (CI) that uses photons to stimulate surviving auditory neurons in severe-to-profoundly deaf individuals. The benefit of optical over electrical stimulation is its spatial selectivity with the potential to create significantly more independent channels to encode acoustic information and likely enhances...
- Subject:
- Audiology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Xu, Yingyue
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_660188 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14587
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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:
- Motivation, Fantasy, Stories, Villains, Self, and Similarity
- 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:
- Recent studies have begun to examine white matter connectivity aberrations in psychiatric populations, such as major depressive disorder. Several studies have found reduced white matter integrity (WMI) in depressed samples, though the location of this reduction is not clear. Incorporating symptom measures of depression severity and rumination may allow for...
- Keyword:
- women's health, white matter, rumination, and depression
- Subject:
- Clinical psychology, Psychology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Satyshur, Maureen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_676234 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14751
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- Description:
- Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent, recurrent, and major public health problems. Decades of research has uncovered associations between symptom dimensions of anxiety and depression and abnormal neural activation across executive control-, threat-, and reward-related networks. Recent studies have developed a hierarchical symptom structure of anxiety and depression termed the...
- Keyword:
- Anxiety, Reward, Depression, EEG, Threat, and Executive Control
- Subject:
- Psychology, Physiology, and Neurosciences
- Creator:
- Glazer, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903824 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16106
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- Description:
- Integrating the selective reconstruction of the past with an imagined future, narrative identity is a person’s internalized and evolving story of the self, functioning to provide life with some degree of meaning, purpose, and temporal coherence (McAdams & McLean, 2013). Moreover, narrative identity has been found to be associated with...
- Keyword:
- narrative identity and cultural psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Turner, Ariana Ferrara
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16114 and etdadmin_upload_905196
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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:
- guilt, paranoia, narration, Sovereignty, melancholy, and politics
- Subject:
- Psychology, Political science, and Literature
- Creator:
- Mohammadi, Marjan
- 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:15044 and etdadmin_upload_731789
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- Description:
- Individuals experience a wide variety of emotions in their everyday lives. Some experience more variety, or complexity, than others, called emotional complexity. There is a body of research that suggests that emotional complexity is beneficial for mental and physical health; yet more recent work has called these associations into...
- Keyword:
- Aging, Well-being, and Emotional Functioning
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Stephens, Jacquelyn E
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929214 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16263
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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:
- identity, collective self-concept clarity, intragroup motivation, authenticity, well-being, and intergroup bias
- Subject:
- Psychology and Social 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:
- 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, authenticity, autonomy, and burnout
- Subject:
- Psychology and Management
- 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:
- 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:
- autism spectrum disorder, neural entrainment, verbal entrainment, prosody, alignment, and broad autism phenotype
- Subject:
- Psychology, Speech therapy, and Clinical 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:
- Rising social inequality across economic, gender, and racial lines is a pressing issue of our time. Despite widespread agreement that inequality exists, there are stark ideological disagreements about its extent, its victims, and about what – if anything – should be done to address it. Prior work demonstrates that the...
- Keyword:
- interventions, inequality, and ideology
- Subject:
- Psychology and Organizational behavior
- Creator:
- Waldfogel, Hannah Benner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16147 and etdadmin_upload_916195
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- Description:
- People are exposed to inaccurate claims and ideas every day, from sources intended to inform, entertain, or do both. A large body of research has demonstrated that exposure to inaccurate statements, even when conveying obviously false ideas, can affect people’s subsequent judgments. Contemporary accounts suggest that these effects may be...
- Keyword:
- False information, Evaluative mindsets, Evaluation, Social media, and Misinformation
- Subject:
- Psychology and Cognitive psychology
- Creator:
- Salovich, Nikita Antonia
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_919269 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16167
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- Description:
- The overall goal of this dissertation, comprised of three empirical studies, was to examine the role of social support as a source of resilience in the face of two chronic stressors: low socioeconomic status and first-generation college student status. Study 1 of this dissertation sought to examine neighborhood support from...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Austin, Makeda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_923205 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16189
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- Description:
- Much prior research on memory systems has focused on establishing dissociations between different types of memory based on behavior, subjective experience, and the brain: explicit memory depends on the medial temporal lobe and is thought to operate consciously through a relatively slower processing bottleneck, while implicit memory is a term...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Schmidt, Kevin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15980 and etdadmin_upload_890051
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- This dissertation aims to address a gap in the literature regarding the effect of the achievement-focused student identity on prosocial values and behaviors, specifically among students who predominantly value prosociality. Largely, research on identity and motivation addresses academic outcomes and psychological well-being outcomes (Settles, Sellers, & Damas, 2002; Jaret &...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Prosocial Motivations, Academic Motivation, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vida Magarita Manzo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A failure to effectively regulate emotions elicited by a stressful life event contributes to symptoms of psychopathology. This regulatory failure may result from a deficit in executive control. For some individuals, executive control is impaired following stress exposure. Thus, for some individuals, when executive control is needed to regulate emotions...
- Keyword:
- Clinical psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Meghan Quinn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Traditionally, research on perception and sensory systems has considered the senses as independent and modular functions that only converge after sufficient processing in unisensory areas. Recently, however, that view has been called into question with a number of demonstrations of multisensory interactions that may occur as early as primary cortex....
- Keyword:
- Cognitive psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- L. Jacob Zweig
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation presents a program of research on cultural cognition of the natural world, involving long-term research with indigenous Ngöbe partner communities (Panama) and selected comparisons to Western samples (US). In two series of experiments focused on agency concepts, we show that cultural frameworks recruit distinct principles for inferring agency...
- Keyword:
- folk communication, culture, agency concepts, folk psychology, folk ecology, and Indigenous
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Bethany L. Ojalehto
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Affective science has long been interested in the coherence between different emotion response systems (e.g., subjective emotional experience, behavior, physiology). Although evolutionary functionalist accounts of emotion hold that emotional coherence should be related to greater adaptation, few studies have analyzed links between emotional coherence and wellbeing. Thus, in this laboratory-based...
- Keyword:
- physiology, age, Emotional coherence, facial expressions, well-being, and sadness
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Other
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- Description:
- Marital emotional functioning is one of the most important predictors of marital outcomes (e.g., marital satisfaction), which in turn has important consequences for wellbeing and health factors for both spouses and their children. Thus far, negative emotions (e.g., anger) have been the central focus in distinguishing dissatisfied from satisfied couples...
- Keyword:
- duchenne smiles, non-duchenne smiles, positive emotion, and marriage
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katherine K. Bae
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-04-04
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- According to Lisjak, Lee, and Gardner (2012), a threat to a brand can elicit the same response as a threat to the self. The current research examined whether people react differently to brand threats as a function of East Asian versus North American culture and as a function of whether...
- Keyword:
- Culture, East Asian, defense, brand, identification, and self-brand connection
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jiaqi Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-06
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- A survey of adults (n = 706) found low levels of awareness of two social movements aimed at decreasing weight stigma: the Fat Acceptance Movement and Health at Every Size movement. For HAES, providing a brief story of an overweight person who endorses HAES improved perceptions of the movement.
- Keyword:
- weight stigma, anti-fat, stigma, weight, attitudes, and body size
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Vilte Baliutaviciute
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-20
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- Recent work exploring children's verb learning in the laboratory has generated some interesting contradictions. Some studies have found that children as old as 4 years old are unable to reliably map a novel verb to an action (e.g., Kersten & Smith, 2002; Imai, Haryu, & Okada, 2005), even though much...
- Keyword:
- cross-situational learning, verb learning, contrast, language acquisition, and early word learning
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Thomas B Piccin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The representation and communication of spatial information is important to the functioning of children and adults in the physical world. Yet little research has included both areas in the same studies. This research program was designed to investigate both the communication and representation of spatial information within a developmental context....
- Keyword:
- Cognitive and Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Amanda Grace Schaal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Physiological linkage (i.e., the covariation of moment-to-moment physiology between individuals) is thought to play an important role in relationship functioning. The present study examined physiological linkage across interbeat interval (IBI) and skin conductance levels (SCL) in a sample of married spouses (N=106) during both a pleasant and a conflict conversation...
- Keyword:
- physiological linkage, emotional experience, and marriage
- Subject:
- Biology and Psychology
- Creator:
- In Jung Jang, Ryan C. Svoboda, Kuan-Hua Chen, and Claudia M. Haase
- Contributor:
- Claudia Haase (advisor)
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper and Poster
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- Description:
- Expanding on research done on the mental health and happiness benefits associated with romantic relationships, this study investigates whether identity denial, the experience of being socially denied one’s chosen identity by having others refuse to acknowledge that identity, presents a challenge for bisexual people within committed romantic relationships. For straight,...
- Keyword:
- sexual minorities, self-concept clarity, identity denial, Relationships, mental health, and bisexuality
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Wendi L. Gardner, Hannah E. Savitz, and Alexandra Garr-Schultz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- The aim of the present investigation was to examine the nature of individuals' parasocial relationships (one-sided attachments to media figures, Horton & Wohl, 1956). Five studies were designed to assess the prevalence and strength of individuals' attachments to their favorite television characters, manipulate exposure to the character or control targets,...
- Keyword:
- media, parasocial relationships, and belonging needs
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Megan Lynn Knowles
- 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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- Description:
- The current research tested the principles of role congruity theory of prejudice, which states that prejudice arises from an incongruity between a group stereotype and social role characteristics (i.e., the attributes and behaviors prescribed by the social role), such that prejudice occurs when members of a group enter or attempt...
- Keyword:
- prejudice, role incongruity, people with mental illness, and gender
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Anne M. Koenig
- 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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- Description:
- Why would someone's judgments and choices disregard the consequences he or she cares about most? Considerable research appears to show that in many contexts, people show precisely this paradoxical tendency. Researchers interpret these results as showing that people sometimes make choices on the basis of moral factors -- factors that...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Daniel Merrill Bartels
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- "Anosognosia" or lack of insight into one's own illness is not uncommon in central nervous system disease. Neurodegenerative diseases of the brain that cause dementia are often associated with anosognosia. A lot is known about anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease but relatively little is known about lack of insight into illness...
- Keyword:
- insight, alzheimer's disease, awareness, dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and primary progressive aphasai
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Sarah Banks
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The present studies aimed at developing a lie detection paradigm immune to countermeasures, while the theoretical issues of top-down influence of task requirement on subliminal semantic priming were investigated. In Experiment 1, subjects were presented supraliminal acquaintance and non-acquaintance names, which were subliminally primed by another acquaintance or non-acquaintance names....
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ming Lui
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Behavioral activation (BA) trains depressed clients to engage in more positive activities in order to increase their experience of pleasure and accomplishment, thereby reducing depression. Recent research suggested that BA might be as effective in treating depression as current leading treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and antidepressant medication (Jacobson,...
- Keyword:
- treatment outcome, behavioral activation, sudden gains, depression, treatment mechanisms, and therapy process
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Tomasz Andrusyna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Child maltreatment and violence are two major public health concerns in the United States. The relationship between maltreatment and subsequent violent behavior, also referred to as the "cycle of violence", is not well understood. The present study examines whether a history of maltreatment predicts violent behavior in a sample of...
- Keyword:
- violence, maltreatment, delinquent, and youth
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ursula Cornelia Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-15
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- A striking aspect of human cognition is our capacity for acquiring and using complex knowledge structures, from learning the rules of algebra, to understanding the causal workings of a combustion engine or the structure and processes of the U.S. Congress. These structured representations underlie our ability to generate new inferences,...
- Keyword:
- relational structure, processing fluency, analogy, and implicit
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Samuel B. Day
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the same way that a sculptor shapes a block of stone to reveal the ideal form within, one's relationship partner can help one to become more like one's ideal self (Drigotas, Rusbult, Wieselquist, & Whitton, 1999). This interpersonal process is called "the Michelangelo phenomenon." The current research examines whether...
- Keyword:
- self-esteem, partner affirmation, and Michelangelo phenomenon
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Abigail A Mitchell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-13
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- On average, homosexual people are more gender nonconforming than heterosexual people. They also show increased distress, possibly due to their stigmatized minority status. Not surprisingly, gender nonconformity and psychological distress may be related, particularly in homosexual men (e.g., Skidmore, Linsenmeier, & Bailey, 2006), although the mechanisms explaining this relationship have...
- Keyword:
- distress, social support, gender nonconformity, and stigmatization
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- William Christopher Skidmore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-09-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Although anxiety and depression are clearly distinct from a phenomenological perspective, discriminating these constructs empirically has often been difficult (Clark & Watson, 1991). Both the tripartite model of psychopathology (Clark & Watson, 1991) and the cognitive content-specificity hypothesis (Beck, 1976; Beck & Clark, 1988) were forwarded in an effort to...
- Keyword:
- tripartite, Children, cognitive, and psychopathology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jesse Klein Benjamin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The human brain shows great flexibility to adjust itself to dynamically ever-changing environment. Despite more than 100 years of cognitive brain research, the dynamical aspect of cognitive process has remained poorly understood compared to the static aspect of that. This dissertation concerns the dynamic character and functional significance of periodically...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Yee Joon Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Most cognitive research on conceptual structure has studied undergraduate populations and either natural (biological) or artificial (experiment-specific) categories. This project investigates how people with extensive, rich knowledge about a complex real-world domain organize and use that knowledge. The research extends prior work on differences among types of experts within biological...
- Keyword:
- reasoning, wine, categorization, expertise, and inductive inference
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Julia Beth Proffitt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The majority of research on voluntary visual attention has focused primarily on specific attentional processes. While we know much about individual attentional abilities such as shifting attention among spatial locations, tracking multiple objects and maintaining attention for specific targets, we know little about how these attentional processes relate to one...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- KatieAnn KatieAnn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Although chronic stress has been shown to be significantly associated with depression, this relationship has not received adequate attention, particularly in adolescent samples. One gap lies in the examination of whether particular domains of chronic interpersonal stress are uniquely related to risk for depression. Furthermore, the degree to which chronic...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jonathan Mark Sutton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Research in cognitive and developmental psychology typically focuses on urban middle-class, European American populations. Although there has been a recent surge in psychological research that focuses on cultural variation (Cohen & Kitayam, 2007), little is known about the practices that support this variation. Knowledge about these practices is critical for...
- Keyword:
- Gesture, Culture, Construal, Folkbiology, Discourse, and Perspective Taking
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Sara Jill Unsworth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Background: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a significant public health issue. Previous research on the pathophysiology of depression in adults has demonstrated abnormal neural processing associated with depression symptomatology including alterations in reward and aversion circuits. Loss aversion (LA), or the concept that individuals evaluate outcomes based on losses and...
- Keyword:
- Loss Aversion, Prospect Theory, Reward, and Depression
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Sarah Louise O'Dor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 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:
- socioeconomic status, prejudice, motivation, mental representation, and attitudes
- 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
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- Description:
- Reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) has enormous potential to become a paradigmatic model of individual differences. However, while its foundations in experimental genetic and neurophysiological research on nonhuman animals are among the strongest in personality psychology, it has perhaps not gained the foothold within the field that it deserves. It is...
- Keyword:
- personality, reinforcement sensitivity theory, modeling, individual differences, emotion, and cues-tendencies-actions model
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ashley Danielle Brown
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Efficient and accurate processing of internally- and externally-generated information is enhanced by the presence of multisensory signals that can provide redundant information about percepts or events. However, efficient usage of multisensory signals requires implicit perceptual knowledge of the potential or likely relationships between signals encoded within each sensory modality. If...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- John Charles Plass
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Humans possess the ability to infer and track mental states, which allows for successful interaction in the social world. The collection of processes and representations that makes this possible is referred to as a theory-of-mind (ToM). A large body of work has examined how these abilities develop from infancy to...
- Keyword:
- cognitive development, comparison, analogical reasoning, social cognition, learning, and theory of mind
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christian Hosos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Across all levels of education, persistent academic achievement gaps exist between students from higher and lower socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. Despite these daunting odds, many students from lower-SES backgrounds manage to maintain high levels of academic motivation and persist in the face of difficulty. One factor that has been shown...
- Keyword:
- Academic motivation, Academic performance, Socioeconomic status, and Socioeconomic mobility
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Alexander S. Browman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Psychophysiological investigations of human sexuality have revealed more complexity than might be naively assumed. The sexual arousal patterns of heterosexual and homosexual men are relatively straightforward, with both groups showing substantial responses to erotic stimuli of their preferred sex and much smaller responses to their nonpreferred sex. Bisexual men, in...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Adam Safron
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Our visual system organizes lines, shapes, and colors into groups, objects, and scenes. This dissertation explores how these higher-level organizations arise, focusing on the contribution of feature-based attention, our ability to selectively enhance a color, shape, or orientation across our visual field. I will present evidence that feature-based attention enables...
- Keyword:
- Gestalt Grouping, Perceptual Organization, Attention, Ambiguity Perception, and Visual Perception
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Dian Yu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examined gender differences in youth externalizing comorbidity via three studies. Study 1 was a meta-analytic review that provided the first robust estimate of gender differences in youth externalizing comorbidity. Studies 2 and 3 unpacked these gender differences at two levels of analysis: personality (Study 2 and 3) and...
- Keyword:
- Clinical psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Kathrin Herzhoff
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The availability and importance of data is accelerating, and our visual system is a critical tool for understanding it. The research field of data visualization seeks design guidelines – often inspired by perceptual psychology – for more efficient visual data analysis. Data visualization can borrow phenomena, tasks, and methods of...
- Keyword:
- information visualization, visual perception, and visual attention
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christine Nothelfer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores human coordination in rhythmic, verbal, and spatial activity, and how coordination in one of these modes may subsequently impact behavior in another mode. My research examines what effects non-conversational actions have on the alignment of spatial perspectives during conversation. I hope to clarify how data about non-linguistic...
- Keyword:
- Conversation, Coordination, Alignment, and Perspective-taking
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Katharine Anne Eliot Lysander
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Shared emotions are associated with thriving in relationships (Anderson, Keltner & John, 2004; Gonzaga, Campos, & Bradbury, 2007), and greater liking for new individuals (Larson & Gardner, 2015). However, the psychological mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are not well-understood. Emotions are fleeting experiential states and, seen through this lens, finding someone...
- Keyword:
- Emotion, Interpersonal relationships, and Synchrony
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Grace larson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Personality traits and personal values represent individual differences that influence many forms of behavior including psychopathology (Hanel & Wolfradt, 2016; Jarden, 2010; Ozer & Benet-Martinez, 2006; Schwartz, 2006). Extensive research has highlighted the importance of personality traits in the development of psychopathology in children. However, the association between values and...
- Keyword:
- Psychopathology, Middle Childhood, Personality Traits, Racial/Ethnic Differences, and Values
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Avante Smack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Past research suggests that stereotypes about collective identities (i.e. race, ethnicity, and gender) shape aspirations. However, less is known about how actual representation of collective identity relates to aspirations. The proportion of an identity in a given career will be used as an indicator of numeric representation and I hypothesize...
- Keyword:
- collective identity, aspirations, and representation
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Mesmin Destin, Tess Brieva, and Regine Debrosse
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- Research has found that both schizophrenia populations and populations at clinical high risk for psychosis show alterations in facial affect expressivity, specifically blunting. However, it is unknown whether these alterations occur prior to onset, or whether they develop as a consequence of psychosis onset processes. The current study sought to...
- Keyword:
- positive symptoms, FACS, iMotions, Non-clinical psychosis, facial expressivity, and dampening
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Tina Gupta, Kimberly Rowghani, and Vijay A. Mittal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Modified:
- 06/04/2019
- Date Created:
- 5/1/2019
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- Description:
- Research shows that psychometrically-assessed spatial abilities (e.g., spatial visualization and spatial orientation) can be improved through training, and that some training yields improvements that are transferable to novel contexts and tasks (Uttal et al., 2013). While the training of these spatial abilities may be valuable for some forms of STEM...
- Keyword:
- spatial thinking and geospatial technology in classrooms
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Emily Nicole Hollenbeck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- There has long been an interest in the idea of generativity the concern for and commitment towards promoting the well-being of future generations. In Western societies, generativity can be characterized through societal contributions and acts dedicated towards others. Since the early 1960s, when Erikson proposed generativity as the major developmental...
- Keyword:
- Well-being, Agency, Communion, Generativity, Life Story, and Narrative
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jen Guo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Students often change majors during college, and most workers change jobs throughout their careers. Yet the diverse opportunities for entering natural science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are often overlooked during college and beyond. This dissertation therefore analyzed four large nationally representative datasets to characterize the pathways for joining...
- Keyword:
- Psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- David Isaac Miller
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Memory systems research has established the importance of two distinct types of memory systems in the brain: explicit and implicit. While a robust literature exists on individual differences in the explicit domain (Chapter 3), research on individual differences in implicit learning remains relatively limited. The key question guiding the investigation...
- Keyword:
- Individual Differences, Implicit Learning, and Sequence Learning
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Kelsey Rachel Thompson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Life stories are strong predictors of identity, since the specific narratives adults tell about themselves represent individual differences in personality characteristics. One way researchers analyze these life stories in adults is by measuring the story’s coherence, which is comprised of a clear context, a linear chronology, and an explanation of...
- Keyword:
- personality, development, life story, identity, and coherence
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Abigail Blum
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-15
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- We think data is definitive, but our perception of it contains bias from expectations and motivations. For example, when Democrats and Republicans view the same depiction of global temperature trends, Democrats see an increasing trend, while Republicans see overall flatness. Could prior beliefs bias our perception of relations depicted in...
- Keyword:
- correlation, perception, belief, bias, scatterplot, data visualizations, and psychology
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Cindy Xiong, Steve Franconeri, and Chase Stokes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-31
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Negative body image in women has been a prevalent issue throughout history. Societal expectations have left many women feeling insecure and dissatisfied. Current research has indicated that oftentimes negative body image is passed down from mother to daughter. While there is a variety of research on mother-daughter interactions with body...
- Keyword:
- satisfaction, mother, connotation, body image, and daughter
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Amy Fan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/10/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Description:
- Sexual minority individuals are at increased risk for negative health outcomes relative to heterosexual individuals (Meyer, 2003), and accumulating evidence indicates experience the greatest burden (for a review, see Feinstein & Dyar, 2017). These health disparities are due, in large part, to stigma-related stressors (e.g., discrimination; Meyer), and bisexual individuals...
- Keyword:
- Stigma, Bisexuality, and Relationship
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Christina Dyar, Joanne Davila, Jeremy Jabbour, and Brian A. Feinstein
- Owner:
- Jeremy Thomas Jabbour
- Publisher:
- Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2020
- Date Modified:
- 01/14/2021
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- Description:
- In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
- Keyword:
- captive, Lacan, film theory, and confinement
- Subject:
- Performing arts and Psychology
- Creator:
- Connelly, Thomas J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 06/08/2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3923-7, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3921-3, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3922-0