Browsing Library by Author "Levine, Daniel S."
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An Investigation of Critical Thinking Outcomes in an Online Developmental Psychology Learning Environment
Natishyn, Michael C.; 0000-0002-4213-1979 (2017-01-18)Critical thinking (CT) has become a hot topic in academic and mainstream media, where the development of these skills may influence efficacy and productivity in educational and career environments, potentially impacting ... -
BIO-INSPIRED ADAPTIVE TUNING OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACES
Alqaudi, Bakur; 0000-0002-1060-6458 (2018-08-07)Motivated by recent advancement in neurocognitive in brain modeling research, multiple model-based Q-learning structures are proposed for optimal tracking problem of time-varying discrete-time systems. This is achieved by ... -
EFFECTS OF DISSONANCE AND DISRUPTION ON RISKY DECISIONS
Taylor, Wyn E.; 0000-0002-4591-2201 (2015-12-22)All choices develop first from the basic sensory stimuli to which our systems attend, consciously and unconsciously. The cognitive processes which form the basis of decision- making and contextual shifting require attention ... -
Effects of Emotion and Social Desirability on Intuitive, Gist-Based Decisions
Taylor, Wyn E.; 0000-0002-4591-2201 (2018-08-31)People often make what appear to be inconsistent, irrational choice preference shifts from sure-to-risky (or from risky-to-sure) options depending on how the choices are framed—this is a form of decision bias called the ... -
EFFECTS OF NUMERACY AND FINANCIAL LITERACY ON UNDESIRABLE FINANCIAL AND RELATED ACADEMIC OUTCOMES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS
Govindarajan, Sriram (2016-05-31)Numeracy was a better predictor of financial delinquency than financial literacy. The relationship between numeracy and undesirable academic effects was fully mediated by financial delinquency. It was also found that in a ... -
Embeddedness Versus Isolation In Dissonance-induced Attitude Change
Robinson, Rebecca L. (Psychology, 2011-10-11)The argument is made that embedded and isolated attitudes differ in the magnitude and effects of cognitive dissonance in an induced-compliance paradigm. Individuals who engaged in counterattitudinal advocacy with an ... -
An Examination Of The Relationships Between Response Scale Length, Label Format, Reliability, And Validity
Hamby, Tyler NealThis research examined the impact that two qualities of scales--the number of response options and the response scale label format--have on reliability and validity. Based on a meta-analytic pilot study, I expected that ... -
Expanding Beyond The Foundations Of Decision-making: Perceptual Differences Of Risk Between Resources
Ramirez, Patrick A. (Psychology, 2011-03-03)This research examined how resources such as life, food, and money are calculated in decision-making. Presently, the field assumes that various types of resources have the same value when a choice is being made. The study ... -
The Impact Of An Intensive Physical Exercise Program (IPE) On Mental Processing Speed And Postural Control In Older Adults
Biggan, John R. (Psychology, 2012-07-25)One in three Americans over the age of 65 fall each year. In 2000, this equated to an annual cost of $19 billion in healthcare costs and this cost is expected to rise to $54 billion by 2020. One factor related to the ... -
Induced emotions on shoot decisions
Snowden, Audrey Kaye; 0000-0003-0551-576X (2017-04-24)The purpose of this experiment was to examine the effect of emotion on shoot decision bias. Student participants from The University of Texas at Arlington were randomly assigned to one of five emotion induction conditions ... -
Quick Decisions Involving Threatening And Non-threatening Images
Snowden, Audrey KayeThe purpose of this research was to investigate the role of facial expressions with respect to quick decisions involving threatening and non-threatening images, to understand better the theoretical perspectives involving ... -
Ratio Bias In Judgment Under Specific Emotions
Liu, Yanfei (Psychology, 2013-03-20)How does specific emotion influence the ratio bias phenomenon? Previous studies suggested that a more systematic and analytical reasoning with logical rationality seemed to be stimulated by negative emotions. However other ... -
Repeated Decision-making With High And Low Affect For Monetary And Social Resources
Ramirez, Patrick A. (Psychology, 2013-07-22)This research was a continuation of studies that considered the role of affect for repeated decision-making under two different conditions while maintaining similar magnitudes of gains and losses. For the two situations ... -
Specific Emotions and Altruistic Decision Making - A Study in Relational Perspective
Chaudhury, Srinwanti Hazra; 0000-0001-7117-5519 (2016-11-28)The role of emotions in decision making processes has long been of interest to researchers due to its relevance in our daily consumption decisions. Recent experimental studies have suggested that specific emotions prime ... -
The Effects of Temporal Contraction and Temporal Dilation on Cognitive Performance
Dhaliwal, Amandeep Singh (2019-05-03)Temporal dilation and temporal contraction are perceived as duration lasting longer or shorter than the standard time unit, respectively. Social, cognitive, and emotional context influences temporal perception such that ...