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Relationships Among Academic and Athletic Motivation and Mental, Physical, and Academic Outcomes in Collegiate Athletes
(2017-08-22)As of 2015, there were approximately 480,000 collegiate athletes in the United States. Among these students, a scant few are drafted as a professional within their respective sports. For example, only 1.6% of students ... -
Religious Orientation And Responses To Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Trust
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)This research experimentally manipulated death anxiety and examined its effects on social, spiritual, and self-support. Individual level of religiosity was examined as a moderating variable. Various forms of trust were ... -
Repeated Decision-making With High And Low Affect For Monetary And Social Resources
(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 ... -
Rewind-Remind: Investigating How Gamification of Memory Tasks Can Evaluate Associative Memory Performance in Healthy, Older Adults
(2017-05-02)Associative memory, the type of memory that allows us to relate information together (e.g., a person’s face and name), is particularly susceptible to age-related deterioration. Older adults tend to engage in retrieval ... -
ROLE OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN FINANCIAL LITERACY AMONG ADOLESCENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
(2021-05-06)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder with deficits in social and communication skills with repetitive or restricted behaviors. High functioning ASD individuals report poor financial literacy as a ... -
The Role Of The Infralimbic Cortex In A Pain Intensity-graded Rodent Model Of Distraction Analgesia
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)The misdirection of attention has been used to reduce experimental and clinical pain- a technique known as distraction analgesia (DA). A growing understanding of the important interrelationship between cognition and pain ... -
Self-Compassion and Online Student Connectedness as Protective Factors against Stress and Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood
(2023-05-04)The current state of US youth and emerging adult mental health is described as a crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated (US Office of the Surgeon General, 2021). This dissertation examined whether daily ... -
Service that Sells: Examining Women's Tendency to Purchase Appearance-Enhancing Products from Gay Male Sales Associates
(2017-08-02)Previous findings indicate that heterosexual female customers are more comfortable working with gay male—relative to straight male or female—sales associates in retail departments where apparel and beauty products are sold. ... -
Sex, Drugs, And Work: The Associations Of Personality Characteristics, Risky Sex, Substance Use, And Work Behavior In Young Adult Restaurant Workers
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)Personality characteristics among young adult (18 - 29 years old) restaurant workers were examined in relation to substance use, risky sexual behavior, and several work outcomes. High sensation seekers and emerging adults ... -
Social Familiarity As A Predictor Of Observational Learning In The Domestic Dog (Canis Familiaris)
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)Experiments utilizing observational learning in dogs are becoming more frequent, but few investigate the familiarity relationship between model and observer. Two experiments were designed to explore the familiarity ... -
Subgroup Analyses Of The Long-term Effects Of An Early Intervention Treatment Program For Acute TMJMD Patients
Most researchers suspect that anywhere from 5% to 12% of Americans suffer from Temporomandibular Joint and Muscle Disorders (TMJMDs), which impair jaw functioning and can promote various complications, particularly for ... -
Testing The Effects Of Civility And Rationality During Political Contact
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)This research project investigated the effects of civility and rationality of contact between self-identified liberals and conservatives on several outcome measures: participants' evaluations of the political ingroup and ... -
The COVID Classroom: An Examination of the Effect of Distance Learning on College Students Impacted by COVID-19
(2023-01-09)As a result of the tumultuous events in 2020 related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the academic world was forced to adapt and relocate for the safety of students, faculty, and staff. These changes had a lasting impact on those ... -
The Effects of Debt on the Relationship to Psychological and Social Well-Being
(2020-05-28)Debt is negatively correlated with multiple health facets such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. The serious consequences of debt can be utterly detrimental to success, both in school and beyond. This study ... -
The Effects of Incubation Task Characteristics on Idea Generation
(2021-12-21)The effect of short breaks on creativity and idea generation, referred to as “incubation”, has had a considerable body of work devoted to its causal mechanisms. Despite this, many issues persist in the research literature, ... -
The Effects of Re-Framing and Respondent Personality on Psychometric Outcomes: A Replication and Extension Study
(2018-08-15)The present study investigated the effects of four item characteristics – context, direction, factor, and trait aspect switching – on inter-item correlations and participant misresponse rates for adjacent item pairs within ... -
The Hierarchical Aversiveness of Two Simultaneous Pains within an Operant Approach Avoidance Paradigm
(2019-08-06)Pain is a subjective, private, yet universal phenomenon that depends on a unique combination of sensory, affective, and evaluative characteristics. Although preclinical models have been used to understand much of pain ... -
THE INFLUENCE OF DARK AND POSITIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS ON DYADIC AND INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY
(2022-04-28)The present study not only replicates Jonason et al.'s (2017) examination of the influence of negative personality traits—the Dark Triad of Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy—upon Creativity Valence; but expands ... -
THE INFLUENCE OF DARK TRIAD TRAITS AND FRAMING EFFECTS ON COOPERATION IN NON-ZERO-SUM GAMES
(2021-05-05)Over the past two decades, personality research has increasingly focused on describing the selfish, callous, and impulsive qualities that are present in individuals with higher levels of Dark Triad traits (i.e., narcissism, ... -
THE MODERATING EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ESSENTIALISM ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERGROUP CONTACT WITH ATHEISTS AND OUTGROUP ATTITUDES
(2021-08-16)The present studies examine the effect of psychological essentialism on the relationship between contact and attitudes with regard to religious outgroup members, specifically atheists. Although previous research has been ...