Browsing Department of Psychology by Author "Kenworthy, Jared B."
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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 ... -
Anxiety, In-group Identification, And Depersonalized Trust
Jones, Jennifer Rae (Psychology, 2008-08-08)In a previous study, we (Kenworthy & Jones, 2008) examined the effect of induced anxiety on depersonalized in-group trust within low and high importance groups. We found that the anxiety induction increased depersonalized ... -
The Association Between Executive Functioning And Self-regulation Strategies In Relation To The Protective Health Behaviors Of Physical Activity And Healthy Eating
Desouky, Tamer Farouk (Psychology, 2014-03-12)Protective health behavior influences health outcomes. Physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) are two important protective health behaviors that ward off many chronic diseases later in life. Nevertheless, these ... -
Cybervetting: The Role of Negative Content
Whitaker, Julia Hylton (2019-05-08)Mixed support has surfaced regarding the use of online information for personnel selection (i.e., cybervetting), which commonly involves the evaluation of social media profiles. Research to date has largely focused on ... -
The Effects Of Narcissistic Group Identity And Group-level Provocation On U.S. Citizens' Attitudes And Behavior Toward Arab Immigrants
Lyons, Patricia A. (Psychology, 2008-09-17)A measure of Narcissistic Group Identity was developed and tested in a cross-sectional pilot study of 319 university students. Analyses revealed that Narcissistic Group Identity predicted more negative attitudes toward ... -
Examining Responses To Theological Affiliation And Disaffiliation: Boundary Conditions And Causal Processes
Barden, Melisa A. (Psychology, 2010-11-01)The current study was aimed at examining responses toward theological affiliation and disaffiliation for believers in God and non-believers in God. The current study compared the reactions toward each of four possible ... -
An Experimental Test Of Extended Contact Hypothesis: Its Boundary Conditions And Psychological Processes
Lyons, Patricia A. (Psychology, 2012-04-11)The extended contact hypothesis states that contact with an ingroup member, who has an outgroup friend, facilitates favorable outgroup attitudes (Wright, Aron, McLaughlin-Volpe, & Ropp, 1997). An experimental manipulation ... -
An Experimental Test Of The Reformulated Contact Model
Coursey, Lauren ElizabethIntergroup contact is generally accepted as an effective means of reducing negative outgroup attitudes. However, the nature of the psychological processes underlying the effects of contact is a point of much debate. In an ... -
Exploring Predictors of Information Exchange: A Behavioral Validation of the ISSIE Scale
Gertner, Ryan Thomas; 0000-0002-4025-4844 (2018-08-08)A multitude of factors have been found to influence the prevalence of information exchange behaviors among team members. However, there are no scales that have measured individual motivational and cognitive differences ... -
Gender Differences In Emotional Labor
Fay, Cara L. (Psychology, 2011-10-11)This study examined the differences in emotional labor efforts between men and women. Emotional labor refers to the incongruity between experienced emotions and displayed emotions. This "faking" or "acting" that takes place ... -
Group heterogeneity influences complex and novel outcomes
Williams, Belinda (2018-08-07)Research on diversity impacting group performance, especially creativity, has yielded varied, inconsistent outcomes. One initial issue that researchers face is identifying and measuring diversity within groups. Further, ... -
The Individual Approach To Contact: How Personality Predicts Intergroup Contact Behavior
Sharp, Nicole (Psychology, 2013-03-20)Personality has been shown to be associated with prejudice levels and intergroup contact has been shown to reduce negative outgroup attitudes and discrimination, but until now the motivating factors that encourage naturalistic ... -
Lost in Your Halo: The Influence of Group Attractiveness and Diversity on Perceived Group Performance Ratings
Chacon, Jade C. (2023-05-11)Research on attractiveness suggests that more attractive individuals are assumed to have superiority on several traits, such as happiness and extraversion. This is termed the halo effect. Additionally, within the diversity ... -
Reactions To Depictions Of Intergroup Distinctiveness And Similarity Among Liberals And Conservatives
Popan, Jason R. (Psychology, 2009-09-16)Reactions to an intergroup distinctiveness manipulation and a potential mechanism of intergroup boundary maintenance between liberals and conservatives were investigated. In Study 1, self-identified liberals and conservatives ... -
Religious Orientation And Responses To Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Trust
Jones, Jennifer Rae (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 ... -
The Role Of Religion In Managing Existential Threat: Effects On Outgroup Attitudes
Coursey, Lauren Elizabeth (Psychology, 2013-07-22)The increased worldview defense following mortality salience is a robust finding in terror management theory research. In some cases, this defense can take the form of ingroup favoritism, outgroup bias, and prejudice. I ... -
The Roles Of Ingroup Identification, Prior Commitment, And Group Needs In Predicting Reactions To Group Defection
Holovics, Melisa A. (Psychology, 2008-09-17)Three experiments were conducted to explore the effects of group member defection (versus control) on reactions by ingroup members. In Study 1, emotional reactions were less positive toward defectors than toward controls, ... -
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 ... -
Testing The Effects Of Civility And Rationality During Political Contact
Popan, Jason R. (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 Roles of Remote Positive Contact and Reciprocal Intimate Self-Disclosure in Reducing Intergroup Distinctiveness Motives
Stephens, Jessica J; 0000-0003-1345-6405 (2020-09-08)This study investigated intergroup distinctiveness motives (IDM) as a function of experimental manipulations of remote positive contact and reciprocal intimate self-disclosure (RISD). Using a confederate posing as an ...