Department of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Organizational Socialization: The Role of Onboarding in Employee Longevity
(2018-09-07)This study proposed testing a model linking employees’ onboarding experience within the first three months at an organization with their tenure through the mediators of perceived supervisor (PSS) and organizational support ... -
Testing Theories and Measures for Promoting Dietary Change
(2019-06-04)Many Americans do not consume enough healthy food and overconsume sugar and meat products. As a prominent food desert, this trend is particularly rife in Arlington/Ft. Worth, TX especially among low-income individuals. To ... -
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 ... -
Investigating the Effects of Varying Levels of Autonomy in an eLancing Environment
(2019-08-01)Whereas there is a plethora of research on the work outcomes of standard employees (i.e., individuals who work full-time at one organization and complete work specified by the employer at their established place of business ... -
The Balancing Act: An Empirical Study Introducing and Removing Constraints in Idea Generation
(2019-08-05)To stay competitive in today’s economy, organizational leaders are making creativity and innovation a key business priority. As such, organizations have become particularly interested in how to become more innovative while ... -
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ASSESSING THE ANALGESIC NATURE OF THE LATERAL HABENULA (LHb)
(2019-07-19)Local field potential (LFP) is a collective neural signal of all the synaptic activity occurring at a specific area of the brain, thereby offering a unique insight into how the brain functions. The habenula is involved in ... -
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MEASURES RELATED TO POSTURAL CONTROL IN OLDER ADULTS
(2019-07-18)This study examined the biopsychosocial measure related to postural control in the growing population of older adults (i.e., 60 years and older). The sample of the study consisted of 129 older adults (M = 74.45, SD = 6.95), ... -
Cybervetting: The Role of Negative Content
(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 ... -
Ethical Climate and Corporate Social Responsibility
(2019-05-08)Current empirical research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) focuses on the organizational level, but researchers have called for increased attention in exploring the individual level, or micro-CSR. The objective ... -
Self-Solicitation of a Provisional Self: The Dark Triad and Spontaneous Self-Concept Content
(2019-05-06)Higher levels of Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism) are considered to be self-defeating, maladaptive, and can potentially interfere with the ability to develop a strong sense of self. Despite ... -
DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND MODELING OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE DC ENERGY CONVERSION TESTBED WITH EMPHASIS ON ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE
(2019-05-06)Much work has been done in recent years regarding the emphasis and newfound importance of energy storage and energy conversion within systems that, at one time, functioned off of simple alternating current (AC) busses. ... -
The Effects of Temporal Contraction and Temporal Dilation on Cognitive Performance
(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 ... -
Effects of Emotion and Social Desirability on Intuitive, Gist-Based Decisions
(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 ... -
BEHAVIORAL AND LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL CHANGES IN THE THALAMUS AND ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX OF BEHAVING RATS EXPERIENCING POST HERPETIC NEURALGIA
(2016-11-30)Post herpetic neuralgia (PHN) is experienced as burning pain in the facial region, caused by nerve damage from the herpes zoster virus. The pain often becomes chronic and debilitating. Investigations into the pain pathway ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Age and Time on Sensory and Affective Levels of Pain Processing
(2018-11-30)The relationship between pain and age has been studied for decades. However, research has produced conflicting results for pain thresholds and pain affect in clinical assessments. Likewise, pre-clinical research is conflicting ... -
THE EFFECTS OF PRIMING PATRIOTISM ON ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRANTS: DO ALL AMERICANS RESPOND TO PATRIOTIC IMAGES THE SAME WAY?
(2018-12-04)Although immigrants enrich the US culture and provide intellectual and economic stimulation, there has been a rise of anti-immigration movements, making the acculturation process more difficult for the immigrant. The purpose ... -
Group heterogeneity influences complex and novel outcomes
(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, ... -
Sex Differences in Balance Measures and Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults
(2018-06-21)The older adult population is growing at a rapid pace, with the US Census Bureau estimating older adults to comprise of 20% of the overall population by 2020. Now, more than ever, we must parse out differences within this ... -
Exploring Predictors of Information Exchange: A Behavioral Validation of the ISSIE Scale
(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 ... -
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 ...