Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)Research on embodied emotions suggests that our ability to simulate bodily emotions enables us to better understand others’ emotions. Music has been shown to influence emotion processing, and music therapy is effective in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-07)Accurate emotion perception is essential for adaptive social functioning. Abnormal emotion perception and associated social impairments are core features of neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-04)The present study investigated the differences in Negative Affectivity and Effortful Control in the presence and absence of stuttering. A Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) measured the stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04)The relations between the acoustic parameters of jitter and fundamental frequency and children’s experience with stuttering were explored. Sixty-five children belonging to four talker groups will be studied. Children were ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-20)The associations among positive emotions and different personality factors may hold a key to understanding individual differences in emotional experience. The present research sought to examine individual differences by ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-21)The success of leaders can be highly variable and depends on a number of factors including the degree to which leaders engage with their subordinates. This continuum of passive and active behavior is represented in the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-26)Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)There is currently a significant amount of research being conducted to pinpoint differences between men and women and they way they think, emote, and experience life. While the current literature has uncovered significant ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)Many studies have shown that how we are feeling effects what we remember. However, few have addressed how specific, discrete emotions (happiness, fear, disgust, etc.) effect memory. This project examined the effect of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-18)Rapid and accurate judgments of social traits from faces are indispensable to successful interpersonal interactions. Anomalous trait judgment has been observed in the schizophrenia spectrum and may lead to delusion formation ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare, genetic neurodevelopmental disability characterized by hyperphagia, mood swings and intellectual disability. Families with a child with PWS often experience increased family tensions ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-12)Current literature on the effects of sleep on cognition has shown conflicting results regarding the effects of long and short sleep duration. Using previously collected data from the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project, this ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015)Latent class moderated mediation in structural equation models can describe individual differences in psychological processes across latent groups. This method could be most useful where two latent classes have indirect ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-10)Trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a method of electrical stimulation directed through a specific lobe or section of the brain in order to excite neurons and bring about a behavioral change. tDCS has ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-03-30)While new treatments have increased the survival rate of pediatric patients with brain tumors, they have also left this population with many adverse cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Prior research provides ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)Previous research has demonstrated that offspring of depressed mothers are at increased risk for developing dysfunctional affect regulation, which is a risk factor for the onset of depression and other psychopathology. One ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)Emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity have been identified as key individual-difference abilities that are important for optimal social functioning. Social emotional fluency (SEF) is proposed as a behavioral ...