Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)Schadenfreude, the pleasure that results from another person's misfortune, is an interesting topic within emotion research. However, there has been limited research regarding whether cultural tendencies influence the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-24)Given the gravity of recent increasing eating disorder diagnoses, the amount of research dedicated to eating disorders and ethnicity/acculturation is insufficient. This study explores the differences in eating disorder ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-21)Executive functioning (EF) is a key element of school readiness. Despite evidence for the influential role parents can play in supporting child EF development, current EF-directed interventions rarely focus on parents. And ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-20)Stress can impair one’s ability to effectively problem solve and think critically. This study tested the extent to which trait mindfulness moderated the relation between stress and executive control (EC). Participants ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020)The present study examined the relation of childhood trauma to executive control and executive control under stress. Participants (N=104) were students, ages 18-22 (Mage=18.97, SD=1.078), at Vanderbilt University. In the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)This study assessed implicit and explicit attitudes toward people who stutter. Twenty-four typically-fluent college-aged participants completed an Implicit Association Test, a measure of implicit attitudes, to assess the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-06)Classical views of human visual long-term memory propose that people first encode the visual stimuli into a long-term store, and then retrieve the visual information during task period. In examining the temporal dynamics ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-03-25)The goal of the current study is to investigate the neural mechanisms and time course of emotion and associations with individual differences in rumination in a sample of depressed adolescents. Rumination is the repetitive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04)Previous research has shown that the “sticky mittens” reaching intervention has a positive effect on reaching and object exploration skills. Further, early reaching and object exploration abilities have been shown to have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)The possible links between music and language continue to intrigue researchers, who are capable of investigating from their similar structures to shared human perception mechanism. In children with typical development ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)Representational media are everywhere in children’s daily lives: the photos on the wall, the videos shown on TV, and the picture books children read. In order to foster better learning and develop more age-appropriate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)When attempting to solicit donations, fundraisers must consider how their campaign is portrayed. The goal gradient effect suggests that people tend to accelerate towards a goal the closer they get to achieving that goal. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)Children frequently learn about absent objects from verbal descriptions in everyday life. 3- and 4-year-olds were read verbal descriptions of novel creatures with novel labels and were then asked to choose the described ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019)Cognitive Reactivity (CR), an established diathesis for depression, has been defined as the strength of association between displeasure and dysfunctional attitudes within person. However, displeasure could encompass a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019)Neuroimaging studies have suggested a difference in structural brain connectivity in depression. Recently, structural brain connectivity and psychopathology have been studied using graph theory analysis, which provides ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Objective: The current study examined the associations among executive function, secondary control coping and affective problems. Method: A sample of 104 adolescents (ages 9-15 years old) completed cognitive assessments ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Gestalt principles of grouping have been widely studied in diagrammatic reasoning because diagrams that follow these principles are easier to understand than those that are not (Lemon et al 2007, Stieff 2007, Novick and ...