Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences: Recent submissions
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Young children are influenced by both relevant and irrelevant traits when they infer people’s knowledge and decide whether those people are to be trusted. The current study examines age-related differences in children’s ...
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Children’s Judgments of Moral and Conventional Violations Committed by Individuals with Disabilities (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-14)Young children are sensitive to actions that violate moral or conventional norms, and often conceptualize people who commit such violations as unkind and deserving of punishment. However, there are many circumstances in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)The present study focuses on how gender, age, and stress reactivity are associated with the ways that children cope with cancer. The sample consisted of 336 families; parents and children completed questionnaires near the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04)Both math anxiety and stereotype threat processes have been suggested as causes of gender-related discrepancies in math performance, and the two processes may use similar mechanisms (Ramirez, Gunderson, Levine, & Beilock, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)Although the negative social effects of video games have been carefully studied, there is less work on the positive social effects of video games. Because video games are so ubiquitous in modern-day society, research is ...
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(Vanderbilt University8, 2018-04-23)The current study examines the role of auditory feedback in Mandarin tone production among native and non-native speakers of Chinese through two production tasks where participants are asked to read and pronounce pseudo-words ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018)Although two types of emotional writing have been previously studied, there is no research that examines writing about social support. Yet the hypothesized mechanisms that drive benefits of gratitude journaling and expressive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)The purpose of the study was to analyze the different contexts in which the social sharing of emotion occurs and the comparative benefits associated with two different contexts of emotion sharing. Previous research has ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018)The goal of the current study was to investigate the relations among depressive symptoms, theory of mind, and social functioning in children. Participants were 98 children ages 8- through 15-years-old (mean age = 10.89 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-05)Current literature shows that orientation preference becomes consistent by the age of 30 months, despite the fact that the ability to process inverted images is already consistent by the age of 18 months (DeLoache, Uttal, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018)In an effort to mitigate the potentially catastrophic effects of human consumption on the environment, many researchers are driven to understand the mechanisms underlying sustained engagement in pro-environmental behavior ...
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Parenting Behaviors and Children's Coping with Stress: Socialization of Coping Methods and Messages (Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)In a follow up to Watson (2015), the current study examined the potential association of the methods that parents use to communicate coping strategies to their children, the messages that parents communicate, the impact ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018)The spatial hearing abilities of individuals with hearing loss, especially those who are elderly, have been investigated mostly in the context of localizing a single, stationary sound source in a quiet setting. Real world ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-05-01)The proposed research focuses on extrinsic factors and aims to investigate how parenting practices, postural positions, and infants’ varied prior experiences in sitting, supine, and reclining postures influence 3-month-old ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-05-11)Fidelity to the intervention manual for a family-based, group cognitive-behavioral depression prevention program for children of depressed parents was examined. Fidelity was measured with regard to adherence and competence. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)The present study examined the concurrent associations among executive functioning, coping, maternal depression history, and depressive symptoms in adolescents. The sample included 82 adolescents between the ages of 12 and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)Minority stress theory recognizes the presence of added stress for individuals that belong to marginalized minority groups (Meyer, 2003). When considering the mental health of those who identify as sexual minorities, the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-03)Persons who are blind participate in a wide number of sports, ranging from the various competitions in track and field, to goal ball and baseball. How is it, we asked, that persons know how to throw a ball? Learning ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-25)The Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory is a widely used three-dimensional psychometric measure to assess parenting behaviors as reported by children and parents. Parent-child dyads tend to report discrepant ...