RSS 1.0Social and Personality Psychology
Social and personality psychology research of Undergraduate Honors Students in the Psychological Sciences at Vanderbilt University.
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024)Dispositional accommodative efficacy (DAE) is the general belief in one’s ability to adjust to an unwanted or unchangeable situation. Previous research has shown that this efficacy has a strong, positive relationship to ...
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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 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, 2016-04-26)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)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, 2014-04)The present study examined the psychological predictors of success as they relate to performance levels. To this end, study 1 was conducted investigating the foremost psychological constructs athletes employ while in a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-18)Objective: To explore adults’ association between food perception and frequency of food consumption. Subjects: Thirty-nine male and 157 female undergraduate students (aged 18-22) of predominantly Caucasian ethnicity from ...
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Self Esteem Instability – Scale Development and Relations to Appraisal and Dispositional Constructs (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)Past literature indicates that self-esteem may not be a stable entity for all individuals, and there may be some individuals for whom their self-esteem varies across contexts. Research has shown that further exploring the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)The following study addresses creating a new, more efficient measure for evaluating appraisal styles, specifically emotion-focused, or accommodative-focused, coping potential and problem-focused coping potential. The ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)While encouraging parents who are not native English speakers to support their children's learning can be challenging for schools, there are strategies schools can implement to increase involvement for all parent groups. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)The past literature indicates that performance is disrupted for defensive pessimists by encouragement. The goals of this research were to replicate this phenomenon, and then examine the mechanisms underlying it. Specifically, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-04)The mother-daughter relationship is a very complex and personal experience for young females. How this relationship effects the development of body image issues is what we tried to assess in our experiment. In this experiment, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-10)This study examines gender differences in attribution and person perception. We are interested in seeing whether men and women differ in how they perceive other people. Participants were asked to imagine themselves in a ...