Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Author "Kirby, Leslie D. (Leslie Deneen)"

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    • Appraisal in Positive Emotion: Differentiation Between Hope and Challenge/Determination 
      Garden, Rebecca (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-08)
      The object of this study was to test individual differentiation between the emotions Hope and Challenge/Determination in terms of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components. The former emotion requires a more ...
    • Disordered Eating, Coping, and Perfectionism in a College Sample 
      Reiff, Anna E. (Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-03)
      Perfectionistic tendencies and coping strategies have been implicated as important factors in both the onset and maintenance of eating disorders but have not been widely researched in conjunction with each other. Given the ...
    • Effect of Discrete Emotions on Eyewitness Memory and Helping Behavior 
      Edens, Forrest (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 ...
    • Eliciting Seven Discrete Positive Emotions Using Film Stimuli 
      Bednarski, Juliana Doria (Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
      Successful, efficacious, and reliable mood induction procedures are an important part of emotion research. Film clips have already been shown to reliably induce discrete negative emotional states, as well as general positive ...
    • Exploring Emotional Intelligence as a mediator for coping styles and nicotine dependence 
      Wilhelm, Alison (Vanderbilt University, 2009)
      Undergraduate Students were evaluated for nicotine dependence, on measures of coping styles, and emotional intelligence. The key aim for the study was to correlated emotional intelligence measures to levels of nicotine ...
    • Exploring the Positive Emotions of Gratitude, Pride, and Happiness 
      Grzeszczak, Aga (Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)
      This study looked at the positive emotions of gratitude, pride, and happiness. Sixty-three Vanderbilt University undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions assessing their appraisals, ...
    • Flow and Life Satisfaction 
      Stimmel, Harrison (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
      Through a 30 question survey, I aim to examine flow experiences as a positive emotion-inducing activity and how individuals respond to these events. The survey targets the relationship between momentary happiness and life ...
    • Frowning Makes it Seem Harder 
      Michel, Kathryn R. (Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
      Peabody College of Education & Human Development
    • Gender differences in attribution and person perception 
      Capetillo, Juliana (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 ...
    • Laughter and Amusement’s Buffering Effect on Stress: An Experimental Design 
      Kline, Nora (Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-14)
      There is currently a significant amount of hype surrounding laughter and its effects, but there is a lot less excitement concerning the positive emotion that tends to compel laughter: amusement. The purpose of the current ...
    • Positive Emotions’ Effect on Buffering and Creativity: An Experimental Design 
      Ong, Katrina (Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-07)
      Extending beyond the Undoing Hypothesis and the Broaden-and-Build theory, this experimental design tested whether participants induced with a positive emotion would respond less, using self-report measures, to a mild ...
    • Priming Emotion-Eliciting Appraisals through Music 
      Stahl, Courtney L. (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
      Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited as a result of a meaning analysis in which a person evaluates the implications of his or her circumstances for his or her personal well-being. This study tests the process ...
    • Problem- Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping Potential in Adjustment to College 
      Spitzer, Elizabeth G. (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, ...
    • Psychological Predictors of Athletic Performance: Emotional Intelligence, Coping Style, and Mental Toughness 
      Carr, Abby (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 ...
    • Refining a Measure of Appraisal Style 
      McLain, Tessa C. (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 ...
    • Relations Among Positive Emotions, Appraisals, the Big Five, and Appraisal Style 
      White, Madison E. (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 ...
    • Religion, coping and marital satisfaction 
      Nelson, Nina (Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-04)
      College of Arts & Science
    • Resilient Individuals Reform Their Assumptive Worlds after Stressful Life Events 
      Kramer, Lindsay B. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-11)
      Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to their lives. They make up one’s assumptive world. After a particular trauma or stressful life event, one’s assumptive world is ...
    • The Role of Trait Emotional Intelligence in Buffering 
      Kuzmuk, Kellie M. (Vanderbilt University, 2014)
      Narrowing in on coping and stress management aspects of trait emotional intelligence, this study aims to explore how emotional intelligence may be related to buffering, which is one’s ability to subjectively shield off ...
    • Sex Differences in Positive Emotions within Appraisal Theory 
      Adler, Erica (Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-29)
      The psychological study of positive emotions is a relatively new and underdeveloped area of inquiry. This study examines sex differences in the understanding, experience, and expression of positive emotions. Our participants ...