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Literary Alchemy and the Transformation of the Transformation
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-17)
Alchemy is a pseudoscience that has persisted throughout millennia as a result of its own ability to change while retaining its primary purpose: transformation. What began as a means of wielding and evolving metals developed ...
See No Evil: The (In)Carceral Imagination
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-30)
A quick delineation of the United States reveals deep historical roots in racism, that which endures and manifests through the twenty-first century. Especially in the present, the era of mass incarceration exists as an ...
Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) on temporal lobe selectively affects the encoding of visual long-term memory
(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 ...
Examining Rumination and Neurophysiological Measures of Emotional Reactivity and Regulation in Depressed Adolescents
(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 ...
Eating Disorders Among Ethnic Minorities
(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 ...
Relations among Childhood Trauma, Executive Control, and Induced Stress
(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 ...
Does Trait Mindfulness Moderate the Effect of Stress on Executive Control?
(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 ...
Supporting Executive Function Development through Parent-Child Book Reading
(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 ...
Should Conditional Cash Transfers Extend to Secondary Education? Examining the Impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família on High School Transition Rates
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-05)
This paper takes a closer look at Bolsa Família, an anti-poverty program, and its impact on youth education over its fifteen years of existence in Brazil. More specifically, it will explore the distinctive effects the ...
The Legal Bases of Sticky Wages
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-21)
Sticky wages are a well-known economic phenomenon, in which wages don’t respond quickly to changes in economic conditions. This is important in derivations of macroeconomic theory from microeconomic phenomena, in setting ...