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    Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics 

    Schreiber, Emily (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
    Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...
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    Behavioral Economics and Microfinance: A Study of Risk Preferences in Rural South Africa 

    Leiberman, Eric M. (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)
    When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
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    Family Literacy across Three Generations of Undergraduate Students in Africa and the United States: Relation of Family Literacy Experiences on the Grade Point Averages of Undergraduate Students at the University of Botswana, University of Pretoria in South Africa, and Vanderbilt University in the United States 

    Nanjee, Naveed (Vanderbilt University, 2011-07-19)
    The aim of this study was to describe literacy across three generations of undergraduate students (the students, their parents, and their grandparents) in Southern African (at the University of Pretoria and at the University ...
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    Diagrams Benefit Symbolic Problem Solving 

    Chu, Junyi (Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)
    How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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    No Need For the Blindfold: The Influence of Perpetrator Attractiveness on Legal Decision-Making 

    Martin, Justin W. (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)
    The idea that "justice is blind" has been called into question by some reports that attractiveness affects judgments of punishment and guilt. However, such studies are handicapped by a number of limitations, which this ...
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    Poor Stop-Signal Task Performance: Mechanisms Revealed through Event-Related Brain Potentials 

    Schumacher, William M. (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
    The stop-signal task has been used extensively in order to test abilities of inhibition as well as cognitive functioning. In previous experiments, a relatively large number of participants had to be excluded from analysis ...
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    The Effects of Priming on Reaction Times, Confidence Rating Measures, and Accuracy 

    Farina, Tiffany (Vanderbilt University, 2016)
    This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
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    A Study of Information Transfer between Long Term and Working Memory using Trans-Cranial Direct Current Stimulation at FCz 

    Telles, Rachel (Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-10)
    Trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a method of electrical stimulation directed through a specific lobe or section of the brain in order to excite neurons and bring about a behavioral change. tDCS has ...
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    Causes of Interference: Working Memory and Distraction 

    Larcada, Liana (Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)
    Working memory accounts for various types of cognitive processing, including object and spatial processing. Distraction has been demonstrated to be domain-specific with the strongest interference coming from a distractor ...
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    The Effects of Social Context on the Therapeutic Benefits of Emotion Sharing 

    Wheeler, Carolyn (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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    AuthorChu, Junyi (1)Farina, Tiffany (1)Kataoka, Marisa (1)Larcada, Liana (1)Leiberman, Eric M. (1)Martin, Justin W. (1)Nanjee, Naveed (1)Qualls, Lydia (1)Schreiber, Emily (1)Schumacher, William M. (1)... View MoreSubject
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    Decision making (2)Short-term memory (2)Algebra -- Charts, diagrams, etc. (1)Algebra -- Study and teaching (1)Algebra equations (1)Appetite disorders (1)attractiveness (1)Beauty, Personal -- Psychological aspects (1)behavioral economics (1)... View MoreDate Issued2018 (1)2017 (1)2016 (1)2015 (2)2013 (1)2011 (3)2010 (3)
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