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Aristotle Meets Apple: Rhetoric in the Podcast
(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-24)
Podcasts such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self, engage with, and extend, the deliberative rhetorical form. Aristotle defined deliberative rhetoric as a persuasive genre that ...
Children Coping with Cancer: Associations with Stress Reactivity, Age and Gender
(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 ...
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 ...
Spatial Hearing in Elderly Individuals with a Range of Age-Related Hearing Loss
(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 ...
National Health Insurance in an Age of Limits: Jimmy Carter’s Abandoned Agenda
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)
This thesis examines Jimmy Carter’s health policy in the context of declining New Deal liberalism. Although Carter had campaigned in 1976 on a platform that embraced national health insurance, a major unfinished goal of ...
Stereotype Threat, Math Anxiety, and the Development of Gendered Stereotypes
(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, ...
The Effect of State-level Smoking Bans on Cigarette Consumption
(Vanderbilt University, 2018)
Theory of Mind, Depressive Symptoms, and Social Competence in Youth
(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 ...
Social Support and Gratitude: Assessing Divergence through Writing
(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 ...
Neglecting and Misrepresenting Latin America: Foreign Correspondents at the New York Times from 1966-1968
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)
The Cold War dominated United States’ foreign policy in the Sixties. With the Cuban Revolution and the perceived Communist threat in Chile, among other events, Latin America also became a region of greater strategic ...