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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, ...
Book Handling Behaviors in Early Childhood: Evidence from Eye Movement Monitoring
(Vanderbilt University, 2018-05)
Current literature shows that orientation preference becomes consistent by the age of 30 months, despite the fact that the ability to process inverted images is already consistent by the age of 18 months (DeLoache, Uttal, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Role of Auditory Feedback in Mandarin Tone Production in Native and Non-Native Speakers
(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)
The current study examines the role of auditory feedback in Mandarin tone production among native and non-native speakers of Chinese through two production tasks where participants are asked to read and pronounce pseudo-words ...
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 ...
Guild Play in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGS) as a Predictor of Online Social Support and Victimization
(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 ...
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 ...
The Effects of Social Context on the Therapeutic Benefits of Emotion Sharing
(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 ...
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 ...