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Tracking the Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Negative Self-Cognitions in Children: A Longitudinal Approach to Approximating Causality
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
This study investigates the effect of targeted peer victimization (TPV) on negative self-cognitions as a function of victimization type through a three-wave longitudinal study. Measures of TPV and cognitions were collected ...
Acoustic Parameters of Speech and Attitudes Towards Speech in Childhood Stuttering: Predicting Persistence and Recovery
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04)
The relations between the acoustic parameters of jitter and fundamental frequency and children’s experience with stuttering were explored. Sixty-five children belonging to four talker groups will be studied. Children were ...
No Need For the Blindfold: The Influence of Perpetrator Attractiveness on Legal Decision-Making
(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 ...
Exploring Men "On the Down Low": Race, Sexuality, and HIV in the Twenty-First Century
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2014-04-28)
The Anorexic Aesthetic: An Analysis of the Poetics of Glück, Dickinson, and Bidart
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)
My argument acknowledges the complex liminal space within which the artist creates—one in which art may constitute an act of self-assertion or a deliberate pattern of self-sabotage, among other non-symptomologic, aesthetic ...
Comparing the Performance Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Measures in Toddlers
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-05-15)
The current study represents a preliminary investigation of a new screening measure, the
Vanderbilt Scales for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This measure’s psychometric
performance in toddlers referred for developmental ...
Jorie Graham’s Overlord: Poetics, Ethics, and Différance
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-15)
*Overlord* by Jorie Graham requires a theoretical paradigm which can account for the Overlord within it; this paradigm, I will argue, is Jacques Derrida’s différance. Just as différance produces an endless chain of violent ...
Saussure and Sherlock, Derrida and the Detective: A Semiotic and Deconstructive Interpretation of the Classic Detective Fiction Genre
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)
In this thesis, I will read detective fiction, particularly from the Holmes canon, in light of two linguistic and philosophical theories: the theory of semiotics expounded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) ...
Latent Class Moderated Mediation in Structural Equation Models: Applications and Limitations
(Vanderbilt University, 2015)
Latent class moderated mediation in structural equation models can describe individual differences in psychological processes across latent groups. This method could be most useful where two latent classes have indirect ...
Differences in How Monolingual and Bilingual Children Learn Second Labels for Familiar Objects
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...