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Locating the Russian Hero: Genre, Gender, and National Identity in Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-10-26)
A Study in Empathy: Cognitive Disorders Exposed in First Person Narrators
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
Social Brains, Social Bodies: Investigating the Role of Personality in Embodied Emotion
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-07)
Accurate emotion perception is essential for adaptive social functioning. Abnormal emotion perception and associated social impairments are core features of neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. ...
Ps2- in a magnetic field : structure and stability in the M=0 state.
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-02)
The energy of the Ps2- (three electrons and two positrons or vice versa) system and all possible fragmentations are calculated in a magnetic field in their M=0 states using the stochastic variational method with a deformed ...
The impact of children's gender and victimization history on self-cognition and perceived meanness
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)
This study examined gender differences in self-cognitions and perceived meanness following exposure to audio recordings of peer victimization. A second goal of the study was to examine the interaction between victimization ...
The Temporal Features of Emotional Capture of Attention: Determining the Time Course of the Emotional Attentional Blink
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
Within a variety of stimuli, we selectively attend to the most emotionally relevant, often at a cost to the processing of the other stimuli. The emotional attentional blink (EAB) is an effect in which emotional distractor ...
Indo-Persian Performative Identities and the Harlequin: Agency and Subversion in The Wonders of Vilayet and The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
Writing the Temple
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
This thesis approaches Infinite Jest's revision of Postmodernism and various features of millennial America, including drugs and rehabilitation, as a scriptural undertaking, best understood through the lens of the Qur'an. ...
Resilient Individuals Reform Their Assumptive Worlds after Stressful Life Events
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-11)
Individuals develop core attitudes and beliefs that bring a sense of reality and purpose to
their lives. They make up one’s assumptive world. After a particular trauma or stressful life
event, one’s assumptive world is ...
Priming Emotion-Eliciting Appraisals through Music
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited as a result of a meaning analysis in which a person evaluates the implications of his or her circumstances for his or her personal well-being. This study tests the process ...