Browsing Social and Personality Psychology by Author "Smith, Craig (Craig Alexander)"
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Parra, Erica L. (Erica Lynn) (Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)The past literature indicates that performance is disrupted for defensive pessimists by encouragement. The goals of this research were to replicate this phenomenon, and then examine the mechanisms underlying it. Specifically, ...
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Martinez, Sarena (Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-26)Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined ...
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Capetillo, Juliana (Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-10)This study examines gender differences in attribution and person perception. We are interested in seeing whether men and women differ in how they perceive other people. Participants were asked to imagine themselves in a ...
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Spitzer, Elizabeth G. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
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Carr, Abby (Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)The present study examined the psychological predictors of success as they relate to performance levels. To this end, study 1 was conducted investigating the foremost psychological constructs athletes employ while in a ...
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McLain, Tessa C. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)The following study addresses creating a new, more efficient measure for evaluating appraisal styles, specifically emotion-focused, or accommodative-focused, coping potential and problem-focused coping potential. The ...
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Self Esteem Instability – Scale Development and Relations to Appraisal and Dispositional Constructs Flaxer, Joseph M. (Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)Past literature indicates that self-esteem may not be a stable entity for all individuals, and there may be some individuals for whom their self-esteem varies across contexts. Research has shown that further exploring the ...
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Jacobs, Skyler G. (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)