RSS 1.0Undergraduate Honors Research
Includes baccalaureate theses and other honors research of Vanderbilt undergraduates in various departments.
The Undergraduate Honors Research collection can by used by departments and schools to preserve and share theses and capstones as well as other research outputs. If you would like to create a digital archive please contact the administrator at DiscoverArchive@library.vanderbilt.edu.
If students will be responsible for depositing their own work, the administrator will provide you with submission instructions to handout. Alternatively, a department can designate one person as the "Community Administrator" and collect and upload all research.
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Undergraduate Honors Research - Other
Undergraduate honors research from various departments in the College of Arts and Science.
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2022-12)Strong coupling of cavity electromagnetic modes and molecules has emerged as an area of intense theoretical and experimental interest. Such systems are of particular interest due to their ability to modify the physical ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-03)The role of unions in the US labor market has been a highly contested political issue, leading states to pass Right-to-Work (RTW) laws. As of 2023, 27 states in the US have active RTW laws, legislation that makes it illegal ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-25)This project aims to investigate the power of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, its impact on readers, and their responses to the text and the ideologies Mitchell conveys in it, a particularly timely ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04)Infant exploratory behavior is critical for stimulating proper development and has implications on numerous developmental domains. The sticky mittens paradigm has been shown to enhance object exploration skills in infants, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)Children learn new words through a variety of methods, consciously and unconsciously making connections between novel words and new objects to expand their vocabulary. One such method may be making predictions about the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)While the existence of bipolar disorder in early adolescence is becoming more widely accepted, the degree of manifestation in childhood is still unclear. This thesis summarizes findings on neurostructural correlates of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)The valence of parental descriptions of their child’s personality may be an indicator of child difficulties as well as the nature of caregiving behavior within that parent–child relationship. The present project examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-10)Traditional approaches in studying decision making typically use artificial or well-defined lab stimuli to investigate changes in the perception of choices. However, the processes of how people generate, evaluate, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)During infancy, consistent exposure to frequent, responsive speech is fundamental for optimal language development to occur, but there is a great amount of variability in the language that infants hear across the first ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)Individuals’ values and religious beliefs can impact their behavior and mental state, and in turn, their health. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the effects of personal ideology on physical and mental health. This ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023)The increasing use of new digital media, such as digital applications (apps), presents new opportunities for parent-child co-play. Active parent engagement during co-play can promote parent-child emotion talk, which benefits ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-22)The positive valence system (PVS) is a domain associated with attention to, and engagement with, rewarding activities. Individual differences in neurological responses associated with the PVS, such as the amplitude of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)There are studies (Smith, Haynes, Lazarus, & Pope, 1993) suggesting that appraisals of blame mediate between causal attributions and anger. Thus, causal attributions appear to be systematic antecedents to appraisals of ...