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A Reporter and Citizen: Harrison Salisbury’s Trip to North Vietnam
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
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 ...
The Relation of Trauma to the Persistence of Functional Abdominal Pain from Childhood into Adolescence and Young Adulthood
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)
Traumatic life experiences in childhood, particularly sexual and physical assault and abuse, have been consistently related to poor physical and mental health outcomes later in life. There is some evidence linking such ...
Between Professionalism and Polemics: Historian Frank L. Owsley Writes his South
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
Differences in the Motivational Urges and Enacted Behaviors of Guilt and Shame: A Study on Individualism and Collectivism
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)
There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
"The French Book Saith": Malory’s Adaptation of His Sources
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
Effects of Frequency and Regularity on New Learning in Preference Readers
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
Learning to read English requires both knowledge of grapheme-phoneme (GP) rules and rapid recognition for familiar words, which can be mediated by whole-word (WW) mappings. Previous research has suggested that readers ...
Flow and Life Satisfaction
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
Through a 30 question survey, I aim to examine flow experiences as a positive emotion-inducing activity and how individuals respond to these events. The survey targets the relationship between momentary happiness and life ...
The “Universal Cannibalism” of Things: A Historical, Psychoanalytic Treatment of Melville’s Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-16)
This study will evaluate Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd as evidence of Melville’s embrace of an historical view of the U.S. and will further analyze these novellas ...
Resounding Footnotes Understanding the Pre-Romantics Through the Footer
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-13)
Labels can be highly problematic metaphysical entities when they suggest and lead to the creation of unity where little exists. When exactly did the Romantic Period start and stop? Some individual works are certainly ...