Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Issue Date
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-08)The object of this study was to test individual differentiation between the emotions Hope and Challenge/Determination in terms of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components. The former emotion requires a more ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-12)This study assessed whether 4-year-old children think a puppet has a mind separate from that of the puppeteer. 64 children, 48-60 months, watched a puppet (operated by a visible person) and another person label 3 familiar ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-18)Depression is a recurrent and debilitating disorder affecting nearly 340 million people worldwide. The present study examined what differentiates individuals with a history of one or more major depressive episodes (MDEs) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-21)Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a chronic illness that disproportionately affects African Americans in the U.S. at a rate of 1 to 500. Proper management of this blood disorder is key in ensuring that those affected lead ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-22)Using prosodic, facial, and musical stimuli, this study probed the extent of emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenic patients. Difficulties in the perception of emotional material have been well documented in the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-29)The present study investigates if 4-year-old children use people’s pragmatic competence as a standard for learning from them. In this study we define a person’s pragmatic competence by their ability to adhere to the Gricean ...
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Social Trait Judgment and Affect Recognition from Static Faces and Video Vignettes in Schizophrenia (Vanderbilt University, 2011-05)Previous research has shown impairment in affect recognition in individuals with schizophrenia. Poor affect recognition has been associated with more severe clinical symptoms and poor social functioning. The current body ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-05-02)The mechanisms of stress responses “fight or flight” and “tend and befriend” were used to define the stress response to parental depression. In a sample of 180 families of parents with a history of major depressive disorder, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-07-19)The aim of this study was to describe literacy across three generations of undergraduate students (the students, their parents, and their grandparents) in Southern African (at the University of Pretoria and at the University ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012)The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between IEP goals and prior reading instruction for children with Down Syndrome, and whether both of those variables had an impact on the children’s ...
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)To investigate attentional biases in drug addiction, the Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm was used to study opioid-dependent patients undergoing inpatient withdrawal treatment at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-28)Research on the cognitive and psychosocial effects of treatment for childhood brain tumors has consistently found deficits in these areas. However, the connections between these deficits, as well as their biological basis, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)Successful, efficacious, and reliable mood induction procedures are an important part of emotion research. Film clips have already been shown to reliably induce discrete negative emotional states, as well as general positive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)This study characterizes the neurocognitive late effects of treatment in pediatric brain tumor survivors by examining patterns of executive function, coping, emotional outcomes, and brain activation. We examined associations ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)Few studies have examined the effects of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) in children or its effects beyond sensory-motor domains. Evidence from adult populations suggests that CIMT is linked with cortical ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)The study examined the relationship between obesity and depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse in adolescents using data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Depression at baseline was ...
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Self Esteem Instability – Scale Development and Relations to Appraisal and Dispositional Constructs (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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(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 ...