Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Title
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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, 2022-03-28)Felt presence (FP) is the perception that somebody (or something) is nearby without corresponding sensory stimuli. This phenomenon is relatively common within the general population. However, it is under-researched and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-25)The impact of trauma on individuals can have a profound and lasting effect on wellbeing. Ongoing research in the field is interested in the neurocognitive impact of trauma, including its effect on memory. However, there ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-04)College of Arts & Science
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)Previous research has demonstrated that offspring of depressed mothers are at increased risk for developing dysfunctional affect regulation, which is a risk factor for the onset of depression and other psychopathology. One ...
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(Vanderbilt University8, 2018-04-23)The current study examines the role of auditory feedback in Mandarin tone production among native and non-native speakers of Chinese through two production tasks where participants are asked to read and pronounce pseudo-words ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-10)The relationship between childhood trauma and Bipolar Disorder was investigated by analyzing Childhood Trauma Questionnaires of participants with Type I or Type II BD. Due to the small sample size, data were not found to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)Previous research has demonstrated that basic forms of visual context such as object identification and gaze support language comprehension. However, complex forms of narrative context may structure visual supports for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Objective: The current study examined the associations among executive function, secondary control coping and affective problems. Method: A sample of 104 adolescents (ages 9-15 years old) completed cognitive assessments ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014)Narrowing in on coping and stress management aspects of trait emotional intelligence, this study aims to explore how emotional intelligence may be related to buffering, which is one’s ability to subjectively shield off ...
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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, 2017-04)Minority stress theory recognizes the presence of added stress for individuals that belong to marginalized minority groups (Meyer, 2003). When considering the mental health of those who identify as sexual minorities, the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-29)The psychological study of positive emotions is a relatively new and underdeveloped area of inquiry. This study examines sex differences in the understanding, experience, and expression of positive emotions. Our participants ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04)This study looks at the influence of social factors on the elicitation of emotion. Specifically, the study focuses on variations of anger experience as a result of different gender-dyad interactions. Participants imagined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-01)The death of a sibling is potentially one of the most traumatic events for children and adolescents. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between siblings’ psychosocial adjustment following the death ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015)This study investigated similarities and differences in levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms and strategies used to cope with stress in a sample of sibling pairs of 9-15 year-old children of depressed parents. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-13)Schadenfreude, which loosely translates to "taking pleasure in the misery of others," has been found in previous research to result from situations in which an individual of the same sex as the subject is to blame for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-02)The current study will examine the degree of similarity in ways of coping in a sample of children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents. There is a relationship between mother’s coping and children’s coping, which ...