Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
Now showing items 350-369 of 626
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-08)In a study of infant tool use, Barrett, Davis, and Needham (2007) found that previous experience with spoons prevented infants from utilizing an unusual grasp of a teaspoon to complete a novel task. Infants were, however, ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Department of History, 2018)This thesis examines the yearbooks of two missionary girls’ secondary schools in Shanghai, the McTyeire School and St. Mary’s Hall, from 1917 to 1948. In response to the increasing Chinese nationalism, the female students ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2008-04-23)
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2000-04-11)
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-15)This thesis examines Anglo-American relations in 1973, an especially turbulent year in the history of the post-World War II "special relationship." It draws on a wide range of documentary evidence and telephone transcripts ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)Schadenfreude, the pleasure that results from another person's misfortune, is an interesting topic within emotion research. However, there has been limited research regarding whether cultural tendencies influence the ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-29)The Channel Islands have been dogged with accusations of collaboration while other historians have rushed to their defense and sought to contextualize the Islanders actions in ways that emphasized their resistance. However, ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04-27)Current models of nuclear structure describe nuclear states in terms of collective vibrations and rotations of a ground state. - One such quadrupole vibrational band is the gamma-band formed by vibrations of the short ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)Abnormal multisensory integration is thought to play an important role in anomalous dissociative experiences of the body and self, including out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and feelings-of-presence. Aspects of OBEs including ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-02)A Fano resonance is an asymmetric, resonant scattering phenomenon which occurs in a multitude of fields, such as atomic physics, nuclear physics, nonlinear optics, and nanophotonics. The Fano resonance is a many-particle ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2005-04-15)
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)This thesis examines Jimmy Carter’s health policy in the context of declining New Deal liberalism. Although Carter had campaigned in 1976 on a platform that embraced national health insurance, a major unfinished goal of ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2006-04-14)
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 1994-04-15)
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)The Cold War dominated United States’ foreign policy in the Sixties. With the Cuban Revolution and the perceived Communist threat in Chile, among other events, Latin America also became a region of greater strategic ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)The possible links between music and language continue to intrigue researchers, who are capable of investigating from their similar structures to shared human perception mechanism. In children with typical development ...