Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-23)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)In this thesis, I will read detective fiction, particularly from the Holmes canon, in light of two linguistic and philosophical theories: the theory of semiotics expounded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-10)A brief study of the figure of the dandy in different works of Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray) with particular emphasis on the dandy as a queer or transgressive ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2016-05-18)Using data from the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project, we performed a survey of 2028 known M Dwarf stars in the KELT footprint for M-M Dwarf eclipsing binaries (EBs). After searching 2028 Mdwarf ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)We report time-series CCD I-band photometry for the pre-main-sequence cluster NGC 6530, located within the Lagoon Nebula. The data were obtained with the 4Kx4K imager on the SMARTS 1.0m telescope at CTIO on 36 nights over ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2004-04-16)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-30)A quick delineation of the United States reveals deep historical roots in racism, that which endures and manifests through the twenty-first century. Especially in the present, the era of mass incarceration exists as an ...
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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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(Hannah Packman, 2014-04-07)
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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. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-05)This paper takes a closer look at Bolsa Família, an anti-poverty program, and its impact on youth education over its fifteen years of existence in Brazil. More specifically, it will explore the distinctive effects the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
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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 ...