Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-10)Traditional approaches in studying decision making typically use artificial or well-defined lab stimuli to investigate changes in the perception of choices. However, the processes of how people generate, evaluate, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-24)Podcasts such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self, engage with, and extend, the deliberative rhetorical form. Aristotle defined deliberative rhetoric as a persuasive genre that ...
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(2021-04-27)COVID-19 introduced a slew of pandemics, not only in a global response to health crises, but also in the realm of racial justice and socioeconomic disparities. For Asian Americans, the virus unveiled a perpetuation of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)Over 12,400 children in the United States are diagnosed with cancer annually. The diagnosis and treatment of cancer can create significant amounts of stress for the mothers of these children. While facing this stress, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)We examined the associations among mindfulness, rumination, and depression, and between trait and state mindfulness in an at-risk adolescent sample. In addition, we tested the effect of an internet-based mindfulness ...
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Associations of Caretaking with Internalizing Symptoms in Offspring of Huntington's Disease Patients (Vanderbilt University, 2022-03-28)This study examines Huntington’s Disease in the context of patients and their children. Huntington’s Disease is a progressive, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disorder, meaning that children of parents with the disease ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Previous research indicates that children with pediatric cancer may be at risk for both short-term and long-term emotional difficulties including anxiety and depression. Parent communication may guide a child in successfully ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-03-29)Objectives. Parenting is a significant factor in the development of depression during adolescence. However, little research has specifically studied the association of expressed parental emotion during parent-child ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-04-30)The 1998 discovery that the universe was accelerating in its expansion has yet to be explained theoretically, meriting the continual theoretical and observational study of this phenomena. In this thesis, we undergo a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)Scholars have understood Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a quintessential female Bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel, as ultimately a conservative work, since the marriage at the end of the novel appears to subsume and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2013-04-12)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-07)There is limited research on how parents respond to their children’s emotions, both positive and negative, and how the type of emotion and internal processes of the parent are linked to their responses. The current study ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)This project analyses the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in an international context. In particular, the thesis looks at French involvement and promises of support for the Jacobites both before and throughout the first months of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2012-04)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2011-04)