Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Issue Date
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2024-04-16)Were primordial black holes (PBHs) to exist, they could constitute a significant portion of dark matter in our universe which could be explored through gravitational wave emission, gravitational lensing, and electromagnetic ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04-12)Prosocial behavior is defined as any voluntary social behavior performed to benefit others. While many studies have found that prosocial behavior protects against depressive symptoms and negative emotions, few have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04)Patients of Huntington’s Disease experience decreased capacity for executive functioning. Moreover, HD patients also experience increased levels of impulsivity and risk-taking behaviors. Consequences of these behaviors ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04)While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can manifest as a variety of different symptom profiles, many cases of the disorder involve interoceptive difficulties. The goal of this study was to further investigate the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)PSY-PC 4999 - Honors Seminar - Dr. Jessika Boles Millions of children are living with intellectual and developmental disabilities worldwide, yet little is known about this experience from the vantage point of neurotypical ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)Mental imagery has been characterized as the isolation of the feedback process that occurs during normal perception, since stimuli are “perceived” without actual feedforward sensory input. Predictive coding theory has been ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)With the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) in 2013, newfound interest grew around the comorbidity of ASD and ADHD. However, the restructuring of both diagnosable ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)Existing literature on Chinese international students has primarily been interpreted through Eurocentric theories; thus, little is known about these perspectives from a culturally contextualized Chinese perspective. To ...
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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, 2024)Dispositional accommodative efficacy (DAE) is the general belief in one’s ability to adjust to an unwanted or unchangeable situation. Previous research has shown that this efficacy has a strong, positive relationship to ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-25)This project aims to investigate the power of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, its impact on readers, and their responses to the text and the ideologies Mitchell conveys in it, a particularly timely ...
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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, 2023-04-03)The role of unions in the US labor market has been a highly contested political issue, leading states to pass Right-to-Work (RTW) laws. As of 2023, 27 states in the US have active RTW laws, legislation that makes it illegal ...