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Eliciting Seven Discrete Positive Emotions Using Film Stimuli
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
Successful, efficacious, and reliable mood induction procedures are an important part of emotion research. Film clips have already been shown to reliably induce discrete negative emotional states, as well as general positive ...
Effects of Treatment on Neurocognitive and Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-28)
Research on the cognitive and psychosocial effects of treatment for childhood brain tumors has consistently found deficits in these areas. However, the connections between these deficits, as well as their biological basis, ...
Burning Castles in Sherwood Forest: The Construction and Destruction of Political Ideology in Scott, Peacock, and Conan Doyle
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
For this study, I have chosen to concentrate on three historical novels from the nineteenth-century that are set in the medieval period: Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott; Maid Marian, a reworking of the Robin Hood legend by Thomas ...
Neurocognitive Effects of Radiation Therapy in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
This study characterizes the neurocognitive late effects of treatment in pediatric
brain tumor survivors by examining patterns of executive function, coping, emotional
outcomes, and brain activation. We examined associations ...
Causes of Interference: Working Memory and Distraction
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)
Working memory accounts for various types of cognitive processing, including object and spatial processing. Distraction has been demonstrated to be domain-specific with the strongest interference coming from a distractor ...
Persons and Potential: Education and Abolition in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-27)
This project analyzes late eighteenth-century education, family literature, and antislavery political tracts to demonstrate the intersection of education and family and abolitionist rhetoric in Britain. This examination ...
A Look Rather than a Reality: Feminism, Bras and the Politics of Commodification
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2016-04-28)
This thesis explores the interaction between feminism, fashion and visual culture during the women's liberation movement by focusing on the symbolism of bras. Using documents ranging from annual reports from the Hanes ...
The search for M-M Dwarf Eclipsing Binary Systems
(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 ...
Aristotle Meets Apple: Rhetoric in the Podcast
(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 ...
Children Coping with Cancer: Associations with Stress Reactivity, Age and Gender
(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-23)
The present study focuses on how gender, age, and stress reactivity are associated with the ways that children cope with cancer. The sample consisted of 336 families; parents and children completed questionnaires near the ...