Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences: Recent submissions
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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, 2024-03-27)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)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, 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, 2024-03-27)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, 2024-04)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, 2024-04)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, 2023-04)Infant exploratory behavior is critical for stimulating proper development and has implications on numerous developmental domains. The sticky mittens paradigm has been shown to enhance object exploration skills in infants, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-21)Children learn new words through a variety of methods, consciously and unconsciously making connections between novel words and new objects to expand their vocabulary. One such method may be making predictions about the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)While the existence of bipolar disorder in early adolescence is becoming more widely accepted, the degree of manifestation in childhood is still unclear. This thesis summarizes findings on neurostructural correlates of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)The valence of parental descriptions of their child’s personality may be an indicator of child difficulties as well as the nature of caregiving behavior within that parent–child relationship. The present project examined ...
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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, 2023-03)During infancy, consistent exposure to frequent, responsive speech is fundamental for optimal language development to occur, but there is a great amount of variability in the language that infants hear across the first ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03)Individuals’ values and religious beliefs can impact their behavior and mental state, and in turn, their health. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the effects of personal ideology on physical and mental health. This ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023)The increasing use of new digital media, such as digital applications (apps), presents new opportunities for parent-child co-play. Active parent engagement during co-play can promote parent-child emotion talk, which benefits ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-22)The positive valence system (PVS) is a domain associated with attention to, and engagement with, rewarding activities. Individual differences in neurological responses associated with the PVS, such as the amplitude of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-03-20)There are studies (Smith, Haynes, Lazarus, & Pope, 1993) suggesting that appraisals of blame mediate between causal attributions and anger. Thus, causal attributions appear to be systematic antecedents to appraisals of ...