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Prosociality: Promoting Helpful Behaviors Not Just Helpful Intentions, Katherine E. Lees
Prosociality: Promoting Helpful Behaviors Not Just Helpful Intentions, Katherine E. Lees
Honors College
When social institutions (e.g. Religion and the State) give reminders to help others, it can promote prosociality. Shariff’s (2016) meta-analysis of prosociality indicates that religiosity promotes self-reported helping, but finds no consistent effect in lab-based behavioral measures of prosociality. Furthermore, existing behavioral measures are often not ecologically-valid representations of prosociality, leaving the unique effect of religion on helping unclear. This study explores the role of religion on helping, which is known to promote helping between group members, and the state, which promotes helping across groups, in a relatively valid behavioral helping scenario. Participants are reminded to help those in need …
A Study Of Personality Traits Of Travel And Cultural Awareness, Meaghan Labbe
A Study Of Personality Traits Of Travel And Cultural Awareness, Meaghan Labbe
Honors College
The present study aimed to investigate relationships for the Big 5 Personality traits of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism with a range of inventories that assessed travel desire and travel experience. The specific travel measures that were included are travel desire, cultural awareness, emotional regulation, existential authenticity, loyalty, agency and cultural motivation. The study also compared characteristics associated with a preference for specific types of travel such as authentic destinations, which give travelers a chance to experience the place they are in through engagement with the culture, people, and surroundings, versus staged destinations which are defined more in terms …
The Effects Of Equine-Assisted Activities On The Attachment Security Of Abused Women, Ilana B. Silver
The Effects Of Equine-Assisted Activities On The Attachment Security Of Abused Women, Ilana B. Silver
Honors College
The present study was designed to explore the impact of equine-assisted activities on attachment security among women who have experienced intimate partner violence. Attachment security was assessed at three different time points using the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR) (Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998), which measures attachment on two separate scales of anxiety and avoidance. Proximity maintenance, one of the components of an attachment figure, was assessed using coded video data of the interaction between horse and participant during their first meeting and goodbye. Five women who self-reported experiencing domestic abuse were recruited for this study, of whom four …
The Associations Between Reflective Rumination And Related Constructs, Bryanna P. Plummer
The Associations Between Reflective Rumination And Related Constructs, Bryanna P. Plummer
Honors College
According to the Response Styles Theory, the way in which an individual responds to depressed mood influences the duration and severity of one’s depressed mood (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991). In particular, a ruminative response, or tendency to repeatedly think about the causes and consequences of one’s depressed mood is hypothesized to worsen depressed mood (Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco & Lyubomirsky, 2008). Research examining the measure of rumination using the Ruminative Response Scale (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991), Treynor, Gonzalez and Nolen-Hoeksema (2003) has yielded two distinct subtypes of rumination: brooding and reflection. Brooding was conceptualized as a maladaptive form of rumination, while reflection was thought …
The Long-Term Impact Of Chemotherapy On Neurogenesis And The Potential Use Of Fluoxetine As Preventative Treatment, Margaret Ross
The Long-Term Impact Of Chemotherapy On Neurogenesis And The Potential Use Of Fluoxetine As Preventative Treatment, Margaret Ross
Honors College
The present study attempts to investigate a potential underlying mechanism that contributes to cognitive impairments associated with chemotherapy treatment. In addition, it looks to investigate the potential preventative treatment using an antidepressant agent (Fluoxetine) to reduce the effects observed by chemotherapy treatment. One proposed explanation for Chemo Brain is a reduction in the proliferation of new brain cells. This study was designed to investigate this mechanism and was conducted in a series of two experiments. In experiment 1, 37 C57BL/6J male mice were administered saline or one of two chemotherapy agents; Cyclophosphamide or Doxorubicin over the course of eight days. …