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How Disgust Affects Romantic Attraction: How Our Moods Affect Our Judgments Of Attractiveness, Nicholas Phelan

Theses

Facial attractiveness is an important part of our initial judgments of people and in our ability to determine their compatibility as a mating partner. Just as mating is evolutionarily important, the emotion disgust is one of the most evolutionarily beneficial emotions as it helps keep us away from poisonous and possibly infectious substances or foods. We instinctively avoid people with facial scars and other facial deformities because these are seen as a sign of illness or generally poor well-being. Facial attraction is one component of how we choose a mate. The current experiment examined whether or not being disgusted created …

Mood Watcher: Interactive Visual Guide To Increasing Awareness Of Mood Disorders, Ziyan Han

Theses

Mood disorders are the extremely negative situations of mood that cause dysfunction in people's lives. There are a number of guides currently on the market (E.g., mood disorder self-help books, websites...) to help people with this problem, but their content is usually not customized enough to deal with each user's particular situation. In addition, the formats include content that is often text-dense and overwhelming. While there are great resources of personal mood disorder tests, suggested actions, and information about professional help, there is an opportunity to create a guide that connects these resources with a better designed format so that …

The Most Beautiful Times, Yuwen Wang

Theses

The Most Beautiful Times is a series of narrative depicting a woman's psychological experiences with sexual passion, in which

she struggles, suffers, submits, and sacrifices. It is in these

moments that profound emotions exist, which transform the

meaning of her life. This body of work is both literal and metaphorical,

as well as remembered and fantasized. The work is

based on real experiences re-imagined in constructed images to

examine the character's internal conflicts, her loss of innocence

and desire. The work explores how a story can be told through

freezing performance as still frames, as well as how and to …