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The Impact Of Intercultural Communication Competence On Academic Advising At An American-Style University In West Africa, Tara Janea Pylate
The Impact Of Intercultural Communication Competence On Academic Advising At An American-Style University In West Africa, Tara Janea Pylate
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While the internationalization of American higher education has seen significant growth in the past decade, little is known about the advisor-advisee relationship in American transnational institutions and, more specifically, at American-style institutions abroad. This quantitative study examined students’ expectations of and satisfaction with academic advising, and investigated whether students’ intercultural communication competence (ICC) predicted student satisfaction at an American-style university in West Africa. Research concerning international students in the United States provides an outline for examining academic advising abroad. Academic advisors play a vital role in motivating and empowering students. Cultural and academic challenges that international students face impact their …
Studying The Trends Of Domestic Violence In The South Asian Communities Of Shelby County, Ketaki Nandkishor Saokar
Studying The Trends Of Domestic Violence In The South Asian Communities Of Shelby County, Ketaki Nandkishor Saokar
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Abuse in South Asian countries is a significant problem, in large part due to cultural characteristics that support patriarchal views. Unfortunately, little is known about South Asian individuals once they move to the United States. One of the primary research questions was determining the most common form of domestic violence for a South Asian population living in the US, and the role of patriarchal views for DV experiences. Primary data were collected on basic demographics, religious background, country of origin, alcohol use, frequency of abuse, and patriarchal beliefs using Qualtrics. Data were collected between May and October 2022. Multiple imputations …
Scaffolding Strategic Planning And Reflection Within Software Engineering Student Team, Murshida Rahman Mouree
Scaffolding Strategic Planning And Reflection Within Software Engineering Student Team, Murshida Rahman Mouree
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Strategic planning is essential for a student software engineering team to successfully accomplish a project. Often student software teams struggle with planning, because it is hard for novices to distribute work among teammates, identify tasks, prioritize development tasks, and know how much time they should invest in each task. In other words, students struggle to self-regulate their learning. Prior work in this area typically focuses on an individual, and does not promote iterative reflection and feedback on a collaboratively created plan. In this paper, we introduce Software Engineering Team Strategic Planning (SETS Planning), a novel strategic planning and reflection technique …
Impact Of Socioeconomic Status On Reproductive Behavior Among Bangladeshi Women, Israt Jahan
Impact Of Socioeconomic Status On Reproductive Behavior Among Bangladeshi Women, Israt Jahan
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Sexual and reproductive health-related illness is a matter of concern in developing countries like Bangladesh. It mostly affects women because of their unawareness, lack of knowledge, and poor socioeconomic status. In poor communities and developing countries, another important risk factor for death and disability is unsafe sex. Proper family planning and healthy sexual and reproductive life can reduce mortality and morbidity of both children and mothers. Improvements in women’s socioeconomic status can increase awareness and knowledge about sexual and reproductive life and reduce health-related problems and death. Therefore, this study will examine the impact of socioeconomic status (educational attainment, working …
Evaluating Executive Functions In A Proposed Animal Model Of Adhd: Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, Joshua Lee Potter
Evaluating Executive Functions In A Proposed Animal Model Of Adhd: Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats, Joshua Lee Potter
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Evaluating animal models of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is crucial for expanding the breadth of knowledge of the disorder. Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRs) have been used for several years as an animal model of ADHD, and routinely provide new information about aspects of the disorder that contribute to behavioral and pharmaceutical treatment interventions. Twelve male and 12 female SHRs as well as 12 male and 12 female Wistar-Kyoto rats (i.e., control strain for the SHR) were acquired and tested on a series of operant tests starting postnatal day (PND) 70. These tests consisted of measures of motor and executive function …
Sourcing The Sacred: Application Of Reflectance Spectroscopy And Linear Morphometrics To Hopewell Mortuary Chert Discs, Brian Rowe
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ABSTRACT: Despite being one of the most intensively-studied culture phenomena of precontact North America, Hopewell peoples and their communities remain largely enigmatic outside of ceremonial earthwork sites. This research aims to examine Ohio Hopewell community by proxy of the large cache of chert bifaces disinterred from Mound 2, located at the Hopewell Mound Group (33RO27) in Ross County, Ohio. Numbering approximately 8,600 bifaces, these artifacts exhibit broadly similar macroscopic traits, and have been attributed in past archaeological literature as coming from a single source in Indiana. This research hypothesizes that this attribution is erroneous, and that the interaction of geographically …
The Influence Of Self- And Other-Oriented Persuasive Messages On The Intention To Engage In Health-Oriented Behavior Change, Kierstynn Arielle Hunter
The Influence Of Self- And Other-Oriented Persuasive Messages On The Intention To Engage In Health-Oriented Behavior Change, Kierstynn Arielle Hunter
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Although there is research investigating the influence of self- and other-oriented persuasive messages on health-oriented behavior change, little exists on the influence of these messages on mask-wearing behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, much of the research on persuasive health messages uses advertisements and other textual presentations of these persuasive messages, and little research exists on vocal presentations. This study examined how the vocal presentation of these self- and other-oriented persuasive messages can influence an individual’s self-reported likelihood of engaging in mask-wearing. Analyses showed that hearing a self-oriented persuasive message led participants to give reasons to wear a mask that …
Random Forest Modeling Approach To Predict Streamflow Intermittence Of Tennessee Headwaters Using Flow Conditioned Parameter Grids, Berkay Tok
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Water quality impairment in small tributaries due to soil erosion and stream degradation of West Tennessee is an ongoing problem. A method to model streamflow permanence can assist stream restoration work by supplementing ground monitoring and providing better targeting of conservation attempts in the most vulnerable areas. This project applied a random forest model by incorporating climatic and landcover data as predictors to create streamflow permanence data for the West Tennessee tributaries (Lower Mississippi-Hatchie Hydrologic Unit, HUC 4-801). Specifically, the applicability of the Flow Conditioned Parameter Grids (FCPG) process is tested to study if the process improves prediction results compared …
3d Geology Of Lauderdale And Tipton Counties, Tennessee: A Geostatistical Approach, Valarie Joyner Harrison
3d Geology Of Lauderdale And Tipton Counties, Tennessee: A Geostatistical Approach, Valarie Joyner Harrison
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The surface and subsurface geology of Lauderdale and Tipton counties were mapped using seismic reflection line data, borehole data, water well data, previously mapped faults, and Lidar DEM imagery. Geologic structure contour maps, isopach maps, cross sections, and a 3D geologic model were made of Tipton and Lauderdale counties. These maps, cross sections, and 3D model include the tops of the Eocene upper Claiborne Group, Eocene Memphis Sand, Cretaceous strata, and Paleozoic strata. The post-Eocene near-surface geology was also mapped, which includes Pleistocene loess, Pliocene and Pleistocene terrace alluvium, and Holocene floodplain alluvium. The resulting geologic maps and cross sections …
Question Modifiers In Vqa: Evaluating Model Sensitivity, William Johnstone Britton
Question Modifiers In Vqa: Evaluating Model Sensitivity, William Johnstone Britton
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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge problem that can advance AI by integrating several important sub-disciplines including natural language understanding and computer vision. Large VQA datasets that are publicly available for training and evaluation have driven the growth of VQA models that have obtained increasingly larger accuracy scores. However, it is also important to understand how much a model understands the details that are provided in a question. For example, studies in psychology have shown that syntactic complexity places a larger cognitive load on humans. Analogously, we want to understand if models have the perceptual capability to handle modifications …
Experimental And Computational Analysis Of Aerogels And Aerogel-Composites Under Different Environmental Conditions For Biomedical And Space Applications, Sagar Ghimire
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Aerogels are highly porous and lightweight materials with a unique combination of physical and chemical properties that can be customized to fit the parameter space desired, for the application at hand. The number of applications that have enlisted the use of aerogels have grown substantially in recent years ranging from biomedicine to aerospace. This work investigates the interaction of aerogels and aerogel composites with its environment namely interaction with two types of incident waves: pressure waves and UV radiation. In the first case, the effect of aerogel porosity and stiffness on ultrasound wave propagation in an aqueous and a non-aqueous …
A Secondary Analysis Of Help Seeking Behaviors And Psychological Distress Of Graduate Level Students Enrolled In Cacrep Accredited Counseling Programs, Katherine Bolding Haaga
A Secondary Analysis Of Help Seeking Behaviors And Psychological Distress Of Graduate Level Students Enrolled In Cacrep Accredited Counseling Programs, Katherine Bolding Haaga
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Few studies have examined help seeking behaviors and the mental health of graduate level counseling students. This study expands on the current research by examining the relationship between mental health help seeking behaviors and self-reported symptoms of psychological distress in graduate level counseling students enrolled in CACREP accredited counseling programs throughout the United States. Survey responses from 271 graduate level counseling students were analyzed. Parametric tests of ANOVA and Multiple regression, and nonparametric analyses of Kruskal-Wallis and Fishers exact test were used. Results from Kruskal-Wallis tests found significant differences in depression, anxiety, and stress scores based on the type of …
The Relationship Of Dichotic Listening Abilities And Sound Sensitivity For Older Adults, Rachel Huber
The Relationship Of Dichotic Listening Abilities And Sound Sensitivity For Older Adults, Rachel Huber
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ABSTRACT While amplification is the most prevalent treatment for mild to moderately severe hearing loss, many individuals with hearing loss report discomfort with amplified sounds. Despite attempts to resolve these issues with digital sound processing, adverse effects continue to be reported. It is possible these adverse effects are due to sound sensitivity rather than over amplification. Sound sensitivity has been found to relate to personality traits, emotionality, anxiety, depression, and self-reported hearing disability. One way to evaluate sound sensitivities is to explore how individuals accept sound. Sound acceptability is a holistic construct that attempts to evaluate a sound’s aversiveness, pleasantness, …
Dopaminergic Modulation Of Discounting Of Delayed Punishment, Grace L. Minnes
Dopaminergic Modulation Of Discounting Of Delayed Punishment, Grace L. Minnes
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Effective decision-making involves careful consideration of all potential positive and negative outcomes. Importantly, negative outcomes often occur later in time, leading to underestimation, or “discounting,” of these consequences. The Delayed Punishment Decision-making Task (DPDT) was developed to study sensitivity to delayed vs immediate punishment during cost/benefit decision-making in rats. Rats choose between two levers, one resulting in a small, single-pellet reward with no foot shock punishment, and the other resulting in a larger, three-pellet reward followed by a mild foot shock punishment. This punishment is preceded by a systematically increasing delay as the blocks progress (0, 4, 8, 12, 16 …
Dispossession Of Identity And Land: Assimilation At Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1879-1884, Morgan Lane Ingram Bentley
Dispossession Of Identity And Land: Assimilation At Carlisle Indian Industrial School 1879-1884, Morgan Lane Ingram Bentley
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In 1879, the Carlisle Barracks were placed under the care of Richard Henry Pratt in order to establish a federally funded institution for the assimilation of American Indian youth. This institution, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, would become the flagship for the experiment of American Indian education. Led by Pratt, the institution was to transform students’ understanding of their race and cultural identity. American Indian students from across the United States would attend Carlisle and be forced to assimilate by speaking English, cutting their hair, changing their names, and removing themselves from the culture of their past. Yet students did not …
The Moderating Relations Of Mindful Self-Care And Role Stressors With Stress And Burnout In School Psychologists, Nikita Pike
The Moderating Relations Of Mindful Self-Care And Role Stressors With Stress And Burnout In School Psychologists, Nikita Pike
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School psychologists take on many tasks and responsibilities in their practice, whether that be in the schools, clinics, or private practices. In this role, they risk experiencing ongoing stress which can result in feelings of burnout. Although previous literature on this topic has mentioned methods of coping with stress and burnout, there has been little research on the impact of mindful self-care methods and types of stress, such as role stressors, on levels of stress and burnout in school psychologists. This research examined the moderating effects of mindful self-care and role stressors on the relation between stress and burnout in …
Examining The Role Of Solitary Drinking In Alcohol Misuse And Functional Impairment Among Post-9/11 Veterans In The Context Of Ptsd, Brooke E. Buckley
Examining The Role Of Solitary Drinking In Alcohol Misuse And Functional Impairment Among Post-9/11 Veterans In The Context Of Ptsd, Brooke E. Buckley
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Post-9/11 veterans are at increased risk for developing PTSD and alcohol misuse. Many studies have examined the relationship between PTSD, alcohol misuse, and functional impairment and a few studies have examined the context in which drinking takes place. However, research has yet to examine solitary drinking in the context of PTSD. Using prospective data, the study tested the following hypotheses in a sample of post-9/11 veterans with PTSD via regression analyses: greater severity of PTSD would predict more time spent drinking alone (as a proportion of all drinking occasions), as would greater alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences, and a higher …
Benchmarking And Developing Novel Methods For G Protein-Coupled Receptor Ligand Discovery, Gregory Leon Szwabowski
Benchmarking And Developing Novel Methods For G Protein-Coupled Receptor Ligand Discovery, Gregory Leon Szwabowski
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) are integral membrane proteins mediating responses from extracellular effectors that regulate a diverse set of physiological functions. Consequently, GPCR are the targets of ~34% of current FDA-approved drugs.3 Although it is clear that GPCR are therapeutically significant, discovery of novel drugs for these receptors is often impeded by a lack of known ligands and/or experimentally determined structures for potential drug targets. However, computational techniques have provided paths to overcome these obstacles. As such, this work discusses the development and application of novel computational methods and workflows for GPCR ligand discovery. Chapter 1 provides an overview of …
The Impact Of Switching Schools On College-Going, Anne Walton Garrison
The Impact Of Switching Schools On College-Going, Anne Walton Garrison
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Large urban school districts, especially those with high concentrations of minority and economically disadvantaged students, have high rates of nonstructural student mobility (nonpromotional school-switching). The students in these school districts tend to be the very ones who stand to benefit the most from college attainment. However, the extent to which nonstructural student mobility impacts students’ likelihood of going to college is not fully known. This quasi-experimental study of a class of high school graduates in one urban district fills a gap in the literature by both examining the effects of switching schools in grades 3–12 on college-going and establishing causality …
Nuclear Medicine Technologists' Motivations To Pursue Post-Primary Credentials, Donna C. Mars
Nuclear Medicine Technologists' Motivations To Pursue Post-Primary Credentials, Donna C. Mars
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the motivations guiding nuclear medicine technologists to pursue post-primary credentials in computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) through the framework of the expectancy-value theory. A survey was used to answer the research question: Do the values nuclear medicine technologists associate with a post-primary certification in CT or MRI predict their intention to pursue a post-primary credential? The study included certified nuclear medicine technologists from eight states in the southeastern regions of the United States. The answers from 237 respondent, which equates to 8.6% of the population, were used in …
Contribution Of The Orbitofrontal Cortex To Delayed Punishment Discounting, Anna E. Liley
Contribution Of The Orbitofrontal Cortex To Delayed Punishment Discounting, Anna E. Liley
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The ability to accumulate rewards while minimizing negative consequences is a valuable survival skill. Importantly, many psychiatric diseases such as substance use disorder (SUD; Bechara, 2005; Gowin et al., 2013), attention deficit hyperactivity (Magnus et al., 2021), anxiety (Hartley and Phelps, 2012), major depressive, bipolar, and schizophrenia disorders (Whitton et al., 2015) involve impaired decision-making that can lead to detrimental outcomes. One factor that causes maladaptive decision-making is insensitivity to negative consequences, especially those that occur later in time (Murphy et al., 2001; Bechara and Dolan, 2002; Field et al., 2019). These studies were among the first to investigate how …
Evaluation Of Surficial Non-Liquefiable Soil Layer Impacts On Liquefaction Surface Manifestation Of The West Tennessee Area Based On Finite Difference Methods, Hamed Tohidi
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An investigation of the impact of shear strength and thickness of non-liquefiable soil layers on the surface manifestation of liquefaction based on finite difference numerical methods and to investigate the liquefaction potential of the West Tennessee area was performed by (1) analyzing liquefaction potential of Lake, Dyer, Lauderdale, and Tipton Counties, which are in West Tennessee and within or near the New Madrid Seismic Zone, based on the liquefaction potential indices of LPI and LPIISH methods; (2) developing a numerical model to perform liquefaction analysis ; (3) validating the developed numerical model in FLAC based on the evaluation of New …
Improvements In Digital Holographic Microscopy, Raul Andres Castaneda Quintero
Improvements In Digital Holographic Microscopy, Raul Andres Castaneda Quintero
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The Ph.D. dissertation consists of developing a series of innovative computational methods for improving digital holographic microscopy (DHM). DHM systems are widely used in quantitative phase imaging for studying micrometer-size biological and non-biological samples. As any imaging technique, DHM systems have limitations that reduce their applicability. Current limitations in DHM systems are: i) the number of holograms (more than three holograms) required in slightly off-axis DHM systems to reconstruct the object phase information without applying complex computational algorithms; ii) the lack of an automatic and robust computation algorithm to compensate for the interference angle and reconstruct the object phase information …
Predicting Assistive Technology Self-Efficacy In Teachers Of Students With Visual Impairments, Allen Huang
Predicting Assistive Technology Self-Efficacy In Teachers Of Students With Visual Impairments, Allen Huang
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Students who are blind and visually impaired can use assistive technology (AT) improve their access to the educational environment. Mastering the use of AT is a crucial part of developing long-term independence and productivity in academic, vocational, and leisure settings. However, teachers of students with visual impairments (TVIs) report poor self-efficacy for teaching and supporting the use of AT. TVIs with low assistive technology self-efficacy (ATSE) may be less likely to use AT with their students, teach and support AT effectively, and persist through difficult experiences with students’ AT. Subsequently, students are at risk of not being exposed to AT …
Medication Adherence And People Living With Hiv: A Qualitative Study, Lisa L. Dale
Medication Adherence And People Living With Hiv: A Qualitative Study, Lisa L. Dale
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Abstract While significant strides have developed evidence-based preventions and treatments for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), only 26% percent of HIV-positive people in care achieve the treatment objective of viral suppression (Viral Suppression, 2018). While the literature has identified a positive relationship between patient-provider communication and optimum treatment adherence, nonadherence is poorly understood, and no evidence-based model for such communication exists. This study aims to examine the perspectives of HIV-positive patients and family/friend caregivers (FFC) related to treatment adherence, as most of the literature has been dominated by the clinician’s point of view. Further, this work seeks to provide knowledge …
Deep Learning -Powered Computational Intelligence For Cyber-Attacks Detection And Mitigation In 5g-Enabled Electric Vehicle Charging Station, Manoj Basnet
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An electric vehicle charging station (EVCS) infrastructure is the backbone of transportation electrification. However, the EVCS has various cyber-attack vulnerabilities in software, hardware, supply chain, and incumbent legacy technologies such as network, communication, and control. Therefore, proactively monitoring, detecting, and defending against these attacks is very important. The state-of-the-art approaches are not agile and intelligent enough to detect, mitigate, and defend against various cyber-physical attacks in the EVCS system. To overcome these limitations, this dissertation primarily designs, develops, implements, and tests the data-driven deep learning-powered computational intelligence to detect and mitigate cyber-physical attacks at the network and physical layers of …
The Influence Of Audio And Video Quality On Perceptions Of The Psychotherapist, Olivia Glasgow
The Influence Of Audio And Video Quality On Perceptions Of The Psychotherapist, Olivia Glasgow
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The recent Coronavirus pandemic made remote means of conducting psychotherapy more common, and although there is a large amount of research on the mode of therapy, little research exists on the effects of video and audio quality on perceptions of the therapist. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the evaluation of a therapist changes when viewing different audiovisual qualities of recorded in-person therapy interactions. Participants were randomly assigned to view audio or video therapy interactions with differing levels of audiovisual quality. Analyses revealed a statistically significant difference in observer perceptions of interpersonal characteristics, such as empathy and …
Investigating The Rat Grimace Scale As A Potential Indicator Of Chronic Pain Following Forelimb Deafferentation, Nasreen Nemati
Investigating The Rat Grimace Scale As A Potential Indicator Of Chronic Pain Following Forelimb Deafferentation, Nasreen Nemati
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Reorganization of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) that follows deafferentation may play a role in phantom limb pain (PLP). An animal model of forelimb amputation and subsequent S1 reorganization, like the rat, could advance research in the underlying mechanisms of PLP. The rat grimace scale (RGS) is a method of behavioral analysis used to quantify the affective state. In this study, 8 amputee and 4 sham-operated rats were observed for a minimum of one week pre-surgery and up to 11 weeks post-surgery to score the facial behaviors using RGS. The change in overall average pre-surgery and post-surgery RGS score was …
Does It Make The Grade? Clinical Grading In An Optometric Program, Marc Brian Taub
Does It Make The Grade? Clinical Grading In An Optometric Program, Marc Brian Taub
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In this naturalistic and formative evaluation, The purpose of the study was to examine and understand how the clinical grading system at Southern College of Optometry (SCO) is being used, whether it is effective as a grading system and in teaching, and how it can be improved to better suit the needs of administration, faculty, and students. I used Experiential Learning Theory to view clinical grading as an opportunity for reflection and investigated whether the grading system was being used for that purpose. I interviewed three administrators and conducted both a faculty and student focus group with six participants each. …
Contribution Of The Orbitofrontal Cortex To Delayed Punishment Discounting, Anna E. Liley
Contribution Of The Orbitofrontal Cortex To Delayed Punishment Discounting, Anna E. Liley
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The ability to accumulate rewards while minimizing negative consequences is a valuable survival skill. Importantly, many psychiatric diseases such as substance use disorder (SUD; Bechara, 2005; Gowin et al., 2013), attention deficit hyperactivity (Magnus et al., 2021), anxiety (Hartley and Phelps, 2012), major depressive, bipolar, and schizophrenia disorders (Whitton et al., 2015) involve impaired decision-making that can lead to detrimental outcomes. One factor that causes maladaptive decision-making is insensitivity to negative consequences, especially those that occur later in time (Murphy et al., 2001; Bechara and Dolan, 2002; Field et al., 2019). These studies were among the first to investigate how …