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Love Shouldn't Hurt: Akrasia As An Explanation For The Perpetration Of Domestic Violence, Elizabeth Murad Jun 2016

Love Shouldn't Hurt: Akrasia As An Explanation For The Perpetration Of Domestic Violence, Elizabeth Murad

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Domestic Violence (DV) is a prominent issue that affects people of all demographics, and can be defined as the perpetration of psychological, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse against (typically) an inferior other. A dear friend, Alex, lost her life at the hands of her boyfriend of almost two years, and I still struggle to understand how one could do such an atrocious thing to a loved one? The Perpetrator, Clayton, claimed that he “just snapped” when he “killed [his] girlfriend.” It is from this case, and more specifically the statement: “I just snapped,” that I have based my research; I …


An Evaluation Of The Revised Hierarchical Model (Rhm): How Quickly Do We Learn To Associate Clock With Uhr?, Sierra Fuller Jun 2012

An Evaluation Of The Revised Hierarchical Model (Rhm): How Quickly Do We Learn To Associate Clock With Uhr?, Sierra Fuller

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The goal of the current study was to examine the Revised Hierarchical Model of bilingual language representation proposed by Kroll and Stewart (1994) by exploring the connection between the lexicon for one’s native language (L1) and the lexicon for one’s second language (L2) in novice bilinguals. Forty-three participants were taught 30 German words and then given a Translation Recognition Task to conjecture which pathways of the RHM were being utilized in the language acquisition process. The results supported our hypothesis, showing that there was greater interference for the monolinguals from the orthographically similar translations than the unrelated translations. The discovery …


Invisibly Wounded Warriors: The Psychological Repercussions Of War On American Soldiers, Maisy Bragg Jun 2012

Invisibly Wounded Warriors: The Psychological Repercussions Of War On American Soldiers, Maisy Bragg

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The demands that come with war can be both physically and mentally traumatizing and damaging to the soldier in many ways. These psychological injuries manifest themselves in what physicians call Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. The purpose of this paper is to examine Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in American Soldiers by analyzing the training methods, human’s natural aversion to killing, pre-deployment medical exams, type of warfare, and treatment options provided in war; specifically the Civil War, World War I and World War II, Vietnam, and the Iraq War. By taking into account the history of PTSD as a disease, as well as these …


The Role Of Religious Orientation And Religious Emphasis On God Attributions, Rebecca S. Hoffenberg Jun 2011

The Role Of Religious Orientation And Religious Emphasis On God Attributions, Rebecca S. Hoffenberg

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Religion exists as one of the greatest driving forces for a person’s political beliefs and overall outlook on life. In an attempt to understand such a complex phenomenon, researchers have examined factors that influence a person’s likelihood of acquiring religious beliefs. Past research has suggested a relation to religious emphasis in the home and future religious tendencies. This present study examined the role of acquisition of religious beliefs (via religious emphasis in one’s childhood home) and religious orientation on a person’s likelihood of making god attributions. It was hypothesized that religious emphasis and intrinsic religiosity would increase a person’s likelihood …