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Full-Text Articles in Psychology
Interconnections Between Perceptions Of Blame, Mind, And Moral Abilities, Alex Ropes, Steve Guglielmo
Interconnections Between Perceptions Of Blame, Mind, And Moral Abilities, Alex Ropes, Steve Guglielmo
Psychology Honors Projects
Theories of blame, mind, and moral attribution consider an individual’s perceived agency, operationalized in part as perceived intentionality and self-control. People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may display social deficits and a greater tendency to engage in problem behavior (PB; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) than neurotypical (NT) people, which may lead people to perceive that individuals with ASD act less agentically. Study 1 shows that the mitigated perceived agency of people with ASD leads to mitigated blame attribution. In addition to perceived agency, theories of mind and moral attribution account for perceptions of an individual’s capacity to experience emotions, pleasure, …
Language Use Statistics And Perceptual Simulation In Language Processing, Alena Hejl
Language Use Statistics And Perceptual Simulation In Language Processing, Alena Hejl
Linguistics Honors Projects
Humans’ ability to comprehend language seems to rely on both mental reconstructions of what we have experienced in the world and statistically-based expectations of how language is used. This study adapted a comparison of perceptual and statistical explanations of word comprehension in the auditory modality. Participants completed a series of trials in which they heard cue words, some of which were spatially oriented (e.g., sky, ground), and then completed a letter identification task. In this task, the letter appeared on the computer screen in either a congruent location or an incongruent location. The position of the letter at the top …
Religion And Well-Being: Differences By Identity And Practice, Marium H. Ibrahim
Religion And Well-Being: Differences By Identity And Practice, Marium H. Ibrahim
Psychology Honors Projects
Religion is often related to greater psychological well-being in college students (Burris et al., 2009). However, across studies, researchers have conceptualized “religion” in different ways. Despite the fact that religious identity and practice tend to be related, these aspects of religion may be differentially related to well-being (Lopez, Huynh & Fuligni, 2011). In addition, the relationship between religion and well-being may differ based on societal factors such as race and gender (Diener, Tay & Myers, 2011). In this study, 157 undergraduate students completed measures of religious identity, religious practice, public regard (the extent to which people feel that their race …
Mindset Matters: Measuring Anxiety Mindsets, Jillian S. Merrick
Mindset Matters: Measuring Anxiety Mindsets, Jillian S. Merrick
Psychology Honors Projects
Considerable research supports Dweck’s (2006) theory of mindsets, yet few researchers have studied mental health mindset. The current study explores this link through developing a measure that applies Dweck’s dimensions of fixed vs. growth mindset to appraisals of anxiety while also assessing beliefs about strategies for managing anxiety. In Studies 1-4, we develop this measure and report the correlations among the four scales - Fixed, Growth, Acceptance, and Change - as well as the correlations between these scales and various measures of wellbeing in both undergraduate and high school samples. Study 5 builds on and extends this research by using …
Perceived School Style And Academic Outcomes Among Ethnically Diverse College Students, Rowan Hilty, Cari Gillen-O'Neel
Perceived School Style And Academic Outcomes Among Ethnically Diverse College Students, Rowan Hilty, Cari Gillen-O'Neel
Psychology Honors Projects
Students’ perceptions of their schools play an important role in achievement. One framework for measuring students’ perceptions is an adaptation of Baumrind’s parenting typology, which measures perceived “school style” (Pellerin, 2005) along two dimensions of responsiveness (warmth) and demandingness (high academic expectations). Although research suggests that perceptions of authoritative styles (both responsive and demanding) correlate with better student outcomes (Dornbusch et al., 1987), no existing research has considered whether these findings apply to ethnically diverse samples. We surveyed 301 students from five Midwestern colleges who completed measures of perceived school style, perceived discrimination, and several academic outcomes. Academically stigmatized students …
Selective Attention, Group-Face, Or Both? Examining The Group Attractiveness Effect Through Eye-Tracking, Wilson Merrell
Selective Attention, Group-Face, Or Both? Examining The Group Attractiveness Effect Through Eye-Tracking, Wilson Merrell
Psychology Honors Projects
The group attractiveness effect refers to when the rated attractiveness of a group of people is greater than the average attractiveness of the group’s members. Two theories have been proposed to explain this phenomenon: selective attention, and the creation of a group-face. From an evolutionary standpoint, it is adaptive for people to selectively attend to the most attractive members in a group, which provides an evaluation of group attractiveness based on a weighted, as opposed to arithmetic, average. When people perceive a group of faces, they use their peripheral vision to gain general information about stimuli outside of their direct …
The Influence Of Canine Aggression And Behavioral Treatment On Heart Rate Variability, Lydia Craig
The Influence Of Canine Aggression And Behavioral Treatment On Heart Rate Variability, Lydia Craig
Psychology Honors Projects
Dog aggression affects many, with nearly 5 million dog bites reported yearly in the United States alone. With the physical, emotional, and monetary costs of bites, it is of considerable interest to identify dogs that are likely to bite. One physiological measure that might serve as an index of aggression is heart rate variability (HRV), which refers to vagally mediated beat-to-beat change in heart rate. Low HRV has been associated with impaired emotional and behavioral regulation and stress in both humans and animals. To assess whether this measure corresponds with aggression in dogs, resting HRV was measured for dogs with …
Gratitude And Mood: Do We Need To Tailor Gratitude Interventions For People With High Vs. Low Levels Of Dysphoria?, Dung Vu Hanh Pham
Gratitude And Mood: Do We Need To Tailor Gratitude Interventions For People With High Vs. Low Levels Of Dysphoria?, Dung Vu Hanh Pham
Psychology Honors Projects
Prior research has found that trait gratitude is closely associated with enhanced mental and physical wellbeing. Interventions that seek to increase gratitude, such as daily listing of what one is grateful for, have been shown to decrease depressive symptoms and to increase positive affect as well as life satisfaction. This study sought to examine whether tailoring specific gratitude interventions to people with high vs. low dysphoria, a form of subclinical depression, might produce additional benefits given the unique characteristics of each group. We also tested whether a cognitive or an affective mechanism better explains gratitude’s effect on wellbeing. Results showed …
The Effects Of A Brief Mindfulness Intervention On Negativity Bias For Ambiguous Facial Expressions, Kevin Dowling
The Effects Of A Brief Mindfulness Intervention On Negativity Bias For Ambiguous Facial Expressions, Kevin Dowling
Psychology Honors Projects
This study investigated whether a brief mindfulness intervention influenced dysphoric participants’ appraisals of ambiguous facial expressions of emotion. Previous research suggests dysphoric individuals display a negativity bias, or a propensity to view ambiguous information as more negative, which may contribute to the development of clinical depressive disorders. Recent evidence suggests that mindfulness may mitigate this effect; however, the impact of mindfulness on socially relevant appraisals of ambiguous emotional expressions remains unknown. In the present study, 64 participants (36 without dysphoria, 28 with dysphoria) rated the relative emotional valence of six ambiguous facial expressions after listening to either a 19-minute mindfulness …