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An Event-Related Examination Of Neural Activity During Social Interactions, Jason Themanson, Stephanie Khatcherian, Aaron Ball, Peter Rosen
An Event-Related Examination Of Neural Activity During Social Interactions, Jason Themanson, Stephanie Khatcherian, Aaron Ball, Peter Rosen
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Social exclusion is known to cause alterations in neural activity and perceptions of social distress. However, previous research is largely limited to examining social interactions as a unitary phenomenon without investigating adjustments in neural and attentional processes that occur during social interactions. To address this limitation, we examined neural activity on a trial-by-trial basis during different social interactions. Our results show conflict monitoring neural alarm activation, indexed by the N2, in response to specific exclusionary events; even during interactions that are inclusionary overall and in the absence of self-reported feelings of social pain. Furthermore, we show enhanced attentional activation to …
The Effect Of Pets And Nature On Environmental Identity And Connection To Animals, Vicotria Whitaker, Kellye Kohn, Alice Fontana, Linda Kunce, Faculty Advisor
The Effect Of Pets And Nature On Environmental Identity And Connection To Animals, Vicotria Whitaker, Kellye Kohn, Alice Fontana, Linda Kunce, Faculty Advisor
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This study examined environmental identity and connection to animals in college students. Previous research has suggested that exposure to animals and nature can increase caring for both animals and nature itself. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four video conditions and analyzed for differences in mood, environmental identity, and connectedness to animals after the viewing of these videos. No significant differences were found between experimental groups for environmental identity or connectedness to animals, but it was found that those who viewed an animal reported greater improvement in mood, and that this effect differed based on whether the animal was …
The Effect Of Community Participation On Subjective Well-Being In Community Dwelling Elders, Elise English
The Effect Of Community Participation On Subjective Well-Being In Community Dwelling Elders, Elise English
Honors Projects
Relationships between health and life satisfaction, health and community participation, and community participation and life satisfaction are well documented in the literature. The current project investigates the confluence of these three variables, specifically whether community participation arbitrates the relationship between physical health challenges and life satisfaction. Using a sample of community dwelling elders from five counties in central Illinois, a mediation analysis assessed the interrelationships between each of the three variables; of particular interest was whether community participation arbitrated the relationship between physical health challenges and life satisfaction. A mediational model could not be tested because there is no statistical …
What University Personnel Should Know: Students' Career Confidence, Help-Seeking Stigmas, And Perceptions Of College Career Centers, Anna Woodruff
What University Personnel Should Know: Students' Career Confidence, Help-Seeking Stigmas, And Perceptions Of College Career Centers, Anna Woodruff
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Career center professionals face many challenges in providing services to undergraduate students. For example, students may be unaware of offered services (Garner, Rintz, & Valle, 2 20 I I) and therefore underutilize available career center resources. This is a problem because today's society places high value on developing the skills necessary to be successful in employment (Garver, Spralls, & Divine, 2009). Perceived stigma related to seeking career help (Ludwikowski, Vogel, & Armstrong, 2009), low career decision self-efficacy (O'Brien, 2003), and other barriers (Shivy & Koehly, 2002) can prevent students from seeking career services. Two studies were conducted which focused on …
Effects Of Disclosing Autism On Coworker Attitudes, Jordan G. Stewart
Effects Of Disclosing Autism On Coworker Attitudes, Jordan G. Stewart
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Individuals with autism tend to have difficulty with social relationships in the workplace, which makes it hard to obtain and maintain employment. In order to help individuals with autism navigate the workplace, it is important to examine possible stigma management strategies. Using principles from the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) theory, I investigated the effects of disclosing autism on coworker attitudes by having participants view and react to a video of an individual with autism. I also investigated the effects of displayed interpersonal warmth (e.g., greeting others) on potential coworker attitudes. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions formed …
Living (And Dying) In The Moment: An Examination Of Ongoing Neural Activity During Social Exclusion, Jason Themanson, Stephanie Khatcherian,, Aaron Ball
Living (And Dying) In The Moment: An Examination Of Ongoing Neural Activity During Social Exclusion, Jason Themanson, Stephanie Khatcherian,, Aaron Ball
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Social exclusion is known to cause alterations in neural alarm activity as well as perceptions of social distress. However, previous research is largely limited to examining neural activation aggregated within blocks of social interactions, which does not allow for the examination of adjustments in neural alarm processes, or additional task-relevant attentional processes, during social interactions. To address these limitations, we examined neural alarm activity and other attention-related neural processes on a trial-by-trial basis during different social interactions that were characterized as largely inclusive or exclusive. Our results show neural alarm activation, evidenced by the N2 component, in response to all …
The Ongoing Cognitive Processing Of Exclusionary Social Events: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials, Jason Themanson, Aaron Ball, Stephanie Khatcherian, Jennifer Schreiber, Amanda Larsen, Kaitlin Dunn, Peter Rosen
The Ongoing Cognitive Processing Of Exclusionary Social Events: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials, Jason Themanson, Aaron Ball, Stephanie Khatcherian, Jennifer Schreiber, Amanda Larsen, Kaitlin Dunn, Peter Rosen
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Social Exclusion and ERPs Social exclusion is theorized to influence cognition by reallocating attention toward exclusion and away from other processes. Accordingly, this additional processing of exclusionary events should be exhibited in neural indices of attention allocation. Previous research has shown N2 differences at the moment that an individual can identify being included or excluded within an ongoing social interaction regardless of the larger nature of the social exchange. Further, research has shown that exclusion draws attention away from other cognitive control processes, suggesting that additional processing of exclusionary events should be evidenced in ongoing interactions. Current Study To examine …
Examining The Effects Of Social Exclusion On Neural And Behavioral Indices Of Self-Regulatory Action Monitoring, Jason Themanson, Aaron Ball, Stephanie Khatcherian, Peter Rosen
Examining The Effects Of Social Exclusion On Neural And Behavioral Indices Of Self-Regulatory Action Monitoring, Jason Themanson, Aaron Ball, Stephanie Khatcherian, Peter Rosen
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Being the target of social exclusion produces a number of negative consequences, including deficits in cognitive functioning related to self-regulation and general cognition. While such effects have been acknowledged, there is a lack of literature examining the influence of social exclusion on both neural and behavioral indices of self-regulatory action monitoring processes during task performance. Accordingly, the current study utilized event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to investigate the influence of social exclusion, created through the use of the Cyberball paradigm, on neural and behavioral indices of self-regulatory action monitoring processes implemented during the execution of a modified flanker task. Specifically, the …
Influences Of Different Degrees Of Social Exclusion On Neural Activity, Jason Themanson, Amanda Larsen, Jennifer Schreiber, Kaitlin Dunn
Influences Of Different Degrees Of Social Exclusion On Neural Activity, Jason Themanson, Amanda Larsen, Jennifer Schreiber, Kaitlin Dunn
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Social Exclusion Although recent research has made strides in understanding the behavioral impact of varying degrees of social exclusion on targets of exclusion, little is known about the ongoing neural dynamics present during the exclusion process. Importantly, previous research has shown differences in neural activity during exclusionary and inclusionary interactions as well as to exclusionary and inclusionary social events. However, no examinations have investigated whether these differences are sensitive to different degrees of social inclusion or exclusion. Current Study To examine the potential impact of varying degrees of social exclusion on neural activity related to being the target of exclusion, …
Investigating Differences Due To The Timing Of Social Exclusion, Jason Themanson, Jennifer Schreiber, Amanda Larsen, Kaitlin Dunn
Investigating Differences Due To The Timing Of Social Exclusion, Jason Themanson, Jennifer Schreiber, Amanda Larsen, Kaitlin Dunn
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Social Exclusion When examining social exclusion, researchers typically focus on the end of the interaction. However, recent research examining patterns of neural activation during social interactions indicates that specific events throughout an interaction are related to perceptions of exclusion (Themanson et al., 2013). This leaves open the possibility that exclusion-related consequences may be present even if someone was fully included at the end of a social interaction. To address this issue, we varied the timing of similar durations of exclusion within social interactions to see the effects on exclusion-related neural activity and self-reported feeling states. Current Study To examine the …