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The Effect Of Facebook On Body Dissatisfaction: Ethnicity As A Possible Moderator, Haley E. Brown
The Effect Of Facebook On Body Dissatisfaction: Ethnicity As A Possible Moderator, Haley E. Brown
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Eating disorders have demonstrated the most extreme rise in prevalence out of all the mental illnesses since 1990 (Lozano et al., 2012). However, research has largely neglected to investigate cross-cultural effects on disordered eating, and thus, findings may only apply to Western samples. Only two known prior studies have investigated effects of social media on disordered eating cross-culturally. This project helps fill a substantial research gap by examining social media effects on body image concerns in a culturally diverse sample of Australian undergraduate women (N= 185). The effect of a ten-minute Facebook exposure on women’s body dissatisfaction and appearance comparison …
Not All Bad: Exploring The Link Between Psychopathy And Success, Lily Constance Harker
Not All Bad: Exploring The Link Between Psychopathy And Success, Lily Constance Harker
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Justice Might Be Blind But Many Jurors Are Not: Exploring The Mechanisms Of Aversive Racism And Normative Decision Making In Juridical Decisions, Clarence A. L. Brontë
Justice Might Be Blind But Many Jurors Are Not: Exploring The Mechanisms Of Aversive Racism And Normative Decision Making In Juridical Decisions, Clarence A. L. Brontë
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Although juries exist within the American justice system to guard against “the corrupt or overzealous prosecutor and against the compliant, biased, or eccentric judge” (United States, 1968), psychological researchers have been divided over whether mock jurors do indeed demonstrate biased decision making due to the mixed results of past meta-analyses (Devine & Caughlin, 2014; Mazzella et al., 1994; Mitchell et al., 2005). In order to address what has caused these variable results, researchers must begin to explore complex paradigms for juror decision making. As such, these present studies sought to test the theoretical mechanisms of one of these possible paradigms, …