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Student Beliefs About What Factors Influence Their Gpa, Emma R. Denelsbeck
Student Beliefs About What Factors Influence Their Gpa, Emma R. Denelsbeck
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
There are many different factors that contribute to grade point averages (GPAs) in college. Students may attribute their academic performance and GPAs to any number of different variables such as stress levels, sleep quality and alcohol use. The current study investigated what students believed had an effect on their GPA, and if these differed based on concussion history. This study examined if students thought that concussions affected their GPA. Participants were University students who completed an online survey consisting of the Texas Evaluation of Concussion History (TECH), and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The results of a Mann-Whitney …
The Impact Of Fertility Cues On Intrasexual Competition And Threat Perception, Grant Ostrander
The Impact Of Fertility Cues On Intrasexual Competition And Threat Perception, Grant Ostrander
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
Humans are capable of detecting subtle fertility indicators that change across women’s menstrual cycle. One such indicator is the voice, which may change over the course of the menstrual cycle and provide fertility cues to listeners. Such cues provide an obvious advantage to men selecting mates, however research suggests that women can also detect these cues. Women may monitor the fertility of others to more effectively adjust their own mating strategies. By monitoring women’s skin conductance, cortisol, and testosterone responses to hearing high- and low-fertility female voices, the current study further investigated whether vocal cues of fertility may physiologically prime …