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A Fluency Heuristic Account Of Supraliminal Prime Effects On Product Preference, Nobuyuki Fukawa, Ronald W. Niedrich Nov 2015

A Fluency Heuristic Account Of Supraliminal Prime Effects On Product Preference, Nobuyuki Fukawa, Ronald W. Niedrich

Faculty Publications

The effects of supraliminal primes on product preference have been explained by two activation mechanisms, goal activation and trait activation. In this research, an additional activation mechanism not explained by goals or traits is identified. Using the implicit association test as a process measure, this article provides evidence that the effect of supraliminal primes on product preference is the result of conceptual fluency and the fluency heuristic. To provide evidence that this mechanism affects preference nonconsciously, this article proposes a dual-processing framework where conscious effects are mediated by explicit attitude and nonconscious effects are mediated by implicit attitude and moderated …


High Blood Pressure In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Urgent Imperative For Prevention And Control, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Andre P. Kengne, Sebhat Erqou, Richard S. Cooper Oct 2015

High Blood Pressure In Sub-Saharan Africa: The Urgent Imperative For Prevention And Control, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Andre P. Kengne, Sebhat Erqou, Richard S. Cooper

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2015, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Sep 2015

Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2015, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: In recent months, the top officers—or, as they like to call themselves, the “CEOs”—of Louisiana’s university systems have asked their public relations departments to proclaim their great accomplishment in staving off the economic starvation of campuses by a penurious legislature. According to this narrative, a heroic effort by the Fab Four of higher education administration convinced backwoods politicians that prosperous campuses were good for everyone. Like all narratives, this one features a beginning and an ending. Beginnings and endings have a way of eclipsing our vision of what went on before or after the story. By focusing …


Oat Consumption Reduced Intestinal Fat Deposition And Improved Health Span In Caenorhabditis Elegans Model, Chenfei Gao, Zhanguo Gao, Frank L. Greenway, Jeffrey H. Burton, William D. Johnson, Michael J. Keenan, Frederick M. Enright, Roy J. Martin, Yi Fang Chu, Jolene Zheng Sep 2015

Oat Consumption Reduced Intestinal Fat Deposition And Improved Health Span In Caenorhabditis Elegans Model, Chenfei Gao, Zhanguo Gao, Frank L. Greenway, Jeffrey H. Burton, William D. Johnson, Michael J. Keenan, Frederick M. Enright, Roy J. Martin, Yi Fang Chu, Jolene Zheng

Faculty Publications

© 2015 The Authors. In addition to their fermentable dietary fiber and the soluble β-glucan fiber, oats have unique avenanthramides that have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties that reduce coronary heart disease in human clinical trials. We hypothesized that oat consumption will increase insulin sensitivity, reduce body fat, and improve health span in Caenorhabditis elegans through a mechanism involving the daf-2 gene, which codes for the insulin/insulin-like growth factor-1-like receptor, and that hyperglycemia will attenuate these changes. Caenorhabditis elegans wild type (N2) and the null strains sir-2.1, daf-16, and daf-16/daf-2 were fed Escherichia coli (OP50) and oat flakes (0.5%, 1.0%, or …


News Recommendations From Social Media Opinion Leaders: Effects On Media Trust And Information Seeking, Jason Turcotte, Chance York, Jacob Irving, Rosanne M. Scholl, Raymond J. Pingree Sep 2015

News Recommendations From Social Media Opinion Leaders: Effects On Media Trust And Information Seeking, Jason Turcotte, Chance York, Jacob Irving, Rosanne M. Scholl, Raymond J. Pingree

Faculty Publications

Polls show a strong decline in public trust of traditional news outlets; however, social media offers new avenues for receiving news content. This experiment used the Facebook API to manipulate whether a news story appeared to have been posted on Facebook by one of the respondent's real-life Facebook friends. Results show that social media recommendations improve levels of media trust, and also make people want to follow more news from that particular media outlet in the future. Moreover, these effects are amplified when the real-life friend sharing the story on social media is perceived as an opinion leader. Implications for …


Disasters And Long-Term Recovery: Introduction To A Special Issue, Katie E. Cherry Aug 2015

Disasters And Long-Term Recovery: Introduction To A Special Issue, Katie E. Cherry

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Configuring Learning Theory To Support Teaching, David Kirshner Jul 2015

Configuring Learning Theory To Support Teaching, David Kirshner

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Directional Dominance On Stature And Cognition In Diverse Human Populations, Peter K. Joshi, Tonu Esko, Hannele Mattsson, Niina Eklund, Ilaria Gandin, Teresa Nutile, Anne U. Jackson, Claudia Schurmann, Albert V. Smith, Weihua Zhang, Yukinori Okada, Alena Stančáková, Jessica D. Faul, Wei Zhao, Traci M. Bartz, Maria Pina Concas, Nora Franceschini, Stefan Enroth, Veronique Vitart, Stella Trompet, Xiuqing Guo, Daniel I. Chasman, Jeffrey R. O'Connel, Tanguy Corre, Suraj S. Nongmaithem, Yuning Chen, Massimo Mangino, Daniela Ruggiero, Michela Traglia, Aliki Eleni Farmaki, Tim Kacprowski, Andrew Bjonnes, Ashley Van Der Spek Jul 2015

Directional Dominance On Stature And Cognition In Diverse Human Populations, Peter K. Joshi, Tonu Esko, Hannele Mattsson, Niina Eklund, Ilaria Gandin, Teresa Nutile, Anne U. Jackson, Claudia Schurmann, Albert V. Smith, Weihua Zhang, Yukinori Okada, Alena Stančáková, Jessica D. Faul, Wei Zhao, Traci M. Bartz, Maria Pina Concas, Nora Franceschini, Stefan Enroth, Veronique Vitart, Stella Trompet, Xiuqing Guo, Daniel I. Chasman, Jeffrey R. O'Connel, Tanguy Corre, Suraj S. Nongmaithem, Yuning Chen, Massimo Mangino, Daniela Ruggiero, Michela Traglia, Aliki Eleni Farmaki, Tim Kacprowski, Andrew Bjonnes, Ashley Van Der Spek

Faculty Publications

Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders, and Darwin was one of the first to recognize that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness. However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness that is common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic data now allow us to investigate the effects of homozygosity on traits of public health importance by observing contiguous homozygous segments (runs of homozygosity), which are inferred to be homozygous along their complete length. Given the low levels of genome-wide homozygosity prevalent in most human populations, information is required on very large numbers of …


"It Didn't Seem Like Race Mattered": Exploring The Implications Of Service-Learning Pedagogy For Reproducing Or Challenging Color-Blind Racism, Sarah Anna Becker, Crystal Paul Jul 2015

"It Didn't Seem Like Race Mattered": Exploring The Implications Of Service-Learning Pedagogy For Reproducing Or Challenging Color-Blind Racism, Sarah Anna Becker, Crystal Paul

Faculty Publications

Prior research measuring service-learning program successes reveals the approach can positively affect students' attitudes toward community service, can increase students' motivation to learn and ability to internalize class material, and can change their view of social issues. Studies also suggest that college students sometimes enter and leave a field site in ways that contribute to the reproduction of inequality. In this paper, we draw on three years of data from a service-learning project that involves sending college-age students (most of whom are white and materially privileged) into local, predominantly black, high-poverty neighborhoods to participate in …


Disease And Dowry: Community Context, Gender, And Adult Health In India, Samuel Stroope Jun 2015

Disease And Dowry: Community Context, Gender, And Adult Health In India, Samuel Stroope

Faculty Publications

Despite growing research on health and residential contexts, relatively little is understood about gendered contexts that are differentially important for women's and men's physical health in low- and middle-income countries. This study advances the prior knowledge by examining whether the local frequency of a salient and gendered practice in India-dowry-is associated with gender differences in physical health (acute illness, illness length, and chronic illness). Analyses are conducted using multilevel logistic and negative binomial regression models and national data on men and women across India (N = 102,763). Results show that as dowry frequency increases in communities, not only do women …


The Dynamics Of Memory Retrieval: Using Mouse Movements To Test Single­ And Dual­Process Theories, Brittany Martin May 2015

The Dynamics Of Memory Retrieval: Using Mouse Movements To Test Single­ And Dual­Process Theories, Brittany Martin

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Max Weber’S Politics As A Vocation: Modernity And Its Discontents, Anthony Alonso Tan May 2015

Max Weber’S Politics As A Vocation: Modernity And Its Discontents, Anthony Alonso Tan

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Surviving The Velvet Hammer: Analyzing The Criminalization Of Working Class Mothers In A Neoliberal Context, Grace Reinke May 2015

Surviving The Velvet Hammer: Analyzing The Criminalization Of Working Class Mothers In A Neoliberal Context, Grace Reinke

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Predicting Parole: Revolutionizing Risk/Needs Assessment In Louisiana, Chelsea Andre May 2015

Predicting Parole: Revolutionizing Risk/Needs Assessment In Louisiana, Chelsea Andre

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Proficiency In Native And Nonnative English Speakers: The Effects Of Individual Difference Variables On Performance, Haley E. Barlow May 2015

Proficiency In Native And Nonnative English Speakers: The Effects Of Individual Difference Variables On Performance, Haley E. Barlow

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Grammatical Morphology In A Child With Autism, Katherine Ball May 2015

Grammatical Morphology In A Child With Autism, Katherine Ball

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Are Social Safety Net Programs Capable Of Reducing Material Hardship Among Low-Income Americans?, Ashlee M. Smith May 2015

Are Social Safety Net Programs Capable Of Reducing Material Hardship Among Low-Income Americans?, Ashlee M. Smith

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No abstract provided.


Self-Concept And Product Extension: Why Some Products “Wear In” While Others “Wear Out”, Carmen M. Hawkins May 2015

Self-Concept And Product Extension: Why Some Products “Wear In” While Others “Wear Out”, Carmen M. Hawkins

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Culture Of Honour Theory And Social Anxiety: Cross-Regional And Sex Differences In Relationships Among Honour-Concerns, Social Anxiety And Reactive Aggression, Ashley N. Howell, Julia D. Buckner, Justin W. Weeks Apr 2015

Culture Of Honour Theory And Social Anxiety: Cross-Regional And Sex Differences In Relationships Among Honour-Concerns, Social Anxiety And Reactive Aggression, Ashley N. Howell, Julia D. Buckner, Justin W. Weeks

Faculty Publications

Consistent with the “flight or fight” model of anxiety, social anxiety may incite withdrawal or attack; yet, it is unclear why some socially anxious individuals are vulnerable to aggress. It may be that culture impacts tendencies to “fight” or “flee” from social threat. Honour cultures, including the American South, permit or even promote aggression in response to honour-threats. Thus, social anxiety in the South may be more associated with aggression than in non-honour cultures. In the current sample, region moderated the relation between social anxiety and aggression; social anxiety related positively to reactive (but not proactive) aggression among Southerners (n …


Si Tu Savais Le Don De Dieu, Catherine Harwood Lowe Apr 2015

Si Tu Savais Le Don De Dieu, Catherine Harwood Lowe

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Artist/Philosophers: Reading Art As Philosophy And Self-Creationism, Endya Hash Apr 2015

Artist/Philosophers: Reading Art As Philosophy And Self-Creationism, Endya Hash

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Of Nutrient Intake, Nutrient Adequacy, Diet Quality, And Obesity Prevalence In Low-Income Children (2-18 Yr) Based On Participation In The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Nhanes 2003-2010, Matthew J. Landry Apr 2015

A Comparison Of Nutrient Intake, Nutrient Adequacy, Diet Quality, And Obesity Prevalence In Low-Income Children (2-18 Yr) Based On Participation In The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Nhanes 2003-2010, Matthew J. Landry

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Does Cognitive Stress Result Into The Contextual Interference Effect?, Andrea Taylor Moss Apr 2015

Does Cognitive Stress Result Into The Contextual Interference Effect?, Andrea Taylor Moss

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Global Disconnect: Drug Trafficking And The Failure Of International Enforcement, Melissa Wheeler Apr 2015

Global Disconnect: Drug Trafficking And The Failure Of International Enforcement, Melissa Wheeler

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Motivations For Participation In Knitting Among Young Women, Casey R. Stannard, Eulanda A. Sanders Apr 2015

Motivations For Participation In Knitting Among Young Women, Casey R. Stannard, Eulanda A. Sanders

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


S15rs Sgr No. 18 (Pre-Law Program), Jacob Phagan Apr 2015

S15rs Sgr No. 18 (Pre-Law Program), Jacob Phagan

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.


A Case Study Of Middle Grades Leadership In A Conversion Charter School, Dana L. Bickmore, Margaret Mary Sulentic Dowell Mar 2015

A Case Study Of Middle Grades Leadership In A Conversion Charter School, Dana L. Bickmore, Margaret Mary Sulentic Dowell

Faculty Publications

This 3-year case study examined middle grades principal leadership in a takeover charter school. The researcher analyzed principal and teacher interviews, field notes, and documents in relationship to a middle grades model of principal leadership. Results suggest the principals’ limited experience, organizational factors unique to takeover charter schools, an emphasis on student test scores, and a personal educational philosophy of teacher autonomy, precluded the advocacy and implementation of elements of the middle grades principal leadership model.


Examination Of Anxiety Sensitivity And Distress Tolerance As Transdiagnostic Mechanisms Linking Multiple Anxiety Pathologies To Alcohol Use Problems In Adolescents, Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, Casey R. Guillot, Raina D. Pang, Matthew G. Kirkpatrick, Michael J. Zvolensky, Julia D. Buckner, Adam M. Leventhal Mar 2015

Examination Of Anxiety Sensitivity And Distress Tolerance As Transdiagnostic Mechanisms Linking Multiple Anxiety Pathologies To Alcohol Use Problems In Adolescents, Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, Casey R. Guillot, Raina D. Pang, Matthew G. Kirkpatrick, Michael J. Zvolensky, Julia D. Buckner, Adam M. Leventhal

Faculty Publications

Background: Multiple forms of anxiety psychopathology are associated with alcohol use problems in adolescents. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) and distress tolerance (DT) represent 2 distinct, conceptually relevant transdiagnostic constructs implicated in multiple manifestations of anxiety that may also underlie alcohol use problems and thereby explain why people with anxiety are more likely to have alcohol problems. Methods: The current cross-sectional study examined whether AS and DT accounted for (i.e., statistically mediated) the relationship between manifest indicators of the 3 common anxiety phenotypes (generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and panic disorders) and alcohol problems in …


Under-Reporting Of Dietary Energy Intake In Five Populations Of The African Diaspora, Lindsay Orcholski, Amy Luke, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Pascal Bovet, Terrence E. Forrester, Estelle V. Lambert, Lara R. Dugas, Elizabeth Kettmann, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Richard S. Cooper, Dale A. Schoeller Feb 2015

Under-Reporting Of Dietary Energy Intake In Five Populations Of The African Diaspora, Lindsay Orcholski, Amy Luke, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Pascal Bovet, Terrence E. Forrester, Estelle V. Lambert, Lara R. Dugas, Elizabeth Kettmann, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Richard S. Cooper, Dale A. Schoeller

Faculty Publications

Studies on the role of diet in the development of chronic diseases often rely on self-report surveys of dietary intake. Unfortunately, many validity studies have demonstrated that self-reported dietary intake is subject to systematic under-reporting, although the vast majority of such studies have been conducted in industrialised countries. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether or not systematic reporting error exists among the individuals of African ancestry (n 324) in five countries distributed across the Human Development Index (HDI) scale, a UN statistic devised to rank countries on non-income factors plus economic indicators. Using two 24 h …


New Genetic Loci Link Adipose And Insulin Biology To Body Fat Distribution, D. Shungin, T. W. Winkler, D. C. Croteau-Chonka, T. Ferreira, A. E. Locke, R. Mägi, R. J. Strawbridge, T. H. Pers, K. Fischer, A. E. Justice, T. Workalemahu, J. M.W. Wu, M. L. Buchkovich, N. L. Heard-Costa, T. S. Roman, A. W. Drong, C. Song, S. Gustafsson, F. R. Day, T. Esko, T. Fall, Z. Kutalik, J. Luan, J. C. Randall, A. Scherag, S. Vedantam, A. R. Wood, J. Chen, R. Fehrmann, J. Karjalainen, B. Kahali, C. T. Liu, E. M. Schmidt Feb 2015

New Genetic Loci Link Adipose And Insulin Biology To Body Fat Distribution, D. Shungin, T. W. Winkler, D. C. Croteau-Chonka, T. Ferreira, A. E. Locke, R. Mägi, R. J. Strawbridge, T. H. Pers, K. Fischer, A. E. Justice, T. Workalemahu, J. M.W. Wu, M. L. Buchkovich, N. L. Heard-Costa, T. S. Roman, A. W. Drong, C. Song, S. Gustafsson, F. R. Day, T. Esko, T. Fall, Z. Kutalik, J. Luan, J. C. Randall, A. Scherag, S. Vedantam, A. R. Wood, J. Chen, R. Fehrmann, J. Karjalainen, B. Kahali, C. T. Liu, E. M. Schmidt

Faculty Publications

Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links to cardiometabolic traits, we conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses of waist and hip circumference-related traits in up to 224,459 individuals. We identified 49 loci (33 new) associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (WHRadjBMI) and an additional 19 loci newly associated with related waist and hip circumference measures (P<5×10-8). Twenty of the 49 WHRadjBMI loci showed significant sexual dimorphism, 19 of which displayed a stronger effect in women. The identified loci were enriched for genes expressed in adipose tissue and for putative regulatory elements in adipocytes. Pathway analyses implicated adipogenesis, angiogenesis, transcriptional regulation, and insulin resistance as processes affecting fat distribution, providing insight into potential pathophysiological mechanisms.