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"That’S Helpful Information, But Next Time, Could You Please Talk About High Schools?", Hank M. Bohanon Apr 2020

"That’S Helpful Information, But Next Time, Could You Please Talk About High Schools?", Hank M. Bohanon

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

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A Longitudinal Look At School Climate And Students' Motivations For Attending University, Bailey Sanderson Apr 2020

A Longitudinal Look At School Climate And Students' Motivations For Attending University, Bailey Sanderson

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

This study takes a longitudinal approach to exploring the role of school climate during early childhood in predicting teens’ motivation to pursue post-high school plans. School climate was examined using ISAT scores in kindergarten/preschool and first grade. Twelve years later motivation for post-high school plans in adolescence was assessed. Zero-order correlations were conducted, and results indicated that school climate in preschool/kindergarten was positively correlated with adolescents having humanitarian motivation for post-high school plans that included attending college and/or working after high school. Results also indicated that school climate in first grade was positively correlated with humanitarian motivation and negatively correlated …

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Fear & (In)Action: The Emotional Manipulation Of Dissent In Contemporary National Political Discourse, Cindy Dang Apr 2020

Fear & (In)Action: The Emotional Manipulation Of Dissent In Contemporary National Political Discourse, Cindy Dang

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Political manipulation of fear in media promotes a dynamic wherein internal emotional reactions overwhelm both internal and external intellectual consideration, thus legitimizing, unleashing and exacerbating an unassailable marginalization mentality.

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Recruitment Of A Diverse Infant Sample In The Investigation Of The Development Of Social Processing, Diana Mahlis Apr 2020

Recruitment Of A Diverse Infant Sample In The Investigation Of The Development Of Social Processing, Diana Mahlis

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This study addresses the issue of lack of racial and ethnic diversity in infant developmental psychology and neuroscience research with the intention of highlighting the importance of a diverse sample to better understanding the typical developmental trajectory of social processing. Infants were recruited to participate in an event-related potential (ERP) study, in which neural responses were measured to upright and inverted faces and houses. ERP components associated with face processing and infant attention, including the N290 and P400, were measured to investigate developmental trends from 6 to 24 months of age.

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Examining Youth School Connectedness And Youth Perceptions Of School Resource Officers As A Function Of Experiencing Community Violence, Jamie Kessler, Cynthia Onyeka M.A., Maryse H. Richards Ph.D. Apr 2020

Examining Youth School Connectedness And Youth Perceptions Of School Resource Officers As A Function Of Experiencing Community Violence, Jamie Kessler, Cynthia Onyeka M.A., Maryse H. Richards Ph.D.

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This preliminary research aims to demonstrate the linkage between exposure to community violence and school connectedness as mediated by perceptions of school resource officers (SROs). Exposure to community violence has been shown to cause psychological problems in youths who live in such communities. Low levels of school connectedness contribute to high dropout rates and greater opportunities to engage in delinquent behavior. Youths living in areas with high amounts of community violence encounter police on a more regular basis, and these interactions skew negatively for minority youths in schools and in the neighborhoods.

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Gamification To Educate On Combined Sewer Overflows And Improve Water Conservation, Anisha J. Kapoor, Brooke Lepore, Jack Segal, Max Kurinsky Apr 2020

Gamification To Educate On Combined Sewer Overflows And Improve Water Conservation, Anisha J. Kapoor, Brooke Lepore, Jack Segal, Max Kurinsky

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The city of Chicago is equipped with combined sewer systems to prevent flooding during heavy periods of rainfall. These systems hold untreated wastewater and stormwater that is expelled into surrounding bodies of water, contaminating it. Delaying water usage during peak storm times can prevent combined sewer overflow into the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. User active measures in an application will be used to engage and educate students about water issues Chicago currently faces and how combined sewer overflow. Reducing and delaying student water usage overall, especially during times of large rainfall events, will allow the strain on wastewater treatment …

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Violent Crime And Youth Resilience, William Donnelly Apr 2020

Violent Crime And Youth Resilience, William Donnelly

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This study investigated the relationship between violent crime, future expectations and beliefs about aggression, moderated by perceptions of neighborhood cohesion and gender on Black and Latinx adolescents residing in high risk communities. Federal crime data based on zip codes were used. It was hypothesized that youth exposed to higher rates of violent crime would experience lower future expectations and higher beliefs about aggression and that youth with positive perceptions of neighborhood cohesion would experience a less salient relationship between violent crime, aggressive beliefs, and future expectations. The results did not support the hypotheses, as there were no main effects.

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Origins Of School Readiness: Understanding The Role Of Support In Emerging Adulthood And Early Childhood, Rachel Rolseth Apr 2020

Origins Of School Readiness: Understanding The Role Of Support In Emerging Adulthood And Early Childhood, Rachel Rolseth

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Despite barriers that low-income, ethnic minority children face regardimg academic achievement, certain factors can help them develop resilience against such trials. The goal of this research is to identify support that students are given during kindergarten and at the end of high school. The project consists of two studies to analyze the two age groups separately. Study 1 will identify how parents support their high school seniors. Study 2 will identify how preschool teachers support their students early learning. Conducting both of these studies is important for understanding the support that children are getting at two important stages of schooling.

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Integrating Emotional Intelligence Training Into A Career And Life Planning Seminar For Students Transitioning Out Of College, Saba Shalwani, Carol Hundert, Maya Hareli, Colleen Conley Apr 2020

Integrating Emotional Intelligence Training Into A Career And Life Planning Seminar For Students Transitioning Out Of College, Saba Shalwani, Carol Hundert, Maya Hareli, Colleen Conley

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

This study will test the benefits of integrating emotional intelligence (EI) into a career and life planning seminar (UNIV 224) for upper-level undergraduates. The study has an “as usual” group (standard UNIV 224 course), an intervention group (UNIV 224 with EI), and a “control group” (students not enrolled in either course). The students’ emotional and social competencies will be measured at the beginning and end of the semester. I hypothesize that students enrolled in either UNIV 224 class will increase in grit compared to controls. Further, I hypothesize that group status will moderate the effect between baseline EI and later …

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The Importance Of "Bad Stats", Madelynne Drescher Apr 2020

The Importance Of "Bad Stats", Madelynne Drescher

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

After a year serving as a Center for Experiential Learning Social Justice Intern (SJI) in the Department of Government Relations of Catholic Charities, I outline the SJI program and the mission of the Department of Government Relations. I explore the progress I have made on the learning objectives that I set for myself within this program earlier in the year. Finally, I reflect, on personal projects that I completed within my role and on my time in an internship that often felt unnatural to what I knew advocacy to be. I particularly focused on the counter intuitive nature of "Bad …

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In My Defense, Gina Saglimbeni Apr 2020

In My Defense, Gina Saglimbeni

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

In My Defense was a second stage theatre project that I submitted to explore some of the most common defense mechanisms of psychology. I got a group of 10 students to form an ensemble and explore these topics through research, contemporary examples in media, and theatrical scenes. We came up with a 50 minute show that emphasized how the different mechanism showed itself as well as all of the ways that we as humans can overcome them and take control of the things we can through coping mechanisms.

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The Relation Of Analytic And Synthetic Listening Strategies, Aaron Sciborowski Apr 2020

The Relation Of Analytic And Synthetic Listening Strategies, Aaron Sciborowski

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Perceptual weights give a measure of the attentional strategies individuals use in analyzing complex sounds. Analytic strategies and synthetic strategies have long been established as two opposing primary modes of parsing sonic information, but their relationship has not been fully explored. In the present study participants completed two listening tasks: one following an analytical design, the other with a synthetic design. Perceptual weighting patterns were obtained from each participant. Analyses of these data revealed that analytic listeners performed better on synthetic listening tasks than listeners with a purely synthetic listening strategy, t(10) = 14.23, p<0.0001

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Defending And Advocating For Immigrant Rights: Reflecting On My Experience As An Immigration And Naturalization Intern, Edith Reynaga Apr 2020

Defending And Advocating For Immigrant Rights: Reflecting On My Experience As An Immigration And Naturalization Intern, Edith Reynaga

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Defending and advocating for immigrant rights is something I am very passionate about. I have gotten the wonderful opportunity to gain valuable experience and knowledge while interning with Catholic Charities, in their Immigration and Naturalization program as a social justice intern, through the Social Justice Internship Grant program at Loyola. I assisted and will continue to serve as an advocate for the undocumented population.

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Market Research For Onward, Sophia Cataldo Apr 2020

Market Research For Onward, Sophia Cataldo

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

As part of my my MARK 311 course, my class has been working with a client from Onward, a restaurant in Rogers Park, to collect data and do some market research to better inform them of their customers' needs and preferences. I established a business issue question and objectives to guide my research and am currently in the process of collecting data.

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Encouraging Autonomy In Refugees And Asylees, Sophia I. Todorov Apr 2020

Encouraging Autonomy In Refugees And Asylees, Sophia I. Todorov

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

This semester, I interned at World Relief Chicago as a refugee resettlement intern. World Relief is a nonprofit organization that has been supporting vulnerable immigrant populations since 1980. I interned in tandem with taking the Psychology Internship course at Loyola. Because this is a humanities-based internship, I had the opportunity to accept the Mellon Funding Award. The following project is my contribution to the Immigrant Family Services department of World Relief. My project consisted of creating an online job readiness resource that will promote autonomy in our clients, making their transition into American life easier.

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Immigrant Parents’ Acculturative Stress, Parenting Practices, And Their Preschoolers’ Self-Regulation And Assertiveness, Maria Radulescu Apr 2020

Immigrant Parents’ Acculturative Stress, Parenting Practices, And Their Preschoolers’ Self-Regulation And Assertiveness, Maria Radulescu

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

The present research identifies links between immigrant parents’ acculturative stress, parenting style, and their preschooler’s self-regulation and assertiveness. Data were collected through interviews from a sample of first- and second-generation immigrant parents from low-income backgrounds, along with reports completed by their children’s preschool teachers. Bivariate correlation analyses were conducted. Results indicated that parents feeling pressure against acculturation was negatively correlated with children’s self-regulation and assertiveness. Additionally, parents feeling pressure for and against acculturation was negatively linked with warm and supportive parenting, while warm and supportive parenting was positively associated with children’s assertiveness.

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Responselockr: An Open Source Erp Analysis Toolkit, Angie Georgaras Apr 2020

Responselockr: An Open Source Erp Analysis Toolkit, Angie Georgaras

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Current ERP analysis tools are insufficient in that they do not allow users to calculate ERPs time locked to the participant's response. They are also limited in the kinds of data visualizations and advanced statistical calculations available. Thus, we created our own open-source tool in R, an open-source programming language designed for statistics and visualization. Our tool, ResponseLockR, can calculate response-locked ERPs baseline correcting them to the pre-stimulus baseline. Our tool will also allow us to use a variety of robust statistical procedures (multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling) not commonly offered in other statistical software.

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The Impact Of Power And Need For Closure On Advice Taking And Confidence, Madison Schaefer Apr 2020

The Impact Of Power And Need For Closure On Advice Taking And Confidence, Madison Schaefer

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

This study explored whether a “power mindset” and Need for Cognitive Closure (NfCC) would influence advice taking. The participant’s level of NfCC was measured prior to the study. After a power mindset manipulation, participants took part in a judgement task and received advice. Their self-confidence and advice taking was measured. It was predicted that possessing a high power mindset would reduce the degree of advice taking. Further, we predicted that higher confidence in one’s judgements would reduce the degree of advice taking. Also, we hypothesized that participants high in NfCC would take advice less than those low in NfCC.

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Executive Control Network Transcranial Alternating Stimulation (Tacs) Modulates Visual Analogical Reasoning, Shana Ward, Sara Temelkova, Emma Sims Apr 2020

Executive Control Network Transcranial Alternating Stimulation (Tacs) Modulates Visual Analogical Reasoning, Shana Ward, Sara Temelkova, Emma Sims

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Previous research has linked prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices (key hubs of the Frontoparietal Network; FPN) to analogical reasoning performance. Here we applied transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at theta frequency (6 Hz) to nodes in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC) to investigate the causal role of FPN connectivity in visual and verbal analogical reasoning. 94 participants participated in a between-subjects, double-blind design with three conditions. We found that ‘desynchronized’ stimulation led to enhanced visual analogical reasoning compared to sham and ‘synchronized’ stimulation conditions. These findings support a causal role of the FPN in visual analogical …

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Perceptions Of People Who Misgender Trans Individuals, Lina Flores Wolf Apr 2020

Perceptions Of People Who Misgender Trans Individuals, Lina Flores Wolf

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This study explored how people perceive misgendering of transgender people. We looked at participants' perceptions of an interviewer who misgenders an applicant during a job interview, and whether these perceptions vary by personal contact with trans people. We hypothesized that cisgender people who have had contact with a trans person will have less positive impressions of an interviewer who misgenders a trans person. Results show that people who know a trans person will see the interviewer as less warm, and that misgendering is generally perceived as unprofessional, regardless of contact with a trans person.

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Precedence Effects In Binaural Hearing: Do They Exist For Both Time And Level Differences?, Sarah Darnell, Nikita Mahay, Madyson Bondi, Salah Siddiqui Apr 2020

Precedence Effects In Binaural Hearing: Do They Exist For Both Time And Level Differences?, Sarah Darnell, Nikita Mahay, Madyson Bondi, Salah Siddiqui

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Up until recently work in the field of binaural hearing has operated under the prevailing belief that interaural time differences (ITDs) and interaural level differences (ILDs) produce similar “precedence effects.” However, recent evidence seems to suggest that precedence effects are much more robust for stimuli carrying an ITD than those carrying an ILD. In order to further explore how the precedence effect varies across binaural cues, we will examine the asymmetries in the processing of ITDs and ILDs as subjects make several left-right judgments based on information carried by an echo pulse in the presence of a binaural cue (ITD …

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Disgust And Vaccine Attitudes, Sophia I. Todorov Apr 2020

Disgust And Vaccine Attitudes, Sophia I. Todorov

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Anti-vaccination sentiments have recently increased. Previous research has linked anti-vaccination opinions to fears of contamination. Pro-vaccination messages utilize feelings of fear and disgust. This study aims to determine if there is a link between disgust and strength of persuasive messages. We will conduct an online study through Amazon’s MechanicalTurk. Participants will be shown images that induce disgust or fear and be presented strong or weak arguments. We will measure their vaccine attitudes, private body consciousness, disgust sensitivity, and emotional intelligence. The data will be analyzed using a series of regressions with vaccine attitudes as the outcome variable.

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The Relation Of Authoritative School Climate With Emotion Regulation And Social Competence In High School Adolescents, Grace Ann Fitzgibbons Apr 2020

The Relation Of Authoritative School Climate With Emotion Regulation And Social Competence In High School Adolescents, Grace Ann Fitzgibbons

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

Over the years, school disciplinary approaches have been largely punitive, with increased suspensions and expulsions for minor disruptive behaviors stemming from a zero-tolerance culture (Smith, 2015). One alternative to this style of discipline, is authoritative school climate. Its emphasis of structure and support has shown positive effects academically and behaviorally, but it is less clear how it affects emotional and interpersonal outcomes for youth (Cornell et al., 2016). The current study expands upon these positive influences of authoritative school climate and how it can ultimately affect emotion regulation and socialization in adolescents. Participants completed questionnaires, such as the Discipline Structure …

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The Effect Of Feeling Essentialized On Outcomes Of Direct Confrontation, Emily A. Doerner Apr 2020

The Effect Of Feeling Essentialized On Outcomes Of Direct Confrontation, Emily A. Doerner

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Confronting prejudice leads to backlash (Czopp et al., 2006), so people hesitate to confront (Swim & Hyers, 1999). This research investigated the effects of feeling essentialized after confrontation on liking, and interventions to reduce backlash for confronters. Participants imagined being confronted for racism by a friend or stranger, and wrote about the scenario in a self-affirming, self-compassionate, or objective manner. Feelings of being essentialized by the confronter and liking were measured. Participants felt more essentialized by a stranger (versus friend). As feelings of essentialism increased, a self-compassionate (versus self-affirmative/objective) viewpoint increased liking. Encouraging self-compassion limits backlash, making confrontation less costly.

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Changes In Cognitive Control After High-Demand Trials During Continuous Motor Performance: Slower Rts And Increases In Midline Theta, Michael Chammany Apr 2020

Changes In Cognitive Control After High-Demand Trials During Continuous Motor Performance: Slower Rts And Increases In Midline Theta, Michael Chammany

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Recent evidence supports competitive queuing models of action sequencing in which early responses in a sequence are more active than later responses. Despite the abundant support for competitive queuing models, evidence explaining the early mechanisms of action planning are poorly understood. Changes in frontal-midline theta-ERS in the EEG appear to be an index of the amount of co-activation of conflict in the environment and may also serve as a measure for buffering processes during the co-activation of multiple responses in an action sequence. Here, we propose to measure EEG activity while participants type 3-letter and 7-letter English words and 3-letter …

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The Effect Of Severity Of Mental Health Problems, Perceived Public Stigma, And Confidence On Students’ Willingness To Seek Treatment, Avery Pankratz Apr 2020

The Effect Of Severity Of Mental Health Problems, Perceived Public Stigma, And Confidence On Students’ Willingness To Seek Treatment, Avery Pankratz

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Previous research has shown an increase in mental health problems among college students along with a decreased willingness to seek professional help for such problems. This project focuses on how confidence in managing mental health symptoms, perceived stigma, income, and symptom severity affect a first-year college student’s hypothetical willingness to seek mental health services. The severity of anxiety symptoms was found to be a significant moderator in the relationship between confidence and willingness to seek help. Additionally, income was found to be a significant moderator in the relationship between perceived stigma and willingness to seek help.

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Painting A Movement: The Importance Of Ecoaesthetics And The Necessity Of Art Activism In The Environmental Movement, Hannah Fogel Apr 2020

Painting A Movement: The Importance Of Ecoaesthetics And The Necessity Of Art Activism In The Environmental Movement, Hannah Fogel

Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium

In 1871, Thomas Moran, an American landscape painter, created The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, a painting that only a year later inspired President Ulysses S. Grant to preserve Yellowstone as the world’s first national park. Eco-aesthetics and environmental moralism continue to be intertwined today just as they were then, as aesthetics continue to affect how much people care about environmental policy and decision making and what aspects they most care about. In my project, I explore this connection in relation to art activism and how it affects art activism’s place in the environmental movement.

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Implications Of Chronodisruption On Physical And Mental Health In College Students, Alexandra Gremp Apr 2020

Implications Of Chronodisruption On Physical And Mental Health In College Students, Alexandra Gremp

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Chronodisruption describes the discrepancy between biologically determined sleep-wake preferences and socially enforced schedules. College students may be prone to chronodisruption as they adopt less structured schedules and widely variable start times. The current study will measure chronodisruption by analyzing discrepancies between preferred and actual wake times. The current study will consider links between developmental and environmental factors (e.g., year in school and residential status) and chronodisruption, as well as how chronodisruption relates to mental and physical health among a sample of college students.

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The Influence Of Media Violence Exposure On Explicit And Implicit Emotional Face Processing, Zoa Glab, Laura Stockdale, Sylena Wilson, Marley Hornewer, Sydney Samoska, Joseph Vukov, Rebecca Silton, Robert Morrison Apr 2020

The Influence Of Media Violence Exposure On Explicit And Implicit Emotional Face Processing, Zoa Glab, Laura Stockdale, Sylena Wilson, Marley Hornewer, Sydney Samoska, Joseph Vukov, Rebecca Silton, Robert Morrison

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Past studies from our lab have shown that short-term and chronic exposure to media violence can modulate the implicit processing of emotional faces (Stockdale et al., 2015, 2017). However, other research has shown that media violence can increase the speed and accuracy of identifying angry faces when participants are explicitly asked to attend to emotion. To investigate how media violence interacts with attention to emotional stimuli, we asked participants to complete a stop-signal task (SST) with happy and angry face stimuli, while they either categorized the gender (Implicit SST; n = 47) or the facial expression (Explicit SST; n = …

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Friends, Celeste Martinez Apr 2020

Friends, Celeste Martinez

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This presentation was done for my psyc-390 class. I wanted to learn more about personality disorders and the process of diagnosing. I diagnosed all 6 of the characters from Friends. I used the DSM-5 to help me diagnose the characters. For each character I started with a slide with their background information to help get an understanding of the character. Then in the next slide I diagnosed them with a personality disorder and added the diagnostic criteria. I added “yes” if the character met the criteria and added an example.

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