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The Relationship Between Attachment Style And Attitudinal Orientation Toward Dreams, Gabrielle Contelmo
The Relationship Between Attachment Style And Attitudinal Orientation Toward Dreams, Gabrielle Contelmo
Honors Theses
Attachment research has explored many of the ways that personality styles – in the context of close interpersonal relationships – affect other psychological processes, but only recently have researchers attempted to discover whether there is a relationship between attachment and dreams. Previous studies have shown that the dreams of both anxious and avoidant individuals contain emotional and attachment-related concerns. This study explores the connection between attachment and attitudinal orientation toward dreams. Presumably, the emotional nature of dreams would lead people high in attachment anxiety to place more importance on their dreams, while people high in attachment avoidance would disengage from …
The Effect Of Animation Versus Live Action And Animal Versus Human Film Depictions On Terror Management Processes, Alyse N. Dunn
The Effect Of Animation Versus Live Action And Animal Versus Human Film Depictions On Terror Management Processes, Alyse N. Dunn
Honors Theses
In an effort to expand the scope of Terror Management Theory (TMT), the author proposed that viewing film clips involving death of non-animated and animated humans and animals would lead to an increase in worldview defense. Although worldview defense means were not statistically significantly different between conditions, there was a clear linear trend of increasing worldview defense from commercials to non-animated animals, suggesting that animation had less of an effect than live action and that individuals who watched clips of non-animated animals were most likely to exhibit an increase in worldview defense. The author's findings broaden TMT research by suggesting …