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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Are They Satisfied Enough To Go Above And Beyond?, Alexandra Lungu
Are They Satisfied Enough To Go Above And Beyond?, Alexandra Lungu
Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters
Drawing on self-determination theory, this study examines the relationship between paradoxical leadership and service employees' work behaviors.
Emotional Engagement To Music Is Correlated With Enhanced Frisson Experience But Not Misophonia, Sarah Al-Shimary, Nicole Datastanyan, Shelbie Silvers, Sivan Barashy, Solena Mednicoff
Emotional Engagement To Music Is Correlated With Enhanced Frisson Experience But Not Misophonia, Sarah Al-Shimary, Nicole Datastanyan, Shelbie Silvers, Sivan Barashy, Solena Mednicoff
Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters
There is evidence that individuals who are particularly sensitive or intolerant to sounds are also more engaged or fascinated with positive sounds such as music.
Dance Experience Affects Tempo Perception, Jasmine Xu, Jordan E. Hayes, Cole Smithers, Jared Leslie
Dance Experience Affects Tempo Perception, Jasmine Xu, Jordan E. Hayes, Cole Smithers, Jared Leslie
Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters
In music, the word “tempo” refers to the speed or pace of the music (the number of beats per minute, for example). Tempo is surprisingly subjective, given that beat perception depends on age and cultural experience. Other factors besides beat (like the density of events per unit time) might influence how fast or slow people dance to music. Certain styles of music afford different speeds of dance, even when their tempos are the same.
Who Is Gonna See The Shrink? Anxiety And Depression's Relationship To Openness And Willingness To Engage In Weekly Psychotherapy, Bryce V. Brown, Teresa J. Walker, Christine Guardian, Matthew Schurr
Who Is Gonna See The Shrink? Anxiety And Depression's Relationship To Openness And Willingness To Engage In Weekly Psychotherapy, Bryce V. Brown, Teresa J. Walker, Christine Guardian, Matthew Schurr
Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters
Digital mental health interventions may offer an alternative to in-person psychotherapy. It is important to understand attitudes about traditional in-person psychotherapy among app users to contextualize treatment seeking and better understand treatment options.
Is There An App For That? Social Support, Depression, And Anxiety Among Users Of A Digital Mental Health App, Bryce V. Brown, Teresa J. Walker, Christine Guardian, Matthew Schurr
Is There An App For That? Social Support, Depression, And Anxiety Among Users Of A Digital Mental Health App, Bryce V. Brown, Teresa J. Walker, Christine Guardian, Matthew Schurr
Undergraduate Research Symposium Posters
Perceived social support has been associated with mental health. Social distancing guidelines due to COVID-19 heavily shifted social engagement to digital formats. It is important to understand the role of digital mental health interventions in mental health outcomes.
Mojave Desert Children's Picture Book, Kaesee Bourne
Mojave Desert Children's Picture Book, Kaesee Bourne
Undergraduate Research Symposium Podium Presentations
Why the Mojave? Climate Change in the Mojave; Animals reaching thresholds; Current picture books available.
Streaming's Effect On American Media Exports, Aviel Geronimo, Jonathan Swanberg
Streaming's Effect On American Media Exports, Aviel Geronimo, Jonathan Swanberg
Undergraduate Research Symposium Lightning Talks
The Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry is largest in the United States with a total value of $660 Billion in 2020. The global M&E industry is valued at approximately $2 Trillion. New technologies have allowed for the advent of streaming services for music, television, film, books, video games, and more. Streaming services allow media exports to be easily accessed by consumers domestically and abroad.
A Stillness In The Desert? Engaging The Public Through An Immersive Exploration Of Southwest Soundscapes, Julian Kilker, Thomas Bjelic
A Stillness In The Desert? Engaging The Public Through An Immersive Exploration Of Southwest Soundscapes, Julian Kilker, Thomas Bjelic
Creative Collaborations
The pandemic highlighted the anthropocentric nature of soundscapes, while the recent popularity of electric cars, quadcopters, and “noise cancellation” earbuds demonstrated how consumer products can rapidly change our awareness of sound. While light pollution is already extensively addressed in scholarly research, popular works such as The End of Night, and public engagement such as The International Dark Sky Association, the complex interplay of sound, natural resources, and public engagement is still emerging, particularly in creative fields.
Two UNLV scholars and artists are collaborating on this project: Julian Kilker, who specializes in visual and emerging technology research, and Tom Bjelic, who …
Engaging Remote Students Through Planning And Play Using Shared Google Docs, Julian Kilker
Engaging Remote Students Through Planning And Play Using Shared Google Docs, Julian Kilker
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Like many faculty teaching remotely, I faced challenges with student engagement, participation, and feedback, as well as balancing planned and impromptu course activities. In response, I explored using Google Docs to create productive and playful collaborative spaces inspired by Marie Foulston’s informal “Party in a Shared Google Doc” social experiment.
A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 9, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 9, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away
The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …
Critically Thinking About Real-World Content And Practices: The Theory Show & Tell, Erika Engstrom
Critically Thinking About Real-World Content And Practices: The Theory Show & Tell, Erika Engstrom
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Analytical and communication skills list high on employers’ priorities. Beyond assessing comprehension through exams and research papers, this project requires, pilot research using content analysis, in-class presentation, short-form synthesis of findings.
Reducing Anxiety While Boosting Creativity: Lessons From The Progymnasmata, Bryan Blankfield
Reducing Anxiety While Boosting Creativity: Lessons From The Progymnasmata, Bryan Blankfield
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
The fear of public speaking is a widely shared among individuals. This can be difficult to overcome when students are assigned several large, heavily-weighted speeches with few opportunities to become acclimated to standing in front of an audience. Several times throughout the semester students are assigned a 2–3 minute long speech inspired by the progymnasmata (a series of rhetorical exercises from Ancient Greece). The speeches vary widely from presenting a fable to impersonating an individual.
Reality In The Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking With Scenarios, Timothy T. Self
Reality In The Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking With Scenarios, Timothy T. Self
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
One of the challenges for hospitality educators is to develop critical thinking skills in the future leaders of the industry. It is often thought that students will develop this skill as a by product of course work, but research indicates that it must be explicitly taught.
Are Social Media Comparisons Thieves Of Joy?, Jessica F. Saunders, Asia A. Eaton
Are Social Media Comparisons Thieves Of Joy?, Jessica F. Saunders, Asia A. Eaton
Research Briefs
Women's eating behavior is impacted by socio-cultural factors, regardless of the main social networking site they use.
Working Groups As Classroom Management Style, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Kathryn Rafferty
Working Groups As Classroom Management Style, Emma Frances Bloomfield, Kathryn Rafferty
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
There is a need at UNLV to improve student retention across disciplines, which can be done by improving students’ confidence in their performance, improving their satisfaction with classes and their major selections, and providing welcoming and open spaces for participation and inclusion.
Are Dogs Better Than Cats?: Teaching Oral & Written Persuasion Skills, Sara Mathis
Are Dogs Better Than Cats?: Teaching Oral & Written Persuasion Skills, Sara Mathis
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
First generation students often come into UNLV underprepared for the rigors of speaking and writing. Student’s success in their courses and future careers depend on their abilities to persuade through oral and written skills.
Socrative Student And Real Time Assessment, Emma Frances Bloomfield
Socrative Student And Real Time Assessment, Emma Frances Bloomfield
UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo
Many graduate K-12 without skills necessary to manage learning (ACT, 2008)