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2018-2019, Full Issue
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
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Women's Place In The World, Jennifer Johnson
Women's Place In The World, Jennifer Johnson
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
When discussing gender roles and feelings towards women, they are held in lower standards than men. In society, home life, and the workplace, women are less respected than their male counterparts. I hypothesize that 1) societal expectations for women will match with traditional gender norms, 2) participants who indicate that they are religious will have a more traditional view of women’s roles, 3) some religions will show a more traditional view of women’s roles than others, 4) women will be seen as less competent than men in the workplace, and 5) women will not be as respected as men in …
Prologue, Michiko Nohara-Leclair
Prologue, Michiko Nohara-Leclair
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
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Perceived Differences In Pitch By Musicians And Non-Musicians, Kristine Garrett
Perceived Differences In Pitch By Musicians And Non-Musicians, Kristine Garrett
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
This experiment was conducted to analyze pitch perception in musicians and non-musicians. Previous researchers found that musicians had better pitch perception than non-musicians. Furthermore, violinists were found to perform best on pitch perception tests, whereas pianists and percussionists did not perform as well. Among non-musicians, music listening has been reported to affect the frequencies people are able to hear. Based on these findings, I tested three hypotheses: (1) Musicians will be able to detect small changes in frequency more accurately than non-musicians, (2) Classical musicians who play self-tunable instruments will outperform other musicians and singers, and (3) In non-musicians, the …
Moral Decision Making, Baylie Fowler, Tommi Donnelly-Julian
Moral Decision Making, Baylie Fowler, Tommi Donnelly-Julian
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
This study was conducted to assess the association between implicit biases and moral decision making. Implicit biases can control how we treat people and who we choose to associate ourselves with. We sought to determine if triggering those biases would cause a quantitative increase in moral decision making. We asked participants in the experimental group to complete the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, Banajo, & Nosek, 1998a), two parts of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2008) and a demographics questionnaire. No statistically significant differences were found in control vs experimental groups in terms of their morality scores …
Tattoos In The Workplace, Megan Hamilton
Tattoos In The Workplace, Megan Hamilton
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
This study looked at the current stance of the general public on acceptability of visible tattoos in the workplace. Participants included ages 18 to 66, which were recruited from Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Participants took part in an online Qualtrics survey consisting of 25 questions. These questions involved demographics, opinions on acceptability of tattoos in the workplace, factors took into thought when deciding if tattoos should be acceptable in the workplace, as well as questions relating to stereotypes of people that have tattoos. My hypotheses were 1) More people will claim tattoos are acceptable than they are unacceptable in the …
Athletes' Openness To Sexuality, Tereza Melicharkova
Athletes' Openness To Sexuality, Tereza Melicharkova
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
There are several studies that suggest a biological indicator linked to homosexuality among men (see for example, LeVay & Hamer, 1994); however, such a finding is lacking among women. The studies that were focused on homosexuality among women were focused only on the prevailing stereotypes (Blinde & Taub, 1992; Knight & Giuliano, 2003; Mereish & Poteat, 2015; Morandini Blaszczynski, Costa, Godwin, & Dar-Nimrod, 2017). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to find out whether the proportion of lesbians among athletes does differ from the general population and if there is any difference between individual sports and team sports. Several …
Correlational Study Between Emotional Intelligence And The Use Of Online Dating, Aleksander E. Mansdoerfer
Correlational Study Between Emotional Intelligence And The Use Of Online Dating, Aleksander E. Mansdoerfer
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
This study sought to answer if there is a correlational relationship between an individual’s emotional intelligence quotient and individual use of dating applications such as tinder or bumble. Participants from the Lindenwood University Participant Pool and the researcher’s social network were asked to answer anonymously to a two-part survey. The first part of the survey had the participants self rate their emotional intelligence by answer nineteen questions, and the second part of the study asked questions about an individuals habits and experience with online dating applications. A total of 77 participants completed the study, and their ages ranged between 18 …
Gender Inclusivity And Discrimination On College Campuses: Focusing On Gender Nonconforming Students, Mariah Palmer
Gender Inclusivity And Discrimination On College Campuses: Focusing On Gender Nonconforming Students, Mariah Palmer
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
Previous research reveals that transgender individuals suffer with greater mental health concerns than cisgender individuals (Borgogna, McDermott, Aita, & Kridel, 2018). Moreover, transgender and gender nonconforming students are experiencing more difficultly in college than their cisgender peers. The data show that transgender students experience greater levels of trauma, stressors in life, harassment, and discrimination (Greathouse et al., 2018; James et al., 2016; Swanbrow Becker et al., 2017). Further, James et al., (2016) found that the climate on campus has led some transgender students to drop out of their higher education institute. The current research examined both transgender or gender nonconforming …
The Universal Image: Are Mental Images Formed Using Prototypes?, G. Adam Martz
The Universal Image: Are Mental Images Formed Using Prototypes?, G. Adam Martz
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
This study explores the formation of mental images. Two opposing theories are reviewed concerning what influences which specific examples we choose to picture when supplied with vague concepts. The more prominent “descriptive theory” assumes that mental images are formed using the same methods of categorization and recall that other mental processes follow. Due to the descriptive theory’s similarity to the linguistic concept of prototypicality, the mental images formed by twelve participants are examined to determine whether linguistic prototypicality or our personal preferences have a higher impact in how mental images develop. A wide degree of variance in how participants perceived …