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Can You Spot The Fake?, Paul Allison, Alyssa Abbate, Ryan Abraham, Nate Keiser
Can You Spot The Fake?, Paul Allison, Alyssa Abbate, Ryan Abraham, Nate Keiser
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
The ability to correctly interpret smiles is a skill that can be helpful in many aspects of life. One key feature that people look at is a smile, but smiles may not always be genuine. In our study, we focused on the detection of genuine and fake smiles and trained subjects to detect deception. The first training group was given applicable information, through PowerPoint, on distinguishing between smiles along with two videos presenting a genuine and fake smile. The second group viewed a PowerPoint with applicable information without videos. The third group viewed a PowerPoint containing just videos. Our control …
Facial Recognition: Training Participants To Detect Genuine Smiles, Nate Keiser
Facial Recognition: Training Participants To Detect Genuine Smiles, Nate Keiser
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Nonverbal behaviors have the ability to affect how we perceive social communications. One of these nonverbal behaviors, a smile, is not always genuinely expressed. Our experiment attempted to improve discernment between genuine and fake smiles by manipulating training and feedback. The training/feedback group received feedback for each video and training. Our control was the no training/no feedback group, in which participants viewed a PowerPoint that presented smile information not relevant to distinguishing among smiles. The training group was given applicable information, through PowerPoint, on distinguishing among smiles along with viewing two videos of genuine and fake smiles. Prior to training, …
Attitudinal And Dispositional Predictors Of Environmentally-Responsible Behavior, Anna Isaacson, Ken Knuppel, Ashley Lawrence
Attitudinal And Dispositional Predictors Of Environmentally-Responsible Behavior, Anna Isaacson, Ken Knuppel, Ashley Lawrence
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Measures of locus of control, optimism, consideration of future consequences of behavior, environmental concern, belief in global warming, biospheric altruism, corporate skepticism, economic motivation, recycling attitudes and motivation, and political ideology were used to predict environmentally-responsible behaviors. Regression analyses revealed that the best predictors were perceived importance of recycling, economic motivation, recycling motivation, and corporate skepticism. These results suggest that global dispositional variables, such as optimism and locus of control, are not particularly useful predictors of environmentally-responsible behaviors. Instead, environmentally-specific dispositions, such as economic motivation and recycling motivation are much better predictors, as well as attitudinal dimensions such as perceived …
Examination Of Social Responding In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Micah Shields, Carlton Lyons
Examination Of Social Responding In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Micah Shields, Carlton Lyons
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Impairments in reciprocal pretend play are well documented in children with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The play of children with this disorder is characterized by repetitive behaviors and lack of symbolic or social quality. This disorder is also characterized by deficits in spontaneous language, imitation, and social interaction. The effectiveness of many different behavioral teaching techniques has been examined in order to teach play skills to children with autism. Research supports the viability of these different interventions, but very few studies have directly compared the effectiveness of these different interventions. The current study provided a direct comparison …
The Effect Of Training On Smile Detection, Christine Albain, Stephanie Kuipers, Charla Trubey, Shannon Riley
The Effect Of Training On Smile Detection, Christine Albain, Stephanie Kuipers, Charla Trubey, Shannon Riley
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
The purpose of this study was to determine whether training combined with practice/feedback could improve participants' ability to correctly distinguish between genuine and fake smiles. Participants watched twenty video clips of people smiling and were asked to mark whether each smile was genuine or fake and how confident they were in their answers. A PowerPoint presentation on characteristics of genuine smiles and practice/feedback was used to train the participants. Participants also took a smile knowledge test. They were asked to mark which characteristics were present in genuine smiles. Our study found that training significantly improved the smile knowledge test scores, …
Predicting Violent Crime, Janelle Ramsel, Ashley Varner, Crystal Sandoval
Predicting Violent Crime, Janelle Ramsel, Ashley Varner, Crystal Sandoval
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
This research works to predict the likelihood that an individual is going to participate in a violent crime. The predictors were taken from several bodies of work and synthesized into a survey format, which can be distributed to the desired population. These measures operate on the hypothesis that certain characteristics increase the likelihood of, but do not predict with certainty, an individual's propensity to participate in violent crime. The work also serves as a manual for how to interpret the selected data sets as well as how to break down the statistical correlations of each question to their predictive power.
Exploring Honor Code Perceptions, Moral Reasoning, And Attitudes Toward Learning: Establishing Concurrent Validity For The Honor Code Perceptions Scale, Ariel Johnson, Stephanie Kuipers
Exploring Honor Code Perceptions, Moral Reasoning, And Attitudes Toward Learning: Establishing Concurrent Validity For The Honor Code Perceptions Scale, Ariel Johnson, Stephanie Kuipers
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
This research project was conducted in order to examine student response to our recently devised instrument, the Honor Code Perceptions Scale. A past study investigated students’ perception of the Valparaiso University Honor Code along multiple dimensions, such as Honor Code effectiveness, tendency to engage in cheating behaviors, and toleration of others’ cheating behavior. The current study used additional instruments to measure students’ level of moral reasoning, academic motivation, and socially desirable responding. We assessed each of these variables using, respectively, the Defining Issues Test (DIT), the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey (PALS), and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Researchers examined …