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Exercise And Mood: Exploring The Role Of Exercise In Regulating Stress Reactivity In Bipolar Disorder, Teresa M. Edenfield
Exercise And Mood: Exploring The Role Of Exercise In Regulating Stress Reactivity In Bipolar Disorder, Teresa M. Edenfield
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a recurrent and debilitating psychological disorder characterized by a chronic dysregulation of mood with fluctuations between extremely low (e.g., depression) and extremely elevated mood states (e.g., mania), and ranks as the 6th leading cause of disability in the world. Although research has consistently shown that exercise may have antidepressant and stress-attenuating benefits in other psychiatric illnesses (e.g., depression, anxiety), these benefits have not been directly investigated for BD. The current study represents the first known investigation to examine this relationship. Single-participant designs, with crossover and interaction treatment components (i.e., A/B/A/B/A, A/C/A/C/A, A/B/A/C/A, or A/C/A/B/A) were utilized …
Touching Is Good: An Eidetic Phenomenology Of Interface, Interobjectivity, And Interaction In Nintendo's "Animal Crossing: Wild World", Bryan G. Behrenshausen
Touching Is Good: An Eidetic Phenomenology Of Interface, Interobjectivity, And Interaction In Nintendo's "Animal Crossing: Wild World", Bryan G. Behrenshausen
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Situating video games and the meaningful practice of playing video games for future study by the discipline of communication, this eidetic phenomenology centers the focus of such inquiry at the site of the body. As video game studies have heretofore largely ignored or presupposed a bifurcation between player and video game, a phenomenology is likewise crucial to investigating the lived experience of video gaming as an embodied activity by theoretically eschewing such subject/object distinctions and methodologically generating genuinely new, heuristic spaces for thinking about this phenomenon. In particular, the existential phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, which emphasizes the body as necessarily …
Profile Effects In Early Bilingual Language And Literacy, D. Kimbrough Oller, Alan Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Z. Pearson
Profile Effects In Early Bilingual Language And Literacy, D. Kimbrough Oller, Alan Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Z. Pearson
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
Bilingual children's language and literacy is stronger in some domains than others. Reanalysis of data from a broad-scale study of monolingual English and bilingual Spanish-English learners in Miami provided a clear demonstration of "profile effects," where bilingual children perform at varying levels compared to monolinguals across different test types. The profile effects were strong and consistent across conditions of socioeconomic status, language in the home, and school setting (two way or English immersion). The profile effects indicated comparable performance of bilingual and monolingual children in basic reading tasks, but lower vocabulary scores for the bilinguals in both languages. Other test …
Emotions, Not Just Decision-Making Processes, Are Critical To An Evolutionary Model Of Human Behavior, Glenn E. Weisfeld, Peter J. Lafreniere
Emotions, Not Just Decision-Making Processes, Are Critical To An Evolutionary Model Of Human Behavior, Glenn E. Weisfeld, Peter J. Lafreniere
Psychology Faculty Scholarship
An evolutionary model of human behavior should privilege emotions: essential, phylogenetically ancient behaviors that learning and decision making only subserve. Infants and non-mammals lack advanced cognitive powers but still survive. Decision making is only a means to emotional ends, which organize and prioritize behavior. The emotion of pride/shame, or dominance striving, bridges the social and biological sciences via internalization of cultural norms.