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The Effects Of Negative Publicity On The Performance Of Professional Baseball Athletes., Crystal M. Smallwood
The Effects Of Negative Publicity On The Performance Of Professional Baseball Athletes., Crystal M. Smallwood
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This study researched the effects of negative publicity on the performance of professional baseball athletes. Four athletes’ performance statistics were evaluated before a scandal that produced negative publicity, during the height of the negative publicity and after the scrutiny tapered off. Chipper Jones, Wade Boggs, Alex Rodriguez and David Justice were the athletes chosen for the study, and all four athletes experienced a similar scandal and negative publicity about their personal and professional lives. The results showed an effect on performance, but it was not always negative and could not be definitively linked to the negative exposure in the media. …
Effects Of Imagined Social Rejection And Acceptance Across Varying Relationships., Candace L. Hawkes
Effects Of Imagined Social Rejection And Acceptance Across Varying Relationships., Candace L. Hawkes
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Previous research (Tesser, Millar, & Moore, 1988) has shown that being close to one’s rejecter intensifies negative outcomes associated with rejection. Other research, however, has shown that people’s fundamental needs are threatened equally when they are ostracized by in-group members or despised groups (i.e., KKK members; Gonsalkorale & Williams, 2007), suggesting that perhaps acceptance by close others may not differ from acceptance by strangers. In this study, we examined the effects of imagined rejection and acceptance across varying degrees of relationship intensity (close other, acquaintance, or stranger). Participants who imagined being rejected by a close other reported higher depressed mood …
Relationships Among Multicultural Educational Practices, Student Self-Efficacy, And Student Cultural Identity In The High School Setting., Kimberly Coalson
Relationships Among Multicultural Educational Practices, Student Self-Efficacy, And Student Cultural Identity In The High School Setting., Kimberly Coalson
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between multicultural educational (ME) practices, student self-efficacy, and student cultural identity in the high school English setting. Surveys were administered to first-semester college freshmen which assessed their perceptions of their high school English/literature ME experiences, self-efficacy, and current ethnic identity status, with predictions that ME would positively predict self-efficacy and identity.
Assessing The Implementation Of A Non-Profit Organizational Change Initiative Using Kotter’S (1995) 8 Step Change Model., Anna Lora Richesin
Assessing The Implementation Of A Non-Profit Organizational Change Initiative Using Kotter’S (1995) 8 Step Change Model., Anna Lora Richesin
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Increased emphasis on process improvements in all organizations challenges leaders to institute change. Using a case study approach, the current research examined an organizational change initiative embarked on by the leadership of a local non-profit organization to obtain improvement in service delivery and acquire outcome measurements. There is little in the literature concerning organizational change initiatives and the use of change models in the non-profit sector. This study examined staff perception of an organizational change initiative using Kotter’s (1995) 8 step change model as benchmarks of success. Kotter’s (1995) 8 Steps for Change is a popular change model often used …
Ending Structural Violence: A Rawlsian Approach To Liberation Theology., Jonathan Calloway
Ending Structural Violence: A Rawlsian Approach To Liberation Theology., Jonathan Calloway
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Liberation theology has played an important role for overcoming structural violence. Originating in Latin America, the movement continues to expand throughout the developed and developing world. Marxism and liberation theology share similar philosophies – showing preferential option to the poor. While many Marxists may believe that a solution to structural violence is alienating violence through justified revolution, the chance of success is limited. Liberation is a process, not an event. This essay identifies an alternative to liberation: applying the teachings of John Rawls and applying the Suffering Servant model of Jesus Christ. When we apply the Veil of Ignorance and …
Diel Periodicity In Activity And Location In The Web Of The Common House Spider (Achaearanea Tepidariorum)., Elise Wolf
Diel Periodicity In Activity And Location In The Web Of The Common House Spider (Achaearanea Tepidariorum)., Elise Wolf
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Circadian rhythm is a type of endogenous clock that controls daily behavioral patterns in most organisms. Spiders have been shown to exhibit both circadian and non-circadian rhythms in their behaviors. This rhythmicity may allow spiders to cope with diel changes in environmental conditions. Both diurnal and nocturnal behavior have different sets of costs and benefits to a species’ survival. Achaearanea tepidariorum is one species in which potential circadian rhythmicity has never been studied. Due to its foraging behavior, it was predicted that its daily activity would be arrhythmic. We recorded the positions within the web of forty individuals throughout the …
Training Pediatric Residents To Manage Treatment For Adhd: A Feasibility Study., Jonathan Calloway
Training Pediatric Residents To Manage Treatment For Adhd: A Feasibility Study., Jonathan Calloway
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This study evaluates the utility of an evidence-based protocol for the assessment of ADHD in the primary care setting as set forth in a previous study by Polaha et al. (2005). Specifically, this study will examine the viability of this protocol in the context of a pediatric resident training clinic. This study will examine the methods of ADHD diagnosis and assessment in a clinic before and after the protocol training of pediatric residents. We hypothesize that primary care pediatric residents participating in ADHD training protocol, will demonstrate improved capacity to assess, diagnose, and treat ADHD in accordance with the AAP …
Assessing The Accuracy Of Manipulation Checks: Follow-Up., Travis Clark
Assessing The Accuracy Of Manipulation Checks: Follow-Up., Travis Clark
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This study examines the accuracy with which participants complete a typical social psychology post-experimental inquiry following a procedure involving deception. Participants were randomly assigned to be informed or naïve to an ostensible purpose and were randomly assigned to be offered or not offered a reward for revealing awareness of the ostensible purpose and admission of receiving prior information. MANOVA analyses suggest that being informed and being offered a reward increase Awareness. Being offered a Reward actually decreased Admission. The implications of these results for deception research will be discussed.
Male Vs. Female Emotional Expression In Text Messaging, Stephanie Gruner
Male Vs. Female Emotional Expression In Text Messaging, Stephanie Gruner
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This study focused on gender differences in emotional expression in text messaging. It sought to discover whether men or women use more emotionally expressive tools and words in texts and whether the gender of the person receiving the message affects a person’s emotional expression when creating text messages. Fifty female and fifty male college students completed a two-part study in which they created text messages displaying particular emotions according to given scenarios. The participants were instructed to create each message as if they were texting a member of the same sex, and then a member of the opposite sex. A …
Smallpox Inoculation And Race Relations In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century America, Kristen Schaibly
Smallpox Inoculation And Race Relations In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century America, Kristen Schaibly
Undergraduate Honors Theses
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