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The Success Of Gay–Straight Alliances In Waterloo Region, Ontario: A Confluence Of Political And Social Factors, Alex St. John, Robb Travers, Lauren Munro, Renato M. Liboro, Margaret Schneider, Carrie L. Greig Apr 2014

The Success Of Gay–Straight Alliances In Waterloo Region, Ontario: A Confluence Of Political And Social Factors, Alex St. John, Robb Travers, Lauren Munro, Renato M. Liboro, Margaret Schneider, Carrie L. Greig

Psychology Faculty Research

This article outlines how gay–straight alliances (GSAs) work to connect youth with community resources, and outlines the political and social context of GSAs in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Fifteen individuals (youth, teachers, and a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer [LGBTQ] youth service provider) participated in interviews about the role of GSAs in creating supportive school environments for LGBTQ youth and their allies. Analyses of the interview data found that, apart from providing direct support to LGBTQ students, GSAs in Waterloo Region decrease isolation by connecting youth with other LGBTQ community members, events, and resources. This article discusses how the …

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Exclusion Performance In Dwarf Goats (Capra Aegagrus Hircus) And Sheep (Ovis Orientalis Aries), Christian Nawroth, Eberhard Von Borell, Jan Langbein Apr 2014

Exclusion Performance In Dwarf Goats (Capra Aegagrus Hircus) And Sheep (Ovis Orientalis Aries), Christian Nawroth, Eberhard Von Borell, Jan Langbein

Learning Ability Collection

Using a comparative approach, we investigated the ability of dwarf goats and sheep to use direct and indirect information about the location of a food reward in an object-choice task. Subjects had to choose between two cups with only one covering a reward. Before making a choice, subjects received information about the baited (direct information) or nonbaited cup (indirect information). Both goats and sheep were able to use direct information (presence of food) in the object choice task. After controlling for local enhancement, we found that goats rather than sheep were able to use indirect information (i.e., the absence of …

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Effector-Independent Motor Sequence Representations Exist In Extrinsic And Intrinsic Reference Frames., Tobias Wiestler, Sheena Waters-Metenier, Jörn Diedrichsen Apr 2014

Effector-Independent Motor Sequence Representations Exist In Extrinsic And Intrinsic Reference Frames., Tobias Wiestler, Sheena Waters-Metenier, Jörn Diedrichsen

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Many daily activities rely on the ability to produce meaningful sequences of movements. Motor sequences can be learned in an effector-specific fashion (such that benefits of training are restricted to the trained hand) or an effector-independent manner (meaning that learning also facilitates performance with the untrained hand). Effector-independent knowledge can be represented in extrinsic/world-centered or in intrinsic/body-centered coordinates. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and multivoxel pattern analysis to determine the distribution of intrinsic and extrinsic finger sequence representations across the human neocortex. Participants practiced four sequences with one hand for 4 d, and then performed these sequences …

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Supporting Professional Psychological Services And Research In Kyrgyzstan: A Collaboration With The Open Society Foundation & The Psychology Department Of American University Of Central Asia, Sharon Horne Apr 2014

Supporting Professional Psychological Services And Research In Kyrgyzstan: A Collaboration With The Open Society Foundation & The Psychology Department Of American University Of Central Asia, Sharon Horne

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

This partnership between the Psychology Department of American University of Central Asia (AUCA), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and the Department of Counseling and School Psychology began in 2005 through an Academic Fellowship program that provides support for Returning Scholars to their home countries. Dr. Sharon Horne of the Department of Counseling and School Psychology has been working closely with the department for nearly a decade, focusing research and teaching mentorship of junior faculty and students; engaged research; and the development of a professional psychology community. Working with 7 Returning Scholars and other colleagues at AUCA, their partnership has produced publications as well …

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Reciprocal Effects Of Student Engagement And Disaffection On Changes In Teacher Support Over The School Year, Cailin Tricia Currie Apr 2014

Reciprocal Effects Of Student Engagement And Disaffection On Changes In Teacher Support Over The School Year, Cailin Tricia Currie

Dissertations and Theses

Building upon previous research on the importance of students' motivation for their learning and academic success, this study sought to examine how students' motivation in the classroom may impact the way their teachers' treat them. Specifically, data from 423 middle school students and their 21 teachers were used to examine the extent to which student engagement and disaffection (individually and in combination) in the fall predicted changes in teachers' provision of motivational support from fall to spring of the same school year. The study also examined whether these relationships might differ by student grade or gender, and whether the effects …

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Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter, Ciis Apr 2014

Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter, Ciis

Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter

This is the Spring 2014 issue of ICP Newsletter

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Ciis Today, Spring 2014 Issue, Cakifornia Institute Of Integral Studies Apr 2014

Ciis Today, Spring 2014 Issue, Cakifornia Institute Of Integral Studies

CIIS Today

This volume is the Spring 2014 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.

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No Two Can Be Alike, Harry Whitaker, Leah Piggott, Nicoletta Fraire, Emily Depetro, Casey Pernaski Apr 2014

No Two Can Be Alike, Harry Whitaker, Leah Piggott, Nicoletta Fraire, Emily Depetro, Casey Pernaski

Poster Sessions

No abstract provided.

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Integral Counceling Psychology Newsletter, Ciis Apr 2014

Integral Counceling Psychology Newsletter, Ciis

Integral Counseling Psychology Newsletter

This is the Spring 2014 issue of ICP Newsletter

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Running And Grit, Rohan H. Vakil Apr 2014

Running And Grit, Rohan H. Vakil

Honors Projects in Applied Psychology

No abstract provided.

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Attitudes Towards Drug And Alcohol Use: Culture And Emerging Adulthood, Sam Daniewicz Apr 2014

Attitudes Towards Drug And Alcohol Use: Culture And Emerging Adulthood, Sam Daniewicz

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2014

This study examined attitudes toward drug and substance use during emerging adulthood (18-26 years of age), a stage of the life span that works as a transition into adulthood and is defined by exploration and openness. Since drug and substance use among emerging adults is often a subject of current debates, it is important that more research is done about why young people think of certain drugs the way they do. Specifically, this study focused on how perceptions of drug and substance abuse are related to cultural values (individualism/collectivism) during emerging adulthood. To accomplish this goal, attitudes towards drugs in …

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Moving Ahead By Thinking Backwards, Conner Lewis, Amanda Wiener Apr 2014

Moving Ahead By Thinking Backwards, Conner Lewis, Amanda Wiener

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2014

Although some research exists regarding collegiate GPAs, little is known about which individual student characteristics predict college graduation. We study 100 students from the University of Minnesota Morris. Information collected includes demographics, standard personality traits (known in Psychology as the “Big Five”), two economic preferences (risk aversion and patience), and three cognitive skills (numeracy, non-verbal IQ, “Hit15”).“Hit 15” is a game played against the computer in which each player must add 1, 2, or 3 on each turn. Winning is exactly hitting fifteen first; players take turns going first and the starting point total varies (game theory calls solving this …

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Attachment Representations And Mother-Child Dialogue, Baiba Barene Apr 2014

Attachment Representations And Mother-Child Dialogue, Baiba Barene

Open Access Theses

With the emerging linguistic competencies of the child, dialogue becomes a regular part of mother-child everyday interactions, and may serve as one of the mechanisms of transmission of attachment in early and middle childhood. The goal of this study was to investigate the hypothesis about the co-constructive nature of children's knowledge of secure base script. Formation of the secure base script is a result of child-caregiver interactions that have been consolidated into a unit of knowledge available for use in attachment related situations. Individual attachment narratives and mother-child co-constructed narratives were collected from 86 mother-child dyads when children were 3.7 …

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Anticipatory And Reactive Responses To Chocolate Restriction In Frequent Chocolate Consumers, Chelsey L. Keeler Apr 2014

Anticipatory And Reactive Responses To Chocolate Restriction In Frequent Chocolate Consumers, Chelsey L. Keeler

Open Access Theses

Many individuals have difficulty adhering to a weight loss diet. One possible explanation could be that dietary restriction paradoxically contributes to overconsumption. The objective of this study was to examine ingestive behavior under a forced chocolate restriction, with a focus on the anticipatory restriction period and the post-restriction period in frequent chocolate consumers. Fifty-six male (N=18) and female (N=38) high chocolate consumers with high or low cognitive disinhibition aged 27.70 ± 11.09 years with a mean BMI of 25.68± 5.92 kg/m2 participated. Chocolate snacks were provided for the first, second, and sixth week of the study to establish baseline, pre-restriction …

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Coping With Emotions During Reintegration: An Evaluation Of Service Members' Psychological Health, Christina Marie Marini Apr 2014

Coping With Emotions During Reintegration: An Evaluation Of Service Members' Psychological Health, Christina Marie Marini

Open Access Theses

Upon returning home from deployment, service members are likely coping with strong emotions related to deployment stressors. In addition, service members and their intimate partners may be tasked with emotionally reconnecting with one another after an extended period of separation. Reintegration is therefore a critical, transitory time to evaluate associations between emotional coping strategies utilized by service members and their partners as predictors of service members' well-being. Previous research has indicated that service members' expression of emotions is positively related to their well-being post-deployment, whereas their avoidance is negatively related. These relationships were reevaluated in the current study. The current …

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The Production Effect And Item-Order Encoding, Bethany Kregiel Apr 2014

The Production Effect And Item-Order Encoding, Bethany Kregiel

Senior Honors Projects

When reading a mixed list of words, participants show better memory for uncommon words compared to common words (McDaniel & Bugg, 2008). The research suggests differential memory effects in item-order encoding between mixed and pure lists. Uncommon words lead to item-specific encoding whereas common words lead to order encoding. Similarly, the production effect shows that, when reading a mixed list (some words aloud, others silently), participants show better memory for the words read aloud, but the effect does not obtain for pure lists. The purpose of this study is to examine if the production effect is due to differences in …

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[Sabbatical Report], Steven Haggbloom Apr 2014

[Sabbatical Report], Steven Haggbloom

Sabbatical Reports

The purpose of my sabbatical leave was to develop an independent research program I could implement upon returning to full-time faculty status beginning in the fall 2014 semester after a nearly 12-year term as department head. My intent was to develop a research program that would utilize the University's recently acquired EEG/ERP equipment to explore neural correlates of reward based and error driven learning.

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Mood And Experience: Effects Of Ostracism On Diathesis Activation, Rachel Archer Apr 2014

Mood And Experience: Effects Of Ostracism On Diathesis Activation, Rachel Archer

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

No abstract provided.

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Repeated Aripiprazole Treatment Causes Dopamine D2 Receptor Up-Regulation And Dopamine Supersensitivity In Young Rats, Fausto A. Varela, Taleen Der-Ghazarian, Ryan J. Lee, Sergios Charntikov, Cynthia A. Crawford, Sanders A. Mcdougall Apr 2014

Repeated Aripiprazole Treatment Causes Dopamine D2 Receptor Up-Regulation And Dopamine Supersensitivity In Young Rats, Fausto A. Varela, Taleen Der-Ghazarian, Ryan J. Lee, Sergios Charntikov, Cynthia A. Crawford, Sanders A. Mcdougall

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Aripiprazole is a second-generation antipsychotic that is increasingly being prescribed to children and adolescents. Despite this trend, little preclinical research has been done on the neural and behavioral actions of aripiprazole during early development. In the present study, young male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were pretreated with vehicle, haloperidol (1 mg/kg), or aripiprazole (10 mg/kg) once daily on postnatal days (PD) 10–20. After one, four, or eight days (i.e., on PD 21, PD 24, or PD 28), amphetamine-induced locomotor activity and stereotypy, as well as dorsal striatal D2 receptor levels, were measured in separate groups of rats. Pretreating young rats …

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Modality Switching Within Conditional Reasoning, Nathaniel A. Young Apr 2014

Modality Switching Within Conditional Reasoning, Nathaniel A. Young

Student Honors Theses

The format in which humans represent knowledge is still not known. Two perspectives that explain the way in which humans represent knowledge are the amodal and modal perspectives. Recently. a modality switching effect was found during a property verification task. The modality switching effect is a delay in response time in verifying the property of an object in a modality that is different from the previously verified property of a different object. This effect is often presented as evidence to support the modal perspective, but it has not been found in a task more complex than property verification. The goal …

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Profiling Hope, Teresa Noewer Apr 2014

Profiling Hope, Teresa Noewer

Senior Honors Projects

Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH) is a nonprofit organization that strives to help students in middle school and high school build character and reach their full potential in the classroom. This organization accepts 18 students into their residential program who are bright, motivated, and who come from challenging household situations and provides them with an education and living accommodations throughout their high school career. BHGH created a new program in 2007 called Hope Prep that allowed more students to participate, and therefore created a need for a more efficient way to sort through the larger number of applicants. Since BHGH …

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Aging And Self-Stereotyping Effects On Face-Name Memory, Carla M. Strickland-Hughes, Robin Lea West, Natalie C. Ebner Apr 2014

Aging And Self-Stereotyping Effects On Face-Name Memory, Carla M. Strickland-Hughes, Robin Lea West, Natalie C. Ebner

College of the Pacific Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

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The Effect Of State Orientation On Emotion Dysregulation, Borderline Personality Disorder, And Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, Desiree Leboeuf-Davis Apr 2014

The Effect Of State Orientation On Emotion Dysregulation, Borderline Personality Disorder, And Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, Desiree Leboeuf-Davis

Doctoral Dissertations

The current study extends the application of Personality Systems Interactions (PSI) theory (Kuhl, 2000b) to the distinction between Nonsuicidal Self-injury (NSSI) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) by examining the effect of State Orientation (Kuhl, 1994) on emotion dysregulation, BPD, and NSSI. Participants were recruited using social media and internet-based snowball techniques. Participants were directed to a web-based survey consisting of a demographic questionnaire, the Action Control Scale -24 (ACS-24; Kuhl, 1994; Kuhl & Fuhrmann, 1998), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, 2004; Gratz and Roemer, 2008), the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD; Zanarini …

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Potential Negative Effects Toward Health And Well-Being In Relation To Smart Device Use, Isaac Cruz Apr 2014

Potential Negative Effects Toward Health And Well-Being In Relation To Smart Device Use, Isaac Cruz

Posters

The purpose of this study was to consider the potential correlation between spinal and neck pain, depression, and college students’ time spent on a smart device. The problem is to understand rapid changes in technology use among college students, and how this may impact their health and wellbeing. As technology evolves, and most digital tasks are able to be performed within the palm of our hands. Health and wellbeing may be challenged in different ways. Though smart devices are used as a valuable resource for keeping up with daily advances, this also potentially places college students under a new risk …

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Successive Study Of Diversity Conference Evaluations Of Presenters By Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, And Disability, Autumn M. Palmer, Christine M. Wilson, Judith Puncochar Apr 2014

Successive Study Of Diversity Conference Evaluations Of Presenters By Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, And Disability, Autumn M. Palmer, Christine M. Wilson, Judith Puncochar

Conference Presentations

A Midwestern university’s annual diversity conference hosts about 1,500 attendees from a campus of 9,000 students. Using a successive independent samples design, a series of cross-sectional surveys were conducted to answer the research question, how does a presenter’s race, gender, and ability/disability affect participant responses on conference evaluations. A review of the literature has determined that our research represents the largest and longest empirical study of a higher education diversity conference in the United States. The research is a comparative study of evaluation trends of conference attendees toward diversity conference presenters based on race, gender, and disability over eight years …

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College Students' Lingering Negative Emotional Reponses To Movies Viewed During College, Brianna M. Kuck Apr 2014

College Students' Lingering Negative Emotional Reponses To Movies Viewed During College, Brianna M. Kuck

Selected Honors Theses

Although much research has been conducted on children’s negative emotional responses to movies, and even negative emotional responses to the media in general, limited research has been conducted on college students’ lingering negative emotional responses to movies they have viewed during their college years. Through a qualitative analysis using a focus group at a Florida Christian college, this thesis will examine what kinds of disturbing movie content and elements cause these lingering negative emotional responses in college students. The lingering negative emotional responses these students have will also be discussed in detail, as well as what triggers the reemergence of …

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Applying Sex Offender Registry Laws To Juvenile Offenders: Biases Against Adolescents From Stigmatized Groups, Jessica M. Salerno, Margaret Stevenson, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Tisha R.A. Wiley, Bette L. Bottoms, Liana Peter-Hagene Apr 2014

Applying Sex Offender Registry Laws To Juvenile Offenders: Biases Against Adolescents From Stigmatized Groups, Jessica M. Salerno, Margaret Stevenson, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Tisha R.A. Wiley, Bette L. Bottoms, Liana Peter-Hagene

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

The need to protect children from dangerous sex offenders has led to policies that require juvenile sex offenders to register on public online registries. It is important to determine the implications of these laws for the wellbeing of child victims and also for juvenile offenders on these registries. Is the application of these laws—designed for adult offenders—to juveniles appropriate, necessary, and supported by public sentiment? The chapter reviews current sex offender registration policies and psychological research addressing whether the assumptions underlying these laws are supported by research, public sentiment toward these laws, factors that might drive biases against stigmatized youth …

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Into The Frightening Light: Emotional Healing Through The Creative Process, Bethany Dunfee Pierce Apr 2014

Into The Frightening Light: Emotional Healing Through The Creative Process, Bethany Dunfee Pierce

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project explores the role the creative process and art making can have in emotional healing and briefly describes connections among the affective skills of Creative Problem Solving and art making. Essentially a self-study taking place over five months, this project focuses on how the author, by developing mindful practice and behavior, used visual journaling, blogging, drawing and painting as methods of discovering her own creative process and how that process aided in emotional transformation leading toward greater self-actualization and artistic identity. This work provides key learnings that can help others in overcoming creative blocks, exploring creative process or in …

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Section Abstracts: Psychology Apr 2014

Section Abstracts: Psychology

Virginia Journal of Science

Abstracts of the Psychology Section for the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 13-15, 2014, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

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Latinos' Health Perceptions: A Cross-Cultural Analyisis, Elizabeth Pappenfus Apr 2014

Latinos' Health Perceptions: A Cross-Cultural Analyisis, Elizabeth Pappenfus

Undergraduate Research Symposium 2014

The purpose of my study is to examine how Latinos’ cultural health beliefs impact their illness behaviors in a rural setting in comparison to White individuals. Illness behavior is defined as the manner in which a person monitors their body, interprets their symptoms, and their reactions to those symptoms. Although Latino immigrants suffer from higher rates of treatable diseases, they are largely underutilizing the healthcare system in the U.S. The Andersen model of healthcare utilization is the most commonly used model for predicting utilization based on the person's environment (i.e. healthcare system) and personal characteristics (i.e. personal need, available resources, …

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