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Faculty Change From Within: The Creation Of The Wmsure Program, Cheryl L. Dickter, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Hannah A. Franz, Ebony A. Lambert
Faculty Change From Within: The Creation Of The Wmsure Program, Cheryl L. Dickter, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Hannah A. Franz, Ebony A. Lambert
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Underrepresented students have less knowledge of research experiences available on campus and are less likely to feel supported by faculty than represented students. To address these issues and increase the number of underrepresented undergraduate researchers, faculty at the William & Mary created the William & Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience (WMSURE). Community based and participatory research methods were used to work with students in developing research questions and in collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data about their academic and personal experiences. This led to the development of academic and research advising services, workshops, faculty education, and research funding to …
Autistic Traits And Social Anxiety Predict Differential Performance On Social Cognitive Tasks In Typically Developing Young Adults, Cheryl L. Dickter, Joshua A. Burk, Katarina M. Fleckenstein, C. T. Kozikowski
Autistic Traits And Social Anxiety Predict Differential Performance On Social Cognitive Tasks In Typically Developing Young Adults, Cheryl L. Dickter, Joshua A. Burk, Katarina M. Fleckenstein, C. T. Kozikowski
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The current work examined the unique contribution that autistic traits and social anxiety have on tasks examining attention and emotion processing. In Study 1, 119 typically-developing college students completed a flanker task assessing the control of attention to target faces and away from distracting faces during emotion identification. In Study 2, 208 typically-developing college students performed a visual search task which required identification of whether a series of 8 or 16 emotional faces depicted the same or different emotions. Participants with more self-reported autistic traits performed more slowly on the flanker task in Study 1 than those with fewer autistic …
Characterizing Switching And Congruency Effects In The Implicit Association Test As Reactive And Proactive Cognitive Control, Joseph Hilgard, Cheryl L. Dickter, Bruce D. Bartholow, Hart Blanton
Characterizing Switching And Congruency Effects In The Implicit Association Test As Reactive And Proactive Cognitive Control, Joseph Hilgard, Cheryl L. Dickter, Bruce D. Bartholow, Hart Blanton
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Recent research has identified an important role for task switching, a cognitive control process often associated with executive functioning, in the Implicit Association Test (IAT). However, switching does not fully account for IAT effects, particularly when performance is scored using more recent d-score formulations. The current study sought to characterize multiple control processes involved in IAT performance through the use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Participants performed a race-evaluative IAT while ERPs were recorded. Behaviorally, participants experienced superadditive reaction time costs of incongruency and task switching, consistent with previous studies. The ERP showed a marked medial frontal negativity (MFN) …
Attitudes Towards Volunteerism And Individuals With Disabilities In High School Students As A Function Of Educational System In South Korea, Hee K. Baek, Cheryl L. Dickter
Attitudes Towards Volunteerism And Individuals With Disabilities In High School Students As A Function Of Educational System In South Korea, Hee K. Baek, Cheryl L. Dickter
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Volunteerism has positive effects for both society and the individuals who engage in volunteering. Numerous studies have focused on the positive relationship between adolescents’ volunteering experiences and their psychological and social development, while other studies have assessed the positive attitudinal changes of adolescent volunteers in frequent contact with individuals with disabilities. However, few studies have focused on the role of education on students’ perceptions of individuals with disabilities. The present study investigated the volunteering experiences of students enrolled in American and Korean educational system schools in South Korea. Results revealed that the American-system students volunteered more often and had more …
The Effects Of Stereotypical Cues On The Social Categorization And Judgment Of Ambiguous-Race Targets, Virginia A. Newton, Cheryl L. Dickter, Ivo Gyurovski
The Effects Of Stereotypical Cues On The Social Categorization And Judgment Of Ambiguous-Race Targets, Virginia A. Newton, Cheryl L. Dickter, Ivo Gyurovski
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The current study was conducted to test the hypotheses that categorization and subsequent judgments of ambiguous-race targets would be affected by contextual stereotypical cues, and moderated by personality traits of the perceiver. Participants viewed a social networking profile of an ambiguous-race individual with Black, White, or neutral stereotypical information presented in a between-subjects design. In accordance with hypotheses, results indicated that the ambiguous-race targets were categorized congruently with the stereotypical information. Additionally, several of the subsequent judgments about the target’s traits differed as a function of this stereotypic information as well as personality traits of the perceiver, such as prejudice …
Implicit Theories Of Ability Of Grade 6 Science Students: Relation To Epistemological Beliefs And Academic Motivation And Achievement In Science, Jason Chen, Frank Pajares
Implicit Theories Of Ability Of Grade 6 Science Students: Relation To Epistemological Beliefs And Academic Motivation And Achievement In Science, Jason Chen, Frank Pajares
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We investigated (a) the associations of implicit theories and epistemological beliefs and their effects on the academic motivation and achievement of students in Grade 6 science and (b) the mean differences of implicit theories, epistemological beliefs, and academic motivation and achievement as a function of gender and race/ethnicity (N = 508). Path analysis revealed that an incremental view of ability had direct and indirect effects on adaptive motivational factors, whereas fixed entity views had direct and indirect effects on maladaptive factors. Epistemological beliefs mediated the influence of implicit theories of ability on achievement goal orientations, self-efficacy, and science achievement. Results …
Racial Ingroup And Outgroup Attention Biases Revealed By Event-Related Brain Potentials, Cheryl L. Dickter, Bruce D. Bartholow
Racial Ingroup And Outgroup Attention Biases Revealed By Event-Related Brain Potentials, Cheryl L. Dickter, Bruce D. Bartholow
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Recent electrophysiological research indicates that perceivers differentiate others on the basis of race extremely quickly. However, most categorization studies have been limited to White participants, neglecting potential differences in processing between racial groups. Moreover, the extent to which race interferes with categorization along other dimensions when race is made irrelevant to a perceiver's task is not known. A gender categorization task was used to test the extent to which race information would implicitly interfere with explicit gender categorization. As predicted, behavioral and electrocortical data indicated that participants attended to both the task-relevant gender dimension and the task-irrelevant race dimension. Additionally, …