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A** Kicking And Care Taking: Masculine Honor Beliefs And Individuals’ Priorities In Socializing Children, Julia Romo Apr 2019

A** Kicking And Care Taking: Masculine Honor Beliefs And Individuals’ Priorities In Socializing Children, Julia Romo

Kansas State University Undergraduate Research Conference

Masculine honor ideology contends that aggression is sometimes appropriate, justifiable, and even necessary, especially when used in the protection of others. What has yet to be studied is how masculine honor beliefs are taught to individuals. Accordingly, we created a program of research to examine how masculine honor beliefs relate to the way individuals want to socialize their children. We expect that higher levels of masculine honor beliefs will be related to individuals’ (especially men’s) perceiving it as important to socialize sons to defend and protect themselves from threat (i.e., ass kickers). Further, whereas we expect men higher in masculine …


Individual Differences In Perceptions Of Intersectional Racial Humor Memes, Daijah Jones Apr 2019

Individual Differences In Perceptions Of Intersectional Racial Humor Memes, Daijah Jones

Kansas State University Undergraduate Research Conference

Humor is a major part of our interactions with other people. Despite humor’s simple purpose to amuse, there are several cognitive processes at work when trying to understand it. When looking at disparaging humor, prejudiced norm theory suggests disparaging humor creates an atmosphere where prejudice is deemed more acceptable, which then leads to more tolerance for discrimination. Our research examined people’s perceptions of intersectional (i.e., relating to racial and gender) stereotype-based humor using starter pack memes. Starter packs are a collection of stereotypic images meant to identify and define a group.We manipulated the identity targeted by these starter packs using …


Argument For The Absurd, John Dotterweich Apr 2019

Argument For The Absurd, John Dotterweich

Kansas State University Undergraduate Research Conference

Feed, The Society of the Spectacle, and The Myth of Sisyphus help answer the question: how do you live authentically in an inauthentic world? As modernity and trends occupy us in different ways, we must decide how to use our time fruitfully. Keeping up with latest trends, news, and social media not only is exhausting but disjointing from meaningful experience. Total rejection of technology and norms can lead to isolation from those who do keep up with them. In other words, alienating your self from others leads to a lack of socialization, something that makes us happy members of society. …


Workplace Bullying In Higher Education: What Chairpersons Need To Know, Jared Rawlings Mar 2019

Workplace Bullying In Higher Education: What Chairpersons Need To Know, Jared Rawlings

Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings

Workplace bullying behavior exists in higher education and the purpose of this session is to present current research about bullying behaviors, explain the impact of bullying between and among populations (faculty and staff), explicate legal and ethical issues, and model practices for academic chairpersons to address bullying behaviors.


Paulo Freire As Learning Theorist, John Holst Jan 2019

Paulo Freire As Learning Theorist, John Holst

Adult Education Research Conference

I defend the thesis that Paulo Freire had a theory of learning. Contrary to what learning theorists sustain, I present a theory of learning in Freire’s work.


Using Spiral Dynamic Theory For Adult Civic Engagement Research And Social Justice Education, Lisa R. Brown Jan 2016

Using Spiral Dynamic Theory For Adult Civic Engagement Research And Social Justice Education, Lisa R. Brown

Adult Education Research Conference

Empirical civic engagement research based in a South American context. Participants included adult learner populations engaged in revolutionary protests that opposed private for-profit education in Chile. Findings were higher order Spiral Dynamic Theory thinking at the for-profits and lower civic engagement.