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Capobianco, Edward Jesse

These poems are scripts for their own creation. They do not necessarily share a singular speaker or addressee, but together they create an I and a Thou that are sometimes explicit, sometimes implicit, and sometimes blurred ...
1866 Post Roads Act: Federal Preemption and Deregulation of the United States Telegraph Industry

Honsowetz, Aaron Michael (2015)

The 1866 Post Roads Act benefited United States consumers by using federal
3,000 Years of Skeletal Trauma: Analysis of Accidental and Interpersonal Injuries from the Development of Early Social Complexity to Spanish Colonization IN Lambayeque, Peru (2800 BCE-1750 CE)

Snell, Lucy

The results of all forms of skeletal trauma in a diachronic sequence of 3,100 skeletal individuals from Lambayeque, Peru present insight into social, political, ideological, and environmental changes in pre-Hispanic and ...
The 3Dice Deception Detection Device: Quantifying Deception and Its Relationship to Theory of Mind

McGuinness, Joseph

Deceptive behavior has implications in many fields, and research by cognitive neuroscientists to uncover the functional brain networks utilized during lying and mechanisms of action is of great interest. Due to its clandestine ...
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Boss, Christopher

Clive Fischer-Kersey is an elite runner who qualifies for the Olympic Games in the 400m sprint. This novel explores the psychological and social pressures that contribute to the life of a world-class athlete.
“#7 I Will Follow On:” Tracing Cultural Continuity through the Oneida Hymn Singing Tradition

Carmi, Marissa

This thesis analyzes the long-standing tradition of Christian hymn singing by the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin as a form of “everyday resistance.” A term used by James C. Scott in Weapons of the Weak to describe ...
A Brief Peer Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Training: Preliminary Examination and Individual Factors that Influence Outcomes

Rallis, Bethany (2017)

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students. Despite the availability of mental health resources on college campuses, less than half of college students who are contemplating suicide seek professional ...
A Case Study of Community Colleges that Require Academic Advising

Thimblin, Alison L. (2015)

As community colleges shift their focus from access to success, academic advising is being recognized as a process that is influential on student success. Interventions including elements of prescriptive, developmental and ...
A Comprehensive Computational Model of Sustained Attention

Gartenberg, Daniel (2016)

The vigilance decrement is the decline in performance over time that characterizes tasks requiring sustained attention. Resource Theory proposes that the vigilance decrement is due to information processing assets that ...
A Content Analysis of Social Media Campaigns in the 2016 US Presidential Election

Peter Susko (2020)

This dissertation analyzed the social media posts of the 2016 United States presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Study one, utilizing the Extended Parallel Process Model, looked at the different fear ...
A DEVELOPMENTAL LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IN TREATMENT-SEEKING SAMPLES

Caitlin Williams (2020)

Child maltreatment is a serious problem in the United States. The vast majority of the perpetrators of maltreatment for young children (ages 2-6) are parents/caregivers. If left untreated, early childhood maltreatment is ...
A Flash of Green, a Slip of the Dress, and a Mother’s Embrace: the Gendered Aesthetic in the 2009 Iranian Green Movement

Haghighat, Sahar (2022)

In June 2009 following a contentious presidential election, a cycle of antigovernmental protests took place in major cities throughout Iran. Garnering the attention of the transnational community, this uprising was branded ...
A Goal Activation Account of Confidence Judgments

Kevin Zish (2020)

Current theories and models of confidence need to be improved to provide a simpler and broader explanation for the relationship between confidence and memory. For example, current theories of confidence posit dozens of ...
A Gospel of Health and Salvation: Modeling the Religious Culture of Seventh-day Adventism, 1843-1920

Jeri Wieringa (2019)

A Gospel of Health and Salvation is a work of digital history — defined as the critical application of computational technologies to the study of the past — focused on the relationship between time and gender in Seventh-day ...
A HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING AND AGENT-BASED MODELING APPROACH TO EXAMINE DECISION-MAKING HEURISTICS

Paul Cummings (2020)

Agent-Based Models (ABMs) have become more widespread over the last two decades allowing researchers to explore complex systems composed of heterogeneous entities. Although ABMs have proven effective for generating simple ...
A longitudinal examination of the association between non-suicidal self-injury, emotional intelligence, and family context in adolescents

Perloe, Alexandra (2016)

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), which peaks in adolescence, is associated with poor psychological health, physical pain, and risk for future suicide attempts, but empirically supported treatment is scarce. Emotional ...
A Longitudinal Examination of the Association Between Parenting Behavior, Social-Emotional Coping, and Adolescent Disordered Eating

Martinson, Laura Elspeth (2015)

The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the role that parent-related environmental risk factors (poor parental monitoring and mental health) and adolescent social-emotional coping skills play in the development of ...
A Longitudinal Investigation into the Effect of Zn and Cu on Spatial Learning/Memory and Social Preference in a Mouse Model of LOAD

Howell, Stefanie Nicole (2016)

This study examined the effects of dietary copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) on spatial learning/memory and social preference in a mouse model of late onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previous research has indicated that excess ...
A Longitudinal Model of Internalized Stigma, Coping, and Post-release Adjustment in Criminal Offenders

Moore, Kelly Elizabeth (2016)

Upon conviction and incarceration, individuals receive the stigmatizing label “criminal offender.” Criminal offenders are exposed to stigma after being released from jail or prison, with laws that marginalize them from ...
A MIXED METHOD APPROACH TO CONCEPTUALIZE AND SCALE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL REPUTATIONS: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH USING LEGITIMACY, SOCIAL EVALUATION, PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, AND AGENCY

Farah Latif (2021)

Reputations of individuals – personal reputations – is an overlooked concept and understudied research area in communication studies. Appropriate recognition and critical assessment of personal reputations will have social ...

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