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Human Development Undergraduate Honors Theses
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The collection of Undergraduate Honors Theses for the Department of Human Development is available at http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/5434.
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Romantic Attachment and Consumer Behavior: You Never Really Shop Alone
(2011-01-15)Associations between romantic attachment and consumer behavior were tested in a study of undergraduate students using an online survey and laboratory virtual shopping experiment. The present study (N = 78) investigated ... -
Effects of Economic Status on Self-Regulation in Infants
(2010-06-13)It has been well documented that, on average, children from low-income families have lower academic achievement than their more well-off peers (Buckner et al. 2009 Duncan, Brooks-Gunn, Yeung, & Smith, 1998; Burney, & Beilke, ... -
Development of the Asian American Racial Uplifts Scale
(2010-06-02)The development of the Asian American Racial Uplifts Scale is discussed. The range of positive race-related experiences was explored through an analysis of semi-structured interview data from 20 self-identifying Asian and ... -
Differential Behavior Regulation in Infant Social Referencing and Implications for the Development of Sympathy
(2010-05-26)From an early age, infants pay attention to how people emotionally respond to ambiguous stimuli and use this as information to guide their behavior. Recent research has also shown that infants are able to use indirect ... -
High School Students’ Perceptions of Agriculture and Agricultural Careers as Delineated by Presence of an Agriculture Program and Rural/Urban Categorization
(2010-05-25)Abstract Eleventh grade students (n = 1,953) in 17 public schools across New York State were surveyed regarding their agricultural perceptions and stereotypes. Four types of schools were targeted for this study: rural and ... -
The Perils of Pessimism: Predictive effects of negative expectations for future health and education outcomes on adolescent risk behavior
(2010-05-24)Objective: With data from a longitudinal study conducted by Reyna, I test whether near-fatalistic/negative expectations for the future predict increased adolescent risk behavior over time. In the reverse direction, the ... -
When the Pieces Do Not Quite Fit: The Role of Anomalous Information in Evaluating Explanations
(2010-05-22)No explanation is perfect. There are usually data that are anomalous to an explanation. We investigated two variables, resolving an anomaly and supporting an explanation, that make strong vs. weak anomalies more or less ... -
The Influence of Association and Meaning on False Memory
(2010-05-22)The main purpose of the study was to separate word association from semantic meaning to determine if association makes a separate contribution to false memory in the Deese/Roediger/McDermott (DRM) memory paradigm. Participants ... -
Early Memories: An Investigation of Early Childhood Memories and Socioeconomic Status
(2010-05-21)Although much research has examined the link between earliest childhood memory and both culture and gender, there is currently no research on the relationship between earliest childhood memory and socioeconomic status. ... -
Emotion Recognition and Understanding as it Relates to Empathetic Displays of Behavior in 12 and 24-Month Olds
(2010-05-21)Displays of empathy involve recognizing that someone else is experiencing distress and having a desire to alleviate that distress by responding in a variety of ways. Because emotions must be recognized and decoded before ...
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