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Human Development (HD) Theses
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Undergraduate Honors Theses in the Department of Human Development (HD)in the College of Human Ecology.
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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 ... -
Loneliness and Wellbeing in Young and Older Adulthood
(2010-05-17)The present research investigated the relationships between loneliness and emotional, physical, and cognitive wellbeing in young and older adulthood. Self-report questionnaires were administered to 101 young and 95 older ... -
Meta-Conceptual Thinking and Positive Outcomes among Youth in a Refugee Camp
(2009-08-29)Religious belief has been suggested to promote psychological well-being in adversity by providing meaningful frameworks for understanding the world. The cognitive mechanisms underlying this relationship, however, are not ... -
Meta-Conceptual Thinking and Positive Outcomes Among Youth in a Refugee Camp
(2009-08-13)Religious belief has been suggested to promote psychological well-being in adversity by providing meaningful frameworks for understanding the world. The cognitive mechanisms underlying this relationship, however, are not ... -
Looking to the Past to Develop the Future: Autobiographical Memory, Future Episodic Thought, and Self Concepts in Easterners and Westerners
(2011-05)The link between dialectical thinking, mental wellbeing, future episodic thought, and the self-concept was assessed between Caucasian (N = 80) and Asian (N = 57) cultural groups. In the first task, participants were asked ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Profit Priorities and Cost Distribution: Sociocultural and ecological impacts of Chilean forest management
(2007-05-31)Questions: What does the government prioritize when facing conflicting social, environmental and economic demands? What are the impacts and how can these demands be balanced in a responsible, progressive and humanitarian ... -
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 ... -
Juvenile Offenders' Risky Decision-Making Behavior
(2007-05-22)We examined the choices of 52 adolescents (18 years of age); 26 were enrolled in an alternative to incarceration program and 26 were university undergraduates. Respondents were presented with a gambling task and were shown ...
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