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Browsing Human Development (HD) Theses by Title
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The Desirability of Sexually Experienced Friends
(2011-05)This study investigated the influence of one's sexual history on his or her desirability as a same-sex friend. Participants (N = 790) completed an online survey, in which they evaluated one of 6 hypothetical targets. ... -
Development of Coping in Low- and Mid-Income Youth
(2007-05-23)The environment of poverty has been implicated as a major risk factor for later childhood adjustment and achievement. The present study examined the effect of exposure to poverty at age 8 on coping at age 13 using measures ... -
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 ... -
Developmental Changes in Infants' Knowledge of the Instrumental Value of Babbling
(2007-05-23)The present study sought to discover the age at which infants realize that their vocalizations may be used to elicit social responses from others, and to examine whether infants? knowledge of the consequences of their ... -
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 ... -
The Dynamics of Infant Attention
(2011-05)Attention allocation and visual foraging are adaptively important behaviors in providing information about the world for effective goal-directed behavior and survival. Timely re-direction of gaze facilitates integration ... -
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 Effect of Choice on Older Adult Preferences
(2010-04-25)Previous research on preferences has indicated that young adults may construct their preferences as a result of their choices. In the present study, the author investigated the effects of aging on preference construction. ... -
The Effect of Parents? Gender Stereotypes on Their Teaching of Novel Object Labels
(2009-05-31)Extensive research exists on the influence of gender on parental speech and on parental teaching behaviors, but interactions between the two have not been explored. I investigated the impact of gender on parental teaching ... -
The Effect of Valenced Healthcare Advertisements on the Decision Processes of Older and Younger Adults
(2008-06-13)This study explored how healthcare advertisements presented in a positive or negative manner could affect memory, preferences, and persuasiveness for older and younger adults. Based on previous research showing older ... -
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, ... -
The Effects of Emotion on False Memory Production
(2007-05-15)This study seeks to investigate the effects of emotion on false memory production. 114 undergraduate college students participated in the study. Subjects were given an emotion induction task that induced positive, ... -
The Effects of Emotion on False Memory Production
(2008-09-30)The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of emotion on false memory production. 118 undergraduate college students participated in this study. Each participant was first asked to listen to a list of study ... -
The Effects of Ethnicity on Adolescent Resilience against Depression
(2007-05-21)Adolescents (N=6,504) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health participated in a study exploring racial differences in access to resources against depression. Significant results indicated Black adolescents? ... -
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 ... -
False Recall in Manipulations of the DRM Paradigm
(2007-06-04)This study was conducted using the DRM paradigm to try to further comprehend false recall positioning. The objective of this study was twofold: to demonstrate that gist, verbatim, and gist + verbatim instructions can alter ... -
Framing Effects and Risky Decision Making in Adolescents and Young Adults
(2008-05-23)Fuzzy-trace theory postulates that intuitive decision making is at the apex of development. To examine developmental differences in risky decision making within this theoretical framework, framing problems factorially ... -
Framing Effects and Risky Decisions in Young Adults
(2008-04-15)We used the theoretical framework of fuzzy-trace theory to explore framing effects in young adults and their relationship to real world risk perceptions and behaviors. One hundred and two Cornell University undergraduates ... -
Getting the message across: Examining Information Presentation and Healthcare Decision Making Among Older Adults
(2009-05-08)Previous research has demonstrated that the valence of healthcare messages influences attitudes, and that the processing of valenced information changes with age (Carstensen & Mikels, 2005; Levin, Schneider, & Gaeth, 1998). ... -
Gist for Risk: Link between Impulsivity and Fuzzy-Trace Theory Explanations of Adolescent Risk Behavior
(2011-05)Adolescence is characterized by a steep increase in risk taking behaviors. Research indicates that individual differences in impulsivity are highly correlated with adolescent risk taking (Verdejo-Garcia, Lawrence, and ...
