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Browsing Human Development (HD) Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Hooking Up: An Investigation of Attachment Style and Casual Sex in a College Student Sample
(2010-05-11)Associations between attachment style, hook up behavior, and gender were tested in two studies of undergraduate students using online survey and diary methods. Study 1 (N = 855) consisted of a cross-sectional investigation ... -
I'm feeling lucky: The relationship between affect and risk-seeking in the framing effect
(2009-05-17)The present research explored the role of affect in the framing effect. In Study 1, participants provided affect ratings during a gambling task. Positive affect was found to be associated with risk-seeking in the loss ... -
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 ... -
Influence of Parent Values and Friend Norms on Adolescent Risky Decision Making
(2008-04-30)Extensive work has been done in the field of adolescent risky decision making, as a component of adolescent development. Developmentalists have debated the influence of peer and family norms and values on adolescent ... -
The Interaction of Emotion and Cognition in Memory Biases across the Life Span
(2011-05)Much research has looked into the various information processing changes that occur as we age. Most cognitive processes decline with age, while emotion regulation may remain intact. This study attempts to better understand ... -
Job Stress, and Health in Nurses: the Mediating Role of Experience
(2008-06-04)The study examined whether or not the relationship between nurses? job experience and health is mediated by job stress while controlling for age. One hundred ninety daytime registered nurses from multiple hospitals ... -
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 ... -
A Language of Love: The effect of social primes on written narratives
(2011-05)Considerable work has been done in the fields of social and developmental psychology addressing the role of close relationships in influencing behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. Additionally, there is a growing psychological ... -
Learning Lucid Dreaming and its Effect on Depression in Undergraduates
(2011-05)The present study tested two hypotheses: 1) that lucid dreaming could be effectively taught through an online intervention, and 2) that lucid dreaming can alleviate depression as mediated by LOC. Surveys consisting of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Paternal theory of mind fluency during book reading relates to 12 and 24 month old child emotion recognition and understanding
(2009-05-30)Infant-mother-pairs (N = 16) including 5 thirteen-month-olds and 11 twenty-four-month-olds participated in an experiment which examined the relationship between the amount of theory-of-mind words used by parents during ... -
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 ... -
Plausible Explanations: Magical Causal Explanations in Preschoolers
(2010-05-21)The literature has repeatedly shown that children believe in magic and can distinguish between fantasy and reality (Browne & Woolley, 2004; Harris et al,1991; Phelps & Woolley, 1994; Sharon & Woolley, 2004; Subkotsky, 2001; ... -
Political Ideology and Support for Universal Health Care: The Roles of Thinking Styles and Executive Functioning in the Judgments of Older Adults
(2011-05)In contemporary American politics, Democrats and Republicans have become increasingly polarized along ideological lines. This division is especially apparent in the debates surrounding the possibility of universal health ... -
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 ... -
The Relation of Narrative Skill to Memory Recall in Chinese and European American Children
(2011-05)Studies have shown that narrative development enables young children to remember past events. However, most research has focused on preschool-aged children, and few studies have explored the relationship between narrative ...
