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Browsing Human Development (HD) Theses by Title
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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 ... -
The Relationship Between Autobiographical Memory and Acculturation: How Identity Reconstruction gets Represented in the Memories of Immigrants.
(2008-06-24)This study looked at the relationship between acculturation and the quality of autobiographical memories of 50 young immigrants. By using a free recall method of autobiographical memories of the first 5 years following ... -
Remediation of Deficits in Recognition of Facial Emotions in Autistic Children
(2008-05-07)This study evaluated the efficacy of the Mind Reading interactive computer software to remediate emotion recognition deficits in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Six unmedicated children with ASD and 11 ... -
Remembering Emotional Pictures
(2010-05-15)This study seeks to investigate the effects of emotion on memory performance. 41 undergraduate Cornell University students participated in the study. Subjects were given an emotion induction task that induced either ... -
The Role of Sign Language on Word Learning in 19 to 23 Month Old Infants
(2009-05-28)Claims that signing with infants benefits language development are examined. Fourteen infants aged 19 to 23 months were tested on their comprehension and production of novel labels in a word learning task. Infants participated ... -
The Role of the Endocannabinoid System in Learning-Induced Neurogenesis
(2011-05)Though it was previously thought that the birth of new neurons stopped after development, we now know that neurogenesis continues throughout life in some areas of the brain (i.e. the olfactory bulb and the dentate gyrus ... -
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 ... -
Science About What Scientists Do: Distinguishing Between Explanations for Causal Events
(2007-06-10)The causal reasoning literature suggests that hypothesis testing will only include tests that support a particular hypothesis (confirmation bias), rather than distinguish between possible hypotheses (Wason, 1960; Mynatt, ... -
The Self-Reference Effect and Same-Age Bias in Item and Source Memory
(2009-05-20)The present study examines age-related differences in the self-reference effect and how self-referencing influences memory for details and source memory. We also examine a potential same-age bias in memory. Fifty young ...
