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  • Investigating Differences between Rural and Non-rural Students

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    Sinnott, Christian B.
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    Rural students have lagged behind non-rural students in matriculation into higher education, as well as in completion of four-year degrees. The current studies sought to investigate academic readiness, academic performance, and psychological differences between rural and non-rural students at Oregon State University. Rural and non-rural students were compared during spring...
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    for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Psychology, and Rural

  • An Investigation of Age-Related Differences in Value-Driven Attentional Capture

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    Naylor, Jamie
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    Previous research on age-related differences in attentional capture has indicated that older adults are more susceptible to distraction than younger adults and this has been interpreted as a reduced capacity to inhibit distraction in late life. Recently, however, there have been discrepancies in the literature about in what circumstances older...
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    degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Psychology and Gerontology

  • An Electrophysiological Study of Attention Capture: Does Rarity Enable Capture?

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    Noesen, Birken
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    Several behavioral studies have suggested that rarity is critical for enabling irrelevant, salient objects to capture attention. We tested this hypothesis using the event-related potential (ERP) component, N2pc, thought to reflect attentional allocation. A cue display was followed by a target display in which participants identified the letter in a...
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    Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Psychology, and Gerontology presented on May 13

  • Differential Processing of Emotionally Laden Cues in Adult Children of Alcoholics and Controls

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    Zimmerman, Anne H.
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    The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate a specific area of cognitive functioning to determine if any differences exist between adult children of alcoholics and controls in the processing of emotionally laden word cues. Of secondary importance was the investigation of group differences in self-esteem, extroversion, neuroticism,...
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    Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology and Community Health presented on March 17

  • The Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Cues on Task-Set Inhibition

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    Kuhns, David (David Paul)
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    Task-set inhibition has been proposed to be an important mechanism for cognitive control in task switching. Its existence is supported largely by the observation of the N-2 repetition cost (e.g., A-B-A is slower than C-B-A). Many studies have reported an N-2 repetition cost, but several have not. Because of the...
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    Psychology, Psychology, and Gerontology presented on June 1 Title: The Effects of Endogenous and

  • Individual Differences in Intuitive Risk Judgments

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    Brunot, Alexander N.
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    The present research sought to investigate individual differences in the way individuals process intuitive risk judgments. The present investigation is centered on Fuzzy Trace Theory (Brainerd & Reyna, 1991), a developmental dual process theory of cognition which posits two ways in which individuals process information, gist and verbatim processing. 228...
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    for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Psychology, and Business

  • Why women endorse ambivalent sexism : risks of young women's enjoyment of sexualization and the protective powers of feminism

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    Allemand, Haley M.
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    Hostile sexism (HS) is an antagonistic attitude towards women; benevolent sexism (BS) is a positive attitude towards women that is sexist in terms of viewing women in restricted roles. HS and BS held simultaneously is defined as ambivalent sexism (AS). Despite negative outcomes associated with AS, BS, and HS, women...
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    degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Psychology, and Women, Gender, and

  • An Examination of the Equilibrium Theory of Intimacy in Dyadic Interactions

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    Almuaybid, Ameer J.
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    Videotapes of 90 dyadic interactions from Sommer and Bernieri (2015) were examined to assess verbal and nonverbal intimacy. Verbal intimacy (self-disclosing statements) and nonverbal intimacy behaviors (face gaze, distance, body orientation, and forward lean) were coded in every interaction. It was hypothesized that verbal intimacy (self-disclosure) would increase over time...
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    the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Psychology, and Speech

  • Encoding Accuracy in Interpersonal Relationships : A New Measure of Encoding Ability

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    Raymond, Alyssa M.
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    The ability to accurately convey an intended nonverbal emotional message is critical for competent interpersonal functioning. To examine encoding ability, a replication of Noller’s (1980) study employing content standard methodology was conducted. This method is essentially an acting task where participants are given a hypothetical social scene within which they...
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    THESIS OF Alyssa Raymond for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology

  • Words of Well-Being : The Relation of an Individual's Word Choice to their Social Well-Being

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    Krieger, Katy
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    The present research sought to investigate the relationship between an individual's word choice and their social well-being. In the present investigation, social well-being is a person's social health in relation to their social environment, social network, and ability to interact with others in a social context. This thesis was based...
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    THESIS OF Katy Krieger for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology