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Alternative approaches to psychosis : qualitative interviews of practitioner opinions and observations

Creator:: Donnerberg, Carmen
Abstract:: The present essay discusses themes of dehumanization and reliance on a biomedical model of care within U.S. psychiatric systems in treating individuals diagnosed with psychosis. This model is contrasted with alternative treatment approaches that are person-centered rather than disease-centered. These include Open Dialogue, Soteria, and Hearing Voices Movement. In the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

What's Really Important in Introductory Psychology?

Creator:: Bohnstedt, Chloe
Abstract:: Is there a core set of concepts in psychology? Early work identified keywords in psychology by asking textbook authors what concepts were most important to them to understand what was essential for college students' psychological literacy (Boneau, 1990). Much of the early work showed there is little consistency in the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

Is Group Performance Enhanced by Group Rapport?

Creator:: Forst, Madison, Hoxha, Briana, Kuhn, Kali, and Spencer, Joshua R.
Abstract:: Naturally, we may assume that group rapport is critical for producing high-quality group performance (such as among work groups, sports teams, or even research collaborators). With this in mind, the purpose of this investigation was to test this assumption by exploring the relationship between self-reported group rapport and group-level social...
Resource Type:: Poster

Ready or Not: Measuring the Preparedness of Young Adolescents (18-26 years) for Natural Disasters in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Backen, Grace
Abstract:: Cascadia is the physiographic region defined by the active tectonics and attendant geo-hazards of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. In contrast to many other coastal environments in the U.S., geo-hazards along the Cascadia coast are dominated by a tectonic context on the Pacific rim “ring of fire.” Washington, Oregon, and California...
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Examining Suicide Risk Factors for Youth: A Focus on Black Student Needs

Creator:: Chupp, Colson D.
Abstract:: Objective: In 2018, suicide was the leading cause of death for individuals between the ages of 10-24 in Oregon (OHA, 2019) and was the second leading cause of death for this age range in 2020 (OHA, 2021). In 2019, 12% of Black high school students reported a suicide attempt in...
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College students' alcohol and cannabis use, co-use, academic problems, and gender

Creator:: Chupp, Colson D.
Abstract:: Objective: Alcohol and cannabis use and co-use among college students is prevalent in the United States (Bravo et al., 2021). These substances have been linked to poor collegiate academic performance in past research. The present study examines varying levels of single-substance alcohol use and alcohol and cannabis co-use in their...
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Physicians and Treating Addiction in Patients

Creator:: Cao, Annie L.
Abstract:: More than twenty million people in the United States are estimated to have substance use disorders, and it is expected that the number will increase in the future. Physicians, especially general practitioners, play important roles in the treatment of substance use and other addiction disorders because they focus on overall...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

Associations Between Adolescent Trauma and Adult Facial Trustworthiness

Creator:: Ames, Ashley
Abstract:: Any interaction with another person requires some judgement of their characteristics from a short amount of time. Each day a person can interact with many individuals and quick judgments have to be made in each situation to decide how to act or react. This means a person can make hundreds...
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Love Language: Does your relationship status appear in your writing?

Creator:: Linder, Lillian, Downey, Quinn, Chok, Kristie, and Stosic, Morgan
Abstract:: Past research has shown that individual's word usage can reveal aspects of who they are and how they behave (Tausczik & Pennebaker, 2010). For instance, couples who use inclusive pronouns such as “we,” as opposed to singular pronouns such as "I" cope better in relationships (Moran, 2018). Further, the use...
Resource Type:: Poster

Are you Choosing the Wrong Empathy Measure?

Creator:: Stosic, Morgan and Fultz, Amber
Abstract:: The ambiguity plaguing the definition of empathy has not only been constrained to its content (i.e., assessing decoding or encoding) but how it is expressed in the individual (i.e., as a trait or ability). Any separation in the theorizing of a construct should be clearly reflected and labeled in the...
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Class Standing and Success: Do Freshmen Have Lower Self-Efficacy & Goal Achievement for "Difficult" Goals?

Creator:: Carlson, Rebecca and Almuaybid, Ameer
Abstract:: Do freshmen achieve less of their personal and academic short-term goals in comparison to upperclassmen? Some may intuitively assume that due to age, or lack of experience, college freshmen would have lower perceived task-specific ability (self-efficacy) and actually achieve less (goal-completion ranging from 0% to 100%). Differences between various class-standing...
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Perceived Barriers to Accessing Mental Healthcare to Student Veterans

Creator:: Haney, Rachel M.
Abstract:: The goal of this research was to analyze what different types of perceived barriers affect student veterans' access to mental healthcare services. Previous research has shown that veterans who return from combat and later attend universities are not receiving adequate mental healthcare for mental health problems, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder...
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Familiarity in Face Recognition : What Does Our Brain Tell us?

Creator:: Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Previous behavioral studies have suggested that the automaticity of face recognition depends on familiarity. We sought converging evidence for this claim using electrophysiological measures. In Experiment 1, participants first rated their familiarity with 6 male celebrities. They then performed dual tasks in which Task 1 required a tone/noise discrimination. For...
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Differential Framing of an Instructional Lesson Reduces Self-Efficacy and Affects Learning

Creator:: Wolgamott, Taylor and Sanchez, Christopher A.
Abstract:: Previous research has suggested that how a task is framed can have a significant impact on subsequent performance. These effects seem to be especially important in educational settings where learners are already self-conscious about their likelihood to succeed. Difficult subjects have shown to cause cognitive disequilibrium when confronting dead ends...
Resource Type:: Poster

"Meet the Mobile Shoe Rack!" : Interviewing Participants

Creator:: Rueben, Matthew, Klow, Jeffrey, Browning, Madison, Duer, Madelyn, Piacentini, Jennifer, Zimmerman, Eric, Bernieri, Frank J., and Smart, William D.
Abstract:: The science of how people interact socially with robots is still fairly young. One area of ongoing study is how people figure out the way the robot works -- that is, form a "mental model" of the robot. We are especially ignorant of how this happens over time, starting with...
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“Meet the Mobile Shoe Rack!”: Analyzing Videos of Participant Behavior

Creator:: Rueben, Matthew, Klow, Jeffrey, Browning, Madison, Duer, Madelyn, Piacentini, Jennifer, Zimmerman, Eric, Bernieri, Frank J., and Smart, William D.
Abstract:: The science of how people interact socially with robots is still fairly young. One area of ongoing study is how people figure out the way the robot works -- that is, form a "mental model" of the robot. We are especially ignorant of how this happens over time, starting with...
Resource Type:: Poster

Social Assistive Robotics May Facilitate Positive Interactions for AAC Device Users and Their Conversation Partner : A Focus Group Study

Creator:: Stone, Hannah E.
Abstract:: A focus group format was used to investigate and identify favorable and unfavorable communications between two strangers, an AAC (Augmentative/Alternative Communication) device user and their communication partner. The principal interest was in the feedback gained from an ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) support group at the Salem Hospital which included participants...
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Emotional-Induced Attentional Bias is Object-Based not Location-Based

Creator:: Hinkson, Jessica L. and Lein, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Presented at the 2018 Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence showcase. People respond more quickly and accurately when the stimulus appears in the same spatial location as the response than when it appears in the different location, even when stimulus location is irrelevant to the task. This robust phenomenon is know as a...
Resource Type:: Poster

Weighty Tomes : An Analysis of Weight-Related Content in Introductory Psychology Books

Creator:: Watkins, Patti Lou, Methratta, Alexandra, Cook, Abiagail, Teresi, Andie, and Gerber, Madison Rae
Abstract:: Weight bias has dramatically increased over the last 20 years and is as prevalent as bias based on race and gender. The media is a primary source of weight bias according to a review of weight-related content within newspapers, popular press books, television, and movies. Bias is perpetuated through messages...
Resource Type:: Presentation

The Temporal Dynamics of Visual Attention in Processing Facial Emotion

Creator:: Wiebke, Ashley, Weber, Emily, Griswold, Sarah, Markovics, Alyssia, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: In rapid serial visual presentation, identification of the second of two targets is impaired when it closely follows the first target. This phenomenon is known as the attentional blink (AB) effect. Awh and his colleagues (2004) found that face discrimination was immune to AB when performed together with a digit...
Resource Type:: Poster

Attitudes Toward Disability: The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Disability and Frequency of Interaction with People with Disabilities (PWD)

Creator:: Kim, Jennifer R., Locke, Taylor, Reed, Emily, Yates, Jackie, Zike, Nicholas, Estill, Mariah, Graham, Bridgette, Frandup, Erika, Bogart, Kathleen, Logan, Sam, and Hospodar, Christina
Abstract:: The social and medical models of disability are sets of underlying assumptions explaining people's beliefs about the causes and implications of disability. The medical model is the predominant model in the United States that is associated with the belief that disability is an undesirable status that needs to be cured...
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The Temporal Dynamics of Visual Attention in Processing Facial Emotion

Creator:: Wiebke, Ashley, Weber, Emily, Markovics, Alyssia, Griswold, Sarah, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: In rapid serial visual presentation, identification of the second of two targets is impaired when it closely follows the first target. This attentional blink (AB) effect suggests limited capacity in processing successive visual stimuli in working memory. Awh et al. (2004) found that face identity Target 2 was immune to...
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Understanding Disability Self-Disclosure and the Impacts of Visibility and Discrimination

Creator:: Yates, Jacqueline M. and Bogart, Kathleen
Abstract:: Self-disclosure is a complex process that impacts social, cultural, and individual contexts of people’s lives. Under ideal circumstances, disclosure strengthens social bonds, enhances intimacy in relationships, and fosters a more unified sense of the self. Disclosing information about a stigmatized identity, however, is associated with a variety of risks and...
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Using Skin Phototype to Assess Risk of Vitamin D Insufficiency in Young Women of Color

Creator:: Hassan, Aden, Hyman, Kalilah, and Kerr, David
Abstract:: Vitamin D sufficiency supports cardiovascular health and lower cancer risk. Rates of vitamin D insufficiency vary by racial/ethnic group, in part because skin pigment limits sunlight penetration. However race/ethnicity is an unreliable marker of vitamin D deficiency, given individual differences in skin pigment, or phototype, and other characteristics. Clarifying associations...
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Are Honest People More Rational? Associations Between Personality and Decision-Making

Creator:: Hirsch, Lauren A., Ceschi, Andrea, Sartori, Riccardo, and Weller, Joshua
Abstract:: The HEXACO personality framework is an emerging perspective to explain the phenotypic structure of personality, and is believed to replicate across natural language lexical studies better than the Five-Factor Model. Although similar to the “Big Five,” the primary difference between the two structural models is the recovery of the Honesty-Humility...
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Personality Predictors of Distracted Driving

Creator:: Sween, Madison, Weller, Joshua, Ceschi, Andrea, Sartori, Riccardo, and Tommasi, Francesco
Abstract:: Objective: Cell phone use while driving (CPUWD) is an increasingly predominant form of distracted driving. Given the widespread prevalence of CPUWD, it is important for researchers to identify who is more likely to engage in this risky behavior. Prior research has focused largely on adolescent and young adult populations, and...
Resource Type:: Poster

Quantitative Effects of a Fat Studies Class

Creator:: Bauman, Lia, Pham, Hellen, and Gerber, Madison R.
Abstract:: Fat Studies (FS) is a new interdisciplinary field that addresses oppression based on body weight, shape, and size as it intersects with oppression based on other areas of difference. As such, FS incorporates a weight-neutral approach to health, Health At Every Size® (HAES), that decries weight bias, promotes body self-acceptance...
Resource Type:: Poster

Locus of Case Mixing in Visual Word Recognition: What Do Priming Effects Tell Us?

Creator:: Briggs, Holly, Thody, Andrea, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Perea, Vergara-Martínez, and Gomez (2015) claimed a late locus of case mixing in visual word recognition. In their masking priming study, participants performed a lexical-decision task on an uppercase target, which was preceded by an identity or unrelated prime (e.g., “plane” or “music” followed by “PLANE”, respectively) in lowercase or...
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Memory capacity in switching search strategies: Are low-capacity individuals more susceptible to capture by distractors?

Creator:: Thompson, Lane and Naylor, Jamie
Abstract:: Lien, Ruthruff, and Naylor (2014) recently reported that switching target search strategies (e.g., from identifying the letter that is uniquely colored [singleton search] to the letter that has a specific color [feature search] or vice versa) made the attentional system more vulnerable to capture by salient-but-irrelevant objects. In the present...
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Emotional Intelligence: Improvement Through Exposure

Creator:: Begley, Sara and Calvillo, Olivia
Abstract:: Those scoring high in emotional intelligence typically can read the room well, understand relational connections, detect deception, and other various aspects of human interaction. But how do we learn to be emotionally intelligent? When it comes to interpersonal perception, it turns out to be difficult to learn from our mistakes...
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Can you hear my power? An analysis of vocalparameters’ impact on impression formation of power

Creator:: Brunot, Alex N. and Raymond, Alyssa
Abstract:: Interpersonally, power is normally associated with the constructs of dominance and status. However, the current investigation offers a conceptualization of power that has more to do with capturing the impact people have on others rather than it does having control over their fate. In this conceptualization, power is associated with...
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Associations Between Relocation and Seasonal Depression

Creator:: Morozov, Andrey A. and Kerr, David C. R.
Abstract:: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder that is characterized by depressive symptoms that onset and remit at the same times each year. Whereas few people (about 1%) experience problems severe enough to be labeled SAD, many people (estimates range from 30%-90%) may experience mild to moderate changes in...
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Visual Attention and Working Memory: Are Low Memory Capacity Individuals More Easily Distracted?

Creator:: Naylor, Jamie, Williams, Reginald, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Visual working memory (VWM) allows us temporarily hold images in our minds and manipulate them. As an example, you can remember a face you just saw, or try to imagine how a room would look with a different arrangement of furniture. Previous studies have shown that individuals with low VWM...
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Online homework is not significantly associated with course enjoyment

Creator:: Yang, An-Ling, Bostwick, Keiko, and Becker-Blease, Kathryn
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to discover if using online homework contributes to an overall higher enjoyment of the Introductory Psychology class, given that other factors are held constant. Students who used the online homework PsychPortlal for the Introductory Psychology 202 class would rate the “overall enjoyment of the...
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Without words for emotions: Is the emotional processing deficit in alexithymia caused by dissociation or suppression?

Creator:: Sinnott, Christian B. and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Alexithymia is a trait where individuals have difficulty identifying feeling and finding a word to express emotion. Some studies have suggested that this deficit is due to dissociation (repression), or an inability to perceive emotions, whereas others argued that the deficit is due to suppression of emotional information after it...
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R34D1NG W0RD5 W1TH NUMB3R5: Is lexical activation triggered by holistic processing or analytical processing?

Creator:: Burros, Alison, Sokoloff, Emily, Kunigel, Jody, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Previous studies have suggested that LEET words can automatically activate lexical information because of their physical similarity to real words (e.g., Perea, Duñabeitia, & Carreiras, 2008). Lien, Allen, and Martin (in press) recently used electrophysiological measures (event-related brain potentials; ERPs) to show similar lexical/semantic activation (based on the N400 effect,...
Resource Type:: Poster

Changing with the seasons : does vitamin D affect mood?

Creator:: Downing, Dave G. and Kerr, David C. R.
Abstract:: Seasonality is defined as a change in mood and behavior with the seasons. Research shows there is a possible connection between vitamin D levels and mood (Murphy & Wagner, 2008; Lansdowne & Provost, 1998). Given that vitamin D is produced when skin is exposed to sunlight and varies with sun...
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Stimulus-response correspondence effect: Is our action altered by the presence of salient objects?

Creator:: Pedersen, Logan and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Our responses are faster when the response key location is compatible with target location than when it is incompatible, even when target location was irrelevant to the task (the Simon effect). This effect is observed even when two people shared the task (e.g., one pressing the left key and the...
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Memory for emotional faces: Are angry faces more memorable than happy faces?

Creator:: Burros, Alison, Herdener, Nathan, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Previous studies have suggested that negatively valenced faces (e.g., angry faces) automatically capture attention away from faces with other emotional valences (e.g., happy faces and neutral faces). The present study evaluated whether this attentional bias enhances memory of the negative emotional faces. Participants first performed a gender discrimination task on...
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Characterization of Gene Expression in Transgenic Plants with Modified Floral Gene Expression

Creator:: Colby, Samantha
Abstract:: The release of transgenes into the environment by transgenic plant species is a significant ecological concern, and consequently a containment method for these genetically modified organisms is highly sought after. For poplar trees, an option for containment is to produce trees that do not flower and therefore cannot spread genetic...
Resource Type:: Research Paper and Presentation

R34D1NG W0RD5 W1TH NUMB3R5 Electrophysiological Evidence that Semantic Activation Occurs

Creator:: Martin, Nicole, Hanlon, Austin, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: The present study examined whether semantic activation for words occurs by encoding whole word shape in addition to individual letters. We used LEET stimuli, where digits were used as parts of words, such as “R34DING” instead of “READING”. Previous studies have suggested that LEET stimuli are encoded in a letter-like...
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R34D1NG W0RD5 W1TH NUMB3R5 Electrophysiological Evidence that Semantic Activation Occurs

Creator:: Martin, Nicole, Hanlon, Austin, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: The present study examined whether semantic activation for words occurs by encoding whole word shape in addition to individual letters. We used LEET stimuli, where digits were used as parts of words, such as “R34DING” instead of “READING”. Previous studies have suggested that LEET stimuli are encoded in a letter-like...
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Attention Capture by Distractors Following a Switch in Search Strategy: Evidence for a Break Down of Top-Down Control

Creator:: Naylor, Jamie, Schuck, Sarah, and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: Lien, Ruthruff, and Johnston (2010) reported that the attentional control system is able to rapidly and fully switch between different search settings (e.g., red to green), with no carryover. The present study examined whether such impressive flexibility is possible even with more complicated switches, namely singleton search and the feature...
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Do Fearful Facial Expressions Capture Attention Involuntarily?

Creator:: Taylor, Robinson and Lien, Mei-Ching
Abstract:: It has been claimed that stimuli signaling threat are processed rapidly and draw our attention (e.g., Fox, Russo, & Dutton, 2002). Similarly, it has been argued that expressions of fear have a strong pull on our attention because they signal threat (e.g., Phelps, Ling, & Carrasco, 2006; Vuilleumier & Schwartz,...
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