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  • 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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    Judgments by Alexander N. Brunot A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University

  • Everyday Movement Against Capitalism : Prospects for a Prefigurative Strategy toward Open Utopia

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    Riccio, Alexander
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    Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering possibilities for a revolution against capitalism. However, these possibilities are potentially undermined by entrenched factionalism amongst the left. At root, such in-fighting is fostered by the creation of false dualistic frameworks on the transition out of capitalism and into the...
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    Strategy toward Open Utopia by Alexander Riccio A THESIS submitted to

  • The lanceolate projectile point in southwestern Oregon : a perspective from the Applegate River

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    Nisbet, Robert Alexander
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    Archaeological investigations of the Applegate Lake project area were conducted by the Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University Univerfrom 1977-1980. A cultural sequence believed to span over 8000 years was revealed from a series of six sites. Several of these sites contained lanceolate or leaf-shaped projectile points. A large serrated...
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  • The Effects of Electromyographic Biofeedback on Test Anxiety and Performance

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    Reed, Michael L.
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    The applicability of electromyographic biofeedback toward alleviating test taking anxiety was examined along with the effects of relaxation training on general anxiety, locus of control, test performance, and muscle tension during a test. The Achievement Anxiety Test (AAT) was administered to 271 freshman psychology students. Students whose scores indicated high...
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    relaxed forehead muscles are indicative of general overall relaxation. Alexander (1975) conducted a study

  • An Inquiry into Attitudes Toward Professional Women : Rotary and Zonta Club Members

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    Shearman, Nancy Walker
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    Over the past decade, federal as well as state legislation has been passed to eliminate discrimination and create equality in the workplace. However, the attitudes of professionals are not as easily changed. Many barriers still face female executives entering the corporate level. This study examined the attitudes of professionals in...
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    Research confirms that a majority of women possess strong communication skills. Martha Ann Alexander

  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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    Abstract Approved: Michael A. Osborne This thesis examines the morphology of Johann

  • Cultural evolution and small-scale farming

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    Caday, Peter P.
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    Small-scale farmers are defined under United States Department of Agriculture guidelines as those whose gross farm sales are less than $40,000. They are typically contrasted with mid-scale farmers whose gross sales are less than $100,000, and with large-scale farmers whose sales are more than $100,000. Arguments from cultural and historical...
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    : Cultural Evolution and Small-Scale Farming Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Johq(A./coung Small

  • An investigation of ethnocentrism, its elements, factors affecting its intensity, and implications for cross-cultural activities

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    Olufson, Loreen C.
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    Ethnocentrism is a term for an attitude which causes individuals to place their culture at the center of the universe as they see it. Other cultures are evaluated in terms of the culture of the individual and are often valued less. Ethnocentrism and the behaviors associated with it have frequently...
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    . Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy John A. Young Ethnocentrism is a term for an attitude which

  • Building Economically Resilient Rural Communities

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    Sorte, Bruce Michael
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    Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately shocked by economic fluctuations. Market forces are likely to lead to the decline of many rural communities and they will need to be economically resilient to survive. This thesis draws on several social sciences and the natural sciences to develop ideas that communities...
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    Communities. Abstract approved Bruce A. Weber Rural communities will continue to be disproportionately

  • Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

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    Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
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    The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
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    and Henslin 1975:331). The life of Alexander Stewart provides a base from which to explore the