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  • Attitudes Toward Disability in Self and Other : Assessment and Educational Intervention

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    Bonnett, Amy K.
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    Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities persist in our society, limiting the inclusion of people with disabilities in a multitude of social roles. Despite existing research on the nature of these attitudes and interventions to improve them, people with disabilities continue to cite social barriers as some of their greatest...
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    : ____________________________________________________ Kathleen R. Bogart Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities persist in our society

  • Climate Changers: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Reducing Personal Carbon Emissions

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    Johnson, Carly A.
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    In an era of human-induced climate change, there is increasing interest in encouraging people to reduce their carbon dioxide (carbon) emissions by adopting low-carbon behaviors, or behaviors that reduce a person’s use of fossil fuels. I designed the Campus Carbon Challenge as a research and outreach project to gain a...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________________________ Kathleen Dean

  • An electrophysiological study of emotional perception in a dual-task paradigm

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    Shaw, Kathleen Elizabeth
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    The present study examined whether emotion perception requires central attentional resources. A dual-task paradigm was used to examine whether people can direct their attention to a face expressing a target emotion, even while they are still selecting a response to another task. Task-1 required an auditory discrimination while for Task-2,...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathleen Elizabeth Shaw for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • Transactional analysis applied to a community development issue

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    Manolescu, Kathleen M.
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    Barth's theory of transactional analysis is applied to the community of Tiller, Oregon and its reaction to a development proposal. Community behavior patterns vis-a-vis the development proposal are examined from a processual point of view to determine how these patterns are generated. The community's history and contemporary situation are described....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathleen Manolescu for the

  • Environmental Regulations Reconsidered : Identifying Incentives and Barriers to Environmental Performance

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    Craig, Kathleen D.
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    Attention has been drawn to the observation that environmental benefits under the current regulatory approaches are diminishing with respect to increased pollution control costs. Regulators have begun to appreciate that while environmental gains can still be achieved under the current command and control system, the most significant environmental gains have...
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    incentives and barriers to environmental performance AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathleen D. Craig for

  • Chingasos y Putasos : Examining Cultural and Structural Violence among Mexican American Youth

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    Lerma, Zandro E.
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    In this thesis, I examine Johan Galtung’s theory of violence and discuss how his concepts of cultural and structural violence helps explain the problem of direct violence among Mexican American youth. I argue that cultural violence, mainly dominant narratives of colonialism and masculinity, cause some Mexican American youth to act...
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    O’Malley, you are the man. David Bernell, thank you for always making time for me. Allison Davis-White

  • The Experiences of Student-Athletes from Marginalized Communities Through Critical Dialogic Spaces

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    Ekabutr, Amanda S.
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    On top of time demanding athletic and academic constraints, Division I student-athletes must balance many social identities, that include their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religious affiliation, etc. This study attempts to fill the gap by providing student-athletes with marginalized identities a platform to (1) offer their own...
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    O’Malley, and Allison Hurst for supporting my time in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies

  • Attentional Bias Toward Facial Emotion Expression : Orienting vs. Disengagement

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    Martin, Nicole R.
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    The present study examined involuntary attentional bias toward facial emotion expression. Particularly, the study examined two different attentional components for emotional processing, namely, orienting vs. disengagement. A cueing paradigm using two cue presentation times (250ms and 350ms) was used to determine if attention would be involuntarily captured by an irrelevant...
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    thesis advisor and mentor, Dr. Kathleen Bogart, secondary thesis advisor, Dr. Colin Hesse, tertiary

  • 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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  • 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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    guidance as an undergraduate. Kathleen Bogart, PhD; Elizabeth Root, PhD; Leslie Burns, PhD; and Sarina