During the unrest in revolutionary Boston, Massachusetts, social distinctions were often blurred, as Old World ideals were challenged in a New World context. Boston’s gun culture constituted one such example. As the colony of Massachusetts Bay moved ever closer toward a war with Great Britain, the use of firearms constituted...
Previous research has documented that identity priming influences academic performances. Other research has found that emotional priming enhances memory for emotional words. The experiment reported here examined the memory of members of a girls high school tennis team who were primed with student or athlete identities and positive or negative...
Watching how Oregon State is working to combat some of the complex social issues that plague the world today by placing student success at the top of their strategic priority list, the Oregon State Investment Group (OSIG) believes that by leveraging capital markets we can play our part in helping...
This project was based upon concepts presented in course readings related to the processes of cultural change (e.g., acculturation and cultural authentication). In particular, the project asked students to consider the cross-cultural design process presented by Lin (2007) in her scholarly article titled, “Transforming Taiwan aboriginal cultural features into modern...