Browsing by Author "Lench, Heather"
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Dang, Van (2023-06-01)Affective forecasting is critical for effective decision making as people strive to attain goals that increase positive feelings and decrease negative feelings. Despite its importance in relation to choice, research has ...
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Dang, Van (2023-06-01)Affective forecasting is critical for effective decision making as people strive to attain goals that increase positive feelings and decrease negative feelings. Despite its importance in relation to choice, research has ...
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Dang, Van (2023-06-01)Affective forecasting is critical for effective decision making as people strive to attain goals that increase positive feelings and decrease negative feelings. Despite its importance in relation to choice, research has ...
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Chang, Yu-Pei (2014-07-09)Chinese immigrants are the second largest immigrant group (after Mexican immigrants) according to 2010 United States Census. Their successful adjustment bears important implications for policy making, the economy, public ...
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Koley, Shruti (2018-05-07)Consumers experience negative emotions, such as anger and anxiety, for a variety of reasons. Research has shown that emotions such as these often spillover and effect downstream decisions that are unrelated to the source ...
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Darbor, Kathleen; Lench, Heather; Carter-Sowell, Adrienne (PloS One, 2016)
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Sial, Omar Khalid (2021-08-19)Metabolic-Mood Syndrome (MMS) is used to describe the comorbidity between multifactorial diet-related diseases (e.g., metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease) and mood disorders (e.g., major depressive disorder, anxiety). ...
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Dick, Amanda Cartwright (2014-10-01)Though women make up 50% of the United States population, they hold very few of the top leadership positions in the world. Media images portraying women in submissive in subservient roles may reduce women’s interest in ...
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Tirso, Robert Michael (2021-06-16)Metacognition is defined as awareness and beliefs about one’s own cognitive processes and abilities. Research on metacognition suggests that the accuracy of metacognitive self- and other-judgments is largely determined by ...
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Brown, Amanda KathleenEncouragement is a commonly used form of social support. Studies have shown that encouragement and other modes of social support can lower cortisol, increase pain tolerance and thresholds, and lower heart rate. However, ...
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Lazerus, Talya 1990- (2012-04-12)This paper discusses a possible link between visual discrepancy detection and intuitive processes. Intuitive processes are attributed to the experiential system, which is associated with affect and visual processing. Thus, ...
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Battle, Jericka s (2022-12-15)Research shows that the powerful may lean heavily on automatic cognitions to make judgments and shape their attitudes toward other people. There has been little research to experimentally investigate whether losing or ...
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Edmunds, Kathryn Alexis (2019-12-29)College students, both traditional and nontraditional, face pressures, stress factors, harsh life experiences, and adversity. They are expected to push through all of the challenges and succeed. Universities currently ...
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Moore, Melody M (2014-09-05)Existential philosophy has long asserted human life serves a purpose beyond simple existence and, further, that humans have a fundamental need to seek and understand this purpose. Humans are undeniably meaning seekers, ...
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Becker, Brittney Nicole (2017-05-08)Previous research examining the preference-categorization effect shows that people make finer categorical distinctions for liked (vs. disliked) objects. This includes people’s evaluative ratings using likert-type rating ...
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Atchison, Amisha (2011-08-08)Many college freshmen find the transition from high school to college difficult. These difficulties might stem from differences in students' personalities, as some optimistic students might underestimate the difficulty of ...
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An, Dong (2021-04-09)Emotions are always about something and are thus intentional. Emotional fittingness is a normative concept that is used to describe the relationship between an emotion and its object. If an emotion is fitting, it must ...
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Bench, Shane W (2014-04-28)Motivational hedonism holds that the ultimate goal of behavior is to maximize pleasure and avoid pain. This investigation was meant to explore if a negative experience would be chosen over a more positive experience, and ...
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Alcantara, Lyonna Francesca (2018-08-02)Approximately 13% of children aged 12-17 are diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD). This is particularly troubling since according to the World Health Organization, suicide is the second leading cause of death in ...
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Cankaya, Elif Merve (2016-08-03)Graduate school is a challenging time period in terms of dealing with the academic and life stressors that are unique to graduate students. Many students enrolled in graduate school, particularly doctoral students, do not ...