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Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Technology in Archaeology and the Human – Environmental Interaction: The Case of Ta‘u Island, Manu‘a American Samoa
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
The research reported here utilizes lidar technology for a case study of archaeological site and feature identification in a unique landscape to investigate the human-environmental interaction in a defined study area, ...
Applying the Situational Judgment Test Method to Assess Individual Differences in Health Competence
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
People regularly make decisions about their health, yet they clearly differ in their ability to successfully make healthy decisions. We sought to understand this important individual difference by developing a scenario-based ...
Social Norms' Influence on Gendered Behaviors
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Individual variability in engagement in gendered behavior is primarily assumed to be the result of variability in gender roles (i.e., femininity, masculinity; Bem, 1981). However, contextual factors have also been shown ...
Playing the Objectification Game: How Women's Self-Esteem Impacts the Existential Consequences of Objectification
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Living in a culture of objectification harms women’s well-being in a number of ways. Despite this well-studied phenomenon, no research has yet investigated whether objectification impacts women’s existential well-being, ...
Hawk and Dove Stress Response Profiles in Humans
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
A recent evolutionary theory hypothesizes that there are two primary biobehavioral profiles of stress responding. Labeled "hawk" and "dove," each is characterized by divergent patterns of autonomic nervous system and ...
Belief and Belongingness: Are Supernatural Agents and Forces Social Surrogates?
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Motivational approaches to the study of supernatural beliefs propose that such beliefs serve psychological functions. I tested the proposal that supernatural agents and forces are sought out as social surrogates to fulfill ...
Visuospatial Attention and Autism Spectrum Trait Expression
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Pseudoneglect (PN: Bowers & Heilman, 1980) references neurotypical leftward attentional bias reflective of right hemisphere (RH) specialization for spatial attention. Phasic visual cues can alter PN magnitude (McCourt et ...
Health Risk Feedback: The Effects of ACE Insight on Stress Reactivity
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has lasting repercussions throughout an individual’s lifetime. An adult with a history of childhood trauma is at increased risk for excessive stress reactivity, which ...
Does a Brief Mindfulness Intervention Improve Distress Tolerance among Athletes?
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Trait mindfulness has been found to be a beneficial characteristic of athletes. However, the research on mindfulness interventions has been limited, poorly described, and poorly designed. The current study sought to determine ...
The Body Inversion Effect: The Role of Visual Appearance on Body Processing
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The purpose of this study was to determine if body stimuli are uniquely processed by the
visual recognition system. First, my results supported past findings showing that body processing
differs from object processing ...