• School Counselors' Use of Movement in Small Group and Individual Counseling Sessions 

  Geinert, Amy (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  Although there is a research base for incorporating movement into teaching and classroom lessons, there currently is a lack of research on incorporating movement into school counseling practices. The present mixed methods ...

• Embarking on the analytical odyssey: a phenomenological exploration of the psychoanalytic journey of formation 

  Giddens, Steven (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  This Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study explored the lived experiences of Lacanian psychoanalysts undergoing formation. The research aimed to elucidate the subjective dimensions of the psychoanalytic ...

• At the intersection of gender and sexuality: the role of a counselor in the co-transitioning process 

  Simenson, Sara (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  Transgender and gender-diverse people experience prejudice, invalidation, and minority stress. There have been strides towards counselor competency when working with this population, however research is limited in exploring ...

• Applying a modern situational measure to improve the reliability, validity, and outcome predictability of dream assessment 

  Garcia, Odalis (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  Dreams are hallucinatory activity occurring during sleep that nearly everyone experiences. To understand and research dreams, the field needs a reliable and valid dream assessment tool. The current, most used, measure (Hall ...

• Gating of food and non-food information from working memory 

  Johnson, Emily (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  Prior research has suggested that biased attention towards food cues in the environment may contribute to the onset and maintenance of binge eating. Here, we examine whether individuals who report high levels of binge ...

• Are two heads better than one? Investigating the influence of collaboration on creativity 

  Knopps, Alexander (North Dakota State University, 2024)

  Creativity and collaboration are considered fundamental skills for student success in STEM Education (Karimi & Pina, 2021) and are consistently among the top-ranked skills for employers (Flaherty, 2021). To assess creativity, ...

• Antisocial and Prosocial Peer Experiences and Social Cognitions as Predictors of Children's Responses to Harassment from Peers. 

  Visconti, Kari Jeanne (North Dakota State University, 2009)

  The current study examined whether prosocial and antisocial peer experiences and cognitions are predictive of changes in children's coping behaviors in response to peer victimization. Longitudinal data spanning two time ...

• Gaze Cuing, Familiarity, and the Self 

  Wadeson, Heather Kay (North Dakota State University, 2009)

  Attention researchers have known for over a decade that people have a tendency to shift their attention automatically to a location gazed at by another person (e.g., Friesen & Kingstone, 1998). This social orienting ...

• Neural Synchrony and Asynchrony as Mechanisms for Perceptual Grouping and Segmentation 

  Clarke, Aaron (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  The question of whether neural synchrony has functional significance for cortical processing has been an issue of contention in the recent scientific literature. Although the balance of evidence now seems to be favoring ...

• The Influence of Vulnerable Narcissism on College Adjustment 

  Dombeck, Joseph James (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Attending a university is one of the first major life transitions for many young adults, and it presents a number of important challenges, difficulties, and stressors. Thus, students with certain personality characteristics ...

• I'm Seeing Red!Literally: The Effect of Metaphoric Representation on Perception 

  Fetterman, Adam Kent (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Metaphor is often used to represent abstract concepts using concrete domains (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). One set of metaphors that has long been of interest, but seldom studied, is the set of those linking color and emotion. ...

• Literal vs. Symbolic Immortality: Exploring the Relative Strengths of Religious Paths to Death-Transcendence 

  Juhl, Jacob Timothy (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  According to terror management theory, religious worldviews provide protection from mortality concerns by providing feelings of literal immortality ( conscious life after death) and symbolic immortality (the essence of ...

• The Effects of Cultural Dispositions on Behavior in Social Dilemmas: Examining the Impact of Expectations on Cooperation and Competition 

  Ladbury, Jared Lee (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Many groups require cooperation in order to efficiently complete tasks in a manner that benefits all group members. The antecedents of cooperative and competitive behavior have been well studied using a particular class ...

• Conquering Avoidance by Avoiding Death: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Goal Value, Goal Commitment, and Goal Pursuit in Depressive Individuals 

  Myxter, Peter John (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Research into the antecedents and consequences of successful goal pursuit is reviewed within the framework of a proposed existential intervention for depression. Behavioral perspectives propose that insufficient goal ...

• Rumination and Problem Solving: A Focus on Dispositions, Processes, and the Five-Step Framework 

  Scheller, Katey Rae (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Rumination is a method of responding to and coping with negative moods that involves repetitively and passively focusing on the causes, consequences, and symptoms of negative mood (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991 ). Research has ...

• Creativity and Randomness 

  Zabelina, Darya Lvovna (North Dakota State University, 2010)

  Major theories of creative cognition are reviewed in the present thesis. These theories are diverse yet seem to converge on similar key processes. One definition of creativity emphasizes going beyond stereotypical responses ...

• The Relationship Between Features and Edge Types in Natural Images 

  George, Jonathon Michael (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  One of the most important processes in the human visual system involves detecting and understanding edges. Edges allow humans to break a visual scene up into meaningful chunks of information. Without edges, a visual scene ...

• Changes in Negative Affect Following Pain (vs. Nonpainful) Stimulation in Individuals With and Without a History of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury 

  Bresin, Konrad Winston (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  Theoretical models of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI; i.e., purposeful destruction of body tissue without suicidal intent) suggest that individuals engage in NSSI in order to regulate intense emotions. However, empirical ...

• Facial Expression Recognition in People with Differing Levels of Eating Disorder Symptoms 

  Nudnou, Ilya (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  Previous studies of emotion categorization abilities of people with eating disorders used accuracy and reaction time to identify performance deficits for these individuals. The conclusions from this literature have been ...

• Sex Differences in Response to a Large 200-Person Audience using the Trier Social Stress Test in Pre-Recorded Virtual Reality 

  Byron, Garrett (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) induces stress in the lab by having participants complete challenging tasks in front of an audience. The TSST has been adapted to virtual reality (VR), eliminating in-person audience ...

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