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Aging and Object-Based Inhibition of Return
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Inhibition of return (IOR) is a cognitive mechanism to bias attention from returning to previously engaged items. While aging models have proposed deficits within select inhibitory domains, older adults have demonstrated ...
Changes in Negative Affect Following Pain (vs. Nonpainful) Stimulation in Individuals With and Without a History of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
(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 ...
The Relationship Between Features and Edge Types in Natural Images
(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 ...
Creativity and Randomness
(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 ...
Rumination and Problem Solving: A Focus on Dispositions, Processes, and the Five-Step Framework
(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 ...
Conquering Avoidance by Avoiding Death: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Goal Value, Goal Commitment, and Goal Pursuit in Depressive Individuals
(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 ...
The Effects of Cultural Dispositions on Behavior in Social Dilemmas: Examining the Impact of Expectations on Cooperation and Competition
(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 ...
Literal vs. Symbolic Immortality: Exploring the Relative Strengths of Religious Paths to Death-Transcendence
(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 ...
I'm Seeing Red!Literally: The Effect of Metaphoric Representation on Perception
(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. ...
Neural Synchrony and Asynchrony as Mechanisms for Perceptual Grouping and Segmentation
(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 ...