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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 ...
The Influence of Vulnerable Narcissism on College Adjustment
(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 ...
Gaze Cuing, Familiarity, and the Self
(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 ...
Antisocial and Prosocial Peer Experiences and Social Cognitions as Predictors of Children's Responses to Harassment from Peers.
(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 ...