Browsing Psychology Doctoral Work by Title
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Modeling Approach Motivation in Terms of Perceptual Biases Involving Appetitive Stimuli
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Accumulating evidence suggests a potential relationship between approach motivation and perceptual enhancement. The current investigation was undertaken with the goal of exploring the causes of the phenomenon as well as ... -
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 ... -
On Distance Perception
(North Dakota State University, 2018)A crucial, but little studied, visual function involves estimating distance from the self to an object in the environment (absolute distance perception). This is a fundamental component in the creation of our perception ... -
Perceived Burdensomeness: Exploring Potential Vulnerability Factors
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Suicide affects hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year. Despite many coordinated efforts to address this problem, in multiple domains, these numbers have risen over the last decade. The Interpersonal ... -
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, ... -
Popular in the Digital Age: Self-Monitoring, Aggression, and Prosocial Behaviors in Digital Contexts and their Associations with Popularity
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the social lives of adolescents, as many of the social interactions that once occurred in face-to-face contexts are now occurring through digital ... -
Psychological Stress, Stress Reactivity and Blood Glucose Metabolization During Pregnancy
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Gestational diabetes mellitus impacts between 3-10% of pregnancies, and increases the risk of pregnancy complications and lifelong health effects for mother and child (Bellamy, Casas, Hingorani, & Williams, 2009; Ross, ... -
The Relationship Between Appearance Comparisons and Disordered Eating Behaviors: A Proposed Model and a Test of an Intervention
(North Dakota State University, 2017)One sociocultural factor that has been implicated as a risk factor in the development of eating disorders is a tendency to compare one’s appearance to others’ (appearance-related comparisons). The aims of the current study ... -
School Counselors' Use of Movement in Small Group and Individual Counseling Sessions
(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 ... -
Shared Nostalgia: Moving From an Individual to an Interpersonal Approach to the Study of a Social Emotion
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Nostalgia is a common, bittersweet experience described as a sentimental longing for the past. Past research has found nostalgia to be a social emotion that increases feelings of social connectedness and motivates social ... -
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 ... -
The Structure of Goals: Using Cybernetic Theory to Understand Behavior and Functioning
(North Dakota State University, 2011)While self-determination researchers emphasize the importance of pursuing internally motivated goals for self-regulation, cybernetic theorists instead highlight the structural features of goal systems and the manner in ... -
Studies of Visuospatial Attention
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Pseudoneglect (PN) reveals a contralateral bias in the deployment of visuospatial attention by the dominant (right) hemisphere. The magnitude of PN is phasically modulated by transient exogenous visual cues which automatically ... -
The Theory of Planned Behavior and Sleep Opportunity: An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Intra-Individual Variability
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Insufficient sleep duration is associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes, and many Americans report that they are not meeting sleep duration recommendations. Many individuals choose to restrict their own ... -
Understanding and Improving Depth Perception from Motion Parallax in Older Adults
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Successful navigation in the world requires effective visuospatial processing. Unfortunately, older adults have many visuospatial deficits, which can have severe real-world consequences. It is therefore crucial to understand ...