Browsing by Author "Mendoza, Jorge"
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Honor, Loyalty, and Sacrifice
Green, Kevin (2016-05-14)Three studies were conducted to investigate the potential relationship between honor ideology and loyalty to close others. Study 1 demonstrated strong correlational relationship between honor and concerns of morality ... -
Identifying Patterns in Course-Taking that Predict Student Leaving: A Comparison of Different Predictive Algorithms
Van Dyk, Mark (2018-07)Higher education institutions continue to face the problem of student attrition, which in turn impacts graduation rates overall. This has numerous drawbacks not only at the university or student levels but has far-reaching ... -
IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY ADVERTISEMENT: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF VIVIDNESS AND INTERACTIVITY ON CONSUMERS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES
Ahmed, Rahnuma (2018-08-02)The main goal of the present study was to test the advertisement effectiveness of immersive virtual reality (VR) systems. Two experimental studies were conducted to address the goal. The first experiment was done to compare ... -
The Impact of Mentoring: An Analysis of Psychosocial Mediators in Youth Transition Outcomes
Moore, Felicia R. (2018-05-11)Opportunity youth range in age from 16 to 24. They are not in school or working, and each of the 6.7 million of them cost taxpayers an average of $51,350 on an annual basis. Opportunity youth create a drain on economic ... -
The impact of self-criticism throughout the creative process
Standish, Colleen (2022-05)Previous work on criticism and creativity suggests that people often critique their own work during creative efforts. While the role and importance of evaluating ideas has been established in the creativity literature, ... -
The impact of socioeconomic and first-generation status on STEM-major enrollment
Holloway, Katie (2020-12)In order to maintain leadership and competitiveness in a global economy driven by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), the United States needs to increase representativeness of its STEM workforce and ... -
Improving Study Strategies Through Testing Experience
Crisostomo, Marisa (2017-05-12)Prior research on the Testing Effect has shown that testing previously learned material can result in greater long term memory performance than if the material was restudied (Roediger & Karpicke, 2007). Although the testing ... -
Learning Not to Take the Bait: An Examination of Training Methods and Overlearning on Phishing Susceptibility
Nguyen, Christopher (2018-05-11)As phishing attacks become increasingly common and sophisticated, anti-phishing training must extend beyond teaching individuals about cues and rules associated with phishing. Specifically, training methods that teach ... -
Misinformation and Information Gathering in Creative Problem-Solving
Mery, Marina (2022-05)Information gathering is a critical process in creative problem-solving. An important feature of successful information gathering is scanning for discrepant information and attending to such discrepancies to understand the ... -
More than a feeling: An examination of mixed emotional expressions on leader evaluations and follower performance
Torrence, Brett (2019-05)Leader emotional expressions are a central component of effective leadership and have received substantial attention in the leadership literature due to the interpersonal effects of emotion. This laboratory study (N = 266) ... -
Numeracy Predicts Accurate Climate Change Knowledge and Beliefs: A Model of Factors That Influence Biases and Polarization
Cho, Jinhyo (2020)Although 97% of experts generally agree that modern global warming is largely caused by human activities, some people hold biased, inaccurate beliefs about the causes of climate change and the strength of the scientific ... -
ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING (OBA): THE INFLUENCE OF RECIPROCITY, PERSONALIZATION, AND AD CONTENT TYPE ON CONSUMERS’ ATTITUDE AND INTENTION
Rony, Md Nazmul (2018-08-02)Abstract This research explores the role of reciprocity, personalization, and ad content type of OBA on participants’ attitudes toward the OBA, attitudes toward the brand, intentions to click the ad, and intentions to ... -
A phenomenological qualitative study investigating the social and ecological determinants that influence military childhood overweight and obesity behaviors
Khatod, Lorie (2020-12-18)This phenomenological qualitative study investigated the social and ecological determinants that influence military child overweight and obesity behaviors. The study identified and examined where the greatest influences ... -
Political Consumerism & Remote-Piloted Passenger Aircraft
Keahiolalo, Andrew (2018-05-11)The overall purpose of this study was to determine if there exists a receptive market for a new aviation passenger model that by use of emerging technologies may significantly decrease the threat in air safety that is pilot ... -
The problems of fit indices on replicated SEM studies
Lee, Seunghoo (2022-12-16)There has been a research gap in examining fit indices under the context of reproducing the result of structural equation modeling (SEM) since a replication attempt revisited not many SEM studies. Two simulation studies ... -
REDUCTION OF ASYMMETRICAL COMPETITION THROUGH COGNITIVE ADAPTATIONS IN TWO SYMPATRIC CHIPMUNKS
Daniels, Katherine (2015-08)Asymmetrical competition occurs frequently and can potentially lead to a small species facing resource exclusion. When this competition occurs for food resources, smaller species often have to compensate for this pressure ... -
Reflecting on the past and looking towards the future: The effects of case analysis and outcome valence on forecasting
Mulhearn, Tyler (2018-05-11)Prior research has demonstrated the importance of forecasting to creative problem-solving performance. Less is known about how case analysis and outcome valence impact forecasting performance. In this study, 266 participants ... -
Relational Aggression in Romantic Relationships: How Do Honor-Endorsing Women Traverse Conflict with Their Partners?
Foster, Stephen (2020-05-08)Prior research on cultures of honor have shown that individuals are expected to defend their reputations at all costs, even to the point of physical violence. However, this research has almost exclusively demonstrated this ... -
Reversing the Error: The Role of Causal Attributions in Inhibiting Prejudice
Foster, Stephen (2017-05)There are a wide variety of explanations for why a person may hold prejudicial attitudes. For example, prior research suggests that those who hold more prejudicial views partake in the fundamental attribution error in ... -
The role of emotions and cognitive biases in ethical decisions
Ness, Alisha (2017-05)Ethical sensemaking is a process of gathering and organizing information in a meaningful way to guide understanding of a situation. Ethical situations in organizations are dynamic with new information often emerging over ...