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Toeing the party line: Identity misclassification and behavorial inflexibility in political decision making.
(2007)
Although social role norms serve as helpful guides to appropriate social behavior, they can also limit people's behavioral flexibility. When role violators expect to be mistaken as a member of a devalued out-group (i.e., ...
Differences between computer-mediated and face-to-face romantic relationships: A qualitative investigation into the allures and drawbacks of the two types of relationships.
(2005)
The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the assumptions, beliefs, perspectives, and behaviors of people who have engaged in romantic online relationships. Ten college students (five females and five males) from ...
Male Internet pornography consumers and their attitudes toward men and women.
(2001)
Grounded in pornography literature from the conservative-moralist, liberal, and feminist perspectives, and utilizing traditional theories of media effects, this study examined habitual male consumers of Internet pornography ...
Communicating identity: Communication processes in the development of group identity through congregational worship rituals.
(2002)
How does communication work in the process of group identity creation and maintenance? This dissertation uses a social construction of reality orientation to seek the verbal, nonverbal, and ritual communication elements ...
Construct validity of the People of Color Racial Identity Attitude Scale.
(2004)
This study assessed the psychometric properties of the People of Color Racial Identity Attitude Scale (POCRIAS; Helms, 1995). The factor structure of the POCRIAS was investigated and the relationships between the POCRIAS ...
Child physical abuse: Relationship of parental substance use to severity of abuse and risk for future abuse.
(2001)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the dose-effect relationship between substance use (alcohol and/or drug use) and several child physical abuse outcomes in a sample of abusive parents. Outcomes examined included ...
The effects of risk-taking and responsibility on adolescent sexual behavior: Is the effect mediated by military background?
(2004)
Adolescent sexual behavior was investigated within a framework of three independent variables. Previous research has identified that adolescents share a propensity for risk-taking. Other research has indicated that adolescents ...
Forgiveness of others and athletic performance in college baseball players.
(2000)
It was hypothesized that athletes high in forgiveness of others would perform better at baseball, show less performance deficits between preseason and midseason, score lower in total mood disturbance, and show a greater ...
Impact of culture circles on minority high school students in mathematics.
(2000)
Especially important to the findings of the study was the establishment of an environment for positive change in the students' performances by having the culture circle group meetings. The impact of the culture circle ...
Host environment, communication, and psychological health: A study of cross-cultural adaptation comparing Korean expatriates in the United States with American expatriates in South Korea.
(2003)
Future studies in this field could prove yet more fruitful by expanding the range of nationalities of the expatriate groups living and working in a variety of cultural regions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)