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What sustains Chinese language learning motivation: a case study of southwestern American high school students
(2023-05-12)This holistic single-case study aims to investigate the sustained Chinese language learning motivation of American high school students who learn Chinese as a foreign language. The study is guided by the following questions: ... -
When assertation is not enough :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)This study did not provide support for the hypothesis that participation in an assertion training program with an aggression component would lead to higher scores on the Adult Self Expression Scale, a widely-used paper and ... -
When Confucius "Encounters" John Dewey: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis of Dewey's Visit to China
(2016-12-17)This dissertation focuses on John Dewey’s experience in modern China by exploring educational encounters between Dewey and the five Chinese scholars (Hu Shih, Liang Shuming, Tao Xingzhi, Guo Bingwen, and Jiang Menglin). ... -
When Moral Foundations Collide: An Examination of Liberals' and Conservatives' Reactions to Cross-foundational Moral Trade-offs
(2012)Two studies extended previous research on Moral Foundations Theory (MFT; Graham, Haidt, & Nosek, 2009) by examining the extent to which political ideology moderates the psychological reactions to various types of moral ... -
When more is less: the adverse effect of financial reporting complexity on accounting comparability
(2024-05-10)I investigate the impact of complex financial statements on accounting comparability. I measure accounting reporting complexity with XBRL-based measures. I find that complex financial statements reduce financial statement ... -
When politics is personal: The role of personal policy interests in legislative activity.
(2006)Mainstream literature on congressional behavior continues to concentrate on reelection as members' primary motivator, rather than exploring the other reasons for the legislative activities in which members engage. Although ... -
WHEN TO FOLLOW, WHEN TO BREAK, WHO TO BLAME: CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS OF STREET-LEVEL SERVICE INTERACTIONS
(2024-05-10)In this dissertation, I combine insights from public administration with those of political science, public policy, and social psychology to better understand how citizens think about and understand their governments. In ... -
When We End, Where Do I Begin? Exploring The Impact Of Relationship Dissolution on Self-Concept Among African-American Women
(2016-08-12)The loss of a romantic relationship can have devastating effects on individuals’ emotional well-being. Yet, little empirical work has been done that investigates the specific effects of break-ups on changes in self-concept, ... -
Where was I? Distractions during information gathering
(2023)The literature on creativity has long held that one of the most central processes central to the success of any creative problem-solving endeavor is the gathering of information that is pertinent for task completion, most ... -
Which of These is Not Like the Other? The Role of Segment Reporting Differentiation in Determining Firm Value
(2015-05-08)This study examines a firm’s excess value based on segment reporting for the firm and its peer group. Firms often operate in industry segments not reported by peers. When such operating segments are reported separately, ... -
White Pathology: The African American Critique of Black Pathology Discourse at the Turn of the Century
(2018-05)This project examines the ways African American authors from the turn of the twentieth century challenged racist violence and white supremacy and sought to create nuanced political responses and strategies. I focus on how ... -
White Women Doing Racism: A Critical Narrative Inquiry of White Women's Experiences of College
(2017-08)College campuses continue to be inequitable spaces for students as access and experiences are stratified by race, gender, and class, among other social categories. As access to higher education has broadened, white women ... -
A Whiteheadian critique of Jaegwon Kim's analysis of the mind-body problem.
(2001)The first section of the dissertation examines Kim's views on the nature of physical reality, causation, physical causal closure, and experience. For example, I find that Kim's views of experience are limited by his ... -
Who am I to judge? Intellectual Humility and Dispositional Attributions
(2021-05-14)According to the attribution-value model, a great deal of stigmatization and prejudice stem from the belief that an individual’s character is to blame for their “negative” traits or qualities. Such dispositional attributions ... -
“Who asked for this?”: authenticity and race-centered corporate social responsibility
(2023-05-12)The purpose of this study is to conceptualize and operationalize race-centered CSR, a combination of corporate social responsibility and corporate social advocacy concerned with repairing racial relationships and inequities, ... -
Who makes better decisions? The relative importance of numeracy and cognitive abilities for elements of decision making
(2020)The rapidly changing nature of work has increased the importance of non-routine thinking skills required to make decisions under risk and uncertainty. Cognitive ability tests are traditionally considered a robust tool for ... -
Who Shall Gainsay Our Decision? Choctaw Literary Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
(2009)This study examines the writing of a group of young Choctaw intellectuals, the first generation of that society of American Indians to embrace literacy as a fully viable tool of discourse. Working in the pre-removal period, ... -
The whole conductor: Weston Noble's philosophies on the psychology of conducting and musicianship.
(1998)Based upon elements of psychological theory, Noble has focused his artistic and educational objectives on the concept of exploration of the subjective side of the musical art. This approach has enabled him to achieve ... -
Whose desires are they? The politics of subversion in works by E. M. Forster, Nathalie Sarraute, and Jean Rhys.
(2006)This dissertation examines the ways in which we read representations of the feminine subject in works that have been deemed complicit in strengthening hierarchies of gender and/or race. Building upon feminist critics' ...