Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Degrees "M.A., Psychology"
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Hysteresis in visual search.
(2010)People perform complex visual tasks. Airplane pilots land planes safely on the ground and baseball players swing bats at speeding fastballs. Drivers weave through traffic and sports fans skillfully track the movements of ... -
Making sense : a study of the dialogical nature of consciousness in creative writing.
(2008)The present study investigated the dynamics of a single participant's various I-positions ... using Stephenson's (1985) Q method, analysis of variance, factor analysis, and qualitative assessment of the participant's ... -
Matching the right feedback to the right person : the interaction of process and outcome feedback with goal orientation.
(2017)Types of performance feedback are discussed and compared. An overview of the goal orientation literature is provided. The author hypothesized that outcome feedback is congruent with a performance orientation, and that ... -
Oklahoma's juvenile justice : disproportionate minority placement among Oklahoma's juveniles
(2021)America has a long history of placing a disproportionate number of minorities in the criminal justice system. Disproportionate incarceration/placement rates occur in both the adult and juvenile justice systems. This study ... -
Perceived location of self.
(2012)Evidence suggests that the perceived location of the self is changeable. I replicated Legennhager et al (2007) where participants experienced a perceptual illusion of a relocated self, created by having a participant wear ... -
Perceived status value regarding elderly individuals : assessing cultural influence.
(2009)Western societies often view elderly individuals in a more negative view than other cultures around the world. This negative view is commonly referred to as ageism. The importance of understanding this demographic has ... -
Profanity and humor : is that @!&#% funny?
(2011)Profanity and Humor are two complex human behaviors; both have been understudied by mainstream academics. There has even less research examining the interaction between these two topics. Three previous studies examined ... -
Self-regulation, displaced aggression and power : effects of throwing fireballs at colleagues.
(2013)Self-regulation, displaced aggression and power were examined by affective processing measured through behavior, in the context of a simulated workplace setting. Four conditions looked at the effects of self-regulation ... -
Social networking sites and selection decisions : the impact of privacy settings of Facebook profiles and hiring decisions.
(2013)Social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and LinkedIn have gained popularity in the recent years. As long ago as 2009 and recent as 2012, some organizations have required the login credentials for potential employees ... -
Social perception and implicit self-esteem.
(2012)Three experiments investigated whether implicit self-esteem was influenced by various perceptual stimuli. It was predicted that positive comments, performance, and feedback would lead to high implicit self-esteem, whereas ... -
A Streetcar Named Envy and Aggression
(2021)Envy is a well-known unpleasant emotion that is often characterized by inferiority and resentment and appears when individuals compare themselves to others (Parrott, 1991). Jealousy occurs when individuals fear losing ... -
Talk vs. actions : using a Q-sort to study an evolutionary view of same sex friendships.
(2008)This study sought to find out whether there are differences between male and female same-sex friendships based on evolutionary theory. The researcher took a self-referent measure known as the Q-Sort. The Q-Sort was ... -
Texting and tapping : a dynamical approach to multitasking.
(2011)Jobs in various work fields (e.g., flying airplanes; Helmreich, 2000) require a high ability to successfully handle more than one task at a time, or to multitask. Researchers usually explain multitasking by having priorities ... -
The dynamics of rowing.
(2011)A phenomena experienced by many athletes, referred to as 'hitting the wall' lacks empirical evidence of occurrence. Data from eighteen collegiate female rowers (eight novice, ten varsity) revealed the dynamics of rowing ... -
The effects of focused attention on batting performance of collegiate athletes.
(2013)Proper thinking is essential to effective batting in baseball and softball. However, the qualities that define "proper thinking" are unspecified and therefore require examination. That is, on what should a batter focus for ... -
The effects of labeled praises on behavior disruptions in a high school classroom.
(2012)The purposes of this study were to determine whether receiving labeled praise training increases how often high school teachers use labeled praises to determine if teachers observe a decrease in classroom disruptions after ... -
The role of attention, attitude, culture, and social expectancies in the human-animal bond : a biopsychosocial approach.
(2010)The human-animal bond may positively impact human health. However, employing the human-animal bond in human health and behavioral treatments strategies faces several unresolved issues. Challenges facing human-animal bond ... -
The thin ideal : the role of positive and negative expectancies.
(2009)Media often portrays women of an unattainable stature. This unattainable stature is commonly referred to as the thin ideal. Women in media, especially fashion models, have become significantly thinner over the last several ... -
Understanding outcomes of traumatic experiences : roles of neuroticism and coping.
(2009)This study was to better understand how coping and neuroticism influence the negative and enduring potential of a traumatic experience. Traumatic experience has been shown to change individuals' cognitive processes. The ... -
Unsubstantiated bias toward foster care versus group home placements for wards of the state.
(2009)High number of placements for children in U.S. DHHS custody has led to class action lawsuits around the country. The current study proposes that social stigmatization effects in the form of family ideology drive foster ...