Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Randell, J. Adam"
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Life history strategy and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chambers, Ambré N. (2022)Life history theory (LHT) describes how animals evolve to maximize reproductive fitness in relation to their environmental conditions. Species fall along a continuum based on whether they tend towards a slow life strategy ... -
Motivating Morality: Linking Moral Foundations and Fundamental Motives
Wedde, Breanna (2021)What motivates moral judgments? The fundamental motives model proposes that people have a set of psychological mechanisms that motivate behavior (Kenrick et al, 2011). The self protection motive functions to protect one ... -
Revising impressions with the authority moral foundation
Erskine, Arlann (2021)Past research argues that judgments of morality supersede warmth or competence when forming impressions, and that some people will revise an impression based on highly diagnostic moral information. Moral Foundations Theory ... -
Sad eyewitnesses and jurors' perceptions of their believability
Ridley, Cassie Ann E. (2023)Eyewitness testimony is heavily relied on in court, and there is a large amount of research on how an eyewitness's and defendant's behavior and emotion can influence a jury's verdict decision. The emotional victim effect ... -
Will you still love me tomorrow? Sociometer theory and sexual self-esteem
Bishop, Kelsey C. (2021)Self-esteem is often conceptualized as a general reflection of how as individual feel about themselves. However, research has shown self-esteem is not only an active component of our social selves, but it is also uniquely ...