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Motivating Morality: Linking Moral Foundations and Fundamental Motives
(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 ...
“The Thought of Being a Part of What You Could Not Become”: Colonial Education and the Resistance of Young Minds
(2021)
This project engages with the colonizer’s use of the colonial education system to penetrate the colonized people’s pre-colonial cultural systems and the way it leads to the destruction of any already-formed understandings ...
Revising impressions with the authority moral foundation
(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 ...
The Psychological Impact of Investigating Crime Scenes
(2021)
The goal of this study was to determine if there are stressful or psychological impacts from investigating crime scenes. This was accomplished by analyzing ninety-four anonymous surveys that had been distributed to various ...
Life history strategy and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
(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 ...
Effects of exercise on decision-making under stress
(2021)
Prolonged exposure to stress can be very damaging to an individual both physically and mentally. Stress can have a negative impact on thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. Stress can also inhibit a person’s ability to make ...
A comparison of plyometric training on power benefits, body composition, and enjoyment
(2021)
Plyometrics has shown significant improvements for explosive power, strength, and body composition. Purpose. The purpose of this research study was to examine the effects on power in a land plyometric exercise program. It ...