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Interdisciplinary Influences on Systemic Enlightened Sexism: Changing the Gender Narrative
Enlightened sexism is a phenomenon in which a progressed society maintains sexist components that contradict the accomplishments of women’s rights movements, as well as the inherent worth of all genders. I explore the ways ...
Psychological Social Support and its Effects on Longevity and Mortality
(2016-08-09)
This thesis examines the effects of psychological social support on longevity and mortality. It picks up where House and colleagues left off in their classic1988 review published in Science. A thorough summary is provided ...
A Comparison of Children Living in Extreme Urban Poverty Participating in an Enrichment Program with a Control Group on Narrative Skills Using Responses to a Story Telling Task
(2014-05-02)
Economic disadvantage is linked with harsher environments, which lead to poor cognitive, social, academic, and emotional consequences for children involved. It has been shown that an early period of schooling is of critical ...
Marijuana Dependence, Predictability from Levels of Impulsivity and Schizotypy in College-Aged Students
In this investigation, a survey was administered to 1,797 undergraduate students at Baylor University regarding the relationship between marijuana consumption and dependence, levels of impulsivity, and symptoms of schizotypal ...
Music and the Mind: How the Brain is Affected by Music
(2012-05-03)
Music is often thought of as a nonverbal language, capable of communicating emotional messages. Areas of the brain have been identified that, when damaged, affect only musical skills. At the same time, while the initial ...
The Faithful and the Distressed: How Likely are Christians to Seek Psychotherapy Treatment for Psychological Distress?
(2013-05-24)
Differences in causation (biological, psychosocial, spiritual) of five psychological disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, ADHD) and types of counseling/therapy (pastoral care, Christian ...
Categorical Perception as an Emergent Feature of General Perception
(2013-12-02)
Humans perceive linguistic phonemes categorically, that is, in distinct clusters rather than as continua. The same pattern of categorical perception (CP) has also been documented with a wide variety of other stimuli, ...
The Cultural and Medical Conceptions of Deafness: Their Effects on the Self and Culturally Affirmative Mental Health Care
(2017-05-23)
The cultural model of deafness is one that affirms the legitimacy of the Deaf community as a whole. The medical model of deafness is one that is predicated on disability and focuses on “deaf can’t” rather than “Deaf can”. ...
The Psychology of the Criminal in Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
(2018-05-21)
At surface level, Friederich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky are two completely different authors, in that Nietzsche completely rejects the faith which is so important to Dostoevsky's novels. However, in his letters, ...
Prenatal Stress Increases Both Learned and Unlearned Fear in Adult Rats
(2014-05-02)
The amygdala is critical in generating the emotion of fear. Exposure to stress during prenatal development is associated with changes in fear- and anxiety-like behavior. To examine the influence of prenatal stress on ...