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Nicotine Use in Adolescence
No full textA video talk for Abnormal Psychology with Dr. Liss (Fall 2021)
Attractiveness
No full textAn ignite-style talk for Dr. Erchull\u27s Social Psychology course (Spring 2021). Students were asked to give psychology away by educating an audience of their choice about an idea from social psychology that the group would benefit from understanding.
References:
Frederick, D. A., Garcia, J. R., Davison, T. E., & McCabe, M. P. (n.d.). Physical Attractiveness. Physical Attractiveness: an overview | ScienceDirect Topics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/physical-attractiveness.
Lane, L. D. and C. (2021, January 15). Principles of Social Psychology. https://opentext.wsu.edu/social-psychology/chapter/module-12-attraction/.
Perry, S. J. (1998). A study of physical appearance and level of attraction to the opposite sex . Modern Psychological Studies. https://scholar.utc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=mps
The Association Between Editing Pictures, Depressed Mood, and Disordered Eating
Get PDFA Research Methods Project supervised by Dr. Laura Wilson (Fall 2021)
Myth or Fact: Most People Use Only 10% of Their Brain Power
Get PDFAn infographic created as part of Dr. Erchull’s General Psychology course (Fall 2021).
Students were asked to “give psychology away” through an infographic designed to educate an audience of their choice about an idea from social psychology that the group would benefit from understanding. TOPIC: people use only 10% of their brains. AUDIENCE: undergraduate college students.
Source:
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Ruscio, J., & Beyerstein, B. L. (2010). 50 great myths of popular psychology. Wiley-Blackwell
Dispelling the Right Brain/Left Brain Myth Among Homeschooling Parents
Get PDFAn infographic created as part of Dr. Erchull’s General Psychology course (Fall 2021).
Students were asked to “give psychology away” through an infographic designed to educate an audience of their choice about an idea from social psychology that the group would benefit from understanding. TOPIC: some people are left-brained and others are right-brained. AUDIENCE: parents who homeschool their children.
Sources:
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Ruscio, J., & Beyerstein, B. L. (2010). 50 great myths of popular psychology. Wiley-Blackwell.
Capuano, R. (2018, October 30). Is your child right-brain oriented? https://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/is-your-child-right-brain-oriented
Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Soil and Agronomic Sciences through K-12 Outreach and Education
No full textThe SSSA K-12 Education and Outreach committee continually organizes and carries out activities, webinars, and workshops geared toward increasing K-12 student interest and participation in soil and agronomic sciences. This presentation highlights the efforts and impact of several committee members in conducting outreach work in their local communities targeted at improving recruitment, retention, and representation of historically marginalized groups- including young women, people of color, and underprivileged youth- in the sciences
COVID-19 Through Nepali Teachers’ Perspectives
No full textThe Nepali education system has been affected by the extensive spread of COVID-19. Before the pandemic, Nepal was in a period of growth regarding educational policy after suffering from a civil conflict that lasted 10 years (Valente 2015; Parker et al. 2013). Although Nepal was in the process of recovering, they have a considerable digital divide with a lack of Internet access for many citizens (Mandal, 2020). Nepal has supplemented the lack of Internet access with TVs, radios, and phones (Dhamala 2020; Radhakrishnan-Nair et al. 2020; UNESCO 2020). Because the pandemic is current, there is a lack of research on how COVID-19 and the lack of Internet access have affected the teachers in the Nepali education system. In our research, we investigate Nepali teachers’ perspectives of COVID-19 affecting the education system
Symbolic Methods in Synthesized Cryptosystems
No full textI will be giving a brief overview of recent, and I think, interesting work on applying automated reasoning to cryptography. In particular to the automatic generation and security proofs of cryptographic systems. Aswell as introduce a new tool which is an implementation of some of these methods
Catechism and Constitution: The Role of Faith in Recusal on the Supreme Court
No full textThis project explores the role of Catholicism on the decisions of Supreme Court Justices in capital, high-profile cases, and what role religion plays on recusal of Justices from the Court. The research covers Catholic doctrines and teachings on capital punishment (among other life-or-death issue areas) and the different interpretations thereof. It also explores the influx of Catholic and Christian members of the Supreme Court and how the want to universalize and evangelize can put pressure on high-profile members of the Church in their secular jobs. It includes works from Catholic Church leaders and prominent decisions on capital cases decided by a heavily Catholic bench. In a culmination of looking at different ideas of morality and responsibility of a trials judge versus an appellate court, along with modern and traditional interpretations of Scripture, it concludes that religion is still not a preexisting condition or vested conflict of interest. While the No Religious Test Clause indicates that it is unconstitutional for a judge to be disqualified solely on their faith, it is unfair for the parties in a trial to be subject to a significantly altered Supreme Court bench because of personal interpretations of religion. If one’s religion will keep a Justice from carrying out their position on the Court in certain issue areas simply because of the subject matter, then the Justice cannot carry out their duties to the highest court in the land
Modeling Polarization in Mass Populations using Agent-Based Modeling & Novel Opinion Dynamics
Get PDFThe 21st century has opened doors for large-scale simulations that were previously impossible due to computing power restrictions. Now, we are able to create large simulations of heterogeneous “agents”. These simulations allow researchers to discover what set of simple rules (behavioral rules of each agent) are sufficient to produce a particular phenomenon on the societal level. The particular phenomenon we hope to observe is political polarization. The results of this research will provide insights into how polarization arises, and how it may be prevented from escalating further. In our simulation, agents will have a predetermined number of different opinions that are assigned randomly from 0-1. At each step of the simulation, agents will choose another neighboring agent at random for an interaction. Then, they will look to see if they agree closely on a random issue. If the opinions of both agents are within a predetermined comparison threshold, then we will take the average of the neighbor and the agent’s opinion on another different issue and set that as the agent’s new opinion on that given issue. Throughout the life of the simulation, we will measure a number of different variables such as the average assortativity across all issues, the average opinion variance, the average persuasions per agent, and the number of opinion clusters for each issue. We will examine the data from many simulation runs to look for emergent behavior across all agents in the simulation. Our goal is to manipulate the parameters of the model in such a way that sheds light on how polarization develops in a society. Some of the tools used in this project are Mesa, Networkx, Python and Dash