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Our Temptation for Benjamins: Can framing spending habits allow us to overcome present bias?
Get PDFThis study will investigate whether people prefer spending their cash on hand for instantaneous benefits, or delay consumption for future returns, and the impact of their mood on their spending habits. Past studies find that one’s state of happiness immensely contributes to his or her willingness to spend money; happier, satisfied individuals tend to spend a lot less than dissatisfied ones. However, few studies focus on the impact of loss aversion on people’s time preferences towards money. The goal of this paper is to measure not only the impact of happiness as the same mood-congruent effect on time preferences but also that of loss aversion using lotteries that are announced in different time periods. Our statistical analysis goes in parallel with the literature on mood change and delaying consumption: those with higher degree of happiness appears to opt for the lottery that is higher compensated and announced in later time period, after accounting for demographic information
Human Monsters/Monstrous Humans: Victorian Gothic Constructions of Unnamed Monsters in \u3ci\u3eWuthering Heights\u3c/i\u3e and \u3ci\u3eThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u3c/i\u3e
Get PDFThis capstone centers around the production of monsters in the genre of the Victorian Gothic. I specifically examine Heathcliff from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Mr. Hyde from Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By exploring the structure of these Gothic works, I argue that monsters, specifically the monsters that fall under Maria Beville’s definition of the unnamed monster, are beings that embody and challenge the categories of person, animal, and thing. I argue that these characters’ Otherness is the catalyst for this inability to be categorized by investigating the ways that the Victorians viewed and understood Otherness. I look at the ways that these monsters escape clear definitions, and the uneasy boundaries between human/non-human, natural/supernatural, and normal/other that they leave in their wake
Carpenters: A Short Story Collection
Get PDFThis collection of four short stories explores the interfamilial dynamics and internalized traumas of womanhood across three generations of mothers, sisters, and daughters. In doing so, these stories confront the raw, painful, and beautiful lives and experiences of women and girls