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Effects of Music on Gait Presented Emotion Perception
No full textResearch on embodied emotions suggests that our ability to simulate bodily emotions enables us to better understand others’ emotions. Music has been shown to influence emotion processing, and music therapy is effective in improving social functioning. In this study, we explored the potential impact of emotional music on the processing of visual, whole-body, social cues. It was expected that listening to happy music would facilitate the visual perception of happy gait whereas listening to angry music would facilitate the perception of angry gait. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that for neutral gait stimuli, the current mood state of the participant would bias the participant to ‘perceive’ emotion in the neutral stimuli in the non-music group.
Fifty-six healthy participants were randomly assigned to three-music manipulation conditions happy music, angry music, or no music. The emotional gait perception task involved viewing a mannequin walker and deciding whether the walker looked happy or angry. Three types of gaits were presented: happy, angry, or neutral (no emotion). Mood and personality traits of the participants were assessed with self-report questionnaires.
The results indicate that regardless of music manipulation, all groups were more accurate in detecting happy gait. Congruence of the valence of music and the valence of the gait stimuli did not influence the accuracy on the gait perception. There were no significant correlations between gait perception and mood or personality traits. Suggestions for a future study are described.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychologyCollege of Arts and ScienceThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciences under the mentorship of Dr. Sohee Park
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing and American Civil Religion
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, (2016). Awarded Honors.This thesis examines the importance of the first Moon landing through the lens of civil religion. It concludes that civil religion inspired the Moon landing and led to its success in July 1969. Furthermore, it finds that the Moon landing itself entered into the civil religion as a monument to the American creed.Department of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
Evaluating the Continued Implementation of the Teacher Excellence and Support System (TESS) and the Implementation of the Leader Excellence and Development System (LEADS) in Jonesboro, Arkansas
No full textLeadership Policy and Organizations Department capstone projectVanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Leadership Policy and OrganizationsPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Bonnie Miller-McLemore on the Craft of Academic Writing
No full textIn this podcast, Chris Benda, Liaison Librarian for Religion and Theology at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, interviews Bonnie Miller-McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, about her article “Getting it Write: On the Craft of Academic Writing,” _Pastoral Psychology_ 65, no. 6 (2016): 803-20. http://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/people/bio/bonnie-miller-mclemore
The Role of the Vanderbilt Aid Society in the Establishment and Development of Vanderbilt University, 1894-1930
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, (2016). Awarded Honors.Although the United States today boasts a massive network of colleges and universities, these institutions owe much to the support provided by philanthropic organizations. The critical role in American higher education played by these educational philanthropists is exhibited on a micro level through an examination of the Vanderbilt Aid Society and its relationship to Vanderbilt University and Nashville society. Originally chartered in 1894 upon the appeal of a money-strapped collegian, the Vanderbilt Aid Society provided an early form of financial aid by funding small loans to Vanderbilt students. Previously, historians have restricted the significance of the Vanderbilt Aid Society to the institutional legacy of Vanderbilt University. This study, however, will examine the Vanderbilt Aid Society as an exemplar of major transitions in higher education, philanthropic ideals, and female social networks taking place during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. Analysis of the archival records of the Society and supporting outside sources will establish the Vanderbilt Aid Society as a reflection of the emergence of the American university, Progressive Era Philanthropic ideals, and female social networks. While the Vanderbilt Aid Society existed until 2009, this study will focus on the period from the Society’s founding until 1935, at which point New Deal beliefs about social welfare began to eclipse private philanthropic efforts. By situating the Vanderbilt Aid Society at the intersection of higher education and women’s voluntary associations, this study places the neglected history of the Vanderbilt Aid Society within broader thematic context. In this, the Vanderbilt Aid Society transcends its current relegation as little more than an isolated feature of local color, gaining historical significance as an embodiment of the very themes and beliefs that shaped the evolution of American colleges and universities and characterized women’s roles within educational philanthropyDepartment of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
Pope Francis: New Tone, New Directions
No full textBill Zechman converses with Bruce T. Morrill, Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theological Studies at Vanderbilt's Divinity School, about Pope Francis and what his pontificate means for the Roman Catholic Church
Thematic Cartography For Social Reform In Chicago, 1894-1923
No full textA historiographical analysis of thematic mapping in turn-of-the-century Chicago reveals the role of cartography as a highly politicized method for sorting and labeling urban populations. Progressive Era reformers and sociologists created maps that fixed transient and shifting populations of various ethnic and socioeconomic groups deemed undesirable. Such urban mapping projects demonstrate the application of cartography's ostensible objectivity to justify moral and political judgments about urban populations
Infants' Anticipations and Grasps of Familiar and Unfamiliar Tools
No full textThis thesis encompasses an experimental research study done as part of an honors program. The study aims to explore infants' knowledge of the handles of tools by examining their grasping and anticipation behaviors.Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An
unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than 3- to 5-month-olds (Hirtle, Strouse, Borten, & Needham, 2007). The current study aimed to extend this prior research by also obtaining measures of infants’ grasping behaviors on tools. Infants were more likely to make anticipations of the hand reaching for the handle of the peeler than the handle of the spoon, and were also more likely to make anticipations of the hand reaching for the usable portion of the spoon than the handle portion of the spoon. The only reliable predictor of infants’ first grasp location on the tools was age, with 12.5-month-olds more reliably grasping the handle of an adult spoon. Results are discussed in terms of the experiences they have had with these tools and how they interpret those experiences.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychology and Human DevelopmentPeabody CollegeThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Science
Writing the Way to Reading
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone projectThis capstone examines the possibilities of writing instruction to support the reading development of young children in late preschool through early first grade who are just beginning to understand the alphabetic principle. The NELP Report (2008) and prominent theories of reading development are analyzed to identify the instructional needs of beginning readers. Writing is then examined as a tool to deliver meaningful reading instruction in the elements of self-identity as a “doer” of literacy, decoding, and concepts about print. Recommendations are made for writing instruction that supports reading development in late preschool, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms. Common questions of type of writing task, the use of copying and tracing, independent vs. shared writing, and invented vs. conventional spelling are discussed. Finally, writing is examined as an assessment tool for planning meaningful early literacy instruction. In closing, recommendations are made for next steps toward effectively implementing writing instruction as a tool to meet the instructional needs of young literacy learners just beginning to understand the alphabetic principle.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Mind-body Practice in Undergraduates: User involvement in undergraduate mental healthcare setting
No full textMental health issues, particularly anxiety and depression, have risen nationally in frequency and severity among college students. The Vanderbilt University Psychological & Counseling Center (PCC) has also experienced this phenomenon. As a result, wait times for therapist appointments are often several weeks. In response to these trends, the PCC dedicated a room within its building to Mind-Body Practices (MBPs) called the Mind-Body Lab (MBL). The room, despite a significant national rise in MBPs, a surge in research indicating the therapeutic and preventative effectiveness of MBPs, and its availability to all undergraduates, is under-booked and infrequently used. This study investigated potential explanations for this occurrence through surveys of the student body and MBL users as well as Vanderbilt student interest in
MBPs. Female respondents engaged in more MBPs than male respondents. Additionally, stigma and demographic background may play a role in underuse of the MBL. Overwhelmingly, Vanderbilt students desire university support for MBPs