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Opus: Fall 2021
Get PDFAn issue of Opus from fall 2021.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/opus_2020s/1004/thumbnail.jp
Salvador Dali: Memories of Surrealism
Get PDFA poster for the exhibition Salvador Dali: Memories of Surrealism. The exhibition ran from January 19–April 17, 2021.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1043/thumbnail.jp
The Anchor: April 2021
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Benefit of Gratitude: Trait Gratitude Is Associated With Effective Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game
Get PDFThe current research investigated the role of gratitude in economic decisions about offers that vary in fairness yet benefit both parties if accepted. Participants completed a trait/dispositional gratitude measure and then were randomly assigned to recall either an event that made them feel grateful (i.e., induced gratitude condition) or the events of a typical day (i.e., neutral condition). After the gratitude induction task, participants played the ultimatum game (UG), deciding whether to accept or reject fair offers (i.e., proposer: responder ratio 9:1, 7:3) from different proposers. Results showed that trait gratitude was positively correlated with respondents’ acceptance of unfair offers. However, experimentally induced momentary gratitude did not influence acceptance of unfair offers. The trait or disposition to be grateful involves the enduring capacity across different types of situations and benefactors to see the good that is present, even when that benefit is small. Accordingly, dispositional gratitude – but not momentarily induced gratitude – was associated with a greater propensity to accept even the small benefits within unfair offers which otherwise pose barriers to making the effective economic decision of accepting offers regardless of their relative size
Filled and Unfulfilled Hope: The Effect of Imagery on Self-Regulatory Resources and Emotion
Get PDFAn important element of human cognition is the ability to imagine and hope for future outcomes. Imagining the future may result in states of hope or hopelessness. Hypertension, respiratory tract infections (Richman et al., 2005), and depression in adolescents (Waszczuk, Coulson, Gregory, & Eley, 2016) have been correlated with hopelessness, whereas positive emotions (Snyder et al., 1991) and lower levels of anxiety and depression (Feldman & Snyder, 2005) have been associated with states of hope. Using an experimental approach, hope evocation decreased anger and anxiety, along with heart rate, compared to rumination following a stressful event (Chadwick et al., 2016). In the current study, we attempt to evaluate the impact of forecasting the future regarding a hoped-for outcome. This between-subjects experiment tested the impact of hopeful and hopeless thinking on self-regulatory resources, depression and anxiety symptoms, rumination, and flourishing. Participants (undergraduate psychology students, anticipated N=105) complete individual difference measures, and self-reported, hope, hopelessness, optimism, satisfaction with life, and flourishing. Additionally, the participants’ depressive and anxiety symptoms, along with emotion regulation tendencies and trait self-regulation are measured. Participants then identify a meaningful hoped-for outcome for the next month and are randomly assigned to a control, hope-fulfilled, or hope-unfulfilled condition using Qualtrics. Next, researchers assess the hope, flourishing, and self-regulatory resources of participants. Researchers expect that imagining a hoped-for outcome unfulfilled will result in decreased positive emotion and flourishing and increased negative emotion compared to imagining the hoped-for outcome unfulfilled. This study builds on previous research regarding the value of hope and explores the impact of hope fulfilled and unfulfilled imagery on self-regulatory resources and emotional processes
Effects of Differences in Cell Wall Biochemistry on the Microbial Decomposition of Sphagnum (Peat Moss)
Get PDFGlobally, peatlands store twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere as CO2. As average global temperatures continue to rise, the growth or decay of these carbon stores will play an important feedback for future climate change. This study examined the mechanisms behind the rate of decomposition in Sphagnum mosses, specifically the differences in cell wall chemistry between species. We hypothesized that mosses from different microtopographies will differ in rate of decomposition, as previous studies have shown that hummock mosses have higher concentrations of recalcitrant structural carbohydrates in their cell walls compared to hollow mosses. The Sphagnum moss was collected from the Miner Lake Bog in Allegan Township, Michigan. We sampled three sites for each species and a site for one terrestrial Polytrichum species for comparison of a non-Sphagnum moss. Moss was cleaned of all extra organic matter and separated into 15 replicate incubation bottles for each type of moss. The moss was adjusted to 70% of its water holding capacity and a native microbial inoculum was added. The incubation bottles were wrapped in foil to prevent further photosynthesis and stored to begin decomposition. The moss samples were analyzed by gas chromatography to measure the rate of CO2 production during decomposition. Our data shows the rate of decomposition of the Hollow moss was significantly higher than the hummock and the non Sphagnum moss. This is consistent with our hypothesis that structural carbohydrates in hummock mosses reduce their rate of decomposition. The control had no moss and was treated with inoculum but did not exhibit CO2 production, demonstrating that decomposition of organic matter in the inoculum did not affect the results. Our continuing work is using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry to determine the specific carbohydrates responsible for the observed differences in decomposition
Hope College Alumni Magazine Index
Get PDFThis index contains listings for articles in the Alumni Magazine (1947-1979). The Alumni Magazine was published by the college and contains articles on alumni happenings, marriages, births, deaths, etc
News from Hope College, Volume 52.3: Spring, 2021
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The Anchor: February 17, 2021
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
Opus: Spring 2021
Get PDFAn issue of Opus from spring 2021.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/opus_2020s/1002/thumbnail.jp