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Jenna Gribbon: Queer Identity and the History of the Nude
Get PDFJenna Gribbon(b. 1978, Knoxville, TN) is an artist working primarily within the medium of painting. Her paintings challenge the sanctity of the private, while melding a queer and feminist critique of art history\u27s representation of the nude figure.https://scholar.utc.edu/global-contemporary-artists/1025/thumbnail.jp
Perceived control and mistake management: a study on behavioral responses
Get PDFMistakes at work can be quite costly for organizations. Mistakes can vary from minor to extreme, and mistakes cost organizations millions of dollars each year (Macciola, 2021). Perhaps what is just as crucial as mistakes is how people respond to mistakes and the factors influencing how people respond to mistakes, such as one’s perceptions of control, who identifies the mistake, and the type of mistake. Perceived control refers to an individual’s perception of the amount of power they have over their surroundings and the challenges they may encounter (Thompson, 1981). Perceived control promotes a sense of responsibility for outcomes (Skinner, 1996). This study aims to examine the relationship between perceived control and behavioral reactions to mistakes. Hypothesis 1: there is a positive relationship between perceived control and the likelihood of correcting a mistake. Hypothesis 2: There is a main effect of type of mistake on the likelihood of correcting a mistake. Hypothesis 3: There is a main effect of the source of mistake information on the likelihood of correcting a mistake. Hypothesis 4: There is an interaction between perceived control and type of mistake on the likelihood of correcting the mistake, such that when a high-impact mistake occurs, the relationship is stronger. Hypothesis 5: There is an interaction between perceived control, type of mistake, and source of mistake information, such that when a high-impact mistake occurs and the information comes from a supervisor, the relationship is the strongest. Participants will be sampled from the Middle Tennessee State University research pool. This study will use a 2x2 design and present participants with a situation in which a mistake is made. We will measure perceived control and manipulate both the type of mistake and the source of information. Participants will be presented with mistake information based on random assignment to conditions (mistake type, source of information about the mistake). Participants will then indicate how likely they are to try to correct the mistake. The data collected will be analyzed using multiple regression analysis. This study has the potential to provide valuable information to organizations desiring to encourage accountability, improve employee performance, and reduce costly mistakes. These findings can be used to design training programs and feedback mechanisms that motivate employees to take corrective action
Examining the Impact of Job Demands and Resources on Attorney Burnout
Get PDFAttorneys deal with demanding hours, high stakes, and constant pressure to perform which can create an unsustainable work environment, resulting in emotional exhaustion and low job satisfaction. (Chalp & Brown, 2022) This not only affects the well-being of attorneys but also impacts their firms and clients, there is an urgent need for strategies to address and prevent burnout in the legal profession. (Salmons, 2017) The job demands resource model says that demands can correlate with more burnout while resources correlate with engagement and less burnout. Research with attorneys has documented that some demands correlate with burnout such as workload, but fewer studies have looked at demands other than workload. Studies have also not looked at a variety of resources that could help prevent burnout. We hypothesized that workload and emotional demands are correlated with more burnout and less engagement. We also hypothesized that meaning at work and perceived work support are correlated with less burnout and more engagement. This study will include survey data from attorneys that will be used to test our hypotheses. Currently our analyses are in progress. Results from this study could lead to the development of policies that promote work-life balance as well as cause law firms to improve mental health resources and counseling services. Researching attorneys who experience burnout can inform law firms and legal organizations about best practices for creating a healthier work environment
Ageism in Hiring: The Influence of Implicit Cues on Perceptions of Candidate Warmth, Competence, Suitability, and Trainability
Get PDFHiring discrimination in the U.S. is an illegal practice for people who are 40 and older (Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 1967). Previous research has shown that not only is discrimination still prevalent (Harris, 2022; Abrams et al., 2016), but as much as 48% of people have experienced some type of ageism (Wilson et al., 2019). Furthermore, 90% of all discriminatory decisions are made before the hiring process even begins, typically during the resume screening process (Harris, 2022). Older age in applicants may signal to recruiters that the candidate has lower technology skills and trainability (VanBorm et al., 2021).The current study investigates the impact of implicit age cues in resumes (i.e., names) and the impact of a prescriptive stereotype violation (e.g. perceived technological ability) as it impacts perceptions of warmth and competence. It is hypothesized that subsequent impressions of trainability and suitability will be impacted by warmth and competence perceptions. Participants will be recruited from CloudResearch Connect (N = 300). The study uses a 2 (Implicit Age Cue: Young, Old) x 2 (Technology Skill: Yes, No) experimental resume design. Participants will be randomly assigned to one condition and then subsequently rate the candidate on warmth and competence (Cuddy et al., 2008), and trainability and suitability for the position (Derous et al., 2009; Di Stacio, 2014). They will subsequently provide their demographic information. We intend to use moderated mediation to test study hypotheses. If the hypothesis is correct, resumes with older implicit age cues and no technological skills will be perceived as less warm and less competent, which consequently will result in being perceived as unsuitable and untrainable from hiring managers. Theoretically, given the foundation on the Stereotype Content Model, the current study will provide evidence for the impact of age-related cues on perceptions of warmth and competence. Subsequently, it will also provide insight into the implicit bias that may be impacting hiring managers and recruiters within the resume screening process. For practice, this study will aid in recommendations for hiring processes (e.g. valuing experience, structured interviews, ongoing training) and inclusion efforts across organizations by highlighting the use of “shortcuts” in resume screening as one way that bias can still emerge in the hiring process. By allowing companies to be aware of the discrimination at the very beginning of recruitment this could change the outcome during the interview process. This can reduce bias in evaluations of candidates and promote age diversity
My Summer in L&D : Internship at RxBenefits
Get PDFI currently hold an internship through RxBenefits as a Learning and Development intern within their Human Resources department. I obtained this role through an online interview process with members of the team before securing my role. RxBenefits is a pharmacy benefits optimizer - the only company of its kind. RxBenefits works to provide clients with the best deal for their pharmacy benefit plan through unique plan offerings, brokerage deals, and clinical expertise. In my role at RxBenefits, I worked to create new virtual training content, career development resources, and aid in the new-hire onboarding and orientation process. I was able to use Articulate platforms such as Storyline and Rise to create new interactive training modules for our clinical product offerings. I also spearheaded a project where I utilized the Confluence platform to create an interactive career pathing tool for current employees, among other responsibilities. In this internship, I was able to gain invaluable instructional design experience, learn more about adult learning theory and how it is used in the workplace, and acquire immense knowledge about the pharmaceutical industry and corporate world. I was able to work closely with my team and mentors and learn from their welfare of knowledge about the importance of learning and development, and the best practices in the industry. In this role, my previous knowledge of I-O psychology was immensely helpful in understanding learning theories in training, organizational structure, and in recognizing where learning opportunities were needed
Iuno… Saevissima: patriarchy, divinity, and villainy in imperial Roman epic
Get PDFJuno is a Roman deity with a significant amount of scholarship around her impact on Roman literature and Roman social life. Her divine department is as the protector of motherhood, banks, family order, marriage, and women in general. Many Roman temples still exist that immortalize her. However, there is another aspect to her character that is at odds to her portrayal in day-to-day Roman life, mainly her portrayal in the Roman epics of Virgil\u27s Aeneid and Silius Italicus\u27 Punica. Virgil (fl. ~26. B.C.) and Silius Italicus (b. ~26 A.D.) wrote, respectively, examples of epic literature, both which detail the myths that revolve around Roman bellicosity. Both portray the queen of the heavens, Juno, in a negative light. These accounts of Juno’s relationships to Roman heroes and villains provide a view into their authors’ viewpoints especially regarding theories of divinity, the purposes of mythography, and the Roman understanding of female status. These interpretations of Juno as an adversarial deity reveal not only the authors’ propagandistic and deeply political ideologies, but also the social norms underpinning their stories
Contemplative constructions
Get PDFThis text serves as a backdrop written in support of a body of paintings. The series of paintings revolve around the relationship between mechanical and human reproduction in mapping. The text challenges the Benjaminian notion that an artwork contains one unique aura and replication of the artwork damages the aura. It argues that by displacing surrounding references from the original map, the symbols made by the cartographers hand can be seen as aesthetic marks through an unlearning of their original purpose as a tool. Using the Jakobsonian axis of selection and axis of combination I remove and gain a sense of control over the construction of the images and combine them with the methodologies of oil painting to create works of a new totality
Standing on the front porch of To Kill a Mockingbird
Get PDFThis thesis is an examination of the front porch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. After providing background on the practical functions of the front porch in the South, I argue that this space serves as a synthesis between perception and reality in Lee’s novel. My thesis is divided into three sections that each explore different characters on the front porch: Boo Radley, Southern women, and Scout. Analyzing specific scenes with these characters on the front porch, I consider how the space exposes various tensions in the novel and highlights Lee’s larger themes
How to get away with insider trading and how to stop it?
Get PDFThe realm of investing, while promising, is often clouded by complexity and opacity, exacerbated by the prevalence of insider trading. This unethical practice allows select individuals to amass vast fortunes by exploiting confidential information unavailable to the public. Particularly alarming is the possibility of insider trading within Congress, where lawmakers wield privileged access to non-public information and could possibly engage in lucrative stock transactions. This paper delves into specific coincidences of Congressional stock trading to underscore the systemic nature of this phenomenon among influential figures
Logical sense in the skeptical self-refutation problem: Sextus Empiricus’ logos and pathos
Get PDFThe self-refutation problem is an all too familiar objection to all varieties of skeptical arguments, in fact, it is as old as skepticism itself. My analyses will first focus on the arguments and objections to ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes the goal of Pyrrhonian skepticism as “suspension of judgment as a way of achieving calm (ataraxia) in the face of seemingly intractable disagreement.” The position involves a series of arguments, or, “modes”, for evaluating claims in such a way that the evidence for and against accepting a claim are equally balanced, leaving the inquirer with no rationally acceptable choice but to suspend judgment. Sextus recorded and responded to two separate counts of self-refutation. The first objection claims that the skeptical phrases such as, “It is no more this than that,” are self-undermining and the second is that Sextus’ skeptical argument against proof is self-undermining. My thesis will focus on these two objections as correlated but theoretically distinct problems. I will first focus on Luca Castagnoli’s responses to Mark L. McPherran’s arguments in defense of the skeptical position in regard to these two objections to highlight the nature of the issue. McPherran defends the claim that Sextus openly endorses the self-refutation objection to the argument against proof since it serves the purpose of achieving the Pyrrhonian goal of suspending judgment. Castagnoli argues, contra McPherran, that Sextus is not embracing self-refutation but formulates two arguments that attempt to show that the self-refutation objection fails to overthrow the intended skeptical ends of suspension of judgment. In the case of the skeptical phrases, Castagnoli asserts that even if one tried to utter them dogmatically, that is, as an assertion, they couldn’t do so, because they have a logical immunity to dogmatism, resulting in suspension of judgment. In the case of the argument against proof, Castagnoli claims that the argument against proof succeeds in drawing proof into its refutational scope, and thus requires one to suspend judgment about the status of proof as a successful operation. Central to Castagnoli’s claim is that McPherran has misapplied the concept of “self-refutation” to Sextus’ Greek text, asserting that Sextus never attached any truth to his claims, and thus, never admitted their capacity to become falsified by themselves. Instead, Castagnoli uses philological and linguistic interpretation to mount the argument that the phrases and argument against proof are non-assertive, only becoming “self-bracketing” when misunderstood as an assertion by a dogmatist. In section 2.1 I will concur with Castagnoli’s conclusion that Sextus intended the phrases to be expressed without assertion, but not because they are logically immune to dogmatism. I will first demonstrate how the argument from logical immunity fails in the case of the phrases and then show that Sextus’ text expressly discourages and defies such formulations because their nature as self-reported expressions of pathos is incompatible with logical formulation. Next, in section 2.2 I will challenge Castagnoli’s non-assertive “self-bracketing” interpretation of the argument against proof on the grounds that a mild, non-committal approach to the argument is explicitly and theoretically inconsistent with Sextus’ strong language regarding the capacity for the argument to “destroy” itself. Section 3 will support this reading by illustrating the direct conceptual correlation between logical truth and metaphysical existence in Sextus’ examinations and introduce the two realms of existent things – physical and mental existence. Section 4 will introduce and examine foundational research in the cognitive sciences that provides insightful conclusions about the mental reality of the reasoning process. Section 5 will introduce and situate a concept of my own, intellectual sentiments, as a development on the research explored in section 4. Section 6 will place the AAP back into frame situated in the context of the cognitive understandings developed in section 5, and advocate for a reading of Sextus that uses this cognitive context to defeat the self-refutation objection. I will return to the present day in my concluding remarks to discuss the consequences that intellectual sentiments, and other conclusions revealed throughout the course of the paper, may have for the reasoning process as an extension of neo-skeptical investigations into the incompatibility of phenomena hailing from contemporary cognitive sciences with pure rational thought in the modern age