37 research outputs found
Anchoring effects in the development of false childhood memories
No full textWhen people receive descriptions or doctored photos of events that never happened, they often come to remember those events. But if people receive both a description and a doctored photo, does the order in which they receive the information matter? We asked people to consider a description and a doctored photograph of a childhood hot air balloon ride, and we varied which medium they saw first. People who saw a description first reported more false images and memories than people who saw a photo first, a result that fits with an anchoring account of false childhood memories
Black parents' beliefs, attitudes, and HPV vaccine intentions: a mediation model
No full textThe purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of Black parents’ intention to have their daughters receive the HPV vaccine. Specific determinants consisted of constructs from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Relationships between attitudes and HPV vaccine intentions, as well as the relationship between behavioral beliefs and attitudes among Black parents were explored. A mediation model was tested to explain the relationship between behavioral beliefs, attitudes, and HPV vaccine intention. A descriptive correlational design was used to examine the hypothesized relationships. A convenience sample of 232 Black parents with daughters between the ages of 9 and 17 years was recruited. A researcher developed instrument, HPV Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intention Questionnaire, and a demographic questionnaire were used to collect data. Study results indicated that HPV parental attitudes were found to be a significant predictor of vaccine intention (β = 0.85, p < .001). A significant relationship between religious and mistrust behavioral beliefs and attitudes was found among Black parents (β = .23, p < .001). In addition, parental vaccine attitudes were found to completely mediate the relationship between HPV vaccine behavioral beliefs and parental HPV vaccine intention. Testing of the theorized relationships allowed for the exploration of specific beliefs and attitudes of Black parents which may lead to a better understanding of predictors of behavioral intentions. Replication of this study in multiple geographic settings would be prudent to increase the generalizability of study findings.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Jennifer Brye
Bedrock to Buildings
No full textThis poster explores Maine\u27s bedrock in relation to the state\u27s infrastructure
Glacial Geology of Readfield Maine
No full textThis poster explores the glacial geology in the town of Readfield Maine. With the use of GPR (ground penetrating radar), LiDar imaging and the State\u27s surficial geology maps, evidence for a specific glacial feature called an esker was sought out and collected
Identity Crisis: Searching For Personal Responsibility, Justice, And Community In The Real Estate Market Crash
No full textThe author introduces his own and, to a different extent, society\u27s identity crisis in the context of the real estate market crash. Through personal reflection and analysis of federal policies, four challenges are observed: (1) lack of community focus, (2) neglect of certain populations, (3) unambiguous devotion to encouraging personal responsibility, and (4) no clear statement of moral commitment. Policy and institutional changes are suggested to better address these issues
“Not Nearly as Bad”: Social Comparisons and the Debt Experience
No full textDespite the growing awareness of the role that families play in the experience of student borrowing, debt is still understood as a private experience. As student debt becomes more widespread, individuals are increasingly likely to know others with student loans, yet questions remain about how others—friends, acquaintances, and colleagues—may shape the way student borrowers make sense of their debt. This study draws on interviews with recent master’s degree recipients to examine how young adults understand their educational debt in relation to others. The author finds that borrowers are enmeshed in “debt dense” social networks that both normalize debt and facilitate evaluative social comparisons against others that accentuate borrowers’ own efforts and responsibility. These findings demonstrate a role for occupational and educational social networks in shaping borrowers’ experience of indebtedness but also suggest limits to framing student debt as a collective problem
Accounting and the Birth of the Notion of Capitalism
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to cast a new light on the post-Sombartian debate. It contributes to some understanding of the birth of the concept of capitalism itself. The author argues that the history of how the concept of capitalism was invented is an example of the influence of accounting ideas on economic and sociological thinking.capitalism; accounting; Karl Marx; Werner Sombart
Visa Denied: U.S. Playwriting and the anti-Political Habitus post-"Angels in America"
No full text"Visa Denied: U.S. Playwriting and the Anti-Political Habitus post-Angels in America," a dissertation by Daniel Nelson Pressley, argues that an anti-political prejudice operates across the points of the U.S. theater-making spectrum, with particularly inhibiting results for playwrights even in the two decades following Tony Kushner's influential political epic. Using a reception framework suggested by Susan Bennett and others, along with the memory and "ghosting" ideas of Marvin Carlson and Diana Taylor, the dissertation suggests unrecognized anti-political patterns in criticism and production, explores broken links with the traditions of the 1930s and the lost lessons of workers' theater movements from the 1920s and 1930s, and contrasts contemporary American and British practice and reception by examining dramatic technique in plays by David Hare, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Arthur Miller and Wendy Wasserstein. The project acknowledges the absorption of political energy on the stage by the rising documentary forms since the emergence of solo performer Anna Deavere Smith, concluding that the acceptance and dominance of fact-based methods, while expanding the drama's vocabulary, contributes to an even greater outsider position for the playwright as political thinker
Assessing The Costs Of Public Participation: A Case Study Of Two Online Participation Mechanisms
No full textIn 2009, the authors facilitated a citizen-participation process in a local community in Florida in the United States. Using an inductive content analysis across two online participation data sources, the study develops a set of testable propositions about cost functions of public participation. The study shows a nonlinear relationship between administrative costs and participation quantity. It also demonstrates no direct relationship between the costs and participation quality. Moreover, the cost functions vary in different participation mechanisms. These propositions provide a basis for future research to improve cost management in public participation. © The Author(s) 2012
Vozes em (des)concerto: monólogo dramático e endereçamento lírico em “Os dias de então”, de Claudia Roquette-Pinto Voices in (Dis)arrangement: Dramatic Monologue and Lyric Address in “Os Dias de Então” by Claudia Roquette-Pinto
No full textResumo: O artigo analisa o poema “Os dias de então”, de Claudia Roquette-Pinto (Margem de manobra, 2005, p. 85-86), a partir da estrutura do gênero monólogo dramático, fundamentado segundo Jane Roche-Jaques (2020) e Shira Wolosky (2001). São considerados também os processos de ficcionalização da voz poética (COMBE, 2009/2010) e de endereçamento lírico (CULLER, 2015; SERMET, 2019), para compreender os efeitos da orquestração das vozes presentes no poema. Em “Os dias de então”, há uma voz principal em primeira pessoa, identificada pela autora como Zelda Fitzgerald. A fala de Zelda foi traduzida e adaptada por Roquette-Pinto a partir de um excerto de carta a Scott Fitzgerald. A languidez e delicadeza dessa voz subjetiva em prosa é entrecortada por outras vozes em verso, impessoais, anônimas e de conteúdo violento. O leitor testemunha conexões subterrâneas entre a voz principal e as demais enunciações por meio da brutalidade e do choque, no concerto da cena maior do poema. Tais conexões e referências são rarefeitas e instáveis, recurso frequente na poesia de Claudia Roquette-Pinto. Para compreender o concerto dessas articulações enunciativas e o construto social que as põe em movimento, são levantadas informações biográficas (MILFORD, 2013; BRYER et al, 2002) e confluências entre o gênero carta (SILVA, 2002) e o gênero lírico (ADORNO, 2003). Palavras-chave: monólogo dramático; endereçamento lírico; poesia contemporânea; voz; Claudia Roquette-Pinto. Abstract: The paper analyses the poem “Os dias de então”, by Claudia Roquette-Pinto (Margem de manobra, 2005, p. 85-86) from the point of view of dramatic monologue genre, based on Jane Roche-Jaques (2020) and Shira Wolosky (2001). Voice fictionalization processes (COMBE, 2009/2010), just as lyric addressment (CULLER, 2015; SERMET, 2019) are also considered in order to understand the effects of the orchestrated voices in the poem. There is a leading voice in “Os dias de então”, identified as Zelda Fitzgerald’s by the author. Zelda’s speech was translated and adapted by Roquette-Pinto from a part of a letter to Scott Fitzgerald. The languor and tenderness of this subjective voice in prose is crossed by other voices in verse which are impersonal, anonymous and bring up violent content. The reader testifies subterranean links between the leading voice and the other utterances through brutality and impact, in the poem’s bigger arrangement. Such links and references are rarefied and unstable, which is often noted in Claudia Roquette-Pinto’s poetry. Biographic information (MILFORD, 2013; BRYER et al, 2002) and confluences between lettering and lyric genres (SILVA, 2002; ADORNO, 2003) are brought up in the article in order to understand the arrangement of utterance articulation, as well as the social construct that moved them. Keywords: dramatic monologue; lyric addressment; contemporary poetry; voice; Claudia Roquette-Pinto
