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I "Woof" You: How Pet Pictures Influence Online Dating Selection
No full textPets, notably dogs, can act as a “social lubricant” by facilitating social interactions between people. This effect has been observed in traditional (i.e., in-person) heterosexual dating behaviour. However, it is unclear whether such effects will extend to people’s dating behaviour in modern contexts (e.g., dating apps) or in 2SLGBTQ+ daters. The present study experimentally evaluated how the presence of a dog in a dating profile will impact partner selection as a function of respondents’ sexual orientation. Participants were recruited (N = 300) and engaged in a mock dating app where they could choose who they were most interested in. They also completed surveys assessing their dating app use, mental health, and attitudes toward dogs. Preliminary analyses reveal that the presence of dogs in heterosexual dating profile pictures significantly increased the chances of the profile being selected for a match, regardless of the dater’s gender. Due to limited samples for 2SLGBTQ+ participants, data collection/analysis is ongoing and will be completed by January 2023. Our results to date indicate that, in a modern dating context, the presence of animals in dating profile pictures enhances the likelihood of the profile owner being selected. This empirically supports the dating trend of “dog-fishing”, or posing with a dog to attract dates, in online dating apps.
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Legge 
I Woof You: How Pet Pictures Influence Online Dating Selection
No full textOwning and living with pets has been shown to have many benefits, including improved psychological well-being, increased physical activity, and better social functioning. With respect to social functioning, pets have been hypothesized to act as a “social lubricant” by facilitating social interactions. In support of this hypothesis, dogs have been shown to have a significant impact on adult courtship behaviour. . Research in this area has mostly looked at heterosexual daters, with the majority of the studies not accounting for the role of sexual orientation.
The present research aims to use mock online-dating profiles (e.g., Tinder) to experimentally evaluate how a) the presence of a dog in a dating profile may impact partner selection and ratings of their personal attributes, b) how the characteristics of the dogs presented in dating profiles may impact partner selection, and c) whether a respondent’s sexual orientation and dating platform will interact with the above factors when selecting a potential partner. It is hypothesized that having the dog present will lead to higher successful matches than when the dog is absent for both heterosexual and LGBTQIA2S+ participants. In addition, it is hypothesized that profiles accompanied by family dogs (e.g., Labrador) will lead to more success in dating matches than “aggressive” breeds (e.g., Rottweiler).
Findings from this study will help expand our current knowledge about the benefits of owning pets in facilitating social interactions. Moreover, we will also extend our understanding of dating selection behaviours outside of the heteronormative context.
Department: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Eric Legg
Arts engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a challenging time for students’ mental health and well-being. Numerous countries have imposed nationwide lockdown measures to control the spread of the virus. Studies have shown that while these measures can be effective when strictly implemented, it comes with a cost, affecting people’s social well-being. The restrictions have made it difficult for people to access and engage in their preferred activities/hobbies. One previous study examined the changes between preferred vs. substituted activities involving nature and its association with perceived stress during the pandemic (Pearson et al., 2021). However, little is known about the changes in engagement with arts-related activities.
One purpose of the current exploratory study is to examine the changes in the patterns of engagement with art activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic in students. Another purpose of the study is to determine whether engagement in preferred vs. substitution activities and the motivation to engage in these activities are associated with well-being. The proposed study will have participants indicate their engagement with different arts-related activities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, participants will be asked to rate their motivations for engaging with their preferred and substituted activities. We predict that intrinsic motivation to engage in activities (i.e., doing them because they are interesting or enjoyed) will predict higher well-being than external motivation (e.g., doing them for reward or pressure from others). Moreover, participants will complete measures of pandemic-related emotional well-being, COVID-related stress, general coping strategies, general well-being, personality, and demographics.
Department: Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Corrigal
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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