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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"College students--Northwest"”.
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When time becomes distorted: a narcissist's view
<p>"Past research has shown that many factors influence an individual's ability to estimate time. One factor that has been researched extensively is personality traits. While a few studies have investigated the effects of narcissism traits on time estimation accuracy, only one study investigated …
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Gender-bias and its influence on the accuracy of eyewitness identification of perpetrators
… than male participants. Participants were 165 college students volunteering in exchange for research credit. Participants observed a staged crime via recording while engaging in a monitoring task and completed measures of intelligence, demographic information, and trauma history as well as …
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The impact of service-learning on academics related to neurogenic communication disorders
… (SL) is a pedagogical approach used to assist students in higher education in learning academic material by providing them an experience with a community partner. SL involves academic course objectives that are linked to a community need and includes student reflection on the experience …
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Driven to look good: the role of narcissism in concerns about body perception and motivations to act on those concerns
… 60 participants from a university in the Pacific Northwest were given a narcissistic trait inventory, as well as some surveys on motivations to alter their body shape towards a more desired state via methods of exercise, cosmetic surgery, or eating disorder type behaviors. It was hypothesized that …
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Exploring the conceptual overlap of the cognitive and affective theories of suicide
… standardized scales administered online to 427 college students, accounts for the nearly the same amount of change in suicidal ideation. Scales, each measuring one aspect of a theory, were compared as a whole to see if the account for the same or different variance in suicidal ideation. The two …
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The relationship of intelligence and psychopathic traits to premeditated and impulsive aggression
… Two hundred and twenty five undergraduate students, (61 males, 164 females) completed a self-report psychopathy scale, an intelligence scale, and an aggression measure in exchange for research credit. Results show that psychopathy Factor 1 predicted aggression type above and beyond …
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"If you're not talkin' mess, then you should be ok": collegiate student-athletes' strategies and practices on social networking sites
<p>"The purpose of this study was to examine collegiate student-athletes' self-disclosure strategies and practices on social networking sites (SNS), as well as the underlying factors for these strategies and practices. Moreover, this study intended to discover if collegiate student-athletes post …
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Text messaging: a catalyst for change in socio-cultural values
<p>"This research focuses on how text messaging as a communicative medium impacts the interpretation of all reality, especially the representation of cultural values. The research findings move the text messaging discussion away from its impact in education and toward a solution to the problem of …
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Critical reflection and the savior role in service learning
… facilitated deeper approaches to learning where students can achieve greater content learning, cultural awareness, and civic engagement. However, a reoccurring and problematic outcome in service-learning projects is learners' development of a perceived "savior role," where students perceive …