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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"College students--Washington (State)--Cheney"”.
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Who would you want in your life?: Discrimination against morning and evening people
… people. One hundred fifty-six undergraduate students from Eastern Washington University were- asked to rate how likely they would be to choose to do certain activities with a morning person or an evening person. Participants were also given a self-report measure of their own circadian …
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The effects of emotional interrupt on reaction times in primary and secondary psychopathy
<p>The emotional interrupt task is presented as a motor response task that is bracketed by emotional images. The motor response task, in this study, is presented as a reaction time task. The participants either choose the left or right finger as a response to the circle or square on the screen, …
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How do grateful people cope?: exploring the mechanism of positive reappraisal
<p>"After one has experienced a trauma, an important aspect of recovery is posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth helps people move past negative life events with good mental health. Research has indicated a relationship between post-traumatic growth and gratitude. However, there has been …
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"Drunk and hot chick": the effects of stereotype-consistent priming on stereotypes regarding social sorority and fraternity members
<p>"Although members in social sororities and fraternities have historically been praised for contributing to the development of leadership skills and striving for excellence, they have also been the target of negative stereotypes and prejudice (Barlow, 1996; Wells & Corts, 2008). The present study …
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I'm not all that: a look at the imposter phenomenon in intimate relationships
… The sample population consisted of Eastern Washington University students who filled out several questionnaires that pertain to the imposter phenomenon, attachment styles, and relationship experiences. Results suggested that individuals with a fearful or preoccupied attachment style have …
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Grateful recounting: do differences in participants' writing impact well-being?
<p>Studies have shown gratitude treatments to successfully enhance well-being in participants. Of these treatments, the ones most frequently used are what Watkins (2014) referred to as grateful recounting tasks. These tasks generally involve participants writing down things in their life that they …
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Credibility of female sportscasters: college students' perceptions of women in the field
… becoming more accepted as athletes in the United States today and are making big strides of improvement in proving themselves as competitors, but women will not truly earn their place in the sports world until they are acknowledged as being an intelligent, credible voice of sports information as …
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The narcissistic teammate: effects of narcissistic subtypes on self-serving attributional biases
… behavior differently in various situations. College students completed a team activity, which involved completing cognitive tasks on private computers, and received randomly generated feedback of team success or failure. Participants then took a short questionnaire with the supposed …
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Extracurricular adventure programming in higher education: student motivations at a university climbing wall
<p>"Colleges and universities across the United States continue to struggle with student retention (Wolfe & Kay, 2011; Tinto, 1993; Astin, 1993). The use of extracurricular activities in higher education has been one route in addressing this issue (Tinto, 1993; Lang, 2001-2002; Hall, 2006). Many …
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Cognitive bias modification-attention: training at home with multiple sessions
… occurring psychiatric disorder in the United States (Beard, 2011). One type of treatment, Cognitive Bias Modification for Attention (CBM-A), has been shown to be an effective alternative for those who do not benifit other popular treatments (Ballinger, 2004). People with high levels of anxiety …
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Anger maintenance and the impact of shame, attachment, and experiential avoidance
<p>Prior to the present study, the relationships between attachment, shame, experiential avoidance, and anger had not been empirically evaluated. This study investigated the influence of shame and attachment style on anger and experiential avoidance. Additionally, this study also explored the …
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Saltine box full of dreams: one Mexican immigrant woman's journey to academic success
… completion of the master's degree at Eastern Washington University. The purpose of this single case study is to examine how one first-generation Mexican immigrant college student was able to succeed in higher education despite being part of the least academically successful minority group. It …
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Effects of a 10-week mental skills training intervention infused into a pre-existing English composition course
… resilience) can have transformative effects on students' experience/achievement. However, few in academia have taken Dweck and colleagues (2011) advice and developed interventions specifically targeting this skill set. In this study, "academic tenacity" was taught by infusing mental …
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Social pressure to speak English and the effect of English language learning for ESL composition students in higher education
… community of practice. Pressures on these students to converge to English occur because of the faulty notions that make the basis of current language policies. This study looks at the implications of the pressure to converge within two sections of an ESL composition course at a state …
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Cynicism and narcissism: masking the good life?
… as significant inhibitors of trait and state gratitude over time (Solom, Watkins, McCurrach, & Scheibe, 2016). The current study hoped to build upon those results by examining whether these two possible inhibitors affect grateful processing after a gratitude induction. I hypothesized …
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Aggressive and depressed: long-term outcomes of childhood maltreatment
<p>"Prior research has established a relationship between childhood maltreatment and resulting maladaptive outcomes, specifically, aggressive behaviors and depressive symptomology. The present research sought to extend the current body of literature by determining whether distinctive forms and …
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Documenting dreams: undocumented students in Washington State
… access to higher education to undocumented students through the lens of sociocultural identity theory and cultural identification theory. These theories are fundamental in understanding the construction of identity for undocumented students as a result of their interactions with policies and …