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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Lab Study"”.
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Effects of Testosterone and Training on Performance in the Non-Territorial Lizard (Aspidoscelis Sexlineata)
… time. Endurance decreased for all lizards in the lab study; suggesting that captivity negatively affects endurance. A second study was then conducted to examine the effects of training and T supplementation on locomotor performance in A. sexlineata. Training did not increase locomotor performance …
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The Effects Of Men's Acute Alcohol Intoxication, Overperception Of Sexual Intent, Interpersonal Rejection And Testosterone On Aggression Toward Women
<p>This study was designed to assess Abbey's (1991; 2002; 2011) model, which posits that acute alcohol intoxication increases the likelihood of sexual aggression at two stages of a cross-sex interaction. Early on, the cognitive impairments induced by alcohol encourage a potential perpetrator to …
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Designing AI agents to improve virtual meeting inclusion
… qualitative interviews, user-centered design, a lab study, and a field deployment. The first project investigates causes of bias—inequitable barriers to participation—in video conferencing (VC) meeting software. Through a qualitative interview study, I find that VC platforms encourage meeting …
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Framing Coordination in Collocated Computer-Mediated Communication
… activities in groups, and life in general. A lab study was conducted using a computer program that allows one or more users to solve a Sudoku puzzle together, each on their own separate computer. This allowed for an investigation of what happens when people and technology are located in the …
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Use of social network sites for question and answer behavior
… and answering questions. We conducted a field study in which participants posted status updates that asked a question that we varied across several dimensions, including several variations on phrasing. We also conducted a lab study where participants with information needs both posted questions …
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Assessing the impact of annotation on understanding and retaining online news articles
… to online news readers. Findings from a lab study conducted as part of this thesis show that on average those who annotate while they read tend to spend more time on the article and on average have a better understanding of the article. These outcomes are promising because if the findings …
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The Influence of Social Comparisons of Interactional Justice on Emotional Labor: An Extension of Fairness, Affective Events, and Emotional Regulation Theories
This lab study drew on fairness theory (Folger & Cropanzano, 2001), emotion regulation theory (Gross, 1998) and affective events theory (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996) to explain why injustice extended toward others (coworker-directed justice: CJ) affects personal levels of emotional labor. Pairs of …
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The Impact of Reward Structure on Project Team Effectiveness
… reward structure and team effectiveness using a laboratory experiment. This experiment involved groups of students working as a team on a design problem. The independent variable is the type of reward structure, manipulated over three levels: interdependent (group), independent (individual) and …
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Fear Conditioning as an Intermediate Phenotype: An RDoC Inspired Methodological Analysis
… and paradigms is unclear. This preliminary study applied LCGA to a fear learning lab study in an attempt to identify heterogeneity in fear learning patterns based on a posteriori classification. The findings of this investigation may inform efforts to move toward a trans-diagnostic …
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Software development with real-time collaborative editing
This thesis presents Collabode, a web-based integrated development environment for Java. With real-time collaborative editing, multiple programmers can use Collabode to edit the same source code at the same time. Collabode introduces error-mediated integration, where multiple editors see the text …
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Effects of Nitrogen and Potassium Fertilizer on Willamette Spider Mite (Eotetranychus willamettei) (Acari: Tetranychidae)
… practice used in commercial vineyards, but no study has documented the interaction between the effects fertilizer concentrations have on Willamette spider mite. This project consisted of a field study (at Cambria Vineyards & Winery, Santa Maria, CA) and a laboratory study (at a California …
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Biological Control of Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) Using Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) in Central Arkansas
… ant-baited traps performing better overall. A lab study was performed to investigate possible competition among flies that were released in Arkansas because P. curvatus has been reported to competitively displace P. tricuspis in other states. Pseudacteon curvatus was paired with P. obtusus and …
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Social Anxiety Reduction in the Context of Social Modeling Utilizing a Placebo Alcohol Beverage
… be transmitted via social modeling. This bar-lab study examined the impact of social modeling behavioral cues of social anxiety on emerging adult drinkers. It was hypothesized that those exposed to a social model experiencing an apparent social anxiety reduction from drinking would themselves …
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ASD Traits, Social Competence, and Co-Occurring Psychopathology: The Moderating Role of Gender
… Hinshaw, and Carter, 2012). In this two-phase study, we sought to examine potential gender differences in the relationship between behaviorally defined ASD traits and observable social impairment and co-occurring psychopathology, in a non-clinical sample of young adults. It was hypothesized …
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Social Information Processing Deficits, Intimate Partner Violence, and Coercive Control in Dating Couples
The current study investigated how social information processing (SIP) deficits are related to intimate partner violence (IPV) and coercive control among heterosexual dating couples. I assessed four steps of Crick and Dodge’s (1994) six-step SIP model, namely: attitudes and attributions, goal …
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Design and Interpretability of Contour Lines for Visualizing Multivariate Data
… we controlled the underlying data distribution. Study 1 revealed that the increase of width improves the task performance in most of the designs, specially in completion time, except some scenarios where reducing width does not affect performance where the visibility of the background is …
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Built-in recovery support for explorative programming
… accomplish, even if explicit commits are unavailable or tests have been ignored for some time. When mistakes and unexpected insights are no longer associated with tedious corrective actions, programmers are encouraged to change source code as a means to reason about it, as opposed to making …
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Behavioral Responses and Risk Detection in Sexual Encounters: A Study on the Effects of Social Anxiety and a Brief Intervention
… college women is a common problem. This two-part study sought to examine social interaction anxiety as a risk factor of sexual victimization and to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a computer-based risk reduction program. A total of 1095 undergraduate females …
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The self-regulatory benefits of handicaps: Do handicapping situations encourage conservation of resources when success is uncertain?
… spent now may be better used later. The current study tests if handicapping situations (similar to ones created following the choice to self-handicap) encourage an individual to conserve their resources (e.g., reducing effort), allowing them to spend those resources on later tasks. It was …
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The effects of environmental factors on honey bee morbidity
… bee morbidity. Second, I examine if forage availability and weather affect honey bee health. Third, I provide a demonstration of how the biological modeling of environmental factor effects on honey bee health can be used by beekeepers to make cost-effective treatment decisions. I take an …