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Analyzing Political Party Affiliation Versus Issue Orientation and Investigating Correlates of Party Affiliation
This thesis concerned political party affiliation and issue orientation. The purpose of this study was to ascertain if voters' orientation on issues agreed with those of their political party of choice. Three hundred and thirty-seven registered voters in the 138th Legislative District in Greene …
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Violent Imagery in Affiliation and Achievement Situations
… men tend to perceive danger in situations of affiliation while women tend to perceive danger in situations of achievement. Their study utilized responses to Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures. Violent imagery in the responses was interpreted as indicating fear. The authors suggest that …
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Measuring Cultural Alignment: Surveys as Cultural Affiliation Networks
… I build upon these ideas to study surveys as affiliation networks of persons and the cultural items on which they take positions. Specifically, I conceptualize the qualitative judgments that people make in response to cultural items in surveys as cultural alignments. This dissertation consists …
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Religious Affiliation and Women's Labor Patterns in U.S. Counties
… research has documented relationships between affiliation with conservative religious groups and negative attitudes towards women’s labor force participation. Further, research has shown that women in conservative religious groups like evangelical Protestants and Mormons are less likely than …
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Preference and affiliation refines the neurotranscriptome pathway for mate preference
… social-choice behaviors (preference and social affiliation) were measured. To capture the genes underlying these decisions, the brains of each female were sequenced (Illumina RNA-seq) directly following the behavioral assay.
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The Validity and Comparison of Two Affiliation Tasks in Schizophrenia
… The current study evaluates two behavioral affiliation tasks—the video-based Social Affiliation Interaction Task (SAIT) and the in-vivo Conversation Task (CT)—and explores whether behavioral ratings of social affiliation are associated with negative symptoms and community functioning. …
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The Effect of Acute Bright Light Exposure on Social Affiliation
… those in the dim red condition to elect such affiliation while awaiting a stressful speech task. No such between-group differences were observed among the subset of participants who, through nonadherence to the study protocol, were previously exposed to morning sunlight. Overall, these …
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Religious Affiliation in Women Formed by Single-Gender Catholic Schools
… schools are not increasing their religious affiliation during and after high school, this mission is left incomplete. This qualitative research utilized the narrative approach to discover how faith formation in a single-gender Catholic high school in a midsized midwestern city affects …
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The sociality, ontogeny, and function of corvid post-conflict affiliation
… up with their former opponent (former opponent affiliation) or by affiliating with a bystander (thirdparty affiliation). Post-conflict behaviour has been studied in many mammals but only in two bird species: rooks and ravens. Consequently, the prevalence and function of avian post-conflict …
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Predictors of Gang Affiliation Among Adolescents: Implications for Social Work Students
… their advanced year know about adolescent gang affiliation, including statistics, predictive factors, and possible interventions. Adolescent gang involvement is a very serious issue that historically has had very problematic effects on society, as well as serious and troublesome effects on the …
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Predictors of Gang Affiliation Among Adolescents: Implications for Social Work Students
… their advanced year know about adolescent gang affiliation, including statistics, predictive factors, and possible interventions. Adolescent gang involvement is a very serious issue that historically has had very problematic effects on society, as well as serious and troublesome effects on the …
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Factors That Influence Team Identification: Sport Fandom and the Need for Affiliation
… Then participants filled out the Need for Affiliation Scale (nAff) to assess whether the scenarios elicited a need for affiliation. Following the nAff, participants filled out the Fan Scale (FS) for both teams based on which team they were going to cheer for to win a fictional football …
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The Effects of Power and Religiously Motivated Ingroup Preference on Social Affiliation
… motivator of ingroup favoritism is religious affiliation. Although research has shown that feelings of low power increase the drive to socially affiliate, research has not yet explored how religious belief influences the relationship between power and social affiliation. The current study …
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A test of a theory of voluntary affiliation with professional administrator associations
… from this more recent interest. A theory of affiliation with professional associations was developed and tested with state and regional samples of elementary principles. Discriminant analysis was applied to determine the effectiveness of the variables as a group and individually in …
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Personality and affiliation involving a cooperative task in bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Dyads
… and extraversion were positively related to affiliation with the apparatus and each other. My findings could guide future animal research on the relationship between personality, social interactions, and problem-solving.
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Racist perceptions on a college campus: Intersectionality of gender, race, and Greek affiliation
… analyzes whether and how gender, race, and Greek affiliation, along with symbolic and traditional racial attitudes, are associated with racist perceptions on a college campus located in the deep south of the United States. To answer this question, we used survey data collected in 2013 from …
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Religious Affiliation and Gender: Differences in the Association Between Religiousness and Psychological Distress
… and psychological distress varies by religious affiliation (Christian or Jewish) and by gender. Analyses were conducted on data collected during interviews with 143 community dwelling older adults employing measures with acceptable psychometric properties. Independent variables included …
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