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Honors Theses (Psychology)
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All students participate in and collaborate on research as part of the academic course sequence. Interested students are encouraged to gain additional research experience through research assistant positions in faculty labs and the undergraduate Honors thesis program.
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(University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, 2018)A false memory is recalling incorrect information or recalling an event that did not happen. Everyone is susceptible to false memories. There is no known cure or defense and relatively little is known about how they occur. ...
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(University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, 1987-03)To date, there has been little empirical research to support the role that psychological intervention strategies con play in the rehabilitation of injured athletes. While the concept behind psychological intervention ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)People tend to cooperate with and defer future decisions to authorities when those people perceive the authorities as fair (Tyler, 2003). In the current experiment, the effects of expert witness type (adversarial, neutral ...
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(University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, 2007-06)This study looks for differences between residents of two Christian religious housing co-operatives (N = 23) and residents of a secular fraternity house who self-identified as Christian (N = 8) on variables related to ...
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(2007-06-29)Boys are assumed to be more reluctant to disclose sexual abuse than girls but empirical evidence is lacking. Previous qualitative research by Alaggia (2005) suggests that typical nondisclosure reasons for women are related ...
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(University of Oregon, 2006-07)Individual differences in temperament include emotional reactivity and attention self regulation; both reactivity and regulation may influence the strategies individuals use in managing their own behavior and emotions. ...
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(University of Oregon, Clark Honors College, 1989-06)Junior high school students who had taken a class on nuclear war issues were tested to see whether they would differ from students who hadn't. Students were compared with regard to levels of optimism, active hope, pessimism, ...
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(2006-07-11)A known link between extraversion and happiness has existed for decades. While this relationship is largely not understood, several theories have emerged recently to help explain this link. R.E. Lucas and E. Diener (2001) ...
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(University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, 2006-06)Forgetting is often perceived as the challenge one must overcome to have a good memory, when in fact, forgetting is actually an important component in maintaining a good memory. If people remembered everything from their ...
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(University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, 2006-04)The interpersonal communicatory dynamics of verbal behavior were studied in an antisocial (n=20) and well-adjusted (n=20) sample of adolescent male dyads (ethnically diverse 16- and 17-year-old peers). Verbal dominance ...