• The Anthropocene Commons – A New Paradigm of Scale Variance: Commons Frameworks and Climate Change Theory 

  Aghel, Parsa (University of Oregon, 2021-06)

  The term Anthropocene, denoting the era where human activity is the greatest influence on the environment and climate, marks a new era of climate change theory and understanding. This paper, though, looks at existing ...
• How Egocentric Biases Maintain Social Anxiety: A Literature Review 

  Mingus, Kyra (University of Oregon, 2021-06)

  Biases and heuristics are mental shortcuts that help guide our daily decision making and cognitive processing but can often lead us astray when they account for inaccurate or misinterpreted information. In this review I ...
• Burning Woman: Sexualized Robots and the Vilification of Women in Metropolis and its Precursors 

  Grove, Cassian (University of Oregon, 2021-06)

  The vilification and subsequent destruction of feminine robots is a surprisingly common trope in film and literature. This essay draws connections between three very different works—Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Villier’s ...
• “Don’t Kill My Buzz, Man!” – Explaining the Criminalization of Psychedelic Drugs 

  Sproul, Conrad (University of Oregon, 2021-06)

  In the 1950s, psychedelic drugs were the subject of extensive psychiatric research in the United States. By 1960, they had been found to be non-addictive, to have remarkable safety profiles, and to potentially be able to ...
• Meet the Editorial Board 

  Unknown author (University of Oregon, 2021-06)

  Editorial board for Volume 19 Issue 1 Spring 2021 of Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal

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