Browsing Newark Campus Undergraduate Research Theses and Honors Research Theses by Issue Date
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The Effects of Face Masks and Background Noise on Speech Perception
Mills, Makayla ( 2023-05 )The current study explored whether the effects of face masks and background noise impact speech perception. Participants were presented with eight short videos, which consisted of the listing of five nonsense words, and ... -
"The country is full": Are outgroups ostracized when they are perceived as burdensome?
Sparks, Zachary ( 2021-05 )Individuals protect their group by ostracizing (excluding and ignoring) burdensome group members, those who keep a group from achieving its goals. In intragroup interactions (within a single group), burdensome members cause ... -
The Silent Speaker: The Impact of Emojis on Nonverbal Communication During a Pandemic
Sedziol, Abigail ( 2021-05 )The COVID-19 pandemic forced many individuals to communicate differently. Due to an increase in online-communication, individuals are missing prosodic cues, or cues that come from someone's voice patterns, which give meaning ... -
Speak the beat: The effect of priming tones on speech production rate
Champlin, Elizabeth ( 2020-12 )Will the rhythm of what you hear influence how you speak? The two current studies explore whether a priming rhythm, which has no melodic component, can influence speech production rate. In the first study, participants ... -
A Link to the Future: Ostracism's Effects on Aggressive Behavior
Krumm, Josiah ( 2020-05 )Ostracized individuals, those who are excluded and ignored, respond with aggression towards others. But, research also suggest ostracism can instead lead to a prosocial reaction. It is possible that the response to ostracism ... -
Auditory Distractors in the Visual Modality: No Evidence for Perceptual Load Hypothesis or Auditory Dominance
Schlaegel, Jacob ( 2020-05 )Attention is a valuable resource with limited capacity, so knowing what will distract us during important tasks can be crucial in life. There is a lot of support for the Perceptual Load Hypothesis (PLH) when examining ... -
Breaking Out of the Historical Private Sphere: Women's Involvement in the American Revolution
Kidd, Franchesica ( 2018-05 )Women in early America were going beyond their private spheres of homemaking, farming, cooking and things of the like--they were stepping into the public sphere, historically where men were, and immersing themselves in the ... -
Aging in Multisensory Integration
Parker, Jessica ( 2017-12 )Multisensory integration is the simultaneous processing of multiple sensory inputs into a single percept. The current study aims to further the understanding of multisensory integration across development and the individual ... -
The effect of prosody on decision making
Porter, Brandon ( 2016-05 )This study sought to induce mood through affective prosody and then measure whether this had a significant effect on decision making. Prosody can be defined as tone, rate, or stress patterns that occur during speech. ... -
The Cross-Domain Priming of Language and Motor Rate
Rike, Lindsey ( 2015-05 )Previous research has indicated a possible connection between language, visual, and musical domains suggesting domain-general processing of temporal information. While some within-and cross-domain research has been conducted, ... -
The Perception of Research Quality Based on Institutional Esteem
Bowman, Wyatt ( 2015-05 )The present study examined whether institutional esteem contributes to how readers were persuaded by presented research information. It was hypothesized that the prestigious reputation of an institution may cause readers ... -
Attention Bias Reduction in Individuals with Williams Syndrome
McKenna, Erin ( 2014-05 )Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have high levels of anxiety. In attention tracking tasks, individuals with WS and typically developing individuals with high levels of anxiety allocate greater attention to threatening ... -
The role of gesture meaningfulness in word learning across genders
Gingras, Mary ( 2013-05 )The focus of this study is adult word learning through the use of gestures. Previous research has shown that children use word and gesture combinations during word learning and that meaningful gestures, when paired with ... -
Narcissism and the Motivation to Engage in Volunteerism
Tumblin, Laraine ( 2012-06 )Research suggests that volunteerism and narcissism are at all-time highs amongst young people (Corporation for National & Community Service, 2007; Twenge & Campbell, 2009). The present study used a Self-Determination ... -
Cross-Domain Priming of Language and Music
Dickerson, Sara ( 2012-06 )There is much evidence that domain-general learning is possible, but understanding the breadth of possible transfer will shed light on how different processing mechanisms are related. Evidence has shown that domain-specific ... -
"An Experiment in Democracy:" Civilian Public Service and Conscientious Objectors in World War II
Yoder, Marcus ( 2010-06 )An overview of the impact of Civilian Public Service and the Historic Peace Churches in World War II. -
"Hell is Empty, and All the Devils are Here": The Influence of Doctor Faustus on The Tempest
Holmes, Jonathan ( 2009-03 )There are a number of analogous scenes and characters between Doctor Faustus and The Tempest that contribute to an argument for the influence of Marlowe's play upon Shakespeare's. Such an influence can have a profound ... -
Perceptions of past and present attachment relationships
Hagley, Anna M. ( 2008-12 )The purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which individuals’ recollections of their attachment relationships during childhood were associated with their present attachment relationships, and how ...