The dialectic between pro-and-anti-Vietnam War supporters has been an overlooked part of the history of Vietnam War student activism. The divided baby boomer generation on college and university campuses during the 1960s and...
Keyword:
Appalachian Studies, Counterculture, Free Speech, Social movements, Student Activism, and Women's Rights
Subject:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Student movements, Counterculture, Women's rights, and College students
Previous research has exhibited the impact that maternal support has on children following instances of child sexual abuse (CSA; Cyr, McDuff, & Hébert, 2013; Valentino, Berkowitz, & Stover, 2010). However, it remains...
Keyword:
Abuse, Child outcomes, Child Sexual Abuse, Maternal history, Maternal support, and Trauma
Subject:
Adult child abuse victims, Adult child sexual abuse victims, Abused women, Mothers of sexually abused children, Mother and child, Sexually abused children, Child abuse -- Psychological aspects, and Child psychology
Chemical cues play an important role in an organism’s assessment of their environmentand resulting decision-making behavior. Examples include kairomones, which prey species useto gather information about the predator species...
Keyword:
Amine, Behavior, and Scorpion
Subject:
Scorpions -- Behavior, Vaejovis -- Behavior, Arachnida -- Behavior, Predation (Biology), Biogenic amines, Chemoreceptors, Decision making in animals, and Scorpions -- Southern States
Nonnative, invasive plants such as Celastrus orbiculatus Thunb. (Oriental bittersweet) threaten the biodiversity of areas they invade. I examine bittersweet’s effect on the diversity, richness, and total abundance of the...
Keyword:
abundance, Celastrus orbiculatus, diversity, invasive species, oriental bittersweet, and richness
Subject:
Celastrus orbiculatus -- Ecology -- North Carolina -- Biltmore Forest and Plant invasions -- North Carolina -- Biltmore Forest
Meditation has been linked to increased levels of happiness. Meditation is broken down into two types: focused attention meditation and mindfulness meditation. The current study sought to examine the relationship between...
Subject:
Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness (Psychology), Mental healing, and Self-help techniques
A variety of risk factors have been found to contribute to juvenile delinquency and offending; it is important to consider these factors in prevention and intervention. Rehabilitation and treatment is one approach for...
Keyword:
Adolescents, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Group home, Juvenile delinquency, and Recidivism
Subject:
Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation, Cognitive therapy, Group psychotherapy, and Group homes for teenagers
Socially monogamous birds use biparental care to off-set the high cost of energy, resources, andtime needed to successfully rear their offspring. To be effective, biparental care requirescooperation between the parents. While...
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biparental care, Carolina chickadee, cooperation, parental effort, parenting styles, and reproductive success
As the growing popularity of podcasting and its application in education become more apparent, there have been a number of studies on the academic use of podcasts. A podcast is a digital file that can be delivered automatically...
Keyword:
Japanese and Podcast
Subject:
Japanese language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Computer-assisted instruction -- Case studies, Podcasts -- North Carolina -- Case studies, Educational technology -- North Carolina -- Case studies, and Student-centered learning -- North Carolina -- Case studies
Previous research shows that adolescent males high in callous-unemotional (CU) traits have aberrant gaze-patterns when viewing fearful stimuli. This study sought to extend and replicate previous findings, to see if the...
Keyword:
Empathy, Eye-tracking, Gender differences, and Psychopathy
Subject:
Gaze -- Psychological aspects, Gaze -- Psychological aspects -- Sex differences, and Antisocial personality disorders
Previous research has found that as people become increasingly involved with their partners, they evaluate alternatives more negatively. The present research tested two competing hypotheses that address the origin of this...
Keyword:
Alternative partners, Attractiveness, Motivation, Perceptual, and Relationship status
Subject:
Sexual attraction -- Psychological aspects and Monogamous relationships -- Psychological aspects
