As obesity continues to remain an epidemic, health behavior researchers are tasked with finding cost-effective, wide-reaching, and efficacious interventions to decrease obesity risk. One such approach that researchers can take is to manipulate highly prevalent forms of social influence, including...
This dissertation examines the way in which literary fiction may enable individuals to transcend tribe-centered biases by fostering empathetic understanding. It draws from a wealth of neuroscience research to explore how such fiction, through the creation of emotionally resonant characters,...
This study was designed to determine whether or not cognitive complexity differences existed between domestic and global management consultants. The study sample included eight domestic and eight global management consultants from the Institute of Management Consultants located in Washington,...
The current study investigated whether dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) administration mediates performance on episodic and visuo-spatial cognitive tasks in post-menopausal women. The experiment used a double-blind placebo-controlled cross-over design to explore the effects of a four week regimen of...
Should we be concerned that students, workers, and others are turning in seemingly increasing numbers to cognition-enhancing drugs (CEDs) in order to improve their performance? In the institutions in which CED use is most common, cognitive enhancement exists in an ethical gray zone of largely...
Abstract of DissertationMood as Embodied Action: A Phenomenological Study ofInteraction between Self and the Environment This phenomenological study explored the interaction between the affective phenomenon of mood (Davidson, et al., 2003) and embodied action (Varela, et al., 1993) experienced...