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What Do Y'all Think?: A Study of Language Attitudes in the South
(2006-08-15)
This indirect language attitude study of Southerners’ views of Southern United States English (SUSE) surveyed 90 students (49 female, 41 male) from sections of the second-semester freshman-level composition class at Auburn ...
What ignites fire ant density and impacts in longleaf pine ecosystems?
(2018-08-21)
Invasive invertebrates are studied due to their impacts on human and ecosystem health, but impacts on native invertebrates are less known. The red imported fire ant (RIFA, Solenopsis invicta) is an ideal model species to ...
What is Child-Directed Interaction? Evaluating the use of Jeopardy to Increase Child-Directed Interaction Knowledge Retention
(2014-07-09)
In recent years Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) has continued to grow and evolve as an empirically supported treatment for children with disruptive behavior disorders. As a result of this growth, PCIT International ...
What is Good Spousal Support? Examining Support Delivery and Outcomes
(2010-07-12)
Support from others is critical to both mental and physical health, and for married individuals, the spouse is the most important support provider. Although spousal support is known to be important, researchers have yet ...
What Makes Consumers Engage? The Effects of Mobile Location-Based Advertising (MLBA) Messages on Consumers’ Engagement with a Retailer on a Location-Based Social Commerce Application (LSCA)
(2019-04-18)
The rapid advancement of mobile and internet technology has changed the landscape of mobile marketing revolutionarily. The customization-focused contemporary retail trends have heightened the need for applications of ...
What moves you? The Role of Enhanced Expectancies and Reward Processing in Motor Performance and Learning
(2022-06-21)
This dissertation describes a research program focused on dissecting the contributions of motivation and rewards to motor skill acquisition and learning. Two prominent theories served as a framework for this work: the ...
What prevents a person from becoming an immigration activist?: Understanding the impact fear of isolation and the level of privacy has on individuals
(2020-04-30)
The current study aims at gaining a deeper understanding of the impact of spiral of silence on social media regarding a specific immigration issue; refugees or asylum-seekers in the United States. There is a focus on how ...
What strategies do principals in highly effective elementary schools utilize to foster teacher leadership, from both the principal and teacher leader perspective?
(2020-04-17)
The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies used by elementary school principals, in highly effective schools, to foster teacher leadership. This study examined teacher leadership from both the principal and ...
What to Wear to a Protest: The Look of the Movement in the Long 1960s
(2022-12-09)
Hidden “I was there”-style pictures in drawers of photos help tell a more complete story of events in the struggle for civil rights in “the long 1960s,” one in which “the look” of those protests and the clothing worn by ...
What Type of Maximizer Are You? Uncovering Latent Profiles of Maximizing
(2021-12-07)
Maximizing, originally defined as the tendency to seek the best decision through alternative search and decision difficulty, has undergone significant revision since the construct was introduced nearly two decades ago. ...
“What was her name?”: Pre-Nineteenth Century Slave Women’s Fragmented Narratives
(2015-12-04)
Accessing the narratives of enslaved women before the nineteenth century is challenging but necessary because of the limited ways we understand their experiences. The archive we primarily depend on does not provide ...
What Would Mother Do?: Boys as Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
(2007-05-15)
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ultimate goal in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is to create a matriarchal society of sons as mothers. By prolonging the differentiation stage in which the son will turn from the mother because she represents ...
What Would You Do for a Date?: Using a Conjugate Preparation to Validate the Outcomes of a Demand Task on Preference
(2024-06-11)
Satterwhite et al. (2013) reported individuals aged 15-24 years account for nearly half of all sexually transmitted infections reported each year in the United States. This may be attributed to risky health decision-making ...
What You Know Or Where You Go: Political Cultural Analysis Of Gender Stereotyping And Leadership Positions
(2009-05-01)
Although women in United States society have made significant strides toward gaining occupational equality with men, it can be argued that gender bias regarding women’s role in society and ability to serve in leadership ...
What You See is Not What You Get: The Influence of Approach and Escape Motivation on Visual Perception and Behavior in Spider-fearful Individuals
(2013-11-01)
The present study examined the influence of approach and escape motivation on visual perception, and whether these perceptions affect action responses in a direction congruent with these respective motivations, by comparing ...
What's in a Tip? An Exploratory Study of the Motivations Driving Consumer Tipping Behavior
(2011-08-01)
According to Segrave (1998), since the late 1800‘s, the study of tipping has provoked debate in a range of abstract dimensions such as economics, sociology, and psychology. To date, the studies have been largely qualitative ...
"What's It Supposed to Be?" ... "Cooked." The Communication of Information-Seeking Tactics on Hell's Kitchen
(2014-05-02)
Previous research has argued reality television provides life strategies for viewers and offers them ways to understand, navigate, and respond to certain situations and contexts within their own realities. Because reality ...
What’s in There for Me? Impact of User-Centric Advertisement Appeals on Consumers’ Emotional Responses and Sustainable Apparel Purchase Intentions
(2021-06-28)
Despite urgency to protect the environment, unsustainable apparel consumption continues to damage it. Although a high environmental knowledge, awareness, or concern encourages sustainable consumption, it does not guarantee ...
What’s Your BAC (Bystander Alcohol Check-in)? A Pilot Intervention to Prevent Violence by Reducing Alcohol Consumption of Potential Bystanders
(2023-11-15)
Sexual violence and heavy drinking co-occur for young adult university students. Most university-level interventions target either sexual violence or heavy drinking, but no effective interventions address both. This study ...
When Alice meets the ``Hardware'' Bob --- Attacks and Solutions in the Digital World
(2024-04-25)
Modern cryptography and the digital world (CMOS mainly) have been advancing side-by-side. Although cryptographic algorithms only need to be proven with theoretical soundness, cryptographic engineering on digital device ...