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- Is Social Media Influencing Hispanics Voting Behavior?.
- Creator
- Clukey, Ryan, Giral Lores, Marina, Escaleras, Monica, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Social media sites are becoming one of the biggest sources of information in the world. Particularly, political and economic news is being communicated widely on social media in real time with no costs incurred. The purpose of our research is to examine Hispanics reliance on social media for political information in the United States. Our results show that the majority of younger Hispanic voters rely on social media for their political news. In fact, over 84 percent of those who are between...
Show moreSocial media sites are becoming one of the biggest sources of information in the world. Particularly, political and economic news is being communicated widely on social media in real time with no costs incurred. The purpose of our research is to examine Hispanics reliance on social media for political information in the United States. Our results show that the majority of younger Hispanic voters rely on social media for their political news. In fact, over 84 percent of those who are between 18 and 34 years old are more likely to get their information from social media than any other source. Furthermore, our findings indicate that the younger Hispanic population are the most likely to find the political news on the internet trustworthy. If political campaigns want to target Hispanics, a rapidly growing demographic, they should move their attention towards social media as a major platform for their political campaigns.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005568
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- International Court of Justice And Regional Bias.
- Creator
- Concepcion, Jessica, Morton, Jeffrey S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) presides over the contentious issues, such as boundary disputes and military conflict, for all United Nation’s (UN) members. Its rulings, legally binding, guide international affairs between states by holding them accountable to international law. Previous studies have found that the judges on the ICJ display judicial bias. However, scholars have yet to evaluate whether judges are influenced by a regional association with a party in the cases. To...
Show moreThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) presides over the contentious issues, such as boundary disputes and military conflict, for all United Nation’s (UN) members. Its rulings, legally binding, guide international affairs between states by holding them accountable to international law. Previous studies have found that the judges on the ICJ display judicial bias. However, scholars have yet to evaluate whether judges are influenced by a regional association with a party in the cases. To evaluate the role of region in ICJ rulings, I developed a dataset containing: 1) nationality of judges in contentious cases, 2) states party to a case, 3) states’ regions, and 4) case subject. This data is then used to evaluate the relationship between ICJ judges, state region, and the outcome of case rulings in order to determine whether regional bias exist today within the UN.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005181
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A comparative survey of Gopherus polyphemus hemoparasites in two differing South Florida habitats.
- Creator
- Cooney, Brian, Elhassani, Dana, Frazier, Evelyn, Caruso, Joseph P., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
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The gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is a keystone species which affects the biodiversity that shares its burrow. Habitat fragmentation has led to a decline in populations within southeastern ranges. Haemogregarina (intracellular parasites) have been identified in the blood of gopher tortoises, possibly due to the lack of prescribed fires which are known to kill ticks. However, little is known about their health significance. Two study sites, Blazing Star Preserve (BSP), and Pine Jog...
Show moreThe gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is a keystone species which affects the biodiversity that shares its burrow. Habitat fragmentation has led to a decline in populations within southeastern ranges. Haemogregarina (intracellular parasites) have been identified in the blood of gopher tortoises, possibly due to the lack of prescribed fires which are known to kill ticks. However, little is known about their health significance. Two study sites, Blazing Star Preserve (BSP), and Pine Jog Preserve (PJP), differ in their management. The goal of this study is: (1) determine, if any, haemogregarina parasitemia levels of the gopher tortoise population in each site and (2) detect any additional hemoparasite species. We hypothesize that paristemia will be higher in BSP due to increased overcrowding and lack of prescribed fires. This study will benefit current conservation and management practices for gopher tortoises and provide a baseline study for intracellular parasites.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005182
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- For the Love of the Team.
- Creator
- Coviello, Kassi, Sapp, Brian, Escaleras, Monica, Levy, Eric, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
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Professional sports is a large industry that reaches millions of Americans today. Those Americans are called fans- the ones that support the teams, fill the seats, and cheer them on from home. Occasionally these professional sports teams decide to relocate to another city, state, etc. Relocation has become increasingly prevalent in the past few seasons. This puts the dedicated fans in a difficult situation in which they can remain loyal to the city or the specific team itself. In order to...
Show moreProfessional sports is a large industry that reaches millions of Americans today. Those Americans are called fans- the ones that support the teams, fill the seats, and cheer them on from home. Occasionally these professional sports teams decide to relocate to another city, state, etc. Relocation has become increasingly prevalent in the past few seasons. This puts the dedicated fans in a difficult situation in which they can remain loyal to the city or the specific team itself. In order to analyze how someone would react to their favorite professional sports team being relocated, we developed a survey to addresses the underlying question of would your favorite team remain your favorite team even if they relocated. Our results found that the decision to remain a fan or switch to another team depends on gender and the level of education.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005618
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Understanding Sport-Related Concussions.
- Creator
- Coviello, Kassi, Nasrallah, Joseph, Escaleras, Monica, Levy, Eric
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In 2012, the amount of reported concussions doubled in the past ten years to 3.8 million. Concussions and head-related injuries caused by contact sports can lead to long term traumatic brain injuries. With the increasing presence of these injuries, the National Football League and the National Hockey League have implemented extensive concussion protocols. This questions the underlying uncertainty of the future of contact sports. Our project addresses the question of hypothetically, if you had...
Show moreIn 2012, the amount of reported concussions doubled in the past ten years to 3.8 million. Concussions and head-related injuries caused by contact sports can lead to long term traumatic brain injuries. With the increasing presence of these injuries, the National Football League and the National Hockey League have implemented extensive concussion protocols. This questions the underlying uncertainty of the future of contact sports. Our project addresses the question of hypothetically, if you had children, knowing what we know today about concussions/head related injuries, would you allow them to play contact sports. The decision to allow your child to play contact sports was motivated by the gender and age gap. The different levels of education had a statistically significant impact on the knowledge surrounding the current professional football and hockey concussion protocols.
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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000031
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Geological Lab-on-a-Chip for Salt Precipitation in Deep Saline Aquifers.
- Creator
- Crawford, Heather, Asfour, Chris, Seo, Seokju, Kim, Mike, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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Geologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) into deep saline aquifers is a promising strategy for mitigation of global atmospheric CO2 levels-a main cause of climate change. These aquifers have the capacity to safely store significant amounts of CO2 and are available worldwide. As such, reaction dynamics and multiphase transport accompanying CO2 injection in deep aquifers are important to understanding CO2 sequestration processes and therefore they have been extensively studied. Despite the...
Show moreGeologic storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) into deep saline aquifers is a promising strategy for mitigation of global atmospheric CO2 levels-a main cause of climate change. These aquifers have the capacity to safely store significant amounts of CO2 and are available worldwide. As such, reaction dynamics and multiphase transport accompanying CO2 injection in deep aquifers are important to understanding CO2 sequestration processes and therefore they have been extensively studied. Despite the comprehensive findings, there are still urgent needs for understanding of interactions between injected CO2 and resident fluids since these interactions could determine the total CO2 storage rate and capacity. The objective of this study is to investigate fundamental physics of water evaporation at different salinities under the CO2-rich environment. Microfluidic techniques visualize and quantify evaporation behavior of water in real-time in a simple 1D microchannel geometry. The detailed CO2-water interactions and underlying physics will be discussed.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005619
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Effects of GUS Gene Integration in Tobacco Plants.
- Creator
- Cruz, Laura, Zhang, Xing-Hai
- Abstract/Description
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The β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene was isolated in 1986 from the bacterium Escherichia coli. Since then it has been widely used as a reporter gene in genetically modified organisms serving to study gene expression and tissue specificity of different promoter sequences. We have introduced the GUS gene into tobacco plants through Agrobacterium-mediated genomic transformation. The plants that were confirmed to be expressing the GUS gene were grown to propagate a new (T1) generation. The T1 plants...
Show moreThe β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene was isolated in 1986 from the bacterium Escherichia coli. Since then it has been widely used as a reporter gene in genetically modified organisms serving to study gene expression and tissue specificity of different promoter sequences. We have introduced the GUS gene into tobacco plants through Agrobacterium-mediated genomic transformation. The plants that were confirmed to be expressing the GUS gene were grown to propagate a new (T1) generation. The T1 plants were analyzed for tissue specificity of GUS expression. The results to date seem to indicate that there is some variation in GUS expression between plant lines. The mechanisms of GUS gene integration in the plant genome as well as the possible effects it can have on a plant’s genomic structure are assessed.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005009
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Autonomous Seawater Sampler Using Flexible Soft Material.
- Creator
- Cuong Tran, Minh Nguyen, Nafsia Shikdar
- Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000007
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Crashworthiness of Low Speed Vehicles.
- Creator
- Cusano, Emma, Francis, Sherwin, Pinto, Michael, Masory, Oren, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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The Crashworthiness of Low Speed Vehicles is to be determined using a custom built crash testing apparatus. The safety of golf carts is often overlooked because they are considered “low risk” vehicles. The danger of these vehicles lies in the fact that they aren’t mandated to have safety features outside of seatbelts. A test rig that sufficiently tested how these vehicles react under extreme conditions as well as the risk to the occupants was designed and operated through several iterations....
Show moreThe Crashworthiness of Low Speed Vehicles is to be determined using a custom built crash testing apparatus. The safety of golf carts is often overlooked because they are considered “low risk” vehicles. The danger of these vehicles lies in the fact that they aren’t mandated to have safety features outside of seatbelts. A test rig that sufficiently tested how these vehicles react under extreme conditions as well as the risk to the occupants was designed and operated through several iterations. The main components of the rig was be a motorized variable speed pulley system, concrete barrier, and a simple quick release mechanism to detach the cart, and crash dummies with sensors to record the experienced acceleration/ deceleration and gyration. The main parameters that were studied in relation to crashworthiness are structural performance, injury measures and dummy movement. It was the goal of the experimenters to show just how important it is to design LSVs with higher safety standards.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005565
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Multisensory Environments and Their Effect of Emotion.
- Creator
- Cynthia Stucki
- Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000024
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Effects of Sulindac and Taurine on Glutamate Induced Exocitoxicity and Hypoxia Induced Cell Death.
- Creator
- D'Errico, Anthony, Pan, Chunliu, Prentice, Howard
- Abstract/Description
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FAU's Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry hosts an annual symposium where students engaged in undergraduate research may present their findings either through a poster presentation or an oral presentation.
- Date Issued
- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005431
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Vignettes and Their Role in Bullying Research.
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- Demezier, Christopher, Longo, Joy, DeDenno, Michael
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Transportation is the concept that readers become engaged when they read a story. The level of transportedness may impact the emotional response of the reader. Research shows that stories can be used to transport readers but there is a failure to identify vignettes as a viable medium. The ability of vignettes, a brief narrative without a conclusion, to transport readers is unknown. The purpose of this study is to determine if vignettes can be used to transport readers into a narrative and...
Show moreTransportation is the concept that readers become engaged when they read a story. The level of transportedness may impact the emotional response of the reader. Research shows that stories can be used to transport readers but there is a failure to identify vignettes as a viable medium. The ability of vignettes, a brief narrative without a conclusion, to transport readers is unknown. The purpose of this study is to determine if vignettes can be used to transport readers into a narrative and also to explore the link between transportation and negative affect. Each participant was presented 11 bullying vignettes sequentially and were asked to respond to the Transportation Scale and the Negative Affect Scale. Descriptive and inferential analysis were performed. The results showed that readers were transported into the bullying vignettes and that there is a slight positive correlation between transportation and negative emotions (r=.339).
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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000032
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- In search of environmental hotspots of antibiotic resistance.
- Creator
- Desir, Hedson, Esiobu, Nwadiuto
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361076
- Subject Headings
- Antibiotics resistance in microorganisms, Environmental hotspots
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Involvement of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)-containing neurons in MDMA toxicity.
- Creator
- DeSuza, Kayla, Drill, Bryan
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this study was to establish a procedure for identifying thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)-containing neurons in the hypothalamus of a rat brain. Data gained from this can be used to further study MDMA toxicity. First we used a cryostat to slice the brains and obtain the hypothalamic neurons. Utilizing immunocytochemical techniques, TRH containing cells were identified with anti-TRH antibodies. For a positive control, we compared the established approach of examining...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to establish a procedure for identifying thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)-containing neurons in the hypothalamus of a rat brain. Data gained from this can be used to further study MDMA toxicity. First we used a cryostat to slice the brains and obtain the hypothalamic neurons. Utilizing immunocytochemical techniques, TRH containing cells were identified with anti-TRH antibodies. For a positive control, we compared the established approach of examining corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)-containing neurons with our approach of examining TRH neurons. We found that the images of TRH-containing cells were relatively unclear, implicating a quality problem of anti-TRH antibodies used in this study. Further investigation using in situ mRNA hybridization will likely clarify the involvement of TRH in MDMA toxicity.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005011
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Views on Climate Change.
- Creator
- Diaz, Olivia, Castillo, Henry, Escaleras, Monica, Levy, Eric
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Climate change is defined as the change of the global climate patterns which is caused by natural occurrences and human activities facilitated by the increased use of fossil fuels. Climate change is a prominent issue today, with people having conflicting viewpoints about it. Government intervention on the subject of climate change is widely debated. To understand the differing perspectives on climate change, we developed an online survey consisting of 12 questions. We gathered 500 responses...
Show moreClimate change is defined as the change of the global climate patterns which is caused by natural occurrences and human activities facilitated by the increased use of fossil fuels. Climate change is a prominent issue today, with people having conflicting viewpoints about it. Government intervention on the subject of climate change is widely debated. To understand the differing perspectives on climate change, we developed an online survey consisting of 12 questions. We gathered 500 responses from people all over the United States. Overall, our findings showed that people believe in climate change. However, there is a statistically significant difference on the views of climate change based on people’s party affiliation. Republicans were the highest group of all the political parties surveyed to say that the government should not have a concern for climate change. This survey depicts the conventional view that Republicans hold on the issue of climate change.
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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000033
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Cloud-assisted reliable user datagram protocol.
- Creator
- Dimitrov, Volen, Bullard, Lofton A.
- Date Issued
- 2013-04-05
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361078
- Subject Headings
- Cloud computing, Internet, TCP/IP (Computer network protocol), File Transfer Protocol (Computer network protocol)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Exploring the Relationship Between Anxiety and HRV in Parents with Low Income.
- Creator
- Dixon, Derricka, King, Beth, Edwards, Karethy, Barry, Charlotte, Newman, David
- Abstract/Description
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Over 40 million people in the United States are living in poverty today. The effects of living in disadvantaged circumstances increases the individual’s likelihood of experiencing persistent anxiety, which can lead to chronic health conditions. Studies have associated persistent anxiety with cardiovascular compromise as a result of decreased levels of heart rate variability (HRV). The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between anxiety and heart rate variability in parents or...
Show moreOver 40 million people in the United States are living in poverty today. The effects of living in disadvantaged circumstances increases the individual’s likelihood of experiencing persistent anxiety, which can lead to chronic health conditions. Studies have associated persistent anxiety with cardiovascular compromise as a result of decreased levels of heart rate variability (HRV). The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between anxiety and heart rate variability in parents or guardians of children in Head Start, a federally funded program for families with low-incomes. A descriptive correlational design comparing the scores on the PROMIS anxiety tool with HRV as measured by the emWave biometric instrument will be used. The sample consists of 32 participants. Data will be analyzed using bivariate correlations. Increased levels of anxiety and decreased heart rate variability are anticipated outcomes of this study. Findings will assist in identifying health risks in this vulnerable population.
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- 2018
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAU_SR00000034
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Determinants of Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR.
- Creator
- Dolun, Deniz, Shaykhutdinov, Renat, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Abstract/Description
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The process of democratization still remains an ongoing process in the majority of the Eastern Bloc nations. A quarter century after the dissolution of the USSR and her satellite states, only eight of twenty-eight transitioning states have been able to fully democratize. Several of these anocratic states are today characterized by routine human rights violations, state repressions of civil society, and incarcerations of political opposition. There is limited cohesive research on how the Post...
Show moreThe process of democratization still remains an ongoing process in the majority of the Eastern Bloc nations. A quarter century after the dissolution of the USSR and her satellite states, only eight of twenty-eight transitioning states have been able to fully democratize. Several of these anocratic states are today characterized by routine human rights violations, state repressions of civil society, and incarcerations of political opposition. There is limited cohesive research on how the Post-Communist formation of oligarchs across Eurasia and increases in democratic transitioning period have influenced democratization. In this study, I research, test, and explain the effects of Post-Communist oligarchies and the periods of democratic transitions on current levels of democratic consolidation in twenty-eight former socialist states through publicly available statistics and primary sources. I find that while oligarchical influence on democratization is limited, shorter democratic transitions produce significantly higher levels of democratic consolidation than their prolonged counterparts.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005183
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Gender Stereotypes and Political Ambition.
- Creator
- Dooley, Connor, Holman, Mirya R.
- Abstract/Description
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This study analyzes the effects of gender stereotypes on the perception of emotion in hypothetical political candidates. By presenting subjects with various combinations of emotional displays by both male and female candidates, we will be able to see if any gender stereotypes are primed or activated by these displays, and more importantly, the differences in perception of these displays based on the candidate’s gender. For example, if we present the subject with a male candidate who appears...
Show moreThis study analyzes the effects of gender stereotypes on the perception of emotion in hypothetical political candidates. By presenting subjects with various combinations of emotional displays by both male and female candidates, we will be able to see if any gender stereotypes are primed or activated by these displays, and more importantly, the differences in perception of these displays based on the candidate’s gender. For example, if we present the subject with a male candidate who appears aggressive and confrontational, will he be viewed the same way as a female candidate with the same characteristics? Will gender stereotypes cause the female candidate to be perceived more negatively than the male? Previous research has supported the idea that gender stereotypes will effect perception of candidates based on their gender, and this study will help to see if specific stereotypes are primed for application by the subject based on emotional displays.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0005012
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Arabian Women of the Jahiliyya(Early Islamic) Times.
- Creator
- Douglas, Nora, Kanter, Douglas, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
- Abstract/Description
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In the Jahiliyya (Pre- Islamic period), only women of the elite classes who were related to men of influence in the tribe were the women who had power in society. The men of the elite prized their prowess in defending their tribal pagan traditions, which defined their place in society. Once Islam was established, those who were most respected in pagan times, instead, became the ones who were most looked down upon because they were against the new order. Islam effectively shifted the center of...
Show moreIn the Jahiliyya (Pre- Islamic period), only women of the elite classes who were related to men of influence in the tribe were the women who had power in society. The men of the elite prized their prowess in defending their tribal pagan traditions, which defined their place in society. Once Islam was established, those who were most respected in pagan times, instead, became the ones who were most looked down upon because they were against the new order. Islam effectively shifted the center of power from those who were wealthy in the tribe, to those who embraced Islam first; who were disproportionately women and slaves.It is crucial to put early Islamic traditions under the lens of cultural continuity from Pre- Islamic tradition to understand the development of power in tribal society and how this affected gender relations and patriarchy.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005566
- Subject Headings
- College students --Research --United States.
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- Document (PDF)