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- Robinson, Sekani
- Description:
- While research on gender and sports/physical activities is prevalent, there are limited studies on how cheerleading plays a part in the gender socialization of young girls. This research will focus and compare two adolescent cheerleading teams, one being a predominantly Black/African American cheer team and the other being a predominantly white/ multi-racial cheerleading team; and how their interactions with their peers impact how they express their confidence, self-esteem and ethnic-identity. The methodology for this study is field observations and participant observation. I frame my analysis using the social learning theory and symbolic interaction paradigms that observe how cheerleaders socially interact with each other and promotes girl collectivism. Throughout my observations I have found that race, class and their environment play a significant role on how the cheerleaders interpret their self-esteem, confidence and ethnic identity. Through interactions and observations with the parents as well as the cheerleaders, I have found that cheerleading is helping the girls on the predominantly Black/African American cheer team build their ethnic-identity by the choreography from the cheers and the interactions with other cheerleaders of the same race/ethnic background. Now those girls look to be a lot more social, and are more involved by standing in the front line and interacting with the other cheerleaders. I will also be conducting interviews and surveys with my observations to measure and conclude how cheerleading has made an impact on a lot of the cheerleaders' ethnic-identity, self-esteem and confidence.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Rojas, Martha A.
- Description:
- The development of sexual scripts is based in an understanding of messages and meanings an individual is given about sexual roles and behaviors through cultural, interpersonal, and intrapsychic forces. In observing diverse cultures, there was a trend in scripts of women; they are less accepted and are viewed negatively. The main focus of the current study leans towards Latina women. Parental concerns regarding dating, family communication about sexual issues, family rules about dating, and actual dating and sexual experiences will be observed more into depth.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jaramillo, Jimena
- Description:
- Grounded cognition dictates that, just as the mind can dictate bodily actions, so can motor systems impact cognition. Sensory feedback can likewise inform an individual's foundations for social categorization. The purpose of the present experiment is to investigate whether the tactile perception of surface texture will affect participant's categorization of gender neutral faces. We hypothesize that participants will categorize more gender neutral faces as being masculine when they are touching rough surfaces and feminine when they are touching smooth surfaces. Additionally, we hypothesize that participants will rate the attractiveness of the gender neutral faces in accordance to their own gender preference when touching surface textures that match with what is typically considered masculine or feminine.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Banuelos, Stephanie
- Description:
- Sexual coercion is defined as any of the following: rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, and the pressure to have sex. The effects of sexual coercion on the person and their self-esteem are critical to research and have been often understudied. This study is intended to increase the understanding of how culture may play a part in maintaining sexual scripts and how they in turn affect those who have been victimized. Understanding the impact of sexual violence on women is significant for recovery and coping as well as prevention programs. Studies show that females who have reported rape express lower levels of self-esteem, however the studies in the literature have consisted of predominantly white women. Although the data is critical to collect it cannot be generalized to all women, especially women of color. Ethnic minority sexual scripts and culture has been found to influence the repercussions of an unwanted sexual encounter. Due to the lack of literature surrounding sexual coercion and the effect on ethnic minorities, the purpose of this study is to explore the effects of sexual coercion on the well being of Latina college students to understand the cultural implications of sexual assault. Approximately 100-200 Latina female underGraduates from the Cal Poly Pomona campus will be recruited for this study. The participants will partake in a series of published questionnaires on an online system. This study will answer the following research question; what is the impact of sexual coercion on the self-esteem of Latina college students?
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Washington, Solomon, Fejleh, Yaman, Duong, Nicole, Romero, Kristi, and Egbule, Princess
- Description:
- Ingratiation, or deliberately attempting to get someone to like oneself, is an influence tactic that can be utilized in the workplace. This study utilizes the ultimate attribution error (UAE), which claims that individuals attribute others' positive behaviors to their situation and negative behaviors to their disposition. In particular, it addresses whether people put themselves in a more positive light than they do others when predicting future behavior in the context of responding to ingratiation. The present study also addresses judgments and behaviors linked to gender roles in the perception of ingratiation. Three hypotheses are explored: (1) participants rate others as more likely than themselves to vote for an ingratiator; (2) females/more feminine participants perceive ingratiators more favorably and are more likely to vote for those individuals; and (3) female ingratiators are perceived more favorably than male ingratiators by participants. In a laboratory quasi-experiment with a 2x2x2 mixed design, 174 participants with an average age of 20.33 viewed scripted videos displaying either a male or female job candidate using ingratiation while applying for a job. Participants completed a questionnaire measuring their perceptions of the ingratiatory, femininity, masculinity, and demographic variables. Further, correlations between participant sex, femininity, and likelihood to vote indicated that participant sex is unrelated to whether participants like ingratiators, but that the femininity of participants is, such that more feminine participants are more likely to vote for ingratiators. Additional research will be conducted on differences in perceptions of ingratiation in the workplace by using the UAE.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Cedillo, Juan J.
- Description:
- For centuries families have immigrated to industrious societies in hope for a better future for their families. Once families arrive to their destination, the process of acculturation begins impacting parents and children differently. Children of immigrant parents in particular play the roles of interpreters and translators for their parents and other members of the family. This practice often referred as "language brokering" has long existed in immigrant communities and received limited attention from social and behavioral scientists. Thus, to understand the contribution of the language brokering scholarship, a review of the literature is desperately needed. The purpose of this study was to review articles, books, chapters, and dissertations that reported studies on language brokering. A total of 75 resources were identified by search major research databases in Psychology and other social and behavioral sciences. Coding and analysis of the data is currently underway. Our goal is to have the results finalized by end of February. The results will consists of information regarding characteristics of the articles as well as an in depth content analysis. Ideas for future research, practice, and theory will also be discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Student Research
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Phan, Tammy
- Description:
- Loot boxes are purchasable items in video games that are consistent with items of randomized rarity. Current studies on loot boxes have only covered the possible effects of loot boxes and habitual gambling. However, my work explores how loot boxes affect virtual economies and player experience. As many games have integrated loot boxes into their core gameplay, loot boxes have also helped establish virtual marketplaces that allow players to sell and purchase items. The purchasable items on these online markets can vary in rarity and are bought by using in-game currency that gamers can eventually work towards. Gamers engage with this economy by grinding, which may be viewed as labor; players can spend hours trying to obtain enough materials to purchase items on the market to become more viable within the game. Without access to rarer materials, players who do not indulge in loot boxes are at a disadvantage, having to play longer and to reach the same levels as people who spend money. Contributing to economic anthropological theories of commodity and gift exchange through virtual ethnography, this paper will look into divisions of statuses among gamers based on the differences in Free to Players versus those who pay for loot boxes.
- Resource Type:
- Abstract
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Baserga, Victor
- Description:
- California has about 565,000 residents incarcerated in local jails, state/federal prisons, juvenile detentions, or under involuntary supervision. The latter comprises 90,000 formerly incarcerated persons on parole and another 236,000 on probation. Incarcerated persons experience significant challenges of managing and coping with long-term incarceration. Some survive prison by adopting risky behavior, while others find a middle ground by developing positive behavior through education and self-help programs. Because of these variant social-psychological pathways of incarcerated citizens, it is crucial to understand the mechanisms of recidivism before release and while on parole. In this mixed methods study, we investigate the mechanisms that drive low recidivism rates among paroled lifers. We aim to answer the following: 1)Why do paroled lifers recidivate in significantly lower rates than other returning citizens?, 2) Is the aging-out phenomena solely responsible for the lower recidivism rate?, 3) To what extent do resiliency, education, and self-development programs contribute to the lower recidivism rates?
- Resource Type:
- Abstract
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Psychology