While there is a positive relationship between self-compassion and compassion toward others (Crocker & Canevello, 2008; Gilbert, McEwan, Matos, & Rivis, 2011), the extent of the relationship between the two variables has not often been investigated. R . . .

From victimization literature, it is known that victims are often selected because they display nonverbal signals that flag them as easy prey. With the established knowledge that bullies are driven by the urge to dominate, it stands to reason that non . . .

Previous literature has shown that parents of children with autism experience more stress compared to parents of children without autism, but little is known about factors that reduce such stress. Based on Baker-Erikzen et al. (2005) explanations of s . . .

A common symptom in schizophrenia is amotivation, which has been linked to lower quality of life and deficits in cognitive functioning. Currently, however, the underlying mechanisms of amotivation are not well understood. The present study investigate . . .

The prevailing U.S. cultural narrative suggests that integration of dual ethnic minority and queer identities should result in greater psychological well-being (PWB). Queer theorists, however, propose that this population might benefit from compartmen . . .

Loneliness is associated with cautious strategies, such as lack of self-disclosure, during social interactions—a tendency that is harmful for relationships. Importantly, there is a gap in the literature about the way lonely individuals communicate the . . .

Gaydar is thought to be an ability of gay men to identify other gay men. Interestingly, a majority of gaydar research has focused on examining gaydar among straight individuals while limited research examines gaydar among gay-identified people. Given . . .

Previous research on Internet recruitment has suggested that recruitment websites may influence organizational attraction and applicant job pursuit intention. The present study aimed to further explore this topic by assessing whether or not the amount . . .

Game-based assessments (GBAs) are a new type of technologically-based assessment tool which allow for traditional selection concepts to be measured from gameplay behaviors (e.g., completing levels by following game rules). GBAs use game elements to cr . . .

While the factors are numerous, the mechanisms associated with the capacity for successful outcomes despite challenging circumstances (i.e., resilience) remain underexplored. One proposed mechanism is self-talk. Self-talk is a cognitive process that s . . .

The present study was inspired by the lack of research that the effects of the military and combat socialization have on veterans’ civilian social life. A new theory developed by Philip G. Zimbardo and termed Social Intensity Syndrome (SIS) is introdu . . .

Collectivism is a cultural value that focuses on the interdependence and harmony within an in-group. Previous research has identified that collectivistic values are associated with positive social outcomes. One reason why collectivists enjoy positive . . .

Evidence suggests that children may be at risk for psychological maladjustment later in life when they are required to take on parental roles and responsibilities within a family. In light of Minuchin’s theoretical framework and Bowen’s family systems . . .

Rivalry - a competitive relationship in which relational attributes and history amplify the significance of the competition - has received relatively little academic attention (Kilduff et al., 2010). This study explored rivalries among coworkers, exte . . .

The present research examines how individuals categorize and perceive women relative to men. Specifically, the current study looks to answer the question: Are women individuated less than men; and if so, what role if any, does the gender of the percei . . .

Previous research that examined how collectivism is related to attachment styles and self-disclosure to close others were limited in that in many of the studies did not directly assess collectivism in their participants. The present two studies aimed . . .

My thesis explored whether women’s career expectations for an average ingroup member depend on one or both of the following: (a) career type (stereotypical masculine vs. stereotypical feminine) and (b) attitudes about women in general. The sample (N = . . .

A theory of happiness based on evolutionary theory is presented, followed by the introduction of the Natural Living Test (NLT). The NLT is a list of 45 activities that resemble the way humans lived in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. The N . . .

Little research has been conducted on the effects or correlates of workplace attire. I hypothesized that obligations to wear formal attire would be associated with employee strain, as measured by several indicators of well-being. Potential moderators . . .

This study examined how self-compassion and self-esteem are related to constructive responses during a conflict in romantic relationships. During negative self-relevant events, self-compassion has been shown to predict positive affect and motivation t . . .

The purpose of the study was to show that earliest, most important, and recently recalled dreams contain predictable threatening themes, building upon Revonsuo’s (2000) Threat Simulation Theory of dreaming. Participants were 101 SFSU students (M age = . . .

The objective of this thesis was to examine whether uncertainty avoidance dimension of culture produces Unites State-Japan differences in cooperative behavior. I examined how uncertainty operated to produce cooperative behaviors differently between Am . . .

Monolinguals outperform bilinguals in a sentence acceptability judgment task, but not a grammaticality judgment task. A recent study concludes that this pattern of results is evidence for a bilingual advantage in conflict resolution during sentence pr . . .

The present research sought to expand on the findings of representational role theory by focusing on the evaluation of women leaders who displayed anger and pride. Based on the representational role theory, it was hypothesized that women displaying ag . . .

Depressive rumination among European Americans (EA) is a harmful style of responding to depressed mood because it is associated with a myriad of negative consequences, including the onset of depression. Recent work suggests that depressive rumination . . .

A primary way to signal gender differences starting in infancy is via clothing color: pink for girls and blue for boys. We examined whether a violation of this seemingly innocuous cue would affect decision-making. Participants were given a modified ve . . .

The present study expands the current discourse on the justice-affect link by examining the effect of displayed emotions on overall fairness judgments. One hundred twenty undergraduate students participated in an experiment investigating the effect of . . .

Understanding how children’s cognition relates to their empathy (i.e., the ability to share and understand another’s emotional state) can provide valuable information for children’s socio-emotional development, especially since empathy is related to v . . .

The current study examined if there were neural markers in the brain that can distinguish an individual with high Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) symptoms versus an individual with low GAD symptoms. We recorded brain wave activity to compare activa . . .

A crossed-feedback design was used to isolate two possible mechanisms of manhood threat, the antifemininity mandate and self-to-ingroup comparison. Men either received feedback that they were like most men on a culturally feminine characteristic or th . . .

This research to examine the effects of race socialization and ethnic identity on academic achievement performance in ethnic minority identified adolescents. Ethnic identification, whether strong or weak, could play a role in academic achievement. Str . . .

Religiosity and pressure to conform to gender stereotypes are often assumed to be correlated. However, previous research has not demonstrated this relationship, mainly because it has correlated religious fundamentalism with either anti-LGBT prejudice . . .

Previous research has shown that women high in stigma consciousness perceive contempt—an emotion denoting status—as lasting longer on male versus female faces (Inzlicht, Kaiser, & Major, 2008), but this effect did not occur with anger—an emotion not d . . .

The correlation between role stressors and strain has been found repeatedly in the workplace stress literature. There has been an increase in companies promoting wellbeing in the workplace, often through wellbeing programs, policies, etc. The current . . .

This study uses data from a self-report online survey to explore how self esteem and cultural orientation correlate with helping attitudes. Understanding prosocial behaviors like helping attitudes explains other positive attributes such as decreases i . . .

Previous research has shown that the lay conception of being a woman and feminine is synonymous with motherhood and the gender intensified prescriptions of warmth/kindness coupled with a keen interest in children (Veevers, 1973; Prentice and Carranza, . . .

Previous research has demonstrated the accuracy of thin-slice judgments in various domains. Due to the scarcity of thin-slice research in organizational contexts, the present study investigates whether thin-slice interview ratings are comparable to cr . . .

In order to maintain manhood, men engage in prescriptive behavior and avoid proscriptive behavior. Yet, will manhood threats increase prescriptive behavior seeking even at the expense of ethics? In Study 1, men told they had a feminine personality (co . . .

Little is known about predictors of resilience and recovery in civilians exposed to acute trauma such as a terrorist attack. This study aims to expand the knowledge of adult resilience and recovery in 2,355 World Trade Center (WTC) tower survivors, su . . .

Interference paradigms such as the Stroop and Eriksen Flanker tasks illuminate the ways in which irrelevant visual stimuli can interfere with action production. However, no one has investigated whether representations that are internally-generated (i. . . .

Recent studies reveal that conflicts around money management in relationships contribute significantly to decreased relationship satisfaction, and can predict relationship termination at all stages of romantic partnerships (Vogler, 2005; Dew, Britt, & . . .

Art is a human universal, but some people seem to need it more than others. Originally proposed by Maslow (1954/1970), the need for aesthetics has been suggested by other researchers, who have attempted to measure aesthetic personality with proxies su . . .

Previous research has shown that the combination of anger, contempt, and disgust (ANCODI) is related to aggression. However, this was examined within the contexts of incidental emotions and self-selected outgroups. The current study examined (a) wheth . . .

Research on perception and action reveals that fluent/effortless processing engenders a positive valence toward ambient stimuli. This, however, may not be a complete picture of how valence arises from processing dynamics. In this first investigation o . . .

Work engagement has become a major focus for many organizations. Organizations seek to improve their bottom line by improving their understanding in the factors that contribute to work engagement. The purpose of this research is to determine the relat . . .

Despite approximately 30 years of research in the area of prejudicial attitudes toward non-heterosexual persons, to date, there is no single scale that captures respondents attitudes towards four sexual minority target groups relative to each other: l . . .

Emotion regulation (ER) is essential to every day, normative functioning. One aspect of emotion regulation is distress tolerance - the ability to persist in goal-directed activities when experiencing aversive states. Although research on the normative . . .

The use of job applicant personal information obtained via online social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook has become a growing medium for the selection and hiring of employees. The purpose of this research was to determine whether information a . . .

Motivated students tend to be better adjusted than their less motivated peers. However, little is known about how choosing a major and expectations of employment opportunities predict motivation. The current study investigated how those links differ b . . .

The present study explores whether rumination on environmental factors has a significant impact on creative behavior. Specifically, we hypothesized that ruminating on factors that elicit negative emotions (such as evaluation and powerlessness) will ne . . .

Theory of Mind (ToM) is an important development in early childhood, predictive of later social and academic success (Blair & Razza, 2007; Caputi, Lecce, Pagnin, & Banerjee, 2012). There is a well-documented developmental difference in (ToM) acquisiti . . .

This study aimed to explore the impacts of racial/ethnic identity and high school STEM exposure on adolescents’ STEM interest, across gender and ethnicity. Results showed that ethnic identity was positively related to European American female adolesce . . .

It is common practice within interpersonal selection assessments for job applicants to use impression management (IM) tactics in an attempt to favorably influence assessor evaluations. For example, previous research has provided evidence that candidat . . .

This paper examined whether higher levels of Asian acculturation and lower levels of family obligation discrepancy interact with components of the family context (i.e., cohesion, communication, ethnic socialization, supportive parenting) to predict po . . .

This thesis builds on previous studies that have explored the relationship between work experience and job performance. The study assesses the impact of various experience measures and job performance outcomes (i.e., IRB, OCBI, OCBO). The study also e . . .

Previous research has conveyed that the conscious thoughts occupying one's mind are reflexive in nature and susceptible to external control. In the Reflexive Imagery Task (RIT), participants are shown line drawings of objects and instructed to not thi . . .

Van Boven, Campbell and Gilovich (2010) found materialists are stigmatized for their extrinsically motivated values, which lead to clear social consequences. Our research intends to conceptually replicate research regarding the stigmatization of mater . . .

The current study investigated the relationship between parent characteristics, school factors, and school choice in an open-enrollment district employing a universal lottery system for school assignment. 97 parents of prospective kindergarteners comp . . .

Social entrepreneurship is a recently developed business model that uses enterprise as a method to inspire sustainable social change. While personal values plays a strong role in social movements, researchers are looking to further the literature on w . . .

Evolutionary psychologists would argue that negative attitudes toward pregnant women exist only when these women threaten optimal reproduction. Yet, other research demonstrates that social norm violations create negative attitudes toward pregnant wome . . .

A possible relationship between virginity loss and subsequent partner selection was examined in a sample of 165 participants (47 males and 118 females) aged 18-25 years. Participants completed a survey that assessed self-esteem, sexual beliefs, and vi . . .

Benjamin, Heffetz, Kimball and Rees Jones (2012) presented respondents with hypothetical life scenarios using subjective well-being (SWB) measures to predict respondents anticipated happiness and elicit choice between two options. Their findings showe . . .

Research shows that manhood is a social-cultural performance. A failure to display the “proper” actions results in a failure to achieve the proper social status, i.e., not a real man. This study focused on the cognitive associates of behavior associat . . .

This study examined the incremental validity of collective-group organization fit in predicting task performance, organizational citizenship behavior (OCBs), and affective commitment in a sample of 96 graduate researchers at a prominent West Coast uni . . .

For astronauts on long-duration spaceflights, situation awareness and effective workload management are crucial to mission success. In the absence of close communication with ground control, astronauts must perform unfamiliar procedures with the guida . . .

This study examined effects of a best possible self intervention on employee well-being, specifically, job burnout. Previous research has demonstrated that best possible self interventions can affect well-being; however, there is a dearth of research . . .

This study developed and validated a self-report measure of mastery-approach goal orientation in the work domain (i.e., the focus on learning and improving one’s competence at work). Data from graduate students, non-working undergraduate students, and . . .

The recent growth of social networking websites now allows for the sharing of one’s pictures and life events with less effort than before. Given this recent shift in how people communicate, it would be important to further understand the act of displa . . .

Research has found that people consistently report higher perceptions of fairness in legal scenarios where they have some control over the proceedings, and that this occurs regardless of their control over the final decision. Other studies have found . . .

Organizations spend billions of dollars annually on new programs, but often fail to achieve desired results. The current research explores one potential factor in program outcomes by using goal framing to examine how different types of program outcome . . .

The present study aimed at extending Hardy et al.’s (2005) study on potential disadvantages of high social cohesion in sports teams. The researcher explored this study in an organizational context by quantitatively testing Hardy et al.’s proposed hier . . .

Previous research has shown that music can be an effective stimulus for influencing arousal level. In addition, Brunye, et al (2009), showed that arousal level can have an effect on spatial memory. The present study examined physiological arousal resp . . .

Applicant attraction and recruitment is an essential piece to any successful organization, which has many people and other resources dedicated to attracting high quality candidates. Various factors play a role in attracting potential job applicants, i . . .

Researchers interested in charisma have frequently operationalized the construct using scale measures such as the charisma subscale of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and the Conger-Kanungo Scale (CKS). Critics of these scales have argu . . .

Recent meta-analyses suggest that the job satisfaction-job performance relationship may be largely spurious, accounted for in part by other variables. The current study uses updated meta-analysis to test for further evidence of the spurious hypothesis . . .

Women continue to be underrepresented academically in science, technology, engineering, and math fields, which could partially be explained by stereotype threat. A recent intervention by Johns and colleagues (2005) demonstrated that giving women knowl . . .

Taking the culture learning approach, international students adopt dominant cultural norms, and their language usage, dressing code, eating style and communication style becomes similar with Americans’ after they live in the United States for a certai . . .

Music has been shown to have an analgesic effect for pain when it is self-selected (Mitchell & MacDonald, 2006) or positively valenced (Roy, Peretz, & Rainville, 2008). The current study investigated whether an analgesic effect of positive music is st . . .

This study explored whether ideal value (values that a person or organization strives towards) congruence (similarities between personal and organizational values) and counter-ideal value (values that a person or organization seeks to avoid) congruenc . . .

Spontaneous thought and mind wandering engender approximately 30% of the thoughts one experiences daily, but little research has elucidated the patterns underlying the determinants of spontaneous thought. While performing a concentration exercise (9 m . . .

Social support has been shown to play a crucial role in employee health and well-being. Support in the workplace is commonly measured in terms of emotional and instrumental support. Existing measures of support are not rooted in clinical understanding . . .

Parents' discipline choices impact their children's development. One common form of disciplining children in the United States is corporal punishment, usually carried out in the form of spanking. Corporal punishment has been shown to be associated wit . . .

The present study was conducted to further investigate the role of perfectionism in predicting affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to feedback that differed in valence. Participants varying in their level of self-oriented perfectionism enga . . .

Can one weaken that nagging urge to eat chocolate cake when dieting, or the pulling urge to smoke when trying to quit? Recent investigations have begun to examine the nature of the consciously-available ‘urges’ associated with such kinds of response c . . .

Recent neurobiological research has distinguished between the experience of wanting and liking pleasurable or rewarding stimuli, and these differences have been especially helpful in psychopathology research. However, the self-reported discrimination . . .

This study examined the variation in job performance of employees in regards to the amount of time they spend telecommuting (i.e. telecommuting intensity). The majority of the previous research only compared telecommuting groups to non-telecommuting g . . .

Retention of human capital presents a critical challenge to contemporary organizations due to massive costs associated with employee turnover. The goal of the current project was to address the question of how personal values relate to employee turnov . . .

Kahneman and Tversky famously used the Asian Disease Problem (ADP) to demonstrate the influence of framing on decision-making. When a choice is framed as a gain (e.g. the number of people saved is emphasized), participants are often risk-averse. Howev . . .

Taking an intersectional approach, this research explored how sexual identity and an aspect of gender (i.e., social presentation via attire presentation) impact heterosexual women’s evaluation of lesbians, and, separately, heterosexual men’s evaluatio . . .

Many researchers have taken to the Internet to collect data. Previous research has found that when asked in-person, some individuals, those high in the need for self-knowledge, Openness to Experience, and reflection, choose to participate in psycholog . . .

The extant literature examining the effects of maximizing (i.e., the tendency to make decisions based on optimality) on well-being overwhelmingly suggests that maximizers, compared to satisficers, are less happy, less satisfied with their lives, show . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine whether children may face difficulty regulating their thoughts as a result of existing interference, such as ironic processing. Ironic processing is a psychological process where if one tries to deliberately su . . .

Socioeconomic status (Cooper & Tom, 1984), parental influence (Glick & White, 2004), academic motivation, (Deci, Vallerand, Pelletier, & Ryan, 1991), and self-esteem (Aunola, Stattin, & Nurmi, 2000) are highly associated with academic performance. Exa . . .

Workplace social support has been found to be linked to various beneficial employee and organizational outcomes. Some research has been successful in more deeply characterizing social support by dividing it into its constituent parts such as source of . . .

This research examined the moderating effect of emotion type (anger, sadness, and happiness), relationship type (friend vs. coworker/classmate), and direction of emotion (toward vs. not toward interaction partner) on the relationship between suppressi . . .

More often than not, human beings want to maximize life satisfaction, well-being and happiness. Research suggests that the Big-Five personality traits have a strong relationship with subjective well-being. Certain traits help create life event and dri . . .

In a study examining how parents and children cope with pediatric kidney disease, participants completed questionnaires to assess coping styles, family functioning, self-efficacy and health outcomes (medication adherence, kidney function, stress, and . . .

Anhedonia, a pleasure deficit, is an important symptom of schizophrenia that remains poorly understood. Recently researchers have suggested that emotion dysregulation, particularly emotional ambivalence in positive situations, may be one mechanism for . . .

Do people who endorse high levels of racial colorblind beliefs allocate more attention to Black and White faces? Participants who were undergraduate students at San Francisco State University completed a dot probe task designed to measure attention bi . . .

Few studies have focused on sex differences in the health effect of manganese (Mn) overexposure. This study compares the cognitive and motor test scores of a group of 55 Mn-exposed women residing in proximity to a ferromanganese smelter to 45 Mnexpose . . .