Megan B. Rutledge There is research showing that mindfulness has a positive relationship with empathy; this means that mindfulness affects an individual’s empathy levels, effectively increasing them. Previous research has looked at how mindfulness can be achieved through meditation and changes to daily life. However, there is little research examining mindfulness and its effect on […]

Joshua D. Brown The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived personal moral discrepancies and depression and well-being. Prior research suggests that possessing self-discrepancies regarding hopes and dreams increases a person’s likelihood of displaying depressive symptoms. In addition, there has been research regarding perceived moral discrepancies between an individual and society […]

Travis A. Kelly Little research has currently been done focusing on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental and emotional processes of people in the United States. The few studies that have been published so far have focused on self-report measures to analyze the impact. While these publications are a good first step, more […]

Dylan Stefanich Religiosity is a main predictor of attitudes toward pedophilia (ATP). The strength of one’s overall religious beliefs is a significant predictor in negative ATP, but no study thus far has isolated the five facets of religiosity (i.e., ideology, intellect, public/private practice, experience) to examine independent predictability. This study adapted the Attitudes About Sadomasochism […]

Alijah Forbes Research on aggression in media has often focused on its influence on later acts by individual viewers. One area that is often not researched is the perception of aggressive acts. Prior research on influences on people’s perceptions have shown that they can be influenced by ingroup bias and differences in personality. These areas […]

Carlie A. Merriweather In this direct replication of Holtgraves’ Experiment 4, I examine how affective and cognitive verbs elicit different patterns of responses about self-esteem based on the respondent’s gender. Participants (N = 2146) responded to one of two versions of a widely used self-esteem scale, one with either ‘feel’ (e.g. “I feel…”) or ‘think’ […]