David Rackham and Dr. Sam Hardy, Psychology Proposed Project The proposed project sought to examine moral identity as a mediation of relations between religiosity and positive and negative behaviors among emerging adults. Upon receipt of the ORCA grant in February 2010, Dr. Hardy and I began the data analysis. The analysis was performed on a […]
We are Widows, We are Women: On the Oral Histories of Low-caste Indian Widows and How They Maintain a Sense of Self in the Face of Social Role Change
Suzanne Powell and Dr. Charles W. Nuckolls, Anthropology Department Main Text As a student of anthropology, my ORCA grant enabled me to work on analyzing and writing up my results from a field study trip I took during the Fall 2009 semester to Visakhapatnam, India. My study focused on collecting oral histories of Hindu windows […]
Modern-day Conceptions of Marriage in Visakhapatnam, India: “Bridging the Gap” Between Globalized Young Women and Their Parents
Courtney Petersen and Dr. Charles W. Nuckolls Main Text The city of Visakhapatnam hugs the shoreline of the Bay of Bengal on the East coast of Andhra Pradesh, India. Once a small collection of fishing villages, this city is now a bustling metropolis housing businesses, universities, travelers, students, and families from both metropolitan and rural […]
Parental Stress as a Mediator for Relationship Satisfaction and Child Well-being between Two Adult Developmental Groups
Heather Perkins and Dr. Brian Willoughby, School of Family Life In the last 15 years, a new body of research has emerged looking specifically at the development of individuals between the ages of 18 to 25. Historically, this developmental period has been marked by the emergence of new responsibilities such as marriage and parenthood that […]
Medical Pluralism and Women’s Health: Ayurveda and Allopathy in a Changing Andhra Pradesh
Rachel Owen and Dr. John Hawkins, Anthropology Department My research took place in Andhra Pradesh, South India, in Vishakhapatnam, or Visag, for short. I studied the interaction between Allopathy (Allopathy is one of the terms used to describe western medicine, or biomedicine) and Ayurveda(Ayurveda is the traditional Hindu medicine system used in India for over […]
The Absent God: Do Implicit Biases Influence Current Prayer Research?
Chase O’Gwin and Dr. Brent Slife, Psychology Department Main Text In a recent article Dr. Slife and Reber (2009) make an argument that there is a pervasive bias against theism in psychological research. They state that in the effort to remain neutral towards religious thinking, including Christian theism, the science of psychology has become implicitly […]
What’s Moral About Moral Reasoning: Dealing with Personal Versus Contrived Dilemmas
Lacey Nielson and Dr. Terry Olson, School of Family Life Moral reasoning is commonly assessed using the Defining Issues Test (DIT) by James Rest which correlates with Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development. The DIT presents contrived moral dilemmas with issue statements. In our study, we wanted to see if moral reasoning in real life […]
Analyzing the Gap between Actual and Perceived Body Size and Its Association with Weight Control among High School Aged Girls
Erin Moore and Dr. Renata Forste, Sociology My ORCA grant was used in a statistical examination using data from the 2001-2002 Health Behaviors in School-age Children, a nationally representative survey measuring children and adolescents on a variety of health-related behaviors and attitudes. With these data, I explored the effects of a discrepancy between actual and […]
An Observation of Public Behavior among Ecuadorian Orphans
Emily Miller and Dr. Charles Nuckolls, Anthropology Identity within a social structure is easily analyzed when found in a culturally traditional setting. However, when physical and mental handicaps, parental figure transience, and varying levels of familial contact become factors the social structure and the roles within that structure are not as easily defined. Research for […]
Aboriginal Cultural Resilience: A Community Ethnography in Utopia
Jaren Meldrum and Dr. Todd L. Goodsell, Sociology Department Main Text Most rural indigenous communities in Australia have an abnormally high frequency of tobacco and alcohol use, domestic violence, and gambling, the prevalence of which can be seen as a result of an anomic loss of cultural identity in the postcolonial era (O’Connor 1984; Johnston […]
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