Catholic Marriage: Discovering French Basque Impediments

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Tatum Frampton and Dr. George Ryskamp, History Department In 1563, the Council of Trent exercised fundamental societal control by enforcing marriage laws within the Catholic church which outlined in detail the process of marriage. Every Catholic marriage required a pre-marriage investigation.1 This new structure forbade couples from marrying within the 4th degree of consanguinity (blood […]

Self-regulation, Inhibition Response, and Perceived Parental Support: an fMRI Investigation of Adolescents with ADHD

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Erin Kaseda and Dr. Wendy Birmingham, Psychology Department Introduction It is estimated that between 5-10% of children and adolescents in the United States have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). For adolescents with ADHD, parent-child relationships and peer relationships may experience increased conflict. Interpersonal difficulties among family members put children with ADHD at risk for […]

Goal Setting and Goal Achievement in Marathon and Half-Marathon Runners

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Jared Richardson and Dr. Benjamin Ogles, Psychology Department Introduction Goal setting provides multiple benefits in the realm of athletics. These include overcoming fear of failure (Wikman, Stelter, Melzer, Hauge, & Elbe, 2014), performing at a higher level in both training and competition (Filby, Maynard, & Graydon, 1999), and increasing motivation (Sullivan & Strode, 2010). Marathon […]

Study, Test, Test: A Formula to Distinguish Memory Specificity in Declarative Memory

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Jordan Clark and Dr. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Department The goal of this project was to increase our understanding of how human memory works. Specifically, we wanted to investigate what happens in the brain when we make memory mistakes, and to see if there are regions of the brain whose relative activation levels could be predictive […]

Investigating the Gender Gap in Grade Sensitivity for Economics Majors

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Brittany Farnsworth Russell and Dr. Eric Eide, Economics Department Introduction For my research I used institutional data from Brigham Young University as well as survey data from students to investigate the effect of gender and grade in Econ 110 on the probability of choosing economics as a major. This topic is of interest because the […]

The Architecture of Belief: Developing Personal Convictions and Preserving Tradition

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Kalli Abbott and Dr. Jacob Hickman, Anthropology Department Introduction The Hmong people are a diasporic, highland ethnic minority group spread throughout Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. Contenders of Christianity have penetrated their communities with religious change to a significant extent. Hmong traditional religious practices include a repertoire of ancestral and spiritual rituals […]

Context Dependent Memory Specificity

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Todd Winn, Leila LeSueur, and Dr. Brock Kirwan, Psychology Department Introduction In current literature, researchers have proposed that the relationshipbetween objects and the context they are found in is integral to long-term declarative memory, and converges at hippocampal processes. In order to explore the effect of visual context on memory, our experiment was designed to […]

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: The Influence of Han and Heung on Korean Culture

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Bryce Mangelson and Dr. Greg Thompson, Anthropology Department Introduction Current scholarship about Korea recognizes the importance that han has on Korean culture. Han is a feeling of melancholy and sadness that stems from constant suppression and opposition. Han is discussed within a historical context of political oppression from foreign countries such as China and Japan. […]

Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Intentions Regarding HPV Vaccination in Religious Populations

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Kristina Hall and Dr. Wendy Birmingham, Psychology Department Introduction According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 79 million Americans are currently infected with HPV (“Human Papillomavirus (HPV)”, 2016). In fact, it is so common that most sexually active adults will be infected at some point in their life (“Human Papillomavirus (HPV)”, 2016). […]