Alexander Wambach and Dr. Kevin Shafer, Sociology Department Introduction The United States has experienced a greying of divorce over the last 25 years. During this period, the divorce rate among couples aged 50 and older doubled, and almost 25 percent of divorces that took place in 2010 involved someone 50 years of age or older […]
Investigating the Gender Gap in Grade Sensitivity for Economics Majors
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
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
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
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
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). […]
Nabataean Seashell Trade
Emma Collett and Dr. David Johnson, Anthropology Department Introduction In Petra, Jordan the ancient civilization of the Nabataeans has been studied for hundreds of years. Even with these years of archaeological research and discovery some aspects of the Nabataean culture have not yet been extensively studied. This past Spring term the BYU archaeology department held […]
Understanding the Neural Networks of Eye Movements in Reading
Trenton Jackman and Dr. Steven Luke, Psychology Department Introduction Reading is a part of everyday life. Humans read street signs, textbooks, emails, manuals, novels, and many other things. While reading we move our eyes 2-4 times per second. Each movement is called a saccade, and each pause between movements is called a fixation. These eye-movements […]
Converting Gendered Expectations: Emerging Feminist Discourse among Protestant and Seventh-Day Adventist Hmong
Stephanie Parsons and Dr. Jacob Hickman, Anthropology Department Introduction During my second week living in a Hmong village outside of Chiang Mai, I sat down with a middle-aged woman while she was working on her embroidery. She is a Protestant Christian who has been married twice, once to an old culture Hmong man, and currently […]
Fixation-Related fMRI and Syntactic Networks in the Brain
Brent Foster and Dr. Steven Luke, Neuroscience Department Introduction Humans comprehend language at varying levels of complexity. Syntax, in particular, deals with the arrangement of words and phrases into meaningful sentences. For instance, in English we expect most sentences to follow some variation of the order “Subject–Verb–Object” such as “The boy (Subject) ate (Verb) cake […]
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