Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Impostor Phenomenon

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Jeffrey Bednar, Management The MEG grant I was awarded was used to fund the work of several undergraduate and graduate students as we sought to present academic research and generate academic research articles for publication in various journals. This included research we have been conducting related to the “Impostor Syndrome”, where some high-achieving individuals fail […]

Validating Market Segmentation Solutions

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Marc Dotson, Marketing & Global Supply Chain Academic Objectives I set out to apply the MEG Grant to a project entitled “Validating Market Segmentation Solutions.” Early on in the process, it became clear that, while this project was and still is of managerial importance, I could do more academically relevant project work with more students […]

Measurement and Evaluation of Experiencescapes of Tourism Destinations

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Dr. Patti Freeman, Experience and Design Management Background Brigham Young University’s (BYU) Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) awarded Patti Freeman, Ph.D. a Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG) in January 2017. The MEG was for $19,300 and was awarded to conduct research in Hawaii to study the impact of experience industry structuring techniques on select […]

Cognitive Patterns of Information Addiction

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Rayman Meservy, Information Systems Summary As suggested by the title, this project focused on understanding the Cognitive Patterns of Information Addiction. Throughout the course of the project we have learned quite a bit about this concept and have refined our narrow focus on addiction to a more broad focus on understanding the cognitive patterns associated […]

Meta-Analytic Investigation of Physical Ability Subgroup Differences Based on Age and Race

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Cody Reeves, Management, Marriott School of Business Evaluation of Academic Objectives The academic objectives are still in the process of being met as the research effort is ongoing. We had hoped to have an academic manuscript submitted during the Fall 2018 semester, however this proved impossible as the project timeline was set back due to the mental […]

The Financing of Transportation Firms Using Rail, Truck, Air and Ship to Test Capital Structure Theories

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David Wilson and James Brau, Finance Our project sought to test traditional theories of capital structure (e.g., Ang & Peterson, 1986, Rajan & Zingales, 1995, Titman, & Wessels, 1988 DeAngelo & Masulis,1980, Leland, 1994, and Modigliani & Miller, 1958) through the analysis of a naturally occurring experiment produced among various transportation industry sectors (i.e. rail, […]

Identifying Appropriate Assessment Procedures for Bridle Up Hope: Testing the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale

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Savannah Wells and Neil Lundberg, Experience and Design Management Introduction Young women all over the country are struggling with poor mental health and self-confidence. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2016), 40 percent of young women in the U.S. struggle with depressive symptoms and 30 percent of young women experience symptoms […]

Neurosecurity: Comprehending Security Messages

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Zachary Vance and Bonnie Anderson, Information Systems The comprehension of security messages can be a difficult task to decipher, as comprehension works through a series of stages. The four major steps in comprehension are attention, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics, as outlined by figure 1 below. Through the use of eye-tracking, we were able to focus […]

Measuring Compassion in the Workforce

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Haley Kirk, Jeffrey Jenkins, Information Systems My ORCA project is designed to measure a person’s level of compassion using mouse-cursor tracking. The field of compassion is relatively untouched in the world of research, and I wanted to be one of the first to effectively measure compassion. I also wanted this measurement to be easily implemented into […]