Previous research has shown a relationship between perceived discrimination and negative mental health outcomes, but only a handful of these studies focus on Latina/o populations. This quantitative survey study explored the experiences of relatively subtle contemporary discrimination from the point of view of 82 Latina/os living in the U.S., 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/527, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
Abravanel, Benjamin Todd (-) (Author), (Charles Sanislow) (Thesis advisor)
Date
2013-05-23
Description
The present study employed a recently developed stimulus set of emotional film clips in order to investigate three phenomena that are relevant to the study of emotional memory: enhancement of emotional memories, mood-congruent processing, and gender differences in emotional memory. Although each of these phenomena has been explored in the past, significant questions remain about all three, and film clips have only been rarely used as the to-be-remembered information. Participants were asked to rate their emotions as they viewed each of the film clips and were then asked to return one week later, at which time they were prompted to recall as many films as they were able in as much detail as possible. Results indicated a consistent emotional memory enhancement effect, an inconsistent mood-congruence effect, and the presence of gender differences. In particular, the results highlight the interaction between item valence, emotional arousal, and recall., 2013, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1004, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
Hanna, Charles Joseph (-) (Author), (Jill Morawski) (Thesis advisor)
Date
2012-04-15
Description
While much has been said about new technologies of the self and how they change us, there are a limited amount of studies that examine how specific medications or specific disorders are related to conceptions and articulations of self. A wealth of theoretical work and social criticism about the management of selves has explored claims that humans are becoming pharmaceutical selves. New technologies of self-making, including institutional health campaigns, scientific calibrations of normal and abnormal sleep, suggestions of health care professionals, and direct-to-consumer marketing of pharmaceuticals, compel individuals to assess their sleep habits, maximize their sleep potentials, and reclaim their selves with a drug. This study seeks to better understand these scientific technologies and their dynamic relations to the experience of self and self-making. It uses the case of insomnia and the pharmaceutical treatment, Ambien, to explore the ways these technologies operate., 2012, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/917, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
Newman, Joseph Robert (-) (Author), (Malin, Yonatan) (Thesis advisor)
Date
2009-04-15
Description
The relationship between Music and Copyright Law, 2010, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/282, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
Cavallo, Nicolas Joseph (-) (Author), (Peter Rutland) (Thesis advisor)
Date
2013-05-23
Description
The decade after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union was a unique period of U.S.-Russian relations. Americans saw incredible opportunity and risk in the rise of a new Russian state and economy and thereby responded through intensive investment efforts and unusual structures of coordination, including the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission. However, most scholars summarily describe 1990s American Russian policy as either a complete failure or total success and disregard the central importance of oil to the narrative of U.S.-Russian relations. This thesis challenges that framework and argues that the reality of the decade is somewhere in between; the United States' reaction to the 1990s Soviet collapse was a process of convoluted coordination and limited oil investment success that resulted in neither a wayward nuclear state nor a new Eurasian partner., 2013, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1062, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
Salustro, Kristen Nicole (-) (Author), (William Stowe) (Thesis advisor)
Date
2013-05-23
Description
After providing a brief history of the utopian and dystopian genres, this thesis explores the two-world systems of Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Dispossessed," Octavia Butler's "Adulthood Rites" and Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake." Morals and values within these worlds, along with the positive and negative elements of each society and protagonist, are closely examined, and this analysis reveals the importance of and need for change within these worlds. "Change" does not necessarily mean "improvement," however, and the analysis of the three novels shows that revolutionizing a dystopia is not as clear-cut as one might imagine., 2013, Old URL: https://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/etd_hon_theses/1071, In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted (InC-NC)
