The ability to regulate emotion positively impacts one’s mental and physical health. One adaptive emotion regulation strategy is cognitive reappraisal, which involves changing one’s appraisal of an aversive situation to make it feel less negative. Across two different research aims, I examined how cognitive reappraisal relates to health indices via ...

Religion is often seen as a taboo and controversial topic in the workplace; however, it also plays an important role in many people’s lives. Over the past few decades, the religious landscape of the American workforce has become increasingly diverse. Unfortunately, as religious diversity in organizations has grown, so has the number of Equal Employment ...

Buffer versus embedded processes accounts of short-term memory (STM) have been under debate for decades. Buffer models propose dedicated storage for maintaining different types of information, where these buffers are separate from long-term memory (LTM) for those kinds of information. In contrast, embedded processes models argue against the existence ...

Lifespan development perspectives propose that people’s social interactions change with increasing age, such that there is a shift from knowledge-related social goals (social behaviors primarily for instrumental gain, such as networking for promotions, or eliciting supervisor feedback about job performance) to emotion-related social goals (social ...

The purpose of this dissertation was to determine whether direct learning can improve time-to-collision (TTC) judgments of approaching objects. Accurate information for judgments of TTC is available in the optic array, but research has shown that observers do not always use this accurate information. Even though this information exists in the optic ...

More than ever before, organizations are relying on teams to complete complex and creative work. Given this trend, along with the fact that women make up half of the U.S. labor force, understanding the interplay between teamwork and gender is critical. Though some research has explored this topic, it has centered primarily on gender stereotypes, the ...

The past half-century has been characterized by a rise in teamwork that has aligned with shifting demographic characteristics reflecting the world’s aging and increasingly diverse population. As a result, organizations and researchers alike have shifted their attention toward understanding the conditions under which team demographic diversity can ...

The ability to read words aloud requires the coordination of the cognitive system responsible for visual word recognition and that responsible for speech production. The most prominent theory of reading – the dual-route cascaded (DRC) model (Coltheart et al., 2001) – proposes that this is accomplished by series of processes that start with initial ...

Bad ballot design has affected the outcome of multiple elections in the United States. In order to build an automated tool for evaluation of ballots for potential usability problems, a range of voting behaviors on different ballot layouts have to be understood and modeled. The current studies are focussed on full-face paper ballots. Study 1 is an ...

College STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) major matriculation and attrition decisions may be influenced by experiences occurring much earlier in students’ lives than their contemporary college experiences. This research was guided by social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994), which describes how students ...