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Title: The Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training on Mood, Cognitive, and Cardiovascular Variables
Author: Zeidan, Fadel
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Experimental
Description: This study examined whether a brief mindfulness meditation intervention, a style of meditative practice marked by focusing on the sensations of the breath without judgment, would affect mood, cognition, and cardiovascular measures. Participants wi...

Title: TRACING THE ORIGINS AND USAGE OF AFFORDANCES IN HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: EPISTEMOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DESIGN
Author: Hess, Adam
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Design, Psychology, Experimental
Description: This thesis questions the use of the theory of affordance, a psychological theory of perception, as the basis for a symbolic design methodology in human-computer interaction. By comparing the psychological writings on affordance of James J. Gibson...

Title: HOW ATTITUDES AFFECT GENDER AS A STATUS CHARACTERISTIC
Author: Randolph, Kyle
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Experimental
Description: Status Characteristics theory (SCT) argues that individuals’ gender attitudes are inconsequential in the status process. SCT states that, since the status process is subconscious, conscious beliefs and attitudes are irrelevant. Because of this arg...