Browsing Psychology Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2015 Spring"
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Effects of a violence prevention program on the aggressive scripts and prosocial behavior of "high risk" students
(2015-07-28)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a school-based violence prevention program, Project SAFE, which was designed to decrease beliefs supporting the use of aggression in response to conflict, as measured ... -
Psychometric Evaluation of a Motivation Assessment in Smokers
(2014)The aim of this dissertation was to describe the psychometric properties of the Brief Motivation Scale used during an intervention for participants who have declared low interest in discontinuing their use of cigarettes. ... -
Sympathetic Arousal During Approach-Avoidance Decision- Making
(2015-08-12)In response to emotional stimuli, individuals exhibit increased sympathetic nervous firings, which stimulate eccrine gland activation. This eccrine activity changes the electrical properties of the skin, or electrodermal ...