About this Collection
The presentations archived in this Digital Commons@Georgia Southern collection are produced by the faculty of the College of Behavioral and Social Science.Submissions from 2014
Balancing the Joint Force to Meet Future Security Challenges, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
China’s Role in the African Continent: Appetite for Resources, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Political Institutions, Economic Policy and Economic Development in Latin America, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Scientific Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Social and Political Changes and Conflicts in Contemporary Latin America, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz
Dilma Roussef: Brazil’s Policy Entrepreneur-in-Chief?, Jose de Arimateia da Cruz and Evangelia Petridou
Same-Sex Marriage Policies and Lesbian Family Life, Nikki DiGregorio
Navigating Professional Personalization Within Family Science, Nikki DiGregorio, Joshua Titus, and Barbara H. Settles
An Asymmetry in Shape and Shape Word Interference: Evidence for Core Geometric Knowledge, Joshua E. Edwards, Ty W. Boyer, and Bradley R. Sturz
Keynote Address, Duke Talent Identification Program, Steven Engel
Wexford-Savannah Axis, Steven Engel and Howard Keeley
From Wexford to Savannah: An Inter-Region Migration Pathway, Steven Engel, Howard Keeley, Richard Hayes, and Sean Reidy
Sexual Orientation and the Likelihood to Intervene as a Bystander in Cases of Sexual Assault, Shanna N. Felix, Alexandra Breed, Laura E. Agnich, Laurie Gould, and Christina Policastro
The Effects of Self-Control, Sex, and Sexual Orientation on Dating Violence Victimization, Shanna N. Felix, Christina Policastro, Laura E. Agnich, and Laurie Gould
Complexity Theory and Health Care Reform, Matthew Flynn
On the Maturation of Immigration Detention: Theoretical Approaches and Evidence, Matthew Flynn
Theoretical Perspectives on Pharmaceutical Autonomy, Matthew Flynn
Exploring Student Commitment to Use Peer Advice, Delena Gatch and Trent W. Maurer
Numeracy and Proportional Reasoning, Carolyn E. Gibson and Ty W. Boyer
Experiential Learning in Diverse Criminal Justice Contexts: Issues for Assessment, Laurie Gould, Laura E. Agnich, and Bryan Miller
The Case for a Criminological Explanation of State Failure, Laurie A. Gould and Matthew Pate
Organized Interests and Administrative Rulemaking: An Ecological Study of the State of Wisconsin, Nathan Grasse, Brett W. Curry, and Brianne Heidbreder
Orientation via Enclosure Geometry by Blind-folded Adults: Evidence Against View-based Matching Theories of Spatial Orientation, Marshall L. Green, Katherine A. Gaskin, Jonathan E. Roberts, and Bradley R. Sturz
Acting or Reacting?: Creating High Quality Supportive Environments to Prevent Challenging Behaviors, Katy Gregg
Data Collection in Qualitative Research, Katy Gregg
Exploring the relationship between the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool (TPOT) and teacher self-efficacy, Katy Gregg, Caitlyn Cofer, Emily Urbanski, and John Peden
Tier 1 of the Pyramid Model – Acting or Reacting: Creating High Quality Supportive Environments to Enhance Social Emotional Development - Part 1 of 2, Katy Gregg and Courtney May
Pupillometry: Perceptual Disfluency as Cognitive Load, Juan Diego Guevara Pinto and Ty W. Boyer
A Cross-National Study of the Death Penalty, Meghan Hale, Laura E. Agnich, and Laurie Gould
Children’s Perceptions of Summer Day Camp Program Staff, Alice Hall and Alexius Coleman
Aligning Best Practices in Antibias Education and Inclusion With Internships and Field Placements in Higher Education, Alice Hall, Katy Gregg, and Sharleen Espinet
Preschool Methods: An Evaluation of Laboratory School, Alice Hall and John Peden
A Comparative Analysis of Print Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School Tragedies, James E. Hawdon, Laura E. Agnich, Robert Wood, and John Ryan
Applying the Contrast Analysis of Semantic Similarity to Ideological Speeches, Nicholas S. Holtzman
Text Analytic Approaches in Psychology, Nicholas S. Holtzman
Comparison of Student Learning Outcomes: Online Section vs. Face-to-Face Section, S. Hunter and Jennifer Zorotovich
Actions and Reactions: The Effect of Being Imitated, R. Jubran and Ty W. Boyer
Using Multiple Modalities to Engage Students in a Freshman Honors Course, Jerri J. Kropp, Helen D. Barrett, K. Mahoney, and Mikaela Shupp
The Effects of Animal-assisted Therapy in Various Settings, Jerri J. Kropp and Mikaela Shupp
Assessing an elaborate visual analogy in an undergraduate chemistry course, Shainaz Landge, Diana Sturges, Trent W. Maurer, and Shannon Rhodes
Pilsudski in World War One, Jacek Lubecki
Exploring Student Commitment to Use Peer Advice, Kyle M. Mahoney, Trent W. Maurer, and Delena Bell Gatch
Exploring Student Commitment to Use Peer Advice, Kyle M. Mahoney, Trent W. Maurer, and Delena Bell Gatch
Conversations with Professors, Nancy L. Malcom
Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning in financial literacy education, Trent W. Maurer
Reducing prejudice through a classroom activity using the Bogardus Social Distance Scale: Meaningful change or conformity?, Trent W. Maurer
Using SoTL as a bridge for interdisciplinary undergraduate research, Trent W. Maurer
The Scholarship of Teaching & Learning: Who, what, when, where, why, and how?, Trent W. Maurer, Diana Sturges, Nancy M. Arrington, and Hsiu-Lien Lu
Opinion Specialization and Decision Making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Banks Miller and Brett W. Curry
Cheating the American Dream: A Comparative Analysis of Strain and Principal Reported Cheating, Bryan Lee Miller, Laura E. Agnich, and Chad Posick
Advice from Still New Professors to Brand New Professors, Nathan S. Palmer
A New Teacher's Guide to Student Learning, Having Fun, and Surviving your First Class, Nathan S. Palmer
Austerity, The New Normal in Academia?: How Sociologists Are Adjusting to the Changing Political and Economic Landscapes Affecting Higher Education, Nathan S. Palmer
Don't Sacrifice Today's Opportunity For Yesterday's Dream, Nathan S. Palmer
How to Create an Online Platform for Your Research, Nathan S. Palmer
Issues in Education, Nathan S. Palmer
Social Media Training Pre-Conference Workshop, Nathan S. Palmer
Teaching 2.0 - Open Education Resources and Social Media in the Classroom, Nathan S. Palmer
Teaching Large Lecture Classes: Strategies for Student Engagement, Nathan S. Palmer
Teaching Large Lecture Classes: Strategies for Student Engagement, Nathan S. Palmer
Truth Has No Color, Nathan S. Palmer
Using Social Media as a Professional Development Tool, Nathan S. Palmer
When You Play in Dirt, You Get Dirty: Why Everyone Needs to Work Against Racism, Nathan S. Palmer
Why it is Smart to Think of Yourself as Dumb and Dumb to Think of Yourself as Smart, Nathan S. Palmer
Assessing Community Formation on Online Educational Resource Networks, Nathan S. Palmer and April M. Schueths
A Service Learning Partnership for Wilderness Education in Coastal Georgia, John Peden, Monica Harris, Phillip Brice, James Fritz, Kristin Love, Mady Russell, Julie Swantek, and Scott Waters
`Politics of Tragedy’: Ein Konzept für die Politikwissenschaft, Robert Pirro
Primo Levi’s Machiavellian Moment, Robert Pirro
Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art & Thought, Robert Pirro
The Generality of the Victim-Offender Overlap: Examining Cultural Contingencies, Chad Posick and Laurie Gould
Assessing a “mail man” analogy to understand nomenclature topic in organic chemistry course, Shannon Rhodes, Shainaz Landge, Diana Sturges, and Trent W. Maurer
Globalization and Family Science: Assessing Students’ Aptitude for Social Change, Amanda J. Rich, Nikki DiGregorio, and Caitlin E. Bailey
Crouching Dragon - The Role of Beijing in the South China Sea Dispute, Nalanda Roy
Will Beijing Reconsider Its Maritime Strategy in the South China Sea Following the Melting of the Arctic?, Nalanda Roy
Crisis of Confidence: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and Public Trust in the European Central Bank, Jamie Scalera
Euroskeptic Voting in European and National Elections: A Coalition Theory of European Voting, Jamie Scalera, Robert Pahre, and Elizabeth Radziszewski
Gendered Deportation Regimes: The Experiences of Exiled and Fractured Mixed-Status Couples, April Schueths
Just Like a Nightmare: Coping among Mixed-Status Couples, April M. Schueths
Inclusive Same-sex Marriage Research: An Integrative Theoretical Model, Barbara H. Settles, Nikki DiGregorio, and Amanda J. Rich
Down Home: Understanding the Legacy of Property Rights, Spoiled Water Quality, Poverty, and Lax Regulation for Families in Appalachia, Barbara H. Settles, Nikki DiGregorio, and Joshua Titus
“Free Thought and Owenite Socialism in the Antebellum United States: The Intersecting Lives of Frances Wright and Abner Kneeland, Cathy Skidmore-Hess and Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Impractical Lives: The Prayer Lives of Cistercian Monks in the American Southeast, William L. Smith
The Sights and Sounds of Action: Visual Attention to Action Effectors During an Image-verb Processing Task, Christopher P. Snyder, Josita Maouene, Nitya Sethuraman, and Ty W. Boyer
Expanding our understanding of visitor displacement: Voluntary and involuntary. Does the difference matter?, Bill Spain, Steven Burr, Dale Blahna, Jascha Zeitlin, and John Peden
Study guides in Human Anatomy and Physiology and students’ perceptions and academic performance, Diana Sturges and Trent W. Maurer
Students’ academic motivation and grade estimation accuracy in a Human Anatomy and Physiology class, Diana Sturges, Trent W. Maurer, Deborah Allen, Delena Gatch, and Padmini Shankar
Students’ Academic Motivation and Grade Estimation: Should We Care?, Diana Sturges, Trent W. Maurer, Deborah Allen, Delena Gatch, and Padmini Shankar
Multiple Scales of Interaction and Tradition in the Early Side-Notched Horizon, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
Subregional Side-Notched Traditions in the Coastal Plain, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
The Typology of Early Side-Notched Bifaces and Unifaces, Kara Bridgman Sweeney
Perception of Mind and Big Five Personality Traits, M. Tharp, Nicholas S. Holtzman, and Fade R. Eadch
Gender and Sexual Minority Literature: A Tool for Understanding, Caren Town, Trina Smith, Laura E. Agnich, Dina C. Walker-DeVose, and Scott A. Beck
Impact of Judicial Instructions and Motivation on Suppressing Prejudicial Thoughts, C. Vitiello, J. Chau, Amy A. Hackney, and Nicholas S. Holtzman
Becoming a Better Recreational Therapist: Four Strategies for Success, Brent Wolfe
Facilitator Training, Brent Wolfe
Recreation Therapy Education on Licensure and Developing a State-Wide Recreation Therapy Organization, Brent Wolfe
The Bennett Grove School: Bulloch County’s Last One Room African American Schoolhouse, Inger Wood
