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This dissertation is comprised of two essays that focus on the role of disposition effect to market reactions in seasoned equity offerings and the importance of considering the dynamics of reference price in disposition effect. The first...
In this dissertation, we create three theoretical models to answer questions raised by recent experiments that lie beyond the scope of current theory. In the landmark-effect model, we determine size, shape and location for a territory...
Depression affects approximately 7% of adults in the US annually and is one of the most common mental disorders. One striking aspect of this disorder, is that it affects women at about twice the rate as compared to men. Furthermore, ...
This study is a preliminary exploration of adoption of generative adversarial network (GAN)-derived avatar healthcare providers (HCPs). To our knowledge, GAN-derived avatars as de facto HCPs have not been investigated in relation to user...
Music Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Manual for the Use of Music Therapy as an Integrative Therapy for the Treatment of Individuals with Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a psychological disorder that affects one’s eating habits. According to a 2011 study, approximately 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States suffer from a clinical eating disorder at some point in...
This study examined the influence of User Generated Branding (UGB) on consumers’ attitudes and purchase intentions by comparing it to brand generated advertising on the world’s largest social media website: Facebook (eMarketer, 2016)....
The Effects of Child Maltreatment on the Likelihood of Committing Violence in at-Risk Youth: A Family Systems, Trauma Theory, and Need to Belong Framework
One of the most concerning effects of child maltreatment that has been of interest to researchers and practitioners over the past few decades is the documented increased risk of victimized children engaging in violence during childhood...
Family leisure is conceptualized as engagement and satisfaction with experiences that involve joint participation in activities with other family members during one’s free time. Although family leisure has been linked to family...
This study aims to add to a deficit research literature at aspects of the adolescents' residential substance use treatment environment associate with engagement. Further, this study sought to explore racialized treatment experiences...
There has been an explosion in the use of experimental methods since the 1980s. This dissertation applies those experimental methods to various topics in public economics like tax evasion, crowding-out, labor supply, and cooperation. In...
In an attempt to improve treatment adherence in type 2 diabetes patients, researchers are turning to the couple system as one potential point of intervention. However, due to the lack of knowledge surrounding the role general...
This dissertation is comprised of three related projects, each of which explore the difficulties associated with information problems and imperfectly aligned incentives in dynamic organizational settings. The first chapter, co-authored...
The small golden ant Pheidole morrisi Forel is the most common ant of the Apalachicola National Forest, a typical longleaf pine flat-woods ecosystem and is found in pine forests across the eastern U.S. P. morrisi likely plays a...
Obesity is a pervasive public health concern that is associated with several comorbidities like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (Abdelaal, le Roux, & Docherty, 2017; Fruh, 2017; Pi-Sunyer, 2009; Williams, Mesidor, Winters, ...
We sometimes fail to notice objects and events in our environment because our attention is directed elsewhere—a phenomenon called inattentional blindness. Our attentional set—the features we prioritize in our environment—plays a large...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the existence of stigma related to mental health illnesses among music therapy students at a large southeastern public university. A survey of nineteen stigma-related questions was designed...
Individual Affect-Related Performance Zones (IAPZs) have been commonly estimated using a two-dimensional affect measures (arousal by pleasantness) as predictors of a unidimensional performance measure. Performance measures have been self...
Eusocial insect societies are analogous to organisms in that the demography, development and regulation of workers within are shaped by selection acting on whole colony characteristics. Just as relative investment varies across the...
Latinos account for 80% of all farmworkers in the United States (U.S.) (Hernandez, Gabbard, & Carroll, 2016). Based on the latest National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS), there are young farmworkers ages 14 to 21 years old who...
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