ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- Saks, Michael
- 3 Arizona State University
- 2 Ellman, Ira
- 1 Kenrick, Douglas
- 1 Kwan, Sau
- 1 Lovis-McMahon, David
- 1 Mackinnon, David
- more
- 1 Neuberg, Steven L
- 1 Salerno, Jessica
- 1 Schweitzer, Nicholas
- 1 Varnum, Michael
- 1 Votruba, Ashley
- 1 Williams, Keelah Elizabeth Grace
- 3 English
- 3 Public
- Social psychology
- 3 Law
- 1 Attribution
- 1 Causal Inference
- 1 Culture
- 1 Jury
- 1 Mediation
- more
- 1 Multilevel
- 1 Psychology
- 1 Quantitative psychology and psychometrics
- 1 Tort
- 1 child support
- 1 evolutionary psychology
- 1 psychology
- 1 sex ratio
- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
Research at the intersection of psychology and law has demonstrated that juror decision-making is subject to many cognitive biases, however, it fails to consider the influence of culturally derived cognitive biases. As jurors become increasingly demographically and culturally diverse it is possible—and even likely—that their attributions might vary because of their cultural background. I predict that cultural and demographic group affiliation affects attributional tendencies such that, compared to situationally focused individuals (those from East Asian cultures, women, those from lower socioeconomic status groups, and older individuals), dispositionally focused individuals (those from Western cultures, men, those from higher socioeconomic status groups, …
- Contributors
- Votruba, Ashley, Kwan, Sau, Saks, Michael, et al.
- Created Date
- 2017
Recent advances in hierarchical or multilevel statistical models and causal inference using the potential outcomes framework hold tremendous promise for mock and real jury research. These advances enable researchers to explore how individual jurors can exert a bottom-up effect on the jury’s verdict and how case-level features can exert a top-down effect on a juror’s perception of the parties at trial. This dissertation explains and then applies these technical advances to a pre-existing mock jury dataset to provide worked examples in an effort to spur the adoption of these techniques. In particular, the paper introduces two new cross-level mediated effects …
- Contributors
- Lovis-McMahon, David, Schweitzer, Nicholas, Saks, Michael, et al.
- Created Date
- 2015
Life History Theory suggests that, in order to maximize reproductive fitness, individuals make trade-offs between allocating resources to mating and parenting. These trade-offs are influenced by an individual's sex, life history strategy, and environment. Here, I explored the usefulness of a Life History Theory framework for understanding endorsement of child support laws. This study experimentally manipulated sex ratio, and gathered information about participants' endorsement of child support, sexual restrictedness, and mate value. As predicted, women endorsed child support more than men, whereas men favored greater restriction of child support in the form of required paternity testing. However, in general, results …
- Contributors
- Williams, Keelah Elizabeth Grace, Neuberg, Steven L, Saks, Michael, et al.
- Created Date
- 2013