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.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at gradformat@asu.edu.
- 4 Arizona State University
- 3 Kenrick, Douglas T
- 3 Neuberg, Steven L
- 2 Williams, Keelah Elizabeth Grace
- 1 Aktipis, Athena
- 1 Becker, David V
- 1 Ellman, Ira
- more
- 1 Ha, Phuong Thao
- 1 Kenrick, Douglas
- 1 Krems, Jaimie Arona
- 1 Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn
- 1 Luecken, Linda J
- 1 Saks, Michael
- 1 Saks, Michael J
- 1 Shiota, Michelle N
- 1 Yee, Claire Ida
- 4 English
- 4 Public
- Psychology
- evolutionary psychology
- 3 Social psychology
- 2 Law
- 2 friendship
- 1 affordance management
- 1 alliances
- more
- 1 attachment
- 1 child support
- 1 close relationships
- 1 cooperation
- 1 criminality
- 1 jealousy
- 1 life history theory
- 1 psychology
- 1 recidivism
- 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
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
Why do social perceivers use race to infer a target's propensity for criminal behavior and likelihood of re-offense? Life history theory proposes that the harshness and unpredictability of one's environment shapes individuals' behavior, with harsh and unpredictable ("desperate") ecologies inducing "fast" life history strategies (characterized by present-focused behaviors), and resource-sufficient and stable ("hopeful") ecologies inducing "slow" life history strategies (characterized by future-focused behaviors). Social perceivers have an implicit understanding of the ways in which ecology shapes behavior, and use cues to ecology to infer a target's likely life history strategy. Additionally, because race is confounded with ecology in the United …
- Contributors
- Williams, Keelah Elizabeth Grace, Neuberg, Steven L, Saks, Michael J, et al.
- Created Date
- 2017
Research on attachment in adults began by assuming parallels from attachment as a behavioral system for using relationships to balance the tradeoff between safety and exploration in infants, to the same tradeoff function in adults. Perhaps more pressing, for adults, are the novel social tradeoffs adults face when deciding how to invest resources between themselves and their close relationship partners. The current study investigated the role of the attachment system in navigating two such tradeoffs, in a sample of ASU undergraduates. In one tradeoff condition, participants had the option of working on puzzles to earn either themselves or their closest …
- Contributors
- Yee, Claire Ida, Shiota, Michelle N, Kenrick, Douglas T, et al.
- Created Date
- 2018
Friendships make us happy, keep us healthy, and can even facilitate our reproductive fitness. But most friendships are not forever—even when we want them to be. How do people maintain valued friendships? I propose that “friendship jealousy” arises when people perceive others as posing threats to valued friendships, and that this response can function to prevent friendship loss and friend defection. In preliminary experiments, I tested predictions derived from this functional view. As predicted, I found, first, that friendship jealousy is calibrated to friend value. Second, friendship jealousy predicts intentions to “friend guard” (i.e., engage in behavior to protect the …
- Contributors
- Krems, Jaimie Arona, Kenrick, Douglas T, Neuberg, Steven L, et al.
- Created Date
- 2018