Humans face many choices that often includes a variety of information. In the end, decision-makers must decide what information they want to consider in each choice. One area of interest is how the choices of others influence the preferences of the decision-maker. We investigated if the snack preferences of college students for sixteen common snack […]
C48: Interactions Between Stress and Alcohol in Undergraduate Students at Miami University
College students are frequently described as stressed and more likely to engage in alcohol consumption by themselves, public health officials, the media, and the general public. Stress has been perceived to develop due to workload, negative emotions, adverse life events, and dramatic, intense changes (Kent et al., 2022). The college experience is a time of […]
C51: Characterizing the persistent impacts of chronic early life stress on fear and anxiety-related behaviors in adult male and female rats
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects nearly 8 million people and anxiety disorders affect nearly 40 million people in the United States, making them the most common subtype of mental health diagnoses. Early life stress (ELS) exposure yields substantial vulnerability to developing PTSD and anxiety later in life. Determining the impact of ELS requires a closer […]
C53: The Effects of Early Life Stress on Alcohol Drinking Behavior in Mice
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a prevalent issue in the United States affecting roughly 30 million people and 894,000 adolescents with a strong correlation linked to adolescent exposure to alcohol. Early Life Stress (ELS) has been shown to be heavily comorbid with AUD and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). People diagnosed with PTSD are three times […]
C60: Somatic Symptoms in Relation to Mental Health in Transitioning College Students
Our group’s general research area is mental health in college students; specifically, what we are focusing on is the presence of somatic (physical) symptoms in transitioning college students with mental health issues or experiences. Our work was conducted via an online survey; students from the LEADS Institute Programs were asked to fill out the form […]
A17: The Danube River: Economics vs Environment
Our general research area for this project was comparing the economic benefits of the Danube River to the problems that it has environmentally. We started out by gathering general information about the Danube to give the audience a little bit of background. With our majors being economics and zoology, we wanted to have those topics […]
A49: The War on “Science” in the #ClimateChange Echo Chamber
Climate change discourses on social media are often hardly about climate change at all. Outside of information posted by scientific institutions like NASA or climate activists such as Greta Thunberg, the discussions about climate change appear far removed from debates on actual “science.” One blog that appears to focus on information about climate science posts […]
B34: Ageist Attitude and Aging Anxiety in Undergraduates
As the demographics of age shift towards supporting an older population, age-based discrimination needs to be addressed due to its impact on not only physical, but mental health as well. There are many factors that need to be considered to assess the ageism and overall attitudes that undergraduate students have for aging, the aging process, […]
C14: Psychological Impacts of Hearing Impairments
Focusing on diversity equity and inclusion in relation to our group’s majors of Speech Pathology/Audiology, Sociology, and Psychology, we specifically looked at how the quality of life, perception, and mental health were affected in the lives of individuals with hearing impairments. In the context of this study, hearing impairments are defined as mild to profound […]
C22: The Social Network of Hamadryas Baboons: Observing a Group of Captive Baboons at Prospect Park Zoo
Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) live in multilevel societies characterized by a hierarchy of nested one male units (OMUs), in which leader males and adult females form strong social bonds. Such strong bonds are thought to be the result of males constantly observing and maintaining close contact with the females in his unit to prevent her […]