Research suggests that a gap exists between scholarly findings and practitioner knowledge, beliefs, and practices in the Human Resource field, particularly in the area of employee selection (Deadrick & Gibson, 2007; Rynes, Giluk, & Brown,...
This project uses the work of Michel Foucault and Lynne Huffer to examine the creation of the transsexual subject in 1950s American sexology through the Cartesian subject. I argue that medical professionals utilized the Cartesian subject as a...
Psychiatry and religion; Mental illness--Social aspects; Mental health services--Social aspects; Protestants--Attitudes
Researchers have long been interested in the relationship among the separate fields of psychology and religion. This dissertation seeks to explore the differences in the way protestant Christians with various religious orientations view mental...
College students--Social networks; College students--Conduct of life; Socialization
This meta-analysis draws studies from the literature on college student persistence, need theories, and positive psychology in investigating the strongest predictors of social functioning in college students in the United States and Canada. The...
There has been an increasing use of Unconventional Therapies in the past decade. These refer to healthcare interventions representing either a compliment or alternative to traditional medicine to which many people have turned in hope of attaining a...
Dialectical behavior therapy; Women prisoners--Rehabilitation; Women prisoners--Psychology; Women prisoners--Mental health services; Women prisoners--Mental health
This dissertation examines the effectiveness of a partial skills group component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in female prison inmates. DBT is an evidence-based comprehensive treatment which addresses emotional reactivity, impulsivity and...
Empathy; Social psychology; Rhetoric--Social aspects; Language and culture
Empathy has been commonly evoked within rhetoric and composition as a way to understand audiences and as a classroom ethic. This dissertation goes further in defining rhetorics of empathy, analyzing the uses of rhetorics of empathy in political and...
Transcendence (Philosophy) in art; Androgyny (Psychology) in art; Jungian psychology; Art--Psychological aspects
From a Jungian perspective, this thesis investigates the ideal of androgynous transcendence by identifying the Jungian anima-animus archetype within three specific artworks produced by three differing traditions. As a result, this thesis...
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Psychological aspects; Writing--Psychological aspects; Psychic trauma in literature; Crisis in literature
The discourses of "trauma" and "post-trauma" have become pervasive in representations of life as it is lived in contemporary globalized culture. As new media technologies make the world more accessible, we become accustomed to...
Neuropsychology; Motor ability; Eye-hand coordination
Two major theoretical models, Direct Mapping and Functional Equivalence, suggest that the observation of action and imagery of action, respectively, involve activation of similar motor related areas. Despite the wealth of evidence that supports...
Psychology club members pause for a group photo at an April, 1969, meeting in Otter Hall. Psychology Club Meeting at Otter Hall in April, 1969. People: Michael Norris; Ruth Kennedy; Julia Mitchell; Diane O'Loughlin.
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Barracks; Offices; University of Louisville. School of Business; Dormitories
Entrance to Menges Hall, one of the Naval Barracks. The entrance includes faux columns. There are trees in the foreground, without leaves. "First home of the School of Business, University of Louisville, 1953-54." This building was moved...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Barracks; Dormitories; University of Louisville. School of Business; Southern Police Institute
Menges Hall, a former barracks building used for various purposes by the University of Louisville. The side of the building is fully visible; part of another barracks building is visible behind it. A Gulf Oil sign rises above it in the rear. The...
Jouett Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Jouett Hall from an elevated perspective. This building was originally named for Daniel Spalding, Jr., president of the Industrial School Board of Managers and president of the city council. It was renamed in honor of Edward Stockton Jouett,...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Life Sciences Building, see from (apparently) the roof of Ekstrom Library. Strickler Hall can be seen in teh background on the left, and Unitas Tower is visible in the more distant background. The greenhouse atop the Life Sciences Building is...
Jouett Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Jouett Hall at the University of Louisville. This building was originally named for Daniel Spalding, Jr., president of the Industrial School Board of Managers and president of the city council. It was renamed in honor of Edward Stockton Jouett,...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities;
Oppenheimer Hall, seen from the rear. This building currently houses the Kent School of Social Work. Oppenheimer formerly housed the Department, and then School, of Education. Current uses: Kent School of Social Work. Named in honor: Julius John...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Research facilities; Health care facilities;
Entrance to the Child Psychiatry Research Center, University of Louisville, apparently before the facility was named in honor of William Keller, chair of the U of L Department of Psychiatry, in 1978. Location: 608 South Jackson. Current uses:...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities; Jouett Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Men; Women; People;
Biology Building, University of Louisville. People stand at the entrance, under its portico and at the base of the stairs. Jouett Hall served as the home of the biology department until 1958. This building was originally named for Daniel Spalding,...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Educational facilities; Automobiles; Streets; Trees; Oppenheimer Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Early image of Oppenheimer Hall. The building is seen from the side and at a distance; the Speed Museum is visible in the background, and the Confederate Monument can be seen down Third Street. There are cars on Third Street, and several trees...
