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Fall 2013
To more fully understand the impact of stuttering on preschoolers’ self-concept, we need to know how to validly and reliably measure these constructs. The purpose of this study was to develop a parent version of the Self-Description Questionnaire for Preschoolers (SDQP-P). Participants were 104...
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On the Public Spaces of Resistance: Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and the Material Conditions for Critique
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In this dissertation I adopt a broad phenomenological perspective in order to develop in outline a ‘new materialism’ that facilitates the thinking of public space as a condition for political resistance. The project is motivated by recent movements such as Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo...
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Fall 2011
Each of us has a self-concept – the set of characteristics that reflect the type of person we are (Wakslak et al. 2008) – within which exist specific self-schema and self-identities that guide our behavior in different situations. It is well established that particular constructs and identities...
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Fall 2010
In two essays I investigate two antecedents of self-concept change in consumers: Threats to the self and the activated self-construal and its effect on goal conflict resolution. In the first essay, I explore identity strictly as consumers define themselves in terms of the possessions with which...