Tag: Social Science

The overwhelming abundance of media in the 21st century has changed the way people view and adapt to the world around them. With entertainment always readily available in the form of movies, television shows, books, music, and more, young people today are growing up constantly exposed to fictional representations of reality. However, the term “fictional”…

The United States and its citizens are heavily reliant on farming as a major source of food and have been for years, as “each year more than $25 billion in hundreds of different crops and commodities are produced” (Mills, Dodge, & Yang, 2009, p. 187). Additionally, immigrant workers, specifically Hispanics, have grown to make up…

Cancel culture or call-out culture refers to the practice of ostracizing someone who has posted, said, or committed a transgression perceived as problematic intended to be a form of punishment; once ostracized that person is known to be ‘canceled’. Social media has fostered a hostile environment in which cancel culture thrives because each user has…

Introduction The American Psychological Association’s October 2022 survey indicated that 76% of American adults reported levels of stress and anxiety which negatively impacted their quality of life daily. Prolonged periods of high stress have been correlated with several degenerative effects on overall health, including the reduction of gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, cardiovascular dysfunctions,…

1   Introduction   1.1  A History of Modern Hebrew   The language of inquiry for this paper is Standard Modern Hebrew, the variety of Modern Hebrew used by the majority of native speakers. While Ancient Hebrew died out as a native language around the third century BCE, diasporic Jewish communities retained it as a lingua…

Introduction  The purpose of this paper will be to explore the estimated relationship between the introduction of the new CBA in 2011 and the role a team’s salary cap has on their ability to garner high-paying contracts for new players when they first enter the league. The 2021-2022 NFL season averaged approximately 16.7 million views…

Abstract As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into competitive and evaluative domains, it is important to understand how individuals psychologically respond to AI opponents. This study examined the psychological effects of losing to an AI versus a human opponent in an emotion-recognition task. Participants were N = 77 undergraduate students from Angelo State University…

Students are often torn between their academic obligations and time taken to relax and socialize. There is a saying among undergraduate students regarding the “S” Triangle. It is the belief that college students cannot balance the following three options: sleep, studies, and a social life; they can only pick two. While this can be daunting…

  Abstract COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, including school closures, caused dramatic changes to sleep behaviors, such as sleep duration, wake and bedtime, and the associated outcomes such as daytime sleepiness and sleep quality, some of which have been positive. Studies in young children have found that sleep duration increased during the height of the COVID -19…