Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Robert C. Reardon, Florida State University, College of Education, Dept. of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 19, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains x, 98 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. / Title from title screen (site viewed June 8, 2007). PDF text: 155 p. UMI publication number: AAT 3251375. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1986. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-129).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Feb. 17, 2009). PDF text: xiii, 179 p. : ill. ; 391 Kb. UMI publication number: AAT 3326860. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Self-evaluation is mood state dependent. A transient decrease in positive self-evaluation bias may co-occur with sad mood. In clinical depression this decrease is lasting and exaggerated. The act of self-evaluation engages frontal lobe mechanisms of emotion regulation, but it remains unclear how these constraints on cognition become pathological in depression. The goal of the current research is to characterize the neural mechanisms of mood-cognition interaction in self-evaluative decision-making. In four studies, dense array electroencephalography (256 dEEG) was recorded as participants performed a self-appraisal task. Analysis of the event-related potential was closely aligned with psychometric methodology. Findings elaborate on network models of neural self-regulation and depression pathology. Characterization of frontal lobe mechanisms in this context provides insight into the neural basis of adaptive and dysfunctional social behavior.

In a previous study (Deutsch and Solomon, 1959) it had been hypothesized that if another evaluated an actor in a manner consistent with or similar to that actor's evaluation of himself, the other -would be positively attractive'; if the other's, evaluation were inconsistent with or dissimilar to the actor's evaluation of himself, the other would be negatively attractive. It was found, however, that equally consistent and inconsistent others were not equally positively and negatively attractive. This study attempted to provide an explanation for these results. It was suggested that the principal source of attraction toward the other in the previous study was not in the other's evaluation of the actor per se, but rather in the perception of the other's desire or lack of desire for group success, the experimental situation having been such that actor and other were interdependent for the success of their team in competition with another team. A similar experiment was conducted where it was found that males who regarded group success as being important were positively attracted toward others who desired group success and negatively attracted toward others who did not desire group success, regardless of whether or not the evaluations these others made of the subjects' performances were consistent with the subjects' own evaluations of their performances. While females with positive evaluations of their own performances were positively or negatively attracted toward others who did or did not desire group success, respectively, females with negative evaluations of their own performances were positively attracted toward those others whose evaluations of them were positive or supportive and negatively attracted toward those others whose evaluations of them were negative or non-supportive. Consistent with other findings in the field is the interpretation that females place much more importance upon supportive than upon competitive aspects of situations, and that the supportive rather than the competitive aspects are the issues which determine the attractiveness of others. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

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