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Structure and Dynamics of Emotional Experience in Depression.
(2012)
Human emotional experience is extremely complex and dynamic. Multiple factors
contribute to the ever changing subjective experience of emotion. Exteroceptive
information from our senses, interoceptive information from ...
Nearby Nature and Mental Wellbeing: A Designer's Perspective.
(2015)
The beneficial role of nearby nature settings in mental wellbeing is particularly important in the urban context where residents are dealing with numerous distractions and sources of stress in their daily life. Given the ...
Young Families in the Community: An Exploratory Analysis of Child Welfare Contact Among Young Mothers and their Children
(2020)
The dominant frame in the literature regarding pregnancy and parenting among women with a history of child welfare contact is that of teen pregnancy as social crisis. This project reconsiders the issue of pregnancy and ...
Was That a Seizure? Diagnosis in Lived Experience and Medical Practice
(2021)
This dissertation examines how people with epilepsy and physicians make sense of seizure and epilepsy. Seizures are transient phenomena during which people lose control over parts of body-mind function. This can mean the ...
Social Preferences and the Willingness to Pay for Preventative Health Care: Evidence from Field Experiments
(2017)
This dissertation explores behavioral incentives generated by individuals making choices in peer group settings in order to assess whether these incentives can be harnessed towards improving people’s willingness to invest ...
French Families, Paper Facts: Genetics, Writing, and Intimate Histories.
(2009)
Biogenetics dominates contemporary discussions—scientific, media, and in everyday talk—about the origins of diseases, ethnicities, tribes, and nations. This dissertation sheds light on the dynamics—of affect, history, ...