Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
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Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
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This paper explores the effect of messaging type and reactance on the receptiveness individuals have towards a message meant to boost their self-esteem. A 2 (Messaging: Implicit | Explicit) x 2 (Reactance: High | Low) between-subjects study was conducted to test the hypothesis that an indirect (implicit) message will have the most positive effect on self-esteem when people experience low reactance compared to people who receive direct (explicit) messages and experience high reactance. To test these hypotheses, we recruited 708 psychology students. We found that messaging type did not influence self-esteem, nor a messaging type by reactance condition interaction. However, we found that reactance, when high, had a more positive effect on self-esteem than when low. In conclusion, a message inducing a high reactance is more receptive than a message inducing low reactance.