The goal of this study is to learn how young children think and tell stories about challenges between parents and children. Children will play games and tell stories using toys while caregivers fill out surveys and talk to researchers. This will occur twice, about 6 months apart. Qualities of children's stories, their language and regulation skills, demographic information about children and caregivers, and parenting behaviors will be examined.

This is a study that will examine how engineers make decisions under certain conditions and the factors that drive these decisions. The game will be used to simulate different engineering scenarios. All you need to do is play an online game with 3 different scenarios and choose what you feel is the better design based on the available information.

The primary objective of this study is to increase our understanding of the ways in which perceived discrimination, coping strategies, competence, stress, social support, and self-efficacy in counselor education programs relate to overall well-being for advanced counseling students of color.

We are trying to characterize the movement of a shooter in a VR environment.

The study consists of one visit lasting approximately 30-40 minutes: 10 minutes for VR setup, 15 minutes for simulated test, and 5-15 minutes for post-experiment survey. During the simulated test, participants will be asked to move around in the environment and shoot NPCs.

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This study will examine the educational experiences and outcomes of youth who have experience with the foster care system in the United States. We are interested in understanding the protective and risk factors that influence college success for youth in foster care. This study involves a three round interview process. Each interview will be approximately 60-90 minutes.

In this study, we investigate a recommender system for public, local events in Centre County, PA. Currently, there is no platform that aggregates all the events that take place in a community. The data is fragmented among many platforms and it can be difficult for people to find interesting things to do. Participants will interact with our software system and discuss their experiences through a survey and/or interview.

This is a user study to investigate the environmental characteristics of virtual reality (VR). This study will provide empirical evidence of the essential characteristics based on users’ feedbacks. During your visit, you will receive a brief training about using a VR headset and navigating in the virtual environment. After the training, you will explore the virtual environment, complete tasks in VR, and answer questions regarding your feelings to our VR application.

This study will involve surveying college students regarding their media literacy competencies and experiences with media literacy education.

This study explores how international students show and develop pragmatic strategies to effectively communicate with peers and colleagues from diverse language and cultural backgrounds at Penn State. Participants recruited from the StudyFinder are invited to complete an online survey, and will receive an Amazon gift card as a token of appreciation.

With the development of information and communication technologies, Social Network Sites and other online platforms can be great resources for career-related information and social networking. Despite the evidence of possible professional benefits, it remains unclear whether graduate students’ experiences with building online career profiles and social networking are positive. Therefore, this study aims to understand graduate students’ experience with professional practices on the Internet concerning their motivations, benefits, and risks.

This study aims to understand peoples’ selfie-taking behavior and how, if at all, they relate to their driving behavior and gender difference. The participants will participate the study by completing an online survey.

We are interested in developing robots that can interact with humans. We hope that to develop robots that can interact with people and be used in a variety of different situations such as schools, offices, and homes. This study investigates human-robot interaction.

This study aims to understand ways to affect how riders perceive and provide feedback to drivers through technology intervention. Particularly, we investigate how presenting drivers’ personal profile under different trip conditions may lead to differences in the ways riders may provide feedback. We hypothesize that riders will provide positive feedback when provided drivers’ personal information when the trip goes well, and that riders will provide less negative feedback when provided drivers’ personal information when the trip goes bad due to uncontrollable reasons.

This study will be used for an undergraduate honors thesis, focused on mental health’s impact on perceived blameworthiness and dangerousness of violent crime offenders and sentencing suggestions for said offenders. In this study, participants will read a vignette about a crime (homicide or assault) being committed. After reading this scenario, participants will answer 4 questions about the individual who committed the crime. These questions will ask about blame attribution, sentencing suggestions, danger perception and likelihood of reoffending. The data will be analyzed through quantitative techniques.

Participants will read a vignette about a crime (homicide or assault) being committed. After reading this scenario, participants will answer 4 questions about the individual who committed the crime. These questions will ask about blame attribution, sentencing suggestions, danger perception and likelihood of reoffending. Participants will then answer one question about their gender and one question about the school year.

This project explores the experiences of asexual individuals in health and sexual education classes. Specifically, we are interested in the structure of the courses and the extent to which LGBTQIA+ identities were included in the curriculum. Additionally, we are interested in ways health and sexual education classes have since influenced how asexual individuals view and feel about their bodies, as well as how they approach their personal health. Individuals currently identifying as asexual will be surveyed about their experiences and will have the change to provide recorded interviews if desired.

Participants will be asked to complete an online survey that is expected to take 30-40 minutes. Participants also have the opportunity to elaborate on their survey responses during a recorded Zoom interview.

Participants may enter a raffle to win one of 10 Amazon.com giftcards

This qualitative study investigates the helping and hindering factors that led to the successful implementation of succession planning in administration of healthcare organizations in Saudi Arabia. This study will investigate what factors, including top management commitment, resource availability, organizational culture, communication, resistance to change, and bureaucratic roadblocks, enable and hinder organizations from implementing succession planning in the Eastern Healthcare Cluster (EHC) in Saudi Arabia. This study will use the enhanced critical incidents techniques (ECIT; Butterfield et al., 2009) to identify the critical factors that help or hinder the successful implementation of succession planning. In addition, it inquires the wish list of the participants about future changes or interventions.

They will complete the selection criteria for the screening process to determine which participants meet the inclusion criteria and which should be excluded from the study.

Our first, aim is to quantify the superficial traits among the Hazara, Tajik, and Pashtun populations of Afghanistan by using a computer-based 3D morphometric method. We want to quantify the facial traits, voices and pigmentation, identify genetic regions affecting these traits, and plot phylogenetic trees to explain the probable facial variation and evidence of shared genetic basis they might exhibit across population. The expected number of participants in the study will be ~ 500 individuals which will provide us a better understanding of the evolution of superficial traits among these Afghan ethnic groups. This will be the first study to focus on Afghanistan's population which will provide important insights into a diverse and understudied set of human populations. As a result, a more comprehensive examination of facial genetics could be performed. Our second aim for the study is to uncover which genetic variants affect superficial trait variation by using next-generation sequencing (NGS). To achieve this goal, human saliva samples will be collected which will undergo genetic laboratory procedures for DNA extraction, amplification, quantification, and genotyping. The finding will help us to learn more about the qualitative and quantitative facial genetic variability. We hypothesize that facial variability among Hazara, Tajik, and Pashtun is greater than expected which can lead us to other questions about ancestry, migration, and human evolution. From their geographic proximity genetic and computational analysis will allow us to answer the question of how facial pigmentation and vocal variation among these populations leads to genetic diversity. Climate, migration history, and mate choice are the major contributors to phenotypic variation in the population. Our qualitative and quantitative data will be the best source of understanding facial morphological variation across populations, and how past migration affects gene flow, which has a direct effect on these traits which evolved jointly and differently in each population. Our third aim for this project is to look for forensically important markers that can contribute to the field of forensic genetics and enhance law enforcement and forensic investigations. The discovery of novel forensically important markers that can shape phenotypic variation will make major contributions to the field of forensic anthropology. The fourth and final objective of this research is to determine how human migration affects the variation of the oral microbiome and the subsequent effects of this diversity on human well-being, diet, energetics, and microbial genus.

Our team is visiting the participant location to collect hair, voice, saliva, and 3D images. It will take 30 minutes for each participant to complete the entire activity.

This study investigates how clinicians (medical students) assess pain during simulated patient interactions. Participants will watch videos depicting patients with varying pain levels, while their brain activity is monitored using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The research aims to understand the neurological and behavioral responses in clinical decision making enhancing our knowledge of clinical practices and patient care.

Participants will complete pre-visit questionnaires at home, engage in simulated clinical interactions during a single lab visit fMRI session, and fill out post-visit questionnaires immediately after the MRI. This study is designed to assess their clinical decision-making in response to pain scenarios.

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