Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: We explore the question of whether partisan source cues can persuade people to modify their positions on a series of core political values. Our theory posits that party cues activate latent partisan biases in the minds of citizens, which ultimately lead them to modify their value positions. Furthermore, value persuasion should be especially pronounced when citizens receive opposition-party cues. We test these expectations using experimental data from a nationally representative survey designed precisely for this purpose. We demonstrate that source cues systematically alter levels of partisan support for the principles of equal opportunity, self-reliance, traditional family values, and moral tolerance. These results hold for partisans in general, strong partisans, and ideologically-pure partisans.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Utilizing a case study of one high school mathematics department, I examine the exclusion of formal proofs from a geometry course as a means to address equity. The course increased access to geometry content, but it limited access beyond geometry and excluded opportunities to acquire skills such as deductive reasoning.

Publication Type: Student Paper
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: We will present C++ programs that can encrypt and decrypt information using the RSA cryptosystem and investigate run times where the enciphering modulus is roughly nine digits long. We will also modify the programs to explore variations of RSA that use a public key integer whose prime decomposition is more complex than a product of two distinct primes. Lastly, this leads us to a brief discussion of potential threats to RSA and a further discussion to alternatives that are being developed to deflect these threats.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Applied social influence research has shown that inducing people to feel hypocritical by making salient the inconsistencies between their positive attitudes toward some behavior and their actual behavior can prompt behavior change in a direction consistent with the attitude. However, inducing feelings of hypocrisy can also result in boomerang effects, leading to a decreased likelihood of engaging the desired behavior. In the context of recycling, this study extends existing literature by ascertaining whether hypocrisy can be induced in an online survey rather than face-to-face, potentially making the method a useful mass-mediated social influence tool. Along the way, we examine excuse-making as a dissonance reducing mediator of the effects of feelings of hypocrisy as well as the potential of an efficacy enhancing message to increase the probability of achieving a desired behavioral outcome following a hypocrisy induction. Although we found no evidence that making people feel hypocritical influenced their behavioral intentions directly, our results suggest that people who are feeling hypocritical and who are feeling less efficacious are more likely to make excuses for their failure to act consistent with their attitudes, which then indirectly reduces intentions to engage in attitudinal-consistent behavior. This boomerang effect can be eliminated by combining a hypocrisy induction with an efficacy enhancing message.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The present study investigated the ascribed role schemas people have toward other ethnic groups, particularly in the setting where Japanese and host country employees from 4 different countries work together. Role schema refers to knowledge about social roles which denote sets of behaviors expected of people in particular social positions. The ascribed role schemas including race, gender, and age are routinely and automatically used in creating image of others and are dimensions that people consistently use to categorize others. When one adopts a particular role to understand others, that categorization becomes an organizing schema and forms a role-relevant image. However, schemas are not always the same: one of the most important assumptions of schemas is that an environmental change elicits a change in schemas. This study attempted to know: (1) What role schemas Japanese employees have toward host country employees in Malaysia, the Philippines, China, and the U.S. and vice versa; and (2) How their role schemas have changed over time. The results showed that the participants image toward their counterparts have changed over time, the attached feelings to the images became more positive with more frequent communication, and they had more positive feelings when they were more satisfied with their job.