It’s True: No One Knows You’re a Dog on The Internet

Identity deception is common online; however, most people (both college students and MTurkers, N = 262) believed an online confederate posing as a 13-year-old in a chat room. A well-developed online persona that uses both content and stylistic cues to portray age and gender may be effective for category deception

Measuring Newton\u27s Constant of Universal Gravitation using a Gravitational Torsion Balance

Newton’s Constant of Universal Gravitation is used in the calculation of gravitational attraction between any two or more objects. In this experiment, we use a rotating torsional pendulum, different sized masses, and an optical lever to determine the value of this constant. After accounting for additional forces acting on our masses and various sources of error, we determined our most precise measurement for the constant of universal gravitation to be 6.4110-11 ± 5.1610-13 m3kg−1s−2. This measurement, given the NIST CODATA value of 6.6740810-11 m3kg−1s−2, was 5.1 times our uncertainty

Comic Book Study Through Roy Lichenstein

Creative project abstract: “Compositional Comic Book. Exploring Roy Lichtenstein’s style through a sequential and storyboarding graphic format.” I am presenting Creative project allowing me to research and understand Roy Lichtenstein’s use of lines, colors, and design to create a comic book while allowing myself to experiment and design my own story based on his use of different emotional effects between pieces. The goals of my project: 1. Develop character(s) based on one piece of his work and apply the technique that he uses within that piece. 2. Study and illustrate use of his strokes while allowing myself to possibly understand his work in another medium 3. Study and use the visual effects that Lichtenstein is able to replicate in animation and motion graphics. The conclusion of this creative project will greatly impact in my future professional work as, not only an animator, but an illustrator as well to better understand how to become successful at telling a story while having a muse for a jumping point and, in the future, allowing me to create works through inspiration

Is Social Understanding Related to the Dark Triad?

Theory of mind (ToM, or the tendency to consider the mental processes of others; Astington, 2003) has been linked to important social-relationship skills within the developmental literature (Hughes \u26 Dunn, 1998; Keenan, 2003; Lalonde \u26 Chandler, 1995; Peterson \u26 Siegal, 2002; Slaughter, Dennis, \u26 Pritchard, 2002; Watson, Nixon, Wilson, \u26 Capage, 1999). The findings of a recent study suggest, however, that children\u27s ToM may also be linked to more negative social characteristics (Sutton, Smith \u26 Swettenham, 1999). Few studies have examined links between adult ToM and various types of social-personality characteristics. Given the recent findings of the link between children\u27s ToM and manipulation, adults\u27 ToM was explored in relation to negative attributes (i.e., machiavellianism). The purpose of the present research was to examine adults\u27 level of engagement in ToM in relation to negative social-personality characteristics in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). It was hypothesized that individuals with higher levels of ToM would be more likely to engage in negative personality characteristics, while those who reported lower levels of ToM would not. The relations among adults\u27 ToM and negative (e.g., machiavellianism) social-personality characteristics were assessed using a sample of 123 undergraduate students (80 males and 43 females). Participants completed the Imposing Memories Task (IMT, a measure of ToM) and the Dirty Dozen (DD; Jonason \u26 Webster, 2010), two tasks that have been used in previous literature. Unlike some of the recent developmental research which we used to construct our hypothesis, we found that adults\u27 ToM scores were inversely related to negative personality characteristics, such as manipulation (machiavellianism, r =-.22, p\u3c.01), narcissism (r=-.16, p\u3c.05) and psychopathy (r=.26, p\u3c.005). In other words, adults who scored higher on the ToM tasks were less likely to engage in negative personality characteristics (machiavellianism and narcissism). This suggests a positive link between children\u27s ToM and negative characteristics (e.g., machiavellianism). The present findings contribute to the understanding of adult ToM in relation to social-personality characteristics. This is important because the use of ToM can help understand and predict bullying. Further research is needed to study the relations among these variables in real life situations.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1001/thumbnail.jp

Anthropomorphic Animals and Animation

From Felix the Cat to Judy Hopps, the animation industry is full of anthropomorphic animal characters. For my poster presentation, I will make a comprehensive study that explores both the history of these characters and the success of their designs. In doing this, I will be putting a spotlight on why these types of characters exist, as well as the influence they’ve had on their audience. Here is what I’ll need to do to achieve that goal: z 1. Study the origins and history of these characters.2. Analyze several different characters’ personality and design.3. Compare and contrast anthropomorphic characters to similar human characters in how they exchange behavioral, psychological, and acting performances. 4. Replicate analytic findings with one or more example characters. This project will help me grow as an animator in a professional setting, as so many large animation companies use these characters for their projects. Additionally, the conclusion of this project will be applied to other creative endeavors outside of animation such as character design for animal-based costumes and animal characters in comics and graphic novels.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1026/thumbnail.jp