A Case for Expanding Heritage Tourism in Atlanta, Georgia by Exploring Sites from the Negro Motorist Green Book

The leisure and hospitality industry is vital to local economies. Tourism is a popular tool to promote economic development. Within the tourism industry, heritage tourism is a rapidly growing form of tourism. During the Jim Crow Era (1876-1965), African Americans established businesses to supply the demand in the leisure and hospitality industry. Traveling as an African American was a risk due to legal and geographic constraints and the threat of racial violence. Despite the danger, African Americans traveled by ensuring their accommodations were safe by utilizing a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book. Desegregation dismantled the utilization of the guide and the demand for African American businesses

Prove Me Wrong: The Impacts of Anxious Attachment and Non-Apology on Conflict Resolution in Romantic Relationships

Managing conflict is an integral aspect of romantic relationships. When a romantic partner transgresses against the other partner, the way the victim of the transgression responds to conflict is often motivated by their attachment style and the post-transgression responses (PTRs) of their romantic partner. The present research involved 238 participants in romantic relationships. Participants completed an online study to assess the association between a victim's anxious attachment and destructive PTR (i.e., grudge-disdain, avoidance, and low forgiveness), the moderating role of a victim’s perception of their offending partner’s nonapology, and the mediating explanation of a victim’s perceived availability and responsiveness of an offending partner. A moderated mediation model was hypothesized and tested. Results confirmed that a victim’s perception of their offending partner’s nonapology moderated the association between victims’ anxious attachment and destructive PTRs. Perceived availability and responsiveness did not mediate the moderated association. Overall, these finds suggest that offending partners' PTRs play a role in motivating the post-transgression responses of anxiously attached victims

Prevalence of Revenge on Social Media

We designed this study to explore the nature and prevalence of interpersonal revenge as it occurs on social media. We collected data from undergraduate psychology students as well as from the local community

Cultivating Connections: A Housing & Economic Development Implementation Strategy for the Mechanicsville Neighborhood of Atlanta

The future of Mechanicsville has been laid out in several previous plans, but they have resulted in little additional development for the neighborhood. Rather than creating another plan, the goal of this studio was to provide an implementation framework for community level development strategies. They are based on best practices observed in other communities, both in the City of Atlanta and around the United States as well as key input from Mechanicsville stakeholders. A key goal of the studio was to create a collection of practical ideas and recommendations which can be taken and applied by the Mechanicsville community, developers, and the City