Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Social Behavior and Gene Expression Disturbances in Mouse Models of Angelman Syndrome and Idic15 Autism
(2014-06-06)Reciprocal changes in UBE3A gene dosage cause two neurodevelopmental disorders. Maternally inherited deletions of UBE3A cause Angelman syndrome, characterized by intellectual disability, motor defects, seizures, and a ... -
Social Bot Detection Through Model-Based Time Series Clustering
(2021-06-04)In order to maintain the health and safety of online communities, it is important to understand and detect potential threats. Because of the possibility of large-scale impacts achieved through automation, social bots can ... -
Social Capital Activation during Times of Organizational Change
(2013-02-26)This dissertation contributes to our understanding of how people build and use social capital – resources embedded in social relations – in organizational settings. Whereas the extant literature has tended to focus on the ... -
The Social Constitution of the Body: Bodily Alienation and Bodily Integrity
(2016-05-05)My thesis offers an account of the phenomenon of bodily alienation. Bodily alienation marks the failure to realize oneself in one’s bodily activities. I argue that realizing oneself in one’s bodily activities requires the ... -
Social Inequality at Köhne Shahar, an Early Bronze Age Settlement in Iranian Azerbaijan
(2015-05-19)Due to increasing investigations and studies of the Kura-Araxes cultural communities, our information about this enigmatic archaeological culture has increased in many respects. Its interactions and regional variations ... -
Social Learning in Early Childhood: Learning When to Seek Help and How to Give It
(2018-05-10)The amount and kinds of information that humans have access to is vastly increased by our ability to learn from and teach others. It is impossible, however, for a single person to learn all of this information in a lifetime. ... -
Social Networks and Health: From Epidemiology to Intervention
(2015-05-18)This dissertation applies network science to three foundational problems in: epidemiology (the social gradient in mortality), health economics (the geographic variation in health care spending), and public health (the ... -
A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Egocentric Influence
(2014-06-06)This dissertation explores the cognitive mechanisms and motivations that guide two aspects of human social behavior: thinking about other's experiences and communicating with others. In both cases, studies investigated the ... -
Social Science and the Realist Novel’s Turn to Character
(2018-09-06)From Marxist criticism to network theory, literary scholarship conceives of social representation in the realist novel as a function of narrative scope. In this reading, novelists illustrate our existence within a social ... -
Social Spillovers in Beliefs, Preferences, and Well-being
(2022-05-12)The papers in this dissertation empirically estimate the causal effect of our social environment on our beliefs, preferences, and well-being. I present clear evidence that our decisions are not made in isolation. Rather, ... -
Social Stratification in Southern Mesopotamia during the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100–2000 BCE)
(2022-05-16)This dissertation addresses social stratification during the last century of the third millennium BCE when the Third Dynasty of Ur governed southern Mesopotamia and its neighboring regions. With over a hundred thousand ... -
Social Structure and Mechanisms of Collective Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
(2012-09-14)In my dissertation I propose three counterintuitive social mechanisms to alleviate the risk that collective production will fail to maintain participant involvement and respond to demand. My first study, based on a panel ... -
Social Ties and Health: An Analysis of Patient-Doctor Trust and Network-Based Public Health Interventions Through Randomized Experiments and Simulations
(2016-05-16)Humans are social creatures, bound by relationships. This dissertation investigates the structure and function of such interpersonal ties in two different contexts: patient-doctor trust and the diffusion of public health ... -
The Socialist Settlement Experiment: Soviet Urban Praxis, 1917-1932
(2016-05-17)If capitalist cities are dense, hierarchical, and exploitative, how might socialist space be differently organized to maximize productivity, equitability, and collectivity? That question—central to early Soviet planning ... -
Society in Mind: The manifestation of structural power and status differences in cognitive and regulatory domains.
(2014-06-06)Where one stands in society matters for how one feels, thinks, and behaves. This dissertation provides evidence for this claim from the perspective of universal psychological mechanisms used to navigate the social world. ... -
Sociopolitical Development and Socialization during middle childhood: A literature review and two qualitative studies with liberal, U.S. families
(2024-05-03)Sociopolitical development (SPD) – i.e., “the process by which individuals acquire the knowledge, analytical skills, emotional faculties, and the capacity for action in political and social systems necessary to interpret ... -
Soft Active Materials for Actuation, Sensing, and Electronics
(2012-07-24)Future generations of robots, electronics, and assistive medical devices will include systems that are soft and elastically deformable, allowing them to adapt their morphology in unstructured environments. This will require ... -
Soft but Strong. Neg-Raising, Soft Triggers, and Exhaustification
(2012-11-15)In this thesis, I focus on scalar implicatures, presuppositions and their connections. In chapter 2, I propose a scalar implicature-based account of neg-raising inferences, standardly analyzed as a presuppositional phenomenon ... -
Soft Colloids from p(NIPAm-co-AAc): Packing Dynamics and Structure
(2012-08-03)Traditionally, the experimental model of choice for studying the structure and dynamics of glasses or crystals are hard-sphere colloids. An analogy with molecular or atomic materials is often drawn, in which each colloidal ...