Title of thesis: DEVELOPMENTAL AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN REWARD PROCESSING ACROSS CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE Michael L. Kirwan, M.A., 2010 Thesis directed by: Distinguished University Professor Nathan A. Fox, Department of Human Development Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by maturation across multiple domains. This maturation is not without difficulties, however, as adole...

Within-nation cultural variation across regions provides a largely untapped resource for examining crosscultural relations usually studied at the international level. The current study examines the relations of collectivism, helping behavior with strangers, and pace of life across regions of the United States. The study shows that within-nation cultural variation can be used both to (a) cross-v...

Some recent developments in the phenomenology of the lightest scalar glueball are summarised. Tools for determining the gluonic content of a resonance of known mass, width and J from its branching fraction in radiative quarkonium decays and production cross section in γγ collisions are presented. Two qq̄−G mixing schemes for J = 0++, inspired by the lattice, are shown to lead to similar phenomen...

We conduct a systematic empirical study of cross-sectional inequality in the United States, integrating data from the Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the Survey of Consumer Finances. In order to understand how different dimensions of inequality are related via choices, markets, and institutions, we follow the mapping suggested ...