Anthropology - Butler University

purpose of this study is to determine if everyday activities have the same effect as vestibular
activities on skills like eye tracking which affects reading, balancing, and auditory recall. I
hypothesize that vestibular activities will improve the functioning of auditory recall, tracking,
and balancing more than everyday activities. There were two randomly assigned groups:
everyday activity group and vestibular activity group. The vestibular activities consist of
activities like tracking/convergence and balancing, where everyday activities are running and
walking. There was a two month period where the activities were performed for 5 days out of
each week. Both of the groups balancing, tracking, auditory recall, and convergence had been
assessed at the beginning of the two months, then after the first month. At the end of the two
month period of activities the groups were assessed a last time. The assessments conducted were;
Romberg Test, Auditory Digit Span, Fukuda Test, One-legged Test, Eye-convergence, Eyetracking,
and Modified Clinical Test of Sensory Organization and Balance (CTSIB). There was
no significant difference found between the first round of assessments and the last round of
assessments between the two groups. These findings do not support the claim that vestibular
activities will improve functioning of everyday life more than everyday activities.
Misattribution of Arousal and Perceptions of Faces
Tiffany LeFever, Sarah Limberger, Hannah Daugherty & Natasha Greenwood, Faculty Sponsor:
Erin Devers, Indiana Wesleyan University
The theory of misattribution of arousal stems from Schachter’s and Singer’s theory of the two
factor theory of emotion (1962). Misattribution of arousal occurs when a person experiences an
increase in physiological arousal, such as elevated heart rate, due to a specific physiological
cause, but inaccurately assigns the arousal to an emotional cause. This study’s aim was to
discover if undergraduate females’ perceptions of male faces were affected by physiological
arousal. Specifically, one group of women was asked to climb two flights of stairs, while the
other was permitted to take the elevator. The participants were then asked to rate photographs of
ambiguous faces of black and white males on measures of attraction, aggression, and
intelligence. The authors’ hypotheses were that the females experiencing physiological arousal
would perceive the pictures of black males as more aggressive than their counterparts who took
the elevator. Additionally, the authors predicted that the aroused females would view all the male
faces as more attractive than the control group, uninfluenced by physiological arousal.
Group Satisfaction Scale Development and Correlations to Perfectionism
Amy Luthanen, Faculty Sponsor: Marcie Coulter-Kern, Manchester College
Individuals bring a variety of personality traits and expectations to small academic groups.
Perfectionism as a set of personality characteristics may influence the experience of working in a
group and the outcome of a project. In this study, the Group Satisfaction Scale (GSS) was first
developed and administered to 112 college students participating in group projects at a small
Midwestern college. Through factor analysis, the components were narrowed down to three:
Relational Satisfaction, or how well the individuals worked together, Process Satisfaction, their
time management and division of tasks, and Outcome Satisfaction, or the quality of the work
produced by the group. It was hypothesized that an individual’s perfectionism, as measured by
the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS), would play a role in evaluations of group
experiences. There were several significant correlations between perfectionism and the GSS.