James Phillips - “How Framing Shapes the Urge to Bet on Sports” (poster session II) In the world we live in today, gambling has transcended into a mobile activity that anyone of the appropriate age can participate in. The accessibility makes it easy for individuals to bet impulsively, but the big question is, can framing influence individuals’ urges to bet? We see online and in the media that sports betting is framed in a very positive way due to celebrities promoting it, betting apps rewarding new and current users with in-app credits to continue betting, and sports betting apps being blasted all over the media and television channels. The framing has usually been positive, but what if negative framing were presented? Would this have an influence on an individual’s urges to continue betting when sports betting is shown for all the bad reasons? To achieve this, I will implement two Google surveys, one positively framing sports betting and one negatively framing sports betting, to find any significance. Implemented in these forms will be a sports betting scenario and an urge to continue a Likert scale to assess agreement with the content. It is hypothesized that positive and negative framing on sports betting will both have a significant effect on self-reported urges to continue betting. Camden Phillips - “From Limited Powers to Industrial Management: Behind the Push for Reshoring Industry” (session 22) Purple Patch Editor’s Choice Award Winner Camden Phillips - “A Modern Reconstruction of the GAO’s 1988 Study on Jones Act Cost Premiums to Alaska” (poster session 1) The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, commonly referred to as the Jones Act, is a century-old protectionist policy that restricts the maritime transportation of goods between U.S. ports to American-built, -owned, -crewed, and -flagged vessels. Advocates contend it promotes shipbuilding capacity, national defense, and economic security, while modern critics argue it protects special interests and imposes significant cost premiums on maritime-reliant economies. Alaska presents the sharpest test for these claims: its geographic isolation enforces a reliance upon Jones-Act compliant shipping over logistical alternatives. Despite substantial changes in vessel technology, labor markets, and fleet networks, few peer-reviewed studies have been published regarding the Act’s effects upon Alaska in the last four decades, leaving a wide gap for new research. This project revisits the foundational Government Accountability Office (GAO)’s 1988 report, “The Jones Act: Impact on Alaska transportation and U.S. military sealift capability,” and adapts the accounting- based cost model using modern time series data over the period 2014-2019 to dissociate pre-pandemic structural cost effects. Preliminary findings indicate Alaska continues to bear considerable cost premium burdens attributable to Jones Act compliance. This research contributes to
contemporary reform debates by providing reproducible scholarship, moving the discussion forward from anecdotal analysis. Dalaney Pollard and Christina Zimmer - “Aging Through MVC Athletics” (visual art session) Joseph Pollard, “The Effects of Dehumanizing Language, Cognitive Dissonance and Unit 731” (session 3) This paper will discuss the large-scale effects of dehumanizing language and the cognitive dissonance that this language provided to the horrifying use it played in the atrocities committed by Unit 731, a Japanese research program conducted during WWII. A combination of factors lead to the cognitive dissonance that these Japanese soldiers experienced and created dehumanizing language when discussing their human test subjects as a means of rationalization. This paper will look at the book Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by author David Livingstone Smith to gain a greater understanding of the psychology surrounding dehumanization and how large scale dehumanizing language combined with other factors such as conformity, obedience and morbid curiosity enabled the cognitive dissonance of the Unit 731 soldiers. Joseph Pollard - see Moseley et al. “War and Reform: How World War II Reshaped Democracy in Jackson County” (session 19) Jordyn Pollock - “How Maternal Guilt Affects a Woman’s Decision for Pain Control During Childbirth” (session 6) Maternal guilt is the feeling of guilt, shame, or sense of inadequacy within a mother, caused by personal ideas of not meeting the needs of their children, societal pressures, or familiar standards. Mothers can feel maternal guilt for their actions during their pregnancy and after childbirth. The decision to receive pain control in labor is complex and has many external factors to consider. In addition, there are societal and cultural pressures that are imposed on women during childbirth. By creating an educational pamphlet, this project aimed to provide information to pregnant women, planning on a vaginal delivery, to reassure them that having an epidural does not diminish their identity as a woman or a mother. The goal of this project was to provide a resource that empowered women to support their own choices for epidural use during labor. Abraham Preston - “Bioorthogonal Reactions” (session 21) Bioorthogonal reactions are a biological derivative of Staudinger reductions that were first discovered in 2000. Which allowed researchers to recreate the conditions that biological reactions are naturally conducted in. The reactions are categorized by first preceding through
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