My asset work on Star Scholar's

This is an ePortfolio that I created that showcases my projects and work experience while at IUI.

Self-efficacy (SE) involves perceptions of one’s abilities and talents. Psychologist Albert Bandura first used the term within his social cognitive theory of children’s behavior. However, SE persists throughout the entire lifespan, and is relevant to ... any goal, challenge, or life decision made, with multiple different aspects. Read more

In this essay, I identify what makes abject art so uniquely effective in connecting with an audience and expressing complex themes. Knut Asdam's Untitled: Pissing from 1995 breaks down the hollowness of toxic masculinity through loss of control. Ana ... Ana Mendieta's Body Tracks from 1982 uses performance to critique the normalization of violence, and the product of the performance to imply the horrific violence against women. Ron Athey's 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life from 1994 uses piercing art and the spilling of blood to express the struggle with addiction along with reclaiming queer identity through religious themes. Marina Abramovic's Rhythm series from the 70's expresses the tensions between apathy towards self and sole trust in oneself and the work visualizes the cruelty that is experienced on both sides of the spectrum. Together, these artists use an intense art form to reveal systems of oppression that are not easily understood otherwise. The product of abject art is an audience that is left to grapple with their disgust at not only the content of the art, but the implication it draws in relation to how people experience their culture. Key Words: abject art, physical, visceral, performance, Marina Abramovic, Ron Athey, Ana Mendieta, Knut Asdam Read more

This is a link to my ePortfolio that I created while taking HON-H200. The link will take you to a new page I recently added to showcase the research project I completed through UROP. My colleagues and I examined changes over time in emotion recogniti ... on in English speaking countries across different age groups. To do so, we used a cross-temporal meta-analysis (CTMA) to track scores on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), a measure of emotion recognition ability (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001). The page contains more information about the project and the poster we presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) conference. Read more

Beginning from America's occupation of Japan post-WWII, a process of Westernization grew into Japan's mass consumer market. Economic growth would continue until the 1990s, which is oftentimes referred to as the Lost Decade, when a recession resulted ... resulted in high unemployment and spurred disillusionment amongst young workers. Artists based in Tokyo, such as Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, and Mariko Mori, responded to these conditions by taking inspiration from the western Pop Art movement's appropriation of consumer images, and dubbed it “Tokyo Pop”. In this essay, I will interpret works from these three artists as a critique of the consumerism and objectification prevalent in Japanese pop culture, particularly within otaku and kawaii subcultures, and argue how they bring to light the power dynamics and social conditions which these consumer objects rely upon for subsistence. Read more