Browsing by Author "York, Wheatley"

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    The Love Doctrine: Reducing Recidivism in America
    (2022-11-21) York, Wheatley; Hoover, Heather
    Recidivism is an ongoing crisis in the U.S that only exacerbates the overcrowding issue faced by many correctional facilities. People who suffer from mental illness, addiction or marginalization are the most likely to be incarcerated. Offenders suffering from mental illness, addiction, or marginalization are also the most likely to reoffend. Offenders are released into society only to find themselves stuck in a cycle that leads them back to prison. As of 2021 76.6% of offenders in the U.S will reoffend within five years of their release into society (Benecchi). I will take a closer look at why over 70% of offenders in America are placed back in a system that failed to rehabilitate them the first time. I want to investigate the reentry programs, educational reforms, and second chance programs offered to offenders in the U.S. Focusing on ways to relay the importance of an offender’s successful reentry to families, employers, and taxpayers, I wish to show how essential it is that inmates are receiving proper rehabilitative care. I will advocate policy changes for the availability of transferable education, health care, support groups, addiction counseling, and job connections to inmates.
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    Relationship Between Masks and Perceived Emotions
    (2023-12-05) York, Wheatley; Qualls, Bailey; Matthews, Mark; Drinnon, Joy
    The Covid-19 pandemic introduced mask wearing on a global scale. As a consequence, people noticed a barrier in face-to-face communication. Previous studies found just seeing the eyes of a face, like wearing a mask, impaired participant's ability to read the intensity of an emotion (Beaudry et al., 2014). We decided to look further into how face masks impact a person’s ability to perceive emotions. We replicated the study conducted by Teddi et al.(2023) The goal of the study was to understand the relationship between facial coverings and emotional recognition. We gathered data using a repeated-measures Qualtrics survey with 55 subjects. We presented pictures of faces portraying an emotion with and without masks. We hypothesized that participants would rate the faces with masks as more negative and less positive regardless of which emotion was presented. The findings supported our hypothesis. The participants rated the faces with masks expressing negative and neutral emotions more negatively, and positive emotions less positively. This was consistent with the study replicated. Masks seem to present emotions as more negative than the emotion the person wearing the mask is trying to convey.