URCA Journal Volume II | Spring 2020 Letter from the Editors the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, a committee member of the Peer Wellness Coalition, and a clinic counselor at the Workers’ Rights Disability Law Clinic. The Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) Journal was created in the Spring of 2019 to highlight the research achievements of UCSB undergraduate students. It has been a pleasure to work on the second edition of the journal. We received amazing submis- Brenda Wu sions and were pleased to work with all the authors who were accepted for this edition. Brenda is a recent graduate from UCSB with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biopsycholo- gy and a minor in Applied Psychology. Throughout her time at UCSB, she served as a Peer We cannot emphasize enough how proud we are of all our fellow peers who experienced Mentor for the Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Office as well as a research obstacles like no other this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the university had to close assistant under Dr. Ron Keiflin in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (where its doors and shift to remote learning for the rest of the academic year as a necessary mea- she researched the neural basis of context-dependent reward prediction learning). Given sure to ensure the safety of the campus community. Unfortunately, this also forced the closure her love for neuroscience, she will be gaining more experience as a lab technician at UCSF of on-campus labs and suspension of many students’ independent research projects. We all and hopes to eventually obtain a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. Aside from academics, she enjoys heard stories from students who scrambled to gather data or quickly adapt their experimen- exploring the outdoors, listening to true crime podcasts on Spotify, and playing with her new- tal methods to meet the circumstances. Despite everything going on, from the pandemic to ly-adopted kitten Oli. the protests for the racial equality, UCSB students expressed resilience and patience during a time of uncertainty. Rosalia Hernandez Rosalia is currently an undergraduate in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability The articles in this publication are just a glimpse of the excellent research conducted by majoring in actuarial science. She is passionate about diversity in STEM and uses her role as undergraduate students at UCSB. We received about 25 submissions from Math, Life, and a Peer Mentor for the Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Office to encourage Physical Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts, and Social Sciences undergraduates. While all students who are interested in research to find mentors and projects. As a McNair scholar she submissions demonstrated passion and originality, we felt as though the entries selected for does research under the guidance of Dr. Michael Ludkovski in the Department of Statistics publication exceeded all our expectations. We made our decisions based on the paper’s and Applied Probability on longevity forecasting among demographic groups in the United engagement, organization, and intellectual significance. Afterwards, we worked with the States. She plans to continue her education through graduate school and obtain a PhD in authors to edit their work for content, style, and grammar mechanics to ensure the papers statistics with the long term goal of becoming a professor. In her spare time she likes painting, were in the best shape for publication. Above all, we worked to ensure that the papers were reading Chicano literature, and swimming. written in a language that could be understood by a general audience. Please feel free to Faculty Advisor watch this Zoom conversation of us to learn more about our role and the publication process. Dr. Anne Charity-Hudley, Director of Undergraduate Research We want to thank Professor Anne Charity-Hudley for working with us well into the summer on this project, and the authors for their patience and trust as we worked on the second edition Staff of the journal. We hope you enjoy reading the content produced by these brilliant scholars as Jacob LaViolet, Undergraduate Programs Coordinator much as we did. Karissa Gómez, Undergraduate Programs Assistant Sincerely, Editorial Staff Gabby Birog Gabby Birog Rosalia Hernandez Rosalia Hernandez Brenda Wu Brenda Wu Review Board About the Editors Gabby Birog, URCA Peer Advisor Gabby Birog Xochitl Briseño, URCA Peer Advisor Gabby recently graduated from UCSB with a Bachelor of Art (B.A.) in History and a Bachelor Rosalia Hernandez, URCA Peer Advisor of Science (B.S.) in Psychological and Brain Sciences. In addition to her work as a Peer Mentor for the Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities Office, she served as a research assis- Jose Gutiérrez, URCA Peer Advisor tant under Dr. Heejung Kim in the Cultural Psychology Lab and wrote her senior thesis on the Salman Sadak, URCA Peer Advisor criminalization of mental illness in the criminal justice system. She hopes to continue furthering Brenda Wu, URCA Peer Advisor her interest in the intersections between mental health, social justice, and the law. Currently, she is a first year law student at UC Berkeley School of Law where she works as an editor on Wendy Santamaria, UCDC Peer Advisor Table of Contents The Gender Diagnosis Gap: The Role of Implicit Bias on the Misdiagnosis of Young Women’s Health Concerns........................................................................96 Casey Glasser The Role of Pitch, Duration, and Lexical Tone in Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara the Production of Voiced and Voiceless Burmese Nasals..................................................................................9 VOT and Acquisition of Stop Consonants in Spanish-En- Ludwig Adisiswoyo glish Bilingual Children.................................................112 Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara William Gravelle Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara How Participation in STEM Focused Programming Resonates with Youth......................................................24 How Oral Contraceptive Use Impacts Brain Morphology: Hailey Clemens Preliminary Findings of a Population Neuroimaging Education, University of California, Santa Barbara Study..............................................................................132 Margaret Hayes Using Data Analysis to Examine Electricity Demand and Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara Renewable Energy in Southern Africa...........................38 Tiana Curry From Data to Interactive Visualizations:A Tool for Modeling Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara and Forecasting Longevity Across U.S. Subpopulations............................................................142 Emotions and their Effects on Moral Foundation Rosalia Hernandez Endorsements..................................................................49 Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara Ryan Davis Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara Soaring into Los Angeles: The 1910 Los Angeles Interna- tional Aviation Meet ...................................................158 Localizing the PISA Initiative to Tackle Educational Inequi- Austin Janisch ty—Case Study on UCSB History, University of California, Santa Barbara Students...........................................................................64 Joshua Ee Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Psychological Adaptation to Climate Change: Construal Level and Coping Strategies......................................170 “This Berlin Wall that Runs through Me”: Making Sense of Emily La the Postcolonial African Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara Alienation........................................................................81 Ebelechukwu Veronica Eseka History, University of California, Santa Barbara Speak Now: The Power of Words in the Lays of Marie de France...........................................................................269 Environmentally-Fueled Violence in Honduras: The Case Abigail Stevens Studies of Berta Cáceres and the Indigenous Tolupan English, University of California, Santa Barbara People..........................................................................185 The Myth of Neutrality: U.S. Implication, the Hannah Lahey Kashmir Insurgency, and the American Public Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Sphere...........................................................................282 Simren Verma Marginalized Students within California’s Public-School History of Public Policy and the Law, University of California, Santa Barbara System: experiences of Mexican Indígena Involvement in Greek Life for Latinx Students Pursuing youth.............................................................................199 Higher Education: Does Involvement Equal Persistence? Fátima Andrade Martínez .......................................................................................296 Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara Alyssa Villa The Physical Body in Crime, Punishment, and Law in Early Psychology and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara New England, 1630–1675............................................214 Real and Imagined: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Shekina Medalla Read..............................................................................310 History,