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Little is known about how individuals at elevated risk for suicide engage with mental health care services, including which factors may confer risk for premature treatment attrition. This study aimed: (1) to identify demographic, ...
The field of psychology has produced a great deal of knowledge about the way in which eyewitness memory operates in the adult population, and several findings have remained constant over many years. One of these is the "Other-race effect...
This study examined social information processing theory's predictions that the accuracy of children's perceptions is associated with their peer acceptance. Specifically, it evaluated concurrent and prospective associations between the...
Recent scholarship has challenged the long-held assumption in the social sciences that Conservatives were more biased than Liberals, contending that the predominance of Liberals in the social sciences might have caused social scientists...
Standardized testing, as a practice, has existed for almost two centuries within the United States, having gained both advocates and negative critics over time. Criticisms often include issues concerning test fairness and biases toward...
Relationship conflict is a stressful experience for couples and stress can disrupt the balance within the immune system. In particular, stressful experiences tend to be linked with an upregulation of cytokines. In this study, I examined...
This dissertation sought to create a new measure of social dysfunction designed to improve upon the shortcomings of previously existing clinical and research measures. Eight subscales were rationally and empirically derived based on a...
Summative research regarding the effectiveness of juvenile sexual offender treatment and recidivism rates in a juvenile sexual offender population is comparatively less well established than similar research with an adult population. The...
Theories of sexual selection suggest that people often engage in motivated social signaling (i.e., strategically signaling desired characteristics to others). For example, those who are motivated to find a mate are likely to display...
Recent research suggests that forgiveness allows transgressions to continue, possibly by signaling acceptance. Three studies tested the prediction that the implications of forgiveness for future transgressions/benevolent behavior and/or...
People use heuristics, even though these produce wrong answers to problems. The present research tested an explanation for this seemingly irrational phenomenon. People use heuristics to preserve mental energy and avoid self-regulatory...
Excessive reassurance-seeking, which has been associated with depression in many studies, can be defined as the relatively stable tendency to seek assurance perseveratively from others. It was predicted that although depression has been...
Ego depletion was initially understood as the exhaustion of an energy resource, possibly blood glucose. Recent work has favored a model based on allocation of energy in which motivation and beliefs change patterns of allocating energy...
Reading comprehension and its predictors have been extensively studied. One predictor of reading comprehension, listening comprehension, has consistently been shown to have strong cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with...
This thesis investigates how linguistic cues implying varying levels of object resolution are mentally represented in sentences such as Through the smoky/empty bar, the bartender could hardly/easily read the clock. Such sentences contain...
Examining suicide risk in the context of new technological advances is vital to informing suicide prevention efforts. Previous research has shown associations between internet use for harmful suicide-related purposes (e.g., increasing...
An accurate understanding of the affective state people experience within the immediate suicidal context carries far reaching implications for how we conduct risk, as well as how we devise intervention strategies. Despite the limited...
Sexual minority individuals experience significant mental health disparities compared to the overall population, including significantly increased risk for suicide. This disparity is partially explained through the interconnected...
BACKGROUND: Exposure to weight stigma increases food consumption in individuals who are—or perceive themselves to be—overweight, and such exposure predicts greater odds of binge eating. To date, however, no study has experimentally...
The role of implicit processes during police-civilian encounters is well studied from the perspective of the police. Decades of research on the "shooter bias" suggests that implicit Black-danger associations potentiate the perception of...
Do people grant moral exemplars the benefit of the doubt for bad behavior, or hold them to a higher standard than morally average targets? Across 5 studies, we compared evaluations of moral character between exemplars and 'average Joes'...
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a psychiatric condition that results in considerable functional impairment. One risk and maintaining factor of AUD is hostility, which is characterized by a generally suspicious and cynical view of other...
Suicide is a leading cause of death among young adults. Despite the relative affordability and accessibility of mental health care services for college students, rates of treatment utilization remain relatively low among undergraduates...
In sacrificial dilemmas where causing harm maximizes outcomes, people rate judges who reject outcome-maximizing harm as more trustworthy, warm, and moral—but less competent and leader-like—than judges who endorse such harm. However, ...
Self-control predicts moral behavior. Traditional theory explains this finding by suggesting self-control works to inhibit antisocial impulses, which everyone experiences. However, Aristotle argued that by practicing virtue, people’s...
Despite the increasing use of pharmacotherapy, suicide and self-injury rates have continued to rise in the United States. There are at least four potential explanations for this pattern: (1) no medication is particularly efficacious for...
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