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Considerable research has been conducted regarding how the built environment affects the physical aspects of a person’s well-being. However, surprisingly little research has explored the psychological side, and even less research has...
This study examines perceptions of the "typical American" from 49 cultures around the world. Contrary to the ethnocentric bias hypothesis, we found strong agreement between in-group and out-group ratings on the American profile ...
Increasing medication adherence in patients with epilepsy is important because, if taken properly, antiepileptic medication can reduce seizure frequency, and thus, improve quality of life and reduce hospital and emergency room visits....
Two theories have been proposed to explain the covariation between antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), histrionic personality disorder (HPD), and psychopathy: the sex differentiated-manifestation hypothesis (e.g., Hamburger, Hogben, ...
Depression is a debilitating disorder with established prevalence and detrimental impact on the economy. Ketamine is a fast acting and long lasting treatment for depression, including treatment resistant patients. The mechanism(s) behind...
The present study utilized a sample of 316 first grade students followed through fourth grade to evaluate the dynamic relations between vocabulary and reading comprehension as measured by two expressive vocabulary measures and two...
A growing body of research has linked high distress intolerance (DI) to obsessions, but not other OCD symptom domains. However, existing research is correlational and experimental studies are needed before causal determinations can be...
Background. Considerable research has demonstrated the link between early life adversity (ELA) and the development of significant health problems in adulthood (Felitti et al., 1998; Gilbert et al., 2015). Regarding the specific...
The authors examined age trends in the 5 factors and 30 facets assessed by the Revised NEO Personality Inventory in Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging data (N=1, 944; 5, 027 assessments) collected between 1989 and 2004. Consistent with...
It is well established that the ovarian hormone estradiol increases the strength of multiple anorexigenic signals and, thereby, decreases food intake in the female rat. Recently, two studies provided the first evidence that estradiol...
Athletes experience and cope with stressful performance situations throughout their careers. Many coping studies examine athletes’ self-reported coping strategies in past stressful events or ask athletes to report the types of coping...
This study utilized confirmatory factor analyses and latent change score analyses to model individual and developmental differences in a longitudinal study of children's writing. Participants were 158 children who completed a writing...
The objective of this research is to elicit and analyze the use of visual response created by art therapists and its implications for their resiliency. As part of the mental health community, art therapists are exposed to trauma...
Learning in the sciences is difficult for students from elementary school to university due to misconceptions, or incorrect prior knowledge, interfering with the acquisition of new knowledge. The process of replacing previously incorrect...
This study examined the effects of different tempo music selections on effort-related thoughts, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), affect, heart rate, and performance of isometric strength exercises. Participants were assigned to one of...
This study examined the generality of rumination and its associations with multiple indices of trait level affect and socio-emotional functioning using both variable-centered and person-centered approaches to data analysis. Participants...
Previous research indicates that exposure to the U.S. flag increases the academic performance of racial majority group members, but does not influence the performance of racial minority group members. The current work tests the...
Cognitive impairments in patients with schizophrenia can appear early in childhood prior to clinical onset and have a significant impact on patient recovery and overall outcome. Unfortunately, cognitive dysfunction continues to be the...
At its core, Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is an interpersonal disorder characterized by a fear of negative evaluation (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Prior work has revealed a number of maladaptive interpersonal behaviors...
The Effects of Key Concepts Availability and Individual Preparation in the Form of Proposition Formation in Collaborative Concept Mapping on Learning, Problem Solving, and Learner Attitudes
This study on collaborative concept mapping investigated how the availability of key concepts and individual preparation in the form of proposition formation affected learning, problem-solving, and learner attitudes. The sample for this...
There is evidence to suggest that depression and the Apolipoprotein E e4 allele (APOE e4) may act together (i.e., synergistically) to disrupt neuropsychological functioning, which may in turn increase an individual's risk for cognitive...
The authors examined associations between 5-factor personality traits and retirement in a diverse community sample. Longitudinal analyses (n = 367) compared personality trajectories of participants who remained employed and participants...
The Incremental Validity of the Barkley Deficits in Executive Function Scale and Cognitive Tests of Executive Function on ADHD Symptoms and Impairments in College Students
Executive Function (EF) is defined as “self-directed actions so as to choose goals and to select, enact, and sustain actions across time towards those goals” (Barkley, 2012; p. 170). These “self-directed actions” can take the form of...
Schwartz et al. (2002) proposed that individuals who approach decisions with the goal of maximizing (selecting the best possible option) as opposed to satisficing (selecting the first "good enough" option encountered) suffer from...
Anxiety disorders contribute substantially to the overall public health burden of psychopathology. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), a fear of anxiety related sensations, is one of the few known malleable risk factors for anxiety pathology....
Earlier cross-cultural research on replicability of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) suggested that personality trait structure is universal, but a recent study using an Italian translation has challenged this position....
The construct of relational aggression in children remains poorly delineated with regards to prevalence, associated impairment and gender differences therein. Some have suggested that relational aggression may be a female variant of...
Although research has supported the use of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for psychological disorders, many clinicians prefer to use a modular approach integrating interventions from a number of different ESTs. The current study...
Joiner's (2005) interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior builds upon previous theories to provide a potentially more useful framework for differentiating between those who do and do not die by suicide. According to Joiner, ...
Depression and Alzheimer's disease (AD) occur frequently in geriatric patients, but it is difficult to identify which depressed patients are in the preclinical AD phase due to the overlapping cognitive impairment in depression and AD....
The present study investigated the malleability and the roles of both physical pain tolerance and fearlessness about death in acquired capability for suicide utilizing experimental methods involving acetaminophen and a social learning...
A number of studies have evaluated affective processing via the late positive potential (LPP), an event-related potential (ERP) measure that shows enhancement in response to affective relative to neutral pictures (cf. Cuthbert, Schupp, ...
The purpose of the current study was to identify the presence of any differences in perceptions of dating violence, relative to gender type, roles, and socialization, among 142 African-American college students. One hundred and forty...
This study uses two experiments to explore the extent to which goal pursuits affect automatic motor responses. At the beginning of each experiment, participants were given experiences that induced certain goal states. Participants then...
This study used the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI; Sampson et al., 1996b) and the Self-Directed Search, 5th Edition (SDS; Holland & Messer, 2013) to examine the relationships among dysfunctional career thoughts, interest profile...
A new approach to representing data from multiple regression designs is presented in this dissertation. The index, denoted as rsp, is the semi-partial correlation of the predictor with the outcome of interest. This effect size can be...
Suicide and self-injury are prominent issues among college students (Pristorello, Fruzzeetti, MacLane, Gallop, & Iverson, 2012). This manuscript seeks to explore the primary research question: Does mindfulness serve as a moderating...
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic disorder associated with long-term impairment across multiple life domains, including academic, occupational, social, and psychological (Barkley, Murphy, & Kwasnik, 1996;...
The present research suggests that people's bodily states affect their beliefs about free will. The more intensely people felt sexual desire, physical tiredness, and the need to urinate, the less they believed in free will (Study 1)....
In a post-9/11 world, airport security has become a national priority. In 2005 the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) budget set aside $5.2 billion for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and $851 million to improve...
In a community-dwelling sample (N = 4, 790; age range 14-94), we examined whether personality traits prospectively predicted performance on a verbal fluency task. Open, extraverted, and emotionally stable participants had better verbal...
Postpartum depression affects up to 15% of women, is highly disabling, but under-addressed in obstetrics settings. The objectives of this study were to examine the characteristics of women seeking obstetrical services in a health system...
Entering college, the majority of freshmen experience some sort of feelings of loneliness during the beginning of the transition to a new environment. Loneliness can lead students to have a multitude of negative effects, including poorer...
Explaining expert chess players' dramatically superior skill represents an outstanding unsolved theoretical problem for cognitive psychology. This review extends and re-evaluates the current state of theories on chess skill, highlighting...
Previous studies have demonstrated that verbal descriptions of actions activate compatible motor responses (Glenberg & Kaschak, 2002; Zwaan & Taylor, 2006). The present study replicates previous findings showing that, within a sentence, ...
The self-help literature avidly promotes the use of positive self-statements to boost self-esteem and mood; however, recent research provides evidence that positive self-statements may be harmful to people with low self-esteem. Prior...
Via a phenomenological, qualitative research approach, this study aimed to gain a better understanding of the experiences shared by parents of boys with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Specifically, 7 parents of school-age boys with...
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