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Vocabulary knowledge is a critical aspect to an individual's ability to read, communicate, and acquire new knowledge. Deficits in vocabulary knowledge, which may appear as early as one year of age, are long-lasting and are associated...
The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders task (HTKS; Ponitz, McClelland, Matthews, & Morrison, 2009) is a commonly used measure of executive functioning (EF) designed for use with young children. Consistent with the larger literature demonstrating...
Text cues indicate to the reader where and how to direct his or her reading-related processing. Findings in the text cue literature are mixed. The reading task and individual differences in reading ability might account for these results...
BACKGROUND: Influential work has explored the role of family socioeconomic status (SES) as an environmental moderator of genetic and environmental influences on cognitive outcomes. This work has provided evidence that socioeconomic...
There is growing evidence that personality traits are affected by many genes, all of which have very small effects. As an alternative to the largely unsuccessful search for individual polymorphisms associated with personality traits, the...
Research supports that gay males may be at increased risk for eating disorders compared to heterosexual males, establishing a need to develop and empirically evaluate programs to reduce risk for this population. The present study...
Social contagion concerns, heterosexuals' fears about being misidentified as gay/lesbian, can lead to anxiety about and avoidance of interacting with gay men/lesbians and even public derogation of gay men/lesbians. Due to the risk of...
The current investigation sought to investigate whether emotional insensitivity (as opposed to emotional distress) mediates the relationship between social exclusion and aggressive behavior. Results from Experiments 1 and 2 showed that...
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a newly designed measure of self-regulation for third grade students, The Remembering Rules and Regulation Picture Task (RRRP). Though research has shown that self...
Although it is well known that people have fundamental desires for both social affiliation and power, it is less clear how these core social motives interface with each other. In the current research, I tested the hypothesis that power...
In this dissertation, the neurobiological mechanisms that govern the effects of social buffering on stress were evaluated in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). As reviewed in Chapter 1, social living is beneficial for many...
Empathy is conceptualized a multi-dimensional construct that underlies aspects of prosocial human behavior (Davis, 1980). Historic conceptualizations of psychopathy posit that the characteristic callous disregard for others associated...
Individuals with social anxiety have been found to exhibit hypervigilance to detection of socially-relevant threat cues. Additionally, it has been posited that socially anxious individuals experience increased anxiety when attending to a...
The comorbidity of Cluster B personality disorders (PDs) and substance use disorders (SUDs) is well established but factors underlying their relationship are less well understood. This study examined the role of higher-order personality...
The present study examined some specific mechanisms that might underlie the connection between alcohol and suicide risk. According to the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide, individuals who experience thwarted belongingness, ...
This study evaluated a vignette style measure (CRISES) of children's response styles to sadness. It looked at the relationship between rumination and depression in children and tested Nolen-Hoeksema's response styles theory of depression...
Parental concern for children's weight plays an influential role in family dietary patterns, yet little is known about factors that predict this concern. The present study utilized data from a longitudinal cohort study on health and...
OBJECTIVE: The current study examined competing predictions of the default mode, cognitive neuroenergetic, and functional working memory models of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) regarding the relation between...
In 2004, 3, 242 people died in traffic-related fatalities in Florida. The present study looked to further investigate the behaviors and factors related to safe operation of a motor vehicle. Automobile drivers were observed while stopped...
Intimates regularly attempt to motivate their partners to change their undesirable behaviors by engaging in confrontational partner-regulation behaviors. Although recent research suggests that such behaviors can indeed motivate partners...
Unhealthy lipid levels are among the leading controllable risk factors for coronary heart disease. To identify the psychological factors associated with dyslipidemia, this study investigates the personality correlates of cholesterol ...
The capacity to exert control over one's behavior is known as self-control and this ability to self-regulate is a necessary component for directing personal behavior toward achieving a specific goal. Self-regulation operates within a...
Early life experiences play a major role in adult onset psychopathology. Childhood maltreatment, whether physical or emotional, is linked to mental illness and behavioral malfunctioning. Individuals who are emotionally, physically, or...
Current models of normal reading behavior emphasize not only the recognition and processing of the word being fixated (n) but also processing of the upcoming parafoveal word (n+1). Gaze contingent displays employing the boundary paradigm...
Across the globe, as many as 5 million women become victims of sexual trafficking at any given time (Hardy, Compton & McPhatter, 2013). The traumatic experience of sexual trafficking frequently results in severe and complex symptoms of...
Despite the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), most socially anxious individuals do not seek treatment. The current study evaluated the efficacy of three-session motivation enhancement therapy (MET) designed to increase CBT...
National income has a pervasive influence on the perception of ingroup stereotypes, with high status and wealthy targets perceived as more competent. In two studies we investigated the degree to which economic wealth of raters related to...
Suicide claims the lives of approximately 32, 000 Americans each year. The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide (IPTS; Joiner, 2005) was developed in an effort to clarify the nature of suicidality as well as to enhance risk...
Digit span backward (DSB) is conventionally reified as a measure of working memory and is a commonly used measure in clinical research and practice. Extant literature in cognitive psychology has called into question its merit as a...
This study was designed to examine the extent to which young readers activate and integrate text concepts during reading. Fifty fourth grade students completed a group of norm-standardized tests of reading ability followed by a non-norm...
Suicidal ideation is a relatively common occurrence, yet few people go on to die by suicide. The interpersonal theory of suicide proposes that the construct of capability for suicide, or an elevated pain tolerance and a fearlessness...
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is a new full-threshold eating disorder diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5). While the research literature supports the overall inclusion of BED, the...
This study introduces a co-twin control method commonly used in the medical literature but not often within educational research. This method allows for a comparison of twins discordant for an "exposure", approximating alternative...
Numerous laboratory analogue studies have demonstrated alcohol-induced increases in perseverative commission errors in cognitive tasks requiring shifts between prepotent behavioral response sets and modified task demands that require...
The purpose of this study was to explore adaptation through the manipulation of perceived task difficulty and self-efficacy to challenge the concepts postulated by the two-perception probabilistic concept of the adaptation phenomenon ...
Various environments were examined under an etiological scope in an effort to better understand the influence of genes on these environmental contexts for the present study. Using the Bioecological theoretical framework by Bronfenbrenner...
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) has become one of the most well researched risk factors for the development of psychopathology. Research has found that the AS subfactor of cognitive concerns may be play an important role in PTSD, depression, ...
Converging evidence suggests that acute states of overarousal (namely, agitation, insomnia, and nightmares) are commonly observed prior to near-lethal or lethal suicidal behavior. Yet, there has been very little research evaluating...
In this study, I examined group differences in performance between video game players (VGPs) and non-video game players (NVGPs) on the complex learning task "Space Fortress". The primary goal of this investigation was to identify...
Social contagion concerns are people's elevated apprehensions that having interactions with a stigmatized outgroup like lesbians and gay men, will result in being misclassified as a member of this outgroup. This concern typically results...
The effects of task clarification, graphic feedback, goal setting, and positive reinforcement on the customer service behaviors of a medical clinic staff.
In the current research, factors indicating a potential vulnerability to threat were shown to promote functionally adaptive biases during group categorization. White participants who held strong beliefs about vulnerability to...
Attentional bias toward alcohol-related cues has been positively correlated with level of drinking experience and is thought to play a role in the maintenance of problem drinking and in relapse following periods of abstinence. Prior...
The role of hypocretin (orexin, hcrt/orx) neurons in regulation of arousal is well established. Recently, hcrt/orx has been implicated in food reward and drug-seeking behavior. I report here that in male rats, Fos-immunoreactivity (ir)...
Quarrelsome Love: A Growth Curve Analysis of Interparental and Parent-Child Relationship Factors on Romanatic Relationship Conflict in Emerging Adulthood
An increase in romantic relationship conflict has been found to occur during the transition to adulthood. Previous research has made links to subsequent relationship conflict and family of origin relationship dynamics. To examine the...
The current study assessed the utility of callous-unemotional (CU) traits for differentiating non-referred female conduct problem presentations in adolescence. The study used an extreme-groups methodology to recruit 45 participants, ages...
To assess the construct validity of the endogenous subtype of depression, two studies examined the relation of mood regulation skill to the symptoms of endogenous depression versus hopelessness depression. It was hypothesized that the...
The association between poorer academic outcomes and having antisocial friends is reliably demonstrated yet not well understood. Genetically sensitive designs uniquely allow for measuring genetic vulnerabilities and/or environmental risk...
Research examining age differences in metamemory has consistently found that the ability to monitor one's memory remains relatively intact as we age. Recently, researchers have been striving to understand the relationship between...
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