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The Lexical Restructuring Model (LRM; Metsala & Walley, 1998) attempts to explain the development of phonological awareness. According to the LRM, as children's vocabularies increase, children develop a more refined lexical...
Purpose– The relations between reading and writing have been studied extensively but the exact nature of their interrelation is not known. This study applied new advances in change score modeling to investigate longitudinal developmental...
This study was designed to address the following questions (a) to what extent do teachers' judgments of students' academic competence and problematic behavior agree with direct assessments of reading and self-regulation? (b) to what...
Given the important role of contact in improving attitudes toward outgroup members, it is necessary to examine factors that reduce majority group members' likelihood of having contact with minority group members. Recent research...
Past research has shown that humans possess implicit or unconscious associations which, when activated, affect subsequent behavior. In three studies, I demonstrated a novel implicit association held by some men, an association between...
Two studies explored the role of internal motivation (i.e., motivation rooted in a personal concern for the environment) and external motivation (i.e., motivation rooted in concerns about one's reputation) for proenvironmental behaviors....
People judge others' harmful effects to be more intentional than their helpful effects (Knobe, 2003). The present work shows that two separate biases produce this side-effect effect: relative to morally neutral side effects, people judge...
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...
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...
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, ...
Women Inmate Substance Abusers' Reactivity to Visual Alcohol, Cigarette, Marijuana, and Crack Cocaine Cues: Approach and Avoidance as Separate Reactivity Dimensions
In the present study, we evaluated the reliability, specificity, and validity of a set of visual alcohol, cigarette, marijuana, and crack cocaine cues in comparison to consumable non-drug control cues. The study extended a previously...
Antigay attitudes are typically conceptualized and measured as general condemnations of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals based on moral and value judgments. This view of outgroup attitudes is not unusual, and is in fact...
Introduction: Evidence suggests that disturbed sleep may constitute an important and modifiable vulnerability factor for acute suicidal risk and completed suicide. Sleep complaints are closely coupled with mood problems, and depression...
Extreme narcissistic traits have been proposed to be part of the "core" personality features of psychopathy. This view has some theoretical and experimental support but some inconsistencies remain that might be clarified by examining the...
Linehan's (1993) biosocial theory of borderline personality disorder (BPD) posits that (1) behavioral dysregulation results from emotion dysregulation, and (2) emotion dysregulation is due, in part, to attentional biases. The primary...
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...
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...
The current work examined how the source of people's motivation to respond without prejudice influences the strategies they use during an actual interracial interaction and what impact these strategies have on the quality of the...
Although social comparisons have been observed in social anxiety, the effects from the direction of the social comparison have not been adequately tested in social anxiety. This study examined the impact of an upward comparison (UC) vs....
Comprehension is a foundational skill that is essential to learning. One often overlooked aspect of teaching and assessing comprehension is the role of the properties of the text itself. The current study investigated various indices of...
Study 1 examined whether the belief that "emaciation is beautiful" may contribute to anorexia nervosa (AN) symptom severity. Findings suggest that compared to non-eating disordered women, AN women are more likely to associate emaciation...
I proposed that burdensomeness expectancies are subtle concerns about bearing the burden of explanation on behalf of one's group that promote avoidance in interracial interactions. Two preliminary studies demonstrated that burdensomeness...
The current study examined whether intrasexual competition for career success may contribute to body dissatisfaction and worse eating attitudes among achievement oriented college-aged women. In order to examine this aim participants...
The cross-race effect (CRE) states that people are better able to accurately recognize faces of their own race as opposed to faces of other races. Although this finding has been studied extensively over the past 35 years, there still...
The present investigation explored whether polite behavior misleads conversation partners to overconfident perceptions of their abilities. In this study, participants in pairs were assigned either to deliver a persuasive appeal or to be...
Heatherton and Baumeister (1991) proposed that individuals engage in binge eating in an attempt to escape aversive self-awareness (escape theory). The current study sought to test the escape theory prediction that individuals who...
Anxiety-related psychopathology represents one of the most prevalent and debilitating forms of mental illness. A large number of effective cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders have been developed and validated....
The present study examined the relationship between anxiety and premature termination, and the effect of depression and a proxy measure of impulsivity on this relationship. Extensive research has been conducted that has focused on the...
The present study utilized a latent variable modeling approach to examine the Simple View of Reading in a sample of students from 3rd, 7th, and 10th grades (N = 215, 188, and 180 respectively). A series of nested latent interaction...
Elevated levels of anxiety sensitivity (AS), the fear of anxiety and its consequences, places individuals at an increased risk for the development of anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder. It has shown that treating AS may reduce...
Unlike gender, race, or ethnicity, sexual orientation is not necessarily readily identifiable. Because of this, the biases that are associated with prejudice towards members of other groups might not be initially applied to gay men and...
The general slowing theory of cognitive aging claims that age-related decline in cognitive performance results from the global slowing of processing functions. This theory derives from evidence showing how tests of perceptual speed...
College is an ideal setting to evaluate and treat mental health issues. Most mental health disorders have first onset by young adulthood and half of all young adults attend some form of post-secondary institution. Additionally, many...
The current study uses two experiments to explore how a range of social and cognitive variables affect linguistic alignment. Experiment 1 examines the effects of a number of individual difference variables (inhibitory control, pattern...
The present work explored the influence of emergency severity on racial biases in helping behavior. Three studies placed participants in staged emergencies and measured differences in the speed and quantity of help offered to Black and...
Using the well-established prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) model, my dissertation has explored the underlying neurochemical mechanisms regulating social behavior. In this dissertation I begin with describing the prairie vole model...
Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleave: Information About a Target's Emotions Increases the Extent to Which Individuals Feel They Have Learned About That Target's Personality
Emotions are automatically expressed, automatically detected, and provide a glimpse into an individual's personality and motivations. Based on this, we hypothesized that providing individuals with information about a target's emotional...
Multiple studies of Self-Verification Theory (e.g. Swann, 1983) have documented people's tendency to seek out information consistent with strongly held self-views, even when negative. An aspect of self-verification that has received less...
The goal of the current study was to explore the developmental relations of phonological processing skills (phonological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological access to lexical storage) by utilizing a longitudinal sample that...
When talking about time, we often refer to space. It is has been proposed that the concept of time employs the same representational structure of that of space (e.g. Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). There is both linguistic and experimental...
Research has shown that social anxiety is associated with increased rates of cannabis and alcohol use, but the mechanisms underlying the relationship between social anxiety and substance use are still largely unknown. One individual...
The fragile self-esteem view of narcissism suggests that narcissism is rooted in insecurity of the self that is disguised by grandiosity and arrogance. This conceptualization was initially developed from a psychoanalytic perspective and...
A Monte Carlo simulation was conducted to examine the conditions under which the simple difference and residualized change scores were more or less powerful than each other, and if the two estimators produced a biased estimate of the...
Recent studies (Gray & Fu, 2004; Fu & Gray, 2006) suggest that when information needed to complete a task from a computer display takes longer than the time to retrieve it from memory, then people will automatically use their error-prone...
The representation of locations and movement in peri-personal space (the space directly in front of the torso) has been hypothesized to be important in the representations of abstract concepts, most notably quantity and time. Presumably, ...
The detection of salty taste stimuli depends on two salt-sensing transduction pathways that involve membrane channels on the surface of fungiform taste bud cells located on the anterior tongue in rats. These two pathways are the...
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