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For years, clinicians have struggled to increase diagnostic agreement for mental illnesses. However, there are a number of factors that may contribute to inconsistency in diagnosis. The three studies described here were designed to...
Two experiments tested the competing item-specific and semantic cohesion hypotheses of emotional memory enhancement. The item-specific hypothesis predicts that emotional words receive more item-specific and less relational processing...
In the face of a competitive marketplace, businesses are searching for effective solutions to managing employee work behavior. One such approach is through the systematic application of Organizational Behavior Management. While...
An interactive model of bulimic symptom development, first suggested by Vohs et al. (1999), was tested in middle-aged women (mean age = 45.19). The hypothesis that women high in perfectionism, low in self-esteem, and who perceive...
The current study examined the neuropsychological correlates of memory accuracy in older and younger adults. Participants were tested in a memory monitoring paradigm developed by Koriat and Goldsmith (1996), which permits separate...
Numerous studies have implicated the serotonin transporter gene in influencing risk for various types of psychopathology (e.g., depression, anxiety) and associated traits (e.g., neuroticism, aggression). However, the literature in this...
Therapeutic jurisprudence is the hypothesis that the law itself can have therapeutic and/or anti-therapeutic consequences. Therapeutic jurisprudence is an important element in mental health courts because these specialty courts operate...
This research examined stigma toward women with cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is caused by human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted infection. For Study 1, participants (N = 352) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions in...
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...
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...
Previous research examining the effect of study strategies on GPA has relied on general interviews and questionnaires. I attempt to validate and extend previous findings by applying methods originally developed for researching the...
The acquisition of skilled performance via deliberate practice is posited to result in consistency of task performance via refined representations of task requirements (Ericsson & Lehmann, 1996). In the present study, skilled ten-pin...
The current study is an initial investigation of expert performance theory in golf putting. According to Ericsson and colleagues (Ericsson & Smith, 1991; Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer, 1993), a performer's mental representations are the...
Substance Use Problems and Negative Life Events in College Students: An Examination of Individual Differences Variables as Potential Moderators and Mediators
Individual differences may explain why some people indulge in maladaptive alcohol and drug use when faced with negative life events while others do not. The purpose of this study was to examine the possible role that impulsivity, ...
Recent experiments in embodied social cognition have documented a number of links between physical and psychological states. Warm temperature sensations, in particular, have been the subject of much investigation. Many studies have...
Commitment is essential to the long-term maintenance of romantic relationships. Commitment promotes relationship maintenance strategies and a variety of other positive relationship outcomes. However, when paired with jealousy, commitment...
We examined the effect of alcohol intoxication on expression of prejudice, a prototypic and socially important, yet largely neglected, example of disinhibited behavior. Experimental procedures were used to examine how drinking influences...
The present investigation tested the hypothesis that people with individualistic cultural orientation favor an experience of standing out, whereas those with collectivistic cultural orientation prefer an experience of blending in as a...
Romantic love and sexual desire function to promote bonding between romantic partners and intimate physical contact between mating partners, respectively. In the current study, we examined how love and sexual desire might modulate...
The current study investigated Lilienfeld's (1992) sex differentiation hypothesis. Modifications were made to highlight the importance of examining social expectations of acceptable behavior for women and men. Modifications were also...
Twenty to 30% of defendants undergoing criminal forensic evaluations have been reported to be malingering. Given that the most common type of criminal forensic evaluation is the assessment of competency to stand trial, the assessment of...
Eating disorders are particularly intractable psychological disorders that are proposed to result from a combination of genetic and sociocultural factors. Within the sociocultural model, internalization of the thin-ideal that is promoted...
A "real-world" example of social self-control, suppression of racial stereotypes, was manipulated to test Baumeister's ego depletion theory of self-control on another "real-world" behavior, alcohol consumption. College-aged social...
The current study examined the prevalence of major psychiatric disorders for Hispanics and Caucasians and explored those factors that contributed to differences between these groups. The data were obtained as part of a large general...
Despite the growing population of ethnic minority groups in the United States, there have only been a few investigations of the differential manifestation of psychopathology in these groups. The limited existing literature suggests...
Prior research suggests praise increases motivation. The present research tested pride and humility as mediators of the effect of praise on motivation. I hypothesized that pride may contribute to motivation because it is pleasant to...
Previous research has found that uncertainty temporarily impairs people's ability to exercise self-regulation (Alquist, Baumeister, & Tice, in prep; Milkman, 2012). The present study tested the hypothesis that uncertainty continues to...
Successful completion of the introductory course in organic chemistry is a prerequisite for many graduate and professional science programs, yet the failure rate for this course is notoriously high. To date, there have been few studies...
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...
Every romantic partner possesses faults and will at some point act poorly during the course of a relationship. Such negativity can lead to conflict and even relationship dissolution. In order to protect their relationship, romantically...
Research suggests that intolerance of uncertainty (IU) may be a maintaining factor for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Cognitive models contend that information-processing biases play an etiological role in anxiety. One such bias...
The desire for positive social relationships is a fundamental motive shaping human cognition and behavior. In the current research, I integrate social cognitive, evolutionary, and neuroendocrinological theories to generate and test...
The Relationship Among Linguistic Patterns, Thwarted Belongingness, Perceived Burdensomeness, and Suicidal Behavior: A Test of Joiner's Theory of Suicide
Joiner's interpersonal and psychological theory of suicide (2005) defines thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness as essential correlates of suicidal behavior. To test this theory, belongingness and burdensomeness were...
Compulsive hoarding has been defined as the accumulation of and failure to discard a large number of possessions that appear to have little or no value, to the extent that ones living spaces are precluded from everyday use. Current...
Evidence indicates that self-regulation relies on glucose as a limited energy source, such that self-regulation is impaired when glucose is lower and is improved when glucose is higher. Two studies examined whether levels of oxygen, the...
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