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Attributions and Depression Across Cultures
(2008-09-09)
There is evidence that culture and depression can both affect the pattern of explanations that people give for events. To date, research on attributions has considered only culture or depression with respect to attributions, ...
A Comparison of Personal Attribute and Scenario Based Shame Measures
(2008-09-09)
Shame has become an increasingly important topic in the study of emotion and psychopathology; however, the best way to measure it remains unclear. Three current, prominent shame measures include the Experience of Shame ...
Psychopathy and Choice of Victims: Implications for the Sub-Categorization and Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders
(2008-09-09)
Adolescent sexual offenders are responsible for a considerable portion of the sexual abuse victimization that takes place in American society today. Convicted sexual offenders report that they most often began their sexual ...
Predicting Objective Measures of Performance
(2009-02-23)
In todays competitive job market, many organizations use various selection procedures in order to hire the best possible employees. Most selection tools such as structured interviews, mental ability tests, and personality ...
The percentile IRT schedule: High rate behavior as a tool for examining the toxic motor effects of methylmercury
(2008-09-09)
Methylmercury exposure has become a topic of interest in both the toxicology literature and among the general media within the last decade. Concern about methylmercury’s toxicity has grown with the discovery that ...
Response-Consequence Contingency Discriminability When Positive and Negative Reinforcement Compete in Concurrent Schedules
(2008-09-09)
Four experiments were conducted to test the qualitative prediction of contingency discriminability theory that any difference in type between the consequences of concurrently available discriminated operants will heighten ...
A Behavioral Procedure for Measuring Critical Fusion Frequency in Rats
(2008-09-09)
The ingestion of methylmercury (MeHg) has been found to adversely affect primate and human visual fields and contrast sensitivity (Choi, Cho, & Lapham, 1981; Clarkson, 1989; Gilbert & Grant -Webster, 1995; Merigan, 1980; ...
Analysis of the Hierarchical Nature of Clinicians’ Organization of Mental Disorders
(2008-09-09)
The organization of mental disorders by clinicians can be viewed as a type of folk taxonomy. If this is true, the organizations of clinicians should exhibit certain properties; specifically, they should be hierarchical. ...
Differences in Flicker Paradigm Response Times: Change Blindness in Snake Phobics
(2008-09-09)
This study is a replication of Wheeler (2003), expanding upon his exploration of the connection between snake phobia and change blindness, a phenomenon in which individuals do not recognize changes in their immediate ...
Exploring the Diagnostic Utility of the Flicker Task and the Continuous Performance Test in Adults with ADHD
(2008-09-09)
Continuous performance tests (CPTs) are widely used to help diagnose Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, the diagnostic utility of CPTs is generally poor. This study examined the ability of the flicker ...