Browsing by Department "Psychological Sciences"
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The Effects of Workplace Weight Discrimination on Social Pain Minimization and Interpersonal and Organizational Experiences
(2023-11-27)
Although a majority of employees in the United States are considered medically overweight or obese, workplace weight discrimination is a pervasive and harmful experience that negatively impacts employees and organizations. ...
Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Distress in Veterinary Support Staff
(2023-08-03)
In medicine, clinical scenarios arise that require practitioners to balance conflicting professional obligations. These ethical dilemmas can cause moral distress, which is defined as knowing the right thing to do but being ...
Executive Functions in Detection Dogs
(2021-07-12)
Researchers in the field of canine cognition have developed several tasks to study executive functions, like working memory and inhibitory control, in dogs. Findings from such tasks have provided new information regarding ...
Explaining Workaholism’s Effects on Work-Family Conflict: A Boundary Theory Approach
(2021-07-19)
This research examines the linking mechanisms and conditional processes underlying the
workaholism and work-family conflict relationship. Based primarily on the boundary
management literature, it was hypothesized that ...
Exploring Adolescents’ Social Validity Ratings of Social Profiles: The Impact of Eye Contact
(2023-07-25)
Attending to the eyes of another person has an adaptive function demonstrated within the first few months of human life. Non-verbal transactions in the form of eye contact facilitate both cognitive and social development; ...
Exploring the Impact of Depression on Caregiver-Report of Child Behavior in a Court Ordered Sample
(2021-04-21)
The current study analyzed evidence for a possible depression-abuse distortion in maternal perception of child problematic behavior within a sample of court ordered families. Pre-treatment parent-child behavioral observation ...
Exploring the Relationship Between Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome and Social Problem Solving
(2023-05-08)
Cognitive disengagement syndrome (CDS), previously referred to as sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), is represented by a set of symptoms that have been found to be associated with emotional, social, and daily life impairments ...
A Factor Analytic Examination of Burnout
(2022-08-01)
With the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, burnout is an increasingly popular topic in the public discourse. However, scientific research displays a lack of consensus about burnout’s underlying factor ...
Factors Affecting Odor Detection Proficiency in Dogs
(2023-07-18)
Dogs fill a variety of roles in human society, but the detection dog is widely believed to be the most adept tool used in detecting contraband materials. However, the demand for detection dogs far exceeds the supply within ...
Family Conflict Typology, Maternal Engagement, and Early Childhood Adjustment: A Latent Class Analysis
(2021-12-10)
Family conflict is a broad construct which can encompass violent and non-violent types of conflict. Problematic child outcomes have been associated with exposure to violent and nonviolent forms of inter-parental conflict, ...
The Great Resignation: A Qualitative Study Examining Turnover During COVID-19
(2023-07-27)
This study examined reasons behind The Great Resignation, a phenomenon that noted the mass quantity with which Americans left their job during the COVID-19 pandemic. Central to this phenomenon is employee turnover. Because ...
ICD-11 Versus DSM-5 Conceptualizations of Posttraumatic Psychopathology: Implications for Prevalence, Comorbidity, and Measurement of PTSD and Complex PTSD
(2022-04-25)
ICD-11 and DSM-5 represent disparate approaches to diagnostic categories and criteria for posttraumatic psychopathology. First, DSM-5 follows a broad approach to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom criteria, whereas ...
Identifying Preferences Using A Conjugate Preparation
(2023-04-28)
Recently, Davis et al. (2021) reported that a conjugate preparation involving response force was a useful assessment for measuring the relative value of stimulus preference. The purpose of the current investigation was to ...
Impact of Conditioning Inhibitory Control Recruitment to Threat Processing in Trauma Exposed Adults
(2023-08-09)
The underlying mechanisms contributing to the risk and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are unclear. Deficits in inhibitory control (IC) have been associated with worse post-traumatic stress symptoms ...
The impact of emotion (dys)regulation on eating disorder outcomes: A longitudinal examination in a residential eating disorder treatment facility
(2023-11-08)
Eating disorders (ED’s) are a complex set of disorders associated with a high rate of comorbidities and innumerable deleterious outcomes (e.g., medical complications, high rates of death by suicide). The complexities of ...
The Impact of Unusually Distressing Events on Veterinary Professionals
(2021-08-02)
Previous studies have catalogued safety hazards and frequency of workers’ compensation claims in the veterinary workplace. However, distressing events other than workplace injuries have not been collected and analyzed, and ...
Intellectual Humility and Arrogance and Their Relationship with Self-Awareness: A Longitudinal Analysis of Congruency Through Self/Other Evaluations
(2022-04-27)
Character and leadership have long coupled to show benefits to organizations and their personnel. During the near century of modern leadership study, psychologists have focused on dozens of leader traits with an infusion ...
The Interactive effect of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, Attentional Control, and Cognitive Load on Threat-Related Attentional Bias
(2021-04-19)
Theory and empirical evidence suggest that those with higher posttraumatic stress (PTS)
symptoms and better attentional control (i.e., the strategic control of higher-order executive
attention in regulating bottom-up, ...
Is Humor the Best Medicine? Sense of Humor as a Mediator of the Relation between Dimensions of Perfectionism and Social Anxiety and Depression in College Students
(2023-04-17)
The diathesis stress model has been utilized to help clarify the association between aspects of perfectionism and psychopathology, as it emphasizes the role of poor coping skills. The current study aimed to explore the ...
“I’m Biased and so Are You”: The Effects of Gender, Race, Objective Organizational Performance, and Remote Work on Leader Evaluations
(2023-08-08)
Previous research has shown that implicit biases based on leader gender or race can influence leader evaluations, and that these biases may be moderated by contextual factors such as organizational performance. However, ...