Browsing by Department "Psychology"
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Assessing the Relationship Between Problematic Eating and Alcohol Use Behaviors Among National Eating Disorders Screening Program Participants
(2007-12-15)
Research has shown that college students have elevated rates of alcohol use and problematic eating behaviors. These behaviors show high rates of comorbidity. Further, research suggests that individuals with bulimia and ...
Assessing to Learn and Learning to Assess: Examining Assessment Fidelity for the Parent-Child Interaction Coding System
(2012-11-06)
Fidelity to treatment protocol has been found to predict treatment outcome (Schoenwald, Sheidowm & Chapman, 2009; Henggeler, Schoenwald, Liao, Letourneau, & Edwards, 2002) and is especially important to evaluate within the ...
Assessment of Disharmony and Disaffection
(2013-06-14)
Intimate relationship researchers’ need to accurately assess conflict resolution and emotional connection has driven the development of instruments measuring disharmony and disaffection, constructs that assess these ...
The Assessment of Preference for Qualitatively Different Reinforcers in Persons with Developmental and Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Value Using Behavioral Economic and Standard Preference Assessment Procedures
(2009-07-23)
Standard preference assessment results may have limited generality when schedule requirements are increased, which may compromise treatment efficacy. While standard procedures can provide reliable preference ranks and ...
Association between fear and visual memory for central and peripheral details
(2006-12-15)
The present study sought to determine if phobic individuals have improved memory for stimuli that are related to their phobic fear relative to non-anxiety provoking stimuli. Four hundred fifty-eight participants were ...
Assortativity of suicide-related posting on Twitter
(2017-11-16)
Networks in which similar individuals are more likely to associate with one another than their dissimilar counterparts are called assortative. Such patterns are a hallmark of human social networks, in which numerous phenomena ...
The Attentional Blink Effect in Spider Phobia
(2011-08-08)
Extant research suggests that individuals with spider phobia relative to non-anxious controls display a shorter attentional blink (AB) in response to spider-related target words. Common methodological limitations of such ...
Attitudes towards Physical and Psychological Aggression between Intimate Partners: A Factorial Vignette Analysis
(2012-07-25)
Existing literature supports an association between attitudes toward violence and the perpetration of violent behavior (Carr & VanDeusen, 2002; Falchikov, 1996; Lichter & McCloskey, 2004). To further our understanding of ...
Attributions and Depression Across Cultures
(2005-12-15)
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, ...
Behavioral Economic Indices and their Relationship to Alcohol Consumption, Motives, and Impulsivity: A Structural Equation Model
(2016-06-17)
Alcohol consumption and related negative consequences continues to be a systemic societal problem. College students are a population that has been identified as particularly high risk for a number of negative consequences ...
Behavioral Effects of Calcium Channel Blockers: Acute Exposures and Neuroprotection Against Methylmercury Neurotoxicity
(2012-05-01)
The maintenance of intracellular calcium homeostasis is among the most important homeostatic functions of the nervous system as it allows the calcium ion to function as a chemical messenger. Often damage to the central ...
A Behavioral Procedure for Measuring Critical Fusion Frequency in Rats
(2005-08-15)
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; ...
Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace: The Effects of Mindful Practices on Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
(2017-12-04)
Mindfulness research has been growing in its scope of having an influencing impact within organizational settings. A goal of this study was to add to the ongoing research by including situational factors, as they might ...
Blocking and reciprocal blocking in predictive and causal learning
(2014-07-11)
The blocking effect (Kamin, 1968) demonstrated that responding to a stimulus was attenuated (blocked) if it was presented in compound with a previously trained stimulus. Prior work with non-human animals, which examined ...
A bout analysis reveals age-dependent methylmercury neurotoxicity and nimodipine neuroprotection: Implications for the role of calcium homeostasis in aging
(2016-07-20)
Learning and sensorimotor function decline in normal aging and these deficits may be related to elevations in intracellular calcium (Ca2+) levels [Ca2+]i. The neurotoxicity of methylmercury (MeHg), a ubiquitous environmental ...
A Brief Abstinence Test for College Student Smokers: Testing the Utility of a Novel Choice Task
(2007-08-15)
Cigarette smoking among college students is prevalent and correlated with other unhealthy behaviors. Reinforced abstinence (e.g., contingency management) has been demonstrated to be an effective method for reducing substance ...
Brief Alcohol Intervention with College Students using BASICS: Face-to-Face versus Computerized Feedback
(2007-12-15)
Research suggests that brief motivational models of intervention for alcohol use among college students are effective in decreasing risky drinking (Baer, Marlatt, Kivlhan, Fromme, Larimer, & Williams, 1992; Emrick 1975). ...
Changing disease knowledge, self-efficacy, and adherence in transition-aged youth with inflammatory bowel disease: The impact of a telehealth coaching intervention
(2020-07-13)
The current study is an evaluation of the first structured transition program for families managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) within the United States. To determine the program’s effectiveness, important transition ...
Choice in C57BL/6n Mice: Behavioral and Pharmacological Mechanisms of Concurrent Schedule Performance
(2016-07-25)
Evidence from clinical and laboratory studies converge on the same neurochemical and neuroanatomical substrates underlying choice behavior. The findings suggest that behavioral adjustments in choice procedures are the ...
Classic and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Latent Profile Analysis
(2015-12-04)
Some trauma survivors, especially those exposed to chronic interpersonal trauma, exhibit a wide range of psychological sequelae beyond the classic symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Foremost among these are ...