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Social Anxiety in Sexual Minority Individuals: The Role of Hypervigilance 

Gebhardt, Eli (2024-05-01)
The current study aimed to investigate the associations between hypervigilance and social anxiety disorder (SA) in sexual minority (SM) individuals, as well as the role of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or other non-heterosexual ...

Social Avoidance in Volatile Environments: An Empirical Evaluation of Behavioral Flexibility and Relapse Following Social Exclusion 

Ritchey, Carolyn (2024-04-26)
Resurgence is a relapse phenomenon comprised of the return of a previously reinforced target response (e.g., social avoidance) when conditions worsen for a more recently reinforced alternative response (e.g., approaching ...

Subconscious threat processing and cannabidiol: A randomized controlled trial. 

Bird, Ryan (2022-04-27)
Over the past two decades, neuroimaging researchers have produced strong evidence in support of a network of regions in the human brain which are responsive to socially salient threat signals in the form of fearful facial ...

Supporting the Implementation of Behavioral Interventions using a Smart Technology Platform 

Yagafarova, Aliya (2023-07-27)  ETD File Embargoed
A smart technology platform that guides behavior-change agents in the implementation of behavioral interventions may be useful for maintaining high, long-term treatment fidelity. The current study evaluated (a) whether the ...

Tests of olfactory memory in dogs and humans 

Davila, Adam (2023-08-03)
Olfaction is a highly evolutionarily preserved cognitive process in the brains of animals. In the fields of psychology and neuroscience, research on olfaction has lagged far behind that of vision or other physical senses. ...

Understanding Workplace Uncertainty: Inception, Development, and Preliminary Validation of the Workplace Uncertainty Tolerance Scale 

Acosta, Joshua (2022-07-13)
Uncertainty is a fundamental aspect of the work experience (Simon, 1955; 1956), yet little scholarly research exists examining human functioning when experiencing uncertainty at work. This dissertation advances the ...

Unmuting the Mic on Telework: The Development and Validation of Telework OCB and CWB Scales 

Richardson, Jonah (2024-04-29)  ETD File Embargoed
This paper proposes the development and validation of two new scales for measuring telework organizational citizenship behaviors (T-OCBs) and telework counterproductive workplace behaviors (T-CWBs). These scales are being ...

What Type of Maximizer Are You? Uncovering Latent Profiles of Maximizing 

Willits, Taylor (2021-12-07)
Maximizing, originally defined as the tendency to seek the best decision through alternative search and decision difficulty, has undergone significant revision since the construct was introduced nearly two decades ago. ...

Wisdom: A Virtue or a Vice? Examining Wisdom's Role in Moral Reasoning and Behavior in Organizations 

Wilmore, Thomas (2023-08-03)
Research has demonstrated personality traits’ capacity to predict moral thinking and workplace behavior. This research has predominantly focused on traits contained within the Big Five and HEXACO frameworks. However, ...

Working in Person During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Job Demands and Resources of Reopening the Economy 

Hickey, Hayden (2021-06-14)
This study investigated the effects of working in person during the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived job demands and resources for employees. The job demands-resources (JD-R) model of employee stress indicates that workplace ...