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Pressure-Based Pain Tolerance and Cannabis: A Neuropsychological Assessment of Pain Processing in Recreational Cannabis Users
(2018-11-15)
Chronic pain, including pain associated with medical diagnoses, is an ever-growing concern in the United States. Pain-related healthcare costs, lost labor, and medication overdoses cost Americans more $600 billion every ...
An Eye-Tracking Study of Attentional Biases for Uncertainty and Generalized Anxiety Symptoms
(2018-04-17)
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), a dispositional characteristic reflecting negative beliefs about the potential threat of uncertainty (Koerner & Dugas, 2007), is related to information-processing biases (e.g., interpretation ...
Understanding Individual Differences in Faking: The Role of Ability to Fake and Motivation to Fake
(2018-04-09)
Research on applicant faking has indicated that faking on personality tests may deteriorate the quality of hiring decisions and affect the validity of personality tests. In order to understand the occurrence of faking, ...
Preference for Accumulated and Distributed Token Exchange-Production Schedules: Effects of Task Difficulty and Variable Token-Production Schedules
(2018-06-06)
Organisms allocate behavior to simultaneously available schedules of reinforcement as a
function of different dimensions of reinforcement (e.g., delays, magnitude, response effort).
Previous research suggests that ...
The Representativeness of Gender Typicality and Attractiveness Bias in Personnel Selection
(2018-05-03)
Bias in selection procedures has the potential to hinder effective decision making and disparage members of underrepresented groups. Thus, it is important to investigate factors which may contribute to biased judgments in ...
Measuring the Abuse Liability of Video Games
(2018-06-27)
Video game playing has become increasingly popular since their creation in the 1970s and has received recent attention due to sharing many similarities with other addictive behaviors. Behavioral pharmacological models are ...
Hands up, don't shoot: Decision factors underlying the use of deadly force
(2018-07-24)
Making good decisions at work is an important facet of job performance. Understanding the cognitive processes underlying an individual’s decision making habits may improve the general comprehension of decision outcomes. ...
Toward the Narrow Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnostic Criteria: An Item Response Theory Analysis
(2018-06-18)
A crucial debate in the field of traumatic stress involves the question of whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is better represented by a broad or a narrow approach to establishing the set of symptom criteria ...
Cognitive development of detection dogs
(2018-07-24)
The question of the extent to which cognitive capabilities predict future outcomes has been long pursued across several species. Also of interest are the evolutionary implications of the comparative study of cognitive ...
Do Symptoms of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Independently Predict Social Functioning or Risky Behavior in a College Student Sample?
(2018-05-10)
As evidence for the discriminant validity of SCT continues to emerge, researchers must further examine the ways in which SCT affects functioning in order to eventually tailor treatments to this population. The current study ...