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Differences in Immediate and Subsequent Effects of Stimuli on Vocal Stereotypy Inform DRO and DRA Treatments
(2017-07-18)
We conducted a series of studies on the immediate and subsequent effects of stimuli on vocal stereotypy exhibited by four children with disabilities. Results of Study 1 showed that vocal and motor stereotypy of all four ...
The Detailed Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress, 2nd Edition (DAPS-II): Initial Psychometric Evaluation in a Trauma-Exposed Community Sample
(2017-04-16)
The Detailed Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress (DAPS; Briere, 2001) is a comprehensive, multiscale questionnaire that assesses all posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic criteria, as well as peritraumatic responses ...
Development of a Work-Life Balance Scale: Perceived Effectiveness and Satisfaction across Roles
(2017-07-07)
The present study aims to summarize existing literature on work-life balance before providing a newly developed scale to measure this construct. Work-life balance has held many definitions since it was first proposed, but ...
Evaluating the Effects of Omission Errors during Token Economies
(2017-07-31)
A token economy is a differential-reinforcement of alternative-behavior (DRA)
procedure that can be used to decrease problem behavior and increase appropriate behavior and
involves the delivery of tokens on a specified ...
Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Investigation Using Factor Mixture Modeling
(2017-06-21)
It has long been established that the experience of traumatic events can result in pathological distress. Some of these reactions, such as hyperarousal or the avoidance of trauma-related cues, are recognized as prototypical ...
Neurofunctional Correlates of Geometry and Feature Use in a Virtual Environment Across the Lifespan
(2017-04-12)
There are mixed results regarding the differentiation of neurofunctional correlates of spatial abilities. To help elucidate the existing mixed findings, three experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, college-aged ...
Disparities in the Courtroom: Exploring the Influence of Race/Ethnicity and Offense Category on Charge Reductions during Judicial Disposition Making
(2017-04-21)
African American males comprise the most overrepresented group in the juvenile justice system. This disparity has been attributed, in part, to implicit biases. Moreover, family structure and prior court referrals also ...
Effects of Spacing and Intensity of Behavior on Levels of Treatment Integrity
(2017-07-27)
Problem behavior can be extremely disruptive and can impact a person’s success in his home, school, and community. A behavior intervention plan (BIP) can be developed to reduce the problem behavior and increase appropriate ...
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 ...
Experimental manipulation of emotion regulation self-efficacy: Effects on emotion regulation ability, perceived effort in the service of regulation, and affective reactivity
(2017-10-24)
Emotion regulation self-efficacy (Tamir & Mauss, 2011) is a construct of interest that may be prospectively linked to psychological distress. The present study sought to a) replicate findings in which enhanced emotion ...