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Surfing Safely: An Examination of Online Dating Skills in Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2015-07-28)
Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have difficulty forming romantic relationships, despite having motivation to establish them. The lack of success through traditional, face-to-face dating may lead adults with ASD ...
Corticosterone as a Predictor of Long-term Outcomes of Fear Attenuation Treatment
(2015-07-21)
Blunted adrenal corticosteroid levels and dysregulation of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis are known risk factors for developing PTSD (Delahanty et al., 2000; McFarlane et al., 1997). Although other risk ...
Delayed Reward Discounting in Adolescents with Sexual Offense Convictions
(2015-05-13)
Current explanatory models of sexual offending have been useful in elucidating the etiology of maladaptive sexual behaviors. Prominent models of sexual offending, however, are based largely on empirical findings regarding ...
Retrieval Blocking Supports the Testing Effect with All-of-the-Above Questions on a Multiple-Choice Test
(2015-05-08)
Poorly constructed multiple-choice-questions (MCQ) can have dire consequences on students' exam performance (e.g. negative testing effect). For example, either increasing the answer options (Roediger & Marsh, 2005) or ...
Romantic relationship investment and commitment: An expansion of the Investment Model conceptualization
(2015-12-08)
Objective: Rusbult (1980) postulated that the endowment of personal contributions to a
romantic relationship increases relationship commitment. This two-study project developed and
psychometrically tested a theoretical ...
Incremental Repeated Acquisition in Children: Examining How Chain Type Might Influence the Association with Measures of Executive Function.
(2015-12-10)
The Incremental Repeated Acquisition (IRA) procedure requires a participant to learn to produce a new sequence of responses each session. The current work makes two novel contributions to the small body of literature ...
Exploring a Unified Concept of Occupational Well-being through Validation in an Applied Setting
(2015-07-02)
This study unifies divergent conceptualizations of occupational well-being (OWB) to clearly define the construct based on a well-articulated theory. It also validates a new measure of OWB in a practical setting in order ...
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 ...
Testing the Effectiveness and Psychology of Different Types of Pre-warnings in Reducing Applicant Faking on Personality Tests within Selection Contexts
(2015-12-16)
Research has consistently found that pre-warning can reduce faking. This study included four pre-warnings: (1) the detection and consequence warning, (2) reasoning warning, (3) subjective norm warning, and (4) moral ...
Dimensions of Growth: Examining the Five Factors of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory
(2015-12-10)
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is positive transformation following a traumatic experience. PTG, commonly measured with the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), is postulated to occur in five distinct ...