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Situational and Dispositional Determinants of College Men’s Perception of Women’s Sexual Wantedness and Sexual Consent: A Factorial Vignette Analysis
(2014-07-09)
The presence of sexual consent is pivotal to the determination of the legality and morality of a given sexual interaction. As such, the conceptualization of sexual consent is of particular importance within the study of ...
Assessing the Efficacy of Pictorial Preference Assessments for Children with Developmental Disabilities
(2014-04-25)
A pictorial preference assessment is a potentially valuable tool because it allows clinicians to quickly assess preferences for complex stimuli that cannot easily be presented during an assessment. Past research has ...
Restrictive Eating and Risk for Suicidal Behavior: An Application of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide
(2014-05-01)
Though the relationship between methods of dieting and suicidal behavior has been established (e.g., Crow et al., 2008), existing studies have not examined mechanisms underlying this relationship. This study sought to ...
What is Child-Directed Interaction? Evaluating the use of Jeopardy to Increase Child-Directed Interaction Knowledge Retention
(2014-07-09)
In recent years Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) has continued to grow and evolve as an empirically supported treatment for children with disruptive behavior disorders. As a result of this growth, PCIT International ...
Dieting, Alcohol Use, and Impulsivity in a Sample of Undergraduate Students
(2011-07-01)
Dieting behavior is correlated with frequency and quantity of alcohol use and alcohol related problems. Research has also shown that dieting behaviors are correlated with impulsivity, as measured by self-report questionnaires. ...
The Effects of Fixed-Time Reinforcement Schedules on Functional Response Classes: A Translational Study.
(2011-01-24)
Research on functional response classes (i.e., all response topographies under the same operant control) has applied significance because less severe forms of problem behavior have been found to co-occur with other, more ...
Correlates of Change in Adolescent Psychopathic Traits
(2011-08-10)
Modeled after conceptualizations of adult psychopathy, adolescent psychopathy has been defined as a serious personality disorder characterized by a distinctive constellation of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral ...
Are All Substance Users Created Equal? Factors that Influence Stigma toward Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
(2011-08-09)
Social stigma has been defined as a collection of negative attitudes, beliefs, thoughts or behaviors that influence an individual or group to fear, avoid, or discriminate against people with particular characteristics. ...
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 ...
Predicting Motivation to Change
(2012-01-10)
Motivation to decrease alcohol consumption has been a focus of past research with college students. However studies on the predictors of motivation among college students have produced mixed results. There is some theoretical ...