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A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA USE, LONELINESS, AND CYBERBULLYING
(2020-08-27)The rates of social media use, cyberbullying, and loneliness are interrelated and simultaneously on the rise. Applying Jensen-Campbell’s Stress Model of Peer Victimization (Knack, Jensen-Campbell, & Baum, 2011) and the ... -
Acute Elevation In Estradiol Influences The Salience Of Cocaine Cues
Previous research demonstrates that women and female rodents are more responsive to environmental stimuli associated with drug reward than males. A growing body of literature supports a role for estradiol as one of the ... -
Addressing the Information Crisis: Understanding the Relationships Between Information Choices and Health and Academic Outcomes
(2023-08-10)In today’s society, the prevalence of the “share first, question later” mentality has become a norm. However, this approach to information can have severe consequences when it comes to information seeking behaviors, and ... -
Ageism And The Contact Hypothesis: The Effects Of Work-related And Non Work-related Contact On Age-related Stereotypes
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Ageism can be defined as positive or negative attitudes toward a group based solely on their age. The present study examined the effect of the contact hypothesis (Allport, 1958) on ageism. Specifically, work-related and ... -
An Animal Model Of Conditioned Placebo Analgesia
(Psychology, 2014-03-10)Research on placebo analgesia (PA) has called for the further elucidation of underlying neural mechanisms. Animal models allow for experimental manipulations that are not possible or feasible in human research such as ... -
Anxiety, In-group Identification, And Depersonalized Trust
(Psychology, 2008-08-08)In a previous study, we (Kenworthy & Jones, 2008) examined the effect of induced anxiety on depersonalized in-group trust within low and high importance groups. We found that the anxiety induction increased depersonalized ... -
Are Socially Dominant Men More Facially Dominant And More Prone To Sexual Jealousy?
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)Previous studies show that men with masculine facial characteristics are perceived as more dominant than men with less masculine facial characteristics. This study investigated whether facially dominant men behaved more ... -
Are Some Children Weight Blind? The Stigma Of Obesity And Its Influence On 3rd-6th Grade Children
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)The aim of this research was to examine when the buffering effects (if any) of ethnicity, sex, age difference, and personality affect the stigmatization of overweight children, and to determine if some children can indeed ... -
ASSESSING NON-MOTOR SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE USING A 6-HYDROXYDOPAMINE LESION IN THE SUBSTANTIA NIGRA
(2022-12-20)Motor symptoms within Parkinson’s disease (PD) are some of the most well-researched areas, whereas there remains an extensive gap in the literature researching non-motor symptoms, which include sleep, mood, pain and cognitive ... -
Assessing the Impact of Pain on Decision-making in a Rat Gambling Task (RGT)
(2017-07-31)Recent clinical assessments using the Iowa Gambling Task have revealed pain can negatively affect decision-making processes, leading to risky or poor decisions. Despite the gain these models have made in further elucidating ... -
Asynchronous Idea Generation
(Psychology, 2012-07-25)The studies examined the role of providing review sessions during a brainstorming task. Participants were asked to generate ideas either as pair or individually. It was expected that participants who were provided time to ... -
BEHAVIORAL AND LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL CHANGES IN THE THALAMUS AND ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX OF BEHAVING RATS EXPERIENCING POST HERPETIC NEURALGIA
(2016-11-30)Post herpetic neuralgia (PHN) is experienced as burning pain in the facial region, caused by nerve damage from the herpes zoster virus. The pain often becomes chronic and debilitating. Investigations into the pain pathway ... -
Biological Aging And Peer Victimization: The Role Of Social Support In Telomere Length And Health Outcomes
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)The health benefits of social support have been well documented in the literature (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Newman & Roberts, 2013), as have the somatic and psychological outcomes of being the victim of bullying (Wang, ... -
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MEASURES RELATED TO POSTURAL CONTROL IN OLDER ADULTS
(2019-07-18)This study examined the biopsychosocial measure related to postural control in the growing population of older adults (i.e., 60 years and older). The sample of the study consisted of 129 older adults (M = 74.45, SD = 6.95), ... -
Bullying, Victimization, Depression, And Substance Use: Sex As A Possible Complicating Factor
(Psychology, 2013-07-22)As previous research emphasizes a complex model of substance use regarding bullying dynamics and influence with depression, further investigation is warranted. Adolescents aged 15 years were selected from the Health Behaviors ... -
Characterization Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Posttraumatic Growth: Common Determinants And Associations
The current study sought to examine common determinants of posttraumatic stress posttraumatic growth. Specifically, it sought to determine whether common factors may differentially predict PTS and PTG. A longitudinal ... -
Chemotherapy Related Cognitive Impairment In The Rat
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)Treatment for cancer has been indicated to negatively impact the quality of life for patients. Specifically, chemotherapy has been associated with fatigue, nausea, and peripheral neuropathy. More recently, chemotherapy has ... -
Chronic Widespread Pain In Patients With Occupational Spinal Disorders: Prevalence, Psychiatric Comorbidity, And Association With One-year Treatment Outcomes
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)Chronic Widespread Pain (CWP) is estimated to affect 4.1% - 13.5% of the general population. Compared to those who are pain-free or have localized pain, those with widespread body pain have been found to higher rates of ... -
Competition Between Dorsal Root Reflex And Sympathetic Activity On Neurogenic Inflammation
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)Neurogenic inflammation is caused by the inflammatory substances released from the peripheral terminals of afferent fibers. Vasodilation is one of the cardinal signs of neurogenic inflammation. It is thought that neurogenic ... -
Conditioned Place Preference In The Male Wistar-Kyoto Rat
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)The current set of experiments examined the role of trait anxiety, using the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat, on cocaine- and morphine-induced conditioned place preference. Both four and six pairings of 10mg/kg cocaine during ...