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Quick Decisions Involving Threatening And Non-threatening Images
The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of facial expressions with respect to quick decisions involving threatening and non-threatening images, to understand better the theoretical perspectives involving ... -
Ratio Bias In Judgment Under Specific Emotions
(Psychology, 2013-03-20)How does specific emotion influence the ratio bias phenomenon? Previous studies suggested that a more systematic and analytical reasoning with logical rationality seemed to be stimulated by negative emotions. However other ... -
Re-experiencing Social Versus Physical Pain And Its Influence On Self-regulatory Reserve
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)This study examined the influence of reliving social pain on current reports of pain, self-regulatory ability, and differences in reactions. Participants (N=137) completed personality measures in phase one. Days later, ... -
Reactions To Depictions Of Intergroup Distinctiveness And Similarity Among Liberals And Conservatives
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Reactions to an intergroup distinctiveness manipulation and a potential mechanism of intergroup boundary maintenance between liberals and conservatives were investigated. In Study 1, self-identified liberals and conservatives ... -
Relationships Among Academic and Athletic Motivation and Mental, Physical, and Academic Outcomes in Collegiate Athletes
(2017-08-22)As of 2015, there were approximately 480,000 collegiate athletes in the United States. Among these students, a scant few are drafted as a professional within their respective sports. For example, only 1.6% of students ... -
The Relationships Among Depression, Pain, and Masticatory Functioning in Temporomandibular Disorder Patients
(Quintessence Publishing Co. Inc., Chicago, 2006)Aims: To evaluate the effect of comorbid depression and pain on an early biopsychosocial intervention for acute temporomandibular disorder (TMD) patients. Methods: Depressed (either - 3 - current or lifetime; n = 32) or ... -
Religious Orientation And Responses To Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Trust
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)This research experimentally manipulated death anxiety and examined its effects on social, spiritual, and self-support. Individual level of religiosity was examined as a moderating variable. Various forms of trust were ... -
Repeated Decision-making With High And Low Affect For Monetary And Social Resources
(Psychology, 2013-07-22)This research was a continuation of studies that considered the role of affect for repeated decision-making under two different conditions while maintaining similar magnitudes of gains and losses. For the two situations ... -
Review of Close Encounters of the Dorm Kind by Andrew Baum and Stuart Valins. Architecture and Social Behavior: Psychological Studies of Social Density. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum, 1977.
(APADepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1978) -
Rewind-Remind: Investigating How Gamification of Memory Tasks Can Evaluate Associative Memory Performance in Healthy, Older Adults
(2017-05-02)Associative memory, the type of memory that allows us to relate information together (e.g., a person’s face and name), is particularly susceptible to age-related deterioration. Older adults tend to engage in retrieval ... -
Risk Factors For Functional Restoration Non-completion
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)Previous studies have shown that the one-year outcomes after an interdisciplinary functional restoration program for patients with chronic disabling occupational disorders vary significantly between those who complete the ... -
The Role Of Abstraction For Creative Idea Generation
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The present study examined the role of categories during a brainstorming task. Participants were asked to generate abstract categories before they brainstormed either in groups or individually in Study 1. It was expected ... -
The Role Of Cingulate Cortex In Spatial Learning And Pain Processing
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)Research implicates the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) mediates the affective component of pain processing but not spatial learning. The Posterior Cingulate Cortex (PCC) mediates spatial learning but not pain processes. ... -
The Role Of Executive Functions And Maternal Characteristics In Externalizing Problems Among Young Children
(Psychology, 2014-07-14)Externalizing problems, such as hyperactivity, inattention, and defiance, that emerge early in life put children on a path toward numerous adverse outcomes, including delinquency, academic failure, and substance abuse. ... -
ROLE OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING IN FINANCIAL LITERACY AMONG ADOLESCENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
(2021-05-06)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder with deficits in social and communication skills with repetitive or restricted behaviors. High functioning ASD individuals report poor financial literacy as a ... -
The Role Of Religion In Managing Existential Threat: Effects On Outgroup Attitudes
(Psychology, 2013-07-22)The increased worldview defense following mortality salience is a robust finding in terror management theory research. In some cases, this defense can take the form of ingroup favoritism, outgroup bias, and prejudice. I ... -
The Role Of The Infralimbic Cortex In A Pain Intensity-graded Rodent Model Of Distraction Analgesia
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)The misdirection of attention has been used to reduce experimental and clinical pain- a technique known as distraction analgesia (DA). A growing understanding of the important interrelationship between cognition and pain ... -
The Roles Of Ingroup Identification, Prior Commitment, And Group Needs In Predicting Reactions To Group Defection
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)Three experiments were conducted to explore the effects of group member defection (versus control) on reactions by ingroup members. In Study 1, emotional reactions were less positive toward defectors than toward controls, ... -
Say Sorry or Stay Quiet: The Effect of Leader Recovery Strategies on Followers
(2019-05-21)Recently, there has been a rise in reports of ethical transgressions in the workplace. Examples such as Enron and Wells Fargo highlight this trend. The current literature on workplace transgressions such as these has ... -
Self-Compassion and Online Student Connectedness as Protective Factors against Stress and Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood
(2023-05-04)The current state of US youth and emerging adult mental health is described as a crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated (US Office of the Surgeon General, 2021). This dissertation examined whether daily ...