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Expanding Beyond The Foundations Of Decision-making: Perceptual Differences Of Risk Between Resources
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)
This research examined how resources such as life, food, and money are calculated in decision-making. Presently, the field assumes that various types of resources have the same value when a choice is being made. The study ...
Evaluation Of A Randomized Clinical Trial Of A Psychoeducational Intervention On Long-term Quality Of Life, Negative Affect, Progression And Survival In Head And Neck Cancer Patients
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)
The relationship between psychological and physiological factors that impact health is an important consideration for daily life, illness prevention, treatment, and recovery in cancer patients. Psychological functioning ...
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 ...
Does Teacher Bullying Predict Poorer Adjustment Outcomes In Students?
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)
The current thesis sought to examine whether (1) teacher bullying affects students' health, academic motivation and performance, (2) there are ethnic differences in teacher bullying, (3) teacher and peer bullying are ...
The Influence Of Contingent Self-esteem And Self-esteem Variability On Reactions To Ostracism
(Psychology, 2010-03-03)
This study examined whether contingent self-esteem and self-esteem variability uniquely influenced reactions to social exclusion. Despite the extensive research done on ostracism and its effects on self-esteem, previous ...
A Novel Method Utilizing Approach-avoidance To Assess The Aversive Nature Of Pain
(Psychology, 2013-07-22)
Pain is a multidimensional experience that involves sensory, emotional/affective, and evaluative components, yet preclinical pain research has mainly focused on testing the sensory dimension. Those suffering from pain may ...
An Experimental Test Of Extended Contact Hypothesis: Its Boundary Conditions And Psychological Processes
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)
The extended contact hypothesis states that contact with an ingroup member, who has an outgroup friend, facilitates favorable outgroup attitudes (Wright, Aron, McLaughlin-Volpe, & Ropp, 1997). An experimental manipulation ...
Gender Differences In Emotional Labor
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)
This study examined the differences in emotional labor efforts between men and women. Emotional labor refers to the incongruity between experienced emotions and displayed emotions. This "faking" or "acting" that takes place ...
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 ...
Testing The Effects Of Civility And Rationality During Political Contact
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)
This research project investigated the effects of civility and rationality of contact between self-identified liberals and conservatives on several outcome measures: participants' evaluations of the political ingroup and ...