Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Psychology"
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Amelioration of Child Depression Through Behavioral Parent Training: A Preliminary Study
(Informa UK Limited, 2015-07-02)Child depression is an impairing condition for which tested treatments have shown relatively modest mean effects. One possible explanation is that the treatments have generally adopted an individual child focus, without ... -
American = White?
(American Psychological Association, 2005-03)Six studies investigated the extent to which American ethnic groups (African, Asian, and White) are associated with the category “American.” Although strong explicit commitments to egalitarian principles were expressed in ... -
Amygdala Response to Facial Expressions Reflects Emotional Learning
(Society for Neuroscience, 2006)The functional role of the human amygdala in the evaluation of emotional facial expressions is unclear. Previous animal and human research shows that the amygdala participates in processing positive and negative reinforcement ... -
Analysis and interpretation of serial position data
(Informa UK Limited, 2010)The representation of serial position in sequences is an important topic in a variety of cognitive areas including the domains of language, memory, and motor control. In the neuropsychological literature, serial position ... -
Anatomical Constraints on Attention: Hemifield Independence Is a Signature of Multifocal Spatial Selection
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2012)Previous studies have shown independent attentional selection of targets in the left and right visual hemifields during attentional tracking (Alvarez & Cavanagh, 2005) but not during a visual search (Luck, Hillyard, Mangun, ... -
Annual Research Review: Building a science of personalized intervention for youth mental health
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Background Within the past decade, health care service and research priorities have shifted from evidence-based medicine to personalized medicine. In mental health care, a similar shift to personalized intervention may ... -
Annual Research Review: Suicide among youth - epidemiology, (potential) etiology, and treatment
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)Background: Suicide is a leading cause of death and a complex clinical outcome. Here we summarize the current state of research pertaining to suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth. We review their definitions/measurement ... -
Anticipating One's Troubles: The Costs and Benefits of Negative Expectations
(American Psychological Association, 2009)Although negative expectations may have the benefit of softening the blow when a negative event occurs, they also have the cost of making people feel worse while they are waiting for that event to happen. Three studies ... -
Anxiety and its disorders as risk factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors: A meta-analytic review
(Elsevier BV, 2016)Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are highly prevalent public health problems with devastating consequences. There is an urgent need to improve our understanding of risk factors for suicide to identify effective intervention ... -
Anxiety Sensitivity in Bereaved Adults With and Without Complicated Grief
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014)Complicated grief (CG) is a bereavement-specific syndrome chiefly characterized by symptoms of persistent separation distress. Physiological reactivity to reminders of the loss and repeated acute pangs or waves of severe ... -
Apparent Universality of Positive Implicit Self-Esteem
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Are Self-Injurers Impulsive?
(Elsevier, 2009)Common clinical wisdom suggests that people who engage in self-injury are impulsive. However, virtually all prior work in this area has relied on individuals’ self-report of impulsiveness, despite evidence that people are ... -
Are social norms and reciprocity necessary for early helping?
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Are We Winning the War against Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012)The most methodologically rigorous epidemiological study on American military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan found that 4.3% of troops developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among deployed combatants, ... -
Asking the Right Questions About Leadership: Discussion and Conclusions
(American Psychological Association, 2007)Five questions prompted by the articles in the American Psychologist special issue on leadership (January 2007, Vol. 62, No. 1) suggest some new directions for leadership research: (1) Not do leaders make a difference, but ... -
Assessing Fit Between Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Youth Depression and Real-Life Coping in Early Adolescence
(Informa UK Limited, 2015)The modest efficacy of psychological interventions for youth depression, including evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs), suggests a question: Do the therapy components match the coping strategies youths find helpful when ... -
Assessing Secondary Control and its Association with Youth Depression Symptoms
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2010)Extensive research has linked youth depression symptoms to low levels of perceived control, using measures that reflect primary control (i.e., influencing objective conditions to make them fit one’s wishes). We hypothesized ... -
Assessing the psychological health of captive and wild apes: A response to Ferdowsian et al. (2011).
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2013)As many studies of cognition and behavior involve captive animals, assessing any psychological impact of captive conditions is an important goal for comparative researchers. Ferdowsian and colleagues (2011) sought to address ... -
Assessment of Self-Injurious Thoughts Using A Behavioral Test
(American Psychiaric Publishing, 2007)OBJECTIVE: The assessment of self-injurious thoughts has been limited by a reliance on what individuals are willing or able to report explicitly. The authors examined a new method that measures self-injurious thoughts by ... -
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice
(Elsevier BV, 2012)Using correlational and experimental data, we examined the degree to which personal and perceived normative support for the acculturation ideologies of assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness mediated and moderated ...