Browsing by FAS Department "Psychology"
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Affective Neutral Reactivity to Criticism in Individuals High and Low on Perceived Criticism
(Public Library of Science, 2012)People who have remitted from depression are at increased risk for relapse if they rate their relatives as being critical of them on a simple self-report measure of Perceived Criticism (PC). To explore neural mechanisms ... -
An Afterword: The Utility of Cognitive Models for the Field of Psychopathology
(American Psychological Association, 2002)Cognitive models of psychopathology provide opportunities and challenges for both the research psychopathologist and the clinician concerned with practical applications to individuals. Heterogeneity of individual pathology ... -
Aged-Related Neural Changes During Memory Conjunction Errors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2010)Human behavioral studies demonstrate that healthy aging is often accompanied by increases in memory distortions or errors. Here we used event-related functional MRI to examine the neural basis of age-related memory ... -
Agentic-Communal Paradox in Organizations: An Investigation of Gender, Power and Values
(2020-08-24)This study investigated how males and females at different levels of power prioritize values and construe power in professional settings. Two core drivers of human behavior are agency and communion (Rucker, Galinsky & ... -
Alcohol and Self-Evaluation: Is a Social Cognition Approach Beneficial?
(Guilford Publications, 1989)Based on psychosocial models, a view of alcohol use and addiction as resulting from a habitual maladaptive means of coping with stress has recently emerged. In this article, we present some critical experiments documenting ... -
All Numbers Are Not Equal: An Electrophysiological Investigation of Small and Large Number Representations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)Behavioral and brain imaging research indicates that human infants, humans adults, and many nonhuman animals represent large nonsymbolic numbers approximately, discriminating between sets with a ratio limit on accuracy. ... -
All Talk and No Action: A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study of Motor Cortex Activation During Action Word Production
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004)A number of researchers have proposed that the premotor and motor areas are critical for the representation of words that refer to actions, but not objects. Recent evidence against this hypothesis indicates that the left ... -
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 Boldness and Risk-Taking the Common Threads Between Creativity and Psychopathy?
(2020-08-24)This study examined boldness and risk-taking as potential common threads between creativity and psychopathy by analyzing the correlation between boldness and risk-taking and psychopathy and creativity. Psychopathy was ... -
Are Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction Higher When Employees' Jobs Match Their Cognitive Style?
(2020-01-24)Research has shown that field dependent and field independent people respond to their environments differently. Further, there have been several studies that document a lack of employee-job fit as a major reason for why ...