Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Psychology"
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A method for identifying predictive markers of mental illness in social media data
(2017-02-14)Undiagnosed mental illness poses a significant health risk. In-person screenings to identify individuals at-risk of mental illness are expensive, time-consuming, and often inaccurate. This report presents an array of ... -
Abstract Grammatical Processing of Nouns and Verbs in Broca's Area: Evidence from FMRI
(Elsevier, 2006)The role of Broca's area in grammatical computation is unclear, because syntactic processing is often confounded with working memory, articulation, or semantic selection. Morphological processing potentially circumvents ... -
Abstract Representations of Attributed Emotion: Evidence From Neuroscience and Development
(2015-05-12)Humans can recognize others’ emotions based on overt cues such as facial expressions, affective vocalizations, or body posture, or by recruiting an abstract, causal theory of the conditions that tend to elicit different ... -
Act Versus Impact: Conservatives and Liberals Exhibit Different Structural Emphases in Moral Judgment
(Wiley, 2017-05-31)Conservatives and liberals disagree sharply on matters of morality and public policy. We propose a novel account of the psychological basis of these differences. Specifically, we find that conservatives tend to emphasize ... -
Action Embellishment: An Intention Bias in the Perception of Success
(American Psychological Association, 2011)Naïve theories of behavior hold that actions are caused by an agent’s intentions, and the subsequent success of an action is measured by the satisfaction of those intentions. But when an action is not as successful as ... -
Actions speak louder than words: An elaborated theoretical model of the social functions of self-injury and other harmful behaviors
(Elsevier BV, 2008)The question of why some people do things that are intentionally harmful to themselves continues to puzzle scientists, clinicians, and the public. Prior studies have demonstrated that one fairly extreme, direct form of ... -
Active Avoidance Requires a Serial Basal Amygdala to Nucleus Accumbens Shell Circuit
(Society for Neuroscience, 2015)Freezing is a species-typical defensive reaction to conditioned threats. While the neural circuitry of aversive Pavlovian behavior has been extensively studied, less is known about the circuitry underlying more active ... -
Acute Stress Reduces Reward Responsiveness: Implications for Depression
(Elsevier, 2006)Background: Stress, one of the strongest risk factors for depression, has been linked to "anbedonic" behavior and dysfunctional reward-related neural circuitry in preclinical models. Methods: To test if acute stress reduces ... -
Acute Stress Selectively Reduces Reward Sensitivity
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2013)Stress may promote the onset of psychopathology by disrupting reward processing. However, the extent to which stress impairs reward processing, rather than incentive processing more generally, is unclear. To evaluate the ... -
Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Memory serves critical functions in everyday life, but is also prone to error. This article examines adaptive constructive processes, which play a functional role in memory and cognition but can also produce distortions, ... -
Adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: Examining the role of child abuse, comorbidity, and disinhibition
(Elsevier BV, 2014)The purpose of the study is to examine how several well-known correlates of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) might work together to contribute to the occurrence of this behavior. Specifically, we examined models including ... -
Adolescent-specific patterns of behavior and neural activity during social reinforcement learning
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Humans are sophisticated social beings. Social cues from others are exceptionally salient, particularly during adolescence. Understanding how adolescents interpret and learn from variable social signals can provide insight ... -
Adolescents let sufficient evidence accumulate before making a decision when large incentives are at stake
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Adolescent decision-making has been described as impulsive and suboptimal in the presence of incentives. In this study we examined the neural substrates of adolescent decision-making using a perceptual discrimination task ... -
Affect of the unconscious: Visually suppressed angry faces modulate our decisions
(Springer Nature, 2012)Emotional and affective processing imposes itself over cognitive processes and modulates our perception of the surrounding environment. In two experiments, we addressed the issue of whether nonconscious processing of affect ... -
Affective and Cognitive Processing in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
(2014-02-25)Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behavior recently added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a condition for further study. In this dissertation, I present findings from three studies ... -
Affective and Neural 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 ... -
Affective Forecasting
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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 ...