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Social Learning in Early Childhood: Learning When to Seek Help and How to Give It
(2018-05-10)
The amount and kinds of information that humans have access to is vastly increased by our ability to learn from and teach others. It is impossible, however, for a single person to learn all of this information in a lifetime. ...
Family Matters: Tracing the Social Cognitive Development of Kinship Understanding
(2018-05-10)
Kinship provides the major framework for social organization, but when do infants and children develop understanding of these social relationships and how they affect social behaviors? This dissertation proposes that ...
Understanding the relationship between default network activation and connectivity, depression, and maladaptive cognition
(2018-07-09)
The default network (DN) and its functions in healthy individuals have been identified using a convergence of data from numerous neuroimaging and behavioral studies. In this dissertation, I similarly conducted a series of ...
Towards a comprehensive understanding of Perceived Criticism and its predictive validity: Three studies investigating the correlates and consequences of PC
(2018-09-19)
Perceived criticism (PC) is a robust predictor of poor clinical outcomes for a range of mental disorders, and it predicts these outcomes better than objective measures of criticism. Though PC has the potential to be a ...
Negative Emotional Inhibition in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
(2018-07-17)
The relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and impulsivity is unclear. There is substantial evidence that people who engage in NSSI report impulsive personality traits, or the tendency to behave impulsively ...
Understanding the Roles of Communication and Psychological Pain in Suicide Through the Assessment of Consistent Self-Report and Behavioral Measure
(2018-08-08)
Background. Suicide is an enormous problem worldwide. Even after decades of dedicated research, our ability to predict and prevent this devastating behavior is limited. One major limitation to understanding suicide is the ...
Associations Among Exposure to Adversity, Stress Reactivity, Cognitive Self-Regulatory Functioning, and Depression Symptoms in Middle School Youths
(2018-08-17)
Identifying and understanding the pathways of risk and maintenance for child and adolescent (youth) depression has been a significant focus in the field of clinical psychological science. Although extensive research has ...
The Value and Utilization of Social Evaluative Feedback: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective
(2018-09-15)
Adolescence is characterized by increased frequency of peer feedback, greater preoccupation with peer approval, and more intensified emotional responses to rejection than other phases of the lifespan. Of particular interest, ...
The Adaptive Logic of Moral Luck: Punishment’s Function Shapes the Processes Supporting It
(2018-01-12)
Moral luck is a peculiar aspect of our moral psychology – why do we condemn unintended outcomes (i.e. accidents)? In this dissertation, I present a novel analysis of moral luck, focusing on the argument that moral luck ...