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Making an IMPACT: Designing and Testing a Novel Attentional Training Game to Reduce Social Anxiety
(2015-04-30)
Development of novel candidate interventions to treat anxiety disorders is an important research priority, given the burden of these disorders, barriers to treatment access, and the promising but limited success of current ...
Discovering Structure in the Moral Domain
(2015-05-18)
Early moral psychologists identified the moral domain with a class of actions that negatively impacted the wellbeing of others or violated their rights. However, anthropological work suggested that this view failed to ...
Trustworthiness Appraisal in Borderline Personality Disorder
(2016-07-18)
Borderline personality (BPD) is a highly impairing illness with marked instability across multiple domains, including affect, interpersonal functioning, identity, and behavior. Within the past 15 years, researchers have ...
The Psychology of Common Knowledge: Coordination, Indirect Speech, and Self-Conscious Emotions
(2015-05-15)
The way humans cooperate is unparalleled in the animal kingdom, and coordination plays an important role in human cooperation. Common knowledge—an infinite recursion of shared mental states, such that A knows X, A knows ...
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 ...
Mid-Level Features Elicit Cognitive and Neural Representations of Object Size
(2017-05-15)
Most models of object recognition assume that we first recognize objects at the basic-level (e.g., as a “cup”), and then that the resulting object representations act as pointers that allow us to access knowledge about ...
Constructive Retrieval and Episodic Memory: Cognitive and Neural Evidence
(2017-05-03)
Research over the past decade has indicated striking overlap in the cognitive and neural processes that support remembering the past and imagining the future. An experimental tool, the episodic specificity induction, was ...
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 ...