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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 ...
Simulating personal future events: Contributions from episodic memory and beyond
(2014-02-25)
Episodic simulation refers to the construction of imagined, hypothetical events that might occur in one's personal future. Damage to our capacity for episodic simulation can produce grave consequences, impairing our ability ...
High-level neural structures constrain visual behavior
(2014-06-06)
Visual cognition is notoriously limited: only a finite amount of information can be fully processed at a given instant. What is the source of these limitations? Here, we suggest that the organization of higher-level visual ...
Do Yourself a Favor: We Help Our Future Selves for the Same Reasons We Help Others
(2014-06-06)
As humans we have a remarkable capacity to sacrifice for the future, and an equally remarkable capacity to shortchange it, leaving our future selves to pay the price. The research in this dissertation suggests that sacrifice ...
Measuring, monitoring, and maintaining memories in a partially observable mind
(2014-06-06)
Visual memory holds in mind details of objects, textures, faces, and scenes. After initial exposure to an image, however, visual memories rapidly degrade because they are transferred from iconic memory, a high-capacity ...
Society in Mind: The manifestation of structural power and status differences in cognitive and regulatory domains.
(2014-06-06)
Where one stands in society matters for how one feels, thinks, and behaves. This dissertation provides evidence for this claim from the perspective of universal psychological mechanisms used to navigate the social world. ...
Profiles of Everyday Thought Suppression
(2014-06-06)
The present research assessed whether levels of depression, anxiety and worry, obsessive-compulsive distress, and psychopathy were differentially related to distinct thought suppression profiles. As a means to achieving ...
A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Egocentric Influence
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation explores the cognitive mechanisms and motivations that guide two aspects of human social behavior: thinking about other's experiences and communicating with others. In both cases, studies investigated the ...
The representation of person identity in the human brain
(2014-06-06)
Every day we encounter a variety of people, and we need to recognize their identity to interact with them appropriately. The most common ways to recognize a person's identity include the recognition of a face and of a ...
Continuities and discontinuities in working memory representations of collections over ontogeny
(2014-10-23)
Working memory, or the ability to maintain and manipulate information such that it can be used to guide behavior, is known to be severely capacity limited, in most circumstances, to about 3-4 objects. Both infants and ...