Browsing by Department "Psychology"
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(1978)Eighteen sleep disturbed college students received either systematic desensitization or muscle relaxation training. After a one week baseline self-observation period, subjects underwent three half-hour therapy sessions. ...
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(1998)For many years business has been searching for ways to make companies more profitable. Some programs that many businesses have implemented in order to increase profits are Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) and Health ...
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(2021-12-09)Scholars have argued that confronting sexism will result in several positive outcomes for women targets (e.g., Dray & Sabat, 2020). However, little research has empirically examined this proposition or whether these ...
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(2011-02-22)The current study was designed to examine the influence of cultural orientation on alcohol involvement among Mexican-American adolescents. Also, this study assessed whether cultural orientation predicted positive and ...
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(1990)The extent to which gender and self-monitoring correlated with the ability to detect deceit in interpersonal interactions was examined. 20 men and women were videotaped while describing someone they liked and someone they ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Rationale: The rate of acquisition of drug self-administration may serve as a predictor of later drug-taking behavior, possibly influencing vulnerability to initiate drug use. Objectives: The present study examined the ...
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(2018-12-03)There is a large body of work demonstrating that infants are sensitive to the distinction between human and mechanical agents from the early months of life, with different expectations for how those agents move and interact ...
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(1998)Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a highly heritable behavioral disorder. Frequently a child with ADHD is labeled as a problem child instead of a child with a problem. Furthermore, there are three subtypes of ADHD. ...
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Adolescent Impulsivity: A Mediator between Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes (2014-08-04)Previous research has established a robust relationship between characteristics of authoritative parenting as well as adolescent impulsivity on adolescent psychosocial outcomes. The current study was the first to expand ...
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(NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020)Background The ability to flexibly apply rules to novel situations is a critical aspect of adaptive human behavior. While executive function deficits are known to appear early in the course of psychosis, it is unclear ...
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(2017-12-08)It is theorized that changing a rater’s perspective should improve rater congruence. Specifically, when employees assess their own performance from their supervisor’s perspective (supervisor-perspective ratings), self-rated ...
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(2010-07-14)According to attachment theory a key moderator in the enjoyment of exploration is the strength of a person's secure base. To study exploration we placed participants in a situation in which they confronted a novel stimulus. ...
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(2009-06-02)A cross-cultural survey study examined the impact of adult attachment and self-construal on relationship and mental health outcomes in Hong Kong, Mexico, and the United States. Approximately 200 university students (each ...
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Literature Review Research confirms that parental smoking is a consistent risk factor for an individual’s smoking habits (e.g. Tyas and Pederson, 1998; Biglan, et al., 1995). There has been minimal research exploring the ...
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(2009-05-15)The after–action review (AAR; also known as the after–event review or debriefing) is a training approach that is based on reviews of trainees’ performance on recently completed tasks or performance events. Used by the ...
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(2022-07-27)Self-control failure is all too common. Research has found that people become less likely to engage self-control after expending self-control on a prior task. Theories of self-control have surmised that this disengagement ...
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(2014-10-22)This thesis will be used to create curricular reform of at Texas A&M. Specifically, the established existence of a rape culture in both Texas and the United States that will be described in this thesis necessitates the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study examined a measure of children's memory for information from a story about a hypothetical mother and child, the Story Task, as a potential tool to delineate subtypes of aggressive children based on the pattern ...
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(2017-05-04)Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) impacts multiple functional life outcomes, but assessment may be difficult due to distortions in reports arising from the disorder itself. The use of adjunct informant reports shows ...
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(2017-07-17)Neuropathy is one of the many health consequences of long-term excessive alcohol consumption. To date, no effective treatment is available for alcoholic neuropathy and its pathogenesis remains unknown. Animal studies have ...