Browsing by Subject "Major psychology"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)While the presence of a relationship between stress and illness is generally accepted with adults, this relationship has not been widely studied with children and adolescents. One difficulty in conducting stress-illness ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)This is the first study to examine the factor structure of expectancies associated with the use of anabolic-androgenic steroids. Self-reports from 503 adult male weight lifters (388 nonusers and 115 users) were examined ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)This study focused on the relationship between androgyny and the anima and animus, and the relationships between androgyny and the anima and animus and the dependent variables of individuation, psychosocial development, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)In the present study, it is argued that personal relevance and personal involvement are not synonyms, as currently treated in the research literature, and have distinct implications for message processing in a persuasion ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1998)Children are believed to develop an understanding that others can maintain and act upon a false belief by the age of four; however, there is some controversy as to how exactly children develop this "understanding." This ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between specific means of coping and psychosocial adjustment to prison amongst white, black, and Hispanic female and male offenders. Further, this study sought to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The ability to consider multiple perspectives was proposed to be an individual difference variable. A measure of this ability was developed and the validity and reliability determined. Three additional experiments were ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Forty adult male rats received one of the following diet (25 g/day) and weekly gastric intubation (2 ml) treatments over a 70 day period: Group Con--control diet and 10 intubations of distilled water; Group CPb--lead diet ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)A methodology was developed to examine the effects of rater sex, ratee sex, and job type on the amount of performance information collected by raters, accuracy of obtained ratings, and favorability of obtained ratings. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The first purpose of this investigation was to present a conceptual framework for systematically classifying interview studies according to their degree of structure. This framework was based on the premise that interview ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)Existing models of organizational withdrawal and job adaptation have received equivocal support mostly due to the limited number of behaviors used to define these constructs. Fuentes and Sawyer (1989b) articulated a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Prior research has shown that an aversive event can produce either an increase (hyperalgesia) or a decrease in pain reactivity (hypoalgesia). Researchers have extensively examined both the behavioral and neurobiological ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study describes an evaluation of School Within A School (SWAS) alternative programs for at-risk students on two high school campuses. The purpose of this evaluation study was to report the impact of a SWAS model ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This experiment was designed to assess the effect of dietary calcium supplementation on mood. The participants of the study were seventy-two male and female students. Using a double-blind procedure, they were administered ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)Family rituals are a rich area of family life which appear to provide a protective buffer for children in divorced of alcoholic families. Clinical lore also maintains that family rituals are beneficial to use in family ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The purpose of this study was to identify factors which may explain variability in outcome in children of alcoholics. The degree to which family environment, relationship characteristics, and interpersonal variables predict ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)Ingroup favoritism was examined by Social Identity Theory (i.e., group membership), Complexity Extremity Effect (i.e., orthogonal knowledge), and Attitude Polarization Model (i.e., correlated knowledge) in two experiments. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)Fifteen male rats were trained to discriminate between injections of 2 mg/kg A9THC and vehicle (20 min post-injection) in a 2-lever operant drug-discrimination paradigm. After training, Experiment I revealed that anandamide ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The present dissertation assessed the activating, reinforcing, and neurochemical responses to cocaine following amphetamine-, caffeine-, or nicotine-preexposure. Rats were given 9 daily injections of amphetamine (1.0 mg/kg, ...
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An investigation of the influence of gender and relative position of strength on power strategy use (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Previous studies have suggested that gender plays a significant role in determining the type of power strategies individuals use. It has been suggested, however, that the issue of gender in such studies may be confounded ...