Browsing Graduate and Professional School by Department "Psychological and Brain Sciences"
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(2023-03-22)Medical school and residency mark a training period during which expected physicians form their professional values and attitudes. As many practicing doctors hold prejudicial attitudes towards higher-weight patients and ...
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(2023-06-01)Affective forecasting is critical for effective decision making as people strive to attain goals that increase positive feelings and decrease negative feelings. Despite its importance in relation to choice, research has ...
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(2023-06-01)Affective forecasting is critical for effective decision making as people strive to attain goals that increase positive feelings and decrease negative feelings. Despite its importance in relation to choice, research has ...
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(2023-06-01)Affective forecasting is critical for effective decision making as people strive to attain goals that increase positive feelings and decrease negative feelings. Despite its importance in relation to choice, research has ...
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(2023-07-11)Although interpersonal impairment represents a core feature of personality pathology, the exact nature of the interpersonal impairment remains unclear. One barrier to comprehensively assessing interpersonal functioning in ...
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(2023-06-20)Prior work has shown that pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) undermines locomotor recovery and provided evidence that pain increases the area of hemorrhage. We hypothesized that pain may be having this effect because it ...
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(2023-06-20)Prior work has shown that pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) undermines locomotor recovery and provided evidence that pain increases the area of hemorrhage. We hypothesized that pain may be having this effect because it ...
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(2019-10-17)An understanding of the prevalence of theory within employer-based behavioral traffic safety programs is lacking in both the literature and workplace. The dangerous nature of workplace driving is understood far more than ...
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(2023-08-02)The purpose of this dissertation is to explore organizational commitment mindsets and how they develop, change, and interact with each other over time to create an overall experience of commitment. Change in individual and ...
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(2023-05-05)Organizations frequently use personality assessments to inform employment decisions. In response to concerns about the susceptibility of single-statement personality measures to socially desirable responding (SDR; faking), ...
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(2021-07-09)Gratitude confers many benefits on an individual, including heightened senses of well-being and meaning in life, and on those around them, with increased prosocial behavior and stronger social ties. Looking at the relationship ...
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(2023-08-07)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a behaviorally defined condition, largely characterized by social deficits and both restricted and repetitive behaviors and interests. Despite its absence from diagnostic criteria, motor ...
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(2023-08-09)Despite their many commonalities, there is little empirical research exploring connections between narrative and existential psychology. These experiments aimed to begin to bridge the gap between fields by examining the ...
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(2019-06-04)Early intervention strategies (e.g., psychological debriefing and exposure therapy) are thought to rely on extinction-like mechanisms to reduce pathological fear. These therapies attempt to reduce or prevent the development ...
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(2023-02-23)Fear (e.g., arousal, fight/flight) and anxiety (e.g., general distress, worry) are distinct dimensions of psychopathology that may underlie clinically significant variation in the internalizing disorders. Animal work ...
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(2023-03-28)Fear extinction is a prefrontal-dependent process that promotes the suppression of learned fear. Unlike fear memory, extinction memory is less durable and sensitive to a variety of factors, including stress. This is ...
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(2023-08-07)The state authenticity as fit to environment (SAFE) model describes a process by which people’s sense of fit is cued by the environment (Schmader & Sedikides, 2018). According to the SAFE model, the environment cues positive ...
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(2019-05-15)Due to the level of victimization experienced by college students, it is important to understand factors contributing to perpetration of sexual assault, including personality traits and sexually aggressive attitudes. ...
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(2022-12-09)Perspective taking is a versatile ability that helps us examine both the spatial and social qualities of things. We take perspectives because it is adaptable to consider both the physical and abstract qualities of objects ...
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(2023-08-07)In order to examine the scope of reward history effects on attention, I conducted four experiments and am planning on conducting two more. Reward history effects on attention (i.e., value-driven attentional capture; VDAC) ...