Browsing by Department "Psychology"
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(2015-05-13)The way people mentally represent objects and events influences self-control; high-level construals, made up of abstract, global features, assist self-control, while low-level construals, made up of concrete, proximal ...
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(Elsevier, 2007-03)Two meta-analyses of 66 behavioral studies examined variables influencing functional cerebral lateralization of each language of brain-intact bilingual adults. Functional lateralization was found to be primarily influenced ...
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Binge Eating, Impulsivity, and Delay Discounting Among Individuals Engaging in Intermittent Fasting (2021-06-04)Intermittent fasting (IF) is an increasingly popular diet that involves short-term fasting and/or caloric restriction every day or multiple times per week. Hardly any research has examined its associations with psychological ...
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Binge-eating behavior in mice: influences of restriction and palatability in a limited access model (2009-05-15)Animal models of bingeing have typically used stress to induce bingeing. A recent model, limited-access to high-fat diet (HFD), has shown that caloric restriction and stress were not required to induce bingeing in rats. ...
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(2012-02-14)There is increasing evidence that biological factors (i.e., hormones) support the development of sex differences in behavior by organizing brain systems in prenatal life. However, the behavioral significance of the surge ...
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(2009-05-15)Highly affective memories have been thought to be longer lasting and more detailed than other memories, and many experimental results have supported this assertion. The apparent robustness of these memories, however, may ...
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(2009-05-15)Eating, weight, and shape concerns (EWS) are prevalent among college women, and women with EWS concerns tend to experience difficulties in the domain of interpersonal functioning. For a young woman, romantic relationships ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)A growing body of empirical evidence suggests that attending specialized summer camps is beneficial for chronically ill youth (Briery & Rabian, 1999). However, there is some inconsistency across studies regarding these ...
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(2018-11-05)Eldercare is on the rise in the US due to the aging baby boomer population, and over half of unpaid caregivers in the US (25.3 million) are also employed. The work-family literature has thoroughly investigated the effects ...
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(2021-07-06)The literature implicating the cerebellum and non-motor cognitive processing is quickly growing. Though there is an understanding that the cerebellum is active during non-motor task performance, little work has looked to ...
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(1991)The effect of the nature of questions (behavior-based vs. trait-based and comparative vs. noncomparative) on measures of self-esteem for kindergartners and third graders was investigated. A total of 163 subjects answered ...
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(2012-07-16)For parents, the birth of their first child sparks rapid change for each partner and for their romantic relationship. With the stress of the transition to parenthood, many couples experience declining marital satisfaction. ...
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Changes in relationship quality across the female menstrual cycle: a diary study of dating couples (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Strategic pluralism in human mating behaviors has been explored in recent years. Women may engage in short-term and long-term mating relationships simultaneously to reap the benefits of both strategies. However, little ...
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(2013-07-16)Approximately two-thirds of patients will experience pain following spinal cord injury (SCI). This pain can arise as an immediate consequence of SCI, or can develop over time into chronic, neuropathic pain. Individuals ...
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(1993)The relationship between decreases in self-concepts and increases in cognitive abilities involving comparisons was studied with second- through fourth-grade children. One hundred, twenty-six children were given the ...
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(2018-05-04)Classism is an oppressive form of negative interpersonal behavior that occurs because of different social classes. Compared to other forms of oppression (e.g., sexism, racism), classism is understudied in organizational ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The associated features, high rates of comorbidity and chronicity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) raise questions regarding the distinctiveness of the two disorders. The ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Relatively few studies have examined the effects of psychostimulants in obese subjects. Using the dietary obese rat model, the present experiments determined the reductions in food intake (hypophagia) and increases in ...
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(2022-04-22)Within the assessment literature, there is an ongoing conversation pertaining to observed device-type mean score differences for unproctored internet-based tests (UIT), specifically on cognitive assessments. However, it ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Using a sample of 443 participants employed in a variety of jobs, the interactions between cognitive ability, conscientiousness, agreeableness, task experience, and task and contextual performance were explored. Results ...