Browsing by Department "Psychology"
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(2013-12-06)There is an increasing focus on the role of sleep in psychological disorders, including Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) and Psychopathic Personality Disorder. Consistent with a relationship between sleep and impulsivity, ...
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(2009-05-15)Previous research from our laboratory has demonstrated that the spinal cord is capable of a simple form of instrumental learning. In this instrumental learning paradigm, rats typically receive a complete spinal transection ...
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(2022-07-25)In this thesis, I examine the experiences of nonbinary and cisgender people in expressing their gender identity at work. Gender expression (GE) is important to study given that gender is embedded in nearly every aspect of ...
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(1984)The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of Barrios and Pennebaker's (1983a) Physical Complications Checklist (PCC) in separating bulimics from non-bulimics in a population of female college students enrolled ...
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(2012-07-16)Up to 65% of individuals with a spinal cord injury (SCI) experience neuropathic pain, and cite this as one of the most significant consequences of injury. Opiate analgesics are one of the most effective, but also most ...
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(2009-05-15)Millions of individuals donate their time to volunteer work each year. Additionally, expectations of socially responsible practices on the part of organizations and the positive relationship between the social and financial ...
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(2009-05-15)Health risk behaviors are responsible for the majority of morbidity and mortality among adolescents. Researchers have identified three sources of risk-taking in adolescents – dispositional, ecological and biological. The ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Over recent decades, much has been learned about the perceptual capacity that enables infants to recognize and understand language. However, not until very recently have the neural mechanisms that are the substance of ...
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(2018-03-28)Regulatory fit effects have been hypothesized to be caused by a “feeling of rightness.” I applied the regulatory fit framework to the novel area of memory confidence in a test of the proposed feeling of rightness mechanism. ...
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(2011-02-22)Previous research has observed that approach motivation can both increase and decrease attentional breadth. How does the same motivation have these seemingly divergent effects? Three studies tested the hypothesis that ...
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(2011-02-22)Ostracism arouses negative affect. However, little is known about variables that influence the intensity of these negative affective responses. Two studies seek to fill this void by incorporating work on approach- and ...
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(2009-05-15)Research has found that positive affect broadens attention. However, the type of positive affect previously manipulated has been low in approach motivation. High approach-motivated positive affect should reduce the breadth ...
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(2010-10-12)The theory of embodied cognition focuses on mechanisms of meaning beyond the traditional in western metaphysics dichotomy of body and mind. These mechanisms are considered to be the emerging aspects of meaning related to ...
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(2012-10-19)Attempting to retrieve a target from memory via a retrieval cue can cause competition from the cue's associates, which might block the target. A 1994 study by Anderson, Bjork, and Bjork demonstrated retrieval-induced ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Research in our laboratory has demonstrated blocked and recovered memories within the context of a controlled experiment. The comparative memory paradigm allows for comparisons of recovered memories, continuous memories, ...
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(1991)Religion in past research has been found to be a significant predictor of quality of life, but previous measures used do not appear to explore the fullness of either factors of life. Two hundred and twenty two undergraduate ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)It has become increasingly apparent that the topic of marital conflict has been given special status within the published literature on issues of marriage (Bradbury, Rogge, & Lawrence, 2001; Fincham, 2003). The question ...
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(2018-05-04)There is an ongoing debate in the field of engineering over different approaches to the process of delegation, two of which are requirements allocation (RA) and value-driven design (VDD). In the RA approach, requirements ...
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(2012-07-16)The purpose of the current study was to assess the efficacy of mental models as a predictor of driving outcomes. In contrast to more traditional measures of knowledge, mental models capture the configural property of ...
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(2018-11-16)Literature in Pediatric Health Psychology has traditionally had a focus in Health- Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and HRQOL has been established as a standard measure to assess for functioning in children with pediatric ...