Browsing by Department "Psychology"
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(2012-04-30)Two separate constructs, impulsivity and exercise, have been studied extensively in past literature, identifying impulsivity with risk taking behavior and exercise with health and psychological benefits. The present study ...
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(2022-02-22)Increasing evidence over the last decade suggests a relationship between nutrition and suicide risk factors (e.g., depression and suicidal ideation). For instance, several studies have linked meat consumption to reduced ...
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(2012-10-19)Chronic pain and tobacco dependence are two highly prevalent and comorbid conditions. The rate of smoking among persons in pain may be greater than twice the rate observed in the general population. Smokers tend to experience ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study examined the number of conditioning trials necessary to produce associative nicotine tolerance and the changes in corticosterone levels during the procedures. Six independent groups of rats (N = 355) were run ...
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(Mouton de Gruyter, 2011)When drawing familiar objects there is a bias in starting location, stroke direction, and object orientation or facing. Directional biases are also apparent in the speed and accuracy with which rightward vs. leftward facing ...
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(Elsevier, 1989)Perceptions of happy facial effect from asymmetric composite faces presented in free vision were compared in four groups: left-to-right readers (Hindi), right-to-left readers (Arabic), left-to-right and right-to-left readers ...
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(2009-05-15)Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessment has emerged as a vital health outcome measure in clinical trials, healthcare services and evaluation, and population health outcomes research. Reliability, validity, and ...
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(2022-07-25)Telemental health modalities have been increasingly adopted over the past several years, creating more choices for treatment seekers pursuing psychotherapy. This study uses a mixed-methods approach to examine how attachment ...
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(2009-06-02)Two studies were conducted to test the central hypothesis that internal working models of attachment will influence false memory in a model-congruent pattern. Participants in both studies were first primed with a ...
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(1996)This study examined the prevalence of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in a non-clinical sample of 271 college students, as well as the relationship between drug use and symptoms of ADHD. A psychological adjustment ...
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(1978)Four theoretical explanations for the existence of negative attitudes toward the old, (1) poor life satisfaction as measured by loss in socioeconomic status, poor health and financial insecurity, (2) nearness to death of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Research shows that a considerable number of children and adolescents suffer needlessly from psychological problems and only about 50% of those receive the necessary services. Considering the impact of untreated child ...
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(1995)Attitudes towards homosexuality among 243 undergraduates at Texas A&M University were examined in this study. Measures were taken of tolerance for homosexuality, level of principled moral development, and a variety of ...
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(2011-10-21)Labels are one source of our judgments. By assigning labels to objects, we not only create references but we also group prior and current experiences together. The goal of this research is to investigate how labels influence ...
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(2014-01-27)Prior work has shown that the neurotrophin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), fosters adaptive plasticity within the spinal cord. To be clinically useful, BDNF must be applied over extended periods of time (days ...
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(2011-05-05)Spinal cord injury (SCI) currently affects over 250,000 people in the United States alone with approximately 11,000 new cases occurring each year. In addition to its debilitating physical consequences, spinal cord injury ...
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(2013-12-18)Disordered eating affects approximately 24 million people in the United States with 95% of the cases falling between the ages of 12 and 25 (The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, 2003; ANAD, 2013). Approximately ...
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(2019-04-22)The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive mechanisms by which an animal uses associations to learn about temporally ambiguous aversive events. Traditionally, associative learning using forwards conditioning, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The aim of the present series of experiments was to outline the influence of different doses of cocaine during training, training schedule, training length and abstinence duration to modulate subsequent extinction and ...
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(2022-04-27)Military spouses are one of the most under- and unemployed groups in the United States labor market. Many attribute this to a transient lifestyle that is characterized by relocation every three to five years, disrupting ...