Browsing 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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Parkinsonism refers to a set of conditions featuring motor symptoms such as slowness, tremor, and rigidity that are most commonly observed in older patients. Forms of Parkinsonism, including Parkinson’s disease (PD) 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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Research concerning the effects of extraterrestrial beliefs has been largely concerned with its correlation to other paranoid beliefs and mental health issues. This study, however, attempts to understand the more intrapersonal ...
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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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Cognitive control, or the ability to voluntarily guide one's own behavior, continually improves throughout childhood (Luna et al., 2010). Over time, children move from reflexive and reactionary behaviors to greater control ...
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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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Curiosity is a natural way to gather more information about the world, making it directly relevant for learning. However, little research has examined the relation between children’s curiosity and formal learning. Moreover, ...
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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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Something that is difficult to understand or explain can be described as a mystery. Mysteries excite curiosity, wonder and may even lead individuals to feel a sense of awe. This can be both good and bad but depending on ...
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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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Politics has become a popular, and also problematic, thing to discuss and see in our day-to-day lives. Politics is seen in our lives through social media, daily interactions, and popular news media outlets. There has been ...