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Association of multiple chronic conditions and pain among older black and white adults with diabetes mellitus
(BMC, 2017-10-30)Background Aging is often associated with the challenge of navigating daily tasks with a painful chronic medical illness. Yet, there is concern of the number of older adults impacted with more than one chronic condition. ... -
Collective Memory as Tool for Intergroup Conflict: The Case of 9/11 Commemoration
(PsychOpen, 2017)We apply a cultural psychology approach to collective memory of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In particular, we considered whether practices associated with commemoration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks would promote vigilance ... -
A Cultural Psychological Analysis of Collective Memory as Mediated Action: Constructions of Indian History
(PsychOpen, 2017)The present research applies a cultural psychological perspective on collective memory as mediated action to examine how constructions of a national past serve as tools that both reflect and shape national identity concerns. ... -
Silence in Official Representations of History: Implications for National Identity and Intergroup Relations
(PsychOpen, 2017)Dominant representations of history evolve through differential exercise of power to enable memory of collective triumphs and silence memory of collective misdeeds. We examined silence regarding minorities in official ... -
The (Biological or Cultural) Essence of Essentialism: Implications for Policy Support among Dominant and Subordinated Groups
(Frontiers Media, 2017-05-30)Most research links (racial) essentialism to negative intergroup outcomes. We propose that this conclusion reflects both a narrow conceptual focus on biological/genetic essence and a narrow research focus from the perspective ... -
An account of the Speech-to-Song Illusion using Node Structure Theory
(Public Library of Science, 2018-06-08)In the Speech-to-Song Illusion, repetition of a spoken phrase results in it being perceived as if it were sung. Although a number of previous studies have examined which characteristics of the stimulus will produce the ... -
Marketing a Healthy Mind, Body, and Soul: An Analysis of How African American Men View the Church as a Social Marketer and Health Promoter of Colorectal Cancer Risk and Prevention
(SAGE Publications, 2015-09-29)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks colorectal cancer (CRC) as the third most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the United States; African American (AA) men are at even greater risk. The present study ... -
The social complexities of disability: Discrimination, belonging and life satisfaction among Canadian youth
(Elsevier, 2018-08)Although disability has been on the psychological agenda for some time, there is limited empirical evidence on the life satisfaction of youth with a disability, especially the effect of discrimination and factors that might ... -
Correlated longitudinal changes across linguistic, achievement, and psychomotor domains in early childhood: Evidence for a global dimension of development
(Wiley, 2011-09)An important question within developmental psychology concerns the extent to which the maturational gains that children make across multiple diverse domains of functioning can be attributed to global (domain-general) ... -
Daily physical activity patterns during the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease
(IOS Press, 2016-11-19)Background - Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that results in severe disability. Very few studies have explored changes in daily physical activity patterns during early stages of AD when components ... -
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and arachidonic acid (ARA) balance in developmental outcomes
(Elsevier, 2017-05-31)The DHA Intake and Measurement of Neural Development (DIAMOND) trial represents one of only a few studies of the long-term dose-response effects of LCPUFA-supplemented formula feeding during infancy. The trial contrasted ... -
"Are you gonna publish that?" Peer-reviewed publication outcomes of doctoral dissertations in psychology
(Public Library of Science, 2018-02-14)If a doctoral dissertation represents an original investigation that makes a contribution to one’s field, then dissertation research could, and arguably should, be disseminated into the scientific literature. However, the ... -
Athletes’ Relationships with Training Scale (ART)
(2018-03-01)The Athletes’ Relationships with Training Scale (ART)* is a self-report measure of unhealthy training behaviors and beliefs in athletes. The ART was designed for use by clinicians and athletic trainers to help identify ... -
The Role of Hostile Attributions in the Associations between Child Maltreatment and Reactive and Proactive Aggression
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-10-08)The present study examined the relations between child maltreatment and reactive and proactive functions of aggression, and whether hostile attribution biases partially accounted for these associations in a sample of 339 ... -
Aligning Practice to Policies: Changing the Culture to Recognize and Reward Teaching at Research Universities
(American Society for Cell Biology, 2017-08-25)Recent calls for improvement in undergraduate education within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines are hampered by the methods used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Faculty members at ... -
Probing the Unique Contributions of Self-Concept, Task Values, and Their Interactions Using Multiple Value Facets and Multiple Academic Outcomes
(SAGE Publications, 2016-01-11)Drawing on expectancy-value theory, the present study examined the unique contributions of the four major value beliefs and self-concept on achievement, self-reported effort, and teacher-rated behavioral engagement in ... -
Immuned by Race: Ethnic Identity, Masculinity, and Attachment as Predictors of Cancer Screening among Black Men
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07-07)An individual’s motivation to screen for cancer is influenced by knowledge of cancer prevalence and perceived likelihood of being diagnosed. While the relationships between health and masculinity, identity, and attachment ... -
Altered interaction with environmental reinforcers in major depressive disorder: Relationship to anhedonia
(Elsevier, 2017-10-09)Anhedonia—defined as loss of interest or pleasure—is one of two core symptoms of major depressive disorder (MDD). Anhedonia may involve decreased enjoyment of potentially rewarding activities and decreased motivation to ... -
Neural Processing of Emotional Musical and Nonmusical Stimuli in Depression
(Public Library of Science, 2016-06-10)Background Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and striatum are part of the emotional neural circuitry implicated in major depressive disorder (MDD). Music is often used for emotion regulation, and pleasurable music listening ... -
Using network science in the language sciences and clinic
(Informa Healthcare, 2015-02)A number of variables—word frequency, word length—have long been known to influence language processing. We briefly review the effects in speech perception and production of two more recently examined variables: phonotactic ...
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