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Psychology: Recent submissions
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Associations between child maltreatment types and past month substance use among emerging adults: The role of self-reported alexithymia and impulsivity
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Child maltreatment has emerged as an important risk factor for substance use. However, despite evidence consistently demonstrating that substance use peaks during emerging adulthood, less is known about the specificity of ... -
Parenting and Child Competence in Aggressive Youth: Bidirectional Associations and the Role of Parental Depression
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Previous research has established associations between parenting factors and children’s competence, though these studies have been limited in their reliance on parenting styles and their examination of these associations ... -
Reward Processing and Inhibitory Control in Women with Bulimia Nervosa
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Introduction: Theoretical models and empirical research support the role of negative affect in bulimia nervosa (BN). However, treatments that target negative affect in BN have not outperformed traditional, eating-disorder-focused ... -
Childhood Adversity and Systemic Inflammation in Preschool-Aged Children: The Role of Family Cohesion
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Systemic inflammation is a critical physiological mechanism that appears to link exposure to early childhood adversity to later disease. However, some children exposed to adversity have low levels of inflammatory proteins ... -
Rethinking Diversity Ideologies: Critical Multiculturalism and its Implications for Social Justice Issues
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Social psychologists have long explored how colorblind and multicultural ideologies may improve intergroup relations. Criticisms from an epistemic standpoint of mainstream social psychological research discuss the ... -
An examination of the role of social factors in the stability of proactive and reactive aggression from late childhood to early adolescence
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)There is substantial research indicating adverse outcomes associated with childhood aggression. The functions of aggression, proactive and reactive aggression, have been widely examined with distinct correlates associated ... -
Discrepancies between Objective and Subjective Sleep Assessment in Older Adults
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Older adults are a growing segment of the population who experience disturbed sleep. In using actigraphy and self-report (e.g., sleep diaries) to measure/characterize sleep in this population, researchers have found that ... -
Observer perceptions of the justifiability of the actions of nations in conflict: The relative importance of conveying national vulnerability versus strength
(Public Library of Science, 2019-07-29)Because the underdog in a conflict typically gains the support of observers, nations will often adopt a narrative that persuades both their domestic following and international allies that they are the true victim in the ... -
The Remote Food Photography Method and SmartIntake App for the Assessment of Alcohol Use in Young Adults: Feasibility Study and Comparison to Standard Assessment Methodology
(JMIR Publications, 2018-03-22)Background: Heavy drinking is prevalent among young adults and may contribute to obesity. However, measurement tools for assessing caloric intake from alcohol are limited and rely on self report, which is prone to ... -
Blaming the Victim of Acquaintance Rape: Individual, Situational, and Sociocultural Factors
(Frontiers Media, 2019-01-21)Victims of rape are uniquely vulnerable for being blamed for their assault relative to victims of other interpersonal crimes and thus much research has been conducted to understand why this is the case. But the study of ... -
Investigating the Influence of Inverse Preferential Attachment on Network Development
(MDPI, 2020-09-15)Recent work investigating the development of the phonological lexicon, where edges between words represent phonological similarity, have suggested that phonological network growth may be partly driven by a process that ... -
The Dual Function Model of Attachment Security Priming: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence
(MDPI, 2020-11-03)According to attachment theory, security providing attachment figures fulfill two main functions: (1) safe haven—providing safety and comfort and reducing stress—helping people regain a sense of security; and (2) secure ... -
Recruitment of Men Into a Pragmatic Rural Primary Care Weight Loss Trial
(SAGE Publications, 2020-11-11)Men remain underrepresented in behavioral weight loss trials and are more difficult to recruit compared to women. We describe recruitment response of men and women into a mixed-gender behavioral weight loss trial conducted ... -
Global Collaborative Team Performance for the Revision of the International Classification of Diseases: A Case Study of the World Health Organization Field Studies Coordination Group
(Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual (AEPC), 2018-08-22)Background/Objective: Collaborative teamwork in global mental health presents unique challenges, including the formation and management of international teams composed of multicultural and multilingual professionals with ... -
Static and dynamic postural control deficits in aging fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene premutation carriers
(BMC, 2019-01-21)Background Individuals with premutation alleles of the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene are at risk of developing fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) during aging. Characterization of motor issues ... -
Blaming the Victim of Acquaintance Rape: Individual, Situational, and Sociocultural Factors
(Frontiers Media, 2019-01-21)Victims of rape are uniquely vulnerable for being blamed for their assault relative to victims of other interpersonal crimes and thus much research has been conducted to understand why this is the case. But the study of ... -
Effect of Prenatal Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation on Blood Pressure in Children With Overweight Condition or Obesity
(American Medical Association, 2019-02-22)Importance The blood pressure–lowering property of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in children and adults is known, and an observational study from the Netherlands has linked higher intrauterine DHA exposure to lower childhood ... -
Critical steps in the path to using cessation pharmacotherapy following hospital-initiated tobacco treatment
(BMC, 2019-04-24)Background Hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions utilizing pharmacotherapy increase post-discharge quit rates. Use of smoking cessation medications following discharge may further increase quit rates. This ... -
Emotion Regulation Flexibility: Gender Differences in Context Sensitivity and Repertoire
(Frontiers Media, 2019-05-09)Emotion regulation (ER) has been conceptualized as processes through which individuals modulate their emotions consciously and non-consciously to respond appropriately to environmental demands. Emotions can be regulated ...