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Psychology: Recent submissions
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A "Better End" to Exposure? Assessing the Effects of the Peak-End Rule on Viewing Blood-Injection-Injury Stimuli
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia is associated with avoidance of needed medical treatment. Exposure therapy lessens distress related to viewing BII stimuli. However, many clinicians report difficulty with clients not ... -
Justifying Another’s Suppressed Prejudice: Racist Speech and Freedom of Expression
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Anti-Black prejudice is generally socially unacceptable to express, and people meet harsh punishments for expressing it. A common theme in the news and on social media in response to these punishments is that they violate ... -
Motivational specificity and threat-compensation: The effects of mortality salience on self-control
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Self-control is the mental function that allows people to actively suppress unwanted thoughts, emotions, and urges, as well as re-prioritize their goals in accordance with situational demands. However, self-control requires ... -
Self-Disclosure and Relational Outcomes: The Context-Dependent Disclosure Intimacy Satisfaction (CDDIS) Model
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)To further the understanding of disclosure’s role in close relationships I conducted five studies guided by a new theoretical model—the Context-Dependent Disclosure, Intimacy, Satisfaction (CDDIS) model. According to the ... -
EFFECTS OF DISEASE SALIENCE ON SHAME, PRIDE, AND CONFORMITY
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Three studies investigated the effects of disease salience on conformity and the emotions of shame and pride. Humans possess a set of psychological adaptations to combat deleterious effects of parasitic disease (Schaller ... -
My group, our beliefs: Compensating for threats to individual control through the collective
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Compensatory control theory proposes that people can compensate for a loss of personal control through endorsement of external sources of structure like ideologies. Social identity and self-categorization theories provide ... -
Influence of Best Friends on Children’s Athletic Competence and Physical Activity Engagement: A Longitudinal Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Pediatric obesity is a significant public health concern, associated with systemic physical health repercussions and impairing social and emotional consequences. Physical activity is an important protective factor against ... -
Negative Life Events and Internalizing Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Self-Esteem in Early Adolescence
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Previous studies have suggested that exposure to frequent negative life events is associated with youth’s maladjustment. Early adolescents living in socially disorganized neighborhoods experience frequent stressors such ... -
Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introdocution to the Special Thematic Section
(PsychOpen, 2015-08-21)Despite unprecedented access to information and diffusion of knowledge across the globe, the bulk of work in mainstream psychological science still reflects and promotes the interests of a privileged minority of people in ... -
Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology
(PsychOpen, 2015-08-21)This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation. Although ... -
Beyond Adaptation: Decolonizing Approaches to Coping With Oppression
(PsychOpen, 2015-08-21)How should one respond to racial oppression? Conventional prescriptions of mainstream social psychological science emphasize the idea of coping with oppression—whether via emotional management strategies that emphasize ... -
A Physiological Comparison between Mindfulness and Cognitive Reappraisal
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)An increasing number of diverse therapeutic techniques are being prescribed to deal with distress, and some techniques ask individuals to engage in quite different forms of coping. While mindfulness and cognitive changes ... -
The efficacy of behavioural activation treatment for co-occurring depression and substance use disorder (the activate study): a randomized controlled trial
(BioMed Central, 2016-07-08)Background Epidemiological studies suggest that compared with the general population, mood disorders are up to 4.7 times more prevalent in substance dependent samples. Comorbid substance use disorder (SUD) and depression ... -
The Role of Health Behaviors and Food Insecurity in Predicting Food Intake in Low-Income Children
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Research supports the importance of adequate fruit and vegetable intake during childhood. Despite this fact, there is still much to be learned with regard to predictors of food intake in childhood. The current project ... -
A Bayesian MIMIC Model for Testing Non-uniform DIF in Two and Three Groups
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Multiple-indicator multiple cause (MIMIC) models have become a popular latent variable method to detect differential item functioning (DIF) by practitioners. The ease of including groups for DIF testing and the implementation ... -
Predicting Relationship Satisfaction in Romantic and Non-Romantic Dyads: The Impact of Attachment Style and Partner Behaviors
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)The social support literature has a primary focus on the impact of objective partner behaviors on both relationship quality and the well-being of each partner. In contrast, the adult attachment literature stresses the ... -
Effect of Dropout on the Efficiency of Ds - Optimal Designs for Linear Mixed Models
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Optimal designs are a class of experimental designs that are efficient with respect to some statistical criterion. Two types of optimal designs are considered in the study. D-optimal designs are designs that minimize the ... -
An experimental study of backward association in animals and children
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The American Indian and mental tests
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Evaluation of ego-dystonic homosexuality
(University of Kansas, 1984)