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Psychology: Recent submissions
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Rationale and design: telepsychology service delivery for depressed elderly veterans
(BioMed Central, 2009-04-20)BACKGROUND: Older adults who live in rural areas experience significant disparities in health status and access to mental health care. "Telepsychology," (also referred to as "telepsychiatry," or "telemental health") ... -
Risky Decisions and Their Consequences: Neural Processing by Boys with Antisocial Substance Disorder
(Public Library of Science, 2010-09-22)BACKGROUND: Adolescents with conduct and substance problems (‘‘Antisocial Substance Disorder’’ (ASD)) repeatedly engage in risky antisocial and drug-using behaviors. We hypothesized that, during processing of risky decisions ... -
The Balloon Analog Insurance Task (BAIT): A Behavioral Measure of Protective Risk Management
(Public Library of Science, 2011-06-28)Prior methods used to assess individual differences related to risk have not focused on an important component of risk management: how willing individuals are to pay for or take actions to insure what they already have. ... -
A randomized controlled trial of mental health interventions for survivors of systematic violence in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq
(BioMed Central, 2014-12-31)BACKGROUND: Experiencing systematic violence and trauma increases the risk of poor mental health outcomes; few interventions for these types of exposures have been evaluated in low resource contexts. The objective of this ... -
Disparate versus configural response in the chick
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The influence of 2-hop network density on spoken word recognition
(Springer, 2016-07-06)The influence of 2-hop density on spoken word recognition was investigated. 2-hop density measures the density of connections among the phonological neighbors (i.e., 1-hop neighbors) and phonological neighbors of those ... -
The Role of Social Support in the Associations Between Neighborhood Violence and Internalizing Symptoms among Latino Youth
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Latino youth are one of the fastest growing populations in the country and are at a disproportionately higher risk for being exposure to violence in their neighborhoods. Prior research has investigated the mental health ... -
Personality Traits and Subjective Memory Complaints: Does Executive Function Have an Explanatory Role?
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Subjective memory complaints (SMC) are common among healthy older adults and are associated with negative affect, the Big Five Personality traits, and objective memory decline. Research from geriatric psychiatry, cognitive ... -
I THINK THAT’S WHAT I SLEPT: COMPARING THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN SELF-REPORTED AND OBJECTIVELY MEASURED SLEEP AT HOME AND IN THE LABORATORY
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Previous research has found that patients diagnosed with insomnia tend to over report how long it takes them to fall asleep and underreport their total sleep time as compared to objective measures of sleep, a phenomenon ... -
Ethnic Inconsistency in an Anticipated Interaction Partner
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Racial and ethnic categorization has important behavioral consequences in diverse contexts. But how are these consequences shaped if a person’s ethnic group membership is unclear or ambiguous—that is, when a person is ... -
Successful Aging: The Relationship Between Expectations Regarding Aging, Health-Promoting Behaviors, and Subjective Health Status
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)As our population ages, there will be an increasing number of individuals affected by dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Individuals are being encouraged to use health-promoting resources and to participate in ... -
Intra-Individual Variability of Physical Activity in Older Adults With and Without Mild Alzheimer’s Disease
(Public Library of Science, 2016-04-20)Physical activity shows promise for protection against cognitive decline in older adults with and without Alzheimer’s disease (AD). To better understand barriers to adoption of physical activity in this population, a clear ... -
A study of the accuracy of the pecking response of chicks
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Sources of stress for pharmacy students in a nationwide sample
(Elsevier, 2014-06-12)Objective: The purpose of this study is to provide insight into the sources of stress experienced by current professional year pharmacy students in the United States. Methods: An online survey related to the sources ... -
Identifying factors that predict help seeking among individuals with eating disorders: Results from a nationally representative study
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Eating disorders (EDs) are characterized by the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder, yet as many as 45% of individuals with EDs never receive help for their eating-related problems. There are numerous barriers ... -
The Impact of Family Factors and Household Food Insecurity on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Low-Income Children
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships among household food insecurity, family functioning, parental stress, and fruit and vegetable consumption in low-income children. Methods: Parents of ... -
Perceived closeness to multiple social connections and attachment style: A longitudinal examination
(SAGE, 2016)Throughout life people form multiple close connections. These connections play an important role, such as social and instrumental support. Despite this, relatively little is known about how and why closeness to multiple ... -
Metabolic Syndrome and Cognitive Decline in Early Alzheimer’s Disease and Healthy Older Adults
(IOS Press, 2013-01)Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors (i.e., abdominal obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, glucose and insulin dysregulation) that is associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia. Recent ... -
Measuring Physical Activity in Older Adults with and without Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-06)We compared subjective reports of physical activity with objective measures of physical fitness including cardiorespiratory capacity, body composition, and physical performance in 146 older adults with and without early ...