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Psychology: Recent submissions
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The Role of Affective Shifting in Positively Reframing and Coping with Negative Autobiographical Memories
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Research suggests that positively reframing past negative experiences is beneficial for coping, but little work has investigated the cognitive abilities underlying this process. Using both experimental and ideographic ... -
fMRI of Prose Comprehension in High- and Low-Performing Older Adults
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Characterization and clinical detection of early Alzheimer's disease is difficult due to significant neurocognitive variability present in both healthy and pathological aging. This poses a problem for memory and aging ... -
Mealtime Behaviors Associated with Consumption of Unfamiliar Foods by Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show greater food refusal than their typically developing peers. The current study examined parent and child mealtime behaviors associated with consumption of ... -
College Students' Perceptions of Sexual Consent
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Consent is a key issue in defining sexual violence, yet few studies have examined the normative ways that college students believe that ambiguous behaviors should be interpreted within a sexual encounter. In the present ... -
Changes in Body Image and Sexuality in Rural Breast Cancer Survivors During a Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance Intervention
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)This study evaluated changes in body image dimensions in breast cancer survivors after a weight control trial and predictors of those changes. Postmenopausal rural breast cancer survivors enrolled in an 18-month phone-based ... -
IMPORTANT WORDS IN THE LEXICON: THE INFLUENCE OF CLOSENESS CENTRALITY ON LEXICAL PROCESSING
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Network science is an interdisciplinary field drawing on computational and mathematical tools from mathematics, computer science, and physics. Network Science utilizes networks to examine real world complex systems. Within ... -
Relations among maltreatment history, substance use, and coping in youth in foster care: Examination of moderation models
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Child maltreatment is associated with a range of negative outcomes, including health risk behavior such as substance use (SU). This study aimed to test relations among maltreatment history, coping behavior, and SU behavior ... -
A Compensatory Control Account of Meritocracy
(PsychOpen, 2014)Why are people motivated to support social systems that claim to distribute resources based on hard work and effort, even when those systems seem unfair? Recent research on compensatory control shows that lowered perceptions ... -
Examining the Influence of Behavioral Factors on Compliance and Persistence with Glatiramer Acetate Injection for Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
(OMICS International, 2014-05-25)Objective: To evaluate the relationship between compliance and persistence with glatiramer acetate (GA) and the behavioral variables in the transtheoretical model of change. Methods: Patients diagnosed with relapsing-remitting ... -
“Not in their right mind”: the relation of psychopathology to the quantity and quality of creative thought
(Frontiers, 2014-07-30)The empirical link between psychopathology and creativity is often correlational and fraught with suspiciously causal interpretations. In this paper, we review research in favor of the position that certain forms of ... -
Relationship Norm Strength: Measurement Structure, Dyadic Interdependence, Correlates, Causes and Consequences
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The study of norms and close relationships are two pillars of social psychological scholarship, yet the two topics are rarely studied in tandem. When relationship norms have been the subject of empirical study, researchers ... -
Mother Recollections of a Tornado
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Abstract The goals of the present study were to explore how meaning-related features of mothers’ individual recollections of a devastating tornado and its aftermath related to mothers’ perceived stress approximately one ... -
MIBEN: Robust Multiple Imputation with the Bayesian Elastic Net
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Correctly specifying the imputation model when conducting multiple imputation remains one of the most significant challenges in missing data analysis. This dissertation introduces a robust multiple imputation technique, ... -
Selecting an Optimal Measurement Model and Detecting Differential Item Functioning Using Bayesian Confirmatory Factor Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)I investigated the sampling behavior of DIC and WAIC in the context of selecting an optimal measurement model in Bayesian SEM, as well as the utility of highly constrained parameter estimates in detecting differential item ... -
Maternal Psychological Control, Use of Supportive Parenting, and Childhood Depressive Symptoms
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Given the developmental importance of the family system, research on child depressive symptoms often examines the impact of parenting practices as either sources of or buffers against depressive symptoms. The current study, ... -
Bringing the past to the present: Temporal self-comparison processes moderate nostalgia’s effect on well-being
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This research tested the theory that the effect of nostalgia on well-being depends on temporal comparison processes. Five studies (N = 501) apply established models of self and social judgment and demonstrate that nostalgia ... -
More than pretty pictures? How illustrations affect parent-child story reading and children's story recall
(Frontiers, 2014-07-22)Previous research showed that story illustrations fail to enhance young preschoolers' memories when they accompany a pre-recorded story (e.g., Greenhoot and Semb, 2008. In this study we tested whether young children might ... -
Experiments in Active Autism
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The Role of Emotion Regulation in Attentional Biases in Mood-Congruent Information and Sustained Negative Affect in Depression
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Objective: The present study examined the extent to which emotion regulation and distinct emotion regulation processes mediate the relationship between attentional bias and sustained negative affect in individuals at-risk ... -
Academic Aspirations as a Moderator of the link between Negative Life Events and Delinquency in a Sample of Latino Youth
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Latino youth are one of the fastest growing populations in the United States (Passel, 2011), and Latino youth are at a disproportionately higher risk for experiencing negative life events (NLEs). However, there are few ...