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Psychology: Recent submissions
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Assignment Methods in the Three-Form Planned Missing Data Design
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)The 3-form planned missing data design allows researchers to measure more items from more participants on more occasions using the same budget as a complete data design. It also reduces burden, fatigue, and response ... -
Who Exercises and When? The Effects of Intra- and Inter-Individual Variation on the Likelihood and Duration of Exercise
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The current study examined the ability of inter- and intra-individual characteristics to predict the likelihood and duration of exercise as well as mood. One hundred forty-nine undergraduates (mean age = 19.11; 53% women; ... -
Headstrong intervention for pediatric migraine headache: a randomized clinical trial
(Spinger, 2014-02-28)Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a self-guided CD-ROM program (“Headstrong”) containing cognitive-behavioral self-management strategies versus an educational CD-ROM program for treating ... -
Tracking Reading: Dual Task Costs of Oral Reading for Young Versus Older Adults
(Springer US, 2014-02-01)A digital pursuit rotor was used to monitor oral reading costs by time-locking tracking performance to the auditory wave form produced as young and older adults were reading out short paragraphs. Multilevel modeling was ... -
The Effect of Belief in Free Will on Prejudice
(Public Library of Science, 2014-03-12)The current research examined the role of the belief in free will on prejudice across Han Chinese and white samples. Belief in free will refers to the extent to which people believe human beings truly have free will. In ... -
The Acute Side Effects of Bright Light Therapy: A Placebo-Controlled Investigation
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09-24)Despite the emergence of numerous clinical and non-clinical applications of bright light therapy (LT) in recent decades, the prevalence and severity of LT side effects have not yet been fully explicated. A few adverse LT ... -
What do foreign neighbors say about the mental lexicon?
(Cambrige University Press, 2012-01-15)A corpus analysis of phonological word-forms shows that English words have few phonological neighbors that are Spanish words. Concomitantly, Spanish words have few phonological neighbors that are English words. These ... -
Branding and a child’s brain: an fMRI study of neural responses to logos
(Oxford University Press, 2012-12-14)Branding and advertising have a powerful effect on both familiarity and preference for products, yet no neuroimaging studies have examined neural response to logos in children. Food advertising is particularly pervasive ... -
Divergent Effects of Beliefs in Heaven and Hell on National Crime Rates
(Public Library of Science, 2012-06-18)Though religion has been shown to have generally positive effects on normative ‘prosocial’ behavior, recent laboratory research suggests that these effects may be driven primarily by supernatural punishment. Supernatural ... -
ASSOCIATIONS OF ATTACHMENT STYLE AND REASONS TO PRETEND ORGASM; DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF REASONS TO PRETEND ORGASM MEASURE IN A RELATIONAL CONTEXT
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Although pretending orgasm is a relatively common phenomenon, a review of the literature revealed no theory driven research investigating the relationship correlates of this sexual behavior. The current research uses a ... -
The Role of Auditory-Visual Synchrony in Capture of Attention and Induction of Attentional State in Infancy
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This study was designed to examine the types of events that are most effective in capturing infant attention and whether these attention-getting events also effectively elicit an attentional state and facilitate perception ... -
Verbal Creativity and Ambiguity Resolution in the Cerebral Hemispheres
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This study examined hemispheric differences in ambiguity resolution in subjects who vary on measures of creativity. Subjects were classified as either low, moderate, or high creative based on the results of convergent and ... -
The Effect of Loneliness on Executive Functioning in Young and Older Adults
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Loneliness has many risk factors (including being single, a woman, or socially isolated) as well as potentially negative effects on physical, psychological and cognitive health. Baumeister, Twenge, and Nuss (2002) suggested ... -
EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VIGOROUS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE CHILDREN: AN APPLICATION OF DYNAMIC P-TECHNIQUE
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Pediatric overweight and obesity remain a public health concern, and the majority of children do not meet recommended guidelines for physical activity, increasing their risk for impaired health-related quality of life ... -
TWO-METHOD PLANNED MISSING DESIGNS FOR LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)We examine longitudinal extensions of the two-method measurement design, which uses planned missingness to optimize cost-efficiency and validity of hard-to-measure constructs. These designs use a combination of two measures: ... -
The Effect of Varying Levels of Depressive Symptoms on Mindfulness Acquisition: An Exploratory Study
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Research and clinical theory increasingly suggest that mindfulness may be an effective clinical intervention for a myriad of mental illnesses. However, there is debate in the field as to whether or not mindfulness-based ... -
An fMRI Investigation of Source Memory in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Individuals with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) often complain about poor memory and evidence suggests that individuals with OCD exhibit deficits on some tasks, including those that are unrelated to obsessional concerns. ... -
The Physical Activity Resource Assessment (PARA) instrument: Evaluating features, amenities and incivilities of physical activity resources in urban neighborhoods
(BioMed Central, 2005-09-14)Background: Neighborhood environment factors may influence physical activity (PA). The purpose of this study was to develop and test a brief instrument to systematically document and describe the type, features, amenities, ... -
Speaker Sex Influences Processing of Grammatical Gender
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-13)Spoken words carry linguistic and indexical information to listeners. Abstractionist models of spoken word recognition suggest that indexical information is stripped away in a process called normalization to allow processing ... -
Community structure in the phonological network
(Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2013-08-27)Community structure, which refers to the presence of densely connected groups within a larger network, is a common feature of several real-world networks from a variety of domains such as the human brain, social networks ...