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Psychology: Recent submissions
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Gender Identity and Perceptions of Sexism: A Liberation Psychology Perspective
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Three studies sought to assess cultural influences in gender identification, gender identity content, and perceptions of sexism. Study 1 examined the impact of taking an introductory women's studies course relative to a ... -
An Examination of the Acute Effects of Bright Light Therapy in a Non-Clinical Sample
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)The integral role of light in physiological and psychological well-being is illustrated by the application of phototherapy, or bright light therapy (BLT), in treating mood disorders such as seasonal affective disorder and ... -
Investigation of Variables Associated with Vaccine Acceptance
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Abstract The current study investigated the relationship between the Health Belief Model (HBM) framework, social variables, personality factors, and H1N1 flu vaccine acceptance. Four hundred thirty two undergraduate students ... -
Psychometric Properties of the 30 Item Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives (WISDM-30) among African American Light Smokers
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Despite smoking fewer cigarettes per day, African American smokers have greater difficulty quitting when compared to other ethnic groups. Identifying factors associated with smoking among these high-risk smokers may assist ... -
Neuroimaging of Discourse Processing in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Detection of very early stages of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has been an area of difficulty for researchers due to confounds with age. Prose recall has been suggested as a diagnostically sensitive test of episodic memory ... -
Jokes are No Laughing Matter: Disparagement Humor and Social Identity Theory
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Disparagement humor is "remarks that elicit amusement through the denigration, derogation, or belittlement of a given target" (Ferguson & Ford, p. 283, 2008). This paper looks at disparagement humor through social identity ... -
Learning to Ignore Distracters
(American Psychological Association, 2012-03)Eye tracking has indicated that older and young adults process distracters similarly when reading single sentences. The present study extended this approach by presenting short paragraphs, sentence by sentence. Eye tracking ... -
What Were They Thinking? College Men's Thoughts That Facilitate Sexual Coercion
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-31)Researchers have recognized the need to increase understanding of sexually coercive college men. The current exploratory study examines sexually coercive men's written descriptions of their experience in situations when ... -
Understanding verbal fluency in healthy aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease
(Elsevier, 2011)• Objective: Verbal fluency measures are frequently part of batteries designed to assess executive function, but are also used to assess semantic processing ability or word knowledge. The goal of the present study was to ... -
Longitudinal change in language production: Effects of aging and dementia on grammatical complexity and semantic content
(American Psychological Association, 2001-12)Mixed modeling was used to examine longitudinal changes in linguistic ability in healthy older adults and older adults with dementia. Language samples, vocabulary scores, and digit span scores were collected annually from ... -
The structure of verbal abilities in young and older adults
(American Psychological Association, 2001-06)Four language sample measures as well as measures of vocabulary, verbal fluency, and memory span were obtained from a sample of young adults and a sample of older adults. Factor analysis was used to analyze the structure ... -
Age differences in sentence production
(Oxford University Press, 2003-09)Two experiments have been completed using experimental techniques to study language production under controlled conditions. In Experiment 1, young and older adults were given two, three, or four words and asked to compose ... -
The Costs of Doing Two Things at Once for Young and Older Adults: Talking while Walking, Finger Tapping, and Ignoring Speech or Noise
(American Psychological Association, 2003-06)Young and older adults provided language samples in response to questions while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise. The language samples were scored on 3 dimensions: fluency, complexity, and content. The ... -
Sentence production by younger and older adults in controlled contexts
(Oxford University Press, 2004-09)In this experiment we compared young and older adults' abilities to produce complex sentences under controlled conditions. We asked participants to memorize sentence stems differing in syntactical complexity and then to ... -
Eye fixation patterns of high and low span young and older adults: Down the garden path and back again
(American Psychological Association, 2004-03)Young and older adults' eye fixations were monitored as they read sentences with temporary ambiguities such as "The experienced soldiers warned about the dangers conducted the midnight raid." Their fixation patterns were ... -
Different effects of dual task demands on the speech of young and older adults
(Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press), 2005-12)Young and older adults provided language samples in response to elicitation questions while concurrently performing 3 different tasks. The language samples were scored on three dimensions: fluency, grammatical complexity, ... -
Revealing language deficits following stroke: the cost of doing two things at once
(Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press), 2006-01)The costs of doing two things were assessed for a group of healthy older adults and older adults who were tested at least 6 months after a stroke. A baseline language sample was compared to language samples collected while ... -
Eye movements of young and older adults while reading with distraction
(American Psychological Association, 2006-03)The authors used eye-tracking technology to examine young and older adults' online performance in the reading in distraction paradigm. Participants read target sentences and answered comprehension questions following each ... -
Eye movements of young and older adults during reading
(American Psychological Association, 2007-03)The eye movements of young and older adults were tracked as they read sentences varying in syntactic complexity. In Experiment 1, cleft object and object relative clause sentences were more difficult to process than cleft ... -
Automatic measurement of propositional idea density from part-of-speech tagging
(Springer, 2008-05)The Computerized Propositional Idea Density Rater (CPIDR, pronounced “spider”) is a computer program that determines the propositional idea density (P-density) of an English text automatically on the basis of partof-speech ...