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Psychology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Relationship between Perceived Racism/Discrimination and Health among Black American Women: A Review of the Literature from 2003-2013
(Springer Verlag, 2015-03-01)OBJECTIVES The purpose of this paper was to systematically review the literature investigating the relationship between perceived racism/discrimination and health among black American women. METHODS Searches for empirical ... -
Visual attention and autistic behavior in infants with fragile X syndrome
(Springer Verlag, 2012-06)Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the leading known inherited cause of intellectual disability and the most common known biological cause of autism. Approximately 25% to 50% of males with FXS meet full diagnostic criteria for ... -
Using Multiple Informants to Assess Child Maltreatment: Condordance Between Case File and Youth Self-Report
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-01-01)To understand the psychosocial implications of child maltreatment, methods used to document prevalence must be clear. Yet, rates of maltreatment found in child self-report are generally inconsistent with data found in case ... -
Family Influences on the Long Term Post-Disaster Recovery of Puerto Rican Youth
(Springer Verlag, 2013-01)This study focused on characteristics of the family environment that may mediate the relationship between disaster exposure and the presence of symptoms that met DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for symptom count and duration ... -
Diagnostic Utility of Cerebral White Matter Integrity in Early Alzheimer's Disease
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-08)We compared white matter integrity with brain atrophy in healthy controls and participants with very mild dementia (Clinical Dementia Rating 0 vs. 0.5) from the Brain Aging Project, a longitudinal study of aging and memory ... -
Evaluating Evidence for the Role of Sleep in Fibromyalgia: A Test of the Sleep and Pain Diathesis Model
(Springer Verlag, 2012-12-01)The Sleep and Pain Diathesis (SAPD) Model predicts that sleep quality is related to Fibromylagia (FM) outcomes such as disability and depression and that these relationships are mediated by both pain and impaired emotional ... -
Insights into failed lexical retrieval from network science
(Elsevier, 2014-02)Previous network analyses of the phonological lexicon (Vitevitch, 2008) observed a web-like structure that exhibited assortative mixing by degree: words with dense phonological neighborhoods tend to have as neighbors words ... -
Noninvasive Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Cognitive Flexibility in Tool Use
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-06-01)Recent neuroscience evidence suggests that some higher-order tasks might benefit from a reduction in sensory filtering associated with low levels of cognitive control. Guided by neuroimaging findings, we hypothesized that ... -
Prevalence and correlates of cognitive impairment in kidney transplant recipients
(BioMed Central, 2017-05-12)BACKGROUND: There is a high prevalence of cognitive impairment in dialysis patients. The prevalence of cognitive impairment after kidney transplantation is unknown. METHODS: Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting and ... -
Children’s Postdisaster Trajectories of PTS Symptoms: Predicting Chronic Distress
(Springer Verlag, 2013-08-01)BACKGROUND: There are no studies of the distinct trajectories of children’s psychological distress over the first year after a destructive natural disaster and the determinants of these trajectories. OBJECTIVE: We examined ... -
Measurement of Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes of Youth in Foster Care: Investigation of the Roles of Age and Placement Type
(Springer Verlag, 2014-10-07)The Behavioral Assessment System for Children–2 (BASC-2) is used to assess behavioral and emotional outcomes for youth. Research providing evidence for use of the BASC-2 parent-report form historically has included biological ... -
Assessing the Straightforwardly-Worded Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale for Differential Item Functioning Across Gender and Ethnicity
(Springer Verlag, 2015-06)The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE; Leary Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 371–375, 1983) assesses fear and worry about receiving negative evaluation from others. Rodebaugh et al. Psychological ... -
Dual Task Costs of Oral Reading for Young versus Older Adults
(Springer Verlag, 2014-02)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 ... -
A community-based approach to trials of aerobic exercise in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
(Elsevier, 2012)The benefits of exercise for aging have received considerable attention in both the popular and academic press. The putative benefits of exercise for maximizing cognitive function and supporting brain health have great ... -
Longitudinal assessment of self-harm statements of youth in foster care: Rates, reporters, and related factors
(Springer Verlag, 2015-12)Self-harm in youth is a risk factor related to mental health and future morbidity, yet, relatively little is known about the rates and course of self-harm in youth residing in foster care. This study examined self-harm ... -
Pilot Study Results for a Novel Behavior Plus Nutrition Intervention for Caregivers of Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes
(Elsevier, 2014)OBJECTIVE: This pilot study presents results for a parent-based educational intervention targeting mealtime behaviors plus nutrition among families of young children (M age: 5.0±1.2 years) with type 1 diabetes mellitus ... -
Keywords in the mental lexicon
(Elsevier, 2014-05-01)Network science draws from a number of fields to examine complex systems using nodes to represent individuals and connections to represent relationships between individuals to form a network. This approach has been used ... -
Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: Construct Validation of the Children's Hope Scale
(Springer Verlag, 2014-05-25)Child reports of hope continue to be utilized as predictors of positive adjustment; however, the utilization of the hope construct has not been assessed within the culturally diverse Native American child group. The present ... -
A Matched Filter Hypothesis for Cognitive Control
(Elsevier, 2013-11-05)The prefrontal cortex exerts top-down influences on several aspects of higher-order cognition by functioning as a filtering mechanism that biases bottom-up sensory information toward a response that is optimal in context. ... -
Phonological similarity influences word learning in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language
(Cambridge university Press, 2012-07-01)Neighborhood density—the number of words that sound similar to a given word (Luce & Pisoni, 1998)—influences word-learning in native English speaking children and adults (Storkel, 2004; Storkel, Armbruster, & Hogan, 2006): ...