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Psychology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Beginning Spanish Lexicon: A Web-based interface to calculate phonological similarity among Spanish words in adults learning Spanish as a foreign language
(SAGE Publications, 2012-01)A number of resources provide psycholinguistic researchers with information about the words that the typical child or adult knows in a variety of languages. What is currently not available is a resource that provides ... -
Functional Fixedness in Creative Thinking Tasks Depends on Stimulus Modality
(American Psychological Association, 2016-11-10)Pictorial examples during creative thinking tasks can lead participants to fixate on these examples and reproduce their elements even when yielding suboptimal creative products. Semantic memory research may illuminate the ... -
The Influence of the Phonological Neighborhood Clustering-Coefficient on Spoken Word Recognition
(American Psychological Association, 2009-12)Clustering coefficient—a measure derived from the new science of networks—refers to the proportion of phonological neighbors of a target word that are also neighbors of each other. Consider the words bat, hat, and can, all ... -
Effect of Grade Retention in First Grade on Psychosocial Outcomes
(American Psychological Association, 2010-02)In a 4-year longitudinal study, the authors investigated effects of retention in first grade on children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors; social acceptance; and behavioral, cognitive, and affective engagement. ... -
Untangling the relative contribution of maltreatment severity and frequency to type of behavioral outcome in foster youth
(Elsevier, 2015-06-01)Within maltreatment research, type, frequency, and severity of abuse are often confounded and not always specifically documented. The result is that samples are often heterogeneous, and the role of components of maltreatment ... -
Gene-by-Socioeconomic Status Interaction on School Readiness
(Springer Verlag, 2012-02-15)In previous work with a nationally representative sample of over 1,400 monozygotic and dizygotic twins born in the US, Tucker-Drob et al. (Psychological Science, 22, 125–133, 2011) uncovered a gene × environment interaction ... -
Examining Lateralized Semantic Access Using Pictures
(Elsevier, 2009-10-20)A divided visual field (DVF) experiment examined the semantic processing strategies employed by the cerebral hemispheres to determine if strategies observed with written word stimuli generalize to other media for communicating ... -
Insulin Resistance and Gray Matter Volume in Neurodegenerative Disease
(Elsevier, 2014-06-13)The goal of this study was to compare insulin resistance in aging and aging-related neurodegenerative diseases, and to determine the relationship between insulin resistance and gray matter volume (GMV) in each cohort using ... -
Body Mass Index and Cognitive Decline in Mild Cognitive Impairment
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2011-03-31)Objective To examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and cognitive decline in subjects diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods Neuropsychologic and clinical evaluations were conducted ... -
Neighborhood Integration and Connectivity Predict Cognitive Performance and Decline
(SAGE Publications, 2015-08-05)Objective: Neighborhood characteristics may be important for promoting walking, but little research has focused on older adults, especially those with cognitive impairment. We evaluated the role of neighborhood characteristics ... -
Identifying factors of psychological distress on the experience of pain and symptom management among cancer patients
(BioMed Central, 2016-11-02)Background Epidemiological evidence suggests the impact psychological distress has on symptomatic outcomes (pain) among cancer patients. While studies have examined distress across various medical illnesses, few have ... -
Vignette methodologies for studying clinicians’ decision-making: Validity, utility, and application in ICD-11 field studies
(Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual, 2015)Vignette-based methodologies are frequently used to examine judgments and decision-making processes, including clinical judgments made by health professionals. Concerns are sometimes raised that vignettes do not accurately ... -
Decolonizing Psychological Science: Introdocution to the Special Thematic Section
(PsychOpen, 2015-08-21)Despite unprecedented access to information and diffusion of knowledge across the globe, the bulk of work in mainstream psychological science still reflects and promotes the interests of a privileged minority of people in ... -
Decolonizing Liberation: Toward a Transnational Feminist Psychology
(PsychOpen, 2015-08-21)This paper engages the theme of “decolonizing psychological science” in the context of a perspective on psychological theory and research—namely, feminist psychology—that shares an emphasis on broad liberation. Although ... -
Beyond Adaptation: Decolonizing Approaches to Coping With Oppression
(PsychOpen, 2015-08-21)How should one respond to racial oppression? Conventional prescriptions of mainstream social psychological science emphasize the idea of coping with oppression—whether via emotional management strategies that emphasize ... -
The efficacy of behavioural activation treatment for co-occurring depression and substance use disorder (the activate study): a randomized controlled trial
(BioMed Central, 2016-07-08)Background Epidemiological studies suggest that compared with the general population, mood disorders are up to 4.7 times more prevalent in substance dependent samples. Comorbid substance use disorder (SUD) and depression ... -
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 ...