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Psychology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Creativity in the Wild: Improving Creative Reasoning through Immersion in Natural Settings
(Public Library of Science, 2012-12-12)Adults and children are spending more time interacting with media and technology and less time participating in activities in nature. This life-style change clearly has ramifications for our physical well-being, but what ... -
The Psychology of Engagement with Indigenous Identities: A Cultural Perspective
(American Psychological Association, 2006)A questionnaire study among 124 students at Haskell Indian Nations University investigated the hypothesis that engagement with Indigenous identity—assessed along 3 dimensions including degree (identification scale), content ... -
Behavior as mind-in-context: A cultural psychology analysis of "paranoid" suspicion
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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 ... -
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 ...