Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - Psychological Sciences by Issue Date
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)Research in the anxiety disorders has shown that safety behaviors function to maintain pathological anxiety by preventing the disconfirmation of inaccurate threat beliefs. The present study examined if such safety behaviors ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)This study examined representational overlap between faces and scenes by means of spatial frequency adaptation. The results show that adaptation to faces and scenes in either low or high spatial frequencies affect the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-05)A link between early responding to joint attention (RJA) and later theory of mind (ToM) has been found in typically developing children but has not been examined in children at risk for autism. RJA at age 12 months was ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)In a randomized clinical trial with families of parents with a history of major depressive disorder, changes in parenting and parental depressive symptoms were examined in relation to the effects of a family group cognitive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited as a result of a meaning analysis in which a person evaluates the implications of his or her circumstances for his or her personal well-being. This study tests the process ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)This study examined the extent to which child severity and family resources are related to parenting stress in parents of 26 young children with autism. Bivariate correlations between family resources, autism severity, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)Background: Dissatisfaction with the size, weight, and shape of oneâs body contributes to the risk of developing an eating disorder. Body dissatisfaction appears common among adolescents, but there is little information ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)Over 12,400 children in the United States are diagnosed with cancer annually. The diagnosis and treatment of cancer can create significant amounts of stress for the mothers of these children. While facing this stress, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-06)Children of depressed parents are at increased risk for developing depression themselves. Children’s sex, age, pubertal development, and parent-child conflict all have been shown to be related to depressive symptoms in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)This paper looks at the effects of life stress on predicting health outcomes in chronic abdominal pain patients. It also looks at whether competence moderates the effects of life stress.
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)This study examined the effect of social stress on chronic abdominal pain patients. Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) is a type of chronic pain common in children, experienced by 10-15 % of young children. Stress has been noted ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)In this study, we were interested in what 9-month-olds understood about the physical properties of an object after seeing an intentional gesture made toward the object. Specifically, we asked whether infants could make ...
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Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)The stop-signal task has been used extensively in order to test abilities of inhibition as well as cognitive functioning. In previous experiments, a relatively large number of participants had to be excluded from analysis ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)Research on parental depression is beginning to recognize the importance of studying fathers with depression and the effects this depression can have on their parenting behaviors. The current study provides insight into ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)This study examined the congruency of adolescent and parent perceptions of adolescent diabetes self-management and problem solving. Survey responses were collected from 115 adolescent- parent dyads. Parents' and adolescents' ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-13)Schadenfreude, which loosely translates to "taking pleasure in the misery of others," has been found in previous research to result from situations in which an individual of the same sex as the subject is to blame for ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)The idea that "justice is blind" has been called into question by some reports that attractiveness affects judgments of punishment and guilt. However, such studies are handicapped by a number of limitations, which this ...