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Executive Function, Coping, and Psychological Adjustment in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-03-30)
While new treatments have increased the survival rate of pediatric patients with brain
tumors, they have also left this population with many adverse cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral outcomes. Prior research provides ...
Inferring Structural Properties of Objects from Intentional Gestures in Infancy
(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 ...
Psychological Predictors of Athletic Performance: Emotional Intelligence, Coping Style, and Mental Toughness
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
The present study examined the psychological predictors of success as they relate to performance levels. To this end, study 1 was conducted investigating the foremost psychological constructs athletes employ while in a ...
Parental Influence on Children Coping with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-21)
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a chronic illness that disproportionately affects African Americans in the U.S. at a rate of 1 to 500. Proper management of this blood disorder is key in ensuring that those affected lead ...
Attention retraining treatment for contamination fear: A randomized control trial
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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 ...
Category Specific Spatial Frequency Adaptation with Faces and Cars
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
Children’s Optimism and Coping with Stress When Living with a Parent with Depression
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
In the U.S. approximately 16% of people are affected by depression in their lifetime and it is estimated that depression will become the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020 (Monroe & Reid, 2009). In order to ...
Self-Criticism, Sexual Minority Stress and Disordered Eating Behaviors
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)
Minority stress theory recognizes the presence of added stress for individuals that belong to marginalized minority groups (Meyer, 2003). When considering the mental health of those who identify as sexual minorities, the ...
A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis on the Likelihood of Overeating and Unplanned Eating
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)
This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...