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Chronic Pain and Anxiety in Children: Physiological and Emotional Factors in Stress Responses
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05-08)
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Testing category-specific spatial frequency adaptation
(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 ...
Stress Responses and Worries of Women at Risk for Breast Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05)
The physiological impact of a breast cancer discussion between mothers and their daughters was analyzed in relation to other anxiety and concern measures. Fifty-eight mothers with varied breast cancer histories participated. ...
Parents and Children Coping with Pediatric Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)
Children who are diagnosed with cancer and their families must learn to cope with and communicate about the cancer diagnosis, treatment and its side effects, and hospital stays. Parents are their primary support; they are ...
Sibling Bereavement from Childhood Cancer: Impact on the Surviving Children and Their Coping Responses
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-01)
The death of a sibling is potentially one of the most traumatic events for children and adolescents. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between siblings’ psychosocial adjustment following the death ...
Gender differences in attribution and person perception
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-10)
This study examines gender differences in attribution and person perception. We are interested in seeing whether men and women differ in how they perceive other people. Participants were asked to imagine themselves in a ...
Comparing Thompson's Thatcher effect with faces and non-face objects
(2007-05-08)
The classical Thatcher effect (TE) is experienced when global inversion of a face makes it difficult to notice the local inversion of its parts (Thompson, 1980). The TE can be quantified by comparing the ease with which ...
An Emancipation of Men: Thomas J. Morgan, the 14th United States Colored Infantry and the Connection Between Bravery, Manhood and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2005-04-15)
Relation of Depressive Symptoms to Mood-Congruent Memorial Bias in Young Children: A Longitudinal Study
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
The current study examines whether children show evidence of adult-like depressive cognitive schemas and when such schemas emerge. Mood-congruent cognitive schemas have been strongly associated with adult depression (Ingram, ...
Parents' expectations of their children's physicians and uncertainty regarding their children's health
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04)
Functional symptoms, defined as symptoms in the absence of organic disease, are common among pediatric patients. Parents of functional pain patients often experience great uncertainty regarding their children's health ...