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Past research suggests that reading comprehension performance relies not solely on cognitive skills such as decoding, vocabulary, and inference skills, but also on attention and behavior. Specifically, the literature has pointed to...
Personality has been found to have significant connections to language. Ranging from impacting narrative style, to informing expectations about others based on linguistic factors such as accent, personality affects both language...
The purpose of the present study is to examine the utility of the Systematic Observation of Red Flags (SORF; Dow et al., 2016) as a level two screener for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in toddlers when applied to a naturalistic video...
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a prevalent and impairing condition, particularly among trauma exposed individuals. The current proposal aimed to address the critical need for targeted direct SUD prevention in this population by...
Comparing Alternative Models of Reading Disability by Their Ability to Predict the Compensatory Effect of Assistive Technology on Reading Comprehension
The purpose of this study was to investigate the multi-faceted nature of morphological knowledge, the relationship between morphological and vocabulary knowledge, and the relationship of these skills to reading comprehension in adults...
Little is known about what contributes to individual differences in reading fluency after accounting for accuracy. Previous research has shown individual differences in the relative growth in word and nonword reading, specifically a...
Research has consistently demonstrated a link between spatial and math skills as well as a link between spatial and math anxieties and their respective cognitive skill (i.e., links between math anxiety and math performance). However, ...
Linguistic alignment is a well-documented phenomenon that describes the act of adjusting your speech to match your partner's. This can take various forms – by changing your tone, pitch, speech rate, or even the types of words each...
Risk factors (e.g., anxiety sensitivity, subclinical anxiety) associated with the development of anxiety disorders have been identified; however, the development of preventive interventions targeting these risk factors is in the nascent...
Being reminded of a previous instance when encountering new items leads to a large memory benefit. However, little is known about what factors influence whether one will be reminded. In three experiments, I explored the influence of...
People's long-term partner ideals are functional in that they guide adaptive mate-selection decisions and thus people should be more satisfied with, and consequently, have more positive interactions with their romantic partners to the...
The present study investigated the meta-relations among common components of reading comprehension. The Simple View of Reading (SVR, Hoover & Gough, 1990) posits that reading comprehension is the sum or product of linguistic...
Common stereotypes contend that boys have more natural ability and interest in math than do girls, which may contribute to the underrepresentation of women in some Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields. Research suggests that...
The Firing Dilemma: Sacrificial Managerial Decisions Entail a Tradeoff of Warmth and Competence, Paralleling Inferences from Sacrificial Moral Dilemmas
Managers often face choices where harming a few people benefits the business overall, e.g., downsizing under crisis. They report such decisions as very difficult even when efficient. Sacrificial managerial decisions (e.g., cutting a job...
Children with ADHD frequently demonstrate deficits in working memory as well as across multiple domains of math skills. Working memory is a multi-component system that includes a domain-general central executive (the 'working' component...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the shared and unique contributions of three metalinguistic skills to the word reading and reading comprehension abilities of Adult Basic Education (ABE) students. Across studies, the...
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic disorder associated with long-term impairment across multiple life domains, including academic, occupational, social, and psychological (Barkley, Murphy, & Kwasnik, 1996;...
Conceptual pacts are agreed-upon ways of talking about things that are specific to a conversation and a conversation partner. Most research focuses on conceptual pacts with participants being co-present in some way. However, we do not...
Home literacy environment (HLE) refers to children's exposure to and engagement in reading related activities in the home. Children's HLE prior to kindergarten is predictive of reading achievement in later years. Utilizing a sample of 2...
Lyons et al. (2018) used exploratory factor analysis to develop and validate a spatial anxiety questionnaire that can reliably measure anxiety in situations that involve different types of spatial skills. Using the framework set forth by...
Known as the belief about the malleability of intelligence, the concept of intelligence mindset has been embraced by the United States education system and abroad. Specifically, some research suggests that growth mindset (i.e., belief...
Partner defection for an attractive alternative represents a threat to romantic relationships. Intimates’ behaviors to combat this threat are likely influenced by their attachment style. Attachment anxiety is characterized by fear of...
We sometimes fail to notice objects and events in our environment because our attention is directed elsewhere—a phenomenon called inattentional blindness. Our attentional set—the features we prioritize in our environment—plays a large...
There is a high prevalence of personality disorder (PD) traits among individuals involved in the criminal justice system. Cluster B personality and psychopathic traits are the most prevalent traits that occur within individuals involved...
Recent research supports the multidimensionality of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), but the structure of ODD symptoms has been inconsistent across studies. Despite differences, each model has an affective dimension, usually shown to...
Previous research has shown rapid serial naming to be predictive of reading fluency, although the mechanisms underlying this connection are much less established. Despite the strong relationship with rapid serial naming (RAN), oral...
Introduction - The Simple View of Reading (SVR) and the Not-so-Simple View of Writing (NSVW) are well established models of reading and writing, respectively. This study combined and expanded upon these theoretical frameworks of...
Math achievement is an important predictor of progression to later science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and careers. However, attitudinal factors also play a role, and interventions attempting to improve math...
Narrative writing samples were collected and analyzed for a total sample size of 826 students (413 twin pairs; 159 monozygotic and 524 dizygotic pairs) from the Florida Twin Project on Behavior and Environment (FTP-BE) database who...
The sense of taste guides nutrient consumption and affects overall health and quality of life. One of the main functions of taste is the detection of chemical stimuli that elicit the perception of canonical qualities such as sweet, salty...
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