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Prior research on suicide has cited impulsivity as a risk factor, yet little is known about the actual relationship between these variables. According to Joiner's (2005) interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidality, impulsive people...
Hate crimes are thought to result in greater psychological and emotional harm to the victim and to other members of the targeted group than to others. Students, 46 African Americans and 52 Whites, viewed a one-minute videotaped news...
The current study examines the effect that reading a list of warning signs for suicide has on beliefs about suicide. All participants read two sets of warning signs (with only the experimental group reading the suicide warning signs) and...
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by intensity and sensitivity of negative emotion (emotion dysregulation) as well as various dysregulated behaviors, including self-injury, suicide attempts, binge eating, and...
The self-help literature avidly promotes the use of positive self-statements to boost self-esteem and mood; however, recent research provides evidence that positive self-statements may be harmful to people with low self-esteem. Prior...
This study investigates the skill acquisition process of ballet dancers from a cross-cultural, expert-performance perspective. The role of deliberate practice activities in the development and maintenance of ballet expertise was examined...
Increasing Adherence in Aging Interventions Using Action Video Games by Adding a Social Component: Investigating the Interaction Between Game Type and Multiplayer Game-Play
Video game interventions have shown promise for both younger (e.g., Powers et al., 2013) and older populations (e.g., Basak, Boot, Voss, & Kramer, 2008) in improving various cognitive abilities. A recent video game intervention study...
Although research has supported the use of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for psychological disorders, many clinicians prefer to use a modular approach integrating interventions from a number of different ESTs. The current study...
Suicide claims the lives of approximately 32, 000 Americans each year. The interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide (IPTS; Joiner, 2005) was developed in an effort to clarify the nature of suicidality as well as to enhance risk...
Multiple studies of Self-Verification Theory (e.g. Swann, 1983) have documented people's tendency to seek out information consistent with strongly held self-views, even when negative. An aspect of self-verification that has received less...
Introduction: Evidence suggests that disturbed sleep may constitute an important and modifiable vulnerability factor for acute suicidal risk and completed suicide. Sleep complaints are closely coupled with mood problems, and depression...
The current work examined how the source of people's motivation to respond without prejudice influences the strategies they use during an actual interracial interaction and what impact these strategies have on the quality of the...
Heatherton and Baumeister (1991) proposed that individuals engage in binge eating in an attempt to escape aversive self-awareness (escape theory). The current study sought to test the escape theory prediction that individuals who...
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