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Recent research on structural priming has found that cumulative priming effects established in one experimental session can persist for a week and affect a participant's subsequent linguistic productions (e.g., Kaschak, Kutta, &...
Secular gains in intelligence test scores have perplexed researchers since they were documented by Flynn (1984, 1987), but few have attempted to understand them as a cognitive phenomenon. Gains are most pronounced on seemingly "culture...
The aim of the present study was twofold, to attempt to reduce false memories with the experimental manipulation of giving feedback; and to assess factors that potentially increase suggestibility to false memories, such as stress. In...
The current study uses two experiments to explore how a range of social and cognitive variables affect linguistic alignment. Experiment 1 examines the effects of a number of individual difference variables (inhibitory control, pattern...
My previous study suggests that the chorda tympani nerve (CT) is important in conveying fat taste information to the central nervous system, as bilateral transection of the CT (CTX) raises the taste discrimination threshold for the free...
Research on inattentional blindness (IB) has uncovered few individual difference measures that predict failures to detect an unexpected event. Notably, no clear relationship exists between primary task performance and IB. This is...
Successful completion of the introductory course in organic chemistry is a prerequisite for many graduate and professional science programs, yet the failure rate for this course is notoriously high. To date, there have been few studies...
The purpose of this study was to examine the shared and unique associations of sadness rumination and anger rumination and their links to depressive and aggressive symptoms in pre/early adolescents. Children, seven through fourteen years...
A number of studies have demonstrated that depression or depressive symptoms are a risk factor for subsequently developing cognitive decline or dementia, yet there is some controversy as to the cause(s) of this relationship. Dementia may...
According to SAS No. 99 and the "Fraud Triangle" there are three major classes of fraud risk factors: pressures, opportunities, and rationalizations. This study first investigates the manner in which auditors react to pressures and...
Given the important role of contact in improving attitudes toward outgroup members, it is necessary to examine factors that reduce majority group members' likelihood of having contact with minority group members. Recent research...
People judge others' harmful effects to be more intentional than their helpful effects (Knobe, 2003). The present work shows that two separate biases produce this side-effect effect: relative to morally neutral side effects, people judge...
The positive effects of behavior analytic intervention for children with autism have been repeatedly documented (Cohen, Amerine-Dickens & Smith, 2006; Howard, et. al., 2005; Lovaas, 1987; McEachin, Smith & Lovaas, 1993; Sallows &...
Explaining expert chess players' dramatically superior skill represents an outstanding unsolved theoretical problem for cognitive psychology. This review extends and re-evaluates the current state of theories on chess skill, highlighting...
The purpose of the current study was to identify the presence of any differences in perceptions of dating violence, relative to gender type, roles, and socialization, among 142 African-American college students. One hundred and forty...
Schwartz et al. (2002) proposed that individuals who approach decisions with the goal of maximizing (selecting the best possible option) as opposed to satisficing (selecting the first "good enough" option encountered) suffer from...
The field of psychology has produced a great deal of knowledge about the way in which eyewitness memory operates in the adult population, and several findings have remained constant over many years. One of these is the "Other-race effect...
Recent studies (Gray & Fu, 2004; Fu & Gray, 2006) suggest that when information needed to complete a task from a computer display takes longer than the time to retrieve it from memory, then people will automatically use their error-prone...
This study uses two experiments to explore the extent to which goal pursuits affect automatic motor responses. At the beginning of each experiment, participants were given experiences that induced certain goal states. Participants then...
The construct of relational aggression in children remains poorly delineated with regards to prevalence, associated impairment and gender differences therein. Some have suggested that relational aggression may be a female variant of...
The present study proposes an alternative to the idea that individuals who attempt or complete suicide do so on a whim. Specifically, drawing on Joiner's (2005) Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Attempted and Completed Suicide, we...
This thesis investigates how linguistic cues implying varying levels of object resolution are mentally represented in sentences such as Through the smoky/empty bar, the bartender could hardly/easily read the clock. Such sentences contain...
In this Dissertation, I describe the affects of altering the integration of two motor pathways (the vocal motor pathway and anterior forebrain pathway) on neural and vocal recovery in the adult male zebra finch. I first detail how damage...
The fragile self-esteem view of narcissism suggests that narcissism is rooted in insecurity of the self that is disguised by grandiosity and arrogance. This conceptualization was initially developed from a psychoanalytic perspective and...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive relationship of response styles (i.e., rumination and distraction) to depression and anxiety in children and to test the hypothesis that response styles explain the emergence of...
The current study examined the emotional reactivity and trait affectivity patterns of children and adolescents referred to a university-based clinic for learning, emotional and behavioral difficulties. Prior research suggests that...
Objectives. Cognitive decline (CD) is rapidly becoming the most pressing health problem in the U.S., with rates of dementia even greater in African Americans than whites. Biological and environmental factors are thought to contribute to...
The representation of locations and movement in peri-personal space (the space directly in front of the torso) has been hypothesized to be important in the representations of abstract concepts, most notably quantity and time. Presumably, ...
Theories of sexual selection suggest that people often engage in motivated social signaling (i.e., strategically signaling desired characteristics to others). For example, those who are motivated to find a mate are likely to display...
In this dissertation, the neurobiological mechanisms that govern the effects of social buffering on stress were evaluated in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). As reviewed in Chapter 1, social living is beneficial for many...
When talking about time, we often refer to space. It is has been proposed that the concept of time employs the same representational structure of that of space (e.g. Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). There is both linguistic and experimental...
The desire for positive social relationships is a fundamental motive shaping human cognition and behavior. In the current research, I integrate social cognitive, evolutionary, and neuroendocrinological theories to generate and test...
Text cues indicate to the reader where and how to direct his or her reading-related processing. Findings in the text cue literature are mixed. The reading task and individual differences in reading ability might account for these results...
While some researchers theorize that holding positive illusions about oneself optimizes psychosocial functioning, mounting evidence suggests that positive illusions have a "dark side." Aggressive children often overestimate their social...
In the current research, factors indicating a potential vulnerability to threat were shown to promote functionally adaptive biases during group categorization. White participants who held strong beliefs about vulnerability to...
The present research was divided into two studies that examined the characteristics of victim age based subgroups of juvenile sexual offenders (JSOs). In the first study, three groups of JSOs (those who offended children only, peers...
Research examining age differences in metamemory has consistently found that the ability to monitor one's memory remains relatively intact as we age. Recently, researchers have been striving to understand the relationship between...
Parafoveal processing, the ability to extract linguistic information from locations beyond the currently fixated word, is a core component of skilled reading. Recent theoretical debate on this topic is focused on the question of whether...
Several cognitive components are thought to explain the relation of rapid serial naming and reading ability including the constructs of phonological access, attention, automaticity, articulation, global processing speed, and visual...
Research has repeatedly shown that the total number of hours college students spend studying for their courses is a poor predictor of measures of student performance. Two studies used questionnaires to examine alternative measures of...
The present investigation sought to examine and replicate previously observed patterns of both normal progressive and regressive saccades, as well as to further understand regression behavior by using a new experimental paradigm for...
Psychophysical Assessment of the Role of the T1R2 and T1R3 Protein Subunits in Taste Responsiveness to Polycose and Putative T1R2+3 Taste Receptor Ligands
Taste is important in regulating ingestive behavior and can be thought to serve roles in three main functional domains: stimulus identification, hedonics and physiological reflexes. The first step in the process of taste sensation...
Self-Perceived Social Skills Deficits and Negative Life Events Interact to Predict the Onset of Bulimia Nervosa and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
Previous research has established a link between social skill impairment and eating disorders. The current study sought to test the hypothesis that an interaction between self-perceived social skills deficits and negative life events...
Using a novel form of meta-analysis, this research estimates information processing parameter estimates for older adults using the Card, Moran, & Newell (1983) Model Human Processor model and applies these perceptual, motor, and...
The cross-race effect (CRE) states that people are better able to accurately recognize faces of their own race as opposed to faces of other races. Although this finding has been studied extensively over the past 35 years, there still...
The present investigation explored whether polite behavior misleads conversation partners to overconfident perceptions of their abilities. In this study, participants in pairs were assigned either to deliver a persuasive appeal or to be...
Recent research on alcohol-placebo manipulations has challenged the traditional notion that consumption of placebo beverages reliably results in decreased performance on a variety of tasks due to assumption of an intoxicated role....
More than ten years of research has been conducted on the use of social stories to change the behavior of children with autism, yet the results of these studies continue to be inconclusive. While many articles indicate that social...
We evaluated the effects of alcohol, expectancy, threat of shock, and valence of competing visual stimuli on fear potentiated startle (FPS), the difference between startle magnitude under threat conditions and that under safe conditions, ...
Despite the importance of visual analysis of graphed data in behavioral research, only sporadic studies have systematically examined the consistency in conclusions regarding data that are evaluated in this manner. Various studies have...
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