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Examining Stress-Related Pathways of Substance Use Among Sexual Minority Women
Alcohol and drug abuse among sexual minority women (SMW) is an increasingly recognized public health concern in the United States. Across a multitude of nationally-representative samples, SMW populations report higher rates ... -
Examining the Impact of Guided Memory Retrieval on Intrusive Memories: An Online Trauma Film Paradigm Study
Intrusive memories are a cardinal symptom of chronic post-traumatic mental health problems (e.g., Brewin et al., 2010). Post-event memory processing may be a key facilitator of remission of intrusive memories (Marks et ... -
Examining the Interplay of Vagal Tone and Parenting as Predictors of Child Psychopathology
(2013-02-25)Emotion dysregulation is a critical factor in the development of psychopathology (Cicchetti, Ackerman, & Izard, 1995), and deficits in emotion regulation are a core component of many psychiatric disorders (DelCarmen-Wiggins, ... -
Examining the social emotional impact of a brief mindfulness program for students in special education
As the popularity of both clinic- and school-based mindfulness-based interventions (MBI’s) has grown, high quality empirical support for the efficacy of these interventions has been limited. School-based MBI’s are gaining ... -
Executive function and social problem-solving in maltreated and non-maltreated preschool children
(1997)This study examined the early relationship between executive functioning (EF) and social problem-solving (SPS) skills and their influence on behavioral adjustment by comparing the performance of maltreated and non-maltreated ... -
The experience of stress in air travel situations: development of the air travel stress scale
(2003)Despite the ubiquity of air travel and anecdotal evidence suggesting that air travel is personally demanding, little is known about the psychological stress of taking an airplane flight. To address this issue, a series of ... -
Experiences of Family-Centered Care among Parents of Toddlers with ASD Concerns
Family-centered care is an approach to healthcare that considers the needs and priorities of the whole family. Accessing family-centered care may be of particular importance when concerns for ASD are present, given the ... -
Experiential, Neural, and Cognitive Influences on Decision Making in Rats
(2013-02-25)All animals have specific mechanisms in place to guide the numerous decisions they face daily. The act of deciding among possible behaviors is a process that involves learning about the relationships between actions and ... -
Factors associated with sexual risk of HIV transmission among HIV-positive Latino men who have sex with men on the U.S.-Mexico border
We present results from a cross-sectional, clinic-based survey of border-region Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) who are living with HIV. Among the 66 participants who reported potentially serodiscordant anal or ... -
Fear of Intimacy in the Interpersonal Process Model: A Multi-Modal Investigation
Abstract The Interpersonal Process Model (IPM) suggests that closeness develops in relationships when two people reciprocally engage in vulnerable self-disclosure, respond to each other, and perceive each other’s responses ... -
Feasibility, acceptability, and outcomes of a brief mindfulness intervention for college students with posttraumatic stress symptoms and problem drinking
The majority of college students will experience a traumatic event either before or during college, and a significant subset of those students experience PTSD symptoms. Additionally, many college students engage in ... -
Female-female territorial aggression and its hormonal control in the song sparrow
(1997)The function, seasonality and hormonal control of aggression among male conspecifics have been well studied in many taxa. In most cases, female-female intraspecific aggression has been less well studied. Male song sparrows ... -
First Impressions During Infancy: The Impact of Counter-Information
Adults rapidly form impressions of others as positive or negative evaluations. They do this given limited information, and they do not easily change those impressions based on counter-information. Infants also form rapid ... -
Fitting psychometric functions to achromatic brightness matching data
In asymmetric brightness matching procedure, one of two target regions is set by the experimenter at a fixed luminance (the reference}. This reference, with its fixed luminance and fixed relationship to the surrounding ... -
FOMO, Financial Trading, and Problem Gambling in College Students
Increasing evidence suggests speculative trading is a type of gambling. Additionally, in recent years a fear of missing out (FOMO) on outsized short-term monetary gains through speculative trading has been highlighted as ... -
Forgetting to Heal: Post-traumatic stress, depression, and autobiographical memory
Background: Cognitive models of mental disorders suggest that memory processing deficits, such as overgeneral and inconsistent memory, play a role in the etiology of depression (Williams et al., 2007) and posttraumatic ... -
From Kids to Counties: New Directions in Implicit Social Cognition
Due to the limitations of self-report measures, psychologists have developed alternative measurement instruments – often called “implicit” measures - that do not rely on reports from participants. Using the most widely ... -
Functional Organization of the Ventral Temporal Cortex
Many complex aspects of human visual perception and recognition take place in the ventral temporal cortex; however, the functional organization of this region remains unknown. Much of the brain has been found to consist ... -
A functional role of the amygdala in rats living in a semi-naturalistic risky environment
There is considerable evidence that the amygdala is involved in the processing and expression of emotions, particularly fear. It would therefore be plausible to expect that amygdala-coded fear would also influence voluntary ... -
Gender Differences in Trauma Exposure, PTSD, and Substance Use Relationships in a College Sample
Objective: This study evaluated gender differences in the relationship between trauma exposure, PTSD, and substance use (alcohol use, drinking consequences, and marijuana use) in a large college sample. It also examined ...