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Attenuating fearful memories through modulation of learning: Effects of modified consolidation and cued extinction on intrusions
(2013-07-25)Exposure-based therapies for PTSD are thought to reduce intrusive memories through extinction processes. Methods that enhance extinction may translate to improved treatment. Rat research suggests cueing a memory with a ... -
Auditory implicit association tests
(2002)Three studies demonstrated that auditory implicit association tests (auditory IATs) using speech and environmental-sound stimuli could be used to measure implicit attitudes and stereotypes. Study 1 showed a preference for ... -
Auditory perception and cortical plasticity after long-term blindness
The study of blindness provides a context for examining neural plasticity in the adult and developing brain, and for asking basic questions about the principles that guide neural computation in sensory cortex. By noting ... -
The Automatic Social Categorization Test: Validating a New Measure
(2012)Categorization is an essential process in making sense of the world. However, it simplifies perception in a way that distorts reality to some degree. For instance, the color spectrum is a continuum of wavelengths; but ... -
Autonomy and relatedness in family interactions with depressed adolescents
(1998)Depression is a significant problem among adolescents, especially females. The current study investigated interaction patterns along the dimensions of autonomy and relatedness in families of depressed adolescents. Externalizing ... -
Behavioral Ecology of the Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi): Age-related Foraging, Spatial Behavior, Habitat Selection, and Correlates of First Year Survival
There is little information on Mariana Crow foraging, spatial behavior, habitat selection, or the correlates of first year survival, yet these topics of study are critical for management and species recovery. In this work, ... -
Bi-directional growth of effortful control and respiratory sinus arrhythmia and their relation to adjustment in preschool age children
(2013-04-17)This study sought to examine the co- development of effortful control and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), and their role in emerging adjustment problems and social competence during preschool, a period of marked ... -
Bidirectional Relations Between Temperament and Parenting Predicting Preschool-age Children's Adjustment
This study examined the bidirectional associations between child temperament (fear, frustration, positive affect, effortful control) and parenting behaviors (warmth, negativity, limit setting, scaffolding, responsiveness) ... -
Bilingual Language Control: Separating Preparation and Production
The role of reparatory process in bilingual language control has been largely overlooked, as traditional language switching paradigms don’t separate cued preparation from production. The current study employed a novel ... -
Black and White or shades of gray: Individual differences in automatic race categorization
(2013-04-17)This dissertation focuses on automatic race categorization (ARC), or the tendency for people to perceive others as falling into discrete racial groups rather than perceiving more continuous racial variation. Traditional ... -
Brief Interventions for Suicidal Individuals Not Engaged in Treatment
Non-treatment engaged individuals experiencing suicidal thoughts have been largely overlooked in the intervention literature, despite reviews suggesting that the majority of individuals who die by suicide were not in ... -
Brief online interventions targeting risk and protective factors for increased and problematic alcohol use among American college students studying abroad
(2013-02-25)Research documents increased and problematic alcohol use during study abroad experiences for college students. In addition, study abroad students may be a self-selecting subgroup of students who drink at greater rates and ... -
Brown Induction and Red/Green Hue Shifts
This body of work details a number of experiments relating to brown induction (the change of appearance of a stimulus from yellow to brown) and shifts in red/green hue balance (the balance point of stimuli across the ... -
Cat and Human Personality
Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in animal personality. Most recently we have begun to investigate the personalities of pet animals, and while most work has been done with pet dogs, research into cat personality ... -
Characterizing Post-Traumatic Growth and the Cognitive Engagement and Disengagement Strategies that Promote Growth in Caregivers of Children with Cancer
Despite considerable distress and negative adjustment outcomes reported by caregivers of children with cancer (Pai et al., 2007; Patiño-Fernández et al., 2008; Sultan et al., 2016), many caregivers also report positive ... -
Characterizing Sexual Assault among Tribal College/University Students: A Study Assessing Risk & Resiliency Factors to Inform Prevention/Intervention Methods
Adult sexual assault (ASA) rates among American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) individuals reveal an alarming public health disparity. Research demonstrates that experiences of ASA are associated with increased substance use, ... -
Characterizing the Dynamics of Loneliness, Depression, and the Role of Social Interactions: An Experience Sampling Study
Loneliness is becoming increasingly recognized as a problem of clinical and public health significance (Badcock et al., 2023). Although this increase is concerning on its own, given the importance of social relationships ... -
Characterizing the Role of Avoidant Coping in the Development of Drinking to Cope with Negative Emotions
The present study integrates coping research into a current model of alcohol use disorders etiology, with the goal of better articulating the development of alcohol use disorders. Research has shown that an emotional and ... -
Child Maltreatment and Emotion Regulation Networks
Child maltreatment has been strongly associated with a variety of later life psychopathology. Investigations in to mechanisms of this association have explored neurodevelopmental disruptions in brain networks associated ... -
Child Safety Signal Learning in the Context of Parental Worry, Overprotection, PTSD, and Depression
Individuals with anxiety-related psychopathology often have impairments in safety signal learning, which is thought to be a biomarker of anxiety-related disorders, and which manifests in difficulty inhibiting fear to safety ...