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Category Assignment And Relatedness In The Group Ideation Process
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)Although many studies have investigated the effects of task related diversity on group performance, little empirical attention has been paid to the effect of the degree of relatedness of these tasks on the group ideation ... -
Characterization Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder And Posttraumatic Growth: Common Determinants And Associations
The current study sought to examine common determinants of posttraumatic stress posttraumatic growth. Specifically, it sought to determine whether common factors may differentially predict PTS and PTG. A longitudinal ... -
Characterizing And Predicting Growth In Reading Skills In Children With Developmental Dyslexia Through Functional Neuroimaging
(Psychology, 2012-07-25)Children with developmental dyslexia exhibit deficits in a wide variety of reading skills that are attributable to underlying deficits in phonological processing. Functional neuroimaging studies show that these children ... -
Chemotherapy Related Cognitive Impairment In The Rat
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)Treatment for cancer has been indicated to negatively impact the quality of life for patients. Specifically, chemotherapy has been associated with fatigue, nausea, and peripheral neuropathy. More recently, chemotherapy has ... -
Chronic Widespread Pain In Patients With Occupational Spinal Disorders: Prevalence, Psychiatric Comorbidity, And Association With One-year Treatment Outcomes
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)Chronic Widespread Pain (CWP) is estimated to affect 4.1% - 13.5% of the general population. Compared to those who are pain-free or have localized pain, those with widespread body pain have been found to higher rates of ... -
Cognitive Independence And Cohesion In Decision-making Groups
(Psychology, 2007-09-19)Cognitive Independence (CI) can be defined as the tendency to form opinions and make decisions based on personal knowledge as well as additional information that appears to be valid and factual. CI implies a tendency away ... -
Competition Between Dorsal Root Reflex And Sympathetic Activity On Neurogenic Inflammation
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)Neurogenic inflammation is caused by the inflammatory substances released from the peripheral terminals of afferent fibers. Vasodilation is one of the cardinal signs of neurogenic inflammation. It is thought that neurogenic ... -
Conditioned Place Preference In The Male Wistar-Kyoto Rat
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)The current set of experiments examined the role of trait anxiety, using the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat, on cocaine- and morphine-induced conditioned place preference. Both four and six pairings of 10mg/kg cocaine during ... -
Content, Values, And Environment: Applicant Reactions To Job Descriptions
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)The research on job descriptions is limited and information regarding applicant reactions to job descriptions is even scarcer. The current research hypothesized that after reading job content information, an applicant's ... -
The Contribution Of The Dorsal Root Reflex And The Sympathetic Nervous System In Formalin-evoked Neurogenic Inflammation
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)The present study investigated the role of dorsal root reflex (DRR), which is characterized as antidromic firing via primary afferent fibers towards the periphery, and the sympathetic nervous system in neurogenic inflammation. ... -
Cost-effectiveness Of Early Versus Delayed Functional Restoration For Chronic Disabling Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Chronic pain is among the most costly disorders in the United States. Societal impacts include productivity losses, disability compensation, and reduction in psychosocial well-being. To date, there is little documentation ... -
Creating And Studying "Instant Enemies" And Instant Allies" In Same-sex Dyadic Interactions
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The present study was designed to investigate the “instant enemy” and “instant ally” phenomena. Forty-three pairs of unacquainted college students interacted in same-sex and same-race pairs for 10 minutes. In the enemy ... -
Cultivating An Attitude Of Gratitude: Testing Moderators Of The Effects Of A Gratitude Diary Intervention On Well-being And Interpersonal Outcomes
In the past few years, evidence has amassed suggesting that gratitude interventions can have a number of personal and interpersonal benefits (for a review, see Wood, Froh, & Geraghty, 2010). For instance, gratitude ... -
Cybervetting: The Role of Negative Content
(2019-05-08)Mixed support has surfaced regarding the use of online information for personnel selection (i.e., cybervetting), which commonly involves the evaluation of social media profiles. Research to date has largely focused on ... -
DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND MODELING OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE DC ENERGY CONVERSION TESTBED WITH EMPHASIS ON ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE
(2019-05-06)Much work has been done in recent years regarding the emphasis and newfound importance of energy storage and energy conversion within systems that, at one time, functioned off of simple alternating current (AC) busses. ... -
Determining the molecular events underlying the role of estradiol in mediating sex differences in cocaine reward.
(2020-12-08)Research has demonstrated that women rapidly progress from recreational cocaine use to dependence, consume greater quantities of cocaine, experience more positive subjective effects of cocaine and have higher incidences ... -
Development And Validation Of A Group Based Dominance Scale
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)The goal of this project was to update the social dominance orientation (SDO) scale by creating a separate measure for its subfactor group based dominance (GBD), which is defined as how strongly a person feels one group ... -
Development Of Gist Processing Skills And Memory In Children And Young Adults: Effects Of Presentation Type In A Modified DRM Paradigm
(Psychology, 2012-07-25)To date, studies have separately tested the influence of narrative context, source-monitoring, and list length on gist extraction. The present study expanded upon that body of work by examining those variables in combination. ... -
Development, Reliability, Validity, And Utility Of The Fear-avoidance Components Scale (FACS) In A Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Disorder (CMPD) Population
Fear-avoidance (FA) is a negative coping style where patients avoid physical and social activities out of fear that their pain may increase or that they may re-injure themselves. Although fear-avoidance often increases in ... -
Differential Impact of Psychological and Physiological Health Outcomes on Long-Term Associative Recognition
(2018-05-17)Evidence suggests that lifestyle and environmental factors may contribute to later life cognitive decline and dementia. Although there is a large amount of evidence linking psychological and physiological factors to general ...