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Investigating The Optical Signals In The Brain And Spinal Cord During Nociception
(Psychology, 2010-07-19)Neuroimaging technologies have been widely used to study brain functioning based on a tight correlation between neurons and neighboring vasculature during neural activation, called neurovascular coupling. However, many ... -
Does Our Perception Of God Influence Our Perception Of Subjectively "sinful" Behaviors?
(Psychology, 2010-07-19)The current study investigated the influence of different perceptions of God (i.e., loving vs. punishing) on participants' attitudes towards subjectively "sinful" behaviors. Participants in the current study were 158 ... -
Attitudes And Intentional Markers For Behavioral Change In Smokers: Examining The Effects Of Intention On Behavior Change
(Psychology, 2010-11-01)In 2009, the American Cancer Society (ACS) predicted that, of the 219,440 expected new cases of lung cancer, approximately 169,000 cancer-related deaths would be attributable to the use of some form of tobacco products. ... -
Examining Responses To Theological Affiliation And Disaffiliation: Boundary Conditions And Causal Processes
(Psychology, 2010-11-01)The current study was aimed at examining responses toward theological affiliation and disaffiliation for believers in God and non-believers in God. The current study compared the reactions toward each of four possible ... -
What About The Other Core Evaluations? The Development And Validation Of A Measure Of Core Other-evaluations And Its Relevance For Organizational Teams
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)The construct of core self-evaluations has garnered a great deal of attention in the organizational psychology literature and has been hailed as one of the strongest predictors of job satisfaction. However, the construct ... -
Sex, Drugs, And Work: The Associations Of Personality Characteristics, Risky Sex, Substance Use, And Work Behavior In Young Adult Restaurant Workers
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)Personality characteristics among young adult (18 - 29 years old) restaurant workers were examined in relation to substance use, risky sexual behavior, and several work outcomes. High sensation seekers and emerging adults ... -
What About Blog? Problematic Internet Use And Personality In Bloggers
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)The purpose of the current study was to compare bloggers' personalities to the personalities of non-bloggers, and to determine whether it is possible to identify individuals who are more likely to use the Internet in a ... -
Examining The Impact Of Opioid Withdrawal On Pain Processing: The Influence Of Social Isolation Stress
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)The use of opioids as a traditional treatment for acute and chronic pain has been severely hindered by the addictive nature of these substances and the pain relief they provide. Clinical reports suggest that opioid addicts ... -
Religious Orientation And Responses To Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Trust
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)This research experimentally manipulated death anxiety and examined its effects on social, spiritual, and self-support. Individual level of religiosity was examined as a moderating variable. Various forms of trust were ... -
Openness To Experience, Strength Of Sense Of Self, And Cognitive Dissonance In A Counter-attitudinal Advocacy Paradigm
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)The study was designed to investigate whether personality variables, especially the strength of individuals' sense of self, moderated dissonance reduction behavior in a counter-attitudinal advocacy paradigm. The study ... -
Not Just A Playground Issue: Bullying Among Older Adults
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)This dissertation examined associations between peer bullying and physical and psychological health problems for a community dwelling population of older adults (> 60 years). Participants' age ranged from 60-99 years (M = ... -
Evaluation Of A Randomized Clinical Trial Of A Psychoeducational Intervention On Long-term Quality Of Life, Negative Affect, Progression And Survival In Head And Neck Cancer Patients
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)The relationship between psychological and physiological factors that impact health is an important consideration for daily life, illness prevention, treatment, and recovery in cancer patients. Psychological functioning ... -
Gender Differences In Emotional Labor
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)This study examined the differences in emotional labor efforts between men and women. Emotional labor refers to the incongruity between experienced emotions and displayed emotions. This "faking" or "acting" that takes place ... -
Testing The Effects Of Civility And Rationality During Political Contact
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)This research project investigated the effects of civility and rationality of contact between self-identified liberals and conservatives on several outcome measures: participants' evaluations of the political ingroup and ... -
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 ... -
An Experimental Test Of Extended Contact Hypothesis: Its Boundary Conditions And Psychological Processes
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The extended contact hypothesis states that contact with an ingroup member, who has an outgroup friend, facilitates favorable outgroup attitudes (Wright, Aron, McLaughlin-Volpe, & Ropp, 1997). An experimental manipulation ... -
Examining The Role Of Need For Closure In Psychological Distress Following Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The present study investigated the relationship between Need for Closure (NFC) and psychological distress after receiving the results of genetic tests for breast cancer. One hundred and eight women recruited from the ... -
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 ... -
Identifying Associative Memory Deficits And Neurobiological Correlates Of Encoding And Performance In A National Sample Of Veterans With Gulf War Illness Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(Psychology, 2012-07-25)Roughly 26-32% of U.S. veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War of 1991 report suffering from chronic health problems (Golomb, 2008). Memory complaints are regularly reported by ill Gulf War veterans (GWV), but there ... -
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. ...