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Testing Theories and Measures for Promoting Dietary Change
(2019-06-04)Many Americans do not consume enough healthy food and overconsume sugar and meat products. As a prominent food desert, this trend is particularly rife in Arlington/Ft. Worth, TX especially among low-income individuals. To ... -
The Balancing Act: An Empirical Study Introducing and Removing Constraints in Idea Generation
(2019-08-05)To stay competitive in today’s economy, organizational leaders are making creativity and innovation a key business priority. As such, organizations have become particularly interested in how to become more innovative while ... -
The Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Pain Thresholds and Anxiodepressive Behaviors in a Pre-clinical Fibromyalgia Pain Model
(2021-12-02)Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic, widespread pain disorder generally of a non-inflammatory nature. FM has many known affective and cognitive comorbidities, including fatigue, sleep disturbances, cognitive deficits, and mood ... -
The effects of ketamine exposure on NMDA receptor mediated synaptic transmission in the developing brain - A mechanistic study of ketamine-induced neuroapoptosis
(2015-12-09)Ketamine is a widely used pediatric anesthetic because of its high potency in pediatric patients. Side-effects produced by ketamine anesthesia in adults are also not seen in children after ketamine use. However, several ... -
THE EFFECTS OF PRIMING PATRIOTISM ON ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRANTS: DO ALL AMERICANS RESPOND TO PATRIOTIC IMAGES THE SAME WAY?
(2018-12-04)Although immigrants enrich the US culture and provide intellectual and economic stimulation, there has been a rise of anti-immigration movements, making the acculturation process more difficult for the immigrant. The purpose ... -
The Effects of Temporal Contraction and Temporal Dilation on Cognitive Performance
(2019-05-03)Temporal dilation and temporal contraction are perceived as duration lasting longer or shorter than the standard time unit, respectively. Social, cognitive, and emotional context influences temporal perception such that ... -
The Influence of Organizational Tightness-Looseness, Self-Monitoring, and Performance Standards on Creativity
(2023-06-06)My research study seeks to experimentally investigate the main effect of cultural tightness-looseness within organizations on employees’ creative performance in terms of the criteria of the specific creative process (idea ... -
The Role Of The Lateral Habenula In The Affective Dimension Of Pain
(Psychology, 2015)The lateral habenula (LHb) functions as a hub that integrates information from cortical regions to aid in emotional decision-making, as well as helping to create response strategies under stress (Hikosaka, 2010; Proulx, ... -
The Roles of Remote Positive Contact and Reciprocal Intimate Self-Disclosure in Reducing Intergroup Distinctiveness Motives
(2020-09-08)This study investigated intergroup distinctiveness motives (IDM) as a function of experimental manipulations of remote positive contact and reciprocal intimate self-disclosure (RISD). Using a confederate posing as an ... -
Training Parents To Systematically Assess And Use Their Child With Autism Spectrum Disorder's Highly Preferred Items To Both Cue And Reinforce Desired Behavior Responses In Community Settings
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)The current study assessed the effectiveness of a training package used to teach parents to conduct a preference assessment and use the most highly preferred items to guide the behavior choices of their child with autism ... -
Understanding Stigma By Association: The Roles Of Prior Attitudes And Objective Justification
(Psychology, 2010-03-03)The interaction between Stigma by Association (SBA), Objective Justification (an excuse) and prior negative attitudes (homonegativity) was examined using a mock scholarship application and a recommendation index. In Study ... -
Validation Of World English (WE) Listening Comprehension Scale
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)World English (WE) includes any type of dialectical English spoken around the world (Hinkel, 2005). In the present study, a WE listening test was developed. The original form of the test consisted of six scales measuring, ... -
Verbal Behavior Of Mice And Men: Preference For Multiple Schedules Of Reinforcement As An Indicator Of The Evolution Of Verbal Behavior
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The evolution of verbal behavior in humans is believed to have appeared in the form of a complex operant behavior. According to behaviorists, the development verbal behavior which is exclusive to Homo sapiens could have ... -
Weight Bias and Mindset in Physical Educators
(2020-06-03)While physical education (PE) classes and sports teams create an opportunity to increase overweight and obese students’ interest in physical activity (Price, 1990), these are settings in which such students encounter stigma ... -
What Individual Difference And Social Context Veriables Predict University-level Academic Performance?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)The present study was an on-line correlational survey study of 377 UT-Arlington undergraduates. It examined what personality variables predicted university-level academic performance over and above conscientiousness, after ... -
What's The Personality Of A Blank? An Examination Of The Personality Differences Between Reporters And Nonreporters Of Demographics
(Psychology, 2008-08-08)The current study examined the measurement equivalence of personality measures between those who report demographic variables (i.e., age, race, and gender) and those who do not report these variables. Measurement equivalence ...