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The Role Of The Infralimbic Cortex In A Pain Intensity-graded Rodent Model Of Distraction Analgesia
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)
The misdirection of attention has been used to reduce experimental and clinical pain- a technique known as distraction analgesia (DA). A growing understanding of the important interrelationship between cognition and pain ...
What Are The Long-term Consequences Of Peer Victimization? Changes In Biological Functioning And Its Effects On Psychological And Physical Health
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)
Prior research has documented long-term psychological problems (e.g. emotional distress, anxiety, and depression; Kochenderfer-Ladd & Wardrop, 2001) experienced as a result of being bullied as an adolescent. Although being ...
Biological Aging And Peer Victimization: The Role Of Social Support In Telomere Length And Health Outcomes
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)
The health benefits of social support have been well documented in the literature (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Newman & Roberts, 2013), as have the somatic and psychological outcomes of being the victim of bullying (Wang, ...
An Animal Model Of Conditioned Placebo Analgesia
(Psychology, 2014-03-10)
Research on placebo analgesia (PA) has called for the further elucidation of underlying neural mechanisms. Animal models allow for experimental manipulations that are not possible or feasible in human research such as ...
The Local Field Potential In The Medial Prefrontal Cortex In Respose To Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)
Nociceptive stimuli can activate peripheral nociceptors to produce nociceptive signals which can be projected to the spinal cord and further up to the thalamus and many other cortical and subcortical areas through ascending ...
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 ...
Hyrbid Brainwriting: The Efficacy Of Alternating Between Individual And Group Brainstorming And The Effect Of Individual Difference Variables
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)
AbstractThree studies were designed to test the efficacy of hybrid brainwriting procedures as compared to the traditional individual and group brainstorming. The hybrid brainwriting procedures were designed by alternating ...
The Impact Of Peer Victimization On Adolescent Inflammatory Markers
(Psychology, 2014-03-12)
For years, research has linked peer victimization to various outcomes, ranging from those in the psychological realm (e.g., depression, anxiety) to physical health symptoms (e.g., frequent doctor visits, abdominal pain). ...
Examining The Effects Of Health Behaviors And Emotions On Medical Care Seeking And Avoidant Behaviors In Older Adults
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)
There has been a dearth of information that explains how an individual's emotional reactions to their illness symptoms affects their care seeking behaviors. The overall aims of this study were to elucidate the emotional ...
The Association Between Executive Functioning And Self-regulation Strategies In Relation To The Protective Health Behaviors Of Physical Activity And Healthy Eating
(Psychology, 2014-03-12)
Protective health behavior influences health outcomes. Physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) are two important protective health behaviors that ward off many chronic diseases later in life. Nevertheless, these ...