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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 ...
Examining The Effects Of Early Life Stress From Maternal Separation On Measures Of Pain And Anxiety
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)
Animal models of stress-induced conditions have provided important insight into the physiological mechanisms of many chronic disorders. Models of early life stress involve procedures designed to induce prenatal or postnatal ...
The Power Of Ostracism: Can Personality Influence Reactions To Social Exclusion?
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)
Ostracism, also labeled social exclusion, is seen by researchers and lay persons alike as one of the more socially painful events that is an inevitable part of life. Moreover, many theorists (e.g., Zadro, Williams, and ...
Influence Of Peer Victimization And Social Support On Cortisol Production
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)
The current dissertation sought to examine whether there was an association between peer victimization, neuroendocrine functioning, and physical health outcomes. Adolescents and their parent (N = 107) participated in a ...
Re-experiencing Social Versus Physical Pain And Its Influence On Self-regulatory Reserve
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)
This study examined the influence of reliving social pain on current reports of pain, self-regulatory ability, and differences in reactions. Participants (N=137) completed personality measures in phase one. Days later, ...
Does Chronic Pain And Pain Sensitivity Influence's One's Affective Experience Of Social And Physical Pain?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)
Pain Overlap Theory (Eisenberger, Jarcho, Lieberman, & Naliboff, 2006) suggests that the affective experience of physical and social pain share the same phenomenological and neurocognitive correlates (MacDonald & Kingsbury, ...
Does Chronic Victimization Lead To A Rejection Attribution Bias?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)
This study examined the influence of chronic victimization on social pain reactions. This influence is referred to as the rejection attribution bias, measured via self-reports of feeling excluded, threatened needs, and ...
Are Some Children Weight Blind? The Stigma Of Obesity And Its Influence On 3rd-6th Grade Children
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)
The aim of this research was to examine when the buffering effects (if any) of ethnicity, sex, age difference, and personality affect the stigmatization of overweight children, and to determine if some children can indeed ...
Septal Stimulation Inhibits Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn Neuronal Activity
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)
Deep Brain Stimulation is a useful technique for relieving chronic pain in patients that have exhausted their options. The septum has been a target for such treatment. The purpose of this study was to determine if ...
The Effects Of Narcissistic Group Identity And Group-level Provocation On U.S. Citizens' Attitudes And Behavior Toward Arab Immigrants
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)
A measure of Narcissistic Group Identity was developed and tested in a cross-sectional pilot study of 319 university students. Analyses revealed that Narcissistic Group Identity predicted more negative attitudes toward ...