Different from some other context tasks, the Simon task is featured with a congruency effect decreasing with increasing RT. Ridderinkhof proposed a two route model to account for the negative slope of this congruency effect ...

The current research considered social perspective-taking (i.e., taking the perspective of another person, and putting oneself "in their shoes") in youths' friendships and associations with friendship quality and emotional ...

Cognitive strategies can be used to regulate emotion. For example, thinking about the specific details of an emotional situation (i.e., specific thinking strategy) decreases negative affect (Philippot et al., 2006). However, ...

Despite widespread belief in the rebound phenomenon, few studies have examined sexual experiences after relationship loss. The present study uses a longitudinal, online diary methodology to examine emotional and sexual ...

Recently, various researchers have claimed that time does not play a direct role in shortterm forgetting. Instead, they claim that time is only related to forgetting because it is correlated with other factors that cause ...

Alcohol problems at different developmental stages are associated with different genetic and environmental factors. Taking a developmentally sensitive approach, the current study characterized interaction effects between ...

Individual differences in hangover deserve study because they could be markers of important traits or processes such as loss of control, impulsivity, tolerance, or acute inflammatory responses. The Hangover Symptoms Scale ...

Smiles and frowns are typically thought of as expressions of underlying emotional states. Yet there is strong evidence that these and other facial expressions play a role in emotional experience itself. Several facial ...

Previous research suggests a causal link between violent video games and aggression (Anderson; 2004; Anderson & Bushman, 2001), but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, even-related brain potentials (ERPs) were ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this research was to gain insight into the etiology of antisocial behavior (AB; delinquency, conduct disorder symptoms and antisocial ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The present study examined the momentary and within-day relationships between mood states, impulsivity, and alcohol use. Participants included 48 ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Hangover is a common adverse effect of excessive drinking. According to popular culture, hangover purportedly leads to resolutions to quit drinking or ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Fearful temperament in the toddler years is a well-established precursor to risk for childhood anxiety. Less is known about the mechanisms by which ...

The problems of race psychology have always been of absorbing interest. The existence of racial differences in intellect, morals and temperament is a matter of common observation among historians and anthropologists. It ...

Despite two-decade long HIV prevention efforts, recent reports suggest that new HIV infections are on the rise in the United States (CDC, 2008). To combat this, many researchers believe that we must achieve a greater ...

It is perhaps unfortunate that the term rythm must be used in this investigation, but usage seems to demand it. The objection to the term is that it may have three distinct meanings, physical, physiological, and psychological. ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous studies have shown improvements in cognitive flexibility and verbal problem solving following administration of propranolol, a beta adrenergic ...

It has been theorized that impairments in executive function may contribute to the repetitive behavior symptomatology associated with ASD. This study further elucidates the nature of the relationship between ASD-related ...

This study investigated the economic benefits of an intensive family-based treatment (multisystemic therapy, MST) versus individual therapy (IT) using arrest data from 25-year follow-ups of referred serious and violent ...

A model for the analysis of longitudinal twin data consisting of ordered categorical variables was proposed. Proportional changes in response categories across time were modeled within growth curve by means of mean and ...