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Expressive writing, relationships, and health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The role of expressive writing in social functioning is investigated; results extend findings regarding benefits of writing about personally significant topics (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986; King, 2001; Niederhoffer & Pennebaker, ...
Causes of comorbidity among internalizing disorders of childhood and adolescence : the roles of neuroticisim, genes and environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Sources of variance and covariance among mother-reported separation anxiety disorder (SAD) and self-reported depression (DEP) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) were studied in a population-based sample of 4,320 female ...
The relations of violence exposure, trauma symptoms and aggressive cognitions to youth violent behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Studies show that adolescents in the United States are disproportionately represented among both the victims and the perpetrators of violent crimes (U.S. Department of Justice, 2002). Studies also show that previous exposure ...
A study of selective attention in young autistic subjects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Pertinence level of the information in the unattended channel is supposed to play an important role in the process of selective attention in normal subjects (Norman, 1968). The developmental disorder of autism has been ...
The roles of parents and friends as information sources regarding children's and adolescents' adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Others' reports of youth distress (e.g., parent, aggregated peer reports) typically evidence small to moderate agreement with youth self-reports (e.g., Achenbach et al., 1987; De Los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005). Recent findings ...
Individual vs. systemic justice : using trust and moral outrage to predict reactions to vigilante murder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Jurors can approach their charge of meting out justice in different ways, two of which include focusing on the outcome of a specific trial and/or focusing on upholding justice more broadly by adhering to procedures and ...
Adolescent suicide attempts and alcohol use : a developmental psychopathology perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study characterizes the extent to which the adolescent alcohol-suicide attempt relation varies across severity of suicide attempt (i.e., ...
Application of systems factorial technology and hierarchical Bayesian modeling to chunking in working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Although there is substantial evidence supporting the existence of chunking in Working Memory, much of it is dependent on a small range of experimental methods, many of which rely on accuracy measures. Consequently, I feel ...
The relationship among insight, action, and treatment outcomes for youths in usual care
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Although insight and action have been featured prominently in theories of therapeutic change with adults, the relationship between the two constructs and their relationship with treatment outcomes has been largely understudied, ...
Associative learning and thiamine based flavor preference
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The current experiment explored the extent to which thiamine deficiency at the time of conditioning is important as well as the importance of thiamine deficiency at the time of testing. This experiment controlled for ...
Disclosure in close egalitarian relationships during emerging adulthood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Using social domain theory (Smetana, 2013; Turiel, 2002), the present study examines the patterns of disclosure within and across emerging adults' sibling, friend, and romantic relationships, as well as associations between ...
What would James Bond do? : signaling and precarious manhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In five studies, we investigate the connection between precarious manhood, signaling, and the mate-choice behavior of men. Specifically, we propose ...
The generalization of positive intergroup attitudes : reducing intergroup anxiety
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Contact settings that include equal status, cooperation/pursuit of common goals, acquaintance potential, and authority sanction can improve intergroup ...
The effect of modafinil on psychostimulant-evoked [³H]dopamine release from rat striatal slices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Modafinil is a novel wake-promoting compound currently marketed as a stimulant that lacks the side effects and addictive potential of typical ...
Psychophysiological assessment of motivational processing during habit learning in Parkinson's disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
Mesencephalic dopamine pathways have been shown to play an important role in procedural learning and motivation. Individuals with disrupted dopamine transmission due to Parkinson's disease show selective deficits in non-motor ...
College students' reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: factor structure, predictors, and relations to abstention and alcohol-related outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] All addictive behavior can be conceptualized as a balance between impelling and inhibiting forces. Increasing knowledge of how motives (both approach ...
Alcohol consumption, executive function and risky decision making
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Previous research has shown that alcohol intoxication can adversely affect behavior by impairing higher cognitive function (e.g., Giancola, 2000) and can lead to increased risk-taking (Leigh, 1999) via impaired executive ...
Subliminal priming as a task-characteristic artifact
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Demonstrations of subliminal priming rely on a dual task design: A target identification task in which the priming effect is measured, and a prime identification task in which visibility of the primes is assessed. The ...
Decreases in working memory capacity for sentence stimuli with adult aging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Previous studies have found that older adults have poorer immediate recall for language. Older adults may recall fewer chunks from working memory, or may have difficulty binding words or sentences together to form multi-unit ...
Analysis of affective instability on ecological momentary assessments data: successive difference, variance decomposition, and mean comparison via multilevel modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Temporal instability of affect is a defining characteristic of some psychological disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder and mood cycling disorders. Use of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) enables researchers ...