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Contrasting smokers' and nonsmokers' subjective reactions to alcohol during ecologically assessed drinking episodes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Alcohol and tobacco use are frequently associated both within and between persons. Differences in subjective response have been suggested as a possible ...
Identification of individual differences in the assessment practices of child clinicians using latent profile analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Assessment is an integral component of treatment that can be used to identify treatment focus, select an appropriate treatment, and measure client ...
Taking the good with the bad: adolescent sibling relationship processes and their associations with perceived sibling support, self-worth, and body evaluations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The present studies examined the relationships between varying positive and negative sibling relationship behaviors and dyadic and individual adjustment. Study 1 investigated the association between sibling disclosures ...
Predicting predictive accuracy :performance of fixed-weight decision models compared to ordinary least squares regression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] It is has been established that alternative weighting schemes to Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression can produce accurate predictions in both ...
Sibling conflict and relationship quality during the transition to emerging adulthood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In recent years, family researchers have acknowledged the importance of sibling relationships across the lifespan, but there has been little investigation of the emerging adult years and how this relationship functions ...
Anhedonia and deficits in positive emotional experience in individuals with genetic liability for schizophrenia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
There is growing evidence that anhedonia--the extent to which an individual reports pleasure or interest in social and physical stimuli--is important to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. At the same time, some research ...
Internalizing symptoms and friendships in adolescence: considering the role of interpersonal behavior in rejection and contagion effects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The present research considered associations among internalizing symptoms, interpersonal behaviors, and friendship adjustment in a sample of 642 seventh and tenth graders. Effects of youths’ internalizing symptoms on ...
Opioid use disorder and borderline personality disorder : evidence for dysregulation of the endogenous opioid system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may involve a dysregulation of the Endogenous Opioid System (EOS) characterized by a tonic deficit of endogenous ...
Adapting multisystemic therapy for disruptive behavior problems in youth with autism spectrum disorder : conceptual and empirical development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Youths with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often engage in serious disruptive behaviors that interfere with their ability to successfully manage ...
An investigation of automatic affective processing : behavioral correlates in schizophrenia and neural correlates in healthy adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] An important mechanism in emotional functioning is automatic affective processing. In Study 1, people with schizophrenia (n = 48) and a non-psychiatric ...
Judging books by their covers : how mood and individual differences in intuition affect perceptions of trustworthiness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Past research focusing on the accuracy of snap judgments of trustworthiness, a construct particularly important (and complex) in social interaction, ...
Perspective taking and language comprehension : a comparison between Korean and English infants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Previous research has shown that infants in their first year of life have primitive perspective-taking skills: they can consider an agent's incomplete ...
The effect of mGluR2 3 agonist, LY379268, and a mGluR4 positive allosteric modulator, VU0155041, on conditioned taste aversion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors are known to mediate learning and memory. Although evidence indicates a role for mGlu receptors (e.g., mGlu5) ...
Genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity and coping motives for alcohol across emerging and young adulthood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Variation in the gene encoding the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) may moderate the influence of environments (i.e., a gene-environment interaction, GXE) on personality traits and motives associated with alcohol use disorders. ...
Motor learning in children with an autism spectrum disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In addition to social communication difficulties, individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently experience problems in other domains such as motor control and learning. The goal of the current study was to ...
Individual differences in intuitive processing and moral judgment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) is a broad theory of personality proposing a dual-process approach to information processing, involving an ...
Remembering complex objects in visual working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Visual working memory stores stimuli from our environment as representations that can be accessed by high-level control processes. This study addresses a longstanding debate in the literature about whether storage limits ...
Autonomous orientation and self-differentiation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Objective: Self-determination theory hypothesizes that behaviors enacted with a sense of autonomy allows individuals to express their natural tendencies ...
Regulation of positive emotions in youth : relations with affect and depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The main goal of the current study was to investigate the role of Regulation of Positive Emotions (RPE) or the "ability to manage responses to positive emotions" in youth development of depression. In order to accomplish ...
Psychometric dynamic factor models for the analysis of longitudinally intensive data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Dynamic factor model (DFM), a factor analytic approach developed for the analysis of intra-individual time series data, can be estimated using common ...