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An assessment of inhibition in the Simon task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
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 ...
Cognitive load and time based forgetting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
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 ...
Assessing the role of pair familiarity in the associative deficit of older adults
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
While aging causes relatively minor impairment in recognition memory for components, older adults' ability to remember associations between components is typically significantly compromised, relative to that of younger ...
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., ...
Differentiating anxiety and depression : a socioaffective tripartite model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The current study tested a newly-developed socioaffective tripartite model that includes family processes as potential etiological contributors to ...
Two brief treatments based on dialectical behavior therapy for binge eating across diagnoses and thresholds : results from a preliminary randomized dismantling study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
How can disordered eating be effectively treated? The answer is not yet clear. Although cognitive behavioral therap (CBT) is generally considered the treatment of choice, disordered eating has been show to persist and ...
The influence of positive mood and extraversion on different aspects of cognitive control
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There is some evidence that positive mood might influence cognitive control and that extraverts might perform better than introverts when experiencing ...
Gene-environment interaction in alcohol problems in emerging and young adulthood : the DRD4 VNTR, DAT1 VNTR, and 5-HTTLPR polymorphisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
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 ...
Broadening the perspective on employee absenteeism : the effects of work group and nonwork factors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The present study examined employee absenteeism in relation to variables new to absenteeism literature while addressing several methodological issues ...
Is accuracy in fertility detection mediated by differences in the mate value of the rater and target?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
I propose the existence of a perceptual bias in men toward detecting fertility status in women of similar mate value. To test this hypothesis, 153 male undergraduates (raters) chose which of two photographs of the same ...
Mood and urgency effects on activation of alcohol cognitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Mood states influence many aspects of human behavior, including decisions to drink alcohol. Alcohol-related cognitions have been shown to be activated by positive and negative mood states (Birch, Stewart, & Zack, 2006), ...
Dopamine and emotion processing in schizotypal anhedonia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Three studies examined emotion processing and dopamine regulation in anhedonia. In Study 1, in multiple assessments of emotional experience (e.g., naturalistic and lab contexts and social and nonsocial situations), people ...
Sex on the rebound: motivations for sex and sexual experiences following a relationship breakup
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
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 ...
Boundary conditions for a visual working memory capacity model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Cowan's K (Cowan, 2001) is an effective measure of visual working memory capacity and has been widely accepted by working memory researchers in recent years. However, one fundamental assumption of this measure, so called ...
Social perspective-taking in the friendships of adolescents : implications for friendship quality and emotional adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
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 ...
Engagement of cognitive control and down-regulation of negative affect
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
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, ...
Provided and received partner support in the context of HIV-related stigma : effects on couple members' daily depression and relationship satisfaction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The current study utilized a diary methodology to better understand whether perceiving and encountering HIV-related stigma influences the ways in which ...
How sweet it is to be loved by you : toward an understanding of why close relationships buffer existential fear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Theory and research suggest that close relationships help to buffer against existential fears associated with the awareness of death (Mikulincer ...
Remembering and forgetting concurrently : new benefits of high working memory span
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Previous studies of working memory capacity have suggested that individuals with high capacities excel at several processes, including (1) distinguishing between information that is applicable versus irrelevant to the task ...
The effects of approach-avoidance behaviors on goal appraisals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Previous research has demonstrated that behaviors associated with approach and avoidance motivation can influence cognitions in line with the particular motivational state (e.g., Friedman & F̈örster, 2008). The present ...