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Bias filtered: internalized racial oppression, experiences of racism, and well-being and authenticity among black americans
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Internalized racial oppression and experiences with prejudice correlate negatively with psychological well-being. Authenticity is a well-established contributor to well-being, yet research has not addressed how racial ...
Associations between cumulative genetic influence for risk-taking and hazardous alcohol use in two independent samples
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A propensity for risk-taking may be associated with hazardous alcohol-related behaviors especially in men. Prior research indicating substantial ...
Metaphors and weapons of war : a conceptual metaphor analysis of police use of war metaphors and militarized equipment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The 'War on Drugs' exemplifies one way in which policing is metaphorically compared to war. As conceptual metaphor theory demonstrates, metaphors shape attitudes and behaviors toward the concept they are used to understand. ...
Longitudinal, naturalistic study of training and support for implementation of evidence-based youth mental health practices among community providers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Ongoing training and implementation support for mental health (MH) providers may help to bridge the often-noted research-to-practice gap in community MH care. However, MH providers typically have limited ability to access ...
The effect of acute alcohol intoxication on risk attitude
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
There is a strong relationship between engaging in risk taking behaviors, or behaviors with a high probability of negative and undesirable consequences, and the use of alcohol and other substances of abuse. Mounting evidence ...
The impact of gender and traditional norm adherence on event-level alcohol outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Men consume more alcohol than women, both globally and within the United States specifically, experience different patterns of social problems from drinking, and differ in their risk for developing alcohol use disorder ...
The use of explicit health benefits packages increases support for universal health care for people with high objective numeracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Purpose: Universal health care lacks support in the US. Explicit health benefits packages (HBPs) may improve support for UHC by heightening comprehensibility and increasing perceived equality through outlining the cost and ...
Strategies and reasons for nondisclosure in close relationships during adolescence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Nondisclosure, or keeping information from others, is typically studied within the parent-child relationship. With parents, adolescents may keep secrets to assert independence or avoid punishment or disapproval (Smetana, ...
A hierarchical Bayesian analysis of multiple order constraints in behavioral science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Psychology is an empirical science, and oftentimes the main target of interest is an empirical effect. For example, we may be interested in human ...
Examining the associations between respiratory sinus arrhythmia in the lab and craving and drinking alcohol in daily life
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Alcohol use and abuse is highly prevalent and is related to several serious negative outcomes. Craving, a criterion for alcohol use disorder, is defined as a preoccupation and strong desire to consume alcohol. Craving ...
Development of a scale for evaluating screening tests for cancer : attributes patients emphasize (escape)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The public's overenthusiasm for cancer screening tests has the potential to subject many individuals to harms such as overdetection and false positives. ...
Cultural cognition : the epistemic function of worldviews
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Cultural worldviews -- shared, symbolic systems of meaning that render life interpretable -- provide a great deal of knowledge about the world. Thus, the validity of one's worldview may affect the need to think. The present ...
Social camouflaging and mental health in adolescence: differences by sex and diagnosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Camouflaging is a term used to describe the set of strategies that autistic individuals use to hide or mask autistic traits. Importantly, nonautistic individuals can also camouflage, as autistic traits are distributed ...
Young children's use of working memory for producing unfamiliar sentence structures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In a previous study (here termed Study 1), we explored the effects of working memory loads on young children's recall of passive voice structures. We found that participants (n = 36) were more likely to use the passive ...
Marginal and conditional posterior predictive p-values in Bayesian SEM
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The posterior predictive p-value (ppp-value) is currently the primary measure of fit for Bayesian SEM. It is a measure of discrepancy between observed data and a posited model, comparing an observed likelihood ratio test ...
Electrophysiological studies of identifying and modulating the preparatory strategic processes involved in episodic memory retrieval
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Successful retrieval of episodic memories has been shown to depend on the overlap between the processes engaged during encoding and those re-engaged during retrieval. The ability to strategically adapt cue processing to ...
Children's evaluation of everyday social encounters questionnaire -- short form validation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The main goal of the current study was to validate a short form of the Children's Evaluation of Everyday Social Encounters Questionnaire (ChEESE-Q). In order to do this, we administered a two-vignette version of the ChEESE-Q ...
The "existential challenge" : a new tool for enhancing goal attainment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We developed a novel goal intervention -- the existential challenge -- in an effort to help individuals achieve better goal outcomes and we also asked ...
Association between positive emotion regulation strategies and the reward positivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Emotion regulation dysfunction is a core feature of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Recently, research has begun to focus on positive emotion regulation strategies such as dampening and savoring of positive emotion. ...
Associations between genetic risk for trait aggression and alcohol use predicting alcohol-related aggression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
A propensity for aggression and/or alcohol use may be associated with alcoholrelated aggression. Previous research has shown genetic overlap between alcohol use and aggression, but has not looked at how alcohol-related ...