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Can the focus of attention accommodate multiple, separate items?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Researchers of working memory currently debate capacity limits of the focus of attention, the proposed mental faculty in which items are most easily accessed. Cowan (1999) suggested that its capacity is about 4 chunks, ...
Youths' cross-ethnic friendships and associations with socioemotional adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Relationships with peers and friends are important and influential in the lives of youth, especially in adolescence (Buhrmester & Furman, 1987). Although attention recently has been drawn to the important roles of race, ...
Cost-benefit analysis of multisystemic therapy for serious and violent juvenile offenders and their siblings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
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 ...
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 ...
Content reinstatement and source confidence during episodic memory retrieval
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Episodic retrieval is the process of bringing information about a past experience from memory into conscious awareness. Variation in the retrieval process, in regard to content and quality of the information retrieved, is ...
Predicting risk of mathematical learning difficulties in preschoolers : the role of symbolic and nonsymbolic quantitative knowledge
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
There is extensive debate over whether children's mathematical learning difficulties are the result of deficits in the inherent system for nonsymbolic representations of quantity or in their ease of learning quantitative ...
Experimentally exploring how the awareness of existential freedom influences support for autocratic leadership styles among individuals high and low in neuroticismExperimentally exploring how the awareness of existential freedom influences support for autocratic leadership styles among individuals high and low in neuroticism
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)
The present dissertation builds on classic existential philosophy and psychological theory to suggest that personal freedom can be burdensome to the self and may, ironically, motivate people to displace their freedom to ...
Individual differences in alcohol sensitivity and their effects on subjective state and craving in naturalistic environments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Sensitivity to the effects of alcohol has long been studied as a risk factor for developing an alcohol use disorder. Several theories exist regarding the profile of subjective responses that constitute the highest risk: ...
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 ...
The effects of background on the color behavior of Anolis Carolinensis (Cuv.)
(University of Missouri, 1915)
It is peculiar fact, so far as the literature of the color changes in Anolis Carolinexsis is conerned, that no one has as yet investigated the effects of background on theses changes, -- it is a further peculiarity, the I ...
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 ...
Rumination in depression : an opportunity to increase positive affect?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Much of the literature on depressed mood has emphasized the strong relationship between rumination, or excessive and repetitive thinking about negative ...
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 ...
Long-term preventive effects of multisystemic therapy on criminality in siblings of juvenile offenders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
In this study, the author examined the long-term criminal outcomes of 110 nonreferred siblings of serious and violent juvenile offenders who had participated in either multisystemic therapy (MST) or individual therapy (IT) ...
The differential effects of presentation rate and retention interval on memory for items and associations in younger adults : a simulation of an age-related associative deficit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Older adults show an associative deficit in episodic memory compared to younger adults. Previous research suggests two underlying brain areas, the frontal lobe (FL) and the medial temporal--hippocampal area (MTL/H), as ...
Examining the comorbidity of boderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in a community sample
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), both relatively prevalent disorders in our society, overlap and/or co-occur in ways that are not yet well understood, especially outside of ...
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 ...
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 ...
The impact of sexual experience on the development of sexual self-concept and global self-esteem during adolescence and young adulthood : a prospective analysis
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The development of an understanding of one's self as a sexual person is an important developmental task for adolescents and young adults. Yet little ...
An ecological investigation of hangover severity and time course
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The goal of the present study was to characterize the event-level severity and time course of hangover as it occurs naturalistically. Hangover symptoms were studied in a community sample of 402 adult regular drinkers (mean ...