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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 ...
Item response models for the measurement of thresholds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
At least since Fechner (1860) described examples of human sensory thresholds, the concept of a threshold has been foundational in psychology. Thresholds exist when a sensation can be so weak that it does not lead to ...
The role of intentions in the pursuit of happiness
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
received the "happy" music (vs. "discordant" music) and instructions to try to feel happy reported higher positive mood. Study 2 examined individuals' engagement happiness strategies using a longitudinal design. In contrast to the finding in Study 1...
Derivation and validation of alcohol phenotypes in a college population : a motivational/developmental approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Numerous typologies of alcoholics have been proposed, dating back to the 1850s. However, many of these typologies have categorized alcoholics on distal and/or static etiological factors. In this study, longitudinal data ...
Who did what?: age-related differences in memory for people and their actions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The associative-deficit hypothesis (ADH), proposed by Naveh-Benjamin (2000), holds that the decline in episodic memory that accompanies aging is at least partially due to an inability to bind single units of information ...
Construal levels and the reactivity of state self-esteem to positive and negative experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The reactivity of state self-esteem has been linked to a number of important psychological outcomes, ranging from general well-being to psychological ...
Differential effects of negative and positive affect on context processing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Context processing is thought to be a central component of cognitive control involved in maintaining goals. Context processing impairments have been implicated in psychopathology, with suggestions that the interaction ...
Age differences in memory for names : the effect of pre-learned semantic associations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The present experiments investigated whether participants could use basic semantic information about a person (i.e., a "mediator"), such as an occupation, to help link that person's name to his or her face. In each of three ...
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 ...
Eye-tracking investigations of lexical ambiguity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The visual world paradigm was used to investigate the time course of ambiguity resolution. Typically, the visual stimuli consisted of one picture that was semantically related to the dominant meaning of an ambiguous word, ...
Predictors of polypharmacy and off-label prescribing of psychotropic medications : a national survey of child psychiatrists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In the current study we used a national survey of child psychiatrists to examine typical prescribing practices for children with anxiety, depression, and disruptive behavior disorders from a social judgment theory perspective. ...
Gut feelings and goal pursuit : a path to self-concordance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Two studies examined the role of gut feelings within the self-concordance model of goal pursuit (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999). Using a correlational design, Study 1 found that pursuing goals based on a gut feeling is positively ...
Individual differences affect hormonal responses to a team-based violent videogame competition, but not in solitary play
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Testosterone and cortisol were assessed along with various personality measures in response to a violent videogame competition in three different ...
A factor structure with means confirmatory factor analytic approach to multitrait-multimethod models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
A factor structure with means (FSM) approach to multitrait - multimethod (MTMM) models is proposed in an attempt to remedy identification problems inherent in traditional approaches. In an example data set, FSM models with ...
Paying attention to binding: is the associative deficit of older adults mediated by reduced attentional resources?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
One notion put forth to explain age-related, episodic memory problems is the associative-deficit hypothesis, stating that they are due to older adults' decreased binding ability (i.e., their ability to encode separate ...
Selection and socialization effects of Greek affiliation on heavy drinking across the transition to college and into the college years: the effects of personality traits and drinking norms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Although heavy drinking among fraternity and sorority members is well documented, it is less clear whether the Greek environment facilitates heavy drinking or whether heavy drinkers select into Greek environments. Moreover, ...
Multilevel models for intensive longitudinal data with heterogeneous error structure : covariance transformation and variance function models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Recent developments in data collection methods in the behavioral and social sciences, such as Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) enables researchers to gather intensive longitudinal data (ILD) and to examine more detailed ...
Resolving the conflict between the discrete-slots and distributed-resources models of working-memory capacity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
It is generally accepted that Working Memory is limited in capacity. However, there has been substantial debate over whether this limit in capacity is best described as a finite limit on the number of items that can be ...
Intra-nacc adenosine and its role in mediating palatable food intake: interactions with striatal opioids
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Striatal adenosine is believed to have a significant modulatory role over a variety of striatal circuitry and associated psychomotor and feeding ...
Assessing single- and dual-process accounts of recognition memory using hierarchical Bayesian models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Recognition memory refers to a person's ability to recognize something that has been previously encountered. For several decades recognition memory has been thought to be governed by a single process whereby the strength ...