Browsing Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Bartholow, Bruce D. (Bruce Dale), 1970-"
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Alcohol consumption, executive function and risky decision making
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Previous research has shown that alcohol intoxication can adversely affect behavior by impairing higher cognitive function (e.g., Giancola, 2000) and can lead to increased risk-taking (Leigh, 1999) via impaired executive ... -
Alcohol cues, approach bias, and inhibitory control : applying a dual process model to alcohol sensitivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Low sensitivity to the acute effects of alcohol, or needing a relatively large amount to feel alcohol's effects, is a risk factor for developing AUDs ... -
Alcohol placebo effects on cognitive control of race bias : investigating neural mechanisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The present study investigated the effects of alcohol expectancy on the exercise of control over racial bias. Participants consumed either a placebo ... -
Alcohol sensitivity and the Incentive Sensitization Theory of Addiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Incentive Sensitization Theory of Addiction (ISTA; Robinson and Berridge, 1993) posits that certain individuals are at-risk for developing addictive ... -
Death, prejudice, and ERP's: understanding the neural correlates of bias
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Awareness of one's own mortality can increase prejudice-related attitudes, behavior, and aggression against members of outgroups (e.g., Arndt et al., 1997; McGregor et al., 1998; Lieberman et al., 1999). The current research ... -
Effects of alcohol and emotion regulation on performance monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Previous research indicates that alcohol dampens negative affect and is sometimes used in the regulation of psychological distress (see Greeley & Oei, 1999; Sher, 1987). Other work indicates that individuals using less ... -
Game violence, game difficulty, and 2D:4D digit ratio as predictors of aggressive behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Previous research efforts have sought to determine whether violent video games cause increases in aggressive behavior. The resulting literature is controversial. Those finding the effect may not have the desired degree of ... -
The impact of violent video games on executive functioning and aggression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)Previous research suggests a causal link between violent video games and aggression (Anderson; 2004; Anderson & Bushman, 2001), but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, even-related brain potentials (ERPs) were ... -
The influence of race on behavior and the neural correlates of expectancy during an economic decision game
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)I investigated how another person's race influences resource sharing during a social economic decision-making game that depends on trustworthiness. Seventy-eight university students played a behavioral economics Trust Game ... -
Investigating the early processes of person construal using ERPs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)According to the dynamic interactive theory of person construal (Freeman & Ambady, 2011), upon perception of a person, multiple social categories become simultaneously active and are refined through the integration of ... -
Neural and behavioral effects of regulating emotional responses to errors during an implicit racial bias task
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Emotion regulation plays a key role in several theories of prejudice reduction. Here, we tested whether engaging in emotion regulation strategies while performing an implicit racial bias task would alter neural and behavioral ... -
Resource-depletion : outcome of failed energy management or adaptive emotion?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The purpose of this study was to determine whether people have a limited self-control ability. Past research has shown that when people controls themselves they are worse at controlling themselve afterwards. So, for instance, ... -
The role of misattribution in the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Researchers generally agree that acute exposure to violent video games (VVGs) increases aggressive behavior by priming aggressive schemas or scripts, ... -
To sleep, perchance to decide : the effect of sleep deprivation on error reactivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Previous research has shown a host cognitive decrements that result from sleep deprivation including impaired executive function and slowed reaction time (see Durmer & Dinges, 2005). The focus of this research is to ...