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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: ...
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 ...
New onset, recurrence, and persistence of alcohol dependence criteria : maturing out at the symptom level
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Epidemiological studies have consistently shown a decrease in the prevalence of Alcohol Dependence (AD) with age after its peak in young adulthood. ...
Communication withdrawal in adolescent and young adult romantic relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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 ...
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 ...
Testing the interaction of alcohol outlet density and personality traits in the prediction of drinking and driving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Attempts to reduce the high false alarm rate in older adults' associative memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Whereas memory for individual items stays relatively intact with age, associative memory, (e.g., memory for pairs of items), seems to show a noticeable decline (what is known as older adults� associative memory deficit). ...
Borderline features, rejection sensitivity, and romantic relationships: A daily diary study of romantic partners
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Repetition effects in object switch costs: against a switch cost measure of a discrete focus of attention
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Object switch costs have been taken to index items in the focus of attention (e.g., Oberauer, 2005). They refer to savings in reaction time (RT) when a target object to which a response must be made is the same as the ...
Precision and capacity development in auditory working memory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This research has explored the development of auditory working memory capacity and precision in children and adults. Very little is known about the capacity limits of auditory working memory, and even less is known about ...
Six- and ten-month-old infants' intermodal representation of numerical ratios
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The abilities to represent and process quantity information exist across many animal species and are evident early in the life of individuals. Preverbal ...
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 ...
Drinking in real life as an example of how expectations color experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Drinkers report using alcohol when experiencing negative emotions, e.g., "to feel numb" or escape and also in times of celebration, e.g., "to get high" ...
Experience, awareness, and regulation of mixed emotions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Literature on relationships of emotions to psychological adjustment has mainly focused on unitarily valenced affect (i.e., positive or negative emotions). ...
Women’s preference for masculine traits is disrupted by images of male-on-female violence : [data]
(2014)
Women's preferences for men's masculinized faces and voices were assessed after
women (n = 331) were primed with images of male-on-male aggression, male-on-female
aggression, pathogens, and neutral scenes. Male-on-male ...