Browsing Psychology Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2011 Fall"
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Automatic and controlled processing of faces in social anxiety
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-27)The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the automatic emotional response, attention allocation, and attention disengagement elicited by facial stimuli in undergraduate participants with high and low Social Anxiety ... -
Influence of depressive symptoms on within-session change talk and HIV antiretroviral medication adherence in a motivational interviewing based adherence intervention
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-25)Although a number of studies have demonstrated that patients' verbal language in favor of change within a Motivational Interviewing (MI) session, known as “change talk,” is related to behavior change and intervention ... -
The influence of media on implicit weight bias
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-16)The purpose of this dissertation is to determine if exposure to media that exhibits weight bias increases implicit anti-fat attitudes using an objective assessment of emotional response to obesity cues. Participants completed ...