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On horses, humans and sugar: Towards a desire-centered view of self-control
(2014-12)
Past research demonstrated that following exertion of self-control, people perform worse on subsequent tasks requiring self-control (Baumeister, Vohs & Tice, 2007). Previous research also demonstrated that following a brief ...
ADHD symptoms, stress, and resilience in college students
(2019-12)
Prior research has suggested that as the number of ADHD symptoms increase, there is also an increase in stress that the individual experiences. Prior research has also claimed that individuals with high levels of ADHD ...
Impaired working memory and ADHD-related emotion regulation deficits
(2019-07)
Meta-analytic reviews have found large-magnitude deficits in emotion regulation (Graziano & Garcia, 2016) and working memory (Kasper et al., 2012) when comparing children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity ...
Influence of Working Memory on the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Attention for Dysphoric Stimuli
(2019-07)
Cognitive models suggest that depressed individuals display biased attention for depression-relevant information. One factor that contributes to our ability to attend to information is working memory. Research suggests ...
Stigma consciousness as a moderator of the relationship between racial microaggressions and hopelessness
(2016-08)
Given the continual change in the United States demography and an increase in racial and ethnic minority populations, issues relevant to these groups are necessary to address (e.g., discrimination). Whereas overt discrimination ...
Test of moderating factors of brief interventions for hazardous alcohol use among college students
(2010-07)
Scope and Method of Study: Half of all college students engage in drinking practices associated with a host of academic, interpersonal, legal, and health-related problems. Brief Motivational Interventions (BMIs) are programs ...
Working memory and motor activity in children with ADHD: Does stimulus presentation modality matter?
(2018-12)
Empirical support for the functional relationship between working memory (WM) and motor activity is well established for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and typically developing (TD) children. ...
Increasing physical activity in adolescents with mHealth: An aggregated N-of-1 RCT
(2016-05)
Social support and self-regulatory skills are two factors known to impact physical activity and sedentary behavior in adolescents. Given that adolescents are not meeting the recommended guidelines for physical activity (60 ...
Impact of a Western-pattern diet on the interaction of prenatal stress, maternal behavior and offspring phenotype
(2019-12)
Maternal prenatal stress is a significant source of developmental stress that can leave an epigenetic signature on offspring, leading to stress-related and anxious behavior. A limited amount of work has been accomplished ...
Equine preferences for food rewards versus human contact and implications for interspecies social bonding
(2019-12)
The primary focus of the dissertation is to study horse preference for human contact versus food rewards. The study uses horses' ability to differentiate between visual symbols with different meanings in order to test the ...