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Mate poaching: Who is most likely to poach and why?
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of these two studies was to determine who is more likely to mate poach and why. Study 1 was designed to identify what types of women are more likely to engage in mate poaching. It was ...
Implicit goal fusion: The predictive power of implicit motivational measures
(2018-05)
Goal fusion refers to the perceived overlap between an individual's goal and their self-concept. This is traditionally measured with a single item explicit measure. The recent development of an implicit measure of goal ...
Interactive effects of maternal affect and nutrition on parenting
(2012-07)
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Relation between body weight and social position in children's classroom friendship network
(2010-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The present study focused on the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and centrality (degree and global) and the differences in centrality by weight status in first grade children. Participants ...
Influence of anticipatory processing on visual and verbal working memory task performance
(2016-07)
Cognitive models of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD; e.g., Clark & Wells, 1995) have implicated anticipatory processing, an anxiety-related form of repetitive negative thinking, in the maintenance of SAD symptoms. However, ...
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 ...
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 ...