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The Developmental Trajectory of Friendship Jealousy in Adolescence: The Role of Attachment Security and Emotion Regulation
(2023-12-15)
The current study investigated the developmental trajectory of friendship jealousy across a one-year interval during adolescence. It also explored the association of attachment security with friendship jealousy while testing ...
Incremental Effects of Discrete Emotions and Targeted Positive Emotion Control Strategies in the Context of Complex Skill Learning
(2020-07)
Although the importance of emotions to self-regulation has been noted in the extant literature, little empirical research has examined how emotions are related to performance in complex skill learning. Using existing data ...
Social Rejection, Avatar Creation, & Self-Esteem
(2022-05-13)
Individuals use avatars as a means to interact with the virtual world. Self-affirmation theory (Steele, 1988) would suggest that creating an avatar could allow individuals to focus on their positive traits to mitigate ...
Modeling the outcomes of a longitudinal tie-breaker regression discontinuity design to assess an in-home training program for families at risk of child abuse and neglect
(2022-05)
The current study examined the treatment effects of a newly adapted in-home training program for families at risk of child abuse and neglect. In-home interventions for child abuse and neglect have proven effective for ...
Conceptualizing Social Power in Adolescence
(2021-05-14)
Popularity in adolescence has been of interest to researchers for decades—oft described and conceptualized as social power, yet few studies have investigated the overlap between popularity and social power outside of ...
Forecasting Errors in Creative Problem-Solving: Deliberating about the Future
(2021-05-04)
There are a number of key processes involved in creative thought, giving rise to the potential for errors to occur. Error management training has been shown to be more effective than error avoidance, suggesting the need ...
Unmasking the Effects of Social Identity, Polarization, and Anger on Information Processing and Attitudes: An Exploration into the ‘Mask Debate’ of COVID-19 on Twitter
(2022-05)
The ‘mask debate’ surrounding COVID-19 (i.e., whether or not to wear a mask) has generated contention in online forums such as Twitter, where observed division of perspectives often runs along lines of social identity ...
Relational Aggression in Romantic Relationships: How Do Honor-Endorsing Women Traverse Conflict with Their Partners?
(2020-05-08)
Prior research on cultures of honor have shown that individuals are expected to defend their reputations at all costs, even to the point of physical violence. However, this research has almost exclusively demonstrated this ...
The impact of attentional interruptions on creative problem solving
(2021-07)
Some scholars have found that a broad breadth of attention facilitates creative performance, whereas other researchers have found that it is best to have flexible attention based on the situation at hand and stage of the ...
The Effects of Pharmaceutical Intervention on Neural Connectivity and Complexity in Fragile X Syndrome
(2023-12-15)
This study aims to investigate the effects of targeted pharmaceutical interventions on brain networks in individuals with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS). Focusing on three drugs tested in phase 2 clinical trials – (1) a metabatropic ...