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Gambling is an important public health concern. To better understand gambling behavior, we conducted a classroom-based survey that assessed the role of the theory of planned behavior (TPB; i.e., intentions, subjective norms, perceived... more
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      PsychologyMental HealthSocial CognitionMediation
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      PsychologyClinical PsychologyAnxiety DisordersEmotion Regulation
What is an emotion?'' William James's seminal paper in Mind (1884) proposed the idea that physiological and behavioral responses precede subjective experience in emotions that are marked by ''distinct bodily expression.'' This notion has... more
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      PsychologyBiological PsychologyCognitive ScienceEmotion
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      PsychologyCognitive SciencePhilosophySchizophrenia
All children who enter foster care have experienced disruptions in their relationships with caregivers, and many have experienced maltreatment. Studying the effects of these adverse early experiences can inform developmental theory. In... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceFoster CareAdolescent
The two contrasting theoretical approaches to visual perception, the constructivist and the ecological, are briefly presented and illustrated through their analyses of space and size perception. Earlier calls for their reconciliation and... more
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      PsychologyCognitive SciencePsychophysicsCognition
The threat simulation theory of dreaming (TST) states that dream consciousness is essentially an ancient biological defence mechanism, evolutionarily selected for its capacity to repeatedly simulate threatening events. Threat simulation... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceHuman EvolutionPhilosophy
Which domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret, and what features of those life domains explain why? Using archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater perceived opportunity within life domains evokes... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceEmotionDecision Making
The current investigation represents the first meta-analysis of the depressive realism literature. A search of this literature revealed 75 relevant studies representing 7305 participants from across the US and Canada, as well as from... more
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      PsychologyClinical PsychologyResearch DesignDepression
Persecutory (paranoid) delusions are a frequently observed clinical phenomenon. In recent years, an increasing volume of research has attempted to explain these types of beliefs in terms of psychological mechanisms. Theories have... more
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      PsychologyClinical PsychologyCognitionTheory of Mind
► Attachment as biobehavioral system offers a valuable perspective on aging. ► We provide a qualitative review of empirical research from 1983 to 2012. ► Number and type of attachment figures, but also quality of attachment alter. ►... more
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proposed that cognitive theories be developed in an effort to satisfy multiple criteria and to avoid theoretical myopia. He provided two overlapping lists of 13 criteria that the human cognitive architecture would have to satisfy in order... more
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Congruence or genuineness is a relational quality that has been highly prized throughout the history of psychotherapy, but of diminished research interest in recent years. In this article, we define and provide examples of this attribute... more
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      PsychologyPsychotherapyTreatment OutcomeMental Disorders
Why are people interested in money? Specifically, what could be the biological basis for the extraordinary incentive and reinforcing power of money, which seems to be unique to the human species? We identify two ways in which a commodity... more
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      Cognitive ScienceEvolutionary PsychologyEconomicsMotivation
Operational definitions of emotion regulation are frequently unclear, as are links between emotion regulation measures and underlying theoretical constructs. This is of concern because measurement decisions can have both intentional and... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceChild DevelopmentEmotion Regulation
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      Research DesignViolence Against WomenSocial behaviorProstitution
The prevalence of obesity is higher in those with intellectual disabilities than the general population. The aim of the study was to understand the determinants of physical activity and dietary patterns in this population during their... more
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      NursingPainLanguageAdvanced Nursing Practice
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      SchizophreniaCognitionSocial CognitionSocial Interaction
The West Nile virus (WNV), as it was presented in the texts and discourses on the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) website during its initial emergence, was an effect of the kinds of knowledge, techniques of power and disciplinary... more
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      SociologyKnowledge ManagementRisk assessmentSystems Integration
Testing a model suggested by J. , this study investigated how a personal vulnerability (attachment ambivalence) interacts with perceptions of deficient spousal support before and during a major life stressor (the transition to parenthood)... more
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      MarketingPsychologyCognitive SciencePersonality
Cross-cultural research is dominated by the use of values despite their mixed empirical support and their limited theoretical scope. This article expands the dominant paradigm in crosscultural research by developing a theory of cultural... more
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      Organizational BehaviorMarketingPsychologyApplied Psychology
Although clinical theories suggest that people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) experience a confused sense of self, little empirical research has directly examined the self in BPD (Heard & Linehan, 1993; Westen & Cohen, 1993).... more
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This research was conducted at the Institute for Cognitive Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, as part o f a doctoral dissertation. I wish to thank H. Wallach, D. Dinnerstein, and C. H. Harris for their contributions to this... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceVisual perceptionDepth Perception
This article focuses on the schizophrenic disorganization syndrome, which was initially described by Bleuler (who used the term "dissociation") as lying at the heart of schizophrenia. While adopting a neo-BIeulerian approach, we describe... more
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      Communication DisordersSemanticsTheory of MindLanguage Disorder
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      PsychophysiologyForecastingInterpersonal RelationsPsychological Theory
A major focus of Healthy People 2010 is promoting weight management and physical activity because overweight, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle are strongly associated with risk for heart disease and stroke, diabetes, cancers, and... more
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      Health PromotionHealth BehaviorObesityPhysical Activity
Motion sickness is believed to be caused by conflicting sensory signals, a situation that mimics the effects of ingesting certain toxins. Thus, one might suspect that individuals who have experienced a relatively high frequency of motion... more
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      DementiaFocus GroupsPrejudiceCultural Anthropology
Purpose: The aim of this study was to test the applicability of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) to gain an understanding of interdental cleaning behaviour change in senior high school students (12th grade) in Iran. Materials and methods:... more
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      PsychologyDentistryHealth BehaviorAdolescent
Contingencies of selection, be they phylogenetic or ontogenetic, merely set boundaries on units; they do not provide blueprints. Thus, variability is fundamental to all products of selection. Skinner, by characterizing the units of... more
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Background and Purpose: Migration is often a challenging process. Native Hawaiians migrate from Hawaii to Las Vegas at an impressive rate, but no research has explored how migration affects their health and well-being. The purpose was to... more
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      Cultural StudiesNursingPerceptionQualitative Research
The etiology of Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD) as well as the precise role of melatonin in human physiology remains poorly understood. Inspired by a single case observation we performed the presented study in order to obtain first... more
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Objectives. The experience of diabetes in young people was investigated within the theoretical framework of the extended health belief model (EHBM). It was anticipated that participant reports of high internal locus of control, high... more
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      SociologyPsychologyHealth BehaviorCulture
The Justification Hypothesis (JH; Henriques, 2003) is a basic, general, and macro-level construct that is highly compelling. However, it needs greater specification (i.e., justification) regarding what it is, how it might be... more
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Research on achievement goal promotion at University has shown that performanceapproach goals are perceived as a means to succeed at University (high social utility) but are not appreciated (low social desirability). We argue that such a... more
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      SociologyPsychologyCognitive ScienceAdolescent
A study was conducted to explore (a) the dimensional structure of perceived behavioural control (PBC), (b) the conceptual basis of perceived difficulty items, and (c) how PBC components and instrumental and affective attitudes,... more
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      SociologyPsychologyCognitive ScienceDecision Making
This study tested derivations from Cloninger's (1987a) theory of substance use on a sample of 457 adolescents. A 67-item adaptation of the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) and measures of 10 related constructs were... more
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      PersonalityPersonality AssessmentRisk TakingAdolescent
The objective of our project was to develop a lifestyle program for leg ulcer patients at outpatient clinics for dermatology. We used the intervention-mapping (IM) framework for systematically developing theory and evidence based health... more
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      Program EvaluationHealth PromotionQuality of lifeLife Style
Tony Ward, PhD, Dip. Clin. Psych, currently co-ordinates the forensic psychology doctoral program at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include the area of social competency in offenders, theories of sexual offending,... more
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      PsychologySocial WorkSexual AbuseAustralia
In their article on gender development, C. L. Martin, D. N. Ruble, and J. Szkrybalo (2002) contrasted their conception of gender development with that of social cognitive theory. The authors of this commentary correct misrepresentations... more
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      MarketingPsychologyCognitive ScienceCognition
Research on social class differences in obesity and weight-related outcomes has highlighted the need to consider how such class differences reflect the unequally distributed constellations of economic, cultural, and social resources that... more
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      SociologyAnthropologyHealth BehaviorLife Style
871 participants, 375 boys and 496 girls, mean age 16.7 + 1, were administered the Parental Bonding Instrument (P.B.I.), the Brief Symptom Inventory (B.S.I.), the General Well-Being Questionnaire (G.W.B.) and the Chestnut Lodge... more
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There is strong evidence that developments in children's theory of mind (ToM) at 3-4 years are related to developments in language and executive function. However, these relationships might exist for 2 reasons. First, language and... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceDevelopmental PsychologyCognitive development
This study examined the effects of negative group stereotypes on adolescents' reasoning about peer retribution. The sample of adolescents was drawn from central and northern Israel and consisted of 2,604 Arab and Jewish students (ages... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceCognitive developmentArabic
Background Attachment theory is highly influential in child and adult mental health research and practice. Research and practice have started now to explore the potential value of an attachment perspective for understanding and... more
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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceSocial WorkChild Development
Decisions about using addictive substances are influenced by distractions by addiction-related stimuli, of which the user might be unaware. The addiction-Stroop task is a paradigm used to assess this distraction. The empirical evidence... more
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