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Big Five Personality Traits and Experiential Variables as Predictors of Athlete Attitude Toward Concussion
(2022-12)This study examines the "Big 5" personality traits, and experiences with head injury and football among university athletes. 44 football players completed a survey assessing "higher" or "lower" attitudes toward concussions ... -
Social Facilitation with an Online Gaming Audience
(2022-08)The study examined whether social facilitation took place when examining video game performance with an online audience present. Using a survey design, participants reported on their mastery of a set of video games and ... -
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Judgments of Learning in the Context of Worked Mathematics Questions in College Students
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Examining Intentional Design Bias in Children from Secular Households
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Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and the Enhancement of Working Memory
(2020-08)Memory is an essential cognitive process that is crucial for day to day tasks. Specifically, working memory allows for the processing and manipulation of information. Baddeley and Hitch’s (1974) model of working memory ... -
Cooperation and Competition are Affected by Personal Values, but not by Mortality Salience or Extinction due to Environmental Pollution
(2022-08)Many environmental scientists are predicting that the environmental pollution in the Anthropocene will lead to negative consequences, so it is becoming increasingly urgent to address human behaviors that affect Planet ... -
Dread and Temporal Discounting
(2022-08)Intertemporal choice revolves around weighing potential gains and losses when making decisions based on outcomes that come at different points in time. An important component of intertemporal choice is temporal discounting, ... -
Explicit and implicit memory for music: An investigation of source memory, confidence, and the mere exposure effect
(2020-05)Past research into the use of musical mnemonics as an aid in memory enhancement has been somewhat limited and produced inconsistent results. The current study examined young adults and healthy older adults, with the goal ... -
The Effect of Sleep on Repetition Priming
(2020-05)Repetition priming is a type of implicit memory in which previous exposure to a stimulus facilitates more efficient processing of that stimulus at later presentations. This facilitation is simultaneously accompanied by a ... -
A Multivariate Approach to Substance Use in College Students: Exploring Dimensions of Sexual Orientation and Substance Use Related Traits and Behaviors
(2020-05)Multilevel minority stressors have been associated with increased rates of substance use in sexual minority people (e.g., non-heterosexual, such as gay, lesbian, bisexual), with group specific processes underexplored in ... -
Social Media Currency: Are you social media rich or poor?
(2020-05)Background: Current research findings suggest that the use of social media may have both positive and negative effects on psychosocial factors. The Instagram Social Media Currency Scale (ISMCS) was developed as a method ...
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Relations Between Language Exposure and Social Behavior in Childhood
(2020-05)Previous studies have examined children’s sensitivity to language when forming social preferences, but less research had examined how a social partner’s language influences children’s sharing behaviors, or if language-based ... -
Using Single-Session Meditation Intervention to Test the Attention Schema Theory of Consciousness
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Perception of Latina immigrant patients: Effects on the level of care offered by health students
(2022-05)Latinx immigrants are a continuously growing part of American society; however, Latina immigrants are one of the populations most impacted by higher health risks, limited healthcare resources, and intersecting gender and ... -
A mobile application intervention for perfectionism in university students: A randomized controlled trial
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Treatment Utilization among Diverse Patients with PTSD: Nationwide Trends and Moderation by Health Insurance
(2022-05)Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating mental health condition that is estimated to affect 6% of American adults. Research suggests that racial/ethnic minority groups have elevated risk for experiencing ... -
Vitamin Supplementation in Anorexia Nervosa: Examining Executive Function in Relation to the Interaction of Vitamin Supplementation and Anorexic Status
(2022-05)Anorexia nervosa (AN) has the highest mortality rate of psychological disorders and is characterized by food restriction, rigid and extreme weight loss behaviors, and altered self-perceptions (Hanachi et al., 2019). Cognitive ... -
Collegiate Student-Athlete's Subjective Well-being Related to Mindset and Grit
(2022-05)There are a number of factors that contribute an individual’s level of subjective well-being (SWB) during their college or athletic career. Researchers agree that two integral predictors of SWB are an individual’s level ...
