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Michael Young, Stephen T. Slota, Andrew B. Cutter et al. · 2012 · Review of Educational Research
Do video games show demonstrable relationships to academic achievement gains when used to support the K-12 curriculum? In a review of literature, we identified 300+ articles whose descriptions related to video games and academic…
View details →Russell Fulmer, Angela Joerin, Breanna Gentile et al. · 2018 · JMIR Mental Health
BACKGROUND: Students in need of mental health care face many barriers including cost, location, availability, and stigma. Studies show that computer-assisted therapy and 1 conversational chatbot delivering cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) offer a less-intensive and more cost-effective alternative for treating depression and anxiety. Although CBT is one of the most effective treatment methods, applying an integrative approach has been linked to equally effective posttreatment improvement. Integrative psychological artificial intelligence (AI) offers a scalable solution as the demand for affor
View details →Christopher J. Soto · 2019 · Psychological Science
The Big Five personality traits have been linked to dozens of life outcomes. However, metascientific research has raised questions about the replicability of behavioral science. The Life Outcomes of Personality Replication (LOOPR) Project…
View details →Devon E. Hinton, Roberto Lewis‐Fernández · 2010 · Depression and Anxiety
BACKGROUND: There is considerable debate about the cross-cultural applicability of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) category as currently specified. Concerns include the possible status of PTSD as a Western culture-bound disorder…
View details →Tomoko Udo, Carlos M. Grilo · 2019 · International Journal of Eating Disorders
OBJECTIVE: To examine psychiatric and somatic correlates of DSM-5 eating disorders (EDs)-anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge-eating disorder (BED)-in a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States.…
View details →Scott R. Braithwaite, Raquel Delevi, Frank D. Fincham · 2010 · Personal Relationships
This study tested the hypothesis that, analogous to married individuals, college students in committed romantic relationships experience greater well-being than single college students. In a sample of 1,621 college students, individuals in…
View details →Jonathan Leeder, Mark Glaister, Kathleen Pizzoferro et al. · 2012 · Journal of Sports Sciences
Sleep is known to be an important component of recovery from training, yet little is known about the quality and quantity of sleep achieved by elite athletes. The aim of the present study was to quantify sleep in elite athletes using…
View details →Jay J. Van Bavel, Peter Mende‐Siedlecki, William J. Brady et al. · 2016 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
In recent years, scientists have paid increasing attention to reproducibility. For example, the Reproducibility Project, a large-scale replication attempt of 100 studies published in top psychology journals found that only 39% could be…
View details →Peter Oehen, Rafael Traber, Verena Widmer et al. · 2012 · Journal of Psychopharmacology
Psychiatrists and psychotherapists in the US (1970s to 1985) and Switzerland (1988-1993) used MDMA legally as a prescription drug, to enhance the effectiveness of psychotherapy. Early reports suggest that it is useful in treating…
View details →Paola Ferri, Matteo Guadi, Luigi Marcheselli et al. · 2016 · Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
BACKGROUND: Shift work is considered necessary to ensure continuity of care in hospitals and residential facilities. In particular, the night shift is one of the most frequent reasons for the disruption of circadian rhythms, causing…
View details →Kani Ülger · 2018 · Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning
The problem-based learning (PBL) approach was implemented as a treatment for higher education visual arts students over one semester to examine its effect on the creative thinking and critical thinking disposition of these students. PBL…
View details →Lynne Steinberg, Carla Sharp, Matthew S. Stanford et al. · 2012 · Psychological Assessment
The Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS), a 30-item self-report measure, is one of the most commonly used scales for the assessment of the personality construct of impulsiveness. It has recently marked 50 years of use in research and clinical…
View details →Leah B. Shapira, Myriam Mongrain · 2010 · The Journal of Positive Psychology
The effectiveness of two online exercises intended to help individuals experience (1) self-compassion (n = 63) and (2) optimism (n = 55) were compared to a control intervention where participants wrote about an early memory (n = 70). A…
View details →Mohit Varshney, Jithin Thomas Parel, Neeraj Raizada et al. · 2020 · PLoS ONE
BACKGROUND: The pandemic of Corona Virus (COVID-19) hit India recently; and the associated uncertainty is increasingly testing psychological resilience of the masses. When the global focus has mostly been on testing, finding a cure and preventing transmission; people are going through a myriad of psychological problems in adjusting to the current lifestyles and fear of the disease. Since there is a severe dearth of researches on this issue, we decided to conduct an online survey to evaluate its psychological impact. METHODS: From 26th to 29th March an online survey (FEEL-COVID) was conducted u
View details →Joseph Cesario · 2014 · Perspectives on Psychological Science
Concerns have been raised recently about the replicability of behavioral priming effects, and calls have been issued to identify priming methodologies with effects that can be obtained in any context and with any population. I argue that…
View details →Catherine Hobaiter, Timothée Poisot, Klaus Zuberbühler et al. · 2014 · PLoS Biology
Social network analysis methods have made it possible to test whether novel behaviors in animals spread through individual or social learning. To date, however, social network analysis of wild populations has been limited to static models that cannot precisely reflect the dynamics of learning, for instance, the impact of multiple observations across time. Here, we present a novel dynamic version of network analysis that is capable of capturing temporal aspects of acquisition--that is, how successive observations by an individual influence its acquisition of the novel behavior. We apply this mo
View details →Gerald Thomas, Philippe Lucas, N. Rielle Capler et al. · 2013 · Current Drug Abuse Reviews
INTRODUCTION: This paper reports results from a preliminary observational study of ayahuasca-assisted treatment for problematic substance use and stress delivered in a rural First Nations community in British Columbia, Canada. METHODS: The…
View details →José Carlos Bouso, Débora González, Sabela Fondevila et al. · 2012 · PLoS ONE
Ayahuasca is an Amazonian psychoactive plant beverage containing the serotonergic 5-HT(2A) agonist N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and monoamine oxidase-inhibiting alkaloids (harmine, harmaline and tetrahydroharmine) that render it orally active. Ayahuasca ingestion is a central feature in several Brazilian syncretic churches that have expanded their activities to urban Brazil, Europe and North America. Members of these groups typically ingest ayahuasca at least twice per month. Prior research has shown that acute ayahuasca increases blood flow in prefrontal and temporal brain regions and that it
View details →Pål-Ørjan Johansen, Teri Suzanne Krebs · 2015 · Journal of Psychopharmacology
A recent large population study of 130,000 adults in the United States failed to find evidence for a link between psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin or mescaline) and mental health problems. Using a new data set…
View details →Susan D. Cochran, Jack Drescher, Eszter Kismödi et al. · 2014 · Bulletin of the World Health Organization
The World Health Organization is developing the 11th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), planned for publication in 2017. The Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health was charged with reviewing and making recommendations on disease categories related to sexuality in the chapter on mental and behavioural disorders in the 10th revision (ICD-10), published in 1990. This chapter includes categories for diagnoses based primarily on sexual orientation even though ICD-10 states that sexual orientat
View details →Jeroen Borghuis, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Daniel L. Oberski et al. · 2017 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Using data from 2 large and overlapping cohorts of Dutch adolescents, containing up to 7 waves of longitudinal data each (N = 2,230), the present study examined Big Five personality trait stability, change, and codevelopment in friendship…
View details →Andrew T. Jebb, Mike Morrison, Louis Tay et al. · 2020 · Psychological Science
Using representative cross-sections from 166 nations (more than 1.7 million respondents), we examined differences in three measures of subjective well-being over the life span. Globally, and in the individual regions of the world, we found…
View details →Trevor J. Egli, Helen W. Bland, Bridget F. Melton et al. · 2011 · Journal of American College Health
OBJECTIVE: The authors examined differences in exercise motivation between age, sex, and race for college students. PARTICIPANTS: Students from 156 sections of physical activity classes at a midsize university were recruited (n = 2,199;…
View details →Susan M. Sheridan, Lisa L. Knoche, Carolyn Pope Edwards et al. · 2010 · Early Education and Development
RESEARCH FINDINGS: Parental engagement with children has been linked to a number of adaptive characteristics in preschool children, and relationships between families and professionals are an important contributor to school readiness.…
View details →Holly P. O’Rourke, David P. MacKinnon · 2018 · Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
OBJECTIVE: Mediation models are used in prevention and intervention research to assess the mechanisms by which interventions influence outcomes. However, researchers may not investigate mediators in the absence of intervention effects on…
View details →Simon Haines, John Gleeson, Peter Kuppens et al. · 2016 · Psychological Science
The ability to regulate emotions is central to well-being, but healthy emotion regulation may not merely be about using the "right" strategies. According to the strategy-situation-fit hypothesis, emotion-regulation strategies are conducive…
View details →Susan M. Sawyer, Melissa Whitelaw, Daniel Le Grange et al. · 2016 · PEDIATRICS
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Adolescents with atypical anorexia nervosa (AN) have lost significant weight but are not underweight. This study aimed to describe the physical and psychological morbidity of adolescents diagnosed with atypical…
View details →Nancy Chooi Ping Low, Erika N. Dugas, Erin K. O’Loughlin et al. · 2012 · BMC Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Stressful life events are associated with mood disorders in adults in clinical settings. Less described in the literature is the association between common life stressors and a wide range of psychopathology in young adolescents. This study uses a large non-clinical sample of young adolescents to describe the associations among worry or stress about common life events/difficulties, mental health and substance use. METHODS: Data on lifetime stress or worry about common life events/difficulties (i.e., romantic breakups, family disruption, interpersonal difficulties, and personal stres
View details →Silvia Place, Erika Hoff · 2015 · Bilingualism Language and Cognition
Recent findings suggest some properties of input in dual-language environments that influence its value for bilingual development, but the extant data base is small and sometimes inconclusive. The present study sought additional evidence…
View details →Judith T. Moskowitz, Adam W. Carrico, Larissa G. Duncan et al. · 2017 · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
OBJECTIVE: We conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine whether IRISS (Intervention for those Recently Informed of their Seropositive Status), a positive affect skills intervention, improved positive emotion, psychological…
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