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Ashley L. Ruba, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Betty M. Repacholi · 2019 · Developmental Psychology
There is extensive disagreement as to whether preverbal infants have conceptual categories for different emotions (e.g., anger vs. disgust). In addition, few studies have examined whether infants have conceptual categories of emotions…
View details →Warren Tierney, Jay H. Hardy, Charles R. Ebersole et al. · 2020 · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
How can we maximize what is learned from a replication study? In the creative destruction approach to replication, the original hypothesis is compared not only to the null hypothesis, but also to predictions derived from multiple alternative theoretical accounts of the phenomenon. To this end, new populations and measures are included in the design in addition to the original ones, to help determine which theory best accounts for the results across multiple key outcomes and contexts. The present pre-registered empirical project compared the Implicit Puritanism account of intuitive work and sex
View details →Michael Bang Petersen, Lasse Laustsen · 2018 · Political Psychology
Animal models of conflict behavior predict that an organism's behavior in a conflict situation is influenced by physical characteristics related to abilities to impose costs on adversaries. Stronger and larger organisms should be more…
View details →Joseph F. Sobanko, Julia Dai, Joel M. Gelfand et al. · 2018 · Dermatologic Surgery
BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive cosmetic injectable procedures are increasingly common. However, a few studies have investigated changes in psychosocial functioning following these treatments. OBJECTIVE: To assess changes in body image,…
View details →Magdalena Łuniewska, Katarzyna Chyl, Agnieszka Dębska et al. · 2018 · Scientific Reports
The prevalence and long-term consequences of dyslexia make it crucial to look for effective and efficient ways of its therapy. Action video games (AVG) were implied as a possible remedy for difficulties in reading in Italian and English-speaking children. However, the studies examining the effectiveness of AVG application in dyslexia suffered from significant methodological weaknesses such as small sample sizes and lack of a control group with no intervention. In our study, we tested how two forms of training: based on AVG and on phonological non-action video games (PNAVG), affect reading in a
View details →Nina Vaswani · 2014 · The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
Abstract The study explored the prevalence and nature of bereavement among 33 young men who had been sentenced to a young offender institution. A bereavement had been experienced by 91% of the sample, and the rates of traumatic and…
View details →Stanisław Karkosz, Robert Szymański, Katarzyna Sanna et al. · 2023 · JMIR Formative Research
BACKGROUND: There has been an increased need to provide specialized help for people with depressive and anxiety symptoms, particularly teenagers and young adults. There is evidence from a 2-week intervention that chatbots (eg, Woebot) are effective in reducing depression and anxiety, an effect that was not detected in the control group that was provided self-help materials. Although chatbots are a promising solution, there is limited scientific evidence for the efficacy of agent-guided cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) outside the English language, especially for highly inflected languages. O
View details →Jonás Fouz-González · 2018 · ReCALL
Abstract This study investigates the potential of a podcast-based approach aimed at helping foreign language learners improve their pronunciation of features that tend to be fossilised in their interlanguage. Training took place over a…
View details →Sarah Jordan, Laure Brimbal, David B. Wallace et al. · 2019 · Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling
Abstract The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of the micro‐expressions training tool (METT) in identifying and using micro‐expressions to improve lie detection. Participants ( n = 90) were randomly assigned to receive…
View details →Stephen R. Shirk, Anne P. DePrince, Patrice S. Crisostomo et al. · 2013 · Psychotherapy
Four clinical trials have shown that a history of interpersonal trauma is associated with diminished response to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for adolescent depression. An efficacious CBT protocol for adolescent depression was…
View details →Irene M. Pepperberg, Leigh Ann Hartsfield · 2014 · Journal of comparative psychology
Linking specific cognitive abilities of nonhuman species on a laboratory task to their evolutionary history-ecological niche can be a fruitful exercise in comparative psychology. Crucial issues, however, are the choice of task, the…
View details →Lauren A. Stutts, Kerstin K. Blomquist · 2018 · International Journal of Eating Disorders
OBJECTIVE: The present study employed a longitudinal design to examine the moderating role of self-compassion in the relationship between weight/shape concerns and the outcomes of eating pathology and stress in a diverse college student…
View details →Judith Gere, Geoff MacDonald, Samantha Joel et al. · 2013 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Although separate literatures have emerged on effects of social threats (i.e., rejection and negative evaluation) and rewards (i.e., connection and intimacy) on the process of commitment to a romantic relationship, no research has examined…
View details →Adele Wang, S. Katherine Nelson, Kristin Layous et al. · 2017 · PLoS ONE
Interventions rarely have a universal effect on all individuals. Reasons ranging from participant characteristics, context and fidelity of intervention completion could cause some people to respond more positively than others. Understanding these individual differences in intervention response may provide clues to the mechanisms behind the intervention, as well as inform future designs to make interventions maximally beneficial for all. Here we focus on an intervention designed to improve adolescent wellbeing, and explore potential moderators using a representative and well-powered sample. 16-
View details →Lisa M. DeBruine, Benedict C. Jones, David A. Frederick et al. · 2010 · Evolutionary Psychology
Over the last decade, a growing literature has shown that women in the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle demonstrate stronger preferences for men with masculine traits than they do when in the non-fertile phases of the cycle (see…
View details →Glenn I. Roisman, Cathryn Booth‐LaForce, Jay Belsky et al. · 2013 · Attachment & Human Development
This paper advises caution in relation to the increasing interest in molecular-genetic association studies in developmental psychology based on a set of empirical examples from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development…
View details →Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Raquel Thiessen, James E. Young et al. · 2019
Robots that interact with children are becoming more common in places such as child care and hospital environments. While such robots may mistakenly provide nonsensical information, or have mechanical malfunctions, we know little of how…
View details →Margaret‐Anne Mackintosh, James Niehaus, Casey T. Taft et al. · 2017 · Military Medicine
OBJECTIVE: Anger is a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with a range of clinical and functional impairments, and may be especially prevalent among veterans with PTSD. Effective anger management therapies exist but…
View details →Shengquan Ye, Ting Kin Ng, Kin Hang Yim et al. · 2015 · Journal of Personality Assessment
This study aimed at validating the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II (CEI-II; Kashdan et al., 2009 ) in a Chinese context. A total of 294 Chinese first-year undergraduate students in Hong Kong completed the CEI-II and measures of…
View details →Francesco Bogliacino, Cristiano Codagnone, Felipe Montealegre et al. · 2021 · Scientific Reports
In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, households throughout the world have to cope with negative shocks. Previous research has shown that negative shocks impair cognitive function and change risk, time and social preferences. In this study, we analyze the results of a longitudinal multi-country survey conducted in Italy (N = 1652), Spain (N = 1660) and the United Kingdom (N = 1578). We measure cognitive function using the Cognitive Reflection Test and preferences traits (risk, time and social preferences) using an experimentally validated set of questions to assess the differences b
View details →Krista R. Mehari, Albert D. Farrell · 2013 · Journal of Research on Adolescence
This study examined the moderating effects of individual ethnicity and school ethnic composition on the relation between peer victimization and adolescents' well‐being. Participants were 4,593 sixth grade students attending 36 schools…
View details →Kalina J. Michalska, Jean Decety, Thomas A. Zeffiro et al. · 2014 · NeuroImage Clinical
Because the disruptive behavior disorders are highly impairing conditions, it is important to determine if structural variations in brain are associated early in life with these problems among children. Structural MRI data were acquired…
View details →Victoria Whitelock, Suzanne Higgs, Jeffrey M. Brunstrom et al. · 2018 · Appetite
Focusing attention on food during a meal has been shown to reduce later snack consumption. We report the results of two studies that aimed to replicate this effect and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. We hypothesised that focused attention during a lunchtime meal would improve visual memory and/or memory for the satiating effects of the meal, and that this would reduce later food intake. In Study 1, participants (N = 108, 52.8% female, BMI M = 25.75 kg/m2) were randomly allocated to eat a fixed lunchtime meal while listening to instructions that encouraged them to pay attention to the s
View details →Daniel M. Bagner, Michelle D. Berkovits, Stefany Coxe et al. · 2023 · JAMA Pediatrics
Importance: Early behavior problems in children with developmental delay (DD) are prevalent and impairing, but service barriers persist. Controlled studies examining telehealth approaches are limited, particularly for children with DD.…
View details →Julie Justine Benoit, Eugenie Roudaia, Taylor Johnson et al. · 2020 · PeerJ
In the past 20 years, there has been growing research interest in the association between video games and cognition. Although many studies have found that video game players are better than non-players in multiple cognitive domains, other studies failed to replicate these results. Until now, the vast majority of studies defined video game players based on the number of hours an individual spent playing video games, with relatively few studies focusing on video game expertise using performance criteria. In the current study, we sought to examine whether individuals who play video games at a pro
View details →Jia Hoong Ong, Denis Burnham, Paola Escudero · 2015 · PLoS ONE
This study examines whether non-tone language listeners can acquire lexical tone categories distributionally and whether attention in the training phase modulates the effect of distributional learning. Native Australian English listeners were trained on a Thai lexical tone minimal pair and their performance was assessed using a discrimination task before and after training. During Training, participants either heard a Unimodal distribution that would induce a single central category, which should hinder their discrimination of that minimal pair, or a Bimodal distribution that would induce two
View details →Valentina Nachtigall, Katja Serova, Nikol Rummel · 2020 · Instructional Science
Abstract The current work builds on research demonstrating the effectiveness of Productive Failure (PF) for learning. While the effectiveness of PF has been demonstrated for STEM learning, it has not yet been investigated whether PF is also beneficial for learning in non-STEM domains. Given this need to test PF for learning in domains other than mathematics or science, and the assumption that features embodied in a PF design are domain-independent, we investigated the effect of PF on learning social science research methods. We conducted two quasi-experimental studies with 212 and 152 10th gra
View details →Yongliang Wang, Yumeng Guo · 2026 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
ABSTRACT Background The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has reshaped English as Foreign Language (EFL) instruction, offering new opportunities for language learning. While much of the existing research focuses on AI integration in…
View details →Chung-Yuan Hsu, Chin‐Chung Tsai · 2012 · Interactive Learning Environments
Abstract Educational researchers have indicated that although computer games have the potential to promote students' motivation and engagement, the work on how to design effective games that fulfil educational purposes is still in its…
View details →Stijn A.H. Friederichs, Anke Oenema, Catherine Bolman et al. · 2016 · Psychology and Health
OBJECTIVE: This study explores whether a web-based physical activity (PA) intervention grounded in self-determination theory (SDT) and motivational interviewing (MI) is more effective and better appreciated than a traditional web-based PA…
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