Scholarly Work - Psychology
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Tired Teens: Sleep Disturbances and Heightened Vulnerability for Mental Health Difficulties
(2020-05)Inadequate sleep is one of the most common yet modifiable public health problems facing youth today, and accumulating evidence suggests that sleep problems are associated with increased risk for mental health difficulties ... -
American Indian young adults display diminished cardiovascular and cortisol responses to acute psychological stress
(2020-04)American Indian adults are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease compared with non-Hispanic white adults. Scant research exists examining the underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms associated with ... -
Identifying and clarifying arguments in a recent debate regarding measures based on memory-based methods
(2019-04)Two recent commentaries published in this journal argued against the usefulness of memory-based dietary assessment methods (M-BMs). A pair of responding commentaries disputed those negative claims regarding M-BMs and ... -
Absent autonomy: Relational competence and gendered paths to faculty self-determination in the promotion and tenure process
(2018-09)This research examines ways in which men and women university faculty sought self-determination in the promotion and tenure (P&T) process. Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2012) research tends to view autonomy ... -
Association of belief in the "firewater myth" with strategies to avoid alcohol consequences among American Indian and Alaska Native college students who drink
(2018-05)Belief in an American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) specific biological vulnerability (BV) to alcohol problems (aka the "firewater myth") is associated with worse alcohol outcomes among AI/AN college students who drink, ... -
Childhood socioeconomic status and risk in early family environments: predictors of global sleep quality in college students
(2018-03)Objective Low socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood associates with poor sleep quality in adulthood. Separately, childhood family environments shape health into adulthood. Here, we investigated whether these early life ... -
Early life socioeconomic status associates with interleukin-6 responses to acute laboratory stress in adulthood
(2018-05)It is proposed that environmental exposures in early life influence immune programming. Specifically, socioeconomic disadvantage is thought to program an immune phenotype that is prone to inflammation and associated with ... -
No Hiking Beyond this Point! Hiking Risk Prevention Recommendations in Peer-Reviewed Literature
(2017-12)Outdoor recreation in wild areas has many benefits, but also poses risks. We conducted a systematic review of the prevention recommendations in peer-reviewed articles about hiking incidents (injury, illness, or need for ... -
How do associative and phonemic overlap interact to boost illusory recollection?
(2018-10)This project investigated the underlying mechanisms that boost false remember responses when participants receive study words that are both semantically and phonologically similar to a critical lure. Participants completed ... -
The effect of ad hominem attacks on the evaluation of claims promoted by scientists
(2018-01)Two experiments were conducted to determine the relative impact of direct and indirect (ad hominem) attacks on science claims. Four hundred and thirty-nine college students (Experiment 1) and 199 adults (Experiment 2) read ... -
Grant-Writing Bootcamp: An Intervention to Enhance the Research Capacity of Academic Women in STEM
(2017-06)Broadening the participation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) fields is more than a social-justice issue; diversity is paramount to a thriving national research agenda. However, women ... -
Perception of scenes in different sensory modalities: A result of modal completion
(2017-04)Dynamic perception includes amodal and modal completion, along with apparent movement. It fills temporal gaps for single objects. In 2 experiments, using 6 stimulus presentation conditions involving 3 sensory modalities, ... -
Not Merely Experiential: Unconscious Thought Can Be Rational
(2017-07)Individuals often form more reasonable judgments from complex information after a period of distraction vs. deliberation. This phenomenon has been attributed to sophisticated unconscious thought during the distraction ... -
Research Microcultures as Socialization Contexts for Underrepresented Science Students
(2017-05)How much does scientific research potentially help people? We tested whether prosocial-affordance beliefs (PABs) about science spread among group members and contribute to individual students\' motivation for science. We ... -
Theorizing the decision-making process for divorce or reconciliation
(2017-03)Divorce is commonplace in the United States, with an abundant scholarship on the phenomenon. Most research has focused on predictors of divorce, associations between divorce and family member well-being, and interventions ... -
ERN, Theta Power, and Risk for Anxiety Problems in Preschoolers
(2016-12)"The Error Related Negativity (ERN) is a neural marker of performance monitoring that has been inconsistently linked to anxiety risk in children. One avenue for understanding inconsistencies is to investigate other neural ... -
Replication Rate, Framing, and Format Affect Attitudes and Decisions about Science Claims
(2016-11)A series of five experiments examined how the evaluation of a scientific finding was influenced by information about the number of studies that had successfully replicated the initial finding. The experiments also tested ... -
ADVANCE Project TRACS Charrette Posters 2013
(2013)These posters, presented in 2013, show data on recruiting new female faculty hires, job satisfaction, baseline indicators, and opinions on existing programs. -
ADVANCE Project TRACS Charrette Posters 2014
(2014-04)These posters, presented in 2014, show data on recruiting new female faculty hires, job satisfaction, baseline indicators, and opinions on existing programs. -
ADVANCE Project TRACS Charrette Posters 2015
(2015)These posters, presented in 2015, show data on recruiting new female faculty hires, job satisfaction, baseline indicators, and opinions on existing programs.
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