Scholarly Work - Psychology
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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. -
ADVANCE Project TRACS Charrette Posters 2016
(2016-04)These posters, presented on April 26, 2016, show data on recruiting new female faculty hires, job satisfaction, baseline indicators, and opinions on existing programs. -
A Multi-Million Dollar Opportunity: How Social Psychology Can ADVANCE the Participation of Women Faculty in STEM
(Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2014-08)NSF ADVANCE-IT grants are multimillion dollar, 5 year, cooperative agreements aimed at creating, sustaining, and studying ways to broaden the participation of women faculty in STEM. Social psychological science has much ...
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