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Association of racism and substance use treatment with belief in the myth of an American Indian/Alaska Native biological vulnerability to alcohol problems
(American Psychological Association, 2023-06)Objectives: Belief in an American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) specific biological vulnerability (BV) to alcohol problems is associated with worse alcohol outcomes among AIANs. Despite a notable lack of evidence that ... -
A longitudinal assessment of variability in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and psychosocial correlates in a national United States sample
(Elsevier BV, 2023-02)Recent evidence suggests that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is not static. In order to develop effective vaccine uptake interventions, we need to understand the extent to which vaccine hesitancy fluctuates and identify factors ... -
Development and Feasibility Pilot Study of Indigenous Recovery Planning: A Community-Engaged Approach to Addressing Substance Use in a Native Community
(SAGE Publications, 2023-02)Although Native (American Indian [AI] and Alaska Native [AN]) populations have high rates of abstinence from alcohol, health problems associated with substance use remain a pressing concern in many AI/AN communities. As ... -
Infant negativity moderates trajectories of maternal emotion across pregnancy and the peripartum period
(Elsevier BV, 2023-01)Background. Although the effects of maternal behavior on the development of child emotion characteristics is relatively well-established, effects of infant characteristics on maternal emotion development are less well ... -
Once established, goal reminders provide long-lasting and cumulative benefits for lower working memory capacity individuals.
(American Psychological Association, 2022-12)Previous research has shown that Stroop effects interact with working memory capacity (WMC) more strongly with lists of mostly congruent items. Although the predominant explanation for this relationship is goal maintenance, ... -
A Phenomenological Divide: Reference Group Consequences for Existential Isolation
(SAGE Publications, 2022-10)An apparent phenomenological divide between majority and minoritized groups exists in contemporary America in terms of feelings of social connection. Drawing on recent findings relating to existential isolation (i.e., the ... -
Childhood Trauma and Cortisol Reactivity: An Investigation of the Role of Task Appraisals
(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-04)Background: Childhood adversity is linked to adverse health in adulthood. One posited mechanistic pathway is through physiological responses to acute stress. Childhood adversity has been previously related to both exaggerated ... -
Is disgust proneness prospectively associated with influenza vaccine hesitancy and uptake?
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-05)Although various demographic and psychosocial factors have been identified as correlates of influenza vaccine hesitancy, factors that promote infectious disease avoidance, such as disgust proneness, have been rarely examined. ... -
COVID-19 and food insecurity in the Blackfeet Tribal Community
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-05)To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity in the Blackfeet American Indian Tribal Community. American Indian adults residing on the Blackfeet reservation in Northwest Montana (n = 167) participated ... -
Patience is a virtue: Individual differences in cue-evoked pupil responses under temporal certainty
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-04)Attention control is often examined behaviorally by measuring task performance and self-reported mind wandering. However, recent studies have also used pupillometry to measure task engagement versus task disengagement/mind ... -
Does collaboration help or hurt recall? The answer depends on working memory capacity.
(American Psychological Association, 2022-08)Collaborative inhibition (reduced recall in collaborative versus nominal, or individual, groups) is a robust phenomenon. However, it is possible that not everyone is as susceptible to collaborative inhibition, such as those ... -
Once established, goal reminders provide long-lasting and cumulative benefits for lower working memory capacity individuals.
(American Psychological Association, 2022-10)Previous research has shown that Stroop effects interact with working memory capacity (WMC) more strongly with lists of mostly congruent items. Although the predominant explanation for this relationship is goal maintenance, ... -
Providing goal reminders eliminates the relationship between working memory capacity and Stroop errors
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11)Previous research has shown that list-wide effects in the Stroop task interact with working memory capacity (WMC). The predominant explanation for this relationship is goal maintenance. However, some researchers have ... -
The Differential Impact of Mystery in Nature on Attention: An Oculometric Study
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-12)Nature exposure can provide benefits on stress, health and cognitive performance. According to Attention Restoration Theory (ART), the positive impact of nature on cognition is mainly driven by fascination. Fascinating ... -
Belief in the myth of an American Indian/Alaska Native biological vulnerability to alcohol problems among reservation‐dwelling participants with a substance use problem
(Wiley, 2021-11)Belief in the myth of an American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) specific biological vulnerability (BV) to alcohol problems is associated with worse alcohol outcomes among AIAN college students who drink, despite also being ... -
Determinants of Relapse and Opportunities for Growth: Perspectives on Substance Use among American Indian Community Members
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-10)esulting from generations of historical oppression and systemic racism, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities experience serious health disparities associated with substance use disorders (SUDs). As part ... -
Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context
(Wiley, 2022-03)Politics entails personal costs and benefits, which may differ for youth from different sociocultural backgrounds. The at-stake hypothesis proposes that politically marginalized youth experience greater costs (e.g., stress, ... -
Physical Time Within Human Time
(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-03)A possible solution is offered to help resolve the “two times problem” regarding the veridical and illusory nature of time. First it is recognized that the flow (passage) of time is part of a wider array of temporal ... -
Conducting Event-Related Potential (ERP) Research With Young Children: A Review of Components, Special Considerations, and Recommendations for Research on Cognition and Emotion
(Hogrefe Publishing Group, 2020-07)Abstract. There has been an unprecedented increase in the number of research studies employing event-related potential (ERP) techniques to examine dynamic and rapidly occurring neural processes with children during the ... -
Associations Between Childhood Abuse and COVID-19 Hyperarousal in Adulthood: The Role of Social Environment
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-02)Background: Childhood abuse increases risk for high levels of distress in response to future stressors. Interpersonal social support is protective for health, particularly during stress, and may be particularly beneficial ...
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