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Title: A framework for the use of wearables to enable study of stress
Author: Kanchinadam, Teja Simha
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Stress is a common condition that has major health impacts. Even though short-term stress helps people to react to danger immediately, chronic stress has larger health impacts such as early aging, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression. In...

Title: Brand Wonder
Author: Lee, Michael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Marketing, Industrial management
Description: Affect is a critical construct in marketing, particularly within the area of branding. Despite the extensive body of research on affect in marketing, there appears to be a substantial and surprising gap in the literature as it relates to one type ...

Title: Correlates, Predictors, and Consequences of Family Weight Talk among School-Aged Children
Author: Gadaire, Cecily
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Parents play a key role in the establishment of health habits among children, and as many as 60% of parents report talking regularly with their child about health and weight (Lydecker et al., 2018). This health and weight related discourse, known ...

Title: Deep Natural Language Generation Using BERT for Summarization
Author: Choudhury, Sourav
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Summarization is one of the core facets of Natural Language Processing. Text summarization is the task of producing a concise and fluent summary while holding the most essential or salient part of the content and preserving the original meaning. T...

Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...

Title: Leveraging Visual Analytics for Modeling Online User Behavior on Social Media
Author: ElTayeby, Omar
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Analysts and domain experts in various fields rely on collecting data about their subjects to understand and predict their behavior. Characterizing and modeling human behavior requires analyzing extensive amounts of data from heterogeneous sources...

Title: Moral Judgments on Health Motivated Transgressions: The Interplay of Moral Foundations, Empathy, and Political Identity.
Author: Fulton, Marviene
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific guidelines were rejected by many conservatives in the U.S. This polarization could have contributed to conservative counties’ higher mortality rates. Given the potential for political ideology to influence ...

Title: PARENT READINESS TO CHANGE CHILD WEIGHT BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE MODELS AND PERCEPTION OF RISK
Author: Basquin, Cecily
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Background: Parents play a key role in shaping their child’s healthy weight behavior, yet even child weight interventions that incorporate parents can have limited success due to low participation, low completion rates, and poor program compliance...

Title: Reappraisal and Health: An Investigation into Reappraisal Ability and Stressful Life Events as the Missing Links
Author: Roos, Lydia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Inadequate emotion regulation may underlie the development of psychopathology as well as worsened physical health, particularly in the context of stress. Cognitive reappraisal is typically considered an adaptive strategy to manage negative emotion...

Title: The Relationship Between Self-Verification and Emotion Regulation
Author: Glass, Shaina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Self-verification is a form of confirmation bias in which people seek feedback that is consistent with existing self-views, and which is believed to be a factor in the persistence of affective disorders. While prior research shows that cognitive b...

Title: Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Uncertainty and Emotional Content on Users' Decision-making About Misinformation
Author: Karduni, Alireza
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Cognitive psychology
Description: Misinformation on social media is a phenomenon with considerable impacts on our societies. To effectively mitigate its effects, we need to employ a cross-disciplinary effort to holistically address the critical elements involved in the process, in...

Title: Using metacognitive guidance to facilitate “active learning” in ADHD
Author: Padro, Meagan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Modern education, at all levels, is shifting to active learning techniques. Active learning requires students to engage in meaningful learning activities and continuously monitor what they are doing. Research on active learning techniques in the c...

Title: Working Memory and Emotion Processing Contributions to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Author: Cook, Mary
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a "persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development," according to the DSM-5, and i...