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Title: Age-Related Differences in Cognitive Control: An ERP Study of Internally Directed Attention
Author: Nelson, Monica
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Attention and working memory are two cognitive abilities that have been the target of research to determine whether they are independent (Baddeley, 2003) or related constructs (Kiyonaga & Egner, 2013). Modifying traditional attention tasks to inco...

Title: An exploration of the intra- and interpersonal pathways linking interpersonal goals to weight management goal pursuit
Author: Hilaire, Nicole
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Using Pietromonaco and colleagues’ (2013) model as a guiding framework, I designed an empirically testable model that integrates theory and constructs from relationship science, affective science, and health psychology to explore the impact of soc...

Title: Cyber Victimization and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Emerging Adults
Author: McComas, Megan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Clinical psychology, Developmental psychology
Description: Experiences of cyber aggression victimization in emerging adulthood have been shown to be associated with host of negative psychological health concerns (i.e., depression, anxiety, loneliness, substance use, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts)...

Title: Determining Children’s ‘Best Interests’ in High-conflict Custody Cases: Examining Program Processes in Custody Advocacy
Author: Salim, Khalil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In recent years, family courts have made increasing use of advisors and/or advocates (e.g., forensic psychologists, social workers, best interest attorneys, guardian ad litems, etc.) in determining outcomes in child custody disputes. Evidence sugg...

Title: EVALUATING A PRENATAL, BREASTFEEDING EDUCATIONAL VIDEO’S INFLUENCE ON PROTECTIVE RESOURCES, PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, AND BREASTFEEDING OUTCOMES
Author: Godly-Reynolds, Erin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational evaluation, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Barring major medical conditions (e.g., HIV), breastfeeding is widely recognized as the healthiest feeding option for babies. In the United States, approximately three out of every four mothers initiate breastfeeding; however, less than one in fiv...

Title: Exploring the Role of Binge Eating and Psychological Correlates in the Context of Excess Gestational Weight Gain
Author: Palmer, Brooke
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Women’s health behaviors during pregnancy have long-lasting effects for both mother and child. One common consequence of health-compromising behaviors is excess gestational weight gain (GWG), or gaining more weight than recommended by the Institut...

Title: ONLINE MINDFULNESS INTERVENTION FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS: ADHERENCE AND EFFICACY
Author: Forbes, Leila
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Social sciences
Description: The impact of stress and other psychological variables on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) prognosis, treatment response, and functional level is well established. However, typical IBD treatment focuses on the physiological pathology of the diseas...

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: Scaffolding Reflective Practice with an Ecology of Data-Driven Reflection Support Tools
Author: MacNeil, Stephen
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Education, Psychology
Description: Reflection is a process of converting experience into understanding. Through the process of reflection, students actively engage in sense-making around an experience; situating it within their existing experiences, beliefs, and knowledge. Though m...

Title: Stress, burnout, and work-family conflict among police officers: The moderating effect of emotion regulation strategies
Author: Toth, Allison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Police officers have an incredibly stressful and emotionally laborious job, which can lead to burnout and issues with their work on the clock spilling over and influencing their time with their family off the clock (i.e. work-family conflict). Due...

Title: THE ROLE OF SYMBOL CLOSURE IN VISUAL ENCODING: FROM PERCEPTION TO VISUAL ANALYSIS OF SYNTHETIC AND REAL-WORLD DATA
Author: Burlinson, David
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology
Description: Symbols and shapes are commonly employed to represent data in visualizations such as scatterplots. Practitioners, scientists, and automated visualization tools are reliant on empirical analyses of visual encoding strategies, taking into account th...

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: WHEN SITUATIONS ACTIVATE MORE THAN ONE TRAIT CONCURRENTLY: A STUDY OF NEUROTICISM AND CONSCIENTIOUSNESS IN EVALUATIVE AND NON-EVALUATIVE SITUATIONS
Author: Davidson, Amber
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Personality
Description: Most scholars have come to believe behavior is determined by an interaction of personality traits and situations. Trait activation theory (Tett & Guterman, 2000) and Fleeson’s (2001, 2007) conceptualization of the trait-situation interaction both ...

Title: Who’s there? Boundaries, entitativity, and copresence in an online discussion forum
Author: Ernst, Brittany
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In this study, social presence theory is proposed as an explanation for the relationship between permeability of boundaries and entitativity in online groups. This claim is tested in an experiment in which group boundaries are manipulated in a fic...