We examine how embodiment in biological activity is different from conceptual embodiment as reflected in classic, modern, and postmodern perspectives on tacit knowledge. The central theme of the essay is how understanding ...
Raymond, David R.; Paneto, Adrian; Yoder, Karmen K.; O'Donnell, Brian F.; Brown, Joshua W.; Hetrick, William P.; Newman, Sharlene D.(2020)
With the increase in use of cannabis and its shifting legal status in the United States, cannabis use has become an important research focus. While studies of other drug populations have shown marked increases in risky ...
This study examined prospective mediating relations among mother-adolescent attachment security, self-worth, and risk behaviors, including substance use and violence, across ages 13–17 in a sample of 901 low-income African ...
Previous studies have indicated that adolescents are more likely to prioritize popularity goals over other values such as maintaining friendships and academics, and popularity goals are associated with adolescents’ relational ...
Peck, Ashley(University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)
Standardized test administration is key to a test’s validity, but often thwarted in correctional environments when policy or staff require that examinees wear restraints. Restraints such as handcuffs may impact participants’ ...
Loup, Julia(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Rural-dwelling, informal, veteran dementia caregiving dyads (a veteran diagnosed with dementia (PWD) and their caregiver) make up a population with unique needs compared to their non-caregiving or urban caregiver counterparts. ...
Eberhardt, Kenda(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Close relationships are essential for feelings of security, which in turn allow humans tophysiologically down regulate and fall asleep and stay asleep. Parents and adolescents likely jointly generate a sense of interpersonal ...
Chronic pain is a major public health problem. Increased healthcare utilization by individuals with pain puts enormous burden on financial and health resources. There is extremely limited understanding of psychosocial ...
With the increasing popularity in the use of brain imaging on antisocial individuals, An increasing number of brain imaging studies have revealed structural and functional impairments in antisocial, psychopathic, and violent ...
The goal of this study was to examine how individual differences in physiological arousal and reactivity moderated the relation between peer victimization and reactive and proactive aggression. Participants were 58 adolescents ...
Lying is one of the characteristic features of psychopathy, and has been recognized in clinical and diagnostic descriptions of the disorder, yet individuals with psychopathic traits have been found to have reduced neural ...
Psychopathy is a disorder that occurs primarily in males. Offenders with psychopathic traits are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime in society, particularly violent crime. Early childhood is a time when ...
Violence is increasingly viewed as a world public health problem. A growing body of knowledge shows that there is a neurobiological basis to violence, and this has intensified judicial interest in the potential application ...
Functional imaging studies of psychopathy have demonstrated reduced activity in the anterior cingulate, yet it is unclear whether this region is structurally impaired. In this study, we used structural MRI to examine whether ...
Coping Power is an evidence-based preventive intervention for youth with aggressive behavior problems that has traditionally been delivered in small group formats, but because of concerns about potentially diminished effects ...
A growing body of evidence suggests that biological factors such as genes, hormone levels, brain structure, and brain functioning influence the development and trajectory of conduct problems in youth. In addition, biological ...
Psychopathy represents a unique set of personality traits including deceitfulness, lack of empathy and guilt, impulsiveness, and antisocial behavior. Most often in the literature, psychopathy is described as pathology – a ...
Glenn, Andrea; Riane, Adrian; Laufer, William S.(2011)
Increasing evidence from psychology and neuroscience suggests that emotion plays an important and sometimes critical role in moral judgment and moral behavior. At the same time, there is increasing psychological and ...
We provide an overview of the neurobiological underpinnings of psychopathy. Cognitive and affective–emotional
processing deficits are associated with abnormal brain structure and function, particularly the amygdala and ...