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Implicit measurement of challenge and threat as motivational responses to stereotype threat

O'Mally, Jamie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Stereotype threat occurs when people identify with a stigmatized group and experience depressed performance on a task because they become anxious in their desire to disprove a negative stereotype (Steele, 1997). Recent ...
Improving executive function development: fantasy-oriented pretend-play as a protective factor

Thibodeau, Rachel Beth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Recent research suggests certain abilities (i.e., emotion regulation, appropriate physiological reactivity, executive functions) support the development of school readiness skills, especially among children in low-income ...
Increased DLPFC Activity During Moral Decision-Making in Psychology

Glenn, Andrea; Raine, Adrian; Schug, Robert A.; Young, Liane; Hauser, Marc (2009)
Increased Volume of the Striatum in Psychopathic Individuals

Glenn, Andrea; Raine, Adrian; Yaralian, Pauline S.; Yang, Yaling (2010)

Background: The corpus striatum, comprised of the caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus, plays an important role in reward processing and may be involved in the pathophysiology of antisocial behavior. Few studies have ...
Individual differences in personality and face recognition ability

Worley, McKensie Martin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Differences in face recognition between extraverts and introverts as well as emotionally negative and emotionally positive individuals were investigated. Personality was measured through the administration of the Big Five ...
Insomnia and suicide risk

Woosley, Julie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

A growing body of literature supports the notion that sleep disturbances, including insomnia, are related to suicidality. However, the mechanism through which insomnia correlates with suicide risk is unclear. The primary ...
Insomnia Identity

Lichstein, Kenneth L. (2017-10)

Insomnia identity refers to the conviction that one has insomnia, and this sleep complaint can be measured independently of sleep. Conventional wisdom predicts that sleep complaints are synchronous with poor sleep, but ...
The Interaction of Locus of Control of Reinforcement and Frustration Effect

Serum, Camelia Sue (University of Alabama Libraries, 1972)

According to Amsel's theory of frustrative nonreward (Amsel, 1958), the frustration effect (FE) is manifested in more highly motivated behavior immediately subsequent to nonreward of a previously rewarded response. Moreover, ...
Interplay of social anxiety, self-esteem contingency, and parental psychological control in early adolescents' friendship jealousy

Kim, Hwaheun (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Friendships provide children and adolescents with support and various developmental opportunities. Research suggests that some individuals have atypically high jealousy over friends. Unwarranted jealousy may decrease the ...
Investigating Prosecutorial Tunnel Vision: an Examination of Confirmation Bias in Prosecutors' Evaluations of Criminal Case Evidence

Lind, Hannah (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

Prosecutorial “tunnel vision” is an area of interest in the U.S. criminal justice system that is gaining increased attention as more and more wrongful convictions are brought to light. Legal scholars have raised concerns ...
Investigating the effectiveness of safety day boosters in reducing soda consumption among rural youth: an application of the theory of planned behavior

Murphy, Shannon (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

The current project had two main objectives. The first objective was to test the impact of a set of five supplemental boosters that were sent to children’s homes after participation in a Progressive Agriculture Safety Day®. ...
Investigating the relationship between alcohol cue reactivity and approach motivation

Ryerson, Nicole Claudette (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Alcohol cue reactivity (ACR) is a critical component within many models of alcohol use and abuse. ACR can be conceptually defined as the physiological and subjective reactions that occur in response to alcohol related ...
Investigating the relationship between technology and spatial memory

Mendoza, Jessica (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

A vast majority of the literature on technology usage has found evidence that when individuals rely heavily on technology usage there is a cost to cognitive processes in the areas of attention, learning, and memory (Sparrow, ...
Investigating the role of fearless temperament and parenting practices in callous-unemotional traits in middle childhood

Dede, Breanna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Callous unemotional traits (CU traits) are a risk factor for youth misconduct, yet, questions remain regarding their etiology, as well as other dimensions of psychopathy, namely impulsivity/sensation-seeking (INS) and ...
Is It Wrong to Criminalize and Punish Psychopaths?

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 ...
Isolation: the optimum environment for creativity? the relationship between the experience of ostracism and creativity

Minney, Jessica Ann (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

Creativity is a social construct affected by personality, intelligence, motivation, historical context, and environment, among other variables. Ostracism is a form of social rejection that has been shown to negatively ...
It's bad for business: the association between psychopathic traits and immoral decision-making in the workplace

Kopkin, Megan R. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Stories of corporate scandal have garnered significant media attention in recent years. Tales of embezzlement, fraud, and other immoral workplace behaviors plastered news headlines, and society demanded answers. One proposed ...
Judicial decision making in atkins cases: examining the influence of psychological reports and judicial attitudes

Hedge, Krystal (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

The impact of psychological assessment report style (i.e., deficit- versus strength-based reports), report content (e.g., claimant educational background, details of the instant offense, prison behavior), and judicial ...
Judicial reliance on extra-clinical factors in atkins determinations: beyond clinical definitions and data

Hedge, Krystal Anne (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

The influence of extra-clinical factors on "successful" and "unsuccessful" Atkins cases were examined. Sixty-two judicial opinions were included in this study, 31 successful and 31 unsuccessful cases. Extra-clinical factors ...
Juror perceptions in sexual orientation-based hate crimes

Gorter, Erin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

The present study sought to investigate how victim sexual orientation and homonegativity influence the relationship between severity of crime and assignment of punishment to the perpetrator of a sexual orientation-based ...

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