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I have, therefore i love: status quo preference in mate choice
(Sage Publications, Inc., 2018)Decades of research indicate that individuals adhere to existing states (“status quo bias”) and value them more (“endowment effect”). The present work is the first to investigate status quo preference within the context ... -
The impact of psychosis genome-wide associated ZNF804A variation on verbal fluency connectivity
(Elsevier, 2018-03)Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) have high heritability. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ZNF804A as a significant risk gene for both illnesses. A validation of this finding at the brain ... -
Impressions based on a portrait predict, 1-month later, impressions following a live interaction
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2017)When it comes to person perception, does one “judge a book by its cover?” Perceivers made judgments of liking, and of personality, based on a photograph of an unknown other, and at least 1 month later, made judgments ... -
Improvements in unmarried African American Parents' rapport, communication, and problem ‐ solving following a prenatal coparenting intervention
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2015-12)Work on this project was supported by a grant from the Brady Education Foundation. We thank Mt. Zion Human Services and the Pinellas County Health Department for their partnership on this project; Mari Kittle, Jessica ... -
Incorporating family function into chronic pain disability: the role of catastrophizing
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Background: Observers' responses to pain are recently investigated to more comprehensively explain chronic pain (CP) and disability. However, the role of family context, defined as interference in roles, communication, and ... -
Integrating molecular genetics and evolutionary psychology: Sexual jealousy and the androgen receptor (AR) gene
(Elsevier, 2018)Integrating evolutionary psychological and molecular genetic research may increase our knowledge of the psychological correlates of specific genes, as well as enhance evolutionary psychology's ability to explain individual ... -
IQ, the urban environment, and their impact on future schizophrenia risk in men
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Exposure to an urban environment during early life and low IQ are 2 well-established risk factors for schizophrenia. It is not known, however, how these factors might relate to one another. Data were pooled from the North ... -
The language of play: developing preschool vocabulary through play following shared book-reading
(Elsevier, 2018)Two studies explored the role of play in a vocabulary intervention for low-income preschoolers. Both studies presented new vocabulary through book-readings. Study 1 children (N = 249; Mage = 59.19 months) were also randomly ... -
Lessons learned from experiencing Mavi At Café (Blue Horse Café) during Six years: A qualitative analysis of factors contributing to recovery from the perspective of Schizophrenia patients
(Turkish Association of Nervous and Mental Health, 2017)Objective: In recent years, the recovery-oriented approaches (along with experiences and thoughts of patients and patient's relatives) have been taken into account for establishing mental health services and policies. This ... -
Longitudinal analyses of expressive language development reveal two distinct language profiles among young children with autism spectrum disorders
(Springer New York LLC, 2014)Although children with Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show significant variation in language skills, research on what type(s) of language profiles they demonstrate has been limited. Using growth-curve analyses, we ... -
Lumbar curvature: a previously undiscovered standard of attractiveness
(Elsevier, 2015)This paper reports independent studies supporting the proposal that human standards of attractiveness reflect the output of psychological adaptations to detect fitness-relevant traits. We tested novel a priori hypotheses ... -
Making the case for playful learning
(Springer, 2018)Play is one of the natural strengths of childhood through which children acquire and also practice critical language, cognitive, and socio-cognitive abilities. This long-standing belief has widely shaped curriculum in early ... -
Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), aging, neuroscience, and their association with aging-related diseases
(Elsevier Inc., 2016)Normal aging is accompanied by cognitive impairment with subtle cellular and molecular changes in the brain, whereas, pathological brain aging manifests as severe behavioral impairments with cellular pathology. Understanding ... -
Market entry decisions: effects of absolute and relative confidence
(Hogrefe Publishing, 2008)In a market entry game, the number of entrants usually approaches game-theoretic equilibrium quickly, but in real-world markets business start-ups typically exceed market capacity, resulting in chronically high failure ... -
Mating strategy, disgust, and food neophobia
(Elsevier, 2015)Food neophobia and disgust are commonly thought to be linked, but this hypothesis is typically implicitly assumed rather than directly tested. Evidence for the connection has been based on conceptually and empirically ... -
Mixed signals: the effect of conflicting reward and goal-driven biases on selective attention
(Springer New York LLC, 2017)Attentional selection depends on the interaction between exogenous (stimulus-driven), endogenous (goal-driven), and selection history (experience-driven) factors. While endogenous and exogenous biases have been widely ... -
Narrative performance, peer group culture, and narrative development in a preschool classroom
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)Introduction This chapter uses the analysis of a preschool storytelling and story-acting practice to explore some of the ways that peer-oriented symbolic activities and peer group culture can serve as valuable contexts for ... -
Negative social comparisons and psychosis proneness in a healthy adolescent population
(Elsevier Masson, 2017)There is growing evidence of an association between negative social comparisons (NSC) and both psychosis, and psychosis proneness. The majority of the work thus far, however, has focused largely on one type of NSC, namely, ... -
Neural correlates of acquired color category effects
(2012)Category training can induce category effects, whereby color discrimination of stimuli spanning a newly learned category boundary is enhanced relative to equivalently spaced stimuli from within the newly learned category ... -
Novel object recognition is not affected by age despite age-related brain changes
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2013)Age-related memory impairments show a progressive decline across lifespan. Studies have demonstrated equivocal results in biological and behavioral outcomes of aging. Thus, in the present study we examined the novel object ...
