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Changes in Motor Performance When Throwing a Ball With and Without Visual Feedback
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-01)
This study explored the roles that vision and proprioception play in learning while throw a ball repeatedly to a fixed location. In two experiments, participants threw a baseball to a target 12 meters away while wearing ...
Mismatched Tool: Determining the Properties by which Infants Categorize a Tool as “Spoon”
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-08)
In a study of infant tool use, Barrett, Davis, and Needham (2007) found that previous experience with spoons prevented infants from utilizing an unusual grasp of a teaspoon to complete a novel task. Infants were, however, ...
Prehension Enrichment Experience Facilitates Motor and Perceptual-Cognitive Development in Early Infancy
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-09)
Infants received a prehension enrichment experience (active training), which allowed pre-reaching infants to gain experience with prehension before they would normally begin such behaviors. During the prehension enrichment ...
Sex Differences in Positive Emotions within Appraisal Theory
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-29)
The psychological study of positive emotions is a relatively new and underdeveloped area
of inquiry. This study examines sex differences in the understanding, experience, and expression of positive emotions. Our participants ...
The Relation Between Family Resources, Child Severity and Parenting Stress in Parents Raising Young Children With Autism
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
This study examined the extent to which child severity and family resources are related to parenting stress in parents of 26 young children with autism. Bivariate correlations between family resources, autism severity, ...
Obesity and Mental Health in Adolescents
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
The study examined the relationship between obesity and depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse in adolescents using data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Depression at baseline was ...
Self Esteem Instability – Scale Development and Relations to Appraisal and Dispositional Constructs
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
Past literature indicates that self-esteem may not be a stable entity for all individuals, and there may be some individuals for whom their self-esteem varies across contexts. Research has shown that further exploring the ...
Importance of Time and Place in the US Obesity Epidemic
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
Positive Emotions’ Effect on Buffering and Creativity: An Experimental Design
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-07)
Extending beyond the Undoing Hypothesis and the Broaden-and-Build theory, this experimental
design tested whether participants induced with a positive emotion would respond less, using
self-report measures, to a mild ...
A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis on the Likelihood of Overeating and Unplanned Eating
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)
This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...