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The Relation of Negative Life Events to Symptoms and Functioning in Adolescents and Young Adults with a Childhood History of Chronic Abdominal Pain
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
This paper looks at the effects of life stress on predicting health outcomes in chronic abdominal pain patients. It also looks at whether competence moderates the effects of life stress.
Parental Depression and Parenting Skills in the Context of a Preventive Intervention
(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
In a randomized clinical trial with families of parents with a history of major depressive disorder, changes in parenting and parental depressive symptoms were examined in relation to the effects of a family group cognitive ...
No Need For the Blindfold: The Influence of Perpetrator Attractiveness on Legal Decision-Making
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)
The idea that "justice is blind" has been called into question by some reports that attractiveness affects judgments of punishment and guilt. However, such studies are handicapped by a number of limitations, which this ...
Priming Emotion-Eliciting Appraisals through Music
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited as a result of a meaning analysis in which a person evaluates the implications of his or her circumstances for his or her personal well-being. This study tests the process ...
The Impact of Stress on Autonomic Functioning in Chronic Abdominal Pain Patients
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
This study examined the effect of social stress on chronic abdominal pain patients. Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) is a type of chronic pain common in children, experienced by 10-15 % of young children. Stress has been noted ...
Inferring Structural Properties of Objects from Intentional Gestures in Infancy
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
In this study, we were interested in what 9-month-olds understood about the physical properties of an object after seeing an intentional gesture made toward the object. Specifically, we asked whether infants could make ...
Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)
Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...
Blinking our Attention Backwards: The Dual-Direction Emotional Blink of Attention
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...
Acoustic Properties of Laughter in Individuals with Williams Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-28)
Prevention of Depression: A Social Information Processing Intervention
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)
Adolescent depression is a prevalent and recurrent problem associated with significant impairment. Although some treatments have been found to be effective in reducing depression in youth, early intervention and prevention ...