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Family Perspectives on a Successful Transition to Adulthood for Individuals with Disabilities
(2013-10-15)
When researchers evaluate adult outcomes for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (ID/DD), the perspective of families is not always considered. Parents of individuals with ID/DD (n=198) answered ...
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 ...
Disordered Eating, Coping, and Perfectionism in a College Sample
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-03)
Perfectionistic tendencies and coping strategies have been implicated as important factors in both the onset and maintenance of eating disorders but have not been widely researched in conjunction with each other. Given the ...
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 ...
Similarity between Parent’s and Children’s Coping with Childhood Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-02)
The current study will examine the degree of similarity in ways of coping in a sample of children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents. There is a relationship between mother’s coping and children’s coping, which ...
Effects of Dopamine on Reward Learning in Parkinson’s Patients with Impulse Control Disorders
(Vanderbilt University, 2013)
This study investigated how dopamine agonist medication differentially affects reward learning in Parkinson’s patients with and without Impulse Control Disorders (ICDs). We tested 16 patients (8 female, 5 with ICDs, mean ...
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 ...
Peer Victimization and Its Adverse Effects on Self-Schema in Children and Adolescents
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-19)
Our current study builds on Beck’s cognitive model of depression by testing whether peer victimization gives rise to depressive schemas in children and adolescents. Specifically, we created a model stating that chronic ...
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 ...