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Evaluation of a Measure of Parent Behavior: An Item Response Theory Approach to Dimensionality and Informant Agreement
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-25)
The Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory is a widely used three-dimensional psychometric measure to assess parenting behaviors as reported by children and parents. Parent-child dyads tend to report discrepant ...
Relations Among Positive Emotions, Appraisals, the Big Five, and Appraisal Style
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-20)
The associations among positive emotions and different personality factors may hold a key to understanding individual differences in emotional experience. The present research sought to examine individual differences by ...
Acoustic Parameters of Speech and Attitudes Towards Speech in Childhood Stuttering: Predicting Persistence and Recovery
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04)
The relations between the acoustic parameters of jitter and fundamental frequency and children’s experience with stuttering were explored. Sixty-five children belonging to four talker groups will be studied. Children were ...
Social Brains, Social Bodies: Investigating the Role of Personality in Embodied Emotion
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-07)
Accurate emotion perception is essential for adaptive social functioning. Abnormal emotion perception and associated social impairments are core features of neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. ...
Gender Differences in Dispositional Attributes, Psychological Adjustments, and Appraisals
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)
There is currently a significant amount of research being conducted to pinpoint differences between men and women and they way they think, emote, and experience life. While the current literature has uncovered significant ...
The Effects of Priming on Reaction Times, Confidence Rating Measures, and Accuracy
(Vanderbilt University, 2016)
This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
Infants' Anticipations and Grasps of Familiar and Unfamiliar Tools
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)
Infants must learn how to use many tools in order to engage in a variety of daily tasks. An
unpublished pilot study in our lab suggests that 6.5 to 8.5-month-old infants fixated more on the handle of a familiar tool than ...
Child and Parental Factors Affecting Coping Strategies and Psychosocial Outcomes for Parents with Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare, genetic neurodevelopmental disability characterized by hyperphagia, mood swings and intellectual disability. Families with a child with PWS often experience increased family tensions ...
Effect of Discrete Emotions on Eyewitness Memory and Helping Behavior
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)
Many studies have shown that how we are feeling effects what we remember. However, few have addressed how specific, discrete emotions (happiness, fear, disgust, etc.) effect memory. This project examined the effect of ...
The Effects of Realistic and Unrealistic Optimism on Performance and Coping
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-26)
Historically, optimism has been studied as a dichotomous variable. However, research has found that there are two types of optimists: cautious/realistic and unrealistic/cockeyed. A cautious/realistic optimist is defined ...