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Emotional Psychophysiological Responses during Self-Referential and Persuasive Talks
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Previous studies of individuals performing public speech tasks have not included a broad array of speech conditions or employed psychophysiological measures of a broad range of emotional states. In this study, we asked one ...
The Effects of Safety Behaviors on Health Anxiety: Conceptualizing Hypochondriasis as an Anxiety Disorder
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
Research in the anxiety disorders has shown that safety behaviors function to maintain pathological anxiety by preventing the disconfirmation of inaccurate threat beliefs. The present study examined if such safety behaviors ...
Correlates of a Crisis in Children's Psychotherapy in Usual Care
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)
The purpose of the study was to examine crises that occur in Treatment as Usual. A children's mental health group was examined in order to explore the correlates of a crisis session. N=7267 sessions, N=629 clients, and ...
Parent-child interactions of depressed and nondepressed mothers and fathers
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
This study examined depressed (N=20) and non-depressed (N=20) mothers and fathers interacting with their children ages 7-17 (Mean = 12.03; SD = 2.21). The sample consisted of 13 mother-daughter pairs, 7 mother-son pairs, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Family Involvement and Cultural Sensitivity: A School's Response to a Changing Demographic
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)
While encouraging parents who are not native English speakers to support their children's learning can be challenging for schools, there are strategies schools can implement to increase involvement for all parent groups. ...
The Significance of Gender, Context, and Contingent Self-Esteem on Feelings of Schadenfreude
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-13)
Schadenfreude, which loosely translates to "taking pleasure in the misery of others," has been found in previous research to result from situations in which an individual of the same sex as the subject is to blame for ...
Eliciting Seven Discrete Positive Emotions Using Film Stimuli
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
Successful, efficacious, and reliable mood induction procedures are an important part of emotion research. Film clips have already been shown to reliably induce discrete negative emotional states, as well as general positive ...
Effects of Treatment on Neurocognitive and Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Brain Tumor Survivors
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-28)
Research on the cognitive and psychosocial effects of treatment for childhood brain tumors has consistently found deficits in these areas. However, the connections between these deficits, as well as their biological basis, ...