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Can Healthy Be Tasty? The Relationship between Food Perception and Food Consumption
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-18)
Objective: To explore adults’ association between food perception and frequency of food consumption.
Subjects: Thirty-nine male and 157 female undergraduate students (aged 18-22) of predominantly Caucasian ethnicity from ...
Positive and Negative Affect in Children of Depressed vs. Nondepressed Mothers
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-16)
Children of depressed mothers are at a higher risk of developing depression in their lifetime compared to children of nondepressed mothers. Based on the tripartite model of depression and anxiety, low positive affect is ...
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 ...
Emotion regulation of fear and disgust: Implications for anxiety disorders
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)
Although the emotion of fear has been central to traditional conceptualizations of the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, recent research suggests that the emotion of disgust may also play an important role ...
Social Anxiety as a Moderator in the Relationship between Social Emotional Fluency and Eye Gaze
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)
Emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity have been identified as key individual-difference abilities that are important for optimal social functioning. Social emotional fluency (SEF) is proposed as a behavioral ...
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. ...
Latent Class Moderated Mediation in Structural Equation Models: Applications and Limitations
(Vanderbilt University, 2015)
Latent class moderated mediation in structural equation models can describe individual differences in psychological processes across latent groups. This method could be most useful where two latent classes have indirect ...
Comparing the Performance Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Measures in Toddlers
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-05-15)
The current study represents a preliminary investigation of a new screening measure, the
Vanderbilt Scales for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This measure’s psychometric
performance in toddlers referred for developmental ...
Differences in How Monolingual and Bilingual Children Learn Second Labels for Familiar Objects
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
Monolingual children resist learning second labels for familiar objects (e.g., a boat can be called a skiff), because they adhere to mutual exclusivity, the principle that an object has one name. It is less clear whether ...
Acoustic properties of speech under stress in preschool children who do and do not stutter
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)
Previous research has shown that stuttering, a potentially life-altering developmental disorder with typical onset during the preschool years, is linked in severity to temperamental and situational emotionality. Thirty-three ...