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Testing category-specific spatial frequency adaptation
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
This study examined representational overlap between faces and scenes by means of spatial frequency adaptation. The results show that adaptation to faces and scenes in either low or high spatial frequencies affect the ...
The Effect of Encouragement on Defensive Pessimism as an Anxiety Amplifier
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
The past literature indicates that performance is disrupted for defensive pessimists by encouragement. The goals of this research were to replicate this phenomenon, and then examine the mechanisms underlying it. Specifically, ...
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 ...
Relation of Chronicity, Severity and Number of Episodes of Maternal Major Depressive Disorder to Children's Psychopathology and Functioning in Grade 12
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
The relations between chronicity, severity, and number of episodes of maternal major depressive disorder (MDD) and child outcomes at grade 12 were examined in a sample of 185 mothers and children. Main effects models ...
Parental Warmth and Hostility in Parent-Child Interactions in Families of Depressed Parents
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of parental hostility and warmth on the children of depressed parents. The study includes parents with a history of Major Depressive Disorder and their children as ...
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 acoustics of children's laughter
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
Laughter is a unique sound--one that most of us produce many times each day. Despite laughter's seeming ubiquity, though, we really do not know much about this vocalization's psychological function(s) or details about its ...
Parents and Children Coping with Pediatric Cancer: Associations Between Parent and Child Anxiety, and Parent-Child Communication
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)
Questionnaire and observational measures were used to examine psychological anxiety in mothers of children coping with pediatric cancer and its association with child anxiety and mother-child communication. Ninety-seven ...
Attentional Effects of Processing Emotional Faces Using Continuous Flash Suppression
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...
The Relation Between Early Joint Attention Responding and Later Theory of Mind in Younger Siblings of Children with Autism
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-05)
A link between early responding to joint attention (RJA) and later theory of mind (ToM) has been found in typically developing children but has not been examined in children at risk for autism. RJA at age 12 months was ...