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Environment and Healthy Eating Behavior
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
Obesity is a serious disease that affects approximately 24 percent of the population in the United States. With obesity trends continually on the rise, it is important to identify and address the potential factors causing ...
Facial Emotion Recognition and Processing in Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
Psychopathy has been shown to be associated with deficits in recognizing and processing emotion. We used a face recognition task in which 86 participants screened in the Vanderbilt emergency room viewed faces of men and ...
Appraisal in Positive Emotion: Differentiation Between Hope and Challenge/Determination
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-08)
The object of this study was to test individual differentiation between the emotions Hope and Challenge/Determination in terms of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components. The former emotion requires a more ...
Social Trait Judgment and Affect Recognition from Static Faces and Video Vignettes in Schizophrenia
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-05)
Previous research has shown impairment in affect recognition in individuals with schizophrenia. Poor affect recognition has been associated with more severe clinical symptoms and poor social functioning. The current body ...
The effect of weight distribution and previous experience on tool use training in infancy
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
Many different factors play a role in the development of an infant’s ability to use tools. A previous version of the current study examined active versus observational learning on an infant’s ability to be trained to use ...
A Prospective Examination of Neurocognitive Functioning in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
Deficits in neurocognitive functioning are the most commonly reported adverse late effect in children diagnosed with brain tumors. However, few studies have examined this decline in functioning prospectively. The aim of ...
Caretaking Behaviors and Stress Reactivity in Adolescents of Depressed Parents
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-05-02)
The mechanisms of stress responses “fight or flight” and “tend and befriend” were used to define the stress response to parental depression. In a sample of 180 families of parents with a history of major depressive disorder, ...
The Buffering Effects of Positive Emotions Against Stress
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
Perception of Affective Musical Elements and the Relation to Delusions in Schizophrenia
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-22)
Using prosodic, facial, and musical stimuli, this study probed the extent of emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenic patients. Difficulties in the perception of emotional material have been well documented in the ...
Preschoolers use nonverbal cues to identify reliable informants in word learning
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
The present study investigates 4-year-old children’s ability to use speakers’ pragmatic competence as an indicator of whom to learn from. In this study, pragmatic competence is measured as the speaker’s ability to adhere ...