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The Academic Achievement of African American Students During Early Adolescence: An Examination of Multiple Risk, Promotive, and Protective Factors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
This study examined the effects of multiple risk, promotive, and protective factors on three achievement-related measures (i.e., grade point average, number of absences, and math achievement test scores) for African American ...
Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-08)
What's in a Name? How Different Languages Result in Different Brains in English and Chinese Speakers.
(2010)
The linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that speakers of different languages perceive and conceptualize the world differently, but do their brains reflect these differences? In English, most nouns do not provide ...
Predicting long-term developmental outcomes from maternal perceptions of infant and toddler behavior
(Elsevier, 1989)
The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term developmental correlates of maternal perceptions of infant and toddler behavior. Maternal ratings of children's social behavior and developmental progress were obtained ...
Natural Mentors and Adolescent Resiliency: A Study with Urban Youth
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-04)
Natural mentors may play an important role in the lives of adolescents. We interviewed 770 adolescents from a large Midwestern city. Fifty-two percent reported having a natural mentor. Those with natural mentors were less ...
Common Consequence Conditions in Decision Making under Risk
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-04)
We generalize the Allais common consequence effect by describing three common consequence effect conditions and characterizing their implications for the probability weighting function in rank-dependent expected utility. ...
Longitudinal Links Between Spanking and Children’s Externalizing Behaviors in a National Sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American Families
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012-05)
Random effects diagonal metric multidimensional scaling models
(Springer-Verlag; The Psychometric Society, 2001-03)
By assuming a distribution for the subject weights in a diagonal metric (INDSCAL) multidimensional scaling model, the subject weights become random effects. Including random effects in multidimensional scaling models offers ...
Adolescent Resilience: Promotive Factors That Inform Prevention
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Routledge, 2013-12)
Resilience theory provides a framework for studying and understanding how some youths overcome risk exposure and guides the development of interventions for prevention using a strengths‐based approach. In this article, we ...