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Evaluation Biases Regarding Gender Norm Violators
(2017-09-14)
People who fail to conform to gender norms are often the subject of prejudice and ostracism. It was hypothesized that resume applicants who violated gender norms in multiple categories (facial appearance and communication ...
Interpersonal coaching styles and attachment status in athletes:The relationship between the athlete and the coach as an attachment figure
(2021-02-08)
Attachment theory has been applied to understand relationships beyond infancy, such as romantic relationships and the client-therapist relationship (e.g., Hazan & Shaver, 1987; Mallinckrodt et al., 1995). The present study ...
Cognitive Elaboration and the Formation of False Memories from Fake News
(2021-05-10)
The spread and influence of fake news have risen significantly in recent years, as evidenced by the recent insurrection at the US Capitol driven by such disinformation. The relevance of characteristics drawn from the ...
Gamification: Engagement and Memory Retention against a Standard vs. Competition against Others
(2020-06-30)
This study examined the element of competition in gamification, specifically if competing against others or against a standard was better for memory retention of material. Participants read a passage and played a board ...
Attachment Style, Self-esteem, and Locus of Control in Adult Children of Divorce
(2022-04-26)
Prior research has indicated that the attachment styles of children who have been through a parental divorce develop in a less secure way in comparison to children with intact parental relationships (Evans & Bloom, 1996; ...
Arab American Women’s Ethnic Identity and Religiosity: Their Relationship to Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Wellbeing
(2017-05-08)
Following the recent events around the world, there has been a heightened sense of hostility towards the Muslim community. Now, more than ever it seems, there has been tension caused by unfortunate acts of racial, ethnic, ...
The Effects of Evaluative Feedback on Novel-Task Self-Efficacy and Future Performance
(2016-02-05)
There is a significant amount of research in the literature that has explored the effects of evaluative feedback on an individual’s self-efficacy and performance on a familiar task, yet there is little that has investigated ...
Disgust for Sustainable Food Alternatives: Psychological Barriers to Diet Transition
(2024)
Sustainable food alternatives such as insects, mycoprotein, and cultured meat have the potential to transform the environmental impact of present food systems, yet psychological barriers like disgust impede the widespread ...
Old, similar, or new: Hippocampal-dependent pattern separation performance in fibromyalgia
(2024)
In addition to chronic musculoskeletal pain, people with fibromyalgia often have memory deficits. Pattern separation is a neurological process that may be related to the memory deficits observed in people with fibromyalgia. ...
Defining multi-dimensional associations in fear conditioning: implications for abnormal fear responses
(2023)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders are related to the development of an abnormal fear response that is triggered in situations where a fear response is not appropriate (McSweeney et al., 2014). The ...