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Fear and fitness: An evolutionary analysis of anxiety disorders
(Elsevier, 1994)
This article reviews the evolutionary origins and functions of the capacity for anxiety, and relevant clinical and research issues. Normal anxiety is an emotion that helps organisms defend against a wide variety of threats. ...
Methodological innovations in the National Survey of American Life
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-11)
This paper provides an overview of the conceptualization and methods used in the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). The objectives of the NSAL are to investigate the nature, severity, and impairment of mental disorders ...
Dynamics and Economic Aspects of Climate Change
(2012-09)
Climate change is the alteration of climate directly or indirectly caused by human activities that modify the composition of
the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases (GHG), particularly CO2, are accumulating in the atmosphere, ...
The effect of HIV infection on overdose mortality
(AIDS, 2005)
Objectives: To quantify the association of HIV infection with overdose mortality and
explore the potential mechanisms.
Design: A prospective cohort study.
Methods: A total of 1927 actively injecting drug users who were ...
Acute porphyria presenting with hyperamylasemia
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-03)
An elevation of serum amylase and lipase has not been reported previously to occur with porphyria. In this report, we describe a patient who presented with the clinical and laboratory picture of pancreatitis: elevated ...
Hispanic fathers and risk for maltreatment in father-involved families of young children
(2011)
The Hispanic population is the fastest growing segment of U.S. population. However, risks for child maltreatment in the foreign-born and native-born Hispanic populations are largely understudied. To address this knowledge ...
Event-Driven Political Communication and the Preadult Socialization of Partisanship
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-06)
This study investigates political communication as a mediator of the socializing effects of major political events. We earlier found that presidential campaigns are occasions for increased crystallization of partisan ...
The psychometrics of everyday life
(Elsevier, 1986-04)
We examined people's ability to assess everyday life correlations such as the degree of agreement that exists for various kinds of evaluations and the degree of consistency that characterizes social behavior from occasion ...
Rumination Reconsidered: A Psychometric Analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
In an attempt to eliminate similar item content as an alternative explanation for the relation between depression and rumination, a secondary analysis was conducted using the data from S. Nolen-Hoeksema, J. Larson, and C. ...