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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Substance Use Disorders
(2020)
Epidemiological studies have shown that there is a high incidence of co-occurring PTSD and substance use disorders (SUDs). Given the numerous legal, social, psychological, and medical consequences associated with these two ...
Exploring Differences in Hippocampal Structure between Habitual vs Non-habitual Nappers during Early Childhood
(2020)
When we sleep, our memories are consolidated and become less vulnerable to interference, both during overnight sleep and during naps. Previous research in adults suggests this effect is at least partially due to a “transfer” ...
Relations between Memory Measures and Hippocampal Volumes in Early Childhood
(2020-05)
The phenomenon of childhood amnesia, in which only a mere fraction of childhood experiences is remembered, may be due to changes in the underlying neural mechanisms supporting memory. However, this assumption is largely ...
Gender Minority Young Adult Mental Health: Anti-Transgender Prejudice, Mediators, and Implications in the COVID-19 Era
(2020)
Binary and nonbinary transgender young adults exist in a state of marginalization in American society. Both interpersonal and institutional forms of prejudice, discrimination, and oppression against trans individuals have ...
The Effects of Prediction and Speech Rate on Lexical Processing
(2020)
Listeners may predict aspects of upcoming linguistic input before it is encountered, but the specificity of information predicted can vary. It is unclear how very specific lexical predictions influence language processing, ...
Early Parenting Predicts Cognitive Risk for Depression in Children
(2020-05-05)
Negative cognitions are important in the etiology and maintenance of depression and can be observed in children as young as preschool age. However, little work has prospectively examined precursors of children’s negative ...
The Effects of Discrimination on Black Mothers’ Internalizing Symptoms and Parenting Behavior
(2020-01-20)
Can discrimination impact mothers’ mental health and parenting? Based on prior literature, I formed four hypotheses: Black mothers’ experiences with discrimination will be positively correlated to depressive and anxiety ...
Bystander Responses to College Dating Violence: Can We Educate Undergraduate Students Using an Online Intervention?
(2020)
The purposes of this study were to improve an online bystander intervention educational
program (STOP Dating Violence; O'Brien et al., 2019) and conduct a randomized controlled trial
to test the effectiveness of this ...
Multi-Informant Assessments of Adolescents' Fears of Negative and Positive Evaluation: How Well Do They Predict Behavior within Interactions with Unfamiliar Peers?
(2020)
Social anxiety disorder is defined by an intense and distressing fear and avoidance of social situations with unfamiliar individuals, particularly those situations that provide the opportunity to be scrutinized (APA, 2013). ...
Bisexual Women’s Female Friendships: Predictors and Outcomes of Sexual Identity Disclosure
(2020-05)
This study examined Asian and White bisexual women’s sexual orientation disclosure to their female friends, including the relation of disclosure to racial and sexual identity, individual well-being, and friendship quality. ...