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Mathematical Modeling of Risk-Taking in Bipolar Disorder: Evidence of Reduced Behavioral Consistency, With Altered Loss Aversion Specific to Those With History of Substance Use Disorder
(Ubiquity Press, 2022)Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with excessive pleasure-seeking risk-taking behaviors that often characterize its clinical presentation. However, the mechanisms of risk-taking behavior are not well-understood in BD. ... -
Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Diet as Mediators of the Association Between TV Time and BMI in Youth
(SAGE Publications, 2021-01-11)Purpose: This study examined dietary indicators, sedentary time, and physical activity as potential mediators of the association between TV time and BMIz in youth. Design: Cross-sectional study in 2 independent samples ... -
Validity of a Global Positioning System-Based Algorithm and Consumer Wearables for Classifying Active Trips in Children and Adults
(Human Kinetics, 2021-10-25)Objective: To investigate the convergent validity of a global positioning system (GPS)-based and two consumer-based measures with trip logs for classifying pedestrian, cycling, and vehicle trips in children and adults. ... -
A web-based interface to calculate phonological neighborhood density for words and nonwords in Modern Standard Arabic
(Springer, 2022-01-10)The availability of online databases (e.g., Balota et al., 2007) and calculators (e.g., Storkel & Hoover, 2010) has contributed to an increase in psycholinguistic-related research, to the development of evidence-based ... -
Using Actigraphy to Assess Chronotype and Physical Activity in Older Adults
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-20)Chronotype refers to the time of day that people prefer to be active or to sleep and varies predictably across the lifespan. In younger samples, the morning-chronotype is related to greater levels of physical activity (PA) ... -
Context-Dependent Sexual Changes During Women's Midlife Transitions
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-20)For women, midlife represents an important stage of transition, including shifts in physiological, social, and sexual experiences. Prior research demonstrates that women’s sexuality is more dynamic and context-dependent ... -
Cognitive networks detect structural patterns and emotional complexity in suicide notes
(Frontiers Media, 2022-12-08)Communicating one's mindset means transmitting complex relationships between concepts and emotions. Using network science and word co-occurrences, we reconstruct conceptual associations as communicated in 139 genuine suicide ... -
Integrating Telehealth and Community Health Workers to Enhance Quality Care Access: A Narrative Review
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-20)Community Health Workers (CHWs) often share cultural, geographic, or other lived experiences with patients and provide health education and support. Use of CHWs and telehealth approaches are promising strategies for ... -
Understanding the Relationship Between Coping Styles and Death Anxiety in Older Adults
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-20)Research suggests that death anxiety stems from fear of pain, worry about loved ones, and uncertainty about what comes after death. Understanding the relationship between coping styles and attitudes towards death in older ... -
The influence of memory on the speech-to-song illusion
(Springer, 2022-01-26)In the speech-to-song illusion a spoken phrase is presented repeatedly and begins to sound as if it is being sung. Anecdotal reports suggest that subsequent presentations of a previously heard phrase enhance the illusion, ... -
External drivers of BOLD signal’s non-stationarity
(Public Library of Science, 2022-09-19)A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is to uncover the principles governing how the brain interacts with the external environment. However, assumptions about external stimuli fundamentally constrain current computational ... -
Evaluating associations between fitspiration and thinspiration content on Instagram and disordered-eating behaviors using ecological momentary assessment: A registered report
(Wiley, 2021-04-09)Introduction Greater use of appearance-focused social media, such as Instagram, is associated with increased body dissatisfaction and eating disorder (ED) symptoms; however, questions remain about the mechanism connecting ... -
The case for investigating a bidirectional association between insomnia symptoms and eating disorder pathology
(Wiley, 2021-03-04)Many people with eating disorders (EDs) report symptoms of insomnia (i.e., frequent difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, and/or early morning wakening) and sleep problems have been linked to alterations in eating ... -
Internalization of Appearance Ideals and Not Religiosity Indirectly Impacts the Relationship Between Acculturation and Disordered Eating Risk in South and Southeast Asian Women Living in the United States
(Wiley Open Access, 2022-07-18)Objective: Studies that examine disordered eating in samples of Asian individuals living in the United States frequently combine all individuals of Asian descent into a single group, which can obscure important differences ... -
Maternal Docosahexaenoic Acid Exposure Needed to Achieve Maternal–Newborn EQ
(MDPI, 2022-08-12)Achieving maternal docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) status equal to or greater than the infant’s DHA status at delivery is known as maternal–newborn DHA equilibrium (EQ) and is thought to be important for optimizing newborn DHA ... -
Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Discover Interactions in an Ecological Model for Obesity
(MDPI, 2022-08-02)Ecological theories suggest that environmental, social, and individual factors interact to cause obesity. Yet, many analytic techniques, such as multilevel modeling, require manual specification of interacting factors, ... -
Location-specific psychosocial and environmental correlates of physical activity and sedentary time in young adolescents: preliminary evidence for location-specific approaches from a cross-sectional observational study
(BMC, 2022-08-26)Background A better understanding of the extent to which psychosocial and environmental correlates of physical activity are specific to locations would inform intervention optimization. Purpose To investigate ... -
Perceptual harmony in judgments of group prototypicality and intragroup respect
(Public Library of Science, 2020-12-22)We test common sense psychology of intragroup relations whereby people assume that intragroup respect and ingroup prototypicality are positively related. In Study 1a, participants rated a group member as more prototypical ... -
Dilemma Tales as African Knowledge Practice: An Example From Research on Obligations of Support
(Frontiers Media, 2020-10-02)This contribution to the Frontiers research topic collection on African Cultural Models considers dilemma tales: an African knowledge practice in which narrators present listeners with a difficult choice that usually has ... -
Goals, Tasks, and Bonds: Toward the Computational Assessment of Therapist Versus Client Perception of Working Alliance
(IEEE, 2021-01-12)Early client dropout is one of the most significant challenges facing psychotherapy: recent studies suggest that at least one in five clients will leave treatment prematurely. Clients may terminate therapy for various ...
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