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Supplementary online materials for “Evidence of Delayed, Recursive Benefits of Self-Affirmation on Anxiety in Socially Anxious University Students”
(Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2021)The following supplementary materials are presented in the order in which they appeared within the study entitled "Evidence of Delayed, Recursive Benefits of Self-Affirmation on Anxiety in Socially Anxious University ... -
Model-Based Recursive Partitioning of Extended Redundancy Analysis with an Application to Nicotine Dependence among US adults
(2021)Extended redundancy analysis (ERA) is used to reduce multiple sets of predictors to a smaller number of components and examine the effects of these components on a response variable. In various social and behavioral studies, ... -
Workplace violence and mental health of paramedics and firefighters
(2019-04)Paramedics and firefighters are at a higher risk for developing psychopathologies due to frequent exposure to traumatic incidents inherent within their work. In addition, current research shows that this population also ... -
Do Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speech
(Wiley, 2017)Maternal questions play a crucial role in early language acquisition by virtue of their special grammatical, prosodic and lexical forms, and their abundance in the input. Infants are able to discriminate questions from ... -
Grasping in a Cluttered Environment: Avoiding Obstacles Under Memory Guidance
(2019)Humans often reach to remembered objects, such as when picking up a coffee cup from behind our morning paper. When reaching to previously seen, now out-of-view objects, we rely on our perceptual memory of the scene, to ... -
Kids' Shame Proneness: Is Mom's Religiosity an Overlooked Influence?
(2019-06)The Theme for the 2019 CPA Convention is Psychology's Contribution to Society. 40% of Canadian-born, 55% of immigrants to Canada before 1982, and 57% of immigrants to Canada between 1982 to 2001, rated religion as "very ... -
Grasping 2-D Targets in Motion: The Influence of a Preferable Central Grasp Location on Eye-Hand Coordination
(2019)When using a precision grip to grasp a rectangular object (index finger on top and thumb on the bottom of the object), digit placement is usually close to the object’s horizontal center, ensuring stability. An object’s ... -
Eye-hand Coordination in Reaching and Grasping Vertically Translating Targets
(2019)Previous research in our lab has revealed a strong visual bias toward the eventual index finger contact location when grasping stationary or horizontally moving targets. However, the unique properties of the thumb may have ... -
Perception With and Without Attention: Neural Correlates of Grouping by Similarity in Preattention and Divided-Attention Conditions
(2019)Grouping local elements of the visual environment is crucial for meaningful perception. While our attentional system facilitates perception, it is limited in that we are unaware of some aspects of our environment that can ... -
The Effectiveness of Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Young Children with Internalizing Disorders: A meta-analysis
(2014-06-05)A meta-analysis was conducted on the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions for young children (ages 2 to 5) with internalizing disorders. Internalizing disorders, including anxiety and depression, are among the ... -
The Association Between Conduct Disorder and Insecure Attachment: A Meta-Analysis
(2014-06-06)The present study investigated the relationship between Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)/ Conduct Disorder (CD) symptoms and attachment style. To date, the cause of these disorders has not yet been fully determined. The ... -
Is there a relationship between ADHD and attachment insecurity?
(2014-02-21)The present study investigated the relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and insecure attachment styles. The results of a meta-analysis will be provided to clarify a possible link ... -
Accessing populations with specialized clinical needs: an illustrative case study using Google Adwords™
(American Psychological Assocation, 2013)When seeking help for health problems, a majority of individuals now look online first. There they are confronted with millions of results and typically visit only a few toplisted websites. As a consequence, being noticed ... -
An overlooked milestone : is age of sitting foundational in predicting age of onset of proto-declarative pointing?
(2013-04-16)Infant pointing to engage another’s attention demonstrates social understanding and predicts later language accomplishments. Crawling onset is thought to predict such pointing because self-locomotion facilitates perspective ... -
Analyzing age of milestone attainments from daily checklist recordings using SAS/STAT® procedures
(2013-04-12)The ages at which children first reach developmental milestones like sitting, crawling, or walking display substantial child-to-child variability that may reveal the operation of important developmental processes. Survival ... -
Parent reported child deception: the online preschooler lie scale (OPLS)
(Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, 2011)Generally viewed as a negative behavior, child lying is a cognitive accomplishment that requires awareness of others’ thinking. In developing a measure of the breadth of a child’s lie repertoire, we recruited an online, ... -
Participant recruitment in an online world: using blog comments and forum posts.
(2011)The recruitment of participants to online research can be difficult when they must meet restrictive requirements, a situation we faced in recruiting the parents of 2-month-olds. Here we describe a new method, blog commenting, ...
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