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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 ... -
Age-of-walking as a predictor of childhood vocabulary
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Does crawling attainment predict the appearance of proto-declarative pointing? An age-of-attainment method using survival analysis.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Is online data collection a useful approach for studying second-order false-beliefs?
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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, ...