Psychology & Psychiatry Journal back issues from December 2008:
New interpersonal violence study findings have been reported from University of Missouri.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "This study examined the relations among acculturation, domestic violence, and mental health in 62 married refugee women from Somalia. Refugees from Somalia constituted the largest group of refugees entering the United States in 2005, and little is known about the presence of domestic ...
Studies from Koc University have provided new information about applied developmental psychology.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from Istanbul, Turkey, "This study examined the cognitive effects of an educational early childhood television program in Turkey that was designed to enhance basic cognitive skills and socio-emotional development of 5-year-old children. The program targeted ...
New findings from Harvard University in the area of applied psycholinguistics described.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "This study explores factors influencing the degree to which language minority (LM) children from Spanish-dominant homes understand how connectives, such as in contrast and because, signal relationships between text propositions ....
Researchers at Columbia University have published new data on psychiatry.
Dec 06, 2008 ... 'Does the Constitution require a trial court to allow an obviously impaired man to represent himself? This column discusses the recent U. S. Supreme Court decision in Indiana v. Edwards, which allows states to limit a defendant's right to self-representation when the individual lacks the ...
Research from University of Colorado has provided new data on social psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "This article uses qualitative data (participant-observation and interviews) to examine happiness talk in a university-based evangelical Christian organization (University Unity). Unity Christians claim that they are happier than non-Christians, but rather than viewing their happiness as a ...
Researchers at Wake Forest University have published new data on personality research.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Many questions in personality psychology lend themselves to the analysis of profile similarity. A profile approach to issues such as personality judgement, personality similarity, behavirol consistency, developmental stability, and person-environment fit is intuitively appealing," ...
New cross-cultural psychology study findings recently were reported by researchers at Koc University.(Clinical report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to a study from Istanbul, Turkey, "The authors conducted a longitudinal study of international students (N = 90) attending a U. S. university to examine the effects of the initial cross-cultural transition on their psychological well-being and social and academic adaptations." ...
Research from University of Zurich broadens understanding of psychology.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from Zurich, Switzerland, "Satisfaction of the implicit affiliation motive is known to be positively related to emotional well-being, whereas the frustration of the implicit affiliation motive leads to impairment of well-being. In the present research we ...
Recent findings in behavior research described by researchers from Brown University.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Previous research suggests that socially anxious individuals interpret ambiguous social information in a more threatening manner compared to non-anxious individuals. Recently, studies have experimentally modified interpretation and shown that this subsequently affected anxiety in ...
Findings from Massey University provide new insights into sexuality.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from Wellington, New Zealand, "Young adults in Western countries are drinking more alcohol than ever before, particularly young women. This study aimed to explore how women are (re)defining their gender identities in relation to men through consumption of ...
Data from E.M. Aranda and colleagues advance knowledge in behavioral science.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Patterns of labor market incorporation of two samples of middle-class Puerto Ricans (U. S. migrants and return migrants to the Island) are examined in this article," researchers in the United States report. "Particular attention is paid to the diverse class backgrounds of ...
Research results from University of Georgia update knowledge of conflict resolution.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, "According to the diversionary war theory, problematic domestic circumstances motivate a country's leader to divert popular discontent by launching a militarized international crisis. Yet, empirical support for ...
Research data from K.T. Sullivan and colleagues update understanding of social and clinical psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "Although couples seeking guidance frequently seek out a religious or spiritual counselor, empirically-based marital interventions seldom acknowledge religious and spiritual beliefs. Beach et a. have proposed that, at least for some couples, ...
Children distressed by family fighting have higher stress hormones.
Dec 06, 2008 ... Children who become very upset when their parents fight are more likely to develop psychological problems. But little is known about what happens beyond these behavioral reactions in terms of children's biological responses. A new study has found that children who are very distressed when ...
Cascading effect of even minor early problems may explain serious teen violence.
Dec 06, 2008 ... How do minor behavior problems and experiences early in life lead to serious acts of violence in teenagers? A group of researchers has found that the answer may lie in a cascading effect in which early life experiences lead to behaviors and new experiences that lead to yet other ...
Drug-related preference in cocaine addiction extends to images.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... When given a choice between viewing pictures of cocaine and a variety of other images, cocaine addicted individuals, as compared to healthy, non-addicted research subjects, show a clear preference for the drug-related images. Findings from this study, which was conducted at the U.S ....
Evolution of the visual system is key to abstract art.
Dec 06, 2008 ... LIVERPOOL, UK u 17 November 2008: Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool has discovered. Humans make aesthetic judgements ...
Helping children and teens deal with stress in an uncertain time.
Dec 06, 2008 ... As families across the country face losses of nest eggs, homes or jobs, their young children and teens need emotional support. Child psychologist Michele C. Thorne, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical psychology at the Indiana University School of Medicine and clinical ...
Supportive teachers, peers can ease negative effects of frequent moves in elementary school.(Clinical report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... When children change schools in elementary school, dips in academic performance and classroom participation can follow. But having a supportive teacher who encourages other students to accept newcomers can go a long way toward helping children make a smooth transition. That's ...
Crafting your image for your 1,000 friends on Facebook or MySpace.
Dec 06, 2008 ... Students are creating idealized versions of themselves on social networking websites u Facebook and MySpace are the most popular u and using these sites to explore their emerging identities, UCLA psychologists report. Parents often understand very little about this phenomenon, they say. ...
The smart way to study.
Dec 06, 2008 ... Combine the aphorisms that "practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything" into one and you might get something resembling findings published in this month's issue of Psychological Science. Proper spacing of lessons, the researchers report, can dramatically enhance learning. And larger ...
'Cascading effect' of childhood experiences may explain serious teen violence.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... Adverse experiences early in life can lead to minor childhood behavior problems, which can grow into serious acts of teen violence, according to new research. This "cascading effect" of repeated negative incidents and behaviors is the focus of an article in the November/December edition of ...
Recent findings in psychology described by researchers from University of Barcelona.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to a study from Barcelona, Spain, "To estimate the personality profile for adolescents at psychopathological risk, a community sample of 762 adolescents, ages 12 to 16 years (M= 13.8, SD= 1.3), 53% boys and 47% girls, from the city of Barcelona, Spain, were tested with the Youth ...
Study findings on cross-cultural psychology are outlined in reports from University of Texas.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Simpatia is a cultural script that characterizes Hispanics as agreeable, friendly, sympathetic, and polite. However, on self-reports Hispanics score lower on Simpatia/Agreeableness than do non-Hispanics," scientists in the United States report. "This study reveals that it is ...
Findings from Ball State University in sexuality reported.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "This article reports on a content analysis of television commercials (n=434) aired during prime-time on US general networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX) and an African American niche station (Black Entertainment Television-BET) in 2002 ....
Research from S. Demura and co-researchers yields new findings on behavior research.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to a study from Ishikawa, Japan, "This Study was done to examine the Influence Of instructions Oil the evaluation of rhythmic repeated muscular endurance, that is, the ability to continue muscle-power exertion at a regular interval. 15 healthy young Male adults performed maximal ...
Findings from University of Toronto provide new insights into cross-cultural psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from Toronto, Canada, "In three experiments, the roles of culture and social factors in individual's eye gaze displays when thinking were examined. Canadian and Japanese participants answered questions requiring thinking to derive the answers in social and ...
Holiday Deals Frenzy Prompts Online Art Retailer to Offer Free Worldwide Shipping.
Dec 06, 2008 ... Graphic artist Alan Claude' Maine Lighthouse poster sales are up 35% from last year but in order to further increase sales his online company is now offering free shipping world-wide until December 31st. "We are not taking any chances, who knows with this potential recession what the new ...
Studies from A.V. Lysova and co-authors have provided new information about interpersonal violence.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "This article reports data from three Russian sites of the International Dating Violence Study. Using a sample of 338 university students (54% female) from three Russian university sites, four different types of partner violence are examined: physical assault, physical injury, sexual ...
Research from Washington University in the area of behavioral science published.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "The spread of corporate diversity programs in the past decade has meant renewed attention to the rhetoric of fairness in employment relations. A number of organizational dynamics can derail this project, however, especially at the transnational level," researchers in the United States ...
Researchers from California State University publish findings in sexuality.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Two studies of ethnically diverse US college students from northern California examined whether ingroup bias and gender norm violations influence acquaintance rape attributions (Study 1, N=118; Study 2, N=140). Participants read vignettes depicting acquaintance rape and completed ...
Research on applied psycholinguistics reported by scientists at University of Iowa.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Five experiments examined whether overt repetition (i.e., saying a word aloud) during exposure is critical to the expressive learning of new words," investigators in the United States report. "When participants did not engage in overt repetition during exposure, they ...
Researchers from University of Illinois describe findings in cross-cultural psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "This research takes a functional perspective and examines the psychological processes underlying personal and collective culpability judgments in European Americans and Chinese in mainland China (Experiment 1), and in European Americans and Asian Americans (Experiment 2). Results indicate ...
Research on behavior research discussed by Y.H. Chou and co-researchers.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Two experiments were carried out to investigate contributions of voluntary manual exploration and vision to rod-bisection performance when the rod was placed in different spatial Positions," researchers in the United States report. "Analysis showed both voluntary manual ...
Scientists at University of Bologna discuss research in behavior research.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "30 subjects with BJHS (Hypermobile) (M age=32.3 yr., SD=10.4) and two control groups, 25 healthy Subjects (Healthy) (M ape=33.9 yr., SD=9.3) and 30 fibromyalgic Patients (Fibromyalgic) (M age=32.2 yr., SD=9.4), were given the Symptom Checklist-90-R, the Illness Behavior Questionnaire, the ...
New findings from R. Laurin and co-researchers in the area of behavior research described.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "The aim of this study was to develop a questionnaire to measure adjustment of teenagers at soccer training centers, particularly newcomers. The Soccer Trainee Adjustment Scale was adapted from the Institutional Integration Scale and assesses the trainee's adjustment to operating and ...
Research on sexuality described by scientists at Salve Regina University.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Does a woman's reputation suffer when others discover condoms in her possession? Fifty-two male and female predominantly white undergraduates from a small, private, Catholic university in the northeast USA examined the contents of a purse to formulate an impression of its owner," ...
Research from University of Sydney in psychology provides new insights.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "The overarching aim of the present study is to expand current approaches to assessing task absorption and subjective experience by assessing two brief measures of flow: (1) 'short' flow, reflecting an aggregate or global measure drawn from the 'long' multi-item multi-factor flow ...
Economy Falls - Weight Rises: Emotional Eating Expert Says Many Overeat as Stress Levels Increase.
Dec 06, 2008 ... What does overeating have to do with the economic crisis? Clinical Psychologist and Emotional Eating Expert, Dr. Denise Lamothe says a lot. As our economy declines, we become more anxious. As our stress increases, our bodies flood with the hormone cortisol and our appetites ...
Findings from T.W. Wang and co-authors provide new insights into psychology.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Psychological Reports, "The purpose of this study was to assess the associations between measures of adult attachment and forgiveness in college students in Taiwan. Participants (203 women and 82 men; M age=19.6 yr., SD = 1.2) completed ...
Researchers at University of Amsterdam have published new data on behavior research.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to a study from Netherlands, "In two experiments, we used a Pavlovian differential conditioning Procedure to induce craving for chocolate. As a result Of repeated pairing with chocolate intake, initially neutral cues came to elicit art automatic approach tendency in a speeded ...
New interpersonal violence study findings recently were published by R. Btoush and co-researchers.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "The authors conducted an exploratory study among a convenience sample of 260 Jordanian men and women, using self-administered open and closed questions to examine the participants' approach toward wife abuse. In general, there was high awareness of wife abuse and the different types of ...
Studies from L. Hardy et al further understanding of personality research.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality, "Hardy and Moriarty (2006) presented evidence in support of James's (1890) individual importance hypothesis using a new methodology. Marsh (in press) criticized the Hardy and Moriarty approach, claiming that it did not ...
Research from University of Illinois in applied psycholinguistics provides new insights.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "The objectives of this study are (a) to determine if native speakers of Canadian French at different English proficiencies can use primary stress for recognizing English words and (b) to specify how the second language (L2) learners' (surface-level) knowledge of L2 stress placement ...
Reports summarize behavior research study results from H.T. Neshatdoost and co-researchers.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "The present study used a Color Stroop task, involving naming the ink colors of incongruous color words, to deplete self-regulation resources prior to retrieving a series of autobiographical memories to emotional and neutral cue words-the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT). Control ...
Data on psychology described by researchers at Boston College.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "This study examined the hypothesis that emotion is a psychological event constructed from the more basic elements of core affect and conceptual knowledge," scientists in the United States report. "Participants were primed with conceptual knowledge of fear, conceptual knowledge ...
Research from La Trobe University provides new data about sexuality.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to a study from Australia, "The aim of the present study was to examine a theoretical model describing the relationships between body shame and body surveillance (components of objectified body consciousness), internalization of the media body ideal, perceived pressure from ...
Studies from C.F. Chi and co-researchers in the area of behavior research published.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Potential ergonomic hazards for 27 disabled call center agents engaged in computer-telephone interactive tasks Were evaluated for possible associations between the task behaviors and work-related disorders. Data included task description, 300 samples of performance, a questionnaire on ...
Research conducted at University of Helsinki has updated our knowledge about psychology.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Psychological Science, "Migration is a central determinant of population dynamics and structure. We examined whether three major temperament traits-sociability, emotionality, and activity-predicted migration propensity, selective ...
New personality research findings from University of California described.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "We examined whether anxious expectations of discrimination among Asian Americans can help explain this group's elevated levels of internalizing symptomatology, such as lower self-esteem (Twenge & Crocker, 2002) and higher depressive symptoms (Okazaki, 1997, 2002) relative to European ...
New findings reported from University of Toronto describe advances in psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from Toronto, Canada, "Metaphors such as icy stare depict social exclusion using cold-related concepts; they are not to be taken literally and certainly do not imply reduced temperature. Two experiments, however, revealed that social exclusion literally feels ...
University of Pittsburgh details research in psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Psychological Science, "Many decisions related to cigarette smoking require people in an affectively neutral, or ''cold,'' state to predict how they will feel or behave when in a craving, or ''hot,'' state. Research in other domains has ...
Studies from University of Oregon have provided new information about behavioral science.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "This article examines a five-star hotel in China's southwest Yunnan province where local management adopted the organizational template and service protocols of a U. S.-based transnational hotel firm and, at the same time, informally organized ...
Reports outline cross-cultural psychology study findings from University of Calgary.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "This article examines the six largest dimensions of the Turkish personality lexicon, as derived from the personality-descriptive terms of Goldberg and Somer's (2000) data set. The six Turkish lexical factors show close correspondences of content to all six dimensions observed in several ...
Study data from Singapore Management University update understanding of conflict resolution.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "The authors investigate the strategic rationale behind the message sent by Osama bin Laden on the eve of the 2004 U. S. Presidential elections," investigators in Singapore, Singapore report. "They model this situation as a signaling game in which a population of receivers ...
Research on personality research described by scientists at University of Calgary.
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality, "Two studies tested the correspondence between six dimensions obtained in lexical studies of personality structure and the proposed HEXACO personality framework. Study 1 examined the English personality lexicon using 449 ...
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University publish new data on social and clinical psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Beach, Fincham, Hurt, McNair, and Stanley provide a conceptual framework for the psychological and relational processes involved in using prayer as a marriage intervention. The benefits and cautions of using prayer are described under three rubrics," scientists in the United States ...
Findings from Kyoto University broaden understanding of behavior research.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Many adults may have lower subjective feelings of familiarity toward infants' vocalizations since infants' Sounds are different from those of adults. However, mothers frequently exposed to infants' vocalizations may be more familiar and less averse," scientists in Kyoto, Japan report. ...
Investigators at Vrije University Amsterdam publish new data on psychology.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Two experiments tested the hypothesis that a positive mood can increase attendance to, and systematic processing of, threatening health information, particularly when the information is self-relevant. In Study 1, a positive mood increased differentiation between strong and weak arguments ...
Researchers from Cornell University detail new studies and findings in the area of psychology.
Dec 06, 2008 ... "Remembering negative events can stimulate high levels of false memory, relative to remembering neutral events," investigators in the United States report. "In experiments in which the emotional valence of encoded materials was manipulated with their arousal levels controlled, ...
Research reports on personality research from University of Oxford provide new insights.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from Oxford, the United Kingdom, "Following William James (1890/1963), many leading self-esteem researchers continue to support the Individual-importance hypothesis-that the relation between specific facets of self-concept and global self-esteem depends on the ...
Reports outline psychiatry research from L. Zavesicka and colleagues.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from Prague, Czech Republic, "In practical sleep medicine, therapists face the question of whether or not to discontinue the ongoing use of hypnotics in patients, as well as the possible effects of discontinuation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ...
New psychology study findings recently were published by researchers at Brandeis University.(Report)
Dec 06, 2008 ... According to recent research from the United States, "We examined actual and perceived trajectories of change in life satisfaction in a national sample of 3,793 adults, ages 24 to 74 at baseline, who provided retrospective, present, and prospective ratings on two occasions 8 to 10 years ...
American Pain Society Accepting Applications for Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards.
Dec 06, 2008 ... Again next year, the American Pain Society (APS), http://www.ampainsoc.org/, will honor the country's outstanding pain care programs in its acclaimed Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management Awards Program. APS is accepting awards submissions until Dec. 14, 2008. The ...
Amazon.com and Penguin Group USA Announce Second Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition.
Dec 06, 2008 ... Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Penguin Group (USA) (NYSE: PSO) announced the second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. Writers around the world are encouraged to begin preparing their manuscripts for entry into the ...