Psychology & Psychiatry Journal back issues from March 2009:
Reports by B. Taylor and co-researchers describe recent advances in behavior research.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "This article argues for democratization as the crafting of democratic public space. Through ethnography of grassroots contestation in Appalachia, the article examines the social substrate of collective mobilization on environmental issues." ...
Reports summarize consulting and clinical psychology research from Syracuse University.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "In this study, the authors evaluated the efficacy of a brief motivational intervention (BMI) and a computerized program for reducing drinking and related problems among college students sanctioned for alcohol violations. Referred students (N = ...
Studies from Kansas State University reveal new findings on horticultural science.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "The objective of this study was to compare the physical and psychological health conditions and leisure-time activities, particularly physical activities (PAs), of older gardeners and nongardeners. Fifty-three older adults were ...
Research from University of Colorado provide new insights into cultural studies.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "Although recent scholarship on transnational mothers has rigorously examined the effect of migration on gender constructs and ideologies, it neglects analysis of the lived experience of separated mothers and children." "In ...
Research reports on developmental neuropsychology from City University of New York provide new insights.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Emotion regulation is a critical component of healthy development, yet few studies examine neural correlates of emotion regulation in childhood. In the present study, we assessed whether children's neurophysiological responses to ...
Study findings from University of Caen broaden understanding of experimental psychology.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from Caen, France, "The present research examined how learning a new ankle-hip coordination influenced the preexisting postural repertoire. Standing participants learned a new ankle-hip coordination mode (relative phase of 90 degrees)." "Before and ...
Scientists at University of Central Lancashire detail research in sexual behavior.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from Preston, the United Kingdom, "The ratio of 2nd and 4th digit length (2D:4D) is sexually dimorphic and may be a correlate of prenatal sex steroids. 2D:4D is often calculated from measurements of photocopies of fingers. However, 2D:4D from photocopies is ...
Reports on psychology findings from Victoria University provide new insights.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from Wellington, New Zealand, "Feminist research has examined a broad range of women's experiences as mothers. However, relatively few studies exist on postmaternity, colloquially the 'empty nest'." "The present study is a feminist discourse analysis ...
Research results from University of Turin update understanding of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from Turin, Italy, "Duplication of the lamin B1 gene (LMNB1) has recently been described in a rare form of autosomal dominant adult-onset leucoencephalopathy. The aim of the study was to evaluate the presence of LMNB1 gene defects in a series of eight patients with ...
Reports on family relations findings from Brigham Young University provide new insights.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Family Relations, "The purpose of this study was to examine family communication within the core and balance model of family leisure functioning. The study was conducted from a youth perspective of family leisure and family ...
New findings from Ryerson University in the area of psychopathology described.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from Toronto, Canada, "Although central to attachment theory, internal working models remain a useful heuristic in need of concretization, We compared the selective attention of organized and disorganized mothers using the emotional Stroop task. Both ...
Studies from K. Trocki et al further understanding of psychoactive drugs.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Prior research has found heavier drinking and alcohol-related problems to be more prevalent in sexual minority populations, particularly among women. It has been suggested that differences may be explained in part by socializing in bars and other public drinking venues," researchers in ...
New findings from University of Pittsburgh describe advances in neuropsychopharmacology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Neurons of the amygdala respond to a variety of stressors. The basolateral amygdala (BLA) receives dense norepinephrine (NE) innervation from the locus coeruleus, and stressful and conditioned stimuli cause increases in NE levels within the BLA," scientists in the United States report. ...
Study data from Florida International University provide new insights into genetic psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "The authors investigated how student-student friendships, student-teacher relationships, and attachment styles link to General Educational Development program completion among 127 women and 117 men. Students' relationships with students and instructors, as well as secure attachment style ...
Research from Pennsylvania State University has provided new data on applied psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Although numerous models of team performance have been articulated over the past 20 years. these models have primarily focused oil the individual attribute approach to team composition. The authors utilized a role composition approach, ...
Research from University of Sussex in social and clinical psychology provides new insights.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Body image has emerged as a core aspect of mental and physical well-being. Informed by sociocultural theory, a rapidly growing body of research addresses the question of whether body perfect ideals in the mass media are a core risk factor for negative body image, particularly in women," ...
Studies in the area of analytical psychology reported from A. Addison and co-researchers.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, "This paper traces the history of Jung's ideas concerning the psychoid unconscious, from their origins in the work of the vitalist, Hans Driesch, and his concept of Das Psychoid, through the subsequent work of ...
New psychiatry findings from University of Pittsburgh published.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "This report describes a model for the development, process, and tracking methods of a Peer-mentored Research Development Meeting (PRDM), an interdisciplituny peer mentoring program. The program was initiated in 2004 by a group of postdoctoral scholars and junior faculty from the Schools ...
Persons who survive cancer more likely to be unemployed.
Mar 07, 2009 ... An analysis of previous studies finds an association between being a cancer survivor and being unemployed, compared to healthy individuals, especially for survivors of breast and gastrointestinal cancers, according to an article in the February 18 issue of JAMA. Long-term ...
Intervention method reduces binge drinking.
Mar 07, 2009 ... HOUSTON u (Jan. 30, 2009) u Brief but personal intervention reduces drinking among risky college drinkers, according to a research study at The University of Texas School of Public Health. Results of the study will be published in the February issue of the Journal of Consulting and ...
Psychological impact found in adolescents with kidney transplants.
Mar 07, 2009 ... A new study describes the psychological profile of adolescents who have received kidney transplants and compares them to those of healthy peers. The findings reveal a significantly higher prevalence of psychiatric conditions (depression, phobia, ADHD), educational impairment and social ...
Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory.
Mar 07, 2009 ... Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. The researchers made the discovery using a new technique for decoding data from ...
Maintaining healthy teeth and gums is a wise investment.
Mar 07, 2009 ... Faced with plummeting investments and an unsteady job market, many Americans are feeling the effects of the recent economic crisis. In fact, a recent study by the American Psychological Association found that over 80 percent of Americans rank money and the economy as significant causes of ...
Behavioral studies show baboons and pigeons are capable of higher-level cognition.
Mar 07, 2009 ... It's safe to say that humans are smarter than animals, but a University of Iowa researcher is investigating the extent of that disparity in intelligence. And, it may not be as great a gap as you suspect, according to UI psychologist Ed Wasserman, who presents his findings at the ...
Studies in the area of psychology reported from Wichita State University.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "A common finding in confidence research is the hard-easy effect, in which judges exhibit greater overconfidence for more difficult sets of questions. Many explanations have been advanced for the hard-easy effect, including systematic cognitive ...
Research on analytical psychology detailed by J. Knox and co-authors.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "This paper explores the relationship between language and the development of self-agency. I suggest that a child discovers that he or she actually exists as a person with a mind and desires through the mirroring response he or she creates in the parent," researchers in Oxford, the United ...
Study findings from University of Queensland broaden understanding of sexual behavior.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, "Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with a wide range of health problems later in life. The impact of CSA on young adults' use of cannabis remains under-studied." "We examined the extent ...
Research on sexual behavior described by scientists at Michigan State University.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Friends with benefits (FWB) refers to ''friends'' who have sex. Study 1 (N = 125) investigated the prevalence of these relationships and why individuals engaged in this relationship." "Results indicated that 60% of the ...
Research from Brandeis University reveals new findings on behavior research.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been engaged in a process of organizational learning to build civic capacity for nearly 4 decades, in effect discovering its civic mission." "This article examines how EPA ...
University of Kentucky reports research in family relations.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Framed by equity theory, fairness beliefs regarding child support modification to account for the financial impact of remarriage and subsequent childbirth were assessed. Based on a random sample of 407 Kentucky residents using a multiple segment factorial vignette approach, modification ...
Data on developmental neuropsychology published by researchers at Texas A&M University.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "We investigate the utility of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) as an alternative technique for studying infant speech processing. NIRS is an optical imaging technology that uses relative changes in total hemoglobin concentration and oxygenation as an indicator of neural activation," ...
New psychology research from University of Illinois outlined.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Visual performance is compromised when attention is divided between objects that are near one another in the visual field. It has been postulated that this effect, termed localized attentional interference (LAI), reflects competition between visual-object representations for the control ...
Research from Keimyung University has provided new data on behavior research.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Perceptual and Motor Skills, "This study investigated the validity of Fitts' index of difficulty as a measure Of task difficulty perceived by the performer. Eight Subjects performed self-terminated horizontal elbow-extension movements ...
Studies from University of Edinburgh add new findings in the area of experimental psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Since M. M. Chun and Y. Jiang's (1998) original study. a large body of research based on the contextual cuing paradigm has shown that the visuocognitive system is capable of capturing, certain regularities in the environment in an implicit way. The present study investigated whether ...
New findings in consulting and clinical psychology described from University of California.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Many studies have examined pretreatment predictors of immediate posttreatment outcome, but few studies have examined prediction of long-term treatment response to couple therapies. Four groups of predictors (demographic, intrapersonal, ...
Researchers from University of South Australia report on findings in social and clinical psychology.(Clinical report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, "The present study aimed to investigate the role of processing in women's responses to thin idealized images of beauty. A sample of 144 women viewed magazine advertisements containing either thin ideal ...
Waismann Method Launches New Detox Treatment for Dependency to Benzodiazepines.
Mar 07, 2009 ... The Waismann Method, leaders in the field of medical opiate detoxification, announced an exclusive treatment developed for patients with dependencies to Benzodiazepines, which include Xanax, Klonopin, Valium and Ativan. The Waismann Method of Accelerated Benzodiazepine Neuro-Regulation ...
Study results from L.M. Graham and colleagues broaden understanding of behavior research.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "Two experiments were designed to explore the role of emotion in detection of change using the flicker task. In Experiment 1, the emotional valence of Scenes was manipulated, and reaction time to detect change in an altered scene was measured." ...
Reports from Washington University advance knowledge in psychopathology.(Clinical report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Recent research has suggested that autistic social impairment (ASI) is Continuously distributed in nature and that subtle autistic-like social impairments aggregate in the family members of children with pervasive developmental ...
Research on psychology detailed by scientists at Vanderbilt University.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Input control theories of the attentional blink (AB) suggest that this deficit results from impaired attentional selection caused by the post-Target 1 (T1) distractor (Di Lollo, Kawahara, Ghorashi, & Enns, 2005; Olivers, van der Stigchel, & Hulleman, 2007). Accordingly, these theories ...
Research from Rider University provides new data about psychopathology.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "The main objectives of this study were to prospectively examine the relationship between externalizing (substance use and delinquency) and internalizing (depression and anxiety) dimensions and academic achievement (grades and classroom ...
Study data from University of Twente update understanding of applied psychology.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from Netherlands, "This research examines cultural differences in negotiators' responses to persuasive arguments in crisis (hostage) negotiations over time. Using a new method of examining cue-response patterns, the authors examined 25 crisis negotiations in which ...
Scientists at University of Wisconsin publish new data on behavior research.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... "This Study assessed whether College students in various stages Of change relative to exercise adherence Would rate self-efficacy and barriers to exercise differently. A total of 198 participants ( 49 men, 149 women) ranging in age from 17 to 38 years (M=20.4,SD=2.3) completed surveys ...
Research data from Colorado State University update understanding of behavior research.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Five procedures to calculate the probability of weighted kappa with Multiple raters under the null hypothesis of independence arc described and compared in terms of accuracy case of use, generality, and limitations," investigators in the United States report. "The five ...
Researchers at Monash University have published new data on psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from Melbourne, Australia, "The speed-accuracy trade-of (SAT) is a ubiquitous phenomenon in experimental psychology. One popular strategy for controlling SAT is to use the response signal paradigm." "This paradigm produces time-accuracy curves (or SAT ...
Research from Vrije University Amsterdam provide new insights into psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "The authors have argued elsewhere that the attentional blink (AB; i.e., reduced target detection shortly after presentation of an earlier target) arises from blocked or disrupted perceptual input in response to distractors presented between the targets. When targets replace the ...
Studies from P.J. Taylor and co-authors have provided new information about applied psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "One hundred seven management training evaluations were meta-analyzed to compare effect sizes for the transfer of managerial training derived from different rating sources (self, superior, peer, and subordinate) and broken down by both ...
New social and clinical psychology findings from University of Sussex described.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, "Previous experimental research demonstrates that exposure to ultra-thin media models has negative effects on many women's body image, but neglects underlying psychological processes. We develop and ...
Studies in the area of analytical psychology reported from S. Carta and co-researchers.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, "This paper deals with the presence and possible 'meaning' of music in dreams. The author explores a possible meaning of music as the most fundamental human symbolic experience, which directly points to the ...
Scientists at Vrije University Amsterdam target behavior research.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Acquired equivalence is a paradigm in which generalization is increased between two superficially dissimilar Stimuli (or antecedents) that have previously been associated with similar outcomes (or consequents). Several possible mechanisms have been proposed, including changes in stimulus ...
Reports outline psychopathology study findings from Oregon Social Learning Center.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Postinstitutionalized children frequently demonstrate persistent socioemotional difficulties. For example, some postinstitutionalized children display an unusual lack of social reserve With unfamiliar adults," scientists in the United States report. "This behavior, which has ...
ePharmaSolutions Adds Several Industry Clinicians to its Rater Certification and Data Monitoring Department.
Mar 07, 2009 ... ePharmaSolutions, a leading provider of clinical services and trial management technologies, announced the addition of several key industry veterans to support the expansion of its global CNS Rater Services Department. Marian Ormont, MD and Theresa Bromley, PhD, have joined ...
Researchers from Hebrew University detail findings in family relations.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Individuals who attain a higher education, whereas both their parents did not, embody the realization of social mobility. They are referred to as first-generation higher education students," scientists in Jerusalem, Israel report. "Previous analyses had often portrayed them as ...
Studies from Creighton University further understanding of behavior research.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "This study examined how navigational strategies, map drawing, and map reading skills may, be related in spatial perception performance of 124 U.S. undergraduate Men and women who completed one of two versions of Collaer and Nelson son's ...
Studies from Temple University in the area of psychiatry published.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "Faculty development has increasingly become a focus in medical education. Many models are employed around the United States." "The authors present a group model process developed to train new educators to teach our medical students ....
New analytical psychology research from M. Giannoni and co-researchers described.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "Through the discussion of the clinical material the author tries to show how numerous aspects of traditional Jungian analysis are close to several theoretical and clinical developments of Relational Psychoanalysis. A short introduction about relational psychoanalysis is given," ...
New experimental psychology study findings reported from R. Falk and co-authors.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from Jerusalem, Israel, "Any individual's response intended to be random should be as probable as any other. However, 3 experiments show that many people's independent responses depart from the expected chance distribution." "Participants responding ...
PCOM School Psychology Programs Receive National Approval.
Mar 07, 2009 ... With the need for school psychologists growing, it is especially significant that Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) has received full approval from the National Association of School Psychology (NASP) for its master's and doctoral programs in school psychology: Ed.S. and ...
Research in the area of behavior research reported from M. Stephenson and colleagues.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "The coordination of relief in international humanitarian crises has long been viewed as fraught with problems of inadequate oversight and coordination. Contrary to this claim, this article argues that the international relief system, ...
Research from K. Yatabe et al broadens understanding of psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, "We asked whether people process words during saccades when reading sentences. Irwin (1998) demonstrated that such processing occurs when words are presented in isolation." "In our experiment, ...
Findings in psychiatry reported from P. Hartvig and co-researchers.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "In 1939, Lionel Penrose published a cross-sectional study from 18 European countries, including the Nordic, in which he demonstrated an inverse relationship between the number of mental hospital beds and the number of prisoners. He also found strong negative correlations between the ...
Scientists at University of London release new data on psychology.
Mar 07, 2009 ... "In the conflict/control loop theory proposed by Botvinick, Braver, Batch, Carter, and Cohen (2001), conflict monitored in a trial leads to an increase in cognitive control on the subsequent trial. The critical data pattern supporting this assertion is the so-called Gratton effect-the ...
Studies conducted at York University on consulting and clinical psychology recently published.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from Toronto, Canada, "Follow-tip data across an 18-month period are presented for 43 adults who had been randomly assigned and had responded to short-term client-centered (CC) and emotion-focused (EFT) therapies for major depression. Long-term effects of these ...
Researchers at University of Texas target consulting and clinical psychology.(Report)
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling style that has been shown to reduce heavy drinking among college students." "To date, all studies of MI among college students have used a format that includes a feedback profile ...
Data on behavior research reported by researchers at Aristotle University.
Mar 07, 2009 ... According to a study from Thessaloniki, Greece, "The present Study investigated the construct validity of the Physical Education State Anxiety Scale with the employment of multitrait-multimethod analysis with regard to responses of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2. 233 high school ...