Psychology & Psychiatry Journal back issues from May 2009:
New interpersonal violence research has been reported by scientists at East Carolina University.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Victims of stalking often experience a number of negative psychological problems including such things as fear, symptoms of depression, and anger. However, research on factors that lead to these outcomes is limited." "The ...
Research from University of California in the area of health and social behavior published.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "We use rich data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey to assess the relationship between mothers' access to social capital via participation in community activities and their children's health. We exploit the advantages of longitudinal data ...
Studies from S.D. Martinelli and colleagues provide new data on psychoeducational assessment.
May 02, 2009 ... "This article describes the development of a self-efficacy measure for elementary school children. A sample of 514 children, ages 8 to 11, enrolled in Grades 2 to 4 of public schools in Brazil was investigated," scientists writing in the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment report. ...
Data from R. Yoranhegesh et al provide new insights into psychiatry.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Ness Ziona, Israel, "Our aim was to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms recruited by adolescents with Asperger Disorder (AD), in comparison to controls, and to detect the underlying mechanisms during the complex in fort-nation processing required for the ...
Studies from University of Malaga have provided new data on applied psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Applied Phycology, "Several standard in vitro assays were performed in order to determine the potential antioxidant capabilities of purified aqueous extracts of the mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs), porphyra-334 plus shinorine ...
Research from A. Brancucci and co-authors yields new data on psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "The ''Deutsch's illusion'' occurs in most people when a dichotic pair of tones spaced an octave apart is presented repeatedly in alternation, so that when the right ear receives the high tone, the left ear receives the low tone, and vice versa. The illusory percept consists typically in a ...
Researchers from University of Louvain discuss findings in personality research.
May 02, 2009 ... "This research examines the impact of the compensation effect between the fundamental dimension,., of warmth and competence on behavioral confirmation. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with 2-groups that varied on 1 of the 2 dimensions and asked to select the questions that ...
Data on clinical and experimental neuropsychology described by researchers at Nagoya University, Medical Department.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Nagoya, Japan, "We quantitatively evaluated memory performance in patients in the chronic stage of closed traumatic brain injury using dual visual tasks." "Simple memory tests and questionnaires concerning activities of daily living (ADL) were also ...
Studies from Marquette University update current data on behavior research.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "This study assessed bilateral facilitation and laterality during counter-movement jumps. 23 NCAA Division-1 athletes (13 men 10 women) who participated in track and field volunteered to serve as participants and performed bilateral, ...
Data from University of Western Australia provide new insights into experimental psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "In probabilistic categorization, also known as multiple cue probability learning (MCPL), people learn to predict a discrete outcome on the basis of imperfectly valid cues. In MCPL, normatively irrelevant cues are usually ignored, which stands in apparent conflict with recent research in ...
Studies from University of Connecticut reveal new findings on consulting and clinical psychology.(Clinical report)
May 02, 2009 ... "Network Support Project was designed to determine whether a treatment could lead patients to change their social network from one that supports drinking to one that supports sobriety. This study reports 2-year posttreatment outcomes," researchers in the United States report. ...
Scientists at Technical University publish new data on business and psychology.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "The purpose of this study was to test a new cognitive lie detection method, time restricted integrity confirmation (Tri-Con), which uses response time and inconsistencies across answers as cues to deception. Data were obtained from two samples ...
New consciousness studies study results from P. Ryser et al described.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... "In this paper anew interactionistic model of mental causation is developed. By analysing the results of physics and neuroscience it is shown that the macroscopic cerebral activity and the resulting behavioural output is not strictly determined," scientists writing in the Journal of ...
New findings reported from J.A. Chrisman and co-authors describe advances in humanistic psychology.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... "This qualitative study explores the effects of qigong, an ancient Chinese mindfulness practice involving movement, on master's-level counseling students. Students responded in writing both after an initial experience of qigong and after practicing the movements for 15 weeks during a ...
Neuroscientists demonstrate link between brainwave activity and visual perception.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... Can we always see what is in front of us? According to Dr. Tony Ro, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at The City College of New York (CCNY), the answer is "no." New research published in "The Journal of Neuroscience" by Professor Ro and colleagues from the University of ...
6 out of every 10 university students present 'mathematical anxiety' or fear of this subject.
May 02, 2009 ... This release is also available in Spanish. 6 out of every 10 university students, regardless their field of study, present any symptom of anxiety when it comes to deal with Mathematics, according to a research work carried out at the University of Granada. In addition, there are ...
Rutgers study finds many consumers ignore food product recalls.
May 02, 2009 ... Rutgers' Food Policy Institute (FPI) released a study today showing that many Americans fail to check their homes for recalled food products. Only about 60 percent of the studied sample reported ever having looked for recalled food in their homes, and only 10 percent said they had ever ...
CBT and BT: Some effect against chronic pain.
May 02, 2009 ... Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Behaviour Therapy (BT) show some effect in helping the disability associated with chronic pain, according to a Cochrane Systematic Review. The researchers assessed the use of CBT and BT on chronic pain, mood, and disability. "For people with ...
Well-timed timeout effective in wiping out fear memory response.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... AUSTIN, Texas-Banishing a fear-inducing memory might be a matter of the right timing, according to new research. Marie Monfils, an assistant professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, has taken advantage of a key time when memories are ripe for change to ...
Research by R. Prakash and colleagues in consciousness studies provides new insights.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Ranchi, India, "Meditation has recently emerged as a topic of interest for the medicinal scientists as well as for the neuropsychological scientists for different reasons. The methods used by both of these approaches have been mostly objective." "This ...
Research from University of Newcastle has provided new data on psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "Identification accuracy for sets of perceptually discriminable stimuli ordered on a single dimension (e.g., line length) is remarkably low, indicating a fundamental limit on information processing capacity. This surprising limit has naturally led to a focus on measuring and modeling ...
New psychology data have been reported by F.M. Levin and co-authors.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "In 1980 a number of scholars independently discovered methods for studying ''aha'' reactions, and the role of metaphorical language in human activities. I see my work as parallel to that of Lester Luborsky, Arnold Model, and Lakoff and ...
Research on experimental psychology discussed by scientists at Texas A&M University.
May 02, 2009 ... "Three experiments utilizing a 14-element arm movement sequence were designed to determine if reinstating the visual-spatial coordinates, which require movements to the same spatial locations utilized during acquisition, results in better effector transfer than reinstating the motor ...
Recent studies from University of Sussex add new data to personality research.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Brighton, the United Kingdom, "A widely researched panacea for reducing intergroup prejudice is the contact hypothesis. However, few longitudinal studies can shed light on the direction of causal processes: from contact to prejudice reduction (contact effects) or ...
Research reports on consciousness studies from University of Hertfordshire provide new insights.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... "According to the knowledge argument, physicalism fails because when physically omniscient Mary first sees red, her gain in phenomenal knowledge involves a gain in factual knowledge. Thus not all facts are physical facts," scientists writing in the Journal of Consciousness Studies report. ...
Recent studies from University of Texas add new data to psychoeducational assessment.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... "Using data from the standardization sample of the Developmental Indicators,for tire Assessment of Learning-Third Edition (DIAL-3), this study compared the usefulness of an empirically derived factor structure introduced by Anthony, Assel, and Williams with the author's theoretical ...
Research conducted by B.J. Schmeichel and co-researchers has updated our knowledge about personality research.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "Research has established that acts of self-control deplete a resource required for subsequent self-control tasks. The present investigation revealed that a psychological intervention-self-affirmation-facilitates self-control when the resource ...
Study findings from N.D. Phillips et al broaden understanding of interpersonal violence.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, "Since the development of bias crime legislation over the past few decades, scholars have debated the merits of the legislation and questioned its enforcement. 1 In light of such concerns, this study presents ...
Recent findings from L. Hoffman and co-authors highlight research in humanistic psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "The self has come under considerable attack in postmodern times. Amidst many deconstructions and reformulations of the self, various myths of self have lost their sustainability," scientists in the United States report. "This article reviews various theoretical perspectives on ...
Research from Y. Gong and co-authors in the area of applied psychology published.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Wuhan, People's Republic of China, "Arsenic pollution and eutrophication are both prominent issues in the aquaculture ponds of Taiwan. It is important to study the effects of arsenic on algal growth and toxin production in order to assess the ecological risk of ...
Recent studies from Westmead Hospital add new data to clinical and experimental neuropsychology.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Westmead, Australia, "Both general and social cognition are important in providing endophenotypic markers and predicting real-world functional outcomes of clinical psychiatric disorders. However, to date, focus has been on general cognition, rather than on core ...
Studies from Leiden University update current data on experimental psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "Traditionally, dual-task interference has been attributed to the consequences of task load exceeding capacity limitations. However, the current study demonstrates that in addition to task load, the mutual compatibility of the concurrent processes modulates whether 2 tasks can be performed ...
New psychology data have been reported by D.B. Stern and co-authors.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from the United States, "Even when trauma can be remembered, the memory does not infuse the present with vitality or emotionality, as other memories do. To become a vital part of experience, trauma must be linked with other current experiences." "Such links ...
Scientists at Wayne State University describe research in clinical and experimental neuropsychology.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... "The decision to resume driving after stroke can be complicated by the sequelae of stroke as well as the established finding that even healthy adults overestimate their driving ability. This study evaluated whether stroke survivors (n = 67) disproportionately overestimated their driving ...
New applied psychology research has been reported by scientists at Tohoku University.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Sendai, Japan, "The kelps Laminaria longissima and L. diabolica, belonging to the groups of L. angustata and L. japonica, respectively, differ greatly in their morphological characteristics although their geographical distributions overlap widely along the ...
Leiden University publishes research in psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "Ideomotor theories of human action control assume that performing a movement leads to the automatic integration of the underlying motor pattern with codes of its perceptual consequences," scientists writing in the journal Psychological Research - Psychologische Forschung report. ...
New findings from University of Leeds describe advances in business and psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Leeds, the United Kingdom, "The aim of this investigation was to test hypotheses about meeting design characteristics (punctuality, chairperson, etc.) in relation to attendees' perceptions of meeting effectiveness. Two studies were conducted: Study 1 investigated ...
Research on behavior research described by scientists at Kyoto University.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Kyoto, Japan, "Nakamura, et al. recently showed that pigeons experience the standard Muller-Lyer illusion but not the reversed illusion induced by detaching the arrowheads from the target line. This study re-examined pigeons' pereception of this reversed figure by ...
New experimental psychology study findings have been published by scientists at University of Padua.
May 02, 2009 ... "A number of researchers have emphasized the role of distractors intervening between successive targets as the primary determinant of the attentional blink (AB) phenomenon. They argued that the AB is abolished when 3 or more targets are displayed as temporally contiguous items in rapidly ...
New research on psychoeducational assessment from Missouri State University summarized.
May 02, 2009 ... "This investigation provides internal consistency reliabilities for Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) subtest and index discrepancy scores using the standardization sample as the data source," scientists writing in the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment ...
Studies from University of Gdansk have provided new data on clinical and experimental neuropsychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, "To investigate the contribution of posterior and anterior parts of the right hemisphere (RH) to emotional facial recognition, we studied 11 participants with anterior strokes of the right ...
Study findings on experimental psychology are outlined in reports from M.C. Jackson and colleagues.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... "Although some views of face perception posit independent processing of face identity and expression, recent studies suggest interactive processing of these 2 domains. The authors examined expression-identity interactions in visual short-term memory (VSTM) by assessing recognition ...
Study data from Kyung-Hee University provide new insights into business and psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "This research reports how banner ads are responded to in Web sites that emphasize either emotion or cognition. It also looks at the moderating effects of individuals' own levels of need for cognition and need for emotion on banner responsiveness in the two kinds of Web sites," scientists ...
Research results from J. Coid and colleagues update understanding of consulting and clinical psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, "Structured risk assessment should guide clinical risk management, but it is uncertain which instrument has the highest predictive accuracy among men and women. In the present study, the authors ...
Researchers from University of Colorado publish findings in behavior research.
May 02, 2009 ... "According to closed-loop accounts of motor control. movement errors are detected by comparing sensory feedback to an acquired reference state. Differences between the reference state and the movement-produced feedback results in an error signal which serves as it basis for a correction," ...
Research from A. Crespo and co-researchers yields new findings on behavior research.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Madrid, Spain, "Durations of eye fixation were recorded for a numerical Stroop effect experiment. Participants (6 men, 19 women: M age = 22 yr.) reported the number of characters present in sequences of variable length (2 to 5 characters) while attempting ...
Studies from A.F. Borbely et al add new findings in the area of psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "Psychoanalytic theory is recast by interpreting the main psychodynamic concepts transference, interpretation, and defense temporally, and thereby showing their greater-thanassumed connection. They are congruent with each other as ...
New experimental psychology findings from University of Dortmund described.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Dortmund, Germany, "The authors studied the trajectories of the hand and of the tip of a handheld sliding first-order lever in aiming movements. With this kind of tool, straight trajectories of the hand are generally associated with curved trajectories of the tip ...
Researchers from University of Waterloo detail new studies and findings in the area of experimental psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Waterloo, Canada, "Can readers exert control (albeit unconsciously) over activation at particular loci in the reading system? The authors addressed this issue in 4 experiments in which participants read target words aloud and the factors of prime-target ...
Reports outline psychology study results from A. Rey et al.
May 02, 2009 ... "In a recent study, Dijksterhuis et al. (Science 311:1005, 2006) reported that participants were better at solving complex decisions after a period of unconscious thought relative to a period of conscious thought. They interpreted their results as an existence proof of powerful unconscious ...
Findings in behavior research reported from University of Jyvaskyla.
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Jyvaskyla, Finland, "To investigate the relations among leisure time physical activity and in sport clubs, lifestyle activities. and the locomotor, balance manipulative skills of Grade 7 students participating in Finnish physical education at a secondary school in ...
Reports on behavior research findings from University of Tartu provide new insights.
May 02, 2009 ... "The aim of the study was to examine the development of specific physical, physiological, and biomechanical parameters in 29 young male swimmers for whom measurements were made three times for two consecutive years. During, the 400-m front-crawl swimming, the energy cost of swimming, and ...
Researchers from National Taiwan University publish findings in interpersonal violence.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to a study from Taipei, Taiwan, "This study examined the joint impact of experiencing both interparental violence and child physical maltreatment on young adults' self-esteem. It also tested the hypothesis of parental and peer relationship qualities as mediators in the ...
New behavior research study findings have been reported from J.A. Leegonyea et al.(Report)
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from the United States, "This exploratory study was conducted to gain information on an emerging form of prostitutiononline prostitution. Additionally, this study focused on male prostitution, as it is the type less likely to gain attention in prostitution ...
Reports from Otto-von-Guericke University add new data to research in psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the journal Psychological Research - Psychologische Forschung, "When we perform a visual search we know what we are looking for and determine where it is. A representation of the object in our working memory, the 'search-template', is compared to ...
Working Mother Magazine Names Janet Liang 'Working Mother of the Year'.
May 02, 2009 ... Working Mother magazine has named Janet Liang, president of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, as one of their 30 "Working Mothers of the Year." Liang is the only honoree from Hawaii. This award is presented annually to extraordinary moms who adeptly balance career, motherhood and self-development ...
Research from Texas Christian University provide new insights into business and psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "Research shows recruiters infer dispositional characteristics from job applicants' resumes and use these inferences in evaluating applicants' employability. However, the reliability and validity of these inferences have not been empirically tested," scientists in the United States report ....
Scientists at University of Dusseldorf detail research in experimental psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance, "Three auditory identification experiments were designed to specify the prime-response retrieval model of negative priming (S. Mayr & A. Buchner, 2006), which assumes that ...
New psychology findings from I. Koch and co-authors described.
May 02, 2009 ... "The present study examined the role of crosstalk in dual-task interference using a combination of a nonspeeded visual task and an auditory-manual reaction time (RT) task. The potential for dual-task crosstalk was introduced by presenting in the visual task objects (e.g., a cup with a ...
Study data from Harvard University provide new insights into psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "Metaphor can be thought of as the currency of the emotional mind. It is now generally accepted that metaphor is fundamentally embodied and is not simply a figure of speech," scientists in the United States report. "We now know that metaphor is the expression of a yet to be ...
Scientists at Keio University publish research in behavior research.
May 02, 2009 ... "The amount of information which can be perceived at a glance offers important indicators for text layout. Studies of the size of the effective visual field and average saccade length, in different languages, have clarified the visual capacity for reading," researchers in Fujisawa, Japan ...
Scientists at University of Ghent describe research in psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... "The current study is inspired by recent findings, which suggest that conflict is involved in the updating of memory representations. It directly addresses the relation between memory updating and conflict resolution by means of the one-back choice reaction time (RT) task, an updating ...
New behavior research study results reported from University of Botswana.
May 02, 2009 ... "Five types of imagery used by 188 Nigerian athletes in track and field, soccer, and table tennis were examined using the Sport Imagery Questionnaire [M age for men 24.7 yr. (SD = 3.6) and for women 23.3 yr. (SD = 3.4)] to assess whether these participants differed in their use of ...
Studies from University of British Columbia update current data on psychology.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Kelowna, Canada, "When two targets are embedded in a temporal stream of distractors, second-target identification is initially impaired and then gradually improves as inter-target interval lengthens (attentional blink; AB)." "Notably, in about ...
New psychology study findings have been reported by scientists at University of Erlangen.
May 02, 2009 ... According to recent research from Erlangen, Germany, "Numerous studies found superior performance when the irrelevant location of a stimulus and response location were corresponding than when they were not corresponding (Simon effect), suggesting that stimulus location is processed in an ...