We are proud to share our faculty and graduate students' accomplishments in research. We have 8 new publications in our department.
Low self-esteem predicts out-group derogation via collective narcissism, but this relationship is obscured by in-group satisfaction.
A de Zavala Golec, CM Federico, C Sedikides… - Journal of personality and …, 2019
According to social identity theory, low self-esteem motivates group members to derogate out-groups, thus achieving positive in-group distinctiveness and boosting self-esteem. According to the Frankfurt School and status politics theorists, low self …
Personality, romantic relationships, and alcohol use disorder symptoms in adolescence and young adulthood: An evaluation of personality× social context interplay
DR Samek, BM Hicks, WG Iacono, M McGue - Development and Psychopathology, 2019
Prior research has shown that person-level characteristics (eg, temperament, personality) correlate and interact with social-contextual factors (eg, parent–child relationship quality, antisocial peer affiliation) to predict adolescent substance use …
Neural Evidence of Superior Memory: How to Capture Brain Activities of Encoding Processes Underlying Superior Memory
JS Yoon, J Harper, WR Boot, Y Gong, EM Bernat - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
Relatively little attention has been paid to the neural basis of superior memory despite its potential in providing important insight into efforts to improve memory in the general population or to offset age-related cognitive decline. The current study …
No effects of attention or visual perceptual load on cochlear function, as measured with stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions
JA Beim, AJ Oxenham, M Wojtczak - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2019
The effects of selectively attending to a target stimulus in a background containing distractors can be observed in cortical representations of sound as an attenuation of the representation of distractor stimuli. The locus in the auditory system at which …
[PDF] Abnormal neural functions associated with motor inhibition deficits in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
AC Van Voorhis, JS Kent, SS Kang, VM Goghari, A MacDonald… - Human Brain Mapping, 2019
Deficits in response inhibition have been observed in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; however, the neural origins of the abnormalities and their relevance to genetic liability for psychosis are unknown. We used a stop‐signal task to examine …
Examining Potential Psychosocial Mediators in a Physical Activity Intervention for Older Adults
SK McMahon, B Lewis, JM Oakes, JF Wyman, W Guan, AJ Rothamn - Western Journal of Nursing …, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine psychosocial constructs targeted as potential mediators in a prior physical activity (PA) intervention study. This secondary analysis used data from 102 older adults randomized to one of four conditions …
[HTML] White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: A coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group
LS van Velzen, S Kelly, D Isaev, A Aleman, LI Aftanas…B Klimes-Dougan... - Molecular Psychiatry, 2019
Alterations in white matter (WM) microstructure have been implicated in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD). However, previous findings have been inconsistent, partially due to low statistical power and the heterogeneity of …
A Framework for Identifying Neurobiologically Based Intervention Targets for NSSI
MW Schreiner, B Klimes-Dougan, A Parenteau, D Hill… - Current Behavioral …, 2019
Although the extant neurobiological research on NSSI still faces some limitations, recent advances in knowledge in this area have begun to identify possible treatment targets. Next steps should (a) confirm the relevance of these targets to NSSI using …