We are proud to share our faculty and graduate students' accomplishments in research. We have 7 new publications in our department.
14 The Predictive Value of General Intelligence
PR SACKETT, OR SHEWACH, JA DAHLKE - Human Intelligence: An Introduction, 2019
The chapters you have read so far have looked at various approaches for understanding and measuring intelligence. Our focus in this chapter is on the predictive value of measures of general cognitive ability. We write as applied …
[HTML] Epigenome-wide association study of depression symptomatology in elderly monozygotic twins
A Starnawska, Q Tan, M Soerensen, M McGue, O Mors… - Translational Psychiatry, 2019
Depression is a severe and debilitating mental disorder diagnosed by evaluation of affective, cognitive and physical depression symptoms. Severity of these symptoms strongly impacts individual's quality of life and is influenced by a combination of …
15 The Relationship of Intelligence to Other Psychological Traits
CG DEYOUNG - Human Intelligence: An Introduction, 2019
People differ in intelligence, and they also differ psychologically in many other important ways. Psychologists use the term “personality” to describe all relatively stable individual differences in behavior, motivation, emotion, and cognition (Mc …
The DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and Clinical Treatment: a Review
C Rodriguez-Seijas, C Ruggero, NR Eaton, RF Krueger - Current Treatment Options in …
Purpose of review The goal of the current paper is to review the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), with particular focus on treatment of personality pathology. We briefly outline limitations of the traditional personality …
Post-sexual assault cigarette smoking: Findings from a randomized clinical trial of a video-based intervention
K Walsh, AK Gilmore, J Schumacher, S Coffey, P Frazier… - Addictive Behaviors, 2019
Sexual assault (SA) is associated with elevated risk for cigarette smoking. The current study tested whether a brief video intervention delivered in the emergency department was effective at reducing smoking following SA. Participants were 233 …
Parent Socialization of Positive and Negative Emotions: Implications for Emotional Functioning, Life Satisfaction, and Distress
JL Ramakrishnan, RB Garside, MH Labella, B Klimes-Dougan - Journal of Child and Family …, 2019
Objectives Few studies have explored the implications of parent socialization of positive emotions in children. Further, when considering outcomes of children, the focus has been primarily on links between parental emotion socialization and …
[HTML] Episodic curiosity for avoiding asteroids: Per-trial information gain for choice outcomes drive information seeking
L Holm, G Wadenholt, P Schrater - Scientific reports, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Humans often appear to desire information for its own sake, but it is presently unclear what drives this desire. The important role that resolving uncertainty plays in stimulating information seeking has suggested a tight coupling between the intrinsic motivation to gather information and performance gains, construed as a drive for long-term learning. Using an asteroid-avoidance game that allows us to study learning and information seeking at an experimental time-scale, we show that the incentive for information-seeking can be …