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Teachers’ perspectives on the consequences of managing classroom climate.
(Springer (part of Springer Nature): Springer Open Choice Hybrid Journals, 2018-12)Background: Well-managed, emotionally positive preschool classrooms promote academic and social success (Mashburn et al., 2008). Therefore, learning standards and practitioner guidelines emphasize the maintenance of a ... -
Time Course of Recovery Showing Initial Prefrontal Cortex Changes at 16 weeks, Extending to Subcortical Changes by Three years in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
(Elsevier, 2013-09)Objective: Activation changes at the interface of affective and cognitive systems are examined over a three year period in pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD). Methods: Thirteen participants with PBD and 10 healthy controls ... -
Training thought and action for virtuoso performance
(SAGE Publications, 2018-12)The skills needed to play fast, challenging music with passion and conviction are much the same as the skills needed to play reliably from memory. We illustrate the relationship between virtuosic performance and memorization ... -
Trauma severity and defensive emotion-regulation reactions as predictors of forgetting childhood trauma.
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-04-30)Using a retrospective survey, we studied a sample of 1,679 college women to determine whether reports of prior forgetting of childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other traumas could be explained by trauma severity ... -
The Treatment Advocacy Program: A randomized controlled trial of a peer-led safer sex intervention for HIV-infected Men who have Sex with Men
(American Psychological Association, 2010-12)Objectives: Primary care may be an effective venue for delivering behavioral interventions for sexual safety among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM); however, few studies show efficacy for such an approach. We ... -
Two Case Studies of Preschool Psychosocial Safety Climates
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-01)With the call from federal and state officials to increase access to high-quality early childhood education only growing louder, programs continue to struggle to attract and support a workforce capable of providing such ... -
Unblocking Memory through Directed Forgetting
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-12)The ability to remember an item can be blocked, or negatively primed, by exposure to related items. For example, ALLERGY is less likely to be generated given the word fragment A_L_ _GY if one is first exposed to ANALOGY ... -
Understanding Jurors’ Judgments in Cases Involving Juvenile Defendants: Effects of Confession Evidence and Intellectual Disability
(American Psychological Association, 2012-05)Juveniles are at heightened risk for falsely confessing to crimes, particularly if they are intellectually disabled. We conducted a mock trial experiment to investigate the effects of a juvenile defendant’s confession and ... -
Understanding Preschool Teachers’ Emotional Support as a Function of Center Climate
(SAGE Publications, 2014-12-01)There is great emphasis recently on improving the quality of early childhood education in the United States. Within quality rating improvement systems, classroom quality is often reported at the center or program levels. ... -
Using Eye Movements to Evaluate the Cognitive Processes Involved in Text Comprehension.
(Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2014-01-10)The present article describes how to use eye tracking methodologies to study the cognitive processes involved in text comprehension. Measuring eye movements during reading is one of the most precise methods for measuring ... -
Utopian Hopes or Dystopian Fears? Exploring the Motivational Underpinnings of Moralized Political Engagement
(Sage Publications, 2016-11-23)People are more likely to become politically engaged (e.g., vote, engage in activism) when issues are associated with strong moral convictions. The goal of this research was to understand the underlying motivations that ...