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Considerations of Reusing Multiple Choice Items to Assess Medical Certification Repeat Examinees
(2018-07-30)As gatekeepers to medical specialty practice, medical boards are responsible for accurately identifying who is qualified for certification. Boards often utilize comprehensive multiple choice exams to assess minimum ... -
The Effects of Racial Categorization Struggle
(2018-07-18)Foundational social psychologists (e.g., Allport, 1954; Tajfel, 1969; Sherif, 1948) viewed categorization as an inevitability that eases the cognitive demands of encountering other people. However, there is limited evidence ... -
Component Racialism and Race-Based Perceptions: The Roles of Racial and Biogeographical Ancestries
(2018-06-29)This research investigates a novel concept, component racialism: the belief that racial groups possess unique genetic configurations that determine within-racial group similarities and between-racial group differences in ... -
An Investigation of Neurophysiological Responses to Multiple Types of Social Feedback
(2018-06-21)The processing of rewarding and social stimuli is important for survival, and abnormal social or reward processing is linked to many psychopathologies. Although most studies examining reward processing have focused on ... -
Racism-Related Vigilance and Sleep Quality: Pathways Linking Discrimination and Depression among Latinos
(2018-05-10)Mental health disparities exist between Latina/o students and their non-Latina/o white counterparts, with Latina/o students experiencing higher rates of mental health problems. Mounting evidence suggests that discrimination ... -
Sexual Agency During Adolescence: Relationships, Desire and Negotiation
(2018-05-03)Adolescence is an important developmental period during which young people come to understand themselves as sexual actors, develop a sexual identity, and develop skills necessary for navigating sexuality development across ... -
Patterns and Outcomes of Parent Participation in Flexible Paraprofessional-Led Services
(2018-02-26)This longitudinal open trial draws on data from a prevention and early intervention service model to enhance school engagement for children in prekindergarten through third grade and their families. The service model was ... -
Affective Forecasting Failures and Attitude Change in the Context of Political Policy Upheaval
(2018-08-17)Although past research has established that people are poor at forecasting their affective responses to future events, it is not yet clear what the consequences of these errors may be. The current dissertation explored ... -
The Impact of Test-Taker Criticism on Educators' Question Review Self-Efficacy and Test Review Quality
(2018-08-17)Research has revealed the value of college admissions testing on the college application and admissions process. The combination of college admission test scores and the applicant’s high school grade point average help the ... -
Expected and Actual Mood Regulation associated with Electronic Cigarette Use
(2018-08-08)Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) represent a family of nicotine-delivery devices that have been gaining in popularity in the past ten years, primarily among cigarette smokers. While the literature evaluating the prevalence, ... -
Correlates of Intra- and Inter-Group Discrimination and Associations with Mental Health among Latina/os
(2018-08-02)There is increasing concern about the mental health of Latina/os in the United States (U.S.), especially in the face of an unprecedented rise in anti-immigrant sentiments and legislation. Latina/o college students, in ... -
Do Ideological Misfits Find Fit Online?: One Explanation for Selective Exposure
(2018-07-18)While a considerable amount of research has examined the extent to which liberals and conservatives find ideologically similar others online, we do not know much about contextual factors (i.e. the political communities in ... -
Pro-inflammatory Cytokines, Childhood Trauma, and Neuropsychological Function in Adolescent Depression
(2018-06-20)Pro-inflammatory cytokines have been linked to early childhood trauma and adversity, depression, and impairment in executive function and memory in adults. Whether these links are present during adolescence, a critical ... -
Positive and Negative Empathy: Two Pathways to Enhanced Social Connection
(2018-05-16)Our capacity for empathy is perhaps one of the qualities that characterizes our humanity. Yet little is known about the specific mechanisms by which it fosters an uncanny sense of closeness among individuals. In the present ... -
Examining the Ecology of Preschool Expulsion Decision Making
(2018-05-10)In Chicago and across the country, some of our youngest children are facing the harshest of disciplinary practices in education: expulsion. Expulsion at any age is understood to greatly increase a child’s likelihood of ... -
Self-Compassion and Sensory Processing Sensitivity among Sexual Minorities: A Minority Stress Framework
(2018-08-16)The negative impact of discrimination on psychopathology symptoms, or mental illness, among gender and sexual minorities is well established (Institute of Medicine, 2011). The dual-continua model of mental health suggests ... -
How White Identity Forms Shape Black-White Interracial Interactions
(2018-07-23)Although researchers and lay people alike often treat Whiteness as unmarked or invisible (Knowles & Peng, 2005), empirical work confirms that White Americans vary in how they think about their racial identity and the ... -
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, Tract-Based Structural Connectomics, and Cognition in Older Adults
(2018-06-27)Cardiovascular disease risk factors (CVD-RFs) are associated with decreased gray and white matter integrity and cognitive impairment in older adults. Less is known regarding the interplay between CVD-RFs, structural integrity ... -
Positivity Bias Deficits in Emotional Experience: An EMA Study of Anhedonia in Schizophrenia
(2018-04-12)People with schizophrenia report anhedonia during structured clinical interviews and on self-report measures, yet when exposed to pleasurable stimuli in experimental paradigms, they report positive hedonic experiences to ... -
Relationships among Student Social-Emotional Competence, Academic Performance, and Attendance
(2018-04-05)Previous research connects social-emotional competence (SEC) with a variety of positive academic and school outcomes. However, there is a lack of research evidence about whether SEC provides similar benefits to students ...