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Identifying and Responding to the Complex Needs of Domestic Violence Housing Practitioners at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The social, financial, and emotional repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic has left many organizations that support survivors of intimate partner violence questioning how to maintain core services while addressing compounding ... -
Identifying possible contingencies during descriptive analyses of severe behavior disorders
(Wiley Online Library, 2001-08)Contingencies of reinforcement involve, in part, relations between behavior and subsequent environmental events. In this study we observed 11 individuals with developmental disabilities and severe behavior problems while ... -
Identity Synthesis as a Pathway Linking Parenting and Emerging Adults’ Internalizing Problems
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2019-01-11)Objectives The present study examined identity synthesis as a linking pathway in the association between perceived parenting (autonomy support, dependency-oriented psychological control, and achievement-oriented psychological ... -
Idiographically-determined versus standard absorption periods in alcohol administration studies
(Wiley, 2010-03-10)BACKGROUND Effects of alcohol vary depending on blood alcohol level and limb. Some researchers use standard absorption periods (SAPs) to determine when post-drinking experimental protocols should begin. Others use an ... -
The impact of age on the validity of psychosis-risk screening in a sample of help-seeking youth
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-04)Self-report screening instruments offer promise in furthering early identification of at-risk youth, yet current efforts are limited by false positive rates. Identifying moderators of accuracy is a potential step towards ... -
The Impact of Criminal Record Stigma on Quality of Life: A Test of Theoretical Pathways
(Wiley, 2020-08-10)Across multiple stigmatized groups, research suggests that stigma may negatively impact individual wellbeing. This impact often occurs through a sequential pathway that includes perceiving societal stigma, a diminished and ... -
In memoriam Joel D. Greenspan 1952 to 2021
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INCENTIVIZING ATTENDANCE TO PROLONGED EXPOSURE FOR PTSD IN OPIOID USE DISORDER PATIENTS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
(American Psychological Association, 2017-04-17)OBJECTIVE To determine whether contingent monetary incentives increase opioid use disorder patients’ attendance to Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy and whether attendance is associated with improvement in posttraumatic ... -
Indirect Effects of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Sexual Risk-Taking: The Roles of Subjective and Physiological Sexual Arousal
(Springer Nature, 2008-04-23)Three experiments supported the idea that alcohol fosters sexual risk-taking in men and women, in part, through its effects on sexual arousal. In Experiment 1, increasing alcohol dosage (target blood alcohol levels of .00, ... -
Individual Differences and Psychosis-Risk Screening: Practical Suggestions to Improve the Scope and Quality of Early Identification
(Frontiers Media S.A, 2019-02-14)Approaches to identifying individuals at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis currently do not carefully weigh considerations around individual differences. Effective identification depends on awareness of factors beyond ... -
Interactive Relations of Racial Discrimination and Poverty Status and Sex with Blood Pressure among African Americans: HANDLS
(2019-01-01)Racial discrimination has been linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD), but little is known about the pathways of this association due to limitations in previous literature. Specifically, more research is needed on the ... -
The Inventor as Observer
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Investigating the Relation Between Low-Income Parents’ Educational Involvement and Classroom Variables on Children’s Reading Skills
(2018-01-01)This study examined the relation between low-income parents’ educational involvement, measured as a composite of home- and school-based activities, and children’s reading skills in first grade. Class size, amount of reading ... -
It’s not just ABCs – preschool parents worry their kids are missing out on critical social skills during the pandemic
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Keep it simple: streamlining book illustrations improves attention and comprehension in beginning readers
This study used eye-tracking to examine whether extraneous illustration details—a common design in beginning reader storybooks—promote attentional competition and hinder learning. The study used a within-subject design ... -
The Knife and the Pumpkin
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Latina mothers’ engagement in children’s math learning in the early school years: Conceptions of math and socialization practices
(Elsevier, 2019-01)This study addressed the important role that the home plays just prior to or at the start of formal schooling, in facilitating children’s math learning. Although research on home influences is a burgeoning area, there has ...