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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 ... -
Longitudinal effects of maternal love withdrawal and guilt induction on Chinese American preschoolers’ bullying aggressive behavior
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-01-10)Bullying has been understudied among preschool children, especially those from Chinese American families. Previous research has also neglected the dimensional effects of psychological control on child bullying development. ... -
Looking Around
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Mand compliance as a contingency controlling problem behavior: A systematic review
(Wiley Online Library, 2020-09-02)Bowman et al. (1997) described a dynamic contingency in which severe problem behavior was evoked by adult noncompliance with a variety of child mands, which occurred at high rates, and was reinforced by adult compliance ... -
Manipulating Establishing Operations to Verify and Establish Stimulus Control during Mand Training
(Wiley Online Library, 2007-12)Acquisition of verbal behavior is a major goal of interventions for children with developmental disabilities. We evaluated the effectiveness of manipulation of an establishing operation for functional discriminated mands. ... -
Marijuana use and health behaviors in a US clinic sample of patients with sickle cell disease
(PLOS, 2020-07-14)Abstract Introduction As marijuana use becomes more common, it is essential clinicians understand the relationship between marijuana use and health behaviors. Methods Using a retrospective cohort of adolescents and ... -
The Measure of Sickle Cell Stigma: Initial findings from the Improving Patient Outcomes through Respect and Trust study
(SAGE, 2014-07-04)Research about the influence of stigma on health outcomes in sickle cell disease is limited. We administered the recently developed Measure of Sickle Cell Stigma to 262 patients in the United States. The Measure of Sickle ... -
Measurement Invariance of Psychotic-Like Symptoms as Measured With the Prodromal Questionnaire, Brief Version (PQ-B) in Adolescent and Adult Population Samples
(Frontiers, 2021-01-21)Valid measurement of group differences in self-reported psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) requires knowing any group-specific measurement properties of the instruments. We investigated the measurement invariance of the ... -
Membership vs. Being of the Community: A Qualitative Study of the Go-Go Music-Cultural Community
(2018-01-01)Community membership is an important element of McMillan and Chavis’ (1986) classic sense of community framework, which has been a staple in community psychology research. The present study explored the extent to which ... -
A Mingled Yarn
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Minor Physical Anomalies, Dermatoglyphic Asymmetries, and Cortisol Levels in Adolescents With Schizotypal Personality Disorder
(American Psychiatric Association, 1999-04-01)A relationship between schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia has been documented in behavioral genetic studies, and there are similarities in the cognitive deficits and brain abnormalities associated with these ... -
Mismatch and lexical retrieval gestures are associated with visual information processing, verbal production, and symptomatology in youth at high risk for psychosis
(Elsevier, 2014-07-04)Introduction Gesture is integrally linked with language and cognitive systems, and recent years have seen a growing attention to these movements in patients with schizophrenia. To date, however, there have been no ... -
Modeling Space Radiation Induced Cognitive Dysfunction Using Targeted And Non-Targeted Effects
(2020-12-01)Radiation-induced cognitive dysfunction is increasingly recognized as an important risk for human exploration of distant planets. Mechanistically-motivated mathematical modeling helps to interpret and quantify this phenomenon. ... -
Momentary Blessings
(Otter Bay Books, 2019)