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Browsing Psychology - Faculty Research by Title
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On the Legibility of Mirror-Reflected and Rotated Text
(2017)We happened to observe that text that was reflected about either the horizontal or vertical axis was more difficult to read than text that was reflected about first one and then the other, which amounts to a 180-degree ... -
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Open, Aware, and Active: Contextual Approaches as an Emerging Trend in the Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
(2011)A wave of new developments has occurred in the behavioral and cognitive therapies that focuses on processes such as acceptance, mindfulness, attention, or values. In this review, we describe some of these developments and ... -
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Operationalizing mindfulness without unnecessary attachments
(2004)There are scientific advantages to defining mindfulness in terms of the psychological processes involved. Doing so, however, necessarily uncouples mindfulness from any given technology, including meditation. Defining ... -
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Optic flow detection is not influenced by visual-vestibular congruency
(2018)Optic flow patterns generated by self-motion relative to the stationary environment result in congruent visual-vestibular self-motion signals. Incongruent signals can arise due to object motion, vestibular dysfunction, or ... -
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Parietal Contributions to Visual Working Memory Depend on Task Difficulty
(2012)The nature of parietal contributions to working memory (WM) remain poorly understood but of considerable interest. We previously reported that posterior parietal damage selectively impaired WM probed by recognition (Berryhill ... -
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Perception, unconscious
(Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 2003)Unconscious perception involves the processing of sensory information by the brain in the absence of subjective awareness. The physical properties of sensory stimuli, their meaning, and their emotional significance, may ... -
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Prediction of junior faculty success in biomedical research: comparison of metrics and effects of mentoring programs
(2015)Measuring and predicting the success of junior faculty is of considerable interest to faculty, academic institutions, funding agencies and faculty development and mentoring programs. Various metrics have been proposed to ... -
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Prejudice, terrorism, and behavior therapy
(2002)Behavior therapy is relevant not just to the needs of victims of terrorism, but also to the understanding and modification of psychological processes that lead to the Perpetration of terrorist acts. A key Process of this ... -
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Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: A Revised Measure of Psychological Inflexibility and Experiential Avoidance
(2011)The present research describes the development and psychometric evaluation of a second version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II), which assesses the construct referred to as, variously, acceptance, ... -
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Prescription privileges for psychologists: Constituencies and conflicts
(2002)The pros and cons of the proposal to link prescription privileges specifically to psychological training vary from the point of view of the constituencies involved. The present article analyzes those differences. Two ... -
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Preserved Haptic Shape Processing after Bilateral LOC Lesions
(Journal of Neuroscience, 2015)The visual and haptic perceptual systems are understood to share a common neural representation of object shape. A region thought to be critical for recognizing visual and haptic shape information is the lateral occipital ... -
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Priming tool actions: Are real objects more effective primes than pictures?
(Experimental Brain Research, 2016)Humans are faster to grasp an object such as a tool if they have previewed the same object beforehand. This priming effect is strongest when actors gesture the use of the tool rather than simply move it, possibly because ... -
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Processes of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A Mediation Reanalysis of Zettle and Rains
(2011)Several articles have recently questioned the distinction between acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and traditional cognitive therapy (CT). This study presents a reanalysis of data from Zettle and Rains that compared ... -
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Producing and recognizing analogical relations
(2009)Analogical reasoning is an important component of intelligent behavior, and it key test of any approach to human language and cognition. Only a limited amount of empirical work has been conducted from a behavior analytic ... -
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Psychological flexibility as a mediator of improvement in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for patients with chronic pain following whiplash
(2010)Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has made important contributions to chronic pain management, but the process by which it is effective is not clear. Recently, strong arguments have been raised concerning the need for theory ... -
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Psychological flexibility, ACT, and organizational behavior
(2006)This paper offers organizational behavior management (OBM) a behavior analytically consistent way to expand its analysis of, and methods for changing, organizational behavior. It shows how Relational Frame Theory (RFT) ... -
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Psychology's drug problem - Do we need a fix or should we just say no?
(1996)Five contextual factors give rise to the proposal that psychologists secure prescription privileges: (a) the historical overattachment of applied psychology to psychotherapy; (b) the oversupply of psychotherapists; (c) the ... -
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Quantification of Head Movement Predictability and Implications for Suppression of Vestibular Input during Locomotion
(2017)Achieved motor movement can be estimated using both sensory and motor signals. The value of motor signals for estimating movement should depend critically on the stereotypy or predictability of the resulting actions. As ... -
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Real-world objects are more memorable than photographs of objects
(Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014)Research studies in psychology typically use two-dimensional (2D) images of objects as proxies for real-world three-dimensional (3D) stimuli. There are, however, a number of important differences between real objects and ...