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Browsing Psychology - Faculty Research by Title
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Scientific Standards of Psychological Practice: Issues and Recommendations
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Seeking Cultural Competence From the Ground Up
(2011)The present article briefly reviews early evidence of the applicability of acceptance and commitment therapy and its underlying psychological flexibility model to Asians and Asian Americans. Cultural adaptation is an ... -
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Selectivity of Face Aftereffects for Expressions and Anti-Expressions
(2012)Adapting to a facial expression can alter the perceived expression of subsequently viewed faces. However, it remains unclear whether this adaptation affects each expression independently or transfers from one expression ... -
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Selectivity of Face Distortion Aftereffects for Differences in Expression or Gender
(2012)The perceived configuration of a face can be strongly biased by prior adaptation to a face with a distorted configuration. These aftereffects have been found to be weaker when the adapt and test faces differ along a number ... -
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Self-Stigma in Substance Abuse: Development of a New Measure
(2013)Little attention has been paid to the examination and measurement of self-stigma in substance misuse. This paper aims to fill this gap by reporting on the development of a new scale to measure self-stigma experienced by ... -
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Should the behavioral sciences become more pragmatic? The case for functional contextualism in research on human behavior
(1996)Although societal need for behavioral science research is enormous, current research practices seem to be inefficient vehicles for producing knowledge that guides practical action. Many of our most popular theories provide ... -
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Targeting Shame in Substance Use Disorders
(2012)Objective: Shame has long been seen as relevant to substance use disorders, but interventions have not been tested in randomized trials. This study examined a group-based intervention for shame based on the principles of ... -
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Stigma predicts residential treatment length for substance use disorder
(2014)Background: Stigma has been suggested as a possible contributor to the high rates of treatment attrition in substance-dependent individuals, but no published empirical studies have examined this association. Objectives: ... -
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Stimulus Requirements for Face Perception: An Analysis Based on “Totem Poles”
(2013)The stimulus requirements for perceiving a face are not well defined but are presumably simple, for vivid faces can often by seen in random or natural images such as cloud or rock formations. To characterize these requirements, ... -
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Stimulus- and goal-driven biases of selective attention following unilateral brain damage: Implications for rehabilitation of spatial neglect and extinction
(Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 2006)In this review we address the question of whether selective attentional mechanisms within the ipsilesional field are intact in unilateral lesion patients with spatial neglect and extinction. We consider how a lesion-induced ... -
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Substance abuse and psychological flexibility: The development of a new measure
(2011)Psychological flexibility is a relatively new clinical construct targeted by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a behavior analytic treatment incorporating mindfulness and values interventions, among other processes. Poor ... -
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Suitability of Bupropion SR for nicotine-dependent smokers: Problems in a practice setting
(2004)Background: Bupropion SR ( Zyban) has been shown in randomized controlled trials to be an efficacious pharmacological aid for smoking cessation; however, recent reports have raised serious concerns about the breadth of its ... -
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Suppression, Acceptance, and Monitoring of Personally-Relevant Unwanted Thoughts in Women Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder
(2015)Recent evidence suggests that patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) experience less immediate distress while suppressing unwanted thoughts, despite the negative long-term outcomes of that strategy longitudinally ... -
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Task demands, tDCS intensity, and the COMT val(158)met polymorphism impact tDCS-linked working memory training gains
(2017)Working memory (WM) training paired with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can improve executive function in older adults. The unclear mechanism of tDCS likely depends on tDCS intensity, and task relevant ... -
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Taxonomy as a contexualist views it
(2004)The Henriques' article, “Psychology Defined” (this issue, pp. 1207-1221), reflects an underlying philosophy of science that emphasizes coherence as its truth criterion. The taxonomic efforts that result are of unknown value ... -
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Teaching Acceptance and Mindfulness to Improve the Lives of the Obese: A Preliminary Test of a Theoretical Model
(2009)Obesity is a growing epidemic. Weight control interventions can achieve weight loss, but most is regained over time. Stigma and low quality of life are significant problems that are rarely targeted. A new model aimed at ... -
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Technology, theory, and the alleviation of human suffering: We still have such a long way to go
(1997)Behavior therapy promised more adequate behavior change technologies through scientific validation, more adequate theories of behavior change, and widespread social betterment and alleviation of human suffering. The promise ... -
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The Call for Component Analyses of the Saudi Arabian Risk Reduction Initiative: An Examination of Religious Re-education’s Role in the Deradicalization and Disengagement Process
(6/25/2016)Is it possible to dissolve the violent religious ideology behind the majority of terrorist behavior and keep the ‘person’ intact? This proposal suggests a potential method to assess the impact of religious re-education on ...