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The Study of Behavior Settings as an Aid in Mental Hospital Analysis: A Methodological Exploration (University of Oregon, 1969-06)The ultimate goal of all mental hospital analyses is to provide information which by direct implication or through analysis might act as a guide in restructuring environment in which the mental patient lives. The goal of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2000)Neurons in the barn owl's inferior colliculus (IC) derive their spatial receptive fields (RF) from two auditory cues: interaural time difference (ITD) and interaural level difference (ILD). ITD serves to restrict a RF in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2002-08)Individual differences in temperament, executive functioning, and pubertal maturation play an important role in adolescent psychosocial outcomes, as do parenting and risk variables. These studies examined relations between ...
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(University of Oregon, 2005-12)Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly called multiple personalities, is a condition in which aspects of experience and memory are separated from each other and from awareness. The current study adds to the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2006-06)The purpose of the current study was to investigate factors that influence the believing of child sexual abuse (CSA) disclosures. CSA is a major public health issue (WHO, 2002). Approximately one third of females and one ...
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(University of Oregon, 2007-12)The main goal of many political and intelligence forecasts is to effectively communicate risk information to decision makers (i.e. consumers). Standard reporting most often consists of a narrative discussion of relevant ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-03)The ability to rapidly change from one course of action to another, i.e. "flexible behavior", is a hallmark of human cognition. Laboratory observations of switch costs, an increase in reaction time and errors when alternating ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-03)Emotional reactions are a critical element in the motivation to help others. For the purpose of the current research, these reactions are broadly conceptualized as focused either on the self or on other human beings. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Sleep studies have rarely explored individual differences in sleep disruption and associated outcomes at early ages. In two studies, this dissertation addresses both of these limitations using actigraphy, an activity-derived ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Emotion experiences such as internalized distress have been described mostly in European Americans and adults in the psychological literature and less in Asian American children. Associations between emotion experience and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)This dissertation examined how cultural influences transmitted within the familial context impact the psychological adjustment of ethnic minority youth through the development of an observational measure of ethnic-racial ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)Improvements in neuroimaging techniques have made it possible to answer questions regarding the neural organization for the processing of syntax in normal participants. In this series of experiments we examined the effects ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)Peer influences on adolescence substance use have been widely demonstrated. In particular, social interactions that are centered around and reinforcing of antisocial values, known as deviant peer contagion, are predictive ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)The purpose of the current study was to examine the role of sociocultural factors in posttraumatic stress. The two major aims were to add to current knowledge about why women report higher rates of posttraumatic stress ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)In the multiple object tracking (MOT) task, observers are presented with multiple identical objects, some of which are temporarily identified as targets. After a selection period, all objects move randomly and independently ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Although research on action processing indicates people segment action according to a partonomic goal hierarchy, no previous research has investigated whether memory for complex human action is actually organized in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This dissertation examined what may account for materialism's relations with psychosocial maladjustment (PM). Materialism is a multi-faceted construct that may differentially involve behavioral tendencies or beliefs and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Research in the warnings literature has investigated several factors that may affect motivation to comply with the information contained in warnings. However, little research in this area has examined the role that emotion ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)While research has extensively documented the inter- and intra-personal consequences of perspective taking, less is known about the mechanisms that underlie this process. Recent research has explored self-other overlap as ...
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