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Using Digital Implementation Intentions to Enhance Habit Formation in Users of an Awareness-Enhancing Wearable Device for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
(2023-04-20)
Although wearable devices have become popular vehicles for contemporary health behavior change interventions, early discontinuation by users is an enduring challenge. Not only do long-term wearable device users rely on ...
Analyzing Stress Appraisals, Coping Strategies and Defense Mechanisms of Adults in Jamaica and in the United States: A Cross-Cultural Study
(2023-05-01)
The chief aim of this study is to explore coping strategies and defense mechanisms in a cross-cultural manner between American and Jamaican individuals. This study is a comparative analysis of the two groups based on ...
The Relationship Between Perceived Criticism and Trait Victimhood
(2023-04-20)
Those who perceive that people are more critical of them also tend to feel more victimized in their relationships. This relationship was measured with the Perceived Criticism scale which reliably predicts relapse and ...
Beyond life-history plasticity: Reconsidering environmental harshness and unpredictability as determinants of human cooperative strategy
(2023-01-10)
Human cooperation has mostly been explained with the theory of reciprocal altruism, in which return is essentially delayed. A body of life-history psychology literature, therefore, articulates that individuals who grew up ...
Travel Far Enough, Meet Yourself: Subjective Interoception, Emotion Regulation, and the Psychedelic Experience—Implications for Crisis Management in Middle Adulthood
(2023-01-17)
This study investigated the prevalence of crisis episodes in middle adulthood
(ages 35 to 60) and possible relationships between crisis/stress, interoception, emotion
regulation, resilience, and psychedelic experiences. A ...
Juror decision making: Does expert testimony produce improved accuracy when an eyewitness is confident?
(2023-05-01)
This study was an experiment comparing participant responses to a mock trial script including confident eyewitness testimony (that was either supported or contradicted by the mock trial evidence presented in the script) ...
The role of values in the effectiveness of prejudice reduction efforts
(2023-04-21)
With the growing influx of immigrants in Canada, prejudice reduction interventions are gaining popularity. These interventions have garnered mixed success in reducing prejudice. A review of the interventions suggests an ...
Perceptions of Psychopathy and Defendant Controllability: Juror Decision-Making, Death Penalty Sentencing, and Courtroom Strategies
(2023-01-09)
The purpose of this research study was to examine how juror sentencing decisions relate to perceptions of defendant psychopathy and perceptions of defendant controllability. It was predicted that perceptions of higher ...
Understanding Harassment Inside Online Communities: The Role of Social Identity Threat
(2023-04-25)
This research used two survey studies to investigate how situational factors can cause online harassment by measuring the level of support for harassment in reaction to social identity threats inside online communities. A ...
Exposure to Credibility-Enhancing Displays Predicts Adoption of Conspiracy Beliefs
(2023-04-28)
Conspiracy beliefs appear endemic to human culture. These beliefs cause real harm to the individuals who espouse them and to their communities. To date much of the scholarly focus on conspiracy beliefs has been limited to ...