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Women’s Understanding Of Personal Breast Cancer Risk — Does Education Level Matter?
A woman’s understanding of her own breast cancer risk is an important precursor for care. A valid estimate would allow for a greater opportunity to consider early detection modalities and chemopreventive medications. The objective of this study is to compare patients' perceived breast cancer risk versus their calculated risk and then parse those findings by educational level. Sarah Herman and and Stephen Sullivan Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls Jonathan Herman Hofstra North Shore–LIJ Medical School Joseph Indelicato Touro College, NY
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Reducing the Public Health Burden of Drug Abuse
Minda Lynch of the National Institute on Drug Abuse presented her research on "Reducing the Public Health Burden of Drug Abuse: Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse" at the 25th APS Annual Convention in Washington, DC.
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Child Abuse Witness Status, Gender, Adult Victimization Risk and Adult Victimization Acknowledgement
Witnessing abuse as a child and adult IPV or rape victimization acknowledgement were assessed. Male witnesses reported higher victimization than non-witnesses. Male and female witnesses were more likely than non-witnesses to acknowledge physical victimization. Male witnesses were less likely to acknowledge sexual victimization. Implications for child abuse witnesses were discussed. Kirsten D. Leaberry, Emily A. Boren, Eva C. Jorgensen-Graham, James J. Rossi, Caroline M. Clements, Devin R. Barlaan, and Justin P. Parke University of North Carolina Wilmington
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Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Abuse Severity
The impact of ethnicity, SES, and abuse severity on psychopathology following IPV was assessed. Overall, Caucasians reported more psychopathology than African Americans. Low SES predicted higher psychopathology for African Americans with high abuse severity, but not Caucasians at all abuse levels. Ethnic and SES sensitive interventions are discussed. Emily A. Boren, Darcey L. D'Amato, Eva C. Jorgensen-Graham, Caroline M. Clements, Erin D. Churchill, Amy M. Phillips, Sierra K. Wait University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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An Assessment of the Validity of a Self-Scored Creativity Test
We assessed the Purdue Creativity test's self-scoring system by comparing self-scores of 92 AP Psychology students to the scores given by a panel of the student's peers. We found that there was, on average, a 7.08% exaggeration of self-score as well as a positive correlation between self-scores and that exaggeration. Brad M. Wray, Kaelin L. Holdaway, Ashleigh Rama, Taylor Rama Arundel High School
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Overreactions to Interpersonal Events
Participants described and answered questions about situations in which they experienced negative emotions as the result of another person’s behavior. Participants’ reactions to these situations were explained by their perceptions of social exchange rule violations, controlling for the tangible consequences of the events and effects on their self-views. Kate J. Diebels and Mark R. Leary Duke University
