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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
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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
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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
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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
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Parkinsonian Executive Dysfunction Is Associated With Reduced Serotonin
Executive function was examined in mice lesioned with MPTP. MPTP did not affect baseline performance of the tasks. When challenged with shorter cue durations, reaction times were slower in lesioned mice. When pre-cue times were
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Articulating Oral Health Behavior Change in HIV-Positive Adults with Health Behavior Theory
At baseline, we delivered Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IBM) Model-informed oral health behavior change messages to HIV-infected adults with periodontal disease. At recall, subjects self-reported making specific behavior changes; more rigorous research is presently limited by the
