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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Behavioral measure"”.
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Fusion With Self-Referential Labels: Examining A Behavioral Measure
… the environment. Although existing self-report measures sensitive to changes in believability are an important step in establishing the utility of defusion interventions, it is also worthwhile to develop behavioral markers of fusion/defusion with self-referential content. The matching-to-sample …
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Development and validation of a behavioral measure of drug refusal skills in seventh and eighth graders
… of studies created and validated a role-play measure of cigarette, alcohol, and drug refusal skills, the Behavioral Substance Refusal Test (BSRT) for seventh and eighth graders, which included a measure of self-efficacy and outcome expectancies, the Role-play Self-Efficacy and Outcome for …
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Gender and Leadership: Behavioral Differences Exhibited While Leading a Production Simulation
… no significant main effects were found for any behavioral measure. Limitations of the study may have contributed to the non-significant results and the argument is posed that more studies examaining actual leader behaviors should be undertaken.
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The Effects of Injunctive and Descriptive Normative Influence on Stigmatizing Attitudes toward Individuals with Mental Illness
… belief or attitude) can significantly predict behavioral intention and endorsement of particular attitudes and beliefs when manipulated in research with human subjects (Cialdini, Reno, & Kallgren, 1990). However, the role of injunctive and descriptive normative influence has not been considered …
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Predicting Language Impairment Status: A Risk Factor Model
… performance on both the standardized test and a measure of tense and agreement morpheme use (SPELT-FVM classification), thereby limiting the clinical sample to children with specific deficits in grammatical morphology. Step-wise logistic regression and five-fold cross-validation were used to …
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Curiosity Killed the Cat: Investigating a Link between Curiosity and Risk-Taking Propensity
… and a cause of non-sanctioned behaviors and behavioral disorders. This prompts a connection with decision-making, specifically risky decision-making, perhaps with curiosity as a motivating force. In Experiment 1, college students were primed with curiosity, then participated in a lab-based …
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Voxel-Based Lesion Symptom Mapping as a Predictor of Motor Impairment after Stroke
… Timed Up and Go, and walking speed were used as behavioral measures in the analysis. Behavioral measures were significantly correlated with lesion location, with lesions in the left superior temporal gyrus, post-central gyrus, and central fissure significantly predicting deficits in the motor …
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The Effects of Instigation, Experiential Avoidance, and Emotion Dysregulation on Dating Aggression
… in college student dating relationships. A behavioral theory of aggression and violent behavior, I3 Theory predicts that aggressive behavior and dating aggression are most likely to occur in the presence of three processes: instigating cues (e.g., provocation), aggressive-impelling forces …
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Hypomania and the Effects of Working Memory Load on Risk-Taking
… The present study focuses on risk-taking, a behavioral manifestation of impulsivity, and the potential working memory mechanisms responsible for eliciting this behavior in people affected by hypomanic symptoms. Specifically, research suggests that taxing working memory accelerates the process …
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Profile membership of self-worth contingencies predicts well-being, virtues, and values.
… self-enhancement values, and gave the least in a behavioral measure of generosity. Moral Contingents (high contingency in a moral domain; low contingency in other domains) reported the greatest well-being, purpose/meaning, performance virtues, and prosocial virtues, and high self-transcendence and …
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An analysis of the relationship of fraternity membership with members' measured spiritual, religious, and charitable variables
… fraternity membership, before regressing on the measured scores of spiritual, religiosity, and other factors. Fraternity ritual, the moral and ethical foundations of many Greek letter organizations, often is cited as the positive ideal of the organization (Brooks, 1967; Callais, 2005; McMinn, …
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Job satisfaction among blue-collar women: a saliency criterion for measurement
… between job satisfaction attitudes and behavioral indicators of job satisfaction exemplifies the more widely recognized problem of attitude-behavior inconsistency. While various theoretical and methodological explanations for this inconsistency have been offered, it is posited that this …
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FACIAL EXPRESSION DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN PAIN AND ABSENCE OF PAIN IN THE NON-COMMUNICATIVE, CRITICALLY ILL ADULT PATIENT
… use of facial expression is an important behavioral measure of pain intensity, precise and accurate methods for interpreting the specific facial actions of pain in critically ill adults has not been identified. OBJECTIVE: The three specific aims of this prospective study were: 1) to …
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Breast self-examination: the evaluation of strategies for promoting monthly home-practice
… mailed prompts, and no prompts. Compliance was measured during a 7 month period by means of an indirect behavioral measure. Results indicated that although experimental conditions did not differ with respect to mean frequency of BSE, they did differ in terms of proportion of noncompliers and …
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Selective memory impairments produced by transient lidocaine-induced lesions of the nucleus accumbens
… arm maze task has been used as a selective behavioral measure of damage to the hippocampal system, whereas the cued win-stay version of this task is unaffected by hippocampal lesions, but is disrupted by lesions in the dorsal striatum. The present study utilized these two procedures, along …
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Timeline Followback for Exercise among Young Adults
… psychometric properties of a retrospective behavioral measure adapted for exercise called the Timeline Followback for Exercise (TLFB-E). Study one examined criterion, convergent, and predictive validity. Study two examined test-retest reliability. <strong><em>Methods:</em></strong> Study one …
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Identification Of A Treatment-Resistant, Ketamine-Sensitive Genetic Line In The Chick Anxiety-Depression Model
… chambers for a 90-minute test period. The behavioral measure of distress vocalizations (DVocs) was recorded via custom designed software. Replication and validation of previous findings of stress sensitivity in the two genetic lines was measured by calculation of the onset of behavioral …
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Cognitive Defusion and Psychological Flexibility With Self-Relevant Academic Distress Stimuli
… Assessment Procedure (IRAP) was used as a behavioral measure to gauge any changes in psychological flexibility. The IRAP compared latency of correct responses to tasks consistent and inconsistent with negative self-relevant thinking about academics. No statistically significant effect was …
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Database of Picture-Based Cognitive Reappraisal Experiments: Analyses of Trial-Level Factors
… negative affect between conditions serves as the behavioral measure of reappraisal success. While reappraisal effects have been seen across multiple variations of this paradigm, there are several trial-level parameters that might contribute to the overall effectiveness of reappraisal but are …
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The Development of Reward Sensitivity- Exploring the Role of Culture and Parental Education on Adolescent Development
… Reward-seeking behaviors were assessed using measures of sensation-seeking, a psychological manifestation of reward-sensitivity. Participants (N= 4620) aged 10-25 from 11 diverse countries (China, Italy, Kenya, Thailand, Colombia, Jordan, Sweden, US, Philippines, India and Cyprus) completed a …
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