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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"College students--Washington (State)--Cheney--Psychology"”.
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The effects of emotional interrupt on reaction times in primary and secondary psychopathy
<p>The emotional interrupt task is presented as a motor response task that is bracketed by emotional images. The motor response task, in this study, is presented as a reaction time task. The participants either choose the left or right finger as a response to the circle or square on the screen, …
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How do grateful people cope?: exploring the mechanism of positive reappraisal
<p>"After one has experienced a trauma, an important aspect of recovery is posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth helps people move past negative life events with good mental health. Research has indicated a relationship between post-traumatic growth and gratitude. However, there has been …
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I'm not all that: a look at the imposter phenomenon in intimate relationships
… The sample population consisted of Eastern Washington University students who filled out several questionnaires that pertain to the imposter phenomenon, attachment styles, and relationship experiences. Results suggested that individuals with a fearful or preoccupied attachment style have …
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Grateful recounting: do differences in participants' writing impact well-being?
<p>Studies have shown gratitude treatments to successfully enhance well-being in participants. Of these treatments, the ones most frequently used are what Watkins (2014) referred to as grateful recounting tasks. These tasks generally involve participants writing down things in their life that they …
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Who would you want in your life?: Discrimination against morning and evening people
… people. One hundred fifty-six undergraduate students from Eastern Washington University were- asked to rate how likely they would be to choose to do certain activities with a morning person or an evening person. Participants were also given a self-report measure of their own circadian …
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The narcissistic teammate: effects of narcissistic subtypes on self-serving attributional biases
… behavior differently in various situations. College students completed a team activity, which involved completing cognitive tasks on private computers, and received randomly generated feedback of team success or failure. Participants then took a short questionnaire with the supposed …
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Cognitive bias modification-attention: training at home with multiple sessions
… occurring psychiatric disorder in the United States (Beard, 2011). One type of treatment, Cognitive Bias Modification for Attention (CBM-A), has been shown to be an effective alternative for those who do not benifit other popular treatments (Ballinger, 2004). People with high levels of anxiety …
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Anger maintenance and the impact of shame, attachment, and experiential avoidance
<p>Prior to the present study, the relationships between attachment, shame, experiential avoidance, and anger had not been empirically evaluated. This study investigated the influence of shame and attachment style on anger and experiential avoidance. Additionally, this study also explored the …
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Effects of a 10-week mental skills training intervention infused into a pre-existing English composition course
… resilience) can have transformative effects on students' experience/achievement. However, few in academia have taken Dweck and colleagues (2011) advice and developed interventions specifically targeting this skill set. In this study, "academic tenacity" was taught by infusing mental …
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Cynicism and narcissism: masking the good life?
… as significant inhibitors of trait and state gratitude over time (Solom, Watkins, McCurrach, & Scheibe, 2016). The current study hoped to build upon those results by examining whether these two possible inhibitors affect grateful processing after a gratitude induction. I hypothesized …
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Aggressive and depressed: long-term outcomes of childhood maltreatment
<p>"Prior research has established a relationship between childhood maltreatment and resulting maladaptive outcomes, specifically, aggressive behaviors and depressive symptomology. The present research sought to extend the current body of literature by determining whether distinctive forms and …