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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Suspiciousness"”.
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Neural Correlates of Suspiciousness in Anxiety and Depression During Emotional Processing
Suspiciousness is an overlooked symptom in the study of mood and anxiety disorders, even though it is present in both clinical and subclinical populations with these symptoms. Moreover, it is possible that it may moderate or mediate relationships between mood and anxiety symptoms and regional brain …
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Emotional Awareness and Peculiar Beliefs
… awareness were additively associated with suspiciousness and interactively associated with dysmorphic body beliefs. These relations varied by sex, and were not artifacts of shared variance with other correlates of peculiar beliefs, such as neuroticism and self-esteem. In contrast to …
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Canadian women and no-crime wrongful convictions: an investigation into whether (and why) women are more frequently wrongfully convicted in no-crime cases against children
… cases, to examine their impact on perceptions of suspiciousness. Study 2 found that the relationship to the child did not impact suspiciousness, but that the type of scenario did, with more sudden emergency type scenarios (e.g., housefires, seizures) viewed as more suspicious than scenarios where …
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Behavioral Economics of Persecutory Delusions
… their etiology. Persecutory delusions and suspiciousness have some overlap with mistrust, and thus this dissertation focuses on the use of trust games to examine behavior and neural mechanisms of spite sensitivity. Spite sensitivity is the fear that a partner is willing to take a hit in …
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Psychological implications of acquired deafness for adults of employment age
… population. Finally, a scale designed to measure suspiciousness was included. Thirty nine (19%) respondents were identified as psychologically disturbed, compared with 5% found in the general population. Those who had a severe hearing loss coupled with poor speech discrimination ability form a …
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Log file anomaly detection using knowledge graphs and graph neural networks
… to the generated KG and employs KGC to determine suspiciousness of new information through binary classification. We evaluated the proposed method using two public datasets with standard KGC metrics. The experimental results demonstrate its promising potential.
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A Bayesian network framework for fusing spectrum-based fault localization and forward slicing
… models the probabilistic relationships between suspiciousness scores and slicing reachability, enabling principled evidence integration. This method is evaluated on multi-fault scenarios using Defects4J and an extended dataset of combined-bug projects, demonstrating consistent improvements over …
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Paranoia and social mistrust in UK and Hong Kong children
Recent work has shown that paranoia - excessive suspiciousness of others - exists on a spectrum of severity in the adult general population. Yet little is known about either the nature of mistrust in children or whether studying paranoia in children could increase our understanding of the aetiology …
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Something Got Into Their Minds: The Rise of Radicalization Discourse in Canada
… mundane behaviours into “indicators” of suspiciousness and risk amongst people of colour. This leads to what I term a “pretrapment” logic whereby thoughts and behaviours racially tagged as “Muslim” are used to justify pre-emptive interventions designed to halt a future terrorist attack. …
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An attempt to minimize the adjustment reaction of aged home entrants in the Greater Cape Town area.
… disturbance (anxiety, depression, hostility and suspiciousness), cognitive disequilibrium (confusion, disorientation and mental disorganization) and social withdrawal (apathy). The present study was designed to assess the efficacy of two different treatment approaches in attenuating this stress. …
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Contributions of Sleep Quality and Dissociation to Attenuated Positive Psychotic Symptom Severity
… and dissociation on unusual thought content, suspiciousness, and perceptual abnormalities. Finally, logistic regression was used to determine if sleep quality and dissociation increase odds of a CHR diagnosis. Analyses of indirect effects revealed a significant indirect effect of sleep …
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La détection de l'abus sexuel chez les filles de 7 à 12 ans au moyen de la technique graphique de Van Hutton
… Accessibility (WGA) et Alertness for Danger, Suspiciousness and Lack of Trust (ADST) du House-Tree-Person and Draw-a-Person as Measures of Abuse in Children que les filles abusées physiquement et les filles non abusées du groupe témoin. L'échelle SRC distingue les groupes d'abus sexuel et …
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An experimental investigation using Cognitive Bias Modification for paranoid attributions in a non-clinical sample: Effects upon interpretation bias, emotions, and paranoia following a stressful paranoia induction.
… a similar increase in state paranoia and suspiciousness after the stressful paranoia induction, and there was no relationship between the trained interpretation bias and the changes in state paranoia. Unexpectedly, pre-existing trait paranoia was correlated with state paranoia and …
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Video-Based Situational Judgment Test Characteristics: Multidimensionality at the Item Level and Impact of Situational Variables
… pleasantness, cooperativeness, sympathy, and suspiciousness) also had a significant impact on appropriate exertion of control. Specific information manipulations (i.e., warrants, complaints, contemptible crimes and laws being broken) also had an impact on appropriate exertion of control. Some …
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Psychological aspects and potential pathogenic processes of achievement striving associated with the Type A personality
… characterized by cynicism, resentment, and suspiciousness toward others as the "toxic" component of the Type A personality. The present study urges that striving toward lofty goals, devaluation of performance, self-blame for failure without taking comparable self-credit for success, along …
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Agents of Evil: Curse Accusations and Shamanic Retaliation in Post-Soviet Tuva (Siberia)
… anxiety and expanding the client’s horizon of suspiciousness in a process of regulating the client’s suspicions and accusations of curse affliction; ultimately, the healing process and the ritual retaliation, achieved through the return of the curses to the enemy, lead to the reduction of the …
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Die samestelling van 'n toetsbattery vir die voorspelling van akademiese sukses van studente aan die Bestuurskool van die Witwatersrandse Technikon
… F(Carefreeness), H (Social venturesomeness), L(Suspiciousness), N(Astuteness) and Ql(Radicalism). Of these eight factors, the differences for the last three are very insignificant. The unsuccessful group obtained higher average scores on the remaining eight factors but once again these …