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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"analogue study"”.
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Contextual Behavioral Influences of Perceptions of Relationship Partners: An Analogue Study
… continued participation in a relationship). An analogue preparation was used to examine the effects of available information, learning history, and motivational variables on interpersonal perceptions. Results from 89 participants indicated that providing clear discriminative stimuli for the …
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The role of awe in cognitive restructuring, cognitive reflection, and set shifting: a psychotherapy analogue study
… mental flexibility. This is the first known study assessing the utility of awe in a psychotherapy analog. Participants were randomized into either an awe induction or neutral group. All participants were shown videos that guided participants in restructuring their thoughts. Between the two …
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The Impact of Context of Counselor Touch on Subject Perceptions of Counselor Attractiveness, Expertness, and Trustworthiness and Relationship Positive Regard, Empathy, and Congruence: An Analogue Study
An analogue study was developed to investigate the thesis that the effects of counselor initiated touch are mediated by the nature of the counseling interaction (i.e., context) at the point in the session when the touch occurs. It was hypothesized that touch in a context where touch was congruent …
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Executive Functioning Component Processes and the Causes of Formal Thought Disorder in People With Schizophrenia
… with people with schizophrenia and the other an analogue study with nonpsychiatric participants, context memory predicted FTD. In addition, in both studies, the effect of a context memory deficit was particularly pronounced when combined with an interference suppression deficit. The highest …
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Clinical evaluations of fathers based on sexual orientation and gender role expression
An analogue study was conducted in which 133 counseling psychologists were randomly assigned to read one of four vignettes regarding a father whose sexual orientation and gender role expression were manipulated. The participants evaluated the vignette fathers on measures of personal reactions, …
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Structured reminiscence and gestalt life review : group treatment of older adults for late life adjustment
The present analogue study compared the effects of 2 theoretically divergent Life Review group psychotherapies on aspects of late life adjustment and development. Thirty-six adult non-patients, ages 65 years and older, from the Muncie - Delaware County vicinity, were randomly selected from an …
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An Investigation Into Rate-building and Cues on Conditional Discrimination Performance Using a Repeated Acquisition Procedure
The present study consisted of eleven experiments divided between two series of studies. The first part of Series 1 aimed at replicating the findings of Porritt (2007) and Porritt et al. (2009). Findings from Series 1 showed that rate-building, when number of practices and reinforcement rate are …
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Cognitive factors in NHS staff responses to violence and aggression
… Using a prospective design, the present study sought to establish whether cognitive factors, specified in Ehlers and Clark's (2000) model, could predict symptom severity over and above other established risk factors. The aim was to develop and refine a predictive tool, which could be used …
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Micro-geochemistry of the mantle and its volcanic rocks
… of the primary kimberlite melt. • The first study investigates inter-grain trace element and Sr isotope variation in clinopyroxene (cpx), amphibole and melt from two spinel lherzolite xenoliths from the Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco. These results support a multi-stage metasomatic process …
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The function of attachment in first episode psychosis: a theoretical integration and clinical investigation
… service model explored for the second empirical study in the thesis. The parameters of the onset of psychotic difficulties, and subsequent adaptation to the experience of psychosis are then discussed (Chapter 2). Following this, the current literature on premorbid (i.e. before the onset of …
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The Impact of Mood-State and Emotion Regulation on Negative Appraisal and Neutralising Motivations in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
… activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Study 1 examined the impact of induced anxious, dysphoric and neutral mood-states on negative appraisals and neutralising motivations in response to an induced obsession-like thought. This analogue study utilised a non-clinical sample (N=120) and …
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The Impact of Mood-State and Emotion Regulation on Negative Appraisal and Neutralising Motivations in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
… activity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Study 1 examined the impact of induced anxious, dysphoric and neutral mood-states on negative appraisals and neutralising motivations in response to an induced obsession-like thought. This analogue study utilised a non-clinical sample (N=120) and …
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Sedimentary facies reconstruction and kinematic restoration of an Upper Permian tight gas field, north-western Germany
This study of a tight gas reservoir, located at ~4200 metres depth in the Upper Rotliegend II (Upper Permian) of north-western Germany, includes a geological framework model for the sedimentary facies distribution, which is strongly influenced by the structural grain. Research focused on …