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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"fearfulness"”.
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The Effect of Jungle Light Spectrum on the Fearfulness of Commercial Broiler Chickens
… to compare production parameters and determine fearfulness of commercial broilers raised under white LED light of ~3500K and a light spectrum that simulates light in the jungle canopy. Four commercial broiler houses were utilized for the trial each with 19,200 birds. The source flocks were …
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The Impact of Fearfulness on Childhood Memory: Attention, Effortful Control, and Visual Recognition Memory
… This study examined the potential role of child fearfulness on the relation between attention, effortful control and visual recognition memory. Behavioral and physiological measurements of fear as well as measures of attention and recognition memory were examined. Behavioral tendencies of …
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Do Expectancies Mediate the Relationship Between Sensitivities and Fearfulness?: An Alternative to Reiss' Expectancy Theory
… paper tests Reiss' (1991) expectancy theory of fearfulness. Reiss' moderation model of fears speculates that individual differences in fearfulness and phobic avoidance is a function of the interaction between trait vulnerabilities (i.e., sensitivities) and beliefs about potential outcomes during …
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The Role of Effortful Control in Moderating the Relationship Between Temperamental Shyness, Fearfulness, and Internalizing Behaviors
… Inhibition (BI) traits, such as Shyness and Fearfulness. While Effortful Control (EC) has been posited as a potential moderator in the relationship between heightened negative emotionality and Internalizing problems, empirical evidence precisely about BI remains inconclusive. This …
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The Effects of Beak Trimming and Claw Reduction on Growing and Early Laying Parameters, Fearfulness, and Heterophil to Lymphocyte Ratios
… feed intake, feed conversion, mortality, and fearfulness were measured. Rearing followed standard commercial feeding and husbandry procedures. During the preliminary experiment, heterophil to lymphocyte ratios did not consistently differ significantly between treatments. The RC birds had …
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Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience
… were also examined based on level of fearfulness as measured by the Fear Survey Schedule-III (Wolpe & Lang, 1964), with higher fearfulness emerging as a predictor of higher effectiveness ratings for fear PSAs. This study has implications for future PSA research as well practical …
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Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience
… were also examined based on level of fearfulness as measured by the Fear Survey Schedule-III (Wolpe & Lang, 1964), with higher fearfulness emerging as a predictor of higher effectiveness ratings for fear PSAs. This study has implications for future PSA research as well practical …
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Student Perceptions of Active Shooters on Campus
… This study examines the impact on students' fearfulness in the wake of the most recent mass murders happening on college campuses at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University.</p>
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Children's emotional and behavioral functioning following the disclosure of extrafamilial sexual abuse.
… group reported more symptoms of depression and fearfulness, were evaluated by the parents as exhibiting more externalizing and internalizing behaviors, and evaluated by the teachers as showing more externalizing difficulties. These problematic behaviors were present within the first three months …
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Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… individual fear types and find that pre-pandemic fearfulness strongly predicts social distancing behavior during COVID-19. This project provides a scalable tool for measuring unobserved subjective traits to predict behaviors under risk and target interventions.
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Taking It To The Streets: A Comparative Analysis Of Violent Victimization, The Victim-Offender Overlap, And The Victim-Fear Relationship Among School And Street-Involved Youth In Toronto
… do not directly translate into a higher level of fearfulness of crime, however, as the street-involved youth report being less fearful on average than do the school-based youth. These results suggest that fearlessness may be a learned adaptation among the street-involved youth to survive life on …
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Central Alpha-Adrenoceptors and Behaviour
… hyperalgesia, potentiation of catalepsy and fearfulness; and, when α1 inhibitory effects are removed, increased activity and potentiation of 5-HT. The drug selectivity found between α1 and α2 receptors in vitro, thus appears to be retained in vivo and may be manifested in the different …
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Social Behavior and Cognitive Bias in the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris)
… aggression toward other dogs and general fearfulness. Increased dog-directed aggression was associated with a more positive judgement bias, while higher levels of fear predicted better discrimination of stimuli.
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Parents’ perceptions of the reactions of children in middle childhood that were involved in an armed robbery
… common, and these included reactions such as fearfulness, clinginess and worrying. Behavioural reactions were the next most common to occur within the respondents and included reactions such as afraid of being alone and of the dark. Physical and social reactions were not as common, but were …
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Evaluating the use and effectiveness of environmental enrichments in intensive broiler housing
… examining the relevance of these behaviours. Fearfulness appeared to be mitigated in houses containing dust baths, which suggests providing broilers with the opportunity to dustbathe may influence their mental state in commercial housing. <br/><br/>This thesis has provided an original …
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Young adults' perceptions of community violence experienced during adolescence
… effects because of their exposure, for example fearfulness, symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), limitations on their free movement in the community, and effects on their school attendance. Furthermore, two often-found reactions, namely desensitisation and the normalisation of …
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Chicken or fish? Do environmental complexity and stocking density impact affective states of broiler chickens and rainbow trout?
… fearful. Environmental complexity did not impact fearfulness. In Chapter 5, a judgement bias test was used to determine affective state of rainbow trout housed in either complex (shelter structure and artificial plants) or barren (no enrichment) tanks under either low or high stocking densities. …
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Patterns of cortisol and DHEA secretion and relationships with attachment style and psychosocial variables in female adolescents: a developmental psychopathology approach
… Insecure attachment characterised by fearfulness and anger was most apparent; a style which was unparalleled in the healthy group of female adolescents. The causal directions of the AN group findings remain unclear. Examining some of the participants with AN as case studies one year …
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