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Targeting Negative Urgency and Expectancies in Persuasive Messaging
… reduced substance use. However, trait negative urgency, a unique domain of impulsivity involving rash action during negative affect, has yet to be used as a target for prevention efforts. Although scholars have suggested targeting both negative urgency and outcome expectancies in prevention …
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An Investigation into the Perceived Urgency of Auditory Warnings
This thesis considers the perceived urgency of sound, with specific reference to auditory warning design. Psychophysical techniques were investigated as a means of measuring perceived urgency. The biases inherent in different techniques were reviewed. Free modulus magnitude estimation, fixed …
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Mood and urgency effects on activation of alcohol cognitions
… in a specific component of impulsivity, urgency. We tested the effect of mood on positive alcohol associations in general using the Implicit Association Test (Study 1) and as a function of expectancy content domains using the Expectancy Accessibility Task (Study 2). Overall, our results …
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The influence of uncertainty and urgency on visuomotor decision making
… conditioned on visual information and urgency, are used in deciding between options in a timed visuomotor task. Subjects tended to split their time between deciding and aiming in a way that brought their performance close to models that maximized expected probability of a hit and …
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The Urgency of Presence: Designing Healing Community Spaces After Displacement
Named for its proximity to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, “Mass. and Cass” is an informal neighborhood in Boston that is often described in the news with disaster-tinged language like “epicenter” and “tent city”. After this neighborhood was declared a “public …
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An Empirical Phenomenological-Psychological Investigation of Urinary Urgency in Incontinent Women
… a condition characterized by symptoms of urinary urgency with or without urgency incontinence, have suggested that urinary urgency may be a useful target to promote recognition of continence problems at earlier stages of illness. This qualitative study was conducted to advance health promotion …
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Understanding urgency in borderline personality disorder: disinhibition or impulsive emotion regulation?
… dysregulation and risky, impulsive behaviors. Urgency is a type of impulsivity that has been strongly associated with symptoms of BPD, and it remains unclear whether Urgency represents a failure of self-regulation under conditions of strong emotions or whether Urgency reflects short-term …
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Effects of Multi-Modal Warning Systems on Elderly Drivers'Perceived Urgency and Comfort
… (visual and auditory) on the perception of urgency in elderly individuals addressing issues of safety and comfort. Twenty individuals (10 young, 10 elderly) from Montgomery County of Virginia participated in the laboratory study. In the pre-experimental audiometric tests, as expected elderly …
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The Role of Pain Persistence in the Association Between Negative Urgency and Suicidal Behavior
… Bender, Gordon, Bresin, Joiner, 2011). Negative urgency (NU) is a subscale of impulsivity (Cyders et al., 2007) that has been associated with high engagement of PPEs such as non-suicidal self-injury because individuals high in NU are highly motivated to eliminate the aversive emotion (Anestis & …
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Risky Behavior, Urgency, And Anonymity: What Sex, Drugs, And Eating Disorders Have In Common
… presence of strong emotions, a trait known as urgency. However, whether this extends to a multitude of risky behaviors and what other traits may modify this risk, is unknown. Because individuals may be reluctant to admit to engaging in risky behaviors due to perceived social or legal …
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Exploring the Moderating Effects of Aggression on the Relationship Between Negative Urgency and Suicidal Desire
… physical, and implicit) and negative urgency (a facet of impulsivity) is associated with suicidal desire (i.e., thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness). I hypothesized that aggression would moderate this relationship and an increase in aggression would be associated with …
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To act or not to act? Mechanisms and manifestations of negative urgency across the lifespan
Negative urgency is a personality trait characterized by rash responses to negative emotion. This trait is a significant risk factor for the development and maintenance of psychopathology and extreme risk behavior. Given negative urgency’s importance for individual well-being, it is necessary to …
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An evaluation of the urgency, similarity, and identification of aural alerts with implications for flight deck use
… scheme that provides flight deck function and urgency level information was proposed and evaluated in this study. Specifically, the present investigation examined the ability of a population having "normal" hearing to: 1) distinguish among four sets of aural alerting signals having distinctive …
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The perceived urgency and detection time of multi-tone and frequency-modulated warning signals in broadband noise
… mismatch between the perceived (psychoacoustic) urgency of a warning and its situational urgency. In addition, many auditory warnings are not detectable within their environments. This research examined several prominent pulse parameters which affect the perceived urgency and detection time of …
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Natural processes in the degradation of open-air rock-art sites: an urgency intervention scale to inform conservation.
… of the Côa Valley rock-art complex and develop a urgency scale for conservation interventions. The urgency scale will be established by thoroughly examining a sample of the most – in terms of conservation – representative engraved outcrops. Since more than one thousand outcrops with rock-art still …
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The influence of stakeholder power, proximity and urgency on the selection and prioritization of projects within IT project portfolio management
IT investments constitute a major portion of the capital budgets of many organizations. It can be challenging to select the right projects that fit the corporate strategy to maximize value for the organization. In the past, senior executives focused on projects that met three criteria, namely being …
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Empirical Studies Concerning Aural Alerts for Cockpit Use Leading to an Aural Alerting Signal Categorization Scheme
… scheme that provides flight deck function and urgency level information. In Experiment 1, 20 subjects having "normal" hearing threshold levels provided magnitude estimation urgency ratings for a series of aural alerts. These ratings revealed that subjects perceived low, moderate, and high …
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The Association Between Emotional Competencies and E-Cigarette Susceptibility
… distress tolerance, and positive and negative urgency have been positively associated with both susceptibility and negative affect reduction expectancies. Determining the role of negative affect reduction outcome expectancies on e-cigarette use requires further research and investigation to …
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Stress and Suicidal Behavior: A Cognitive, Behavioral, and Biological Integrative Approach
… and trait impulsivity in the forms of negative urgency, lack of premeditation, and lack of perseverance. Further, lack of premeditation and lack of perseverance mediated the relationship between brooding and suicide risk. The second study found no difference in physiological stress response (as …
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