Browsing by Subject "Behavioral sciences"
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A Mobile Health Intervention to Sustain Recent Weight Loss
(2012)Background: Obesity is the number one health risk facing Americans. The obesity epidemic in America is attributed to physical inactivity, unhealthy food choices, and excessive food intake. Structured weight loss programs ... -
Circuit and Behavioral Basis of Egg-Laying Site Selection in Drosophila melanogaster
(2015)One of the outstanding goals of neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits are assembled to produce context appropriate behavior. In an ever changing environment, it is critical for animals to be able to flexibly ... -
Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Contextual Influences on Consumer Choice
(2019)Financial decision-making in a complex and dynamic world poses many challenges including which information to use, how to filter out distractions, and how to arrive at a decision strategy that balances effort and accuracy ... -
Computational Modeling of Multi-Agent, Continuous Decision Making in Competitive Contexts
(2021)Humans are able to make adaptive decisions with the goal of obtaining a goal, earning a reward, or avoiding punishment. While much is known about the behavior and corresponding underlying neural mechanism relating to this ... -
Conceptualization of Health Among United Methodist Church Clergy in Western Kenya
(2012)AbstractINTRODUCTIONClergy are a dynamic group of the population: they point people to God, navigate social and spiritual waters, provide advice and guidance, and teach and visit parishioners. Research has shown that caregivers ... -
Data-Driven Analysis of Zebra Finch Song Copying and Learning
(2021)Children learn crucial skills like speech by imitating the behavior of skilled adults. Similarly, juvenile zebra finches learn to sing by learning to imitate adults. This song learning process enables laboratory study of ... -
Disease Risk in Wild Primate Populations: Host and Environmental Predictors, Immune Responses and Costs of Infection
(2017)Disease risk in wild animal populations is driven by multiple factors, including host, parasite, and environmental traits, that facilitate the transmission of parasites and infection of hosts. Parasites inflict costs on ... -
Dispersal and Integration in Female Chimpanzees
(2015)In chimpanzees, most females disperse from the community in which they were born to reproduce in a new community, thereby eliminating the risk of inbreeding with close kin. However, across sites, some females breed in their ... -
Dopamine, Drugs, and Estradiol: The Roles of ERα and ERβ in the Mesencephalic Dopamine System and Dopamine-Mediated Behaviors of Mice
(2012)Sex differences in drug addiction are mediated in part by effects of the ovarian hormone estradiol (E2) within the ascending dopamine (DA) system from the midbrain to the striatum. Estradiol enhances the effects ... -
Evaluating Human Performance in Virtual Reality Based on Psychophysiological Signal Analysis
(2018)Physiological signals measured from the body, such as brain activity and motor behavior, can be used to infer different physiological states or processes in humans. Signal processing and machine learning often play a fundamental ... -
Evaluating the Role of Attention in Decision Making
(2020)Attentional processes are critical aspects of the neural, cognitive, and computational mechanisms of decision-making. However, the role of such processes is often not given much focus in decision-making research, especially ... -
Examining Partner Characteristics and ARV Adherence Among South African Women Who Have Experienced Sexual Trauma
(2018)Background: Prior studies have produced conflicting results regarding the associations between partner-level characteristics and antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence, with some findings suggesting that romantic or sexual ... -
Examining Patterns and Predictors of Diet Tracking via Mobile Technologies Among Women with Hypertension
(2019)Background: Hypertension is a primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Studies have shown that hypertension may have a more severe effect on cardiovascular disease outcomes among women. To mitigate this risk ... -
Fiction as Autobiography: Characterizing the Phenomenology and Functions of Memories of Narrative Fiction
(2021)People expend a great deal of time and energy telling each other stories of events that are known to be invented. These fictional narratives—emerging from novels, films, television shows, radio dramas, and other media—can ... -
Monoaminergic Regulation of MeCP2 Phosphorylation in Mouse Models of Psychiatric Disease
(2011)Activation of monoaminergic receptors is essential to the mechanism by which psychostimulants and antidepressants induce changes in behavior. Although these drugs rapidly increase monoaminergic transmission, they need to ... -
Neurobehavioral Mechanisms Supporting the Generalization of Learned Fear in Humans
(2012)An inescapable component to survival in a dynamic environment is detecting and reacting to signals of danger. One of the most elegant processes animals possess to handle this complex task is classical conditioning, wherein ... -
Playing Church: Toward A Behavioral Theological Understanding of Church Growth
(2014)Just as biological life becomes more interesting and diverse when the edges of ecosystems meet, intellectual life crackles with energy and possibility when leaders from different disciplines collaborate. The recent emergence ... -
Practical Reason Unbound: Politics and Human Agency in a Promethean Key
(2011)Traditional approaches to the empirical research of human action, rational choice theory dominant amongst them, have implicitly adopted philosophical pre-suppositions about human action that are untenable and in need of ... -
Separating the influence of budget and numeric priming on willingness to pay
(2018-04)Impulsive decision-making hinders financial savings, which is especially pertinent given that younger generations are already increasingly likely to struggle with debt and their financials. Our findings not only highlight ... -
Social Decision-Making in Bonobos and Chimpanzees
(2016)Humans are natural politicians. We obsessively collect social information that is both observable (e.g., about third-party relationships) and unobservable (e.g., about others’ psychological states), and we strategically ...
