Browsing by Subject "Interpersonal Relations"
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Developmental cascades of peer rejection, social information processing biases, and aggression during middle childhood.
(Dev Psychopathol, 2010-08)This study tested a developmental cascade model of peer rejection, social information processing (SIP), and aggression using data from 585 children assessed at 12 time points from kindergarten through Grade 3. Peer rejection ... -
Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens).
(J Comp Psychol, 2013-02)Humans make decisions about when and with whom to cooperate based on their reputations. People either learn about others by direct interaction or by observing third-party interactions or gossip. An important question is ... -
Effectiveness of mentoring programs for youth: a meta-analytic review.
(Am J Community Psychol, 2002-04)We used meta-analysis to review 55 evaluations of the effects of mentoring programs on youth. Overall, findings provide evidence of only a modest or small benefit of program participation for the average youth. Program effects ... -
Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-07-28)We tested a model that children's tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive behavior ... -
Mine or yours? Development of sharing in toddlers in relation to ownership understanding.
(Child Dev, 2013-05)To examine early developments in other-oriented resource sharing, fifty-one 18- and 24-month-old children were administered 6 tasks with toys or food that could be shared with an adult playmate who had none. On each task ... -
Perceived acceptability of home-based couples voluntary HIV counseling and testing in Northern Tanzania.
(AIDS Care, 2012)It is estimated that 5.6% of the Tanzanian population ages 15-49 are infected with HIV, but only 30% of adults have ever had an HIV test. Couples' testing has proven to increase testing coverage and introduce HIV prevention, ... -
Same-sex gaze attraction influences mate-choice copying in humans.
(PLoS One, 2010-02-09)Mate-choice copying occurs when animals rely on the mating choices of others to inform their own mating decisions. The proximate mechanisms underlying mate-choice copying remain unknown. To address this question, we tracked ... -
Sexual victimization, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation as barriers to sexual assertiveness in college women.
(Violence Against Women, 2013-12)The current study examined sexual victimization and two barriers to young women's sexual assertiveness: fear of sexual powerlessness and cognitive emotion dysregulation. College women (N = 499) responded to surveys and indicated ... -
Spousal concordance in health behavior change.
(Health Serv Res, 2008-02)OBJECTIVE: This study examines the degree to which a married individual's health habits and use of preventive medical care are influenced by his or her spouse's behaviors. STUDY DESIGN: Using longitudinal data on individuals ... -
The normative and the personal life: individual differences in life scripts and life story events among USA and Danish undergraduates.
(Memory, 2009-01)Life scripts are culturally shared expectations about the order and timing of life events in a prototypical life course. American and Danish undergraduates produced life story events and life scripts by listing the seven ...
