Social norms are mutually agreed upon standards of behavior that are expected among group members and guide essentially all aspects of human social behavior. Previous theory has suggested that children undergo a two-step ...

The goal of this study was to evaluate how beliefs about stress as enhancing versus debilitating, also known as stress mindsets, relate to health and academic performance in an undergraduate sample. College students (n=499) ...

Students everywhere can feel anxious about exams and are commonly met with the advice to “calm down.” However, researchers have found that it is the worries, not the bodily feelings associated with anxiety, that impair ...

This study explored: 1) the link between parenting questionnaire data and parenting behaviors in a parent-child play task, with the aim of creating a short behavioral task to more sensitively empirically measure parenting; ...

Although eating disorders have commonly been considered to affect predominantly white female populations, they have found to be increasingly prevalent in Chinese contexts. Despite the well-established negative consequences ...

Love and amusement are positive emotions that are commonly used in marketing. Although a plethora of research has shown that emotions have influence on consumer choice, few prior studies have examined the influence of discrete ...

Despite being an interpersonal phenomenon, secrecy has not been extensively studied within the context of interpersonal relationships. This study examined how relationship quality and the target’s connection to the secret ...

This study aimed to explore the nature of internalized weight bias in young adults across the weight spectrum and to investigate the potential role of restrictive eating in social settings in the relationship between internalized ...

Preschool children often operate under the lens of essentialist thought- forming in-group and out-group attitudes, assigning common characteristics to members of a group, and evaluating in-group members more positively than ...

Introduction: Studies have found that cancer patients with dependent children exhibit high symptoms of anxiety, depression, and worry. Patients’ parenting concerns can negatively impact their own and their family’s adjustment ...