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“Simon Says”: Young children’s understandings of norms modeled by peers
(2019-04-15)
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 ...
Worried Sick: The Impact of Students’ Stress Mindsets on Health and Academic Performance
(2019-04)
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) ...
Stressed for Success: An Anxiety Reappraisal Video Intervention for Undergraduates
(2019-04-16)
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 ...
Linking Parenting Styles to Parent and Child Behaviors in a Joint Task
(2019-04)
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; ...
The Clash of Culture and Cuisine: Conflicting Expectations and Disordered Eating in Chinese Adolescent Women
(2019-04-17)
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 ...
The Influence of Amusement and Love on Consumers’ Choice between National Brands and Private Labels
(2019-11-26)
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 ...
What You Don't Know Might Hurt Me: Keeping Secrets in Interpersonal Relationships
(2019-04-11)
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 ...
The Weight of Stigma: The Effects of Internalized Weight Bias on Eating Behaviors in Young Adults Across the Weight Spectrum
(2019-04-05)
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 ...
Friend or Foe? Empathy Across Demographics and Children's Perceptions of In-group and Out-group Members
(2019-04)
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 ...
Parenting concerns, psychological distress, and relationship functioning in parents coping with cancer
(2019-04-22)
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 ...