• Selecting the Number and Labels of Topics in Topic Modeling: A Tutorial 

  Weston, Sara J.; Shryock, Ian; Light, Ryan; Fisher, Phillip A. (Sage Journals, 2023-05-25)

  Topic modeling is a type of text analysis that identifies clusters of co-occurring words, or latent topics. A challenging step of topic modeling is determining the number of topics to extract. This tutorial describes tools ...
• Parent Gender Affects the Influence of Parent Emotional Eating and Feeding Practices on Child Emotional Eating 

  Trevino, Shaina D.; Kelly, Nichole R.; Budd, Elizabeth L.; Giuliani, Nicole R. (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021-09-10)

  Extant research supports a direct association between parent’s own emotional eating and their child’s emotional eating, and demonstrates correlations among parent emotional eating, feeding practices, and child emotional ...
• The numeric understanding measures: Developing and validating adaptive and nonadaptive numeracy scales 

  Silverstein, Michael C.; Bjälkebring, Pär; Shoots-Reinhard, Brittany; Peters, Ellen (Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-28)

  Numeracy—the ability to understand and use numeric information—is linked to good decision-making. Several problems exist with current numeracy measures, however. Depending on the participant sample, some existing measures ...
• Intimations of a New Paradigm for Lexical Studies in Psychology 

  Saucier, Gerard (Frontiers in Psychology, 2022-07-01)

  Several consecutive productive decades of research on basic dimensions of personality have given a firmer footing to the discipline due, in part, to contributions of lexical studies of personality. These studies helped ...
• Aesthetics and Psychological Effects of Fractal Based Design 

  Robles, Kelly E.; Roberts, Michelle; Viengkham, Catherine; Smith, Julian H.; Rowland, Conor; Moslehi, Saba; Stadlober, Sabrina; Lesjak, Anastasija; Lesjak, Martin; Taylor, Richard P.; Spehar, Branka; Sereno, Margaret (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021-08-17)

  Highly prevalent in nature, fractal patterns possess self-similar components that repeat at varying size scales. The perceptual experience of human-made environments can be impacted with inclusion of these natural patterns. ...
• Contextual considerations for deception production and detection in forensic interviews 

  Markowitz, David M.; Hancock, Jeffery T.; Woodworth, Michael T.; Ely, Maxwell (Frontiers in Psychology, 2023-02-07)

  Most deception scholars agree that deception production and deception detection effects often display mixed results across settings. For example, some liars use more emotion than truth-tellers when discussing fake opinions ...
• Recommendations for Diversifying Racial and Ethnic Representation in Autism Intervention Research: A Crossover Review of Recruitment and Retention Practices in Pediatric Mental Health 

  Machalicek, Wendy; Glugatch, Lindsay; Erturk, Buket; Brafford, Tasia; Kunze, Megan; Drew, Christine; Douglas, Allaina; Storie, Sloan; Crowe, Rebecca; Magaña, Sandy (2022-10-31)

  Disparities in diagnosis and access to healthcare and therapeutic services are well-documented for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from minoritized races and ethnicities, but there is little empirical research ...
• Service Needs for Corrections-Involved Parents With a History of Problematic Opioid Use: A Community Needs Assessment 

  Clark, Miriam; Kjellstrand, Jean; Morgan, Kaycee (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021-10-21)

  The incarceration of a parent is often a continuation of a challenging family situation marked by poverty, unstable housing, trauma, and abuse. These challenges make it difficult for incarcerated parents reentering their ...
• Hierarchical Inference in Sound Change: Words, Sounds, and Frequency of Use 

  Kapatsinski, Vsevolod (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021-08-12)

  This paper aims examines the role of hierarchical inference in sound change. Through hierarchical inference, a language learner can distribute credit for a pronunciation between the intended phone and the larger units ...
• Spatialization of Time in the Entorhinal-Hippocampal System 

  House, Troy M. (Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022-01-06)

  The functional role of the entorhinal-hippocampal system has been a long withstanding mystery. One key theory that has become most popular is that the entorhinalhippocampal system represents space to facilitate navigation ...
• Associations Among Food Delay of Gratification, Cognitive Measures, and Environment in a Community Preschool Sample 

  Giuliani, Nicole R.; Kelly, Nichole R. (Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022-04-11)

  Much of the work on the development of appetite self-regulation in early childhood employs tasks assessing Delay of Gratification (DoG). While this skill is thought to rely on “cool” cognitive processes like effortful ...
• Mapping Individual Differences on the Internet: Case Study of the Type 1 Diabetes Community 

  Bedford-Petersen, Cianna; Weston, Sara J. (JMIR Publications, 2021-05-27)

  Background: Social media platforms, such as Twitter, are increasingly popular among communities of people with chronic conditions, including those with type 1 diabetes (T1D). There is some evidence that social media confers ...
• Direct and indirect associations among mothers’ invalidating childhood environment, emotion regulation difficulties, and parental apology 

  Adams-Clark, Alexis A.; Lee, Angela H.; Everett, Yoel; Zarosinski, Arianna; Martin, Christina Gamache; Zalewski, Maureen (BMC, 2022-08-15)

  Background: Effective emotion regulation abilities are essential for engaging in positive, validating parenting practices. Yet, many parents report difficulties with both emotion regulation and positive parenting, and ...
• The Big Five Across Socioeconomic Status: Measurement Invariance, Relationships, and Age Trends 

  Hughes, Bradley T.; Costello, Cory K.; Pearman, Joshua J.; Razavi, Pooya; Bedford-Petersen, Cianna; Ludwid, Rita M.; Srivastava, Sanjay (University of California Press, 2021-06-10)

  Associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and personality traits have important implications for theory and application. Progress in understanding these associations depends on valid measurement, unbiased estimation, ...
• A Researcher’s Guide to the Measurement and Modeling of Puberty in the ABCD Study® at Baseline 

  Cheng, Theresa W.; Magis-Weinberg, Lucía; Williamson, Victoria Guazzelli; Ladouceur, Cecile D.; Whittle, Sarah L.; Herting, Megan M.; Uban, Kristina A.; Byrne, Michelle L.; Barendse, Marjolein E. A.; Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.; Pfeifer, Jennifer H. (Frontiers Media, 2021-05-05)

  The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development℠ (ABCD) Study is an ongoing, diverse, longitudinal, and multi-site study of 11,880 adolescents in the United States. The ABCD Study provides open access to data about pubertal ...
• Delay of Gratification Predicts Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Preschool-Aged Children 

  Giuliani, Nicole R.; Kelly, Nichole R. (Frontiers Media, 2021-03-19)

  Poor ability to regulate one's own food intake based on hunger cues may encourage children to eat beyond satiety, leading to increased risk of diet-related diseases. Self-regulation has multiple forms, yet no one has ...
• Perceived Neighborhood Crime Safety Moderates the Association Between Racial Discrimination Stress and Chronic Health Conditions Among Hispanic/Latino Adults 

  Budd, Elizabeth L.; Giuliani, Nicole R.; Kelly, Nichole R. (Frontiers Media, 2021-02-15)

  Background: Little is known about the link between perceived neighborhood walkability and prevalence of chronic disease. Even less is known regarding this association among Hispanic/Latino adults, despite exhibiting high ...
• Rapid assessment of psychological and epidemiological correlates of COVID-19 concern, financial strain, and health-related behavior change in a large online sample 

  Nelson, Benjamin W.; Pettitt, Adam; Flannery, Jessica E.; Allen, Nicholas B. (Public Library of Science, 2020-11-11)

  COVID-19 emerged in November 2019 leading to a global pandemic that has not only resulted in widespread medical complications and loss of life, but has also impacted global economies and transformed daily life. The current ...
• A shared fractal aesthetic across development 

  Robles, Kelly E.; Liaw, Nicole A.; Taylor, Richard P.; Baldwin, Dare A.; Sereno, Margaret (Nature Communications, 2020-11)

  Fractal patterns that repeat at varying size scales comprise natural environments and are also present in artistic works deemed to be highly aesthetic. Observers’ aesthetic preferences vary in relation to fractal complexity. ...
• The relationship between shape perception accuracy and drawing ability 

  Robles, Kelly E.; Bies, A. J.; Lazarides, S.; Sereno, Margaret (Nature Communications, 2022-09)

  Accurate shape perception is critical for object perception, identification, manipulation, and recreation. Humans are capable of making judgements of both objective (physical) and projective (retinal) shape. Objective ...

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