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(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)The United States holds alarming records for highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the developed world. The US infant mortality rate is on par with many low and middle income countries, and despite the decline in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Many college students experience irregular sleep patterns due to their unique schedule. These patterns confer risk for other sleep problems as well as mental health difficulties including mood disorders, physical aggression, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Emotion regulation is an important transdiagnostic symptom of psychopathology and a key treatment target for intervention. It has been extensively researched in psychology using multiple measurement methods. Despite the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Approximately half of all children in Laos fail to reach their full developmental potential as a result of exposure to poverty-related risks. Early interventions that encourage sensitive and responsive caregiving in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The high rates of psychopathology in parents and children means that many families are living with a member with psychopathology. The availability of psychotherapeutic interventions that are able to improve outcomes in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Sleep studies have rarely explored individual differences in sleep disruption and associated outcomes at early ages. In two studies, this dissertation addresses both of these limitations using actigraphy, an activity-derived ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Workplace sexual harassment is associated with negative psychological and physical outcomes. Recent research suggests that harmful institutional responses to reports of wrongdoing– called institutional betrayal – are ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)The study of decision making during adolescence has received considerable attention throughout the history of developmental psychology, justifiably, given the marked increases in morbidity and mortality that belie otherwise ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Fear of sleep (FoS) has been posited to develop following trauma exposure and significantly contribute to the maintenance of insomnia symptoms. While FoS has been operationalized within the Fear of Sleep Inventory - Short ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Observed biases in how people value human life have sparked an area of research investigating the mental processes leading to the devaluing of mass suffering. Parallel lines of research in psychology, economics, marketing, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)Children of mothers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are at heightened risk for developing mental health difficulties but the pathway through which this risk is conferred is unclear. Developmental psychopathology ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Past research has established that children typically learn better from live demonstrations than from 2-dimensional sources of information like video. The current dissertation investigated the efficacy of a new form of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)A critical function of the human visual system is to parse objects from the larger context of the environment, allowing for the identification of, and potential interaction with, those objects. The use of contextual ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Top-down attentional control is essential for efficiently allocating our limited attentional resources to process complex natural environments, focusing on information relevant to our goals. The neural mechanism underlying ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)A wealth of research has documented the positive associations between autonomy and health and well-being. Acting in autonomous, self-determined ways promotes intrinsic motivation and has been linked to more successful goal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Memory generalization is the process by which we extract commonalities across our individual experiences to form new knowledge that can guide future decisions. Studies examining generalization have traditionally employed ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Humans are highly motivated to avoid boredom. What is the functional role of boredom, and why is it so aversive? An empirical study tested the hypothesis that a need for agency, or control over one’s actions and their ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Visual long term memory (VLTM) research has shown that we are capable of learning a virtually infinite amount of visual information. At the same time, visual short term memory (VSTM) research has shown that there is a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Infants acculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life (e.g., Hannon & Trehub, 2005a; Werker & Tees, 1984). This perceptual tuning of early auditory skills requires integrating across experiences that repeat ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)In everyday life, there are many situations that elicit emotional reactions to an individual's plight, leading to empathic thoughts and helping behaviors. But what if the observed situation involves fictional characters ...
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