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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Extreme variations in cortisol reactivity are associated with multiple psychological and physiological diseases. These variations may be explained by sex, by genetic vulnerabilities, and by exposure to either recent life ...
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Gut Feeling: What the Gut Brain Axis May Reveal About Depressive Symptomatology During Adolescence (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Adolescence is a key period of neurobiological and social-affective development. It is also a time of increased vulnerability to psychopathology, such as depression. Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiome can ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Religious belief and attendance predict improved well-being at the individual level. Paradoxically, geographic locations with high rates of religious belief and attendance are often those with the differentially high rates ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)The increasing digitization of our social world has implications for personality, reputation, and their social consequences in online environments. The present dissertation is focused on how personality and reputation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Four decades of research demonstrates that infant-caregiver attachment has important implications for subsequent socio-emotional functioning, with attachment security predictive of a wide range of positive outcomes, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Since Rosenzweig's "Dodo Bird Verdict" in 1936, the "common" versus "specific" factors debate has continued to polarize the field of psychotherapy. Treatment expectancy is an important but often overlooked common factor. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Despite the enormous complexity inherent to language, almost all humans acquire and use their native language with apparent effortlessness, simply from being immersed in a normal social environment. It has been hypothesized ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The purpose of the current study was to investigate the dynamic process of disclosure within the adolescent–mother relationship by examining maternal characteristics that encourage adolescent disclosure of distressing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2002-08)Individual differences in temperament, executive functioning, and pubertal maturation play an important role in adolescent psychosocial outcomes, as do parenting and risk variables. These studies examined relations between ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)The present study examined whether individual differences in memory self-efficacy (MSE)—one’s perception and evaluation of their memory abilities—predicts learning and memory ability in a sample of healthy young adults. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)The hippocampus plays an important role in many aspects of learning and memory. It is most known for its role in episodic memory and spatial navigation, though it has also been shown to contribute to other processes like ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has posited unique challenges for families and significantly disrupted several aspects of children’s environments. The pandemic is an ongoing risk experience, with young children being ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)The cognitive ability to group information into chunks is a well known phenomenon, however, the effects of chunking on visual representations is not well understood. Here we investigate the effects of visual chunking using ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Parental emotion dysregulation (ED) is linked to less effective parenting behaviors that are associated with increased child emotional and behavior problems. There is a lack of integrated adult mental health + parenting ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)The purpose of this study was to investigate intergenerational relationships between trauma, dissociation, and emotion. Short and long term consequences of betrayal trauma on cognitive and emotion coping strategies in a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Sexual trauma, in addition to being a human rights violation, harms people in numerous ways, including negative psychological and physical outcomes. Body-based interventions reduce sexual trauma symptoms, but limited ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)Early life stress (ELS) affects the developing brain and impacts capacity for self-regulation and risk for psychopathology. The high spatial resolution of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) confers an advantage ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)A series of experiments investigated the relationship between locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) function and striatal dopamine (DA) tone and the flexibility of stability of cognitive control. Across 4 experiments, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to remember to carry out one's intentions. This is a critical ability for children to develop in order to function independently in their daily activities. This dissertation examines ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The goal of this dissertation was to develop a relatively comprehensive and culturally de-centered measure of worldview assumptions, basic beliefs that humans have about the world and reality. A pool of 179 items was ...
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