Problem Solving

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Impairment in basal limbic function in schizophrenia during affect recognition.

Patients with schizophrenia routinely fail to perform affect recognition tasks as accurately as healthy controls. The investigation of performance-related changes in cerebral activation in healthy subjects may facilitate the understanding of adaptation ...
Albrecht Hempel, Eckhard Hempel, Peter Schönknecht, Christoph Stippich, Johannes Schröder (Psychiatry Res, 200302)
impairment-basal-limbic-function-schizophrenia-affect-recognition.asp

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Religious involvement and the forgiving personality.

The relationship between religious involvement and forgiveness was assessed in three samples of Western Europeans living in a social environment dominated by the Catholic tradition. The samples comprised nonbelievers/nonattendees, believers/nonattendees, ...
Etienne Mullet, José Barros, Loredana Frongia, Veronica Usaï, Félix Neto, Sheila Rivière Shafighi (J Pers, 200302)
religious-involvement-forgiving-personality.asp

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Perceived discrimination and depression: moderating effects of coping, acculturation, and ethnic support.

The authors evaluated the effects of cultural norms and social contexts on coping processes involved in dealing with perceived racial discrimination. Cross-sectional data derived from personal interviews with Korean immigrants residing in Toronto were ...
Samuel Noh, Violet Kaspar (Am J Public Health, 200302)
perceived-discrimination-depression-moderating-effects-coping.asp

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A test of the ABC model underlying rational emotive behavior therapy.

The ABC model underlying Elliss Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy predicts that people who think more irrationally should respond to daily stressors or hassles differently than do people who think less irrationally. This study tested this aspect of the ...
Daniel J Ziegler, Yvonne M Leslie (Psychol Rep, 200302)
test-abc-model-underlying-rational-emotive-behavior-therapy.asp

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Relative effects of harassment, frustration, and task characteristics on cardiovascular reactivity.

Effects of anger induction procedures such as frustration and harassment on cardiovascular reactivity have been demonstrated in a wide range of experimental situations. Similarly, heightened cardiovascular reactivity has been associated with a diverse ...
Ana García-León, Gustavo A Reyes del Paso, Humbelina Robles, Jaime Vila (Int J Psychophysiol, 200302)
relative-effects-harassment-frustration-task-characteristics.asp

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Quantity determination and the distance effect with letters, numbers, and shapes: a functional MR imaging study of number processing.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The ability to quantify, or to determine magnitude, is an important part of number processing, and the extent to which language and other cognitive abilities are involved with number processing is an area of interest. We compared ...
Robert K Fulbright, Stephanie C Manson, Pawel Skudlarski, Cheryl M Lacadie, John C Gore (AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 200302)
quantity-determination-distance-effect-letters-numbers-shapes.asp

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Self-monitoring, need for cognition, and the Stroop effect: a preliminary study.

The color-word Stroop task requires an individual to ignore one piece of information (word) while responding to another (color). Since self-monitors are good at adapting their responses to fit a situation and those high in need for cognition carefully ...
Christopher Koch (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
self-monitoring-need-cognition-stroop-effect-preliminary-study.asp

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Task instructions modulate neural responses to fearful facial expressions.

BACKGROUND: The amygdala, hippocampus, ventral, and dorsal prefrontal cortices have been demonstrated to be involved in the response to fearful facial expressions. Little is known, however, about the effect of task instructions upon the intensity of ...
Kezia Lange, Leanne M Williams, Andrew W Young, Edward T Bullmore, Michael J Brammer, Steven C R Williams, Jeffrey A Gray, Mary L Phillips (Biol Psychiatry, 200302)
task-instructions-modulate-neural-responses-fearful-facial-expressions.asp

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Treating boys with low school achievement and behavior problems: comparison of two kinds of intervention.

Children with low school achievement frequently have behavior problems and interpersonal difficulties that pose a risk for psychosocial maladjustment. 39 boys were assessed and randomly assigned to one of two group treatment conditions: (a) interpersonal ...
Luciana Carla dos Santos Elias, Edna Maria Marturano, Ana Maria de Almeida Motta, Alessandra Gaspar Giurlani (Psychol Rep, 200302)
treating-boys-low-school-achievement-behavior-problems-comparison-two.asp

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Frontostriatal system in planning complexity: a parametric functional magnetic resonance version of Tower of London task.

In the present study, we sought to investigate which brain structures are recruited in planning tasks of increasing complexity. For this purpose, a parametric self-paced pseudo-randomized event-related functional MRI version of the Tower of London task ...
Odile A van den Heuvel, Henk J Groenewegen, Frederik Barkhof, Richard H C Lazeron, Richard van Dyck, Dick J Veltman (Neuroimage, 200302)
frontostriatal-system-planning-complexity-parametric-functional.asp