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Date violence and date rape among adolescents: associations with disordered eating behaviors and psychological health.

OBJECTIVES: The goal of the study was to assess the prevalence of date violence and rape in adolescents, to examine associations between date violence and rape and disordered eating behaviors and psychopathology, and to determine if these associations ...
Diann M Ackard, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer (Child Abuse Negl, 200205)
date-violence-date-rape-adolescents-associations-disordered-eating.asp

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It feels like yesterday: self-esteem, valence of personal past experiences, and judgments of subjective distance.

Supporting predictions from temporal self-appraisal theory, participants in 3 studies reported feeling farther from former selves and experiences with unfavorable implications for their current self-view than from equally distant selves and experiences ...
Michael Ross, Anne E Wilson (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200205)
feels-like-yesterday-self-esteem-valence-personal-past-experiences.asp

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Further psychometric evaluation of the Japanese version of an academic self-concept scale.

In the present study, the author replicated earlier research (Paik & Michael, 1999) seeking additional information on the reliability and construct validity of a Japanese academic self-concept scale, a 70-item questionnaire comprising 5 subscales ...
Chie Matsuzawa Paik, William B Michael (J Psychol, 200205)
psychometric-evaluation-japanese-version-academic-self-concept-scale.asp

624.

Universality versus language-specificity in listening to running speech.

Recognizing spoken language involves automatic activation of multiple candidate words. The process of selection between candidates is made more efficient by inhibition of embedded words (like egg in beg) that leave a portion of the input stranded (here, ...
Anne Cutler, Katherine Demuth, James M McQueen (Psychol Sci, 200205)
universality-versus-language-specificity-listening-running-speech.asp

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Error-related brain activity in obsessive-compulsive undergraduates.

Error-related negativity (ERN/Ne) is a component of the event-related brain potential (ERP) associated with monitoring action and detecting errors. It is a sharp negative deflection that generally occurs from 50 to 150 ms following response execution and ...
Greg Hajcak, Robert F Simons (Psychiatry Res, 200205)
error-related-brain-activity-obsessive-compulsive-undergraduates.asp

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Endogenous saccades are preceded by shifts of visual attention: evidence from cross-saccadic priming effects.

The present study examines whether endogenous saccades are preceded by shifts of attention. Three experiments are reported in which participants were required to execute a saccadic eye movement to a certain location and to subsequently identify the ...
Richard Godijn, Jay Pratt (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200205)
endogenous-saccades-preceded-shifts-visual-attention-evidence-cross.asp

627.

An experimental investigation of some properties of individual iconic gestures that mediate their communicative power.

It has been hypothesized that the iconic hand gestures that accompany talk communicate important semantic information. This research tests whether some gestures, in the absence of speech, are more communicative than others and considers what properties ...
Geoffrey Beattie, Heather Shovelton (Br J Psychol, 200205)
experimental-investigation-properties-individual-iconic-gestures.asp

628.

The perception of closed flat knots and completion by folding.

The aim of the present research was to study a well-defined set of line drawings that have never been analyzed before, and that are perceived as closed flat knots (CFKs). These knots are obtained by folding two-dimensional laminae. From this study it ...
Manfredo Massironi, Daniela Bressanelli (Acta Psychol (Amst), 200205)
perception-closed-flat-knots-completion-folding.asp

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Procrastination, deadlines, and performance: self-control by precommitment.

Procrastination is all too familiar to most people. People delay writing up their research (so we hear!), repeatedly declare they will start their diets tomorrow, or postpone until next week doing odd jobs around the house. Yet people also sometimes ...
Dan Ariely, Klaus Wertenbroch (Psychol Sci, 200205)
procrastination-deadlines-performance-self-control-precommitment.asp

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The effectiveness of a Mock Board experience in coaching students for the Dental Hygiene National Board Examination.

A Mock Board is available through the American Dental Association to any student or dental hygiene program as a study aid for the Dental Hygiene National Board Examination (DHNBE). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of this Mock ...
Taline Dadian, Kathy Guerink, Cynthia Olney, John Littlefield (J Dent Educ, 200205)
effectiveness-mock-board-experience-coaching-students-dental-hygiene.asp