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The Africa Yoga Project: A participant-driven concept map of Kenyan teachers' reported experiences
(2015)
Concept mapping methodology was used to explore the perceived effects of teaching and/or practicing yoga with the Africa Yoga Project (AYP) - a health promotion program that trains and funds Kenyans to teach yoga throughout ...
Novel forms in the adult mental lexicon: Listening to new neighbors
(2015)
The current investigation examined the nature of the activation-competition process that is the hallmark of spoken word recognition (Luce & Pisoni, 1998). The present experiments focused on acquisition of new nonword ...
Shielding against self-protection: A Goal Inhibition Model of Risk Regulation
(2015)
People with low self-esteem ("lows") typically self-protect in the face of interpersonal risk, often distancing from their partners and harming their relationships. Two prior experiments showed that self-protecting outside ...
Active Workstations and Their Effect on Performance and Workload
(2015)
Over the past 30 years, work has become more sedentary due to increased computer desk work and added automation, which has led to the development of major health consequences like obesity and diabetes. One promising ...
Contemporary commercial music (CCM) singers: Lifestyle choices and acoustic measures of voice
(2015)
Contemporary commercial music (CCM) singers may be at a high risk for voice damage due to their increased vocal demands and the chronic exposure to chemical irritants associated with unhealthy lifestyle choices. Continuous ...
Exploratory factor analysis of special education staff ratings using the Childhood Autism Rating Scale-Second Edition in a sample of students with autism spectrum disorders
(2015)
The Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition Standard Version (CARS-2 ST; Schopler et al., 2010) is a 15-item behavior rating scale designed to gather information about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) characteristics ...
The effects of parent management training on outcomes of children with a developmental disability and parents: A meta-analysis
(2015)
Parent management training (PMT) has been researched and developed in the treatment of conduct related problems in children for over four decades (Kazdin, 1997). The application of PMT to the treatment of disruptive behaviors ...
The effect of emotional intelligence, ethnic identity, and ethnicity on college adjustment
(2015)
This study was an examination of how individual attributes including emotional intelligence and ethnic identity are related to college adjustment. The participants were 178 undergraduate students aged 18 and over. Data ...
Perspective taking and the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat: Effects of imagine-other and imagine-self perspective taking on active goal pursuit
(2015)
The present research aimed at integrating research on prosocial motivation, Batson's work on perspective-taking induced distress and empathy (Batson, Early, & Salvarani, 1997; Batson, Fultz, & Schoenrade, 1987), ...
"Are they one of us or one of them?" : Cognitive dissonance and collective identity formation in the American republic
(2015)
In this paper I will extend the conventional use of cognitive dissonance theory to investigate the processes of collective identity formation of Americans in the early republic. Understanding the processes of collective ...