The practice of mindfulness has a long history in research, particularly psychological studies. In this paper I examine the effects of a short mindfulness intervention on healthy food purchases. Specifically, I developed an online survey and recruited 634 participants via Prolif…
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The examination of debate competition is significant as it has a history that dates back thousands of years, and studies have shown that the current competitive activity carries with it numerous benefits for its participants. Despite its history, there has been little leadership…
Starting the early 1990s, the prevalence of nonmedical prescription drug use in Nigeria has been increased, especially among college students. Potential adverse effects such as poor academic performance and low self-esteem are known, but it is not understood whether demographic …
Recidivism is a substantial problem in the United States due to the number of paroles/probationers reoffending. The U.S. prison system has become the new asylum and a revolving door for individuals, which is even more true for those with substance use disorders (SUDs). Once thes…
Anthropogenic noise represents a major obstacle to anurans in urban landscapes because they rely heavily on vocalizations to find breeding grounds, choose mates, and settle territorial disputes. A large proportion of urban frogs may be affected by noise, as past research suggest…
Phenotypic differences among individuals are ubiquitous, but our understanding of their origins and evolutionary consequences is still not complete. Previous work has identified within-genotype behavioral differences that persist even in constant laboratory environments (behavio…
The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes held by African American evangelical Christians toward sex education in general and to understand better how these attitudes influence parent-teen sexuality communication. The study sought to answer the following three resea…
Addiction is characterized by abnormal, long-term molecular alterations in specific brain regions in response to drugs of abuse which lead to life-long behavioral abnormalities(1). Epigenetic mechanisms play a key role in the dynamics of molecular alterations that control gene e…
Narcissism as a construct has a robust clinical history rooted in psychoanalytic theory. A widely accepted perspective on the etiology of narcissism, based in psychoanalytic theory, postulates that narcissism is deep-seated in feelings of shame. The relationship of shame to atta…
The persistent high fertility with little or no indication of decline has been a source of worry to many governments. This has been attributed to many factors including high infant and child mortality.
Heavy drinking among college students has been identified as a major public health concern in the United States. While research on college drinking is extensive, it is almost exclusively focused on white non-Hispanic populations, with minimal attention to ethnic minority groups-…
Recent data indicate 1 in 4 adolescents reported a history of self-harm. The literature on adolescents who self-injured and were admitted to the emergency room is sparse. The purpose of the study was to investigate the type of treatment decision an adolescent commonly receives w…
The Reggio Emilia approach is a social constructivist method that fosters children’s creative development through organized focus on symbolic representations (Edwards et al., 2012). This study compared the physical environments and teacher-child interactions in infant and toddle…
Concussive injuries among youth are a serious public health concern in the United States, with increasing incidence leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to classify these injuries a “silent epidemic.” Though most concussions in youth resolve within a few weeks,…
Investigating individual-based habitat settlement and space use decisions (i.e., how individuals distribute themselves across a landscape) is a central theme in ecology, with potential consequences for fitness (e.g., survival, reproduction). Among mammals, habitat selection and …
Centuries of perturbance by human activity has threatened the ability of long-resolute environmental exchange systems to cycle particulate matter in a manner conducive to human success on Earth. We stand now in a time in our history with no direct parallel. Drastic and outside-t…
Researchers have begun to explore how humans discount sex; however, these evaluations have not yet extended to considering sexual acts using toys vs. sexual intercourse with another human. The current study will evaluate discounting choices between sexual acts with another human…
Background: Breast cancer patients commonly experience weight gain and increased central adiposity following cancer treatment. Prior research has not investigated the extent to which psychological factors predict longitudinal changes in body composition among cancer patients. El…
Previous research on the behavioral effect of choice as a reinforcer indicate a parallelism between methodology to quantify, enhance, evaluate, and establish the reinforcement efficacy of choice to function as a conditioned reinforcer. Applied research on the efficacy of choice …