Most hair follicles on the human body have evolved to be miniaturized, rendering us practically ‘naked’. Despite sparse body hair, we retain thick hair on our scalps that varies significantly among populations. Yet little is known of the evolutionary history of our scalp hair an…
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A vertical jump task is often performed in combination with a preceding movement which targets activation of the stretch-shortening cycle by a series of eccentric and concentric muscle contractions. Properties of the soft tissues involved can be altered by an athlete’s training …
A repeated theme in speciation is reproductive isolation centered around divergence in few, highly variable traits, specially in cases without strong geographic isolation and high speciation rates. Understanding the genomic basis of highly variable traits that are key to speciat…
There is a growing literature supporting the idea that those who engage in non-suicidal deliberate self-harm (DSH) have altered pain perception compared to individuals who do not. For example, individuals who report a history of non-suicidal DSH behavior have a decreased sensiti…
Sexual assault is relatively unique compared to other crimes in that victims are often blamed for their assaults more than victims of other crimes are blamed (Bieneck & Krahé, 2011). Though there are likely numerous contributing influences accounting for this disparity, one fact…
This study examines the relationship between puberty and mood in an epidemiological sample, describing trends in mood and quality of life (QoL) accompanying puberty, relationships between pubertal stage and mood diagnoses, and the effects of precocious puberty on mood. 1,163 car…
More than 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and this number is expected to rise and surpass 12.7million individuals by the year 2050. Currently there is no cure for the disease and prior research has focused on prevention by identifying risk factors. K…
Dacia Maraini’s novels Colomba and La bambina e il sogntaore contest false notions of essential divisions between individuals and cultures by reconsidering division as coming from within the individual and looking to the dispositions that a person holds, especially in relation t…
An estimated 15% of the world’s population have a disability—roughly 80% of whom live in the Global South. People with disabilities experience profound social disparities that affect their quality of life and social inclusion. Due to the array of cultural perspectives and instit…
The current study investigated the clinical utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents, Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF) to identify differences among juvenile youth that reported experiencing trauma compared to those who did not, as well as, clinica…
The presence of and/or search for meaning has divergent and salient outcomes for individuals’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Although numerous domains of meaning have been examined, the literature on the meaning of sex is sparse and lacks a quantitative measure. In …
Dimensions of religiosity and explicit and implicit attitudes toward homosexual individuals and heterosexual individuals were investigated in two studies with religious and nonreligious individuals. Explicit attitudes were measured using the Centrality of Relgiousity Scale (CRS)…
In sporting industries, including the golf industry, there is a long-standing history of gendered practices events, exclusion, and “typical ‘ expectations” (Breger et al. 2019 p. 274 These practice are evident in golf through gendered language, gendered dress code, gendered hist…
The Cache County Study on Memory in Aging (CCSMA) was a research study that followed 5092 participants aged 65 or older over the course of 12 years, examining risk and protective factors for dementia. One of these factors was depression history, which has evidence for a connecti…
The prevalence of atopic dermatitis (AD) in children has steadily increased over time, yet it remains largely unknown how maternal factors during pregnancy are associated with child AD. Few studies have specifically assessed the relationship between prenatal stress and child AD …
In most seasonally breeding vertebrates, changes in photoperiod trigger the remodeling of neuroendocrine and glial cells known to be involved in activation of the reproductive axis. We used electron microscopy to determine whether similar remodeling occurs under conditions of co…
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of death from cancer in both men andwomen in the Western world. Improved screening efforts, surveillance, and treatment havereduced CRC mortality in older patients. However, the incidence is increasing in young adults,even in th…
A substantial amount of work has investigated the long-term consequences that adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) can have on adult physiology and behavior. Our laboratory has primarily investigated how ethanol evoked alterations in both peripheral and central inflammation may…
Objective: The study assessed how sexual consent varied from imaginary ideal scenarios and actual sexual experience while taking into consideration gender and relationship status. Methods: College students completed an online survey in which they were randomized to one of two im…