The overarching goal of this project is to examine changes in mental and behavioral health across the COVID-19 pandemic period and test hypotheses about how childhood adverse experiences and COVID-19 life events come together to predict those changes.

Individuals who are affected by alcohol use disorder (AUD) are at increased risk for other drug use disorders (Hasin et al., 2007), and each additional criterion met for AUD further heightens the likelihood of using multiple substances (Hedden et al., 2010). Previously identified predictors of illicit substance use and dependence among individuals affected by AUD include male gender, younger age, earlier drug and alcohol use onset, maternal alcohol problems, higher levels of neuroticism, primary depression...

Course site for W28 - Global Overview of the Scholarly Publishing Landscape: Differences Between the North and the South and Possible Consequences of Plan S

The goal of this project is to determine in Spit for Science participants with high levels of anxiety, does the ethanol consumption vary by ethnicity. We anticipate that each ethnic group will have varying levels of ethanol consumption, but we expect white college students will drink more than other ethnic groups.

This study aims to follow-up on the first study by achieving two goals: (1) to replicate the findings from Study 1; and (2) to investigate whether cultural worldview (such as just world belief and system justification) would moderate the association between perceived discrimination and health outcomes. Note: Study 1 aimed to assess whether the personal/group discrimination discrepancy is still evident among ethnic/racial minority college students with the cultural and racial context created by the 45...

There is now substantial evidence to confirm the notion that executive function skills make immense contributions to children’s early learning and scholastic achievements (Blair, 2002; Bull et al., 2008; Gathercole et al., 2004; Latzman et al., 2010; Lorsbach et al., 1996; Ozonoff & Jensen, 1996). One of the most central components of cognitive functioning involves the skill of executive ‘decision-making’. Originally indexed by the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and later reformed as “Hungry Donkey” referring...

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There is minimal literature investigating the relationship between gender differences and vulnerable narcissism because various previous studies indicated that males are closely associated with narcissistic features. The purpose of this study is to observe whether the relationship between vulnerable narcissism and spiteful punishments that is moderated by self-esteem threat is influenced by the addition of gender as a variable. Data was collected from the Amazon Mechanical Turk program participants and included the measures of the...

Title Network Analysis of Trait Aggression - BFI, BPAQ, DD Description This project seeks to determine where trait aggression belongs among the broader "Big 5" personality traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Data-driven approaches such as network analysis techniques allow for the estimation of the importance of certain variables (or “nodes”) in a given network. Recent advances in personality research have shown the utility of this analytic framework in the context...

The U.S. continues to show an upward trend in political polarization, characterized in part by the perceived division of moral values along party lines (Finkel et al., 2020). This moralization of political identity has contributed to the escalation of negative emotions (e.g., fear, anger, and hatred) directed towards political outgroup members. In turn these negative emotions sustain political divisions by motivating the avoidance of—and even violence towards—opposing partisans (Iyenger et al., 2019). Although negative emotions...

This project will use the NSLM data to examine patterns in the cognitive and affective dimensions of students’ mathematical learning. Using multilevel latent profile analysis (MLPA), the researcher will examine whether there are there distinct profiles, or classes, of students who show similar patterns of performance across measures of math anxiety, math achievement, and math interest. Further, they will assess the extent to which teachers’ levels of math anxiety and beliefs about the nature of...

In our initial study we found evidence that Factor 1 psychopathy showed a stronger, positive association with subjective social status and belief in hierarchy than Factor 2 psychopathy. Similarly Factor 2 psychopathy was negatively related to respect for hierarchy, but Factor 1 was not. As such, these findings indicated a substantial difference in relation to the factors of psychopathy as they relate to components of social status. This purpose of this study is to examine...