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- 2Evans, Annabel Ness
- 2Fang, Shichen
- 2Hall, David L.
- 2Heller, Robert Barry
- 2Hensch, Shirley-Anne.
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Fall 2019
In the natural world, for both human and non-human animals alike, the consequences of choices can be delayed, infrequent, and often highly uncertain (probabilistic). These factors, and their resulting interactions, can have diverse effects that, at face value, seem to control the allocation of...
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Optimism, Pessimism, and Terror Management: Evidence That Strategic Optimists Experience DTA Using Incongruent Self-Regulation After Self-esteem Threat
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Terror management theory (TMT) has accumulated a large literature over the past two decades, but has yet to examine whether forms of optimism and pessimism serve a terror management function. The present study tested the death thought accessibility (DTA) hypothesis using a general self-esteem...
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Parental influences on executive functions in early childhood: Differential effects of harsh and sensitive parenting
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The aim of this study was to clarify the nature of the relations between specific dimensions of parenting (sensitivity and harshness) and cool and hot components of executive functions (EFs) in preschool children. As such, this study examined the additive and interactive effects of parental...
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Path integration, rather than being suppressed, used to update spatial views in familiar environments with landmarks always available
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This project, following the elegant paradigm developed by Zhao and Warren (2015b), investigated how self-motion cues and landmarks are used during navigation in a familiar environment with constantly available landmarks. Participants learned the location of a specific object. After completing one...
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Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Distress Among Immigrants to Canada: The Mediating Role of Bicultural Identity Orientations
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Bicultural identity orientations have rarely been examined in relation to both perceived discrimination and psychological distress. Furthermore, these constructs have usually been studied in isolation, but their intersection is essential for understanding intercultural relations in multicultural...