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Thought-Action Fusion in Childhood: Measurement, Development, and Association with Anxiety, Rituals and Other Compulsive-like Behaviors
Saturday, 28 Aug, 2010 – 7:57 | No Comment
Thought-Action Fusion in Childhood: Measurement, Development, and Association with Anxiety, Rituals and Other Compulsive-like Behaviors Abstract  A new inventory assessing thought-action fusion (TAF) in children is presented. We explore the psychometric properties of this instrument and examine the associations between TAF, ritualistic and compulsive-like behavior (CLB) and anxiety. Three hundred thirteen children ages 7–14 (M = 10.16, SD = 1.92) representing six grades (grouped into three grade levels (grades 2–3, 4–5, and 6–7) completed the Thought-action Fusion Inventory for Children (TAFIC) and the Child Revised Manifest Anxiety Scal [...]
Disaggregating the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters and Chronic Orofacial Pain: Implications for the Prediction of Health Outcomes with PTSD Symptom Clusters
Thursday, 26 Aug, 2010 – 9:48 | No Comment
Disaggregating the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters and Chronic Orofacial Pain: Implications for the Prediction of Health Outcomes with PTSD Symptom Clusters Abstract Background  Research has established a significant relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and pain; however, very little research has examined the differential role of PTSD symptom clusters on pain outcomes. Purpose  (a) To confirm the most appropriate PTSD symptom factor structure for an orofacial pain population and (b) to test a model of prediction of pain outcomes with PTSD symptom clusters. Methods  The study was a cross-sectional, retrospective case se [...]
Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions
Tuesday, 24 Aug, 2010 – 8:02 | No Comment
Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions Abstract  Using a less deceptive variant of the false evidence ploy, interrogators often use the bluff tactic, whereby they pretend to have evidence to be tested without further claiming that it necessarily implicates the suspect. Three experiments were conducted to assess the impact of the bluff on confession rates. Using the Kassin and Kiechel (Psychol Sci 7:125–128, 1996) computer crash paradigm, Experiment 1 indicated that bluffing increases false confessions comparable to the effect produced by the presentation of false evid [...]
Minding Money: How Understanding of Value is Culturally Promoted
Friday, 20 Aug, 2010 – 19:06 | No Comment
Minding Money: How Understanding of Value is Culturally Promoted Abstract  Adding to the issues of cognitive economics (Cortes and Londoño IPBS: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science 43(2):178–184, 2009) and the social psychology of “shadow economics” (Salvatore et al. IPBS: Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science 43(2), 2009), the carrier of economic exchanges, money, plays a key role in children’s socialization in different societies. Money given to children, ‘pocket money,’ is a negotiated settlement between children’s social demands and those of their p [...]
Proposed Revisions to Gender Identity Disorder Diagnoses in the DSM-5
Friday, 20 Aug, 2010 – 7:47 | No Comment
Proposed Revisions to Gender Identity Disorder Diagnoses in the DSM-5 Proposed Revisions to Gender Identity Disorder Diagnoses in the DSM-5 Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Letter to the EditorDOI 10.1007/s10508-010-9660-xAuthors Anne A. Lawrence, Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB Canada Journal Archives of Sexual BehaviorOnline ISSN 1573-2800Print ISSN 0004-0002 [...]
Face Inversion Effect Emerges Under Critical Configural Discrepancy
Wednesday, 18 Aug, 2010 – 15:03 | No Comment
Face Inversion Effect Emerges Under Critical Configural Discrepancy Configural processing has been considered the major contributor to the face inversion effect (FIE) in face recognition. However, most researchers have only obtained the FIE with one specific ratio of configural alteration. It remains unclear whether the ratio of configural alteration itself can mediate the occurrence of the FIE. We aimed to clarify this issue by manipulating the configural information parametrically using six different ratios, ranging from 4% to 24%. Participants were asked to judge whether a pair of faces were entirely identic [...]
Are Secondary Variants of Juvenile Psychopathy More Reactively Violent and Less Psychosocially Mature Than Primary Variants?
Thursday, 12 Aug, 2010 – 8:02 | No Comment
Are Secondary Variants of Juvenile Psychopathy More Reactively Violent and Less Psychosocially Mature Than Primary Variants? Abstract  There is growing support for the disaggregation of psychopathy into primary and secondary variants. This study examines whether variants of psychopathy can be identified in a subsample (n = 116) of juvenile offenders with high scores on the Youth Version of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL:YV). Model-based cluster analysis of offenders’ scores on the PCL:YV and a measure of anxiety suggested a two-group solution. The derived clusters manifested expected differences across theoretically relevant constructs of abu [...]
Review and Meta-analysis of Couple-Oriented Interventions for Chronic Illness
Tuesday, 10 Aug, 2010 – 21:53 | No Comment
Review and Meta-analysis of Couple-Oriented Interventions for Chronic Illness Abstract Background  Evidence continues to build for the impact of the marital relationship on health as well as the negative impact of illness on the partner. Targeting both patient and partner may enhance the efficacy of psychosocial or behavioral interventions for chronic illness. Purpose  The purpose of this report is to present a cross-disease review of the characteristics and findings of studies evaluating couple-oriented interventions for chronic physical illness. Methods  We conducted [...]
Are There Different Types of Female Orgasm?
Tuesday, 10 Aug, 2010 – 21:36 | No Comment
Are There Different Types of Female Orgasm? Abstract  In attempt to identify and validate different types of orgasms which females have during sex with a partner, data collected by Mah and Binik (2002) on the dimensional phenomenology of female orgasm were subjected to a typological analysis. A total of 503 women provided adjectival descriptions of orgasms experienced either with a partner (n = 276) or while alone (n = 227). Latent-class analysis revealed four orgasm types which varied systematically in terms of pleasure and sensations engendered. Two typ [...]
A National Survey of Mental Health Services Available to Offenders with Mental Illness: Who Is Doing What?
Tuesday, 10 Aug, 2010 – 21:32 | No Comment
A National Survey of Mental Health Services Available to Offenders with Mental Illness: Who Is Doing What? Abstract  The purpose of this study was to examine the national practices of psychotherapy services for male offenders with mental illness (OMI) in state correctional facilities. Participants consisted of 230 correctional mental health service providers from 165 state correctional facilities. Results indicated that mental health professionals provided a variety of services to OMI that can be conceptualized by six goals considered important in their work: mental illness recovery, emotions management, institutional functioning, re-e [...]