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Building Trust: Reflections of Adults Working With High-School-Age Youth in Project-Based Programs
(Elsevier, 2019-01)A program leader’s ability to build trust with youth is critical in effective project-based programs that serve as interventions to support skill development. However, there is little empirical research on the trust-building ... -
When is literal meaning inhibited? Evidence from nonsense in the metaphor-induced lexical forgetting paradigm
(American Psychological Association, 2018-07)A common feature of metaphoric language processing is a conflict between literal and figurative aspects of meaning. A consequence of this is the need to select the most appropriate meaning amongst competing associates when ... -
Designing Knowledge-In-Use Assessments to Promote Deeper Learning
(Wiley, 2019-04-04)Contemporary views on learning highlight that deep learning occurs not simply by accumulating knowledge, but by using and applying knowledge as one engages in disciplinary activity. Increasingly, those concerned with ... -
Explanatory Modeling in Science Through Text-Based Investigation: Testing the Efficacy of the Project READI Intervention Approach
(SAGE Publications, 2019-03-15)This article reports the results of a randomized control trial of a semester-long intervention designed to promote ninth-grade science students’ use of text-based investigation to create explanatory models of biological ... -
The Impact of Emotional Faces on Younger and Older Adults’ Attentional Blink
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-03)The attentional blink (AB) is the impaired ability to detect a second target (T2) when it follows shortly after the first (T1) among distractors in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). Given questions about the ... -
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity-Based Prejudice
(Wiley, 2018-11-09)Very little developmental research has focused on children’s and adolescents’ beliefs and attitudes regarding sexual orientation and gender identity/expression (SOGIE), despite documented evidence of the frequency and ... -
Picture this! Effects of photographs, diagrams, animations, and sketching on learning and beliefs about learning from a geoscience text
(Wiley, 2018-11-23)Many studies have demonstrated that illustrating expository science texts with images that are interesting, but irrelevant for understanding the causal relations underlying scientific phenomena, can cause seduction effects ... -
Promoting the Social and Emotional Learning of Millions of School Children
(SAGE Publications, 2019-01-18)This brief article describes how I have applied my knowledge, skills, and dispositions as a psychological scientist to help make the world a better place for children and youth. Over the last 40 years, I have collaborated ... -
A longitudinal study of the development of expressive timing
(SAGE Publications, 2018-07-16)Tempo arches have often been reported in polished music performances, but their development during the learning of a new piece has not been studied. We examined the development of expressive timing at three levels of musical ... -
Training thought and action for virtuoso performance
(SAGE Publications, 2018-12)The skills needed to play fast, challenging music with passion and conviction are much the same as the skills needed to play reliably from memory. We illustrate the relationship between virtuosic performance and memorization ... -
Measuring Working Memory Capacity with the Letter-Number Sequencing Task: Advantages of Visual Administration
(Wiley, 2018-10-03)Working memory capacity (WMC) plays a major role in many applied contexts, and it is important to be able to accurately measure this construct. The current studies tested whether the modality of administration of the ... -
Teachers’ perspectives on the consequences of managing classroom climate.
(Springer (part of Springer Nature): Springer Open Choice Hybrid Journals, 2018-12)Background: Well-managed, emotionally positive preschool classrooms promote academic and social success (Mashburn et al., 2008). Therefore, learning standards and practitioner guidelines emphasize the maintenance of a ... -
Inhibiting gustatory thalamus or medial amygdala has opposing effects on taste neophobia
(Elsevier, 2018-12)Taste neophobia is a feeding system defense mechanism that limits consumption of an unknown, and therefore potentially dangerous, edible until the post-ingestive consequences are experienced. We found that transient ... -
The effects of amygdala and cortical inactivation on taste neophobia
(Elsevier, 2018-08)The current study examined the effects of transient inactivation of the basolateral amygdala (BLA; Experiment 1) and gustatory cortex (GC; Experiment 2) on the expression of taste neophobia and its recovery. We found that ... -
Exploring the pathophysiology of emotion-based impulsivity: The roles of the sympathetic nervous system and hostile reactivity.
(Elsevier, 2018-06-19)The tendency to engage in impulsive behavior in the context of negative affect, known as negative urgency, has emerged as a powerful transdiagnostic predictor of behavioral dysregulation. Although general vulnerability to ... -
Epistemic rationality: Skepticism toward unfounded beliefs requires sufficient cognitive ability and motivation to be rational
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)Why does belief in the paranormal, conspiracy theories, and various other phenomena that are not backed up by evidence remain widespread in modern society? In the present research we adopt an individual difference approach, ... -
Lactose malabsorption and taste aversion learning
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017-11-15)Consumption of foods can be suppressed by two feeding system defense mechanisms: conditioned taste aversion (CTA) or taste avoidance learning (TAL). There is a debate in the literature about which form of intake suppression ... -
Bilingualism and symbolic abstraction: Implications for algebra learning
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017-06)Much of the research on bilingualism and math learning focuses on the potential challenges that bilinguals and language learners may face. The current line of research took an alternative approach and explored whether a ... -
Forgetting the Literal: The Role of Inhibition in Metaphor Comprehension
(American Psychological Association, 2016-08)In order for a person to comprehend metaphoric expressions, do metaphor-irrelevant aspects of literal information need to be inhibited? Previous research using sentence-verification paradigms has found that literal associates ... -
Bilingualism and symbolic abstraction: Implications for algebra learning
(Elsevier, 2017-06)Much of the research on bilingualism and math learning focuses on the potential challenges that bilinguals and language learners may face. The current line of research took an alternative approach and explored whether a ...
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