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Consistency, Consolidation, and Cognition in Autobiographical Memories: a Flashbulb Memory Approach

Description: Flashbulb memories are highly vivid and long-lasting memories for events that are emotionally significant and personally important. These memories are held in very high confidence in accuracy over an extended period. In particular, individuals believe that they can remember the personal details surrounding the event such as where they were and what they were doing at the time the event occurred. Evidence from research, however, indicates that this may not be the case. The study of flashbulb mem… more
Date: May 2013
Creator: Kraha, Amanda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Examining High School Coaches’ Likelihood to Refer To, Interest in Working With, and Plans to Hire a Sport Psychologist

Description: The primary goal of the current study was to extend previous research suggesting that coaches are the primary gatekeepers who may be a barrier to working with athletes by examining high school coaches likelihood to refer to, interest in, and intention to hire a sport psychologist. Specifically, the current study examined relationships between high school coaches’ sex, age, and type of sport coached (i.e., contact vs. non-contact) and their likelihood to refer athletes to a sport psychologist fo… more
Date: December 2013
Creator: Austin, Harlan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effect of Season Performance on Male and Female Track and Field Athletes’ Self-identity

Description: Although the “self” has generally been conceptualized as relatively stable in sport-specific research, events such as deselection, injury, and career termination have been found to negatively affect athletes’ levels of identification with the athlete role. Additionally, there has been limited research regarding competitive failure and its ability to negatively affect athletes’ levels of identification with the athlete role. The purpose of the present investigation was to provide additional evid… more
Date: August 2013
Creator: Bradstreet, Tyler C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Investigation of Malingering and Defensiveness Using the Spanish Pai Among Spanish-speaking Hispanic American Outpatients

Description: For response styles, malingering describes the deliberate production of feigned symptoms by persons seeking external gain such as financial compensation, exemption from duty, or leniency from the criminal justice system. In contradistinction, defensiveness occurs when patients attempt to downplay their symptoms of psychological impairment. Both of the aforementioned response styles can markedly affect the accuracy of diagnosis, especially on self-reports, such as multiscale inventories. As a… more
Date: August 2013
Creator: Correa, Amor Alicia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Initial Validation of the Attention Network Test (ANT) Through a Comparison with the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metric (ANAM) Battery

Description: Undergraduate thesis with the initial attempt to validate the Attention Network Test (ANT) by comparing it to a thoroughly validated measure, the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metric (ANAM) battery. The author examines the validity of the ANT in order to confirm its use in both clinical and normal populations.
Date: November 22, 2013
Creator: Hertz, Nicholas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Honors College
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The Field of Near-Death Studies Through 2011: An Updated Analysis of the Scholarly Periodical Literature

Description: Abstract: Previously in this Journal, Holden and Christian (2005) profiled patterns in the field of near-death studies through an analysis of the scholarly publications from Near-Death Experiences: Index to the Periodical Literature through 2001. In this article, we provide an updated analysis of a similar type through 2011. The body of literature on which we based this analysis included 892 scholarly articles by 629 authors spanning more than a century. We report on patterns related to publica… more
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Loseu, Saharnaz; Holden, Janice Miner; Kinsey, Lee & Christian, Rozan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Critique of "A Prospectively Studied Near-Death Experience with Corroborated Out-of-Body Perceptions and Unexplained Healing"

Description: Abstract: An article titled "A Prospectively Studied Near-Death Experience with Corroborated Out-of-Body Perceptions and Unexplained Healing" by Penny Sartori, Paul Badham, and Peter Fenwick was published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies in 2006. The authors concluded that the reported case strengthened "the cumulative experience derived from many other individual cases that suggest that our current models of consciousness must expand in order to provide and adequate explanation of NDEs" (p… more
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Rush, Michael J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries

UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Description: This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. This series features Dr. Meharvan Singh, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neurosciencea at the UNT Health Science Center, Dr. Bert Hayslip, regents professor in the Department of Psychology, and Kyle Page, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology.
Date: February 28, 2013
Creator: Lawrence, Samantha
Item Type: Refine your search to only Poster
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Substance Use Disorders Among Patients with Anxiety: Prevalence and Effect on Psychotherapy Outcomes

Description: Undergraduate thesis studying anxiety and substance use disorders (SUD) by examining the prevalence of anxiety-SUD comorbidity in an outpatient psychology training clinic and assessing how it affects psychotherapy outcomes. Results revealed that anxiety and SUD is more highly comorbid compared to when anxiety is paired with another disorder and the presence of a comorbid SUD was associated with worse therapy outcomes at the beginning and end of therapy. However, the comorbid SUD did not affect … more
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Grimaldo, Gabriella A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Honors College

Caring for Yourself as a Caregiver

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. In this presentation, Bert Hayslip, Regents Professor in the Department of Psychology, will discuss caregiving for Alzheimer's and dementia patients.
Date: February 28, 2013
Creator: Hayslip, Bert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

Fear of Developing Dementia

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The presenter discusses his research into the fear of dementia.
Date: February 28, 2013
Creator: Page, Kyle S.; Hayslip, Bert & Wadsworth, Dee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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A neurobiology of learning beyond the declarative non-declarative distinction

Description: This article provides a literature review examining declarative and non-declarative forms of learning in neuroscience and psychology. The authors conclude that traditional taxonomy that distinguishes between neural systems supporting declarative and non-declarative forms of learning may be inadequate, as experimental and theoretical work suggests that other criteria may be more useful in categorizing the role of neural structures involved in learning such as the hippocampus and the basal gangli… more
Date: November 14, 2013
Creator: Ortu, Daniele & Vaidya, Manish
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT College of Health and Public Service
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Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Personal Narratives

Description: Appendix used to adapt the Interpersonal Decentering scoring system developed for thematic apperceptive techniques to score expressive writing autobiographical essays that were used for the following publications: Jenkins, S. R., Shamji, J., Straup, M., & Boals, A. (2022). Beyond traits and states: Interpersonal decentering is also activated social information processing. Personality and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111332. and Jenkins, S. R., Austin, H., & Boals, A. (2013).… more
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Wilson, Joshua & Beaber, Kristi
Item Type: Refine your search to only Paper
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Social Exclusion and Green Consumption

Description: Social exclusion has garnered much attention from researchers across the social sciences, especially among social psychologists. However, given the fact that social relationships and consumption are two of the central activities in daily life, there is surprisingly little research on the impact of social connection threats within the realm of consumer behavior. This study examines the effect of social exclusion on proenvironmental behavior and green consumption. More precisely, the objectives o… more
Date: August 2013
Creator: Naderi, Iman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Bureau of Prisons: Timelier Reviews, Plan for Evaluations, and Updated Policies Could Improve Inmate Mental Health Services Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "During a 5-year period--fiscal years 2008 through 2012--costs for inmate mental health services in institutions run by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) rose in absolute dollar amount, as well as on an annual per capita basis. Specifically, mental health services costs rose from $123 million in fiscal year 2008 to $146 million in fiscal year 2012, with increases generally due to three factors--inmate populati… more
Date: July 17, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Using a Multimodal Sensing Approach to Characterize Human Thermal Comfort Level

Description: A method to distinguish human level of comfort has been developed by using a thermal camera, physiological sensors, and a surroundings sensor. The method has successfully collected data from hominal facial features, breathing rate, skin temperature, room temperature, blood volume pressure, relative humidity, and air velocity. Participants from all genders and races were involved in two sessions of a human comfort experiment including a psychology survey session. The variables, such as room temp… more
Date: December 2013
Creator: Wicaksono, Cakra Aditya
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[Roundtable Writer's Breakfast on "How 12 Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope" tape 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the roundtable writer's breakfast, "Tested: How 12 Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope" with Payton Budd and Dorothy Budd held on March 2nd, 2013. The footage shows the opening of the dialogue facilitated by Curtis King on the topics of psychology, crime, law, and the prison system. The footage switches to art restoration content at the 32:45 time mark.
Date: March 2, 2013
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis; Budd, Payton; Budd, Dorothy & Waller, Alonzo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Roundtable Writer's Breakfast on "How 12 Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope" tape 1 of 2]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the roundtable writer's breakfast, "Tested: How 12 Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope" with Payton Budd and Dorothy Budd held on March 2nd, 2013. The footage shows the opening of the dialogue facilitated by Curtis King on the topics of psychology, crime, law, and the prison system.
Date: March 2, 2013
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: King, Curtis; Budd, Payton; Budd, Dorothy & Waller, Alonzo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.774281 -96.797546
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Glass Is Neither Half Full Nor Empty, It Is Shattered: a Prospective Study of Shattered Assumptions Theory and Psychological Flexibility

Description: Shattered assumptions theory posits that each individual has a core set of assumptions about the world and the self, often termed the assumptive world which includes: the world is a benevolent place, the world is meaningful, and the self is worthy. Experiencing a traumatic event is believed to lead individuals to question these assumptions in light of the new contradictory information that causes the assumptive world to shatter, leaving the individual to rebuild a more negative perception of th… more
Date: December 2013
Creator: Schuler, Eric Robert
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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[College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2013 commencement ceremony]

Description: Video recording of the College of Arts and Sciences Fall 2013 commencement ceremony held at the Coliseum on Saturday, December 14. The ceremony includes remarks by UNT President Dr. V. Lane Rawlins, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Warren Berggren, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Student Success Dr. Rosemary R. Haggett, UNT System Student Regent Rudy Reynoso, Chair of the Faculty Senate and Professor of Psychology Dr. Mark Vosvick, Chair of the Staff Senate Danielle … more
Date: December 14, 2013
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.208630 -97.154106
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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