Autobiographical memories are never isolated episodes; they are embedded in a network that is continually updated and prediction driven. We present autobiographical memory as a meaning-driven process that includes both...
Weight stigma diminishes wellbeing and contributes to inequities across multiple domains. A 2020 report by the UK eating disorder charity Beat highlighted several ways that obesity prevention public health campaigns can...
Agency and communion are core personality variables with relevance to narrative approaches to personality and well-being, in addition to having gendered connotations. Agency has long been associated with masculinity, and...
This paper reports on telephone surveys of bar and restaurant managers in Cumberland and Perry Counties (Pennsylvania) regarding their practices around the promotion and sale of alcoholic beverages. Survey questions focused on...
Anxiety and depressive symptoms are associated with asthma-related acute care utilization. Few studies include rural adolescents. Asthma control may be the mechanism by which mental health affects acute care. This study...
Yost, Megan R. Attitudes About Sadomasochism Scale. In Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures , edited by Terri D. Fisher, Clive M. Davis, William L. Yarber, and Sandra L. Davis, 635-637. New York: Routledge, 2011., The...
Smith, Naila A., Barbara Thelamour, and Margaret X. Booth. Caribbean Immigrant Youths’ Ethnic Identity and Academic Achievement: The Role of Academic Beliefs. Youth and Society 54, no. 3 (2022): 462-480....
Although “fat talk” is associated with increased eating disorder risk, the predictors of fat talk engagement and viable alternatives to these pervasive conversations remain unclear. The current experiment examined responses to...
This study explores cross-sectional relationships among childhood sexual abuse (CSA), lifetime traumatic events (LTEs), age at first use of substances, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 644 low-income substance...
The childhood family environment can influence long-term well-being in part by modifying how individuals’ respond to and cope with stress across the life span. Theoretical models propose that childhood stress will either...
Communion is a core psychological motive that contributes to well-being. Narrative expressions of communion are considered centrally important for personality but also are stereotypically associated with gender. Eight...
Gurmankin, Andrea D., Marie Helweg-Larsen, Katrina Armstrong, Stephen E. Kimmel, and Kevin G.M. Volpp. Comparing the Standard Rating Scale and the Magnifier Scale for Assessing Risk Perceptions. Medical Decision Making 25,...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Meisels, Hannah Brier, and Azriel Grysman. "Confronting Self-Discrepant Events: Meaning-Making and Well-Being in Personal and Political...
Many people enjoying having numerous options available to them, yet when it comes to making a choice, people prefer selecting from fewer options. Research has shown that people tend to have the greatest satisfaction when...
Anthropogenic climate change currently threatens existing systems of human societies, and psychology has a significant role in exploring and untangling the predictors of sustainable behaviors and environmental concern. The...
These experiments examined the development and persistence of methamphetamine-conditioned hyperactivity in Swiss-Webster mice. Experiments 1 and 2 examined the development of conditioned hyperactivity, varying the...
This review examines cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social influence on autobiographical memory. We aim for this review to serve as a bridge between researchers who focus on veridicality (e.g., eyewitness memory)...
For more information on the published version, visit Science Direct's Website., The present experiments determined the effects of voluntary home-cage wheel running on the development (Experiments 1 and 2a) and expression...
BACKGROUND: “Clean” dietary labels are often viewed by consumers as referencing products that are minimally processed, without additives, preservatives, artificial colors, or ingredients, but may also be interpreted as...
Disrupting pathways to negative outcomes in children and adolescents who have caregivers with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is of the highest priority if we are to gain control over the opioid epidemic. This population is at...
Although weight stigma and discrimination are associated with increased body dissatisfaction and eating disorder risk, reduced opportunities, and poorer well-being, there are few legal protections for such discrimination in the...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Kingston, Sharon, and Amy Rose. Do the Effects of Adolescent Employment Differ by Neighborhood Context? American Journal of Community Psychology 55, no....
For more information on the published version, visit Science Direct's Website., The timing of voluntary exercise relative to drug conditioning is important to its “neuroprotective” effects, though it is unclear whether the...
Eating problems or irregularities are common among children and adolescents. When the problems reach the point of being gross disturbances in eating behavior and when accompanied by some form of body image disturbance, we enter...
Kingston, Sharon. Economic Adversity and Depressive Symptoms In Mothers: Do Marital Status and Perceived Social Support Matter? American Journal of Community Psychology 52, no. 3-4 (2013): 359-366....
Cultural psychology has flourished over the past several decades. As a burgeoning research field, it deepens our understanding of people's culturally embedded beliefs, values, and behavioral patterns, with far-reaching...
Psychopathy rarely forms the basis of an insanity defense, due to its highly prejudicial nature. However, certain characterizations and types of evidence can somewhat reduce this stigma. Undergraduate participants (N = 270) in...
Although research suggests that fat talk, the normalized conversations that involve degrading one's body shape/weight and size, can increase body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behavior, the extent to which dietary...
Rauhut, Anthony S., Brenda J. Gehrke, Scott B. Phillips, and Michael T. Bardo. Effects of Opioid Antagonists on Unconditioned and Conditioned Hyperactivity to Morphine. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 73, no. 3 (2002):...
This study examined how discrimination experiences, beliefs, and coping in middle adolescence contributed to heterogeneity in African American parent–adolescent relationship (PAR) profiles three years later. Data were from the...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Grysman, Azriel, Natalie Merrill, and Robyn Fivush. Emotion, Gender, and Gender Typical Identity in Autobiographical Memory. 25, no. 3...
Background:
Despite several decades of treatment research for anorexia nervosa (AN), many of the same questions remain: how to boost enrollment, engage participants, prevent attrition, and meet the needs of a diverse...
“Fat talk”, an emerging concept within the eating disorder literature, refers to normalized conversations that involve degradation of body shape, weight and size. Previous research suggests that these negative body comments...
Objective: This qualitative study explores the ways in which the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic and associated lockdown measures have affected the lives of adult patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and their...
The implementation of online technologies to promote wellbeing is increasingly becoming a worldwide priority. This study includes secondary analyses of data and examined drop-out rates in an online guided self-help intervention...
Grysman, Azriel. Gender Differences in Episodic Encoding of Autobiographical Memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 6, no. 1 (2017): 51-59....
Yost, Megan R., and Eileen L. Zurbriggen. Gender Differences in the Enactment of Sociosexuality: An Examination of Implicit Social Motives, Sexual Fantasies, Coercive Sexual Attitudes, and Aggressive Sexual Behavior. The...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Gender differences emerge regularly in autobiographical memory research. We suggest that gender differences in phenomenological self‐report measures of...
In this study, we examined the role of context in autobiographical memory narratives, specifically as it pertains to gender among emerging adults. Male and female participants reported stressful events in their lives in the...
Self and autobiographical memory are inextricably intertwined. From both cognitive and personality perspectives, theorists agree that who we are is very much defined by our remembered experiences (Conway, Singer, & Tagini,...
Yost, Megan R., and Lauren McCarthy. Girls Gone Wild? Heterosexual Women's Same-Sex Encounters at College Parties. Psychology of Women Quarterly 36, no. 1 (2012): 7-24. and Our purpose was to explore a relatively new sexual...
Black youth and rural adolescents are two groups who experience asthma disparities. Racism and discrimination in health care likely lead to group-based (systems-level) medical mistrust for some adolescents. Group-based medical...
Published as:Kingston, Sharon, Emily Knight, Justin Williams, and Hannah Gordon. How Do Young Adults View 12-Step Programs? A Qualitative Study. Journal of Addictive Diseases 34, no. 4 (2015): 311-322....
Though each of its four constituent essays has received scholarly attention in itself, Hume’s Four Dissertations(1757) has received virtually no consideration from scholars as a unified whole. This article offers such an...
For more information on the published version, visit Springer's Website, Grysman, Azriel, Robyn Fivush, Natalie A. Merrill, and Matthew Graci. "The Influence of Gender and Gender Typicality on Autobiographical Memory Across...
Background: Prenatal health disparities exist for African Americans and low socioeconomic status (SES) individuals when compared to non-Hispanic Whites and people of higher SES, particularly in cardio-metabolic diseases....
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jora.12757,...
Research regarding the CAD Triad Hypothesis shows that three specific emotions (contempt, anger, and disgust) are associated with three matched types of moral transgressions (community, autonomy, and divinity). The current...
Cigarette smoking is a moralized behavior in American culture, with smokers judged as immoral people. Moral judgments in general are informed by emotions, and the CAD triad hypothesis suggests that three emotions in particular...
Additional Reading: After graduating from Dickinson, this thesis was used as the basis for an article written by W. John Monopoli and Sharon Kingston, published by the International Journal of Behavioral Development in 2012....
Research on women’s body image has focused on the sexual objectification women experience in society and their interpersonal relationships, but the concept of body image has been studied almost exclusively among heterosexual...
In our first few years as Assistant Professors of Psychology (midway through our fourth and third years, respectively), we have found ourselves frequently discussing the issue of coming out in the classroom, probably because we...
The current study tested the effects of attentive versus distracted listening on both speakers and listeners in recall of an autobiographical memory. Participants included 128 pairs of friends who spoke with each other over a...
Background:
Two theoretical frameworks, the cumulative stress and match-mismatch model, propose that patterns of maternal depressive symptoms over early periods of offspring development predict outcomes in opposing ways....
Schmeer, Kammi K., Christine Guardino, Jessica L. Irwin, Sharon Ramey, Madeleine Shalowitz, and Christine Dunkel Schetter. "Maternal Postpartum Stress and Toddler Developmental Delays: Results from a Multisite Study of Racially...
BACKGROUND: Stress in pregnancy predicts adverse birth outcomes. Stressors occurring prior to conception may also pose risk for the mother and child. The few published studies on preconception stress test a single stress...
Background:
Although score reliability is a sample-dependent characteristic, researchers often only report reliability estimates from previous studies as justification for employing particular questionnaires in their...
Narrative research systematically codes individual differences in the ways in which participants story crucial events in their lives to understand the extent to which they create meaning and purpose (McAdams, 2008). These...
Both gender and narrative are foundational to the ways in which humans engage in meaning-making. Arguing from evolutionary, psychological and feminist theoretical perspectives, we posit that narratives and gender are culturally...
Coherent personal narratives employed for self-understanding (self function) and social proximity (social function) are theorized to inform life and the sense of self with meaning. Yet, it has not been tested whether this...
Editorial (Volume 37 Issue 2, December 2017):The following two issues of Imagination, Cognition, and Personality (Volume 37, issues 2 and 3) together comprise a special issue co-edited by Azriel Grysman and Cade Mansfield on...
Objective:
Etiological and maintenance models for disordered eating highlight the salience of negative affect and interpersonal dysfunction. This study employed a 14-day experience sampling procedure to assess the impact...
Aim:
The aim of this study was to use the innovative technique of Network Intervention Analysis (NIA) to examine the trajectory of symptom change associated with the use of a digital guided self‐help intervention...
OBJECTIVE:
To better understand those patients with anorexia nervosa who do not show early response to treatment and are likely to have poorer outcome. METHOD:
From an existing data set of 187 patients with anorexia...
Morgan, Kai A.D., Naila Smith, Roger C. Gibson, Wendel D. Abel, Monika Parshad-Asnani, Marvin Reid, Keisha N. O'Garo, and Christopher L. Edwards. "Pain, Sexual Activity and Partner Support in Jamaicans with Sickle Cell...
Parent cultural adaptation and preschool behavioral and socioemotional functioning were examined in a community sample of urban families from diverse cultural backgrounds. Participants were 130 families of children (mean age =...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Limited socioeconomic family and neighborhood resources are known to influence multiple aspects of school readiness skills. Early parent involvement in...
OBJECTIVE:
The aim of this study was to examine the processes involved in a guided self-help (GSH) pre-treatment intervention (RecoveryMANTRA) for patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), by measuring the levels of...
Harding, Hilary G., and Marie Helweg-Larsen. Perceived Risk for Future Intimate Partner Violence among Women in a Domestic Violence Shelter. Journal of Family Violence 24, no. 2 (2009): 75-85....
For more information on the published version, visit ABC-CLIO's Website., In this chapter, I examine psychological research and theory on the sexual practices that fall under the umbrella of BDSM (a multipurpose acronym...
One hundred and sixty‐two participants (ages 21–45) wrote open‐ended sexual fantasies and completed self‐report measures of rape myth acceptance, adversarial sexual beliefs, and attitudes toward women. We coded fantasies using...
Manhood and masculinity have been studied extensively in psychology and related disciplines and one focus of this work has been the way in which men must achieve their manhood and the precariousness of that achievement....
The developmental origins of psychopathology begin before birth and perhaps even prior to conception. Understanding the intergenerational transmission of psychopathological risk is critical to identify sensitive windows for...
Morgan, Julia E., Steve S. Lee, Nicole E. Mahrer, Christine M. Guardino, Elysia Poggi Davis, Madeleine U. Shalowitz, Sharon L. Ramey, and Christine Dunkel Schetter. "Prenatal Maternal C‐Reactive Protein Prospectively Predicts...
Gender differences in autobiographical memory have been reported in many studies using narrative coding of features including emotion word use, connectedness to others, and event specific details, with women using more of these...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website., Miller Brotman, Laurie, Esther Calzada, Keng-Yen Huang, Sharon Kingston, Spring Dawson- McClure, Dimitra Kamboukos, Amanda Rosenfelt, Amihai Schwab, and Eva...
The present experiment examined the contribution of the β-adrenergic receptor system in mediating the unconditioned (i.e. pharmacological) and conditioned (i.e. learned) hyperactive effects of methamphetamine. To this end, mice...
Background:
Outpatient interventions for adult anorexia nervosa typically have a modest impact on weight and eating disorder symptomatology. This study examined whether adding a brief online intervention focused on...
For more information on the published version, visit The American Journal of Managed Care's Website., Volpp, Kevin G., Andrea B. Troxel, Judith A. Long, Said A. Ibrahim, Dina Appleby, J. Otis Smith, Jane Jaskowiak, Marie...
Volpp, Kevin G., Andrea B. Troxel, Judith A. Long, Said A. Ibrahim, Dina Appleby, J. Otis Smith, Jalpa A. Doshi, Jane Jaskowiak, Marie Helweg-Larsen, Stephen E. Kimmel, Jingsan Zhu, Yuanyuan Tao, Wei Yang, John H. Holmes,...
Jiang, Feng, and Rui Zhang. Red and Risk Preferences: The Effects of Culture and Individual Differences. Behavioral Decision Making (Article published online January 20, 2021)....
Mintz, Gavriella, Chana Etengoff, and Azriel Grysman. The Relation between Childhood Parenting and Emerging Adults’ Experiences of Shame and Guilt. Journal of Child and Family Studies 26, no. 10 (2017): 2908–2920....
OBJECTIVE:
The quality of working alliance (WA) is associated with treatment outcomes across several types of psychiatric disorders and psychological interventions. This study examined the role of WA with peer mentors...
Kingston, Sharon and Chitra Raghavan. The Relationship of Sexual Abuse, Early Initiation of Substance Use, and Adolescent Trauma to PTSD. Journal of Traumatic Stress 22, no. 1 (2009): 65-68....
Relationships exist between language ability, emotion regulation, and social competence in preschool children. This study examines how these relationships function in elementary school children, and explores whether language...
Background: Resilience resources are predispositions that promote individuals’ abilities to cope with stress. Objective: The current cross-sectional study used path analysis with parallel multiple mediators to test...
Resilience resources refer to factors that protect against the physical and mental health effects of stress exposure. This study used a cross-sectional design to test whether three individual-level resilience resources—mastery,...
For more information on the published version, visit Science Direct's Website., This study examined strategies employed to support a positive self-image in the face of dissonant self-related memories, especially focusing on the...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis's Website., Grysman, Azriel, Janani Prabhakar, Stephanie M. Anglin, and Judith A. Hudson. "Self-Enhancement and the Life Script in Future Thinking Across...
BACKGROUND:
We describe the theoretical rationale and protocol for Self-Help And Recovery guide for Eating Disorders (SHARED), a trial investigating whether a guided self-care intervention (Recovery MANTRA) is a useful...