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...