Inverted Social Reward: Associations between Psychopathic Traits and Self-Report and Experimental Measures of Social Reward (open access)

Inverted Social Reward: Associations between Psychopathic Traits and Self-Report and Experimental Measures of Social Reward

This article describes two studies of individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits. Study 1 explores what aspects of social reward are associated with psychopathic traits, and Study 2 administers these measures to a new group of participants along with two experimental tasks investigating monetary and social reward value.
Date: August 27, 2014
Creator: Foulkes, Lucy; McCrory, Eamon J.; Neumann, Craig S. & Viding, Essi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview (open access)

Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview

This article explores the relationship between smoking cessation interventions and suicidality and explore common treatments, their associated risks, and effectiveness in promoting smoking reduction and abstinence.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: Penberthy, J. Kim; Penberthy, J. Morgan; Harris, Marcus R.; Nanda, Sonali; Ahn, Jennifer; Martinez, Caridad Ponce et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceptions About the Role of Race in the Job Acquisition Process: At the Nexus of Attributional Ambiguity and Aversive Racism in Technology and Engineering Education (open access)

Perceptions About the Role of Race in the Job Acquisition Process: At the Nexus of Attributional Ambiguity and Aversive Racism in Technology and Engineering Education

This article explores the role of race in the negative job acquisition outcomes of African American graduates of a federally funded multi-institution doctoral training program.
Date: 2015
Creator: Niemann, Yolanda F. & Sánchez, Nydia C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seeing the Growth: Strengthening Teacher Connectedness Through Outward Bound Excursions (open access)

Seeing the Growth: Strengthening Teacher Connectedness Through Outward Bound Excursions

This article assesses high-school teacher connectedness following participation in Outward Bound (OB) excursions.
Date: June 27, 2017
Creator: Turke, Shani Rose; Caldas, Stephanie; Kågesten, Anna; Parsons, Jennifer; Ahn, Ji Young & Winch, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memory and Coping with Stress: The Relationship Between Cognitive-Emotional Distinctiveness, Memory Valence, and Distress (open access)

Memory and Coping with Stress: The Relationship Between Cognitive-Emotional Distinctiveness, Memory Valence, and Distress

Article on memory and coping with stress and the relationship between cognitive-emotional distinctiveness, memory valence, and distress.
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Boals, Adriel; Rubin, David C. & Klein, Kitty
System: The UNT Digital Library
People who Expect to Enter Psychotherapy are Prone to Believing that They Have Forgotten Memories of Childhood Trauma and Abuse (open access)

People who Expect to Enter Psychotherapy are Prone to Believing that They Have Forgotten Memories of Childhood Trauma and Abuse

Article discussing people who expect to enter psychotherapy being prone to believing that they have forgotten memories of childhood trauma and abuse.
Date: July 8, 2010
Creator: Rubin, David C. & Boals, Adriel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms (open access)

Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms

Article on memory in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Rubin, David C.; Boals, Adriel & Berntsen, Dorthe, 1962-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Mental Aerobics Training on Older Adults (open access)

The Impact of Mental Aerobics Training on Older Adults

This article investigates the impact of mental aerobics on older adults. Findings support the conclusion that MA can be an effective intervention in improving older adults’ affectivity, everyday task self-efficacy, and self-rated health.
Date: May 1, 2015
Creator: Hayslip, Bert; Paggi, Kay & Caballero, Daniela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Autobiographical Memories for Very Negative Events: The Effects of Thinking about and Rating Memories (open access)

Autobiographical Memories for Very Negative Events: The Effects of Thinking about and Rating Memories

Article on autobiographical memories for very negative events and the effects of thinking about and rating memories.
Date: February 1, 2010
Creator: Rubin, David C.; Boals, Adriel & Klein, Kitty
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic impact of ME/CFS: Individual and societal costs (open access)

The Economic impact of ME/CFS: Individual and societal costs

This article discusses the economic impact of Myalgic Encephalopathy and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by examining the direct and indirect costs to the individual and to society.
Date: April 8, 2008
Creator: Jason, Leonard A.; Benton, Mary C.; Valentine, Lisa M.; Johnson, Abra & Torres-Harding, Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Blood-Based Biomarkers: A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease (open access)

Blood-Based Biomarkers: A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

This article describes the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an Alzheimer's disease blood screen.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cognitive Impairment Among World Trade Center Responders: Long-Term Implications of Re-Experiencing the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (open access)

Cognitive Impairment Among World Trade Center Responders: Long-Term Implications of Re-Experiencing the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

This article examines the association between World Trade Center (WTC)-related post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive impairment in WTC responders.
Date: August 18, 2016
Creator: Clouston, Sean A.P.; Kotov, Roman; Pietrzak, Robert H.; Luft, Benjamin J.; Gonzalez, Adam; Richards, Marcus et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease (open access)

A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

Article describes study examining the positive and negative predictive values of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood test if implemented in primary care.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiology to Assess Impact of Varying Levels of Simulation Fidelity in a Threat Environment (open access)

Psychophysiology to Assess Impact of Varying Levels of Simulation Fidelity in a Threat Environment

This article examines participant experience by examining psychophysiological responses of participants to their surroundings.
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D.; Rizzo, Albert A.; Courtney, Christopher G. & Dawson, Michael E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease across blood fraction and platforms: Comparing apples to oranges (open access)

Comparing biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease across blood fraction and platforms: Comparing apples to oranges

This article investigates the comparability of potential Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers across blood fractions and assay platforms.
Date: December 29, 2015
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Lista, Simone; Rissman, Robert A.; Edwards, Melissa; Zhang, Fan; Hall, James R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Markers of Neuropsychological Functioning and Alzheimer's Disease (open access)

Molecular Markers of Neuropsychological Functioning and Alzheimer's Disease

Article examines molecular markers of neuropsychological functioning among elders with and without Alzheimer's disease (AD) and determine the predictive ability of combined molecular markers and select neuropsychological tests in detecting disease presence. This work provides the foundation for the generation of a point‐of‐care device that can be used to screen for AD.
Date: March 1, 2015
Creator: Edwards, Melissa; Balldin, Valerie Hobson; Hall, James R. & O'Bryant, Sid E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood‐based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research (open access)

Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood‐based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research

Review article which provides (1) a synopsis of selected preanalytical methods utilized in many international AD cohort studies, (2) initial draft guidelines/SOPs for preanalytical methods, and (3) a list of required methodological information and protocols to be made available for publications in the field to foster cross‐validation across cohorts and laboratories.
Date: September 30, 2014
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Gupta, Veer; Henriksen, Kim; Edwards, Melissa; Jeromin, Andreas; Lista, Simone et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arsenic exposure, AS3MT polymorphism, and neuropsychological functioning among rural dwelling adults and elders: a cross-sectional study (open access)

Arsenic exposure, AS3MT polymorphism, and neuropsychological functioning among rural dwelling adults and elders: a cross-sectional study

This article aims to examine the link between low-level arsenic exposure and cognitive functioning, and the potential role of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP A35991G, rs10748835) of the AS3MT gene in modifying this link.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Edwards, Melissa; Hall, James R.; Gong, Gordon & O'Bryant, Sid E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extension of the Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization with Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Women (open access)

Extension of the Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization with Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Women

Article on the extension of the behavioral model of healthcare utilization with ethnically diverse, low-income women.
Date: February 2002
Creator: Keenan, Lisa A.; Marshall, Linda L. & Eve, Susan Brown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Reward Questionnaire (SRQ): development and validation (open access)

Social Reward Questionnaire (SRQ): development and validation

Article discusses study which led to the development of the Social Reward Questionnaire (SRQ), a measure of individual differences in the value of different social rewards.
Date: March 11, 2014
Creator: Foulkes, Lucy; Viding, Essi; McCrory, Eamon J. & Neumann, Craig S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Virtual Reality for Enhanced Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in the Clinical, Affective and Social Neurosciences (open access)

Virtual Reality for Enhanced Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in the Clinical, Affective and Social Neurosciences

This article highlights the potential of virtual reality environments for enhanced ecological validity in the clinical, affective, and social neurosciences.
Date: December 11, 2015
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The assumption of a reliable instrument and other pitfalls to avoid when considering the reliability of data (open access)

The assumption of a reliable instrument and other pitfalls to avoid when considering the reliability of data

This article helps researchers avoid common pitfalls associated with reliability including incorrectly assuming that measurement error always attenuates observed score correlations, different sources of measurement error originate from the same source, and reliability is a function of instrumentation.
Date: April 12, 2012
Creator: Nimon, Kim F.; Zientek, Linda Reichwein & Henson, Robin K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Reward Questionaire--Adolescent Version and its association with callous-unemotional traits (open access)

Social Reward Questionaire--Adolescent Version and its association with callous-unemotional traits

This article describes a study in which the adult Social Reward Questionnaire is adapted for use with adolescents.
Date: March 20, 2017
Creator: Foulkes, Lucy; Neumann, Craig S.; Roberts, Ruth; McCrory, Eamon J. & Viding, Essi
System: The UNT Digital Library
The construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population (open access)

The construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population

This article tests the four-factor model of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised empirical construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population by using instruments that supply different types of data.
Date: October 2, 2014
Creator: León Mayer, Elizabeth; Folino, Jorge O.; Neumann, Craig S. & Hare, Robert D.
System: The UNT Digital Library