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Friday, March 12, 2010

The tenacious nature of memory binding for arousing negative items.

29 Sep 2009 In two experiments, we investigated whether people are better or worse at updating memory for the location of emotional pictures than of neutral pictures. We measured participants' memories for the locations of both arousing negative pictures and ... Read more...

Are self-injurers impulsive?: Results from two behavioral laboratory studies.

13 Sep 2009 Common clinical wisdom suggests that people who engage in self-injury are impulsive. However, virtually all prior work in this area has relied on individuals' self-report of impulsiveness, despite evidence that people are limited in their ability to ... Read more...

Here we go again: a dynamic systems perspective on emotional rigidity across parent-adolescent conflicts.

30 Aug 2009 The authors used a dynamic systems theoretical approach to examine intraindividual variability in emotional responses during the transitional period of adolescence. Longitudinal diary data were collected regarding conflicts between 17 teenage girls ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Association'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The tenacious nature of memory binding for arousing negative items. 29 Sep 2009
• Are self-injurers impulsive?: Results from two behavioral laboratory studies. 13 Sep 2009
• Here we go again: a dynamic systems perspective on emotional rigidity across parent-adolescent conflicts. 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol primes, expectancies, and the working self-concept. 30 Aug 2009
• Associations of postural knowledge and basic motor skill with dyspraxia in autism: implication for abnormalities in distributed connectivity and motor learning. 30 Aug 2009
• Temporary activation of perceptual-motor associations: a stimulus-response interpretation of automaticity. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical symptoms of major depression are associated with the intensity dependence of auditory event-related potential components. 20 Aug 2009
• Contamination fear and effects of disgust on distress in a public restroom. 30 Jul 2009
• Fanning the flames of prejudice: the influence of specific incidental emotions on implicit prejudice. 30 Jul 2009
• Choosing to be afraid: preferences for fear as a function of goal pursuit. 30 Jul 2009
• Hot-headed is more than an expression: the embodied representation of anger in terms of heat. 30 Jul 2009
• Does working memory capacity affect the ability to predict upcoming words in discourse? 21 Jul 2009
• Beyond perception: testing for implicit conceptual traces in high-load tasks. 19 Jul 2009
• Discriminating semantic from episodic relatedness in young and older adults. 7 Jul 2009
• The nature of psychological thresholds. 29 Jun 2009
• Optimal experimental design for model discrimination. 29 Jun 2009
• Integrating experiential and distributional data to learn semantic representations. 29 Jun 2009
• A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between attentional bias and subjective craving in substance abuse. 29 Jun 2009
• A dual-process model of the alcohol-behavior link for social drinking. 29 Jun 2009
• Automatic alcohol associations: gender differences and the malleability of alcohol associations following exposure to a dating scenario. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Association'

Definition: A functional relationship between psychological phenomena of such nature that the presence of one tends to evoke the other; also, the process by which such a relationship is established.

Descriptor UI: D001244

Alternative terms: Association; Associations;

Related Mesh Headings: Word Association Tests;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.069; F04.754.720.346;

History Note: 66(65)

Technical Notes: a psychol or learning context; no qualif; DF: ASSOC