Set (Psychology)
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Negative reinforcement eating expectancies, emotion dysregulation, and symptoms of bulimia nervosa.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Research suggests that emotion dysregulation or difficulties in the modulation of emotional experience constitute risk for eating disorders. Recent work has also highlighted the role of certain eating-related cognitions, specifically ... Read more...

Alcohol primes, expectancies, and the working self-concept.

30 Aug 2009 Previous research has shown that alcohol consumption can lead to momentary changes in the self-concept (e.g., Steele & Josephs, 1990). In two studies (n = 150), we examined whether the implicit activation of alcohol expectancies (i.e., ... Read more...

Caffeine expectancy: instrument development in the Rasch measurement framework.

30 Aug 2009 Although caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world, the mechanisms associated with consumption are not well understood. Nonetheless, outcome expectancies for caffeine use are thought to underlie caffeine's reinforcing ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Set (Psychology)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Negative reinforcement eating expectancies, emotion dysregulation, and symptoms of bulimia nervosa. 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol primes, expectancies, and the working self-concept. 30 Aug 2009
• Caffeine expectancy: instrument development in the Rasch measurement framework. 30 Aug 2009
• Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students. 30 Aug 2009
• ALDH2, ADH1B and alcohol expectancies: integrating genetic and learning perspectives. 30 Aug 2009
• Self-perception and psychological well-being: the benefits of foreseeing a worse future. 30 Aug 2009
• Fanning the flames of prejudice: the influence of specific incidental emotions on implicit prejudice. 30 Jul 2009
• Tell me about it: neural activity elicited by emotional pictures and preceding descriptions. 30 Jul 2009
• Embodiment of abstract concepts: good and bad in right- and left-handers. 30 Jul 2009
• [Visual set and shifting of selective attention in 8-year-old children with EEG-signs of immaturity of fronto-thalamic and brainstem activating systems] 29 Jun 2009
• Intuition through time: what does the seer see? 29 Jun 2009
• Deconstructing the "reign of error": interpersonal warmth explains the self-fulfilling prophecy of anticipated acceptance. 29 Jun 2009
• A dual-process model of the alcohol-behavior link for social drinking. 29 Jun 2009
• Change processes in couple therapy: an intensive case analysis of one couple using a common factors lens. 29 Jun 2009
• Predicting category intuitiveness with the rational model, the simplicity model, and the generalized context model. 29 Jun 2009
• Glimpses of a one-speed mind: focus-switching and search for verbal and visual, and easy and difficult items in working memory. 21 Jun 2009
• Structural priming of adjective-noun structures in hearing and deaf children. Jun 2009
• Using movement and intentions to understand human activity. Jun 2009
• Positive urgency predicts illegal drug use and risky sexual behavior. 30 May 2009
• Do tests of executive functioning predict ability to downregulate emotions spontaneously and when instructed to suppress? 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Set (Psychology)'

Definition: Readiness to think or respond in a predetermined way when confronted with a problem or stimulus situation.

Descriptor UI: D012718

Alternative terms: Set (Psychology); Sets (Psychology); Set;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.838;

History Note: 65

Technical Notes: no qualif; DF: SET