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Models, Psychological (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Models, Psychological'
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Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right.
25 Aug 2009 
The Whorf hypothesis holds that we view the world filtered through the semantic categories of our native language. Over the years, consensus has oscillated between embrace and dismissal of this hypothesis. Here, we review recent findings on the ...
rec_pub_19716754-language-thought-color-whorf-half-right.htm
Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees.
25 Aug 2009 Recent empirical research has shed new light on the perennial question of human altruism. A number of recent studies suggest that from very early in ontogeny young children have a biological predisposition to help others achieve their goals, to ...
rec_pub_19716750-varieties-altruism-children-chimpanzees.htm
An interference account of cue-independent forgetting in the no-think paradigm.
24 Aug 2009 Memory suppression is investigated with the no-think paradigm, which produces forgetting following repeated practice of not thinking about a memory [Anderson MC, Green C (2001) Nature 410:366-369]. Because the forgotten item is not retrieved even ...
rec_pub_19717438-an-interference-account-cue-independent-forgetting-think-paradigm.htm
Toward model-driven interventions for African Americans with cognitive-communicative disorders.
24 Aug 2009 African American adults have a disproportionately high incidence and prevalence of cognitive-communicative disorders, yet their use of speech-language pathology services does not reflect their need for clinical intervention. The purpose of this ...
rec_pub_19711238-toward-model-driven-interventions-african-americans-cognitive.htm
24 Aug 2009 Cognitive neuropsychological models (CNMs) have been useful to generate a theory of aphasia rehabilitation. In contrast to the traditional syndrome approach, CNMs employ cognitive accounts to interpret language disturbances after brain damage. In ...
rec_pub_19711236-applying-cognitive-neuropsychological-principles-rehabilitation.htm
20 Aug 2009 Schizophrenia is still one of the most mysterious and costliest mental disorders in terms of human suffering and societal expenditure. Here, we focus on the key developments in biology, epidemiology, and pharmacology of schizophrenia and provide a ...
rec_pub_19700006-schizophrenia.htm
Personality trait predictors of bipolar disorder symptoms.
19 Aug 2009 The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the personality predictors of bipolar disorder symptoms, conceptualized as one-dimensional (bipolarity) or two-dimensional (mania and depression). A psychiatric sample (N=370; 45% women; mean ...
rec_pub_19699536-personality-trait-predictors-bipolar-disorder-symptoms.htm
Changes of mind in decision-making.
17 Aug 2009 A decision is a commitment to a proposition or plan of action based on evidence and the expected costs and benefits associated with the outcome. Progress in a variety of fields has led to a quantitative understanding of the mechanisms that evaluate ...
rec_pub_19693010-changes-mind-decision-making.htm
Mental distress in the general population in Zambia: impact of HIV and social factors.
16 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Population level data on mental health from Africa are limited, but available data indicate mental problems to represent a substantial public health problem. The negative impact of HIV on mental health suggests that this could ...
rec_pub_19689799-mental-distress-general-population-zambia-impact-hiv-social-factors.htm
16 Aug 2009 Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the emblematic psychiatric conditions in contemporary public consciousness, indexing not only disordered minds, but also disordered human relations. With efforts currently mounting to refine criteria ...
rec_pub_19695754-the-role-shame-posttraumatic-stress-disorder-proposal-socio-emotional.htm
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