Review of “Hurtful Words: Association of Exposure to Peer Verbal Abuse with Elevated Psychiatric Symptom Scores and Corpus Callosum Abnormalities” Jessica Lyles This study by Teicher and his colleagues (2010) was designed to examine the effects that verbal abuse from peers had on brain structures (particularly the corpus callosum)...
read moreA New View: Treatment Adherence from a Marketing Perspective K. Thurlow The problem of non-adherence is wide-spread across ages and illnesses and can be easily considered a health concern (Howren, 2013). According to Lopez-Larrosa (2013; page 286), adherence to treatment is typically defined as “the context in which the...
read moreCultural Differences in First Impressions A review of: Noguchi, K., Kamada, A., & Shrira, I. (2014). Cultural differences in the primacy effect for person perception. International journal of psychology: Journal international de psychologie, 49(3), 208-10. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24821510 –...
read moreA Review of: Backeljauw, B., Holland, S. K., Altaye, M., & Loepke, a. W. (2015). Cognition and Brain Structure Following Early Childhood Surgery With Anesthesia. Pediatrics, 136(1). doi:10.1542/peds.2014-3526 by Chase Grosse Purpose of the research: Research in a variety of animal models have demonstrated that exposure to...
read moreBy: Kelsey Caitlin Hewitt A review of: Zagefka, H., Noor, M., Brown, R., Hopthrow, T. and de Moura, G. R. (2012), Eliciting donations to disaster victims: Psychological considerations. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 15: 221–230. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2012.01378.x An intriguing question in literature is how do donors decide...
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