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...
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...
read moreReviewed by Lauren Lee There is a well-established “robust and reliable” body of research that links poorer performance on cognitive tasks with evaluation anxiety. Cognitive Interference Theory (CIT) proposed by Sarason and associates attempts to explain that association, using the term negative off-task self-dialogue...
read moreThe following is a review of McCreary & Sasse’s (2000) article, “An Exploration of the Drive for Muscularity in Adolescent Boys and Girls” by Kelsey Winters. The authors discuss the differences in weight-related behaviors between adolescent males and females. While girls tend to focus on thinness, boys are more inclined to...
read moreBy: Kelsie Christina Romaine A review of: Kercood, S., & Banda, D. R. (2012). The effects of added physical activity on performance during a listening comprehension task for students with and without attention problems. International Journal of Applied Educational Studies, 13(1), 19-32. Challenges with attention pose a...
read moreIntroduction Two factors that have been studied in relation to chronic pain are hostility and anger, which have been shown to make chronic pain worse and hinder successful treatment. Burns, Bruehl, and Quartana (2006) wanted to examine how suppression or expression of hostility and anger impact chronic pain patients. Chronic pain...
read moreBy: Brendan Remus Psychological constructs have been used to assess medical outcomes for some time. The relationship between psychological distress, in the form of depression and anxiety, has been studied and found to reduce the patients’ perceived efficacy of treatments and to reduce adherence. Psychological distress which...
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