Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Faculty Articles
Submissions from 2016
Not Just a Prayer before a Test: Theodicy among Students, Timothy K. Daugherty and SUEJUNG HAN
For Better or Worse: Friendship Choices and Peer Victimization Among Ethnically Diverse Youth in the First Year of Middle School, Leslie Echols and Sandra Graham
Preference for the Diversity Policy Label Versus the Affirmative Action Policy Label, Madeleine A. Fugère, Christie Cathey, Raena Beetham, Molly Haynes, and Rachel A. Schaedler
Role of Hindsight Bias, Ethics, and Self-Other Judgments in Students Evaluation of an Animal Experiment, Harry L. Hom and Donn L. Kaiser
Functional leadership: Bi-strategic controllers high on effortful control show gains in status and health, Amber Massey-Abernathy and Jennifer Byrd-Craven
Seeing but Not Feeling: Machiavellian Traits in Relation to Physiological Empathetic Responding and Life Experiences, Amber Massey-Abernathy and Jennifer Byrd-Craven
Rasch analysis of measurement instruments capturing psychological personal factors in persons with spinal cord injury, Claudio Peter, Stefan E. Schulenberg, Erin M. Buchanan, Birgit Prodinger, and Szilvia Geyh
Assessment of Meaning in Adolescents Receiving Clinical Services in Mississippi Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: An Application of the Purpose in Life Test-Short Form (PIL-SF), Stefan E. Schulenberg, C. Veronica Smith, Christopher F. Drescher, and Erin M. Buchanan
Examination of body checking, body image dissatisfaction, and negative affect using Ecological momentary assessment, Emily C. Stefano, Danae Lisa Hudson, Brooke L. Whisenhunt, Erin M. Buchanan, and Janet D. Latner
Harnessing the Power of Play in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy With Preschool Children, Amber B. Willis, Darryl R. Haslam, and J. Maria Bermudez
Effects of group goal content on group processes, collective efficacy, and satisfaction, Steven L. Winton and Thomas D. Kane
Submissions from 2015
Measuring resilience with the RS-14: A tale of two samples, Bethany J. Aiena, Brandy J. Baczwaski, Stefan E. Schulenberg, and Erin M. Buchanan
Eliminating postdoctoral training as a requirement for licensure: Perceptions and anticipated impacts., Austin T. Boon, David J. Lutz, and Katie M. Marburger
Therapeutic alliance with youth in residential care: Challenges and recommendations, Alyssa N. Byers and David J. Lutz
Rural older adults and Functional Health Literacy: testing self-efficacy, knowledge and skills resulting from hands-on health promotion., Michele L. Day, Susan C. Dollar, and Wafaa Kaf
Change takes time: Understanding and responding to culture change in course redesign., Danae L. Hudson, Brooke L. Whisenhunt, Carol F. Shoptaugh, Michelle E. Visio, Christie Cathey, and Ann D. Rost
Policing nepotism and cronyism without losing the value of social connection, Robert G. Jones and Tracy Stout
The role of analogy in reports of presque vu: Does reporting the presque vu state signal the near retrieval of a source analogy?, Bogdan Kostic, Sophie Erwin Booth, and Anne M. Cleary
Game shows as review activities: The impact on course evaluations and student perceptions, Bogdan Kostic, Deriah R. Groomes, and Carly A. Yadon
Development and Psychometric Investigation of an Inventory to Assess Fight, Flight, and Freeze Tendencies: The Fight, Flight, Freeze Questionnaire, Danielle J. Maack, Erin Buchanan, and John Young
Auditory sensory gating and performance on the Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System, M. Truelove-Hill and C. A. Yadon
The Effects of Vigilance and Visual Distraction on the P50 Mid-Latency Auditory Evoked Potential, Carly A. Yadon, Michael A. Kisley, and Deana B. Davalos
Bullying affects more than feelings: the long-term implications of victimization on academic motivation in higher education, Adena Young-Jones, Sophie Fursa, Jacqueline S. Byrket, and James S. Sly
The influence of pretrial exposure to community outrage and victim hardship on guilt judgments, David Zimmerman, Dario Rodriguez, Amanda Bergold, and Steven Penrod
Submissions from 2014
Learning More About and With the Face-Name Mnemonic Strategy, Russell N. Carney and Joel R. Levin
Child Safety in Grocery Stores: The Impact of Verbal Prompts and Reinforcement on Safety Strap Use in Shopping Carts, Michael C. Clayton, Julie Blaskewicz Boron, and Leanna Mattila
Reactivity and regulation of motor responses in cocaine-exposed infants, Melissa Duncan Fallone, Linda L. LaGasse, Barry M. Lester, Seetha Shankaran, Henrietta S. Bada, and Charles R. Bauer
Forever young Produced by A. Kutcher, J. Goldberg, J. D., Roth, and T. A. Nelson, Bradley J. Fisher
Redesigning a Large Enrollment Course: The Impact on Academic Performance, Course Completion and Student Perceptions in Introductory Psychology, Danae Lisa Hudson, Brooke L. Whisenhunt, Carol F. Shoptaugh, Ann D. Branstetter, and Rachel Fondren-Happel
Blog topic and word frequency: What differentiates between high and low powered blogs?, Cynthia Johnson, Erin M. Buchanan, and Kayla N. Jordan
Family engagement in rural and urban head start families: An exploratory study, Amanda Keys
Infidelity and Kin Selection: Does Cheating Seem as Bad when it's "All in the Family"?, Bogdan Kostic and Carly A. Yadon
Aversive discrimination in employment interviews: Reducing effects of sexual orientation bias with accountability, Joel T. Nadler, Meghan R. Lowery, Jeff Grebinoski, and Robert G. Jones
Measuring Search for Meaning: A Factor-Analytic Evaluation of the Seeking of Noetic Goals Test (SONG), Stefan E. Schulenberg, Brandy J. Baczwaski, and Erin M. Buchanan
Social Media, Social Capital, and the Civic Participation of College Students, Michael D. Stout, Bradley J. Fisher, and Chantal Lvesque-Bristol
An examination of body tracing among women with high body dissatisfaction, Gail A. Williams, Danae Lisa Hudson, Brooke L. Whisenhunt, and Janis Crowther
Verbal and behavioral cues: Creating an autonomy-supportive classroom, Adena Young-Jones, Kelly Copeland Cara, and Chantal Levesque-Bristol
Submissions from 2013
The Advisor and Instructor as a Dynamic Duo: Academic Motivation and Basic Psychological Needs, Tracie D. Burt, Adena D. Young-Jones, Carly A. Yadon, and Michael T. Carr
Lean on me: Effects of social support on low socioeconomic-status pregnant women, Jennifer Byrd-Craven and Amber R. Massey
Religious Value Priming, Threat, and Political Tolerance, Paul A. Djupe and Brian R. Calfano
The semantic priming project, Keith A. Hutchison, David A. Balota, James H. Neely, Michael J. Cortese, Emily R. Cohen-Shikora, Chi Shing Tse, Melvin J. Yap, Jesse J. Bengson, Dale Niemeyer, and Erin M. Buchanan
Prescription Before Careful Diagnosis?, Robert G. Jones and Kathlyn Y. Wilson
Dimensions of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations: What is Unusual and What is Not?, William O'Donohue, Lorraine T. Benuto, Rachel N. Fondren, Lauren Tolle, Aditi Vijay, and Matthew Fanetti
Capturing the Student Perspective: A New Instrument for Measuring Advising Satisfaction, Marilee L. Teasley and Erin M. Buchanan
JAM-boree: An Application of Observation Oriented Modeling to Judgments of Associative Memory, Kathrene D. Valentine and Erin M. Buchanan
Getting Active in the Gulf: Environmental Attitudes and Action Following Two Mississippi Coastal Disasters, A. Brooke Walters, Christopher F. Drescher, Brandy J. Baczwaski, Bethany J. Aiena, Marie C. Darden, Laura R. Johnson, Erin M. Buchanan, and Stefan E. Schulenberg
Academic advising: does it really impact student success?, Adena D. Young, Tracie D. Burt, Stephanie Dixon, and Melissa J. Hawthorne
Submissions from 2012
English semantic word-pair norms and a searchable Web portal for experimental stimulus creation, Erin M. Buchanan, Jessica L. Holmes, Marilee L. Teasley, and Keith A. Hutchison
The father-daughter dance: The relationship between father-daughter relationship quality and daughters' stress response, Jennifer Byrd-Craven, Brandon J. Auer, Douglas A. Granger, and Amber R. Massey
Facing facts: Can the face-name mnemonic strategy accommodate additional factual information?, Russell N. Carney and Joel R. Levin
Improving Students' Memory for Musical Compositions and Their Composers: Mneme That Tune!, Russell N. Carney and Joel R. Levin
Untreated prenatal maternal depression and the potential risks to offspring: a review, Deana B. Davalos, Carly A. Yadon, and Hope C. Tregellas
Interdisciplinary Hospice Team Processes and Multidimensional Pain: A Qualitative Study, Michele Dugan Day
Effects of gender on rate of disclosure in the forensic interviews of children, Rachel N. Fondren-Happel, Matthew N. Fanetti, and Michelle E. Visio
I Knew-It-All-Along, Just Not on My Own, Harry L. Hom, Maria Ciaramitaro, and Kathrene D. Valentine
Transforming introductory psychology: A systematic approach to course redesign, Danae L. Hudson, Brooke L. Whisenhunt, Carol F. Shoptaugh, Mary C. Newman, Ann D. Rost, and Rachel N. Fondren-Happel
Extensions of the survival advantage in memory: Examining the role of ancestral context and implied social isolation, Bogdan Kostic, Chastity C. McFarlan, and Anne M. Cleary
Improving psychological adjustment among late-stage ovarian cancer patients: Examining the role of avoidance in treatment, Ann D. Rost, Kelly Wilson, Erin M. Buchanan, Mikaela J. Hildebrandt, and David Mutch
Differential associations among alcohol use, depression and perceived life meaning in male and female college students, Lindsay W. Schnetzer, Stefan E. Schulenberg, and Erin M. Buchanan
A Measurement Invariance Examination of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a Southern Sample: Differential Item Functioning Between African American and Caucasian Youth, Lindsay Rae Trent, Erin Buchanan, Chad Ebesutani, Chelsea M. Ale, Laurie Heiden, Terry L. Hight, John Damon, and John Young
Submissions from 2011
Delayed mnemonic benefits for a combined pegword-keyword strategy, time after time, rhyme after rhyme, Russell N. Carney and Joel R. Levin
Integrating play and family therapy methods: A survey of play therapists' attitudes in the field, Darryl R. Haslam and Steven M. Harris
Why Performance Management Will Remain Broken: Authoritarian Communication, Robert G. Jones and Satoris S. Culbertson
The Effectiveness of Service-Learning: It's Not Always what you Think, Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Timothy D. Knapp, and Bradley J. Fisher
Reasons Not to Cheat, Academic-Integrity Responsibility, and Frequency of Cheating, Arden Miller, Carol Shoptaugh, and Jessica Wooldridge
Got Neurons? Teaching Neuroscience Mnemonically Promotes Retention and Higher-Order Thinking, Aaron S. Richmond, Russell N. Carney, and Joel R. Levin
When word identification fails: ERP correlates of recognition without identification and of word identification failure, Anthony J. Ryals, Carly A. Yadon, Jason S. Nomi, and Anne M. Cleary
The Purpose in Life Test-Short Form: Development and Psychometric Support, Stefan E. Schulenberg, Lindsay W. Schnetzer, and Erin M. Buchanan
The meaning in life questionnaire: Psychometric properties with individuals with serious mental illness in an inpatient setting, Stefan E. Schulenberg, Kristen M. Strack, and Erin M. Buchanan
Negative impact of episodic migraine on a university population: Quality of life, functional impairment, and comorbid psychiatric symptoms, Todd A. Smitherman, Michael J. McDermott, and Erin M. Buchanan
The effects of restricted group sandplay therapy on interpersonal issues of college students in China, Wen Zhang, Risheng Zhang, Darryl R. Haslam, and Zhiling Jiang
Submissions from 2010
Predicting Children's Adherence to Asthma Medication Regimens, Ann D. Branstetter-Rost, Carla J. Berg, Michael A. Rapoff, and John M. Belmont
The retention dilemma: Effectively reaching the first-year university student, Kelly J. Copeland and Chantal Levesque-Bristol
Service-Learning's Impact on College Students' Commitment to Future Civic Engagement, Self-Efficacy, and Social Empowerment, Timothy D. Knapp, Bradley J. Fisher, and Chantal Levesque
The role of a vivid and challenging personal vision in goal hierarchies, Aline D. Masuda, Thomas D. Kane, Carol F. Shoptaugh, and Katherine A. Minor
Being present in the face of existential threat: The role of trait mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to mortality salience, Christopher P. Niemiec, Kirk Warren Brown, Todd B. Kashdan, Philip J. Cozzolino, William E. Breen, Chantal Levesque-Bristol, and Richard M. Ryan
Children's Allegations of Sexual Abuse: A Model for Forensic Assessment, William O'Donohue, Lorraine Benuto, and Matthew N. Fanetti
Submissions from 2009
Infant visual habituation, John Colombo and D. Wayne Mitchell
Young at heart. produced by H. Beckerman and S. George. Los Angeles: twentieth century fox film corporation, 2008., Bradley J. Fisher
Sensory sensitivities of Gifted children, Douglas R. Gere, Steven C. Capps, D. Wayne Mitchell, and Erin Grubbs
Adolescent pregnancy prevention: Choosing an effective program that fits, Mary Beth Harris and Jane G. Allgood
Replication Evidence in Support of the Psychometric Properties of the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment, Peter E. Jaberg, David J. Dixon, and Glenna M. Weis
Examining Self-Determination in a Service Learning Course, Chantal Levesque-Bristol and Layla R. Stanek
The Pre-Sell medication controversy: Restoring competency at the end of the 20th century, David F. Mrad
Personal Values and Pain Tolerance: Does a Values Intervention Add to Acceptance?, Ann Rost, Christopher Cushing, and Tanya Douleh
Submissions from 2008
Conquering Mnemonophobia, with Help from Three Practical Measures of Memory and Application, Russell N. Carney and J. R. Levin
Training police leadership to recognize and address operational stress, Mark Chapin, Stephen J. Brannen, Mark I. Singer, and Michael Walker
The effects of gender on decisions of guilt in cases of alleged child sexual abuse, Matthew Fanetti, Ihori Kobayashi, and D. Wayne Mitchell
Enhancing the efficacy and empowerment of older adults through group formation, Bradley J. Fisher and Carol A. Gosselink
Ravishing or ravaged: Women's relationships with women in the context of aging and western beauty culture, Carol A. Gosselink, Deborah L. Cox, Sarissa J. McCure, and Mary L.G. De Jong
Assessor Constructs in Use as the Missing Component in Validation of Assessment Center Dimensions: A critique and directions for research, Robert G. Jones and Marise PH. Born
Narrow Standards for Efficacy and the Research Playground: Why Either-Or Conclusions Do Not Help, Robert G. Jones and Richard j. Klimoski
Intuiting the Selection Context, Richard Klimoski and Robert G. Jones
Conscious and nonconscious processes: Implications for self-determination theory, Chantal Levesque, Kelly J. Copeland, and Rachel A. Sutcliffe
Latent structure in measures of associative, semantic, and thematic knowledge, William S. Maki and Erin Buchanan
Under Reporting of Cheating in Research Using Volunteer College Students, Arden Miller, Carol Shoptaugh, and Annette Parkerson
Barriers to Pain Management: Caregiver Perceptions and Pain Talk by Hospice Interdisciplinary Teams, Debra Paker-Oliver, Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, George Demiris, Karla Washington, Davina Porock, and Michele L. Day
Intervening with coaches to promote awareness and prevention of weight pressures in cheerleaders, B. L. Whisenhunt, D. A. Williamson, D. L. Drab-Hudson, and H. Walden
Reducing job-irrelevant bias in performance appraisals: Compliance and beyond, Kathlyn Y. Wilson and Robert G. Jones
Caregiver involvement in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings: A case study, Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, Debra Parker Oliver, George Demiris, Bethany Petty, and Michele Day
