Psychology

When a mother has cancer: pathways to relational growth for mothers and daughters coping with cancer
Most research on daughters of women with cancer have focused on the daughters' adjustment to the cancer with little attention given to the impact of the cancer on the relationships between mothers and daughters.Guided by the feminist relational-cultural theory, this study examines mothers' percep...


Depressive symptoms after treatment in hepatocellular carcinoma survivors: prevalence, determinants, and impact on health-related quality of life
The purposes of this study were to investigate the prevalence and determinants of depressive symptoms among hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) survivors and to evaluate the impact of depressive symptoms on health-related quality of life (HRQOL). A cross-sectional study was conducted on 128 consecutiv...
A Clinical Treatment Intervention for Dysphoria: Externalizing Metaphors Therapy
The purpose of this article is to explore a novel, short-term treatment intervention for internalizing behaviours. This intervention is primarily based upon an externalizing process, transforming of metaphoric imagery, and shifting of underlying maladaptive emotional schemas. This article address...
Position coding effects in a 2D scenario: The case of musical notation
How does the cognitive system encode the location of objects in a visual scene? In the past decade, this question has attracted much attention in the field of visual-word recognition (e.g., “jugde” is perceptually very close to “judge”). Letter transposition effects have been explained in...
Illusory Correlation, Group Size and Memory
Two studies were conducted to test the predictions of a multi-component model of distinctiveness-based illusory correlation (IC) regarding the use of episodic and evaluative information in the production of the phenomenon. Extending on the standard paradigm, participants were presented with 4 gro...
Psychological Need-Satisfaction , and Basketball Performance
We applied self-determination theory (Deci Ryan, 2000) to examine whether pre-game psychological need-satisfaction predicts the quality of sports performance, and whether performance, in turn, predicts post-game need-satisfaction. Design/Method Undergraduate participants competing in a recreation...


Living, Resisting, and Playing the Part of Athlete: Narrative Tensions in Elite Sport
To explore: (i) How elite and professional sport culture might steer individuals towards particular stories, identities, and actions; (ii) How athletes navigate or respond to these cultural pressures. Narrative interviews and focus groups with 21 elite and professional athletes followed by a narr...
An Above Real Time Training Intervention for Sport Decision Making
A speeded video-based decision-making training intervention was used to assess the impact of above real time training on decision-making skill in sport. Three groups completed pre-tests and either five weeks of fast speed video training, normal speed video training or no training, followed by a p...
How to bet on a memory: Developmental linkages between subjective recollection and decision making
The current study investigated the development of subjective recollection and its role in supporting decisions in 6- and 7-year-olds, 9- and 10-year-olds, and adults (N =78). Participants encoded items and details about them. Later, they were asked to recognize the items, recall the details, and ...
The genetic and environmental etiologies of individual differences in early reading growth in Australia, the United States, and Scandinavia
This first cross-country twin study of individual differences in reading growth from post-kindergarten to post-second grade analyzed data from 487 twin pairs from the United States, 267 twin pairs from Australia, and 280 twin pairs from Scandinavia. Data from two reading measures were fit to biom...
Plane thinking: Mental representations in number line estimation as a function of orientation, scale, and counting proficiency
Young children typically show strong biases when estimating the placement of numbers on or along a scale. Number line estimation changes in accuracy and linearity across development. However, existing research is almost entirely based on a horizontal number line, which presupposes that numbers ar...


Anger and selective attention to reward and punishment in children
Anger is a negative emotion associated with approach motivation and may influence children’s attention preference. Three experiments examined the effect of anger on the attentional biases accompanying reward versus punishment cues in Chinese 5- and 6-year-olds. Experiment 1 tested children who ...
Early number knowledge and cognitive ability affect early arithmetic ability
Previous literature suggests that early number knowledge is important for the development of arithmetic calculation ability. The domain-general ability of verbal working memory also has an impact on arithmetic ability. This longitudinal study tested the impact of early number knowledge and verbal...
Working memory and social functioning in children
This study extends previous research and examines whether working memory (WM) is associated with multiple measures of concurrent social functioning (peer rejection, overall social competence, relational aggression, physical aggression, and conflict resolutions skills) in typically developing four...
Inhibition of non-target languages in multilingual word production: Evidence from Uighur–Chinese–English trilinguals
The present study examined the hypothesis whether non-target languages are inhibited during multilingual language production by examining the n-2 language repetition cost. In two experiments, Uighur–Chinese–English trilinguals named Arabic digits in one of their three languages according to a...