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The association of community violence exposure with middle-school achievement: A prospective study
(2004)This study investigated the long-term effects of exposure to community violence on academic achievement and feelings of safety in school among a large sample of urban middle-school students (N = 759). It also considered ...
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Associations Between Self-Reported Sensory Impairment and Risk of Cognitive Decline and Impairment in the Health and Retirement Study Cohort
(2020)OBJECTIVES: We aimed to determine whether self-assessed single (hearing or visual) and dual sensory (hearing and visual) impairments are associated with cognitive decline and incident possible cognitive impairment, no ...
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Asymmetries in peer interaction: The effect of social representations of gender and knowledge asymmetry on children's cognitive development
(2012)This study examines the role of social representations of gender and knowledge as sources of asymmetry on the features of children's interactions as well as on their cognitive development. The research was carried through ...
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Attachment style and mentoring relationships in adolescence
(2008)This study examined the relationship between adolescents' attachment style and their decision to enter mentoring relationships. The participants were 569 Greek Cypriot high school students. It was found that adolescents ...
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Attachment to Parents and Peers as a Parameter of Bullying and Victimization
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)The purpose of the present study was threefold. First, we tried to investigate whether the quality of attachment with parents and peers predicts bullying and victimization. Second, we also attempted a moderation analysis ...
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Atypical neural self-representation in autism
(2010)The 'self' is a complex multidimensional construct deeply embedded and in many ways defined by our relations with the social world. Individuals with autism are impaired in both self-referential and other-referential social ...
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Auditory temporal processing and dyslexia in an orthographically consistent language
(2010)We examined two hypotheses relating auditory processing to dyslexia in Greek, an orthographically consistent language. Study I examined the “P-center” or “beat detection” hypothesis (Goswami et al., 2002) in a sample of ...
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Augmenting intelligence: Developmental limits to learning-based cognitive change
(2016)We investigated if learning relational reasoning in mathematics generalizes to other domains and general intelligence, including speed, attention control, and working memory. A total of 118 10-year olds were involved, ...
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Autism
(2014)Autism is a set of heterogeneous neurodevelopmental conditions, characterised by early-onset difficulties in social communication and unusually restricted, repetitive behaviour and interests. The worldwide population ...
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Autism attenuates sex differences in brain structure: A combined voxel-based morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging study
(2012)BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It has been proposed that autism spectrums condition may represent a form of extreme male brain (EMB), a notion supported by psychometric, behavioral, and endocrine evidence. Yet, limited data are ...
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Beer, wine, and social anxiety: Testing the "self-medication hypothesis" in the US and Cyprus
(2011)The social anxiety literature often cites the self-medication hypothesis (SMH) to explain why socially phobic clients often present with alcohol problems. Based on some earlier hints that social anxiety and drinking might ...
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A behavioral comparison of male and female adults with high functioning autism spectrum conditions
(2011)Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females in the general population. However, within ASC it is unclear if there are phenotypic sex differences. Testing for similarities and differences between the ...
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Behavioral methods in the treatment of individuals suffering from learning disabilities and related neuropsychological problems.
(Parisianou Publications, 2011)
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Behavioural inhibition and hyperactivity: A commentary from alternative perspectives
(2003)Attention disorders in the school population include attention deficit, hyperactivity and conduct disorders. A key concept for distinguishing hyperactive from attention disorders is behavioural inhibition as advocated by ...
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Behind the scenes of pseudo-proportionality
(2008)In this study, we attempt to put in question students' spontaneous and uncritical application of the simple and neat mathematical formula of linearity. This is impelled with the help of a written test involving geometrical ...
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Beliefs of experienced and novice teachers about achievement
(2008)The aim of this study was to examine the beliefs that experienced and novice teachers hold about school achievement. It is important to investigate these beliefs and attributions because of the significant role that teachers ...
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Benefits of categorization training in patients with traumatic brain injury during post-acute rehabilitation: Additional evidence from a randomized controlled trial
(2008)Background: Preliminary research with the Categorization Program (CP) indicated that this therapeutic modality is beneficial in improving cognitive abilities in survivors of moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). ...
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Best practices and recommendations for digital interventions to improve engagement and adherence in chronic illness sufferers
(2019)Chronic illnesses cause considerable burden in quality of life, often leading to physical, psychological, and social dysfunctioning of the sufferers and their family. There is a growing need for flexible provision of ...
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The better of two evils? Evidence that children exhibiting continuous conduct problems high or low on callous-unemotional traits score on opposite directions on physiological and behavioral measures of fear
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)The present study examines whether heterogeneous groups of children identified based on their longitudinal scores on conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits differ on physiological and behavioral measures ...