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Valence, arousal or both? Shared emotional deficits associated with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional/Defiant-Conduct Disorder symptoms in school-aged youth
(2019)We examined emotional responses in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Oppositional Defiant/Conduct Disorder to affective pictures. Eighty seven children (42 female, Mage = 11.2), with clinical or subclinical symptoms and ...
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Validation and invariance testing of the Greek adaptation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire -II across clinical vs. nonclinical samples and sexes
(2017)The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) is a measure of experiential avoidance (EA), defined as the tendency to escape or avoid private psychological experiences, even when doing so is futile or interferes with ...
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Validation of the Greek cypriot translation of the triarchic psychopathy measure
(Routledge, 2016)Psychopathy is conceived of as a pathological constellation of personality traits, manifested in aberrant behavioral, interpersonal, and emotional tendencies. This study examined within a Greek-speaking nonclinical sample ...
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Validation of the Greek Version of the Body Image-Acceptance and Action Questionnaire
(2020)The present study aimed to examine the psychometric properties and factorial structure of the Greek version of the Body Image-Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (BI-AAQ). The BI-AAQ assesses cognitive flexibility and ...
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Validity considerations ensuing from examinees’ perceptions about high-stakes national examinations in Cyprus
(2014)Student examinees are key stakeholders in large-scale, high-stakes, public examination systems. How they perceive the purpose, comprehend the technical characteristics of testing and how they interpret scores influence ...
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Variants of Callous-Unemotional Conduct Problems in a Community Sample of Adolescents
(2013)Callous-unemotional traits are believed to be a childhood precursor to psychopathy, and among youth with conduct problems they designate those showing a particularly severe, stable, and aggressive pattern of antisocial ...
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Views from Portuguese teachers on multilingualism and educational practices in multilingual classrooms
(2019)Europe is a diverse and heterogeneous linguistic community that faces the challenge of educating an increasingly multicultural and multilingual population. Language teachers are key players on this regard as they may foster ...
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Violence and crime by youngsters: ”Little terrorism” or partly a myth in the making?
(2008)Reviews the books, Youth violence and delinquency: Monsters and myths, Volume 1: Juvenile offenders and victims edited by Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P. Williams III (see record 2007-09490-000); Youth violence and ...
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Vision loss and 12-year risk of dementia in older adults: the 3C cohort study
(2019)To analyze the longitudinal relationships between vision loss and the risk of dementia in the first 2 years, from 2 to 4 years and beyond 4 years after inclusion and to determine the roles of depressive symptomatology and ...
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What do others feel? Cognitive empathy deficits explain the association between callous-unemotional traits and conduct problems among preschool children
(2019)Callous-unemotional traits (CU) are a risk factor for antisocial behavior, although it is unclear whether deficits in affective or cognitive empathy explain this association. Using a multi-informant approach involving data ...
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What Do the Hands Externalize in Simple Arithmetic?
(2007)In 4 experiments, the authors examined the use of the hands in simple arithmetic tasks. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that pointing increases both accuracy and speed in counting arrays of items, whether those items are ...
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What if anything do our clients gain from life after eating disorders?
(2007)Reviews the book, Gaining: The truth about life after eating disorders by Aimee Liu (see record 2007-02917-000). The reviewers praise the author for writing an ambitious, comprehensive and informative book about the lives ...
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What neuroimaging and perceptions of self-other similarity can tell us about the mechanism underlying mentalizing
(2009)Carruthers' "mindreading is prior" model postulates one unitary mindreading mechanism working identically for self and other. While we agree about shared mindreading mechanisms, there is also evidence from neuroimaging and ...
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What Unilateral Visual Neglect Teaches us About Perceptual Phenomenology
(2015)Studies on the syndrome called ‘unilateral visual or spatial neglect’ have been used by philosophers in discussions concerning perceptual phenomenology. Nanay (Philos Perspect 26:235–246, 2012), based on spatial neglects ...
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What’s so difficult with adopting imagined perspectives?
(2015)Research on spatial cognition suggests that transformation processes and/or spatial conflicts may influence performance on mental perspective-taking tasks. However, conflicting findings have complicated our understanding ...
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When gestures show us the way: Co-thought gestures selectively facilitate navigation and spatial memory
(2018)How does gesturing during route learning relate to subsequent spatial performance? We examined the relationship between gestures produced spontaneously while studying route directions and spatial representations of the ...
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White matter microstructural abnormalities in the frontal lobe of adults with antisocial personality disorder
(2012)Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and psychopathy involve significant interpersonal and behavioural impairments. However, little is known about their underlying neurobiology and in particular, abnormalities in white ...