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Prolonged use of dynamic text presentations for reading with low vision
(Wichita State University, 2017-04-28)Reading is a primary difficulty for people with visual impairments, and many patients express significant reductions in quality of life as a result. Current solutions to this problem often involve expensive, cumbersome ... -
Promoting positive youth development by examining the career and educational aspirations of African American males: implications for designing educational programs
(Routledge, 2011-11)African American males experience poor academic performance, high absenteeism at school, and are at increased risk of being involved in violence than other racial groups. Given that the educational outlook for African ... -
A proposed method to estimate premorbid intelligence utilizing group achievement measures from school records
(Oxford University Press, 2004-03-01)Estimating premorbid cognitive functioning is an important part of any neuropsychological evaluation. This estimate is the benchmark against which current cognitive functioning is compared to establish the existence, degree, ... -
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) and the PDM-2: opportunities to significantly affect the profession
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015-01-06)In this article, we discuss the development of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) and its upcoming revision, the PDM-2. We describe the processes by which the PDM-2 is being developed and highlight important differences ... -
Psychological flexibility in depression relapse prevention: processes of change and positive mental health in Group-Based ACT for residual symptoms
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-03-27)Relapse rates following a depressive episode are high, with limited treatments available aimed at reducing such risk. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a cognitive-behavioral approach that has gained increased ... -
Psychology of computer use: XXXII. Computer screen-savers as distractors
(Ammons Scientific Ltd., 1994-12)The differences in performance of 16 male and 16 female undergraduates on three cognitive tasks were investigated in the presence of visual distractors (computer-generated dynamic graphic images). These tasks included ... -
Psychology of onscreen type: investigations regarding typeface personality, appropriateness, and impact on document perception
(2007-05)Three studies investigated the perception of onscreen typefaces. In the first study, 379 people rated the perception of 40 typefaces’ personalities using 15 semantic differential scales. The results of a factor analysis ... -
Psychometrics of the pursuit of happiness
(Wichita State University, 2016-04-29)The pursuit of happiness is firmly established in American culture with explicit mention in historical documents (i.e. Declaration of Independence). Therefore, it is of little surprise that thousands of self-help books and ... -
Pubertal timing and internalizing psychopathology of adolescent females: evaluating the maturation disparity hypothesis
(Wichita State University, 2017-12)Previous research has demonstrated a robust link between early pubertal timing and increased risk for anxious and depressive symptoms among female adolescents. Although a number of explanations have been proposed, the ... -
Push, pull, or push–pull? An alarm cue better guides sea lamprey towards capture devices than a mating pheromone during the reproductive migration
(Springer, 2020-03-16)Widespread interest in the development of environmentally safe management actions has prompted research into the use of sensory cues to manipulate the movements of invasive species. The push–pull approach, for which ... -
Quality of life as a mediator of health
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2014-04-25)This study explored the hypothesis that quality of life mediated the effects of depression and loneliness on health, something not previously found in the literature. Measures included the GDS-15, UCLA-R Loneliness scale, ... -
Racial reckoning, resistance, and the revolution: A call to community psychology to move forward
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2023-02-16)This article introduces a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology that features racial reckoning, resistance and the revolution in the context of a syndemic, the historical subjugation of communities ... -
Randomized trial of parent training to prevent adolescent problem behaviors during the high school transition
(American Psychological Association, 2016-12)This randomized controlled trial tested a widely used general parent training program, Common Sense Parenting (CSP), with low-income 8th graders and their families to support a positive transition to high school. The program ... -
Range of motion of the wrist: implications for designing computer input devices for the elderly
(Informa Healthcare, 2000-09)The purpose of this study was to report normative values of the amplitude of joint wrist motions and grip strength for older age groups. -
Ratings of physicians relying on experts versus physicians relying on decision aids
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)Errors in the field of medicine are costly, both in terms of monetary expenses and the cost of lives. Computerbased decision aids have been shown to decrease physician error. These decision aids decreased many types of ... -
Reaction time distributions constrain models of visual search
(Elsevier, 2010-06-25)Many experiments have investigated visual search for simple stimuli like colored bars or alphanumeric characters. When eye movements are not a limiting factor, these tasks tend to produce roughly linear functions relating ... -
Reading with rods: The superiority of central vision for rapid reading
(ARVO, 1993-06)To investigate why the central portion of the visual field is normally the optimal region for pattern recognition. The study uses a reading paradigm in which the text can only be seen with rod vision. Reading rates were ... -
Reading with the rod visual system
(OSA, 1989-03)Using the scanned text technique developed by Legge and his colleagues, the present study demonstrates that visually normal subjects can read with the isolated rod visual system. The subjects were able to read text (albeit ... -
Recognizing chemical impairment from the patient's medical history
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Reddit discussions of compassion fatigue
(Wichita State University, 2021-04-02)Compassion fatigue is a serious concern for those expressing compassion chronically (Vu & Bodenmann, 2017). It occurs when the stress of expressing compassion leaves a person unable to continue to care for others (Ledoux, ...