PSY Research Publications
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Compassion fatigue and spiritual leaders: A pilot study
(SAGE Publications, 9/26/2022)This is a pilot study on compassion fatigue experienced by spiritual leaders. The sample consisted of 15 religious affiliations with a total of 41 participants (30 males and 11 females). In this sample, spiritual leaders ... -
Using Biological Motion to Investigate Perceptual–Cognitive Expertise in Law Enforcement Use-of-Force Decisions
(Springer Link, 2023-03-04)Research focused on police officers’ decision-making in ambiguous use-of-force situations has yet to investigate the role that a suspect’s biological motion plays in unknown-object identification. The current study uses ... -
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 ... -
The contribution of psychological inflexibility and metacognitive processes to emotional distress
(Springer Publishing Company, 2023-02-01)Process-based cognitive behavior therapy (PB-CBT) may be informed by identifying shared mechanisms of disorder linked to shared processes of therapeutic change. Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a molar pathogenic ... -
Mindfulness training improves attention: Evidence from behavioral and event-related potential analyses
(Springer, 2023-01-25)Mindfulness meditation helps to improve attentional capacity. However, the neural correlates that indicate the mechanism through which mindfulness improves attention are unclear. To address this gap, we aimed to assess the ... -
Changes in Trust in Automation (TIA) after performing a visual search task with an automated system
(IEEE, 2022-12-19)Humans must increasingly partner with automation in complex systems such as self-driving vehicles, assembly lines, assisted surgery, and autopilot in next-generation aircraft. The present study measured TIA alongside ... -
Decision-making at intersections
(IEEE, 2022-12-19)As vehicles become increasingly automated, it is important to consider how drivers’ behaviors are impacted by factors such as trust in automation and risk. Early definitions of trust suggest that peoples’ perceptions of ... -
Using natural language processing to measure cognitive load during use-of-force decision-making training
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022-11-30)Purpose Few studies have tested the efficacy of instruction based on cognitive load theory in police use-of-force (UoF) training due to limitations of existing cognitive load measures. Although linguistic measures of ... -
Preferred sources of information, knowledge, and acceptance of automated vehicle systems: Effects of gender and age
(Frontiers Media, 2022-05-23)Automobile crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States and worldwide. Driver automation systems and active safety systems have the potential to improve the safety and mobility of all road users and may ... -
New communities, new relationships: Reflections from junior faculty engaging in community-based research
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2022-09-08)Promising community-level approaches to addressing interpersonal violence have increased in popularity over the last few decades. However, the shift towards community-based research has not necessarily extended to all ... -
Integration of instance-based learning and computed torque control for an effective assist-as-needed support in human-exoskeleton interaction
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)The physiological responses that arise from human-robot interaction may vary across subjects in magnitude and rate. Such individual variations may require instance-based learning over model-based learning algorithms. For ... -
Relationships among parenting stress and well-being, COVID-19 information management, and children's COVID-19 fear
(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022-12-01)Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, caregivers who are facing high stress levels and decreased emotional well-being may parent their children differently. Certain children are experiencing greater fear in response ... -
Editorial: Police education and training revisited: Drawbacks and advances
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Longitudinal patterns of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among sexual assault survivors: A latent transition analysis
(American Psychological Association, 2022-09-01)Objective: The aim of this study was to identify latent classes of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a community sample of sexual assault survivors whose assaults occurred varying lengths of time in the past ... -
Understanding sexual assault survivors’ perspectives on archiving qualitative data: Implications for feminist approaches to open science
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2022-10-19)The open science movement has framed data sharing as necessary and achievable best practices for high-quality science. Feminist psychologists have complicated that narrative by questioning the purpose of data sharing across ... -
Exploring for idioms of distress used by individuals under community corrections
(North American Journal of Psychology, 2022-09-01)Major Depressive Disorder and psychological distress in general often go unreported in correctional populations. A common technique used to capture underreporting of symptoms is to probe for idioms of distress, or culturally ... -
Open science and data sharing in trauma research: Developing a trauma-informed protocol for archiving sensitive qualitative data
(Educational Publishing Foundation, 2022-09-01)Objective: The open science movement seeks to make research more transparent, and to that end, researchers are increasingly expected or required to archive their data in national repositories. In qualitative trauma research, ... -
Perception over personality in lethal force: Aggression, impulsivity, and big five traits in threat assessments and behavioral responses due to weapon presence and posture
(Scholarly Publishing Collective, 2022-07-01)The use of lethal force is a combination of threat perception and individual judgment that sometimes warrants a behavioral response. This simplified description implicates perceptual factors and individual differences in ... -
Multistate pilot study evaluating the short-term efficacy of a smartphone-based older driver support system on modifying risky driving behaviors
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2022-02-10)Older drivers are most at risk of serious and fatal injury in crashes per vehicle mile driven compared with other age groups owing to a combination of cognitive decline and increased fragility. A smartphone coaching ... -
Inducing amusement in the laboratory and its moderation by experiential approach
(SAGE Publications Inc, 2022-08-01)The relative ability of four comedic sketches to induce amusement in the laboratory and its moderation by dispositional differences in experiential approach as a form of positive emotion regulation were investigated. College ...