Children’s cognitive and emotional processes in adult versus child-related inter-parental conflicts

Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Persecutory Delusions

Pupillometric measures of cognitive and emotional processes.

Introduction Pupillometric measures of cognitive and emotional processes Changes in pupil diameter provide a unique window on brain activity. We would like to thank Dr John Andreassi, editor of the International Journal of Psychophysiology, for the opportunity to be guest editors of this special issue on pupillometric studies. This volume is an expansion of the symposium 'Pupillometry and Cogni...

Emergent processes in cognitive-emotional interactions

Emotion and cognition have been viewed as largely separate entities in the brain. Within this framework, significant progress has been made in understanding specific aspects of behavior. Research in the past two decades, however, has started to paint a different picture of brain organization, one in which network interactions are key to understanding complex behaviors. From both basic and clini...

Child Support Enforcement and Childrens Consumption

This paper examines the consequences of child support enforcement on children’s consumption. I model the interaction in separated couples as a repeated game between the noncustodial father and the custodial mother who exclusively controls the child’s consumption. The father can only in‡uence the child’s consumption through transfers to the mother. Initially, parents agree on transfer payments a...

Child versus parent report of parental influences on children's weight-related attitudes and behaviors.

OBJECTIVE To compare parent and child report of parental weight-related behaviors and examine their respective associations with child's weight-related outcomes. METHODS Seventy-three parent-child dyads completed self-administered surveys that assessed parent and child report of parental direct weight-related behaviors (comments to child about weight, encourage child to diet) and indirect beh...