Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers, Attentional Control, and Semantic Memory Retrieval: Synergistic and Mediational Effects of Biomarkers on a Sensitive Cognitive Measure in Non-Demented Older Adults Andrew J. Aschenbrenner, David A. Balota, Chi-Shing Tse, Anne M. Fagan, David M. Holtzman, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, and John C. Morris Online First Publication, September 15, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.10...

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Purpose Evidence shows that the least successful clubs have most committed fans – why? Here, we test “shared-dysphoria-pathway-to-fusion” (SDPF) hypothesis of become irrevocably “fused” to their club and each other, as a result sharing self- club-defining memories past defeats.Design To assess SDPF hypothesis, calculated from UK’s top league, Premier League, over 10-year period. We then invited...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain the effects of parent-adolescent acculturation gaps, perceived discrimination, and perceived negative context of reception on adolescent cigarette smoking, alcohol use, sexual activity, and sexual risk taking. We used an expanded, multidimensional model of acculturation. METHOD A sample of 302 recently immigrated parent-adolescent dyads (152 from Miami and 150 from Los...

Two studies examined the association of particular sentiments and political identities with Jewish-Israeli students’ responses to a generic plan to end the Israeli– Palestinian conflict and to narrower proposals for cooperative undertakings. Three composites—hatred/anger, compassion/empathy (reverse-coded), and guilt/shame (reverse-coded), and also a global composite combining these three sets ...

PURPOSE This study investigated the mental health status, self-esteem, social comparison, and narcissism among medical school students. In addition, the mediational effect of social comparison between self-esteem and narcissism was also tested with regard to whether the students compared themselves with others to enhance their own self-esteem. METHODS Data were collected from 427 medical scho...

BACKGROUND This study provides an exploration of factors implicated in the intergenerational cycle of child maltreatment. Families with newborns where at least one of the parents was physically and/or sexually abused as a child (AP families) were compared in terms of risk factors to families where the parents had no childhood history of victimization (NAP families). The mediational properties o...