Moebius Syndrome is a congenital neurological disorder that results in weakness or paralysis of the sixth and seventh cranial nerves, resulting in inability to form facial expression. The current study examined the relationship between orientation of describing Moebius Syndrome and the participant ratings of pictures of individuals with Moebius Syndrome...
This study aims to examine how people read and interpret scientific information, and how they respond to graphs and other data. It can be more broadly applied to help patients better understand information and statistics about certain disease conditions, such as cancer risk and diabetes treatment plans. One approach to...
This focus group study explored the social interaction experiences and strategies of 12 adults with Moebius syndrome, a rare congenital condition characterized by facial paralysis. Content analysis revealed five themes of social functioning: social engagement/disengagement, resilience/sensitivity, social support/stigma, being understood/misunderstood, and public awareness/lack of awareness of Moebius Syndrome. Participants used...
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Maintaining perceived psychological control in older adulthood is
beneficial for health, well-being, and adjustment to chronic illness. Theoretically, control over
specific, personally meaningful domains should inform general control beliefs. Thus, the
objective of the present study was to examine perceived control over the exercise domain
(operationalized...
Using a quasi-experimental design, 118 Latina girls, ages 13-18, viewed five color photographs of White women. Girls viewed either images of sexualized women or images of non-sexualized women. After viewing the images, girls were asked to complete the sentence stem, “I am…” 20 times. Thirty percent of girls spontaneously described...
Short durations in a range of standard durations are typically overreproduced and long
durations underreproduced (‘Vierordt’s Law’). This contextual distortion may result from each trial
assimilating the central tendency of the preceding series. We examine whether responses as well as
standard durations contribute to this distortion. Two experiments using nonequal-setting...
The intergenerational transmission of school adjustment was explored in a sample of 213 children and their fathers. The fathers were participants in a longitudinal study that began when they were in the fourth grade, and their children have been assessed at the ages of 21 months and 3, 5, and...
Objective: The purpose was to examine whether a one-hour intervention would help increase fruit consumption in motivated individuals and to study the role of self-regulatory mechanisms in the behavior change process, with a particular focus on dietary planning and action control.
Methods: A randomized controlled trial compared a one-hour online...