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Predictors Of Willingness To Participate In Hiv Vaccine Trials Among African Americans, Mindy Ma, Toni A. Young, Marcus Durham, Jeffrey L. Kibler, Zaneta Gaul, Sherri Pals, Madeline Y. Sutton Oct 2014

Predictors Of Willingness To Participate In Hiv Vaccine Trials Among African Americans, Mindy Ma, Toni A. Young, Marcus Durham, Jeffrey L. Kibler, Zaneta Gaul, Sherri Pals, Madeline Y. Sutton

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African Americans in the United States (U.S.) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Developing an HIV vaccine is an important part of the HIV prevention and treatment toolkit and may help contribute to ending the HIV epidemic. To date, HIV vaccine trials have not engaged representative numbers of African Americans. We evaluated the willingness of African Americans to participate in HIV vaccine trials and identified correlates of willingness to participate (WTP) by surveying African Americans at low- and high-risk of HIV infection in a multi-site, cross-sectional study. We enrolled 1,452 participants; 59% heterosexual women; 21% heterosexual men; 20% men who have …


Speaking Two Languages Enhances An Auditory But Not A Visual Neural Marker Of Cognitive Inhibition, Mercedes Fernandez, Juliana Acosta, Kevin Douglass, Nikita Doshi, Jaime L. Tartar Sep 2014

Speaking Two Languages Enhances An Auditory But Not A Visual Neural Marker Of Cognitive Inhibition, Mercedes Fernandez, Juliana Acosta, Kevin Douglass, Nikita Doshi, Jaime L. Tartar

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The purpose of the present study was to replicate and extend our original findings of enhanced neural inhibitory control in bilinguals. We compared English monolinguals to Spanish/English bilinguals on a non-linguistic, auditory Go/NoGo task while recording event-related brain potentials. New to this study was the visual Go/NoGo task, which we included to investigate whether enhanced neural inhibition in bilinguals extends from the auditory to the visual modality. Results confirmed our original findings and revealed greater inhibition in bilinguals compared to monolinguals. As predicted, compared to monolinguals, bilinguals showed increased N2 amplitude during the auditory NoGo trials, which required inhibitory control, …


A Professional Growth Plan For Lifelong Learners, L. Ziemke, David B. Ross Sep 2014

A Professional Growth Plan For Lifelong Learners, L. Ziemke, David B. Ross

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The article focuses on the need for educational leaders to encourage teachers to engage in professional development opportunities to improve instructional practices. Topics discussed include the role of knowledge as one of the primary factors needed to maintain the competitive advantage of a nation, the importance of fostering teachers' professional growth, and the significance of conducting teacher evaluations.


Association Of Trauma Exposure With Proinflammatory Activity: A Transdiagnostic Meta-Analysis., M Tursich, R W J Neufeld, P A Frewen, S Harricharan, J L Kibler, S G Rhind, R A Lanius Jul 2014

Association Of Trauma Exposure With Proinflammatory Activity: A Transdiagnostic Meta-Analysis., M Tursich, R W J Neufeld, P A Frewen, S Harricharan, J L Kibler, S G Rhind, R A Lanius

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Exposure to psychological trauma (for example, childhood/early life adversity, exposure to violence or assault, combat exposure, accidents or natural disasters) is known to increase one's risk of developing certain chronic medical conditions. Clinical and population studies provide evidence of systemic inflammatory activity in trauma survivors with various psychiatric and nonpsychiatric conditions. This transdiagnostic meta-analysis quantitatively integrates the literature on the relationship of inflammatory biomarkers to trauma exposure and related symptomatology. We conducted random effects meta-analyses relating trauma exposure to log-transformed inflammatory biomarker concentrations, using meta-regression models to test the effects of study quality and psychiatric symptomatology on the inflammatory outcomes. …


Foreward To The Special Issue: Ask Errol! Or Try This!, Michael Simonson Jul 2014

Foreward To The Special Issue: Ask Errol! Or Try This!, Michael Simonson

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Are Good Reasoners More Incest-Friendly? Trait Cognitive Reflection Predicts Selective Moralization In A Sample Of American Adults, Edward B. Royzman, Justin F. Landy, Geoffrey P. Goodwin May 2014

Are Good Reasoners More Incest-Friendly? Trait Cognitive Reflection Predicts Selective Moralization In A Sample Of American Adults, Edward B. Royzman, Justin F. Landy, Geoffrey P. Goodwin

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Two studies examined the relationship between individual differences in cognitive reflection (CRT) and the tendency to accord genuinely moral (non-conventional) status to a range of counter-normative acts — that is, to treat such acts as wrong regardless of existing social opinion or norms. We contrasted social violations that are intrinsically harmful to others (e.g., fraud, thievery) with those that are not (e.g., wearing pajamas to work and engaging in consensual acts of sexual intimacy with an adult sibling). Our key hypothesis was that more reflective (higher CRT) individuals would tend to moralize selectively — treating only intrinsically harmful acts as …


Managing The Stacks Of Students’ Papers To Grade Without Going Crazy, Robert W. Hill Jan 2014

Managing The Stacks Of Students’ Papers To Grade Without Going Crazy, Robert W. Hill

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Bookicide, Michael Simonson Jan 2014

Bookicide, Michael Simonson

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Mobile Technology Integration: Shared Experiences From Three Initiatives, C. Lacey, G. Gunter, Jennifer Lyn Reeves Jan 2014

Mobile Technology Integration: Shared Experiences From Three Initiatives, C. Lacey, G. Gunter, Jennifer Lyn Reeves

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Books, Real And Otherwise, Michael Simonson Jan 2014

Books, Real And Otherwise, Michael Simonson

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Educational Colonialism, Michael Simonson Jan 2014

Educational Colonialism, Michael Simonson

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Where Is As Important As Why, When, And What, Michael Simonson Jan 2014

Where Is As Important As Why, When, And What, Michael Simonson

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