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Prevention Messages In Parent-Infant Bed-Sharing: Message Source, Credibility, And Effectiveness, Jillian Emily Austin, Chad J. Nashban, Jennifer J. Doering, W. Hobart Davies
Prevention Messages In Parent-Infant Bed-Sharing: Message Source, Credibility, And Effectiveness, Jillian Emily Austin, Chad J. Nashban, Jennifer J. Doering, W. Hobart Davies
Psychology Faculty Articles
Objective. Despite educational outreach, bed-sharing prevalence is rising. Mothers’ and fathers’ bed-sharing practices, prevention message source, perceived source credibility, and the effectiveness of the prevention message were evaluated. Methods. Data were collected from 678 community parents via an online survey. Results were analyzed using descriptive statistics and phi tests. Results. Bed-sharing reasons focused on comfort and ease. Mothers were more likely to receive prevention messages from individual professionals or organizations, whereas fathers were more likely to hear prevention messages from spouses/coparents and grandfathers. Physicians were the most common source, and physicians and grandmothers were rated as the …
Neural Circuitry Governing Anxious Individuals’ Mis-Allocation Of Working Memory To Threat, Daniel M. Stout, Alexander J. Shackman, Walker S. Pedersen, Tara A. Miskovich, Christine L. Larson
Neural Circuitry Governing Anxious Individuals’ Mis-Allocation Of Working Memory To Threat, Daniel M. Stout, Alexander J. Shackman, Walker S. Pedersen, Tara A. Miskovich, Christine L. Larson
Psychology Faculty Articles
Dispositional anxiety is a trait-like phenotype that confers increased risk for a range of debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders. Like many patients with anxiety disorders, individuals with elevated levels of dispositional anxiety are prone to intrusive and distressing thoughts in the absence of immediate threat. Recent electrophysiological research suggests that these symptoms are rooted in the misallocation of working memory (WM) resources to threat-related information. Here, functional MRI was used to identify the network of brain regions that support WM for faces and to quantify the allocation of neural resources to threat-related distracters in 81 young adults. Results revealed widespread evidence of …