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Tracking Flanker Task Dynamics: Evidence For Continuous Attentional Selectivity, Cody A. Levi, Katherine Peterson, Kaleb Kinder, Caglar Tas, Aaron Buss

Psychology Publications and Other Works

A central research goal in the cognitive sciences has been to understand the processes that underlie selective attention, or the ability to focus on goal-relevant information. Two opposing theories have been proposed in an effort to explain how selective attention emerges: one suggests that attention improves continuously over time, whereas the other proposes that attention improves at a discrete time point. While outcome-based data (e.g., reaction time) have successfully provided evidence for both accounts, there has been no empirical evidence to differentiate them. In this study, we used mouse-tracking in a flanker task that provided time sensitive measures associated with …

Moderating Effect Of Negative Peer Group Climate On The Relation Between Men’S Locus Of Control And Aggression Towards Intimate Partners, Megan Ryan Schmidt, Claire G. Lisco, Dominic J. Parrott, Andra Tetentharp

Psychology Publications and Other Works

The present study sought to examine the interactive effects of an external locus of control and interaction in a negative peer group climate on men’s perpetration of physical aggression and infliction of injury towards their female intimate partners. Participants were 206 heterosexual males recruited from the metro-Atlanta community who completed self-report measures of external locus of control, involvement in a negative peer group climate, and physical aggression and infliction of injury against intimate partners during the past 12 months. Negative peer group climate was conceptualized as a peer group that displays behavior which may instigate aggressive norms, attitudes, and behaviors. …

Mapping The Feel Of The Arm With The Sight Of The Object: On The Embodied Origins Of Infant Reaching, Daniela Corbetta, Sabrina L. Thurman, Rebecca F. Wiener, Yu Guan, Joshua L. Williams

Psychology Publications and Other Works

For decades, the emergence and progression of infant reaching was assumed to be largely under the control of vision. More recently, however, the guiding role of vision in the emergence of reaching has been downplayed. Studies found that young infants can reach in the dark without seeing their hand and that corrections in infants' initial hand trajectories are not the result of visual guidance of the hand, but rather the product of poor movement speed calibration to the goal. As a result, it has been proposed that learning to reach is an embodied process requiring infants to explore proprioceptively different …

Brain Reorganization As A Function Of Walking Experience In 12-Month-Old Infants: Implications For The Development Of Manual Laterality, Daniela Corbetta, Denise R. Friedman, Martha Ann Bell

Psychology Publications and Other Works

Hand preference in infancy is marked by many developmental shifts in hand use and arm coupling as infants reach for and manipulate objects. Research has linked these early shifts in hand use to the emergence of fundamental postural–locomotor milestones. Specifically, it was found that bimanual reaching declines when infants learn to sit; increases if infants begin to scoot in a sitting posture; declines when infants begin to crawl on hands and knees; and increases again when infants start walking upright. Why such pattern fluctuations during periods of postural–locomotor learning? One proposed hypothesis is that arm use practiced for the specific …

Addressing Substance Abuse And Violence In Substance Use Disorder Treatment And Batterer Intervention Programs, Christine Timko, Helen Valenstein, Patricia Y. Lin, Rudolph H. Moos, Gregory Lyal Stuart, Ruth C. Cronkite

Psychology Publications and Other Works

Background

Substance use disorders and perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) are interrelated, major public health problems.

Methods

We surveyed directors of a sample of substance use disorder treatment programs (SUDPs; N=241) and batterer intervention programs (BIPs; N=235) in California (70% response rate) to examine the extent to which SUDPs address IPV, and BIPs address substance abuse.

Results

Generally, SUDPs were not addressing co-occurring IPV perpetration in a formal and comprehensive way. Few had a policy requiring assessment of potential clients, or monitoring of admitted clients, for violence perpetration; almost one-quarter did not admit potential clients who had perpetrated IPV, …

Arrest History And Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration In A Sample Of Men And Women Arrested For Domestic Violence, Ryan C. Shorey, Andrew Ninnemann, Joanna Elmquist, Lindsay Labrecque, Heather Zucosky, Jeniimarie Febres, Hope Brasfield, Jeff R. Temple, Gregory L. Stuart

Psychology Publications and Other Works

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and prevalent problem throughout the United States. Currently, individuals arrested for domestic violence are often court mandated to batterer intervention programs (BIPs). However, little is known about the arrest histories of these individuals, especially women. The current study examined the arrest histories of men (n = 303) and women (n = 82) arrested for domestic violence and court-referred to BIPs. Results demonstrated that over 30% of the entire sample had been previously arrested for a non-violent offense, and over 25% of the participants had been previously arrested for a violent offense …

Arrest History And Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration In A Sample Of Men And Women Arrested For Domestic Violence, Ryan C. Shorey, Andrew Ninnemann, Joanna Elmquist, Lindsay Labrecque, Heather Zucosky, Jeniimarie Febres, Hope Brasfield, Gregory Lyal Stuart

Psychology Publications and Other Works

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious and prevalent problem throughout the United States. Currently, individuals arrested for domestic violence are often court mandated to batterer intervention programs (BIPs). However, little is known about the arrest histories of these individuals, especially women. The current study examined the arrest histories of men (n = 303) and women (n = 82) arrested for domestic violence and court-referred to BIPs. Results demonstrated that over 30% of the entire sample had been previously arrested for a non-violent offense, and over 25% of the participants had been previously arrested for a violent offense other than …

Addressing Substance Abuse And Violence In Substance Use Disorder Treatment And Batter Intervention Programs, Christine Timko, Helen Valenstein, Patricia Y. Lin, Rudolf H. Moos, Gregory Lyal Stuart, Ruth C. Cronkite

Psychology Publications and Other Works

Background

Substance use disorders and perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) are interrelated, major public health problems.

Methods

We surveyed directors of a sample of substance use disorder treatment programs (SUDPs; N=241) and batterer intervention programs (BIPs; N=235) in California (70% response rate) to examine the extent to which SUDPs address IPV, and BIPs address substance abuse.

Results

Generally, SUDPs were not addressing co-occurring IPV perpetration in a formal and comprehensive way. Few had a policy requiring assessment of potential clients, or monitoring of admitted clients, for violence perpetration; almost one-quarter did not admit potential clients who had perpetrated IPV, …