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GR gene BclI polymorphysm changes the path, but not the level, of dexamethasone-induced cortisol suppression
(Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, 2014)
Background: The hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis self-regulation is achieved via cortisol binding to mineralocorticoid (MR) and glucocorticoid receptors (GR). It is often disturbed in mental disorders, ...
Posttraumatic and depressive symptoms in beta-endorphin dynamics
(Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, 2015)
A disturbed beta-endorphin system can be a part of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression allostasis. Study subjects (N=392) included those with PTSD and/or (stress-induced) depression, and healthy controls ...
Militant Extremist Mind-Set: Proviolence, Vile World, and Divine Power
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2010)
In the present article, the authors report on the development of a scale for the measurement of the militant extremist mind-set. A previous pilot study identified 56 statements selected from writings of various terrorist ...
In the Absence of Animacy: Superordinate Category Structure Affects Subordinate Label Verification
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2013)
Theoretical accounts as well as behavioral studies reporting animacy effects offer inconsistent and sometimes contradictory results. A possible explanation for these inconsistencies may be inadvertent biases in the stimuli ...
Assessing maladaptive cognitions related to online gaming: Proposing an adaptation of online cognitions scale
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2015)
In light of the recent research indicating differences between Internet addiction and online gaming addiction, in this study, we propose an adaptation of Online Cognitions Scale (OCS) developed by Davis, Flett, and Besser ...
Contemporary Militant Extremism: A Linguistic Approach to Scale Development
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2010)
In this article, the authors describe procedures used in the development of a new scale of militant extremist mindset. A 2-step approach consisted of (a) linguistic analysis of the texts produced by known terrorist ...
Personality traits and PTSD after experiencing civilian war-related trauma among women in Croatia
(Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier, Paris, 2011)
Introduction
Although many studies report that neuroticism and introversion predispose people to PTSD after exposure to traumatic event, the relationship between personality traits and PTSD is still vague. Also, little ...
Rocking at 81and Rolling at 34: ROC Cut-Off Scores for the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revisedin Serbia
(Frontiers Media Sa, Lausanne, 2017)
Researchers are still searching for the ways to identify different categories of employees according to their exposure to negative acts and psychological experience of workplace bullying. We followed Notelaers and Einarsens ...
Sadism, the Intuitive System, and Antisocial Punishment in the Public Goods Game
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2017)
In public goods situations, a specific destructive behavior emerges when individuals face the possibility of punishing others: antisocial punishment, that is, costly punishing cooperative individuals. So far, little is ...
Lymphocyte glucocorticoid receptor expression level and hormone-binding properties differ between war trauma-exposed men with and without PTSD
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2013)
Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been shown to be associated with altered glucocorticoid receptor (GR) activity. We studied the expression and functional properties of the receptor in peripheral blood ...