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Nature based solution for improving mental health and well-being in urban areas
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2017)
The general disproportion of urban development and the socio-economical crisis in Serbia, followed by a number of acute and chronic stressors, as well as years of accumulated trauma, prevented the parallel physical, mental ...
The Validity and Structure of Culture-Level Personality Scores: Data From Ratings of Young Adolescents
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2010)
We examined properties of culture-level personality traits in ratings of targets (N=5,109) ages 12 to 17 in 24 cultures. Aggregate scores were generalizable across gender, age, and relationship groups and showed convergence ...
Cross-Cultural Consistency and Relativity in the Enjoyment of Thinking Versus Doing
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2019)
Which is more enjoyable: trying to think enjoyable thoughts or doing everyday solitary activities? Wilson et al. (2014) found that American participants much preferred solitary everyday activities, such as reading or ...
Semantic similarity influences early morphological priming in Serbian: A challenge to form-then-meaning accounts of word recognition
(Springer, New York, 2012)
Semantically similar (e.g., coolant-COOL) primes have produced greater facilitation than have form-similar but semantically dissimilar (e.g., rampant-RAMP) primes when English words have appeared in the forward-masked ...
Screening for metabolic risk factors in women treated for schizophrenia
(Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, 2013)
Metabolic syndrome is a risk factor
for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and premature death, especially
in people with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia.
Metabolic risk factors are partially attributable to ...
An Amorphous Model for Morphological Processing in Visual Comprehension Based on Naive Discriminative Learning
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2011)
A 2-layer symbolic network model based on the equilibrium equations of the Rescorla-Wagner model (Danks, 2003) is proposed. The study first presents 2 experiments in Serbian, which reveal for sentential reading the ...
Connection between urban green areas and visitors’ physical and mental well-being
(Elsevier GmbH, 2019)
Frequent visits to urban green areas have been widely demonstrated to bring notable health benefits to city residents and helped them to maintain contact with nature. Empirical evidence strongly supports the positive ...
Is there a biological difference between trauma-related depression and PTSD? DST says 'NO'
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2012)
The use of the low-dose dexamethasone suppression test (DST) as a potentially discriminative marker between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression is still under discussion. In order to compare the influence ...
Information and learning in processing adjective inflection
(Elsevier Masson, Corp Off, Paris, 2019)
We investigated the processing of inflected Serbian adjective forms to bring together quantitative linguistic measures from two frameworks information theory and discrimination learning. From each framework we derived ...
The role of personality and traumatic events in cortisol levels - Where does PTSD fit in?
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2012)
Background: Studies of cortisol in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have yielded mixed results. We hypothesize that personality traits and traumatic experiences could be the confounders of cortisol measures and disease ...