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Perceptions of Aging Across 26 Cultures and Their Culture-Level Associates
(Amer Psychological Assoc, Washington, 2009)
College students (N = 3,435) in 26 cultures reported their perceptions of age-related changes in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional areas of functioning and rated societal views of aging within their culture. There ...
Civic activism online: Making young people dormant or more active in real life?
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
Citizens can be active in their community through a diverse set of actions in real life or on online platforms. Since the emergence of the Internet, there has been continual debate about the impact of online activism on ...
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 ...
Individual differences in cognitive biases: Evidence against one-factor theory of rationality
(Elsevier Science Inc, New York, 2015)
In this paper we seek to gain an improved understanding of the structure of cognitive biases and their relationship with measures of intelligence and relevant non-cognitive constructs. We report on the outcomes of a study ...
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 ...
Symmetry, complexity and perceptual economy: Effects of minimum and maximum simplicity conditions
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2001)
According to Gestalt theory, the perceptual system works on economic principles and tends to reach the maximum efficiency (i.e., increase of quality, goodness, and accuracy) with minimum invested energy (i.e., reduction ...
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 ...
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 ...