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Buddhism is More Than Just Meditation: A Cognitive Non-Attachment Training for Social Stress
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Buddhism is essentially a cognitive-behavioral intervention where oral teachings and meditation work together to develop nonattachment, a mind-state considered to be the antidote to all human suffering. The present work ...
Context Processing and Aging Older Adults' Ability to Learn and Utilize Visual Contexts
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of the present study was to examine how older adults utilize contextual information to guide attention in visual scenes. Studies that have examined context and attentional deployment have used the contextual ...
Modeling Approach Motivation in Terms of Perceptual Biases Involving Appetitive Stimuli
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Accumulating evidence suggests a potential relationship between approach motivation and perceptual enhancement. The current investigation was undertaken with the goal of exploring the causes of the phenomenon as well as ...
Perceived Burdensomeness: Exploring Potential Vulnerability Factors
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Suicide affects hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year. Despite many coordinated efforts to address this problem, in multiple domains, these numbers have risen over the last decade. The Interpersonal ...
Finding Meaning in Misery: Can Stressful Situations Provide Meaning in Life?
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Theory and research investigating the relationship between affective experiences and meaning in life have focused on how positive affect contributes to perceptions of meaning in life. No work has considered how people can ...
Do Highly Mindful Individuals Experience Less Interference as a Result of Better Attention Control and Emotion Regulation?
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Mindfulness has been found to be beneficial to psychological health. Furthermore,
research suggests that mindfulness is associated with better attention control and fewer
difficulties in emotion regulation. The purpose ...
Effortful Control Moderates the Association Between Emotional Instability and Binge Eating
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
We hypothesized that (H1) emotional instability would be associated with an
increased likelihood of a binge episode, and that (H2a) this relationship would be
potentiated among individuals with low cognitive control and ...
To Be or Not To Be: An Empirical Test of English Prime as Theory
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
English Prime is a language prescription advocating the abolition of all forms of the verb “to be” from usage. Such benefits of a “to be”-less form of communication might include an increased appreciation for the essential ...
The Examination of the Effect of Nostalgia on Risk Factors for Suicide
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
In order to investigate the relationship between nostalgic tendencies and risk factors for suicide, two studies were completed. Study 1 examined nostalgic tendencies among individuals with depression symptoms in order to ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Capability for Suicide
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The relationship between alcohol use and suicide has been well documented in past research. However, there have been few studies interested in examining potential mediators to explain the alcohol-suicide link. The current ...