Psychology Publications
The Psychology Department at Western has over 50 faculty members representing four Clusters of Research Excellence. Our faculty work with talented graduate and post-graduate students on cutting-edge questions about human and animal behavior. Undergraduate students in Psychology often participate in these exciting research programs. Clinical Science and Psychopathology (CSP) Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences (CDB) Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O) Social, Personality and Developmental Psychology (SPDP).
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Submissions from 2012
Cognitive Organization, Perceptions of Parenting and Depression Symptoms in Early Adolescence, M. N. Lumley, David J. A. Dozois, K. H. Hennig, and A. Marsh
Semantic and Associative Relations in Adolescents and Young Adults: Examining a Tenuous Dichotomy, Ken McRae, Saman Khalkhali, and Mary Hare
Generalized Event Knowledge Activation During Online Language Comprehension, Ross Metusalem, Marta Kutas, Mary Hare, Ken McRae, and Jeffrey L. Elman
Generalized Event Knowledge Activation During Online Sentence Comprehension, Ross Metusalem, Marta Kutas, Thomas P. Urbach, Mary Hare, Ken McRae, and Jeffrey L. Elman
The General Factor of Personality: A Critical Test, Livia Veselka, Caroline Just, Kerry L. Jang, Andrew M. Johnson, and Philip A. Vernon
Submissions from 2011
Why Clowns Taste Funny: The Relationship between Humor and Semantic Ambiguity, Tristan A. Bekinschtein, Matthew H. Davis, Jennifer M. Rodd, and Adrian M. Owen
Asymmetries in Motor Attention during a Cued Bimanual Reaching Task: Left and Right Handers Compared, Gavin Buckingham, Julie C. Main, and David P. Carey
The Material-weight Illusion Induced by Expectations Alone, Gavin Buckingham, Nathalie S. Ranger, and Melvyn A. Goodale
The Role of Vision in Detecting and Correcting Fingertip Force Errors during Object Lifting, Gavin Buckingham, Nathalie S. Ranger, and Melvyn A. Goodale
False Recall in the Deese–Roediger–Mcdermott Paradigm: The Roles of Gist and Associative Strength, David R. Cann, Ken McRae, and Albert N. Katz
Measuring Cognitive Errors: Initial Development of the Cognitive Distortions Scale (CDS), Roger Covin, David J. A. Dozois, Avital Ogniewicz, and Pamela M. Seeds
Bedside Detection of Awareness in the Vegetative State: A Cohort Study, Damian Cruse, Srivas Chennu, Camille Chatelle, Tristan A. Bekinschtein, Davinia Fernández-Espejo, John D. Pickard, Steven Laureys, and Adrian M. Owen
An integrative model of excessive reassurance seeking and negative feedback seeking in the development and maintenance of depression., Lyndsay E Evraire and David J A Dozois
Neuroimaging social emotional processing in women: fMRI study of script-driven imagery., Paul A Frewen, David J A Dozois, Richard W J Neufeld, Maria Densmore, Todd K Stevens, and Ruth A Lanius
Decoding Action Intentions from Preparatory Brain Activity in Human Parieto-frontal Networks, Jason P. Gallivan, D. Adam McLean, Kenneth F. Valyear, Charles E. Pettypiece, and Jody C. Culham
In Vivo Dynamics of the Musculoskeletal System Cannot Be Adequately Described Using a Stiffness-Damping-Inertia Model, Dinant A. Kistemaker and Leonard A. Rozendaal
Situational and Dispositional Influences on Nurses' Workplace Well-being: The Role of Empowering Unit Leadership, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Joan Finegan, and Piotr Wilk
Testing a Multi-level Model of Staff Nurse Organizational Commitment, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Joan Finegan, and Piotr Wilk
Event-Based Plausibility Immediately Influences On-Line Language Comprehension, Kazunaga Matsuki, Mary Hare, Christoph Scheepers, Tracy Chow, Jeffrey L. Elman, and Ken McRae
Becoming Sensitive to Sensitivity: Lessons Learned from the Development of the Maternal Behavior Q‑Sort, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson, and George M. Tarabulsy
Developing and Testing a New Measure of Staff Nurse Clinical Leadership: The Clinical Leadership Survey, Allison Patrick, Heather K. Spence Laschinger, Carol Wong, and Joan Finegan
The Mechanics of Embodiment: A Dialog on Embodiment and Computational Modeling, Giovanni Pezzulo, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Angelo Cangelosi, Martin H. Fischer, Ken McRae, and Michael J. Spivey
The Relationship Between Personality and Self-Report Abilities, Julie Aitken Schermer, Andrew M. Johnson, Philip A. Vernon, and Kerry L. Jang
Face Inversion Reduces the Persistence of Global Form and Its Neural Correlates, Lars Strother, Pavagada S. Mathuranath, Adrian Aldcroft, Cheryl Lavell, Melvyn A. Goodale, and Tutis Vilis
Adolescent Motherhood, Maternal Sensitivity, and Early Infant Development, George M. Tarabulsy, Greg Moran, David R. Pederson, Marc Provost, and Simon Larose