Lu, Ting Guo, Zihan Li, Hao Zhang, Xinyu Ren, Zhihong Yang, Weiping Wei, Liuqing Huang, Ling
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Frontiers in Psychology
At the beginning of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, college students returning home from Wuhan, Hubei Province, experienced various degrees of discrimination. This study first investigates perceived discrimination among college students returning home from Wuhan. Then, an experimental method is used to investigate the effectivenes...
Jackson, Todd Ye, Xiaoxuan Hall, Brian J. Chen, Hong
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Frontiers in Psychology
In three studies, we assessed knowledge, correlates, and effects of the A4 challenge, an expression of the thin ideal from Chinese social media. In Study 1, gender differences in familiarity with the A4 challenge were assessed among 225 women and 151 men. Compared to men, women and female peers from participant social networks were more familiar wi...
Xu, Ying Li, Wanxin Chi, Shangxin
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Frontiers in Psychology
To investigate the relationships between altruism, environmental concerns, and ordinary people's pro-environmental behaviors that go beyond self-interested NIMBY-ism, we examined measurements of altruism and environmental concerns in a Chinese context and developed a scale that measured people's pro-environmental behaviors at the individual, organi...
Lage, Ana Carrapatoso, Susana Sampaio de Queiroz Neto, Elzier Gomes, Sérgio Soares-Miranda, Luísa Bohn, Lucimere
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Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic led to the implementation of physical–social distancing measures–including self-isolation, home confinement, and quarantine around the world, with psychological consequences such as depression. Older adults are especially likely to develop depressive symptomatology. This study aims to investigate the association b...
Kan, Janice M. Dieng, Mbathio Butow, Phyllis N. Mireskandari, Shab Tesson, Stephanie Menzies, Scott W. Costa, Daniel S. J. Morton, Rachael L. Mann, Graham J. Cust, Anne E.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Purpose: Psychological interventions targeting fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) are effective in reducing fear and distress. Process evaluations are an important, yet scarce adjunct to published intervention trials, despite their utility in guiding the interpretation of study outcomes and optimizing intervention design for broader implementation. Ac...
Reggin, Lorraine D. Muraki, Emiko J. Pexman, Penny M.
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Frontiers in Psychology
The development of children’s word knowledge is an important testing ground for the embodied account of word meaning, which proposes that word meanings are grounded in sensorimotor systems. Acquisition of abstract words, in particular, is a noted challenge for strong accounts of embodiment. We examined acquisition of abstract word meanings, using d...
Del Río-Rama, María de la Cruz Álvarez-García, José Mun, Nam Kwon Durán-Sánchez, Amador
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Frontiers in Psychology
The aim of this research is to validate the explanatory model of how the quality of service perceived by students of a higher education center influences their loyalty (retaining and attracting new students) through mediating variables: perceived value, expectations, and satisfaction. The methodology used to validate the measurement scales is explo...
Ochi, Ryuta Midorikawa, Akira
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Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundAs with cognitive function, the ability to recognize emotions changes with age. In the literature regarding the relationship between recognition of emotion and cognitive function during aging, the effects of predictors such as aging, emotional state, and cognitive domains on emotion recognition are unclear. This study was performed to cla...
Wolf, Alexandra Ueda, Kazuo
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Frontiers in Psychology
In the field of psychology, the merge of decision-theory and neuroscientific methods produces an array of scientifically recognized paradigms. For example, by exploring consumer’s eye-movement behavior, researchers aim to deepen the understanding of how patterns of retinal activation are being meaningfully transformed into visual experiences and co...
Crone, Lola Brunel, Lionel Auzoult, Laurent
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Frontiers in Psychology
An increasing number of studies focus on the phenomenon of objectification in the workplace. This phenomenon reflects a process of subjection of the employee, where he is considered as an object, a mean (utilitarian) or reduced to one of his attributes. Previous studies have shown that objectification can have consequences on the workplace health o...
