Attitude

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A consideration of some factors related to work after retirement. 
  • A course-based research experience: how benefits change with increased investment in instructional time. 
  • A model predicting suicidal ideation and hopelessness in depressed older adults: the impact of emotion inhibition and affect intensity. 
  • A retrospective study of the concept of spirituality as understood by recovering individuals. 
  • Adherence to hydroxyurea therapy in children with sickle cell anemia. 
  • Adjustable task lighting: Field study assesses the benefits in an office environment. 
  • Advancing the science of nursing education: more findings from the National Survey on Excellence in Nursing education. 
  • African-American women: leadership in transition. 
  • Ageism in Canada and the United States. 
  • Aging, health, and the "electronic church". 
  • Alternative diet therapy for elderly patients. Unique concerns for a high-risk population. 
  • Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics. 
  • Associations among NEO personality assessments and well-being at midlife: facet-level analyses. 
  • Attitudes justifying domestic violence predict endorsement of corporal punishment and physical and psychological aggression towards children: a study in 25 low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of "gatekeeper" professions. 
  • Body investment, depression, and alcohol use as risk factors for suicide proneness in college students. 
  • Cardiovascular and behavioral effects of aerobic exercise training in healthy older men and women. 
  • Caregiver needs and patterns of social support. 
  • Characteristics and dietary patterns of adolescents who value eating locally grown, organic, nongenetically engineered, and nonprocessed food. 
  • Conceptual framework for patient-important treatment outcomes for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Consequences of retirement. 
  • Conservatives, liberals, and "the negative". 
  • Context, engagement, and the (multiple) functions of negativity bias. 
  • Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: the impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. 
  • Determinants of a subject's decision to participate in clinical anesthesia research. 
  • Donor designation: racial and ethnic differences in US nondesignators' preferred methods for disclosing intent to donate organs. 
  • Dysfunctional attitudes in depressed patients before and after clinical treatment and in normal control subjects. 
  • Dysfunctional attitudes scale perfectionism: a predictor and partial mediator of acute treatment outcome among clinically depressed adolescents. 
  • Eating disturbances in white and minority female dieters. 
  • Effects of brief mindful acceptance induction on implicit dysfunctional attitudes and concordance between implicit and explicit dysfunctional attitudes. 
  • Effects of situational stress and sex roles on the attribution of psychological disorder. 
  • Effort for payment. A tale of two markets. 
  • Emergency Medicine national conventions: a medical student's perspective. 
  • Endogenous and non-endogenous depressions: relations to life events, dysfunctional attitudes and event perceptions. 
  • Endorsement of personal benefit of outpatient commitment among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Enhancing geneticists' perspectives of the public through community engagement. 
  • Erosion in medical students' attitudes about telling patients they are students. 
  • Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys. 
  • Evaluation of underlying mechanisms in the link between childhood ADHD symptoms and risk for early initiation of substance use. 
  • Evidence-Based Strategies for Shortening Informed Consent Forms in Clinical Research. 
  • Examining pregnant women's hostile attributions about infants as a predictor of offspring maltreatment. 
  • Exploring student preferences with a Q-sort: the development of an individualized renal physiology curriculum. 
  • Exposure to sided media coverage of an organization, subsequent group conversations, and public relations outcomes 
  • Factors associated with veterans' decisions about living wills. 
  • Faith-based and secular pathways to hope and optimism subconstructs in middle-aged and older cardiac patients. 
  • Family planning, race consciousness and the fear of race genocide. 
  • Feeling superior is a bipartisan issue: extremity (not direction) of political views predicts perceived belief superiority. 
  • For M.D.'s, ethics can't be frills. 
  • Foreigners traveling to the U.S. for transplantation may adversely affect organ donation: a national survey. 
  • Heightened sensitivity to facial expressions of emotion in borderline personality disorder. 
  • How Can Adult Children Influence Parents' Long-Term Care Insurance Purchase Decisions? 
  • How girls and boys expect disclosure about problems will make them feel: implications for friendships 
  • Is believing seeing? The role of emotion-related beliefs in selective attention to affective cues. 
  • Issues affecting minority participation in research studies of Alzheimer disease. 
  • Low carbohydrate diets in family practice: what can we learn from an internet-based support group. 
  • Making sense of misfortune: deservingness, self-esteem, and patterns of self-defeat. 
  • Making time for meals: meal structure and associations with dietary intake in young adults. 
  • Maltreatment history and weapon carrying among early adolescents. 
  • Marital assortment and phenotypic convergence: longitudinal evidence. 
  • Measuring Adaptive Coping of Hospitalized Patients With a Severe Medical Condition: The Sickness Insight in Coping Questionnaire. 
  • Measuring trust in medical researchers. 
  • Medical students become patients: a new teaching strategy. 
  • Modeling end-users' acceptance of a knowledge authoring tool. 
  • Modernization and consanguineous marriage in Beirut. 
  • Moral appraisals affect doing/allowing judgments. 
  • Morality and politics: Comparing alternate theories. 
  • Multicontextual correlates of energy-dense, nutrient-poor snack food consumption by adolescents. 
  • Neoadjuvant long-course chemoradiation remains strongly favored over short-course radiotherapy by radiation oncologists in the United States. 
  • Nonrecursive models of labor force participation, fertility behavior and sex role attitudes. 
  • On the relation between attitude to work and attitude to retirement. 
  • Optimism, social support, and adjustment in African American women with breast cancer. 
  • Palliative care in the inner city. Patient religious affiliation, underinsurance, and symptom attitude. 
  • Parent-child attitude congruence on type and intensity of physical activity: testing multiple mediators of sedentary behavior in older children. 
  • Parenting concerns of women with histories of eating disorders. 
  • Parents' and clinicians' attitudes toward the risks and benefits of child psychotherapy: a study of informed-consent content. 
  • Parents' informed consent decisions regarding psychotherapy for their children: consideration of therapeutic risks and benefits. 
  • Past Actions as Self-Signals: How Acting in a Self-Interested Way Influences Environmental Decision Making. 
  • Pathways to diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences and emotional reactions of parents of children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. 
  • Patient and family attitudes about an eye donation registry for research. 
  • Patient-perceived long-term communication and swallow function following cerebellopontine angle surgery. 
  • Patients' attitudes regarding out-of-hospital blood transfusion. 
  • Patterns of change in hostility from college to midlife in the UNC Alumni Heart Study predict high-risk status. 
  • People believe it is plausible to have forgotten memories of childhood sexual abuse. 
  • Perceived neighborhood safety and depressive symptoms among African American crack users. 
  • Perceptions of patients and physicians regarding phase I cancer clinical trials: implications for physician-patient communication. 
  • Perceptions of secondary school staff toward the implementation of school-based activities to prevent weight-related disorders: a needs assessment. 
  • Personality and oral health. 
  • Physical activity participation among persons with disabilities: barriers and facilitators. 
  • Political ideology affects energy-efficiency attitudes and choices. 
  • Positive attitudes toward organic, local, and sustainable foods are associated with higher dietary quality among young adults. 
  • Predicting boys' social acceptance and aggression: the role of mother-child interactions and boys' beliefs about peers. 
  • Preferences for psychiatric advance directives among Latinos: views on advance care planning for mental health. 
  • Preferences for separating or combining events. 
  • Pregnant moments: the process of conception in infertile couples. 
  • Preparation of animals for use in the laboratory: issues and challenges for the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). 
  • Pretherapy cognitive dispositions and treatment outcome in cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia. 
  • Psychological correlates of obesity: moving to the next research generation. 
  • Psychosocial outcomes in a weight loss camp for overweight youth. 
  • Public perspectives on returning genetics and genomics research results. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Rebellious teens? Genetic and environmental influences on the social attitudes of adolescents. 
  • Reciprocity and retaining African-American women with HIV in research. 
  • Relationship classification using grade of membership analysis: a typology of sibling relationships in later life. 
  • Religion and aging in a longitudinal panel. 
  • Religious activities and attitudes of older adults in a geriatric assessment clinic. 
  • Religious involvement is associated with greater purpose, optimism, generosity and gratitude in persons with major depression and chronic medical illness. 
  • Retirement planning programs--at what age, and for whom? 
  • Retirement reason versus retirement process: examining the reasons for retirement typology. 
  • Selective versus unselective romantic desire: not all reciprocity is created equal. 
  • Self-compassionate responses to aging. 
  • Sleep difficulties and alcohol use motives in female rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Smokeless tobacco use in an outpatient veteran population. 
  • So much for keeping secrets: the importance of considering patients' perspectives on maintaining confidentiality. 
  • Social work competencies in palliative and end-of-life care. 
  • Some considerations in developing family planning services. 
  • Some implications of a pregnancy on campus: a research study. 
  • Sounding Boards. The case of bedside rounds. 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Stability and change in the perceived social support of older Taiwanese adults. 
  • Stagnant perceptions of nursing among high school students: results of a shadowing intervention study. 
  • Stakeholder views on returning research results. 
  • Story stimuli for creating false beliefs about the world. 
  • Subjective social support and depressive symptoms in major depression: separate phenomena or epiphenomena. 
  • Subjective status shapes political preferences. 
  • Teaching geriatric care: report on an experimental second-year elective. 
  • Teamwork in the operating room: frontline perspectives among hospitals and operating room personnel. 
  • Temporomandibular disorder and optimism: relationships to ischemic pain sensitivity and interleukin-6. 
  • Testing social cognitive mechanisms of exercise in college students. 
  • The Scientific Misconduct Questionnaire--Revised (SMQ-R): validation and psychometric testing. 
  • The belief in a just world and perceptions of discrimination. 
  • The development of attitudes about physical punishment: an 8-year longitudinal study. 
  • The distinction between beliefs legitimizing aggression and deviant processing of social cues: testing measurement validity and the hypothesis that biased processing mediates the effects of beliefs on aggression. Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group. 
  • The dysfunctional attitudes scale: psychometric properties in depressed adolescents. 
  • The effects of aging on activities and attitudes. 
  • The impact of acculturation on Latinos' perceived barriers to HIV primary care. 
  • The impact of community notification laws on sex offender treatment attitudes. 
  • The impact of methamphetamine ("tik") on a peri-urban community in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • The influence of one's own body weight on implicit and explicit anti-fat bias. 
  • The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies. 
  • The relationship between spirituality and depressive symptoms: testing psychosocial mechanisms. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
  • Trust, health, and longevity. 
  • Understanding disparities in donor behavior: race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organs. 
  • Understanding racial variation in the use of carotid endarterectomy: the role of aversion to surgery. 
  • Weight reduction at the work site: a promise partially fulfilled. 
  • Weight stigmatization and ideological beliefs: relation to psychological functioning in obese adults. 
  • What explains racial differences in the use of advance directives and attitudes toward hospice care? 
  • Why are young college women not using condoms? Their perceived risk, drug use, and developmental vulnerability may provide important clues to sexual risk. 
  • Willingness to provide support for a quit attempt: A study of partners of smokers. 
  • Women's views about participating in research while pregnant. 
  • You can't not believe everything you read. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Pang, Herbert, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine