Problem Solving

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "John Henryism" and blood pressure in a Dutch population. 
  • "Transitive inference" in multiple conditional discriminations. 
  • A Direct Observational Measure of Family Functioning for a Low-Resource Setting: Adaptation and Feasibility in a Kenyan Sample. 
  • A Qualitative, Systems Thinking Approach to Study Self-Management in Women With Migraine. 
  • A Systematic Review of Patient- and Family-Level Inhaled Corticosteroid Adherence Interventions in Black/African Americans. 
  • A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets. 
  • A brief assessment of learning for orphaned and abandoned children in low and middle income countries. 
  • A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes. 
  • A divide-and-conquer strategy to solve the out-of-memory problem of processing thousands of Affymetrix microarrays. 
  • A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory. 
  • A new approach to the role of noradrenaline in learning: problem-solving in the marmoset after alpha-noradrenergic receptor blockade. 
  • A nonverbal false belief task: the performance of children and great apes. 
  • A problem-solving intervention for cardiovascular disease risk reduction in veterans: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • A role for operational research in health care planning and management teams. 
  • A self-agency bias in preschoolers\textquotesingle causal inferences. 
  • Adapters, strugglers, and case managers: a typology of spouse caregivers. 
  • Adaptive leadership and person-centered care: a new approach to solving problems. 
  • After Global Health Training-The Path Forward (Commentary). 
  • Agency is messy: get used to it. 
  • Anxiolytic effects of smoking associated with four stressors. 
  • Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation. 
  • Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. 
  • Applying a stepped-care approach to the treatment of obesity. 
  • Ascending digits task as a measure of executive function in geriatric depression. 
  • Assessing creativity independently of language: A language-independent remote associate task (LI-RAT). 
  • Assessing the validity of ape-human comparisons: a reply to Boesch (2007). 
  • Attribute dimensions that distinguish master and novice physical therapy clinicians in orthopedic settings. 
  • Behavioral cues that great apes use to forage for hidden food. 
  • Benefits, Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies to Improve Pesticide Protective Behaviors: Insights from Farmworkers in North Carolina Tobacco Fields. 
  • Between automatic and control processes: How relationships between problem elements interact to facilitate or impede insight. 
  • Brief Report: Can a Composite Heart Rate Variability Biomarker Shed New Insights About Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-Aged Children? 
  • CONNECT for quality: protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve fall prevention in nursing homes. 
  • Cardiovascular reactivity assessment: effects of choice of difficulty on laboratory task responses. 
  • Cardiovascular responses to behavioral stressors: laboratory-field generalization and inter-task consistency. 
  • Changes of antero-posterior distribution of CNV and late positive component as a function of information processing demands. 
  • Children's meta-talk in their collaborative decision making with peers. 
  • Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes) coordinate by communicating in a collaborative problem-solving task. 
  • Chimpanzees monopolize and children take turns in a limited resource problem. 
  • Client characteristics associated with behavior change for treated and untreated aggressive boys. 
  • Clinical Teaching: An Evidence-based Guide to Best Practices from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. 
  • Cognitive function in late life depression: relationships to depression severity, cerebrovascular risk factors and processing speed. 
  • Cognitive impairment and depression outcomes in the IMPACT study. 
  • Cognitive risk factors and suicide attempts among formerly hospitalized adolescents: a prospective naturalistic study. 
  • Collaborative reasoning in the context of group competition. 
  • Colorful success: preschoolers' use of perceptual color cues to solve a spatial reasoning problem. 
  • Common sense, insight, and neuropsychological test performance in schizophrenia patients. 
  • Comprehension of novel communicative signs by apes and human children. 
  • Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions. 
  • Conflict monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex during selective attention to global and local object features. 
  • Construct validity of cognitive reserve in a multiethnic cohort: The Northern Manhattan Study. 
  • Contribution of job strain, job status and marital status to laboratory and ambulatory blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension. 
  • Contribution of pastimes and testing strategies to the performance of healthy volunteers on cognitive tests. 
  • Cooperative activities in young children and chimpanzees. 
  • Coping responses in depressed, socially maladjusted, and suicidal adolescents. 
  • Copying results and copying actions in the process of social learning: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Correlates of remission in primary care patients treated for minor depression. 
  • D-amphetamine challenge effects on Wisconsin Card Sort Test. Performance in schizotypal personality disorder. 
  • Deal or No Deal? Negotiation 101. 
  • Development and validation of the State Hope Scale. 
  • Developmental trajectories of executive functions in young males with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Dimensions of pain-related cognitive coping: cross-validation of the factor structure of the Coping Strategy Questionnaire. 
  • Disagreement, justification, and equitable moral judgments: A brief training study. 
  • Divergence in problem-solving skills is associated with differential expression of glutamate receptors in wild finches. 
  • Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) coordinate their actions in a problem-solving task. 
  • Domestic dogs comprehend human communication with iconic signs. 
  • Effect of the neuroprotective peptide davunetide (AL-108) on cognition and functional capacity in schizophrenia. 
  • Effectiveness of Group Problem Management Plus, a brief psychological intervention for adults affected by humanitarian disasters in Nepal: A cluster randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of methylphenidate on sensitivity to reinforcement in children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an application of the matching law. 
  • Evaluation of myocardial and peripheral vascular responses during reaction time, mental arithmetic, and cold pressor tasks. 
  • Everyday problem solving in adulthood and old age. 
  • Evidence of tool-using by chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast. 
  • Executive functions in young males with fragile X syndrome in comparison to mental age-matched controls: baseline findings from a longitudinal study. 
  • Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses. 
  • Gender differences in blood pressure control during a variety of behavioral stressors. 
  • General performance on a numeracy scale among highly educated samples. 
  • H.M.'s personal crossword puzzles: understanding memory and language. 
  • Helping patients with localized prostate carcinoma manage uncertainty and treatment side effects: nurse-delivered psychoeducational intervention over the telephone. 
  • Hemodynamics of blood pressure responses during active and passive coping. 
  • High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation. 
  • How chimpanzees solve collective action problems. 
  • How to assess critical thinking in clinical practice. 
  • How to make research happen: working with staff. 
  • Imparied maze performance in the rat caused by trimethyltin treatment: problem-solving deficits and perseveration. 
  • Imparied maze performance in the rat caused by trimethyltin treatment: problem-solving deficits and perseveration. 
  • Imposter Syndrome Among Surgeons Is Associated With Intolerance of Uncertainty and Lower Confidence in Problem Solving. 
  • Improving urban African Americans' blood pressure control through multi-level interventions in the Achieving Blood Pressure Control Together (ACT) study: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Increasing arousal enhances inhibitory control in calm but not excitable dogs 
  • Individual and program Characteristics May Drive Variability in Outcomes After Caregivers Participate in a Tailored Support Intervention. 
  • Individual differences in nonverbal number discrimination correlate with event-related potentials and measures of probabilistic reasoning. 
  • Intellectual environment, technical resources and curiosity: elements for competitive research. 
  • Is this the right time to come out? Case study. 
  • It's a bet! A problem-solving approach promotes the construction of contingent agreements. 
  • Leveraging E-Learning for Pedagogical Innovation in PA Education. 
  • Limitations to the cultural ratchet effect in young children. 
  • Moderators of an uncertainty management intervention: for men with localized prostate cancer. 
  • Modifications in children's goals when encountering obstacles to conflict resolution 
  • Navigating the ventricles: Novel insights into the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus. 
  • Neural mechanisms underlying probabilistic category learning in normal aging. 
  • Neuropsychological profile in adult schizophrenia measured with the CMINDS. 
  • Neuropsychological status of subjects at high risk for a first episode of psychosis. 
  • Norms for CERAD constructional praxis recall. 
  • Operant conditioning. 
  • Opioid dysfunction and risk for hypertension: naloxone and blood pressure responses during different types of stress. 
  • Patterns of cardiovascular responses to stress as a function of race and parental hypertension in men. 
  • Performance incentives and means: how regulatory focus influences goal attainment. 
  • Pre- and postnatal choline supplementation produces long-term facilitation of spatial memory. 
  • Predicting Spatial Visualization Problems' Difficulty Level from Eye-Tracking Data. 
  • Predictors of hopelessness among clinically depressed youth. 
  • Predictors of intimate partner violence revictimization: the relative impact of distinct PTSD symptoms, dissociation, and coping strategies. 
  • Predictors of nonresponse to treatment in primary care patients with dysthymia. 
  • Prefrontal neuropsychological predictors of treatment remission in late-life depression. 
  • Priming and backward influences in the human brain: processing interactions during the stroop interference effect. 
  • Prototype formation in autism. 
  • Puzzling thoughts for H. M.: can new semantic information be anchored to old semantic memories? 
  • Race, parental history of hypertension, and patterns of cardiovascular reactivity in women. 
  • Racial differences in cardiovascular reactivity to mental arithmetic. 
  • Reaching around barriers: the performance of the great apes and 3-5-year-old children. 
  • Reflections on undergraduate nursing education: a look to the future. 
  • Relationship between cognitive activity and adjustment in four spinal-cord-injured individuals: a longitudinal investigation. 
  • Research on teaching methods. 
  • Resolving response, decision, and strategic control: evidence for a functional topography in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. 
  • Rethinking the distinction between episodic and semantic memory: Insights from the past, present, and future. 
  • Schizophrenia, narrative, and neurocognition: The utility of life-stories in understanding social problem-solving skills. 
  • Self-compassion and reactions to unpleasant self-relevant events: the implications of treating oneself kindly. 
  • Serum lipids, neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to stress in healthy Type A men. 
  • Short written assignments for clinical nursing courses. 
  • Situational determinants of cardiovascular and emotional reactivity in high and low hostile men. 
  • Six of one, half dozen of the other: expanding and contracting numerical dimensions produces preference reversals. 
  • Social information-processing patterns partially mediate the effect of early physical abuse on later conduct problems. 
  • Social maladjustment and problem solving in school-aged children. 
  • Social problem-solving among adolescents treated for depression. 
  • Social sampling: Children track social choices to reason about status hierarchies. 
  • Social-cognitive processes of severely violent, moderately aggressive, and nonaggressive boys. 
  • Status of minor depression or dysthymia in primary care following a randomized controlled treatment. 
  • Strategic allocation of attention reduces temporally predictable stimulus conflict. 
  • Strategy to assess, develop, and evaluate critical thinking. 
  • Student Learning Dispositions: Multidimensional Profiles Highlight Important Differences among Undergraduate STEM Honors Thesis Writers. 
  • Studying primate learning in group contexts: Tests of social foraging, response to novelty, and cooperative problem solving. 
  • Teach a student to fish. Problem-based teaching in medical education. 
  • Telephone Problem Solving for Service Members with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized, Clinical Trial. 
  • Telephone Problem-Solving Treatment Improves Sleep Quality in Service Members With Combat-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Results From a Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Telephone intervention to improve the mental health of community-dwelling women abused by their intimate partners: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • The Fast Track intervention's impact on behaviors of despair in adolescence and young adulthood. 
  • The Grand Challenges and nursing. 
  • The counterfeit self: the deceptive costs of faking it. 
  • The dark side of creativity: original thinkers can be more dishonest. 
  • The effects of written emotional disclosure and coping skills training in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • The emergence of social cognition in three young chimpanzees. 
  • The evolution of self-control. 
  • The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions. 
  • The multi-dimensional nature of active coping: differential effects of effort and enhanced control on cardiovascular reactivity. 
  • The power of relationship for high-quality long-term care. 
  • The process of recurrent choice. 
  • The prototype effect in face recognition: extension and limits. 
  • The relationships between dimensions of hostility and cardiovascular reactivity as a function of task characteristics. 
  • The structure of individual differences in the cognitive abilities of children and chimpanzees. 
  • The treatment effectiveness project. A comparison of the effectiveness of paroxetine, problem-solving therapy, and placebo in the treatment of minor depression and dysthymia in primary care patients: background and research plan. 
  • Thinking about multiple identities boosts children's flexible thinking. 
  • Thinking from inside the box. 
  • Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts. 
  • Treatment of dysthymia and minor depression in primary care: a randomized trial in patients aged 18 to 59 years. 
  • Treatment, Not Terror: Time for Unique Problem-Solving Partnerships for Cancer Care in Resource-Challenged Environments. 
  • Two-way talks. 
  • Understanding attention: 12- and 18-month-olds know what is new for other persons. 
  • Understanding the Complex Relationship between Critical Thinking and Science Reasoning among Undergraduate Thesis Writers. 
  • Unity and diversity of tonic and phasic executive control components in episodic and working memory. 
  • Untrained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) fail to imitate novel actions. 
  • Use of a structured approach and virtual simulation practice to improve diagnostic reasoning. 
  • Use of role plays to assess therapist competency and its association with client outcomes in psychological interventions: A scoping review and competency research agenda. 
  • Use of social information in the problem solving of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Using a modified nominal group technique to elicit director of nursing input for an osteoporosis intervention. 
  • Visual recognition of biological motion is impaired in children with autism. 
  • What's in a Task? Complications in the Study of the Task-Unrelated-Thought Variety of Mind Wandering. 
  • When I stopped yelling, everybody started listening. 
  • When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness. 
  • Young Children's Ability to Produce Valid and Relevant Counter-Arguments. 
  • Young children's understanding of the context-relativity of normative rules in conventional games. 
  • [Problem-based learning--a cautious approach]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Appelbaum, Lawrence Gregory, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Staddon, John E. R., James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology & Neuroscience