Psychological Tests

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Preliminary Study Examining the Prevalence and Perceived Intensity of Morally Injurious Events in a Veterans Affairs Chaplaincy Spiritual Injury Support Group. 
  • A comparison of coping assessed by ecological momentary assessment and retrospective recall. 
  • A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes. 
  • A confrontational naming task produces congruent increases and decreases in PET and fMRI. 
  • A construct validity study of the Missouri Children's Behavior Checklist with developmentally disabled children. 
  • A daily activities list and its relation to measures of adjustment and early environment. 
  • A new self-report scale for assessment of adolescent psychopathology: factor structure, reliability, validity, and diagnostic sensitivity. 
  • A prospective randomized wait list control trial of intravenous iron sucrose in older adults with unexplained anemia and serum ferritin 20-200 ng/mL. 
  • A psychometric evaluation of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence in PTSD smokers. 
  • A statistical analysis of the classification of depression in a mixed community and clinical sample. 
  • A study of psychophysical scaling in chronic pain patients. 
  • Adult Spinal Deformity Patients Recall Fewer Than 50% of the Risks Discussed in the Informed Consent Process Preoperatively and the Recall Rate Worsens Significantly in the Postoperative Period. 
  • Adverse childhood experiences, psychosocial well-being and cognitive development among orphans and abandoned children in five low income countries. 
  • Age, personality, and the spontaneous self-concept. 
  • Alzheimer's disease-the inexorable epidemic. 
  • Ambivalence over emotional expression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer and their caregivers: associations with patient pain and quality of life. 
  • An analogue investigation of the relationships among perceived parental criticism, negative affect, and borderline personality disorder features: the role of thought suppression. 
  • An experiment to change detection and management of mental morbidity in primary care. 
  • An interdisciplinary expert consensus statement on assessment of pain in older persons. 
  • Antioxidant intake and cognitive function of elderly men and women: the Cache County Study. 
  • Assessing Impact of Weight on Quality of Life. 
  • Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group Report. 
  • Association of neurocognitive function and quality of life 1 year after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. 
  • Attention problems in very low birth weight preschoolers: are new screening measures needed for this special population? 
  • Attitudes toward rape among mental health professionals. 
  • Autobiographical memory for stressful events: the role of autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Automatic for the people: how representations of significant others implicitly affect goal pursuit. 
  • Bariatric surgery in patients with bipolar spectrum disorders: Selection factors, postoperative visit attendance, and weight outcomes. 
  • Barriers to antiretroviral adherence: the importance of depression, abuse, and other traumatic events. 
  • Behavior problems of young girls with fragile X syndrome: factor scores on the Conners' Parent's Questionnaire. 
  • Behavioral assessment of chronic orofacial pain. 
  • Body investment, depression, and alcohol use as risk factors for suicide proneness in college students. 
  • Brief psychosocial screening in outpatient pediatric practice. 
  • Cardiovascular and behavioral effects of aerobic exercise training in healthy older men and women. 
  • Case-finding instruments for depression in primary care settings. 
  • Cerebral metabolic and cognitive decline in persons at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Children coordinate in a recurrent social dilemma by taking turns and along dominance asymmetries. 
  • Children, but not chimpanzees, prefer to collaborate. 
  • Chronic pain and depression. I. Classification of depression in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Chronic pain and depression. II. Symptoms of anxiety in chronic low back pain patients and their relationship to subtypes of depression. 
  • Client characteristics associated with behavior change for treated and untreated aggressive boys. 
  • Cognitive and psychological outcomes of exercise in a 1-year follow-up study of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Cognitive development: a critical component of baccalaureate nursing education. 
  • Cognitive screening tests. 
  • Cognitive screening tests: an aid in the care of elderly outpatients. 
  • Collectivism and the meaning of suffering. 
  • Community-level HIV prevention for persons with severe mental illness living in supportive housing programs: a pilot intervention study. 
  • Comparing proxy and patients' perceptions of patients' functional status: results from an outpatient geriatric clinic. 
  • Conformity development as a function of self-blame. 
  • Control-related cognitions and depression among inpatient children and adolescents. 
  • Coping with cancer. 
  • Couple adjustment and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in National Guard veterans of the Iraq war. 
  • Covert hepatic encephalopathy: not as minimal as you might think. 
  • Cross-cultural considerations in administering the center for epidemiologic studies depression scale. 
  • Culture in psychiatric epidemiology: using ethnography and multiple mediator models to assess the relationship of caste with depression and anxiety in Nepal. 
  • Deficient behavioral inhibition and anomalous selective attention in a community sample of adolescents with psychopathic traits and low-anxiety traits. 
  • Depression and social support in elderly patients with cardiac disease. 
  • Depression as a psychopathological disorder in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Determining the cause of memory loss in the elderly. From in-office screening to neuropsychological referral. 
  • Development and validation of the parent experience of child illness. 
  • Development of an organic affective syndrome during a hyperbaric diving experiment. 
  • Developmental changes in infants' categorization of anger and disgust facial expressions. 
  • Diagnosing organic mental disorders in the elderly. 
  • Diagnostic Accuracy of Screening Tests and Treatment for Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Depression: A Systematic Review. 
  • Differences in types A and B behavior in response to acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Differential predictability of four dimensions of affect intensity. 
  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). 
  • Distress and growth outcomes in mothers of medically fragile infants. 
  • Divergent effects of activating thoughts of God on self-regulation. 
  • Domestic dogs comprehend human communication with iconic signs. 
  • Early predictors of communication development in young children with autism spectrum disorder: joint attention, imitation, and toy play. 
  • Effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive and psychosocial functioning in patients with mild hypertension. 
  • Emergence of Japanese infants' prosodic preferences in infant-directed vocabulary. 
  • Emotional distress in African American women with HIV. 
  • Emotional experience improves with age: evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling. 
  • Enhanced central thermal nociception in mildly depressed nonpatients and transiently sad healthy subjects. 
  • Enhancing Cardiac Rehabilitation With Stress Management Training: A Randomized, Clinical Efficacy Trial. 
  • Environmental and dispositional influences on well-being: longitudinal follow-up of an American national sample. 
  • Evidence for a menstrual-linked artifact in determining rates of depression. 
  • Evidence that methylation of the FMR-I locus is responsible for variable phenotypic expression of the fragile X syndrome. 
  • Eye tracking, attention, and schizotypal symptoms in nonpsychotic relatives of patients with schizophrenia. 
  • Fact learning: how information accuracy, delay, and repeated testing change retention and retrieval experience. 
  • Factor analysis and validity of the Conners Parent and Teacher Rating Scales in childhood cancer survivors. 
  • False memory across languages: implicit associative response vs fuzzy trace views. 
  • Fertility status and symptoms in childbearing couples. 
  • Forms of atypical depression and their response to antidepressant drugs. 
  • Formulating clinical research hypotheses as structural equation models: a conceptual overview. 
  • Gas exchange and exercise capacity affect neurocognitive performance in patients with lung disease. 
  • Gender differences in antidepressant and activating drug effects on self-perceptions. 
  • Good test--retest reliability for standard and advanced false-belief tasks across a wide range of abilities. 
  • HIV risk behavior among patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders: associations with mania and drug abuse. 
  • Illness behavior as a predictor of pain and overt behavior patterns in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Increases in impulsivity following smoking abstinence are related to baseline nicotine intake and boredom susceptibility. 
  • Indicators of anxiety and depression in women with the fragile X premutation: assessment of a clinical sample. 
  • Initial evaluation of suspected dementia. Asking the right questions. 
  • Intellectual, neurocognitive, and academic achievement in abstinent adolescents with cannabis use disorder. 
  • It's only a matter of time: death, legacies, and intergenerational decisions. 
  • John Henryism and blood pressure differences among black men. 
  • John Henryism and blood pressure differences among black men. II. The role of occupational stressors. 
  • Joint effect of hostility and severity of depressive symptoms on plasma interleukin-6 concentration. 
  • Jugular bulb saturation and cognitive dysfunction after cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Lateralized brain dysfunction in autism: evidence from the Halstead-Reitan neuropsychological battery. 
  • Level of intellectual functioning predicts patterns of associated symptoms in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Life adaptation after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Life satisfaction and student engagement in adolescents. 
  • Locus of control and depression in students and psychiatric outpatients. 
  • Major depression in later life. 
  • Major depression with melancholia: a comparison of middle-aged and elderly adults. 
  • Major life events, daily stressors, and perimenstrual symptoms. 
  • Maternal depression in an urban pediatric practice: implications for health care delivery. 
  • Maternal perception of illness severity in premature infants. 
  • Maternal psychological distress, prenatal cortisol, and fetal weight. 
  • Measurement of self-concept and self-esteem in older people: state of the art. 
  • Measuring parental grief after childhood cancer: potential use of the SCL-90R. 
  • Measuring psychosocial risk in families caring for a child with cancer: the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT2.0). 
  • Media multitasking and behavioral measures of sustained attention. 
  • Mediating links between maternal depression and offspring psychopathology: the importance of independent data. 
  • Men's psychological functioning in the context of women's breast cancer. 
  • Meta-analysis of screening and diagnostic tests. 
  • Missouri Children's Behavior Checklist ratings of preschool children as a function of risk status for developmental and learning problems. 
  • Modeling the effects of positive and negative mood on the ability to resist eating in obese and non-obese individuals. 
  • Modification of the Beck Depression Inventory for use with a deaf population. 
  • Multi-modal examination of psychological and interpersonal distinctions among MPI coping clusters: a preliminary study. 
  • Nature over nurture: temperament, personality, and life span development. 
  • Neurocognitive assessments in advanced heart failure patients receiving continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. 
  • Non-egalitarian allocations among preschool peers in a face-to-face bargaining task. 
  • Octogenarian and centenarian performance on the Fuld Object Memory Evaluation. 
  • Pain behavior and pain coping strategies in low back pain and myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome patients. 
  • Pain catastrophizing in borderline morbidly obese and morbidly obese individuals with osteoarthritic knee pain. 
  • Parent and child reports of depressive symptoms in children at low and high risk of depression. 
  • Partial REM sleep deprivation, schizophrenia and field articulation. 
  • Personality predictors of mood related to dieting. 
  • Phenomenology and measurement of circumscribed interests in autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes associated with cystoid macular edema identified in preterm infants in the intensive care nursery. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in World War II naval veterans. 
  • Predicting methylphenidate response in long-term survivors of childhood cancer: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial. 
  • Predictors of treatment response in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Premenstrual symptom changes and plasma beta-endorphin/beta-lipotropin throughout the menstrual cycle. 
  • Prognostic value of anxiety and depression in patients with chronic heart failure. 
  • Psychological aspects of hypertension. I. The influence of experimental interview variables on blood pressure. 
  • Psychological aspects of hypertension. II. The differential influence of interview variables on blood pressure. 
  • Psychological changes accompany aerobic exercise in healthy middle-aged adults. 
  • Psychological outcomes of a pulmonary rehabilitation program. 
  • Quality of life of 125 adults surviving 6-18 years after bone marrow transplantation. 
  • RESPECT-Mil: feasibility of a systems-level collaborative care approach to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in military primary care. 
  • Race, psychosocial vulnerability and social support differences in inner-city women's symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apes. 
  • Reactions to a partner-assisted emotional disclosure intervention: direct observation and self-report of patient and partner communication. 
  • Receiving right/wrong feedback: consequences for learning. 
  • Recovery after allogeneic marrow transplantation: prospective study of predictors of long-term physical and psychosocial functioning. 
  • Relations of age and personality dimensions to cognitive ability factors. 
  • Relations of sociotropic and autonomous personality characteristics to specific symptoms in depressed patients. 
  • Relationship of performance on the sensory organization test to landing characteristics. 
  • Remembering the person: relations of individual difference variables to memory. 
  • Risk of unwanted sex for college women: evidence for a red zone. 
  • Routine screening for depression in radiation oncology patients. 
  • Satisficing in split-second decision making is characterized by strategic cue discounting. 
  • Scopolamine effects on Hamilton search task performance in monkeys. 
  • Self- and parent-reported depressive symptoms rated by the mood and feelings questionnaire. 
  • Self-compassion and risk behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS. 
  • Self-complexity as a cognitive buffer against stress-related illness and depression. 
  • Self-discrepancies in clinical depression and social phobia: cognitive structures that underlie emotional disorders? 
  • Severity of emotional and behavioral problems among poor and typical readers. 
  • Short-term behavioral effects of beta-adrenergic medications in men with mild hypertension. 
  • Sleep deprivation alters effort discounting but not delay discounting of monetary rewards. 
  • Smoking withdrawal symptoms in response to a trauma-related stressor among Vietnam combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Social learning influences on menstrual symptoms and illness behavior. 
  • Social-cognitive processing and depressive symptoms in children: a comparison of measures. 
  • Specificity of symptoms in RDC endogenous depression. 
  • Spontaneous coping strategies to manage acute pain and anxiety during electrodiagnostic studies. 
  • Stability in autobiographical memories 
  • Stress and long-term survivors of brain cancer. 
  • Stress-related anhedonia is associated with ventral striatum reactivity to reward and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptomatology. 
  • System justification and the defense of committed relationship ideology. 
  • Test-induced priming of false memories. 
  • Testing an individual systems model of response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial behavior across adolescence. 
  • The 2018 ISHLT/APM/AST/ICCAC/STSW recommendations for the psychosocial evaluation of adult cardiothoracic transplant candidates and candidates for long-term mechanical circulatory support. 
  • The Loneliness Questionnaire: Establishing Measurement Invariance Across Ethnic Groups. 
  • The Medical Interview Satisfaction Scale: development of a scale to measure patient perceptions of physician behavior. 
  • The NEECHAM Confusion Scale: construction, validation, and clinical testing. 
  • The Newcastle Anxiety Depression Diagnostic Index in relationship to the effects of monoamine oxidase inhibitors and tricyclic antidepressants. 
  • The Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale (PARS): development and psychometric properties. 
  • The ability of a Self-Administered Alcohol Screening Test (mSAAST) to detect future excessive alcohol consumption in persons on methadone maintenance. 
  • The aftermath of rape: recent empirical findings. 
  • The association between depression and chronic kidney disease and mortality among patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure. 
  • The complex relationship between depressive symptoms and functional limitations in community-dwelling older adults: the impact of subthreshold depression. 
  • 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 effectiveness of psychometric testing to identify alcoholics in a narcotic-dependent population. 
  • The fulfillment of others' needs elevates children's body posture. 
  • The impact of postoperative atrial fibrillation on neurocognitive outcome after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • The impact of psychologic factors on measurement of functional status. Assessment of the sickness impact profile. 
  • The impact of trauma and disaster on young children. 
  • The pot calling the kettle black: distancing response to ethical dissonance. 
  • The reasons young children give to peers when explaining their judgments of moral and conventional rules. 
  • The relation of stress and family environment to atopic dermatitis symptoms in children. 
  • The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and disordered eating: the mediating role of experiential avoidance. 
  • The social context of gastrointestinal cancer pain: a preliminary study examining the relation of patient pain catastrophizing to patient perceptions of social support and caregiver stress and negative responses. 
  • Tourette's syndrome: an expanded view. 
  • Treatment of dysthymia and minor depression in primary care: A randomized controlled trial in older adults. 
  • Trust, health, and longevity. 
  • Two versions of life: emotionally negative and positive life events have different roles in the organization of life story and identity. 
  • Type A behavior, nonverbal expressive style, and health. 
  • Using the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system in preschool classrooms with children with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Validation of a Computerized test of Functional Capacity. 
  • Validity of the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children: a comparison between psychiatric and pediatric referrals. 
  • Victims of rape: repeated assessment of depressive symptoms. 
  • You give me the chills: embodied reactions to inappropriate amounts of behavioral mimicry. 
  • Young children create iconic gestures to inform others. 
  • Young children create partner-specific referential pacts with peers. 
  • Young children's understanding of denial. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cabeza, Roberto, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke Science & Society
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine