Psychological Theory

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "False" hope. 
  • Getting a Grip on My Depression : How Latina Adolescents Experience, Self-Manage, and Seek Treatment for Depressive Symptoms. 
  • A Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Program to Increase Physical Activity in Overweight/Obese Military Personnel: A Randomised Controlled Trial. 
  • A model of the development and maintenance of generalized social phobia. 
  • A new look at infant pointing. 
  • A reexamination of the effects of intent and consequence on children's moral judgments. 
  • A theoretically based Behavioral Nutrition Intervention for Community Elders at high risk: the B-NICE randomized controlled clinical trial. 
  • Activity valence as a function of mood change. 
  • An experimental investigation of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder. 
  • Are prescription drug insurance choices consistent with expected utility theory? 
  • Behavioral approach in ADHD: testing a motivational dysfunction hypothesis. 
  • Behaviour change strategies for reducing blood pressure-related disease burden: findings from a global implementation research programme. 
  • Bridging two worlds that care about art: psychological and historical approaches to art appreciation. 
  • Cognitive patterns in symptomatic and remitted unipolar major depression. 
  • Cognitive therapy of depression and suicide. 
  • Collectivism and the meaning of suffering. 
  • Compensatory rationalizations and the resolution of everyday undeserved outcomes. 
  • Contextual social-cognitive mediators and child outcome: a test of the theoretical model in the Coping Power program. 
  • Cultural Learning Redux. 
  • Developing a school functioning index for middle schools. 
  • Development and validation of the social information processing application: a Web-based measure of social information processing patterns in elementary school-age boys. 
  • Distinguishing Intrapsychic From Interpersonal Motives in Psychological Theory and Research. 
  • Effects of methylphenidate on sensitivity to reinforcement in children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an application of the matching law. 
  • Effort for payment. A tale of two markets. 
  • Evaluating Suicide Risk Using the Reasons for Dying-Reasons for Living (RFD-RFL) Index in a Military Psychiatric Inpatient Setting. 
  • Explicit and implicit cognition: a preliminary test of a dual-process theory of cognitive vulnerability to depression. 
  • Fairness heuristic theory is an empirical framework: a reply to Arnadóttir. 
  • Further explorations of medical decisions for individuals and for groups. 
  • Group social context and children's aggressive behavior. 
  • High-maintenance interaction: inefficient social coordination impairs self-regulation. 
  • Hope against the cold: individual differences in trait hope and acute pain tolerance on the cold pressor task. 
  • How actions create--not just reveal--preferences. 
  • Immediacy versus anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: a test of the cognitive hypothesis. 
  • Interval timing: memory, not a clock. 
  • John Henryism, Gender and Self-reported Health Among Roma/Gypsies in Serbia. 
  • Latent inhibition in the conditioned electrodermal response. 
  • Lateral inhibition and attention: comments on the neuropsychological theory of Walley and Weiden. 
  • Leighton's theory of sentiments: explorations and speculations on barriers to interpersonal forgiveness. 
  • Longitudinal dimensionality of adolescent psychopathology: testing the differentiation hypothesis. 
  • Managing uncertainty: a grounded theory of stigma in transgender health care encounters. 
  • Mechanisms of change in dialectical behavior therapy: theoretical and empirical observations. 
  • Missing links: the case for a social psychology of the life course. 
  • Natural categories or fundamental dimensions: on carving nature at the joints and the rearticulation of psychopathology. 
  • Out of the black box: expansion of a theory-based intervention to self-manage the uncertainty associated with active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer. 
  • Paradigms, promises, and the potential of clinical psychology. 
  • Parents of children with eating disorders: developing theory-based health communication messages to promote caregiver well-being. 
  • Performance incentives and means: how regulatory focus influences goal attainment. 
  • Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: latest words on "life words". 
  • Positive affective processes underlie positive health behaviour change. 
  • Predicting intentions versus predicting behaviors: domestic violence prevention from a theory of reasoned action perspective. 
  • Progress toward a viable interface between social and clinical-counseling psychology. 
  • Psychoanalytic and cognitive therapies: a comparison of theory and tactics. 
  • Religion and medicine III: developing a theoretical model. 
  • Returning to roots: on social information processing and moral development. 
  • Self-Regulation and Psychopathology: Toward an Integrative Translational Research Paradigm. 
  • Self-control in action: implicit dispositions toward goals and away from temptations. 
  • Sense of humor, childhood cancer stressors, and outcomes of psychosocial adjustment, immune function, and infection. 
  • Sexual Minority Stress Theory: Remembering and Honoring the Work of Virginia Brooks. 
  • Single-suture craniosynostosis: a review of neurobehavioral research and theory. 
  • Social exchange and the developing syntax of moral orientation. 
  • Social support and coronary heart disease: epidemiologic evidence and implications for treatment. 
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism and blood pressure among African-Americans in the Jackson Heart Study 
  • Some methodological considerations in theory-based health behavior research. 
  • Structure-seeking as a psychological antecedent of beliefs about morality. 
  • The Refined Middle-Range Theory on Women's Leadership in Asian Culture. 
  • The concept of ego threat in social and personality psychology: is ego threat a viable scientific construct? 
  • The cost of self-protection: threat response and performance as a function of autonomous and controlled motivations. 
  • 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 function of self-esteem in terror management theory and sociometer theory: comment on Pyszczynski et al. (2004). 
  • The prospective relation between dimensions of anxiety and the initiation of adolescent alcohol use. 
  • Transactive goal dynamics. 
  • Translational science in action: hostile attributional style and the development of aggressive behavior problems. 
  • Using effort-reward imbalance theory to understand high rates of depression and anxiety among clergy. 
  • Using self-reported callous-unemotional traits to cross-nationally assess the DSM-5 'With Limited Prosocial Emotions' specifier. 
  • Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the determinants of exercise intention in patients diagnosed with primary brain cancer. 
  • Vulnerability genes or plasticity genes? 
  • When context is and isn't helpful: A corpus study of naturalistic speech. 
  • Why does social exclusion hurt? The relationship between social and physical pain. 
  • Why some groups just feel better: the regulatory fit of group power. 
  • Word frequency effects at brief exposure durations: comment on Paap and Johansen (1994). 
  • Working memory as internal attention: toward an integrative account of internal and external selection processes. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society