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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 10

October 2018 - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,719 Views
19 Pages

Test–Retest Reliability of a Social Interaction Task

  • Ekaterina Merkulova,
  • Alexander Savostyanov,
  • Andrey Bocharov,
  • Ekaterina Proshina and
  • Gennady Knyazev

22 October 2018

Accurate repeatability of experimental data is the basis of professional scientific research. In this study we analyzed three consecutive experiments: The subjects had to complete a questionnaire three times under similar conditions within a 2–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,054 Views
16 Pages

Communication Surrounding Estrangement: Stereotypes, Attitudes, and (Non)Accommodation Strategies

  • Christine Rittenour,
  • Stephen Kromka,
  • Sara Pitts,
  • Margaret Thorwart,
  • Janelle Vickers and
  • Kaitlyn Whyte

20 October 2018

To address Americans’ general attitudes and behavioral intentions toward adult children who are estranged from their parents, the current study employed online survey data from 151 Americans recruited through Amazon MTurk. Their responses revea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,615 Views
14 Pages

17 October 2018

Two experiments were conducted to measure both the psychological and physiological effects of touching on the HPA axis related parts of the body. HPA stands for the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal. One experiment was conducted with a group of he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,910 Views
14 Pages

16 October 2018

Salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) influences the perception of taste and texture, features both relevant in acquiring food liking and, with time, food preference. However, no studies have yet investigated the relationship between basal activity levels of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,343 Views
13 Pages

Cellular Redox Imbalance and Neurochemical Effect in Cognitive-Deficient Old Rats

  • Maria Elena González-Fraguela,
  • Lisette Blanco-Lezcano,
  • Caridad Ivette Fernandez-Verdecia,
  • Teresa Serrano Sanchez,
  • Maria De los A. Robinson Agramonte and
  • Lidia Leonor Cardellá Rosales

13 October 2018

The purpose of the present study is to access the linkage between dysregulation of glutamatergic neurotransmission, oxidative metabolism, and serine signaling in age-related cognitive decline. In this work, we evaluated the effect of natural aging in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,240 Views
13 Pages

Relation of Structural and Functional Changes in Auditory and Visual Pathways after Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery

  • Margarita Minou Báez-Martín,
  • Lilia Maria Morales-Chacón,
  • Iván García-Maeso,
  • Bárbara Estupiñán-Díaz,
  • María Eugenia García-Navarro,
  • Yamila Pérez Téllez,
  • Lourdes Lorigados-Pedre,
  • Nelson Quintanal-Cordero,
  • Ricardo Valdés-Llerena and
  • Judith González González
  • + 7 authors

12 October 2018

Auditory and visual pathways may be affected as a consequence of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery because of their anatomical relationships with this structure. The purpose of this paper is to correlate the results of the auditory and visual evoked res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,452 Views
9 Pages

30 September 2018

This study hypothesized that moisturizing treatment of the skin has a positive effect on psychological and physiological aspects. In this experiment, the effect of touch with moisturizer for two minutes on the lower legs was measured in terms of brai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,360 Views
10 Pages

Gender Identity Development among Teenagers Living in the Subarctic Region of Russia

  • Natalia Flotskaya,
  • Svetlana Bulanova,
  • Maria Ponomareva,
  • Nikolay Flotskiy and
  • Tatiana Konopleva

29 September 2018

Gender identity is an important element of an individual’s identity and is one of the regulators of human behavior while acquiring social roles. The aim of this empirical research is to study gender identity development among teenagers living i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,665 Views
12 Pages

27 September 2018

Morbidly obese subjects have a high prevalence of comorbidity and gut microbial dysbiosis, and are thus suitable for the study of gut-brain interactions. The aim was to study the associations between the faecal microbiota’s composition and func...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,340 Views
9 Pages

22 September 2018

The chameleon can disguise itself in nature by taking on different colors and forms. As synthetic cannabinoids (SC) have clinically similar effects to those of several psychoactive agents, they are one of the most difficult intoxications to diagnose....

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