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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 1

January 2019 - 11 articles

Cover Story: Episodic future thinking (EFT), or the ability to prospectively imagine yourself at a future event, has been developed into an intervention to reduce delay discounting (DD), or the preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger future rewards, and to make healthier choices that promote long-term health rather than short term benefit. Most EFT interventions use EFT cues where the future events match the time delay of the DD task, which may limit their utility. In this study, the authors investigated whether there are differences in DD for groups that have EFT cues matched to the time-delays of the DD task in comparison to cues with unmatched temporal delays. No differences were found, suggesting that either the process of generating EFT cues or the use of any positive vivid future events, regardless of whether it is matched to the DD task, can reduce DD. View this paper
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Articles (11)

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,247 Views
12 Pages

15 January 2019

Recent research has distinguished between actual posttraumatic growth (PTG) and perceived PTG. We used a prospective research design to measure both actual and perceived PTG in an attempt to replicate and extend previous findings. We examined college...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,231 Views
19 Pages

The Brain Resting-State Functional Connectivity Underlying Violence Proneness: Is It a Reliable Marker for Neurocriminology? A Systematic Review

  • Ángel Romero-Martínez,
  • Macarena González,
  • Marisol Lila,
  • Enrique Gracia,
  • Luis Martí-Bonmatí,
  • Ángel Alberich-Bayarri,
  • Rebeca Maldonado-Puig,
  • Amadeo Ten-Esteve and
  • Luis Moya-Albiol

15 January 2019

Introduction: There is growing scientific interest in understanding the biological mechanisms affecting and/or underlying violent behaviors in order to develop effective treatment and prevention programs. In recent years, neuroscientific research has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
9,202 Views
11 Pages

14 January 2019

According to the minorities’ diminished returns (MDR) theory, socioeconomic status (SES) indicators such as education attainment have smaller protective effects on health risk behaviors for racial and ethnic minority groups in comparison to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,152 Views
12 Pages

Analysis of Sleep Macrostructure in Patients Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease

  • Justa Elizabeth González-Naranjo,
  • Maydelin Alfonso-Alfonso,
  • Daymet Grass-Fernandez,
  • Lilia María Morales-Chacón,
  • Ivón Pedroso-Ibáñez,
  • Yordanka Ricardo-de la Fe and
  • Arnoldo Padrón-Sánchez

8 January 2019

Patients diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease present sleep disorders with a higher frequency than the general population. The sleep architecture in these patients shows variations with respect to the normal population, so in this work it was dec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,087 Views
17 Pages

8 January 2019

This research revealed the children with difficulties in attentional functions among healthy children attending primary school and aimed to identify the possible sociodemographic factors, such as the child’s age, gender, and school grade, that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,831 Views
19 Pages

30 December 2018

Recording of team meeting’s processes with electronic devices can be problematic because of the invasiveness of the process: issues with privacy; interpretation difficulty with noise or quiet speech; and distortion of participants’ behavi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,185 Views
15 Pages

Erythropoietin Protects Against Cognitive Impairment and Hippocampal Neurodegeneration in Diabetic Mice

  • Manal A. M. Othman,
  • Ebrahim Rajab,
  • Ahmed AlMubarak,
  • Mohammed AlNaisar,
  • Noora Bahzad and
  • Amer Kamal

28 December 2018

Administration of erythropoietin (EPO) is neuroprotective against a variety of experimentally-induced neurological disorders. The aim was to determine if EPO protects against hippocampal neurodegeneration as well as impairment of cognition and motor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,186 Views
12 Pages

Stress and Heart Rate Variability during University Final Examination among Lebanese Students

  • Sabah Hammoud,
  • Rita Karam,
  • Rabih Mourad,
  • Iman Saad and
  • Mazen Kurdi

27 December 2018

Real-life stressors, such as university examination, cause an increase in sympathetic activity of the nervous system innervating the heart, and thus an increase in heart rate (HR). Our study aimed to detect changes in heart rate variability (HRV) dur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,463 Views
18 Pages

24 December 2018

How perceptual limits can be reduced has long been examined by psychologists. This study investigated whether visual cues, blindfolding, visual-auditory synesthetic experience, and musical training could facilitate a smaller frequency difference lime...

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