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Psychology
**-Lin Wang
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No Association of the YWHAE Gene with Schizophrenia, Major Depressive Disorder or Bipolar Disorder in the Han Chinese Population
YWHAE is a gene encoding 14-3-3epsilon, which is highly conserved across species, from bacteria to humans, and binds to phosphoserine/phosphothreonine motifs in a sequence-specific manner. YWHAE has been reported...
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Antecedents of Chinese Parents’ Autonomy Support and Psychological Control: The Interplay Between Parents’ Self-Development Socialization Goals and Adolescents’ School Performance
Despite ample evidence for the benefits of parental autonomy support and the harms of parental psychological control to Chinese adolescents’ well-being, little is known about what foreshadows these parenting b...
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HIV Infection and Sexual Behaviors Among Non-Commercial Men Who Have Sex with Men at Different Venues
The prevalence of HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM) has increased rapidly in China. Previous studies suggested that some venue-specific characteristics could significantly affect MSM’s sexual...
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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence processing
In the present study, we aimed to examine how the emotionality of words influences online sentence processing—specifically, the influence of emotional words on the processing of following words in sentences. W...
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The processing difference between person names and common nouns in sentence contexts: an ERP study
Person names and common nouns differ in how they are stored in the mental lexicon. Using event-related potentials, this study compared the integration of names and nouns into sentence contexts. Both person nam...
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Regional Cortical Surface Area in Adolescents: A Preliminary MRI Twin Study of Genetic and Environmental Contributions
Cortical surface area (CSA) has particular relevance for understanding development, behavior, and the connection between brain structure and function. Little is known about genetic and environmental determinan...
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The dynamic influence of emotional words on sentence comprehension: An ERP study
In the present study, we explored the influence of emotional words on the semantic integration of their following neutral nouns during sentence comprehension. We manipulated the emotionality of verbs and the s...
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Neural correlates of three cognitive processes involved in theory of mind and discourse comprehension
Neuroimaging studies have found that theory of mind (ToM) and discourse comprehension involve similar brain regions. These brain regions may be associated with three cognitive components that are necessarily o...
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Gender Difference in the Association Between Executive Function and Autistic Traits in Typically Develo** Children
Autistic traits and executive function (EF) were assessed in 413 typically develo** children aged 6–9 years. The children were divided into the high- autistic-trait (HAT) and low-autistic-trait (LAT) groups ...
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Cyberbullying Victimization and Perpetration in Adolescents with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: Correlations with Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidality
The present study examined the associations between cyberbullying involvement and sociodemographic characteristics, autistic social impairment and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defi...
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Open AccessEstablishing a role for the visual complexity of linguistic stimuli in age-related reading difficulty: Evidence from eye movements during Chinese reading
Older adults experience greater difficulty compared to young adults during both alphabetic and nonalphabetic reading. However, while this age-related reading difficulty may be attributable to visual and cognit...
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Gender affects understanding kind and hostile intentions based on dyadic body movements
Understanding kind and hostile communicative intentions that are conveyed by others is essential for successful human interaction. However, it still remains unknown whether gender differences exist in understa...
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Trait Emotional Intelligence and Young Adolescents’ Positive and Negative Affect: The Mediating Roles of Personal Resilience, Social Support, and Prosocial Behavior
While trait emotional intelligence (EI) has been found to be related to young adolescents’ affect, the underlying mechanisms need to be further explored. Previous findings are also limited by common method pro...
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Flexible parafoveal encoding of character order supports word predictability effects in Chinese reading: Evidence from eye movements
Several eye-movement studies have revealed flexibility in the parafoveal processing of character-order information in Chinese reading. In particular, studies show that processing a two-character word in a sent...
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Personality Traits and Individual Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage: Evidence from Taiwan
While same-sex marriage has been a particularly salient issue in recent years in Taiwan, few scholarly attentions have been paid to examine the determinants of individual attitudes toward same-sex marriage. Th...
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Mindfulness meditation alters neural activity underpinning working memory during tactile distraction
Evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation (MM) improves selective attention and reduces distractibility by enhancing top-down neural modulation. Altered P300 and alpha neural activity from MM have been ide...
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The promotive effects of peer support and active co** in relation to negative life events and depression in Chinese adolescents at boarding schools
Mental health issues among Chinese adolescents in boarding schools have attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. Our study was to examine the relationship between negative life events and depres...
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Open AccessThe influence of semantic relevance on the discernment of product appearance and function
This study investigated the impact of semantic relevance on the ability to comprehend the appearance and function of a product, as presented in images.
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Cortisol Reactivity as a Mediator of Peer Victimization on Child Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: The Role of Gender Differences
Children exposed to peer victimization are at increased risk for psychopathology. However, the physiological mechanisms linking peer victimization to child psychopathology and the potential gender differences ...
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In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful...
