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    The rewarding nature of provocation-focused rumination in women with borderline personality disorder: a preliminary fMRI investigation

    Understanding why individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) ruminate on prior provocations, despite its negative outcomes, is crucial to improving interventions. Provocation-focused rumination may...

    Jessica R. Peters, David S. Chester in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotio… (2018)

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    Both Trait and State Mindfulness Predict Lower Aggressiveness via Anger Rumination: a Multilevel Mediation Analysis

    Trait mindfulness, or the capacity for nonjudgmental, present-centered attention, predicts lower aggression in cross-sectional samples, an effect mediated by reduced anger rumination. Experimental work also im...

    Tory A. Eisenlohr-Moul, Jessica R. Peters, Richard S. Pond Jr. in Mindfulness (2016)

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    The push of social pain: Does rejection’s sting motivate subsequent social reconnection?

    Physical pain motivates the healing of somatic injuries, yet it remains unknown whether social pain serves a similarly reparative function toward social injuries. Given the substantial overlap between physical...

    David S. Chester, C. Nathan DeWall in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neurosc… (2016)

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    The Perpetration of Abuse in Intimate Relationships: Does Religion Make a Difference?

    This chapter examines the relationship between religion and perpetration of intimate partner violence and abuse. The chapter opens with a brief overview of the problem, including several risk factors that have...

    Claire M. Renzetti, Amy Messer, C. Nathan DeWall in The Changing World Religion Map (2015)

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    Too dog tired to avoid danger: Self-control depletion in canines increases behavioral approach toward an aggressive threat

    This study investigated whether initial self-control exertion by dogs would affect behavioral approach toward an aggressive threat. Dogs were initially required to exert self-control (sit still for 10 min) or ...

    Holly C. Miller, C. Nathan DeWall, Kristina Pattison in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2012)

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    A Tale of Two Threats: Social Anxiety and Attention to Social Threat as a Function of Social Exclusion and Non-Exclusion Threats

    To attain and maintain social acceptance, people may attend to cues of possible social rejection or exclusion. Attention to such cues can be influenced by social anxiety. Two competing theories address social ...

    Julia D. Buckner, C. Nathan DeWall, Norman B. Schmidt in Cognitive Therapy and Research (2010)

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    Agency and Virtue: Dimensions Underlying Subgroups of Women

    Previous research indicates that the stereotype of women can be considered to have 3 subgroups: housewife, career woman, and sex object. In 2 samples (N = 19 and 35), we found evidence that these subgroups can be...

    T. William Altermatt, C. Nathan DeWall, Emily Leskinen in Sex Roles (2003)