Most-Cited CPS Articles as of February 2015
Novel Models for Delivering Mental Health Services and Reducing the Burdens of Mental Illness Using Mechanical Turk to Study Clinical Populations
Enhancing Autobiographical Memory Specificity Through Cognitive Training: An Intervention for Depression Translated From Basic Science
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The Structure of Psychopathology in Adolescence: Replication of a General Psychopathology Factor in the TRAILS Study
Odilia M. Laceulle, Wilma A. M. Vollebergh, and Johan Ormel
In 2013, Caspi and colleagues found evidence for the existence of a general factor underlying all symptoms of psychopathology. In this study, Laceulle and colleagues attempted to replicate the earlier findings in a large sample of Dutch adolescents who were part of the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey. Self- and parent-report measures of behavioral and psychiatric problems were collected from the children and their parents when the children were between the ages of 11 and 19. Using confirmatory factor analysis to test four models used in the original study, the authors of the replication found that the data were best characterized by a model including a general psychopathology factor, a finding similar to that of Caspi and colleagues.
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Robert D. Latzman, Laura E. Drislane, Lisa K. Hecht, Sarah J. Brislin, Christopher J. Patrick, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Hani J. Freeman, Steven J. Schapiro, and William D. Hopkins
Although psychopathy has traditionally been studied in forensic samples, researchers are now beginning to also study these tendencies in the general population, viewing them as dispositions that vary continuously within humans and, perhaps, other species. In several studies, Latzman and colleagues sought to establish a scale measure of psychopathic characteristics in chimpanzees based on the triarchic model, which characterizes psychopathy as being comprised of the constructs of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. They selected candidate items from current primate personality measures and refined them into scales. They then examined convergent and discriminant associations between this new measure and triarchic measures used in human populations. Finally, they validated the measure by examining scale associations with approach-avoidance and delay of gratification behaviors in chimpanzees.
Scott O. Lilienfeld will be speaking in the APS-STP session "What Do Psychological Misconceptions Tell Us About How Students Think?" at the 27th APS Annual Convention in New York, NY, USA.
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Jane Mendle, Sarah R. Moore, Daniel A. Briley, and K. Paige Harden
In this study, the authors examined the interactions between genetic and environmental factors underlying the associations between pubertal timing, socioeconomic status (SES), and depression using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Six hundred and thirty female twin and sibling pairs were assessed between 1994 and 2008 for their ages at menarche, symptoms of depression, and SES. Genetic predisposition toward an earlier menarche was associated with increased depressive symptoms in girls from high-SES backgrounds. Depression in girls from low-SES backgrounds did not seem to be connected to timing of development through either a genetic or an environmental path, suggesting that the link between pubertal timing and depression may be more complicated than is currently assumed.
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Laura E. Knouse, Katherine A. Rawson, Kalif E. Vaughn, and John Dunlosky
Studies have shown that retrieval testing (i.e., practice testing) enhances long-term retention more than a similar amount of restudying does -- a phenomenon called the testing effect. However, surprisingly few of these studies have investigated the testing effect in students who might struggle with learning, such as those with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Undergraduate students with and without ADHD learned two lists of words. One list was learned using four alternating study and test trials, and the other list was learned using eight study trials. When the students were tested on the words 2 days later, the researchers found that students with and without ADHD showed test effects of similar magnitude, indicating that practice testing may be useful for improving learning for ADHD students in real-world classroom settings.
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Stress-Induced Changes in Executive Control Are Associated With Depression Symptoms: Examining the Role of Rumination
Meghan E. Quinn and Jutta Joormann
Research has indicated that deficits in executive control may underlie problems dealing with stress, which have been linked to the development of depression. Many studies that have examined executive control have focused on trait measures, but fewer studies have examined executive control changes in the face of stressful events. Participants completed measures of executive control (an N-back task) before and after performing a stress-inducing speech taskand an arithmetic task. Participants also completed self-report measures of depression and rumination. The researchers found that poorer performance on the N-back task after the stressor was associated with higher levels of depression symptoms, but only for participants with high levels of brooding (a subtype of rumination). These results hint that depression may arise from the inability to effectively cope with stressful life events, a topic in need of further study.
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