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The relationship of school performance with self-control and grit is strongly genetic and weakly causal

npj Science of Learning, 2023
The non-cognitive skills self-control and grit are often considered predictors of school performance, but whether this relationship is causal remains unclear. We investigated the causality of this association using a twin design.
Sofieke T. Kevenaar, Elsje van Bergen, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Dorret I. Boomsma, Conor V. Dolan   +4 more
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Perspectiva histórica de la psicología de la motivación

Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana, 2008
The psychology of motivation has a long tradition and history in psychology. In fact, we consider that, to a certain extent, understanding the history of the psychology of motivation is understanding great part of which has been psychology itself, since ...
Amparo Carpi, Cristina Guerrero, Consolación Gómez, Francisco Palmero   +3 more
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The ventromedial prefrontal cortex in response to threat omission is associated with subsequent explicit safety memory

Scientific Reports
In order to memorize and discriminate threatening and safe stimuli, the processing of the actual absence of threat seems crucial. Here, we measured brain activity with fMRI in response to both threat conditioned stimuli and their outcomes by combining ...
Julian Wiemer, Franziska Leimeister, Matthias Gamer, Paul Pauli   +3 more
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The association between metabolite concentrations and wellbeing in adults

Scientific Reports
The biological complexity of wellbeing is studied from various perspectives, including genetics and epigenetics. However, there is a knowledge gap concerning other layers, such as metabolomics, which is dynamic and changes throughout life.
Natalia Azcona-Granada, Anne J. M. R. Geijsen, René Pool, Dirk H. M. Pelt, Meike Bartels   +4 more
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Infants are superior in implicit crossmodal learning and use other learning mechanisms than adults

eLife, 2017
During development internal models of the sensory world must be acquired which have to be continuously adapted later. We used event-related potentials (ERP) to test the hypothesis that infants extract crossmodal statistics implicitly while adults learn ...
Sophie Rohlf, Boukje Habets, Marco von Frieling, Brigitte Röder   +3 more
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Associations between subjective well-being and subcortical brain volumes

Scientific Reports, 2017
To study the underpinnings of individual differences in subjective well-being (SWB), we tested for associations of SWB with subcortical brain volumes in a dataset of 724 twins and siblings.
D. Van ‘t Ent, A. den Braber, B. M. L. Baselmans, R. M. Brouwer, C. V. Dolan, H. E. Hulshoff Pol, E. J. C. de Geus, M. Bartels   +7 more
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Causal Interactive Links Between Presence and Fear in Virtual Reality Height Exposure

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Virtual reality plays an increasingly important role in research and therapy of pathological fear. However, the mechanisms how virtual environments elicit and modify fear responses are not yet fully understood.
Daniel Gromer, Max Reinke, Isabel Christner, Paul Pauli, Paul Pauli   +4 more
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Obesity biological and psychological aspect

Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2005
There is no unique pattern to deal with obesity unless is presented as complex of biological and psychological factors. A lot of studies deal with only one side of it. This work shows both sides and discusses about all relevant factors, which are involved in pathogenesis of obesity.
openaire   +4 more sources

Overlapping genetic influences between creativity and borderline personality symptoms in a large Dutch sample

Scientific Reports
Creativity and mental disorders are sometimes seen as intertwined, but research is still unclear on whether, how much, and why. Here we explore the potential role of shared genetic factors behind creativity and symptoms of borderline personality disorder
Natalia Azcona-Granada, Gonneke Willemsen, Dorret I. Boomsma, Bruno Sauce   +3 more
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Corrigendum to "Impact of serotonergic medication on interoception in major depressive disorder" [Biological Psychology 169 (2022),108286]. [PDF]

Biol Psychol, 2022
Burrows K, DeVille DC, Cosgrove KT, Kuplicki RT, Tulsa 1000 Investigators, Paulus MP, Aupperle R, Khalsa SS, Stewart JL.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source