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Watch Out for the Beast: Fear Information and Attentional Bias in Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Although valenced information about novel animals changes the implicit and explicit fear beliefs of children (Field & Lawson, 2003), how it might lead to anxiety is unknown.
Andy P. Field   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical-Historical Review of Program Evaluation and the Emerging Motif ‘Evaluation Science’

open access: yesJournal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2020
Background: It is important to distinguish between evaluation as an inherent, automatic, affective process and Program Evaluation (Evaluation, with capitalised ‘E’) as an institution, and equally important to consider what a good understanding of ...
William James Fear
doaj   +1 more source

Inducing Fear [PDF]

open access: yesEthical Theory and Moral Practice, 2020
This paper offers an ethical consideration of how fear can be a tool of agents, used to deliberately shift people away from existing beliefs, commitments, or habits, or towards new ones. It contends that properly understanding the ethical dimensions of such uses of fear depends in part on a clear understanding of the dynamics of disorientation that can
openaire   +2 more sources

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: a prospective paradigm to test Rachman's indirect pathways in children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Rachman's theory [The conditioning theory of fear insition: a critical examination. Behav. Res. Ther. 15 (1977) 375–387] of fear acquisition suggests that fears and phobias can be acquired through three pathways: direct conditioning, vicarious learning ...
Ajzen   +56 more
core   +1 more source

Fear, anxiety, and boredom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Phenomenology's central insight is that affectivity is not an inconsequential or contingent characteristic of human existence. Emotions, moods, sentiments, and feelings are not accidents of human existence. They do not happen to happen to us.
Elpidorou, Andreas, Freeman, Lauren
core   +1 more source

Patient‐Level Barriers and Facilitators to Inpatient Physical Therapy in Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hematological Malignancy: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for cryptococcal meningitis in immunocompetent

open access: yesIDCases, 2020
Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis (CM) is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in immunocompromised patients estimating 650,000 deaths each year.
Roshan Acharya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Don't fear 'fear conditioning'

open access: yesNeuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017
The so-called 'replicability crisis' has sparked methodological discussions in many areas of science in general, and in psychology in particular. This has led to recent endeavours to promote the transparency, rigour, and ultimately, replicability of research.
Lonsdorf, Tina B.   +22 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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