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Learning Objectives, Insights, and Assessments: How Specification Formats Impact Design [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Despite the ubiquity of communicative visualizations, specifying communicative intent during design is ad hoc. Whether we are selecting from a set of visualizations, commissioning someone to produce them, or creating them ourselves, an effective way of specifying intent can help guide this process.
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The effects of verbal information on children's fear beliefs about social situations [PDF]
, 2007 Two experiments explored the role of verbal information in changing children’s fearrelated beliefs about social situations. In Experiment 1, 118 6- to 8- and 12- to 13-year-olds heard positive, negative, or no information about individuals’ experiences ...
Andy P. Field +41 more
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Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 2012 OBJECTIVE: Specific phobia (SP) is characterized by irrational fear associated with avoidance of specific stimuli. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques have been used in an attempt to better understand the neurobiology of anxiety disorders.
Ila M.P Linares +5 more
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Assessing Social Anxiety Disorder : Psychometric Properties of the Italian Social Phobia Inventory (I-SPIN) [PDF]
, 2013 Social Phobia, one of the most common psychological disorders, can cause serious discomfort and impairment in a person’s life. The importance of assessing the specific features of this disorder is well-known.
Craparo, Giuseppe +6 more
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Neural substrates of defensive reactivity in two subtypes of specific phobia.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2014 Depending on threat proximity, different defensive behaviours are mediated by a descending neural network involving forebrain (distal threat) vs midbrain areas (proximal threat).
U. Lueken +5 more
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Robust protein-protein interactions in crowded cellular environments [PDF]
, 2007 The capacity of proteins to interact specifically with one another underlies our conceptual understanding of how living systems function. Systems-level study of specificity in protein-protein interactions is complicated by the fact that the cellular environment is crowded and heterogeneous; interaction pairs may exist at low relative concentrations and
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A meta-analysis of pharmacotherapy for social anxiety disorder: an examination of efficacy, moderators, and mediators [PDF]
, 2017 INTRODUCTION: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is among the most prevalent mental disorders, associated with impaired functioning and poor quality of life. Pharmacotherapy is the most widely utilized treatment option.
Borenstein M +8 more
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Enhanced discriminative fear learning of phobia-irrelevant stimuli in spider-fearful individuals
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 Avoidance is considered as a central hallmark of all anxiety disorders. The acquisition and expression of avoidance which leads to the maintenance and exacerbation of pathological fear is closely linked to Pavlovian and operant conditioning processes ...
Carina eMosig +7 more
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arXiv, 2014 Virtual Reality is used successfully to treat people for regular phobias. A new challenge is to develop Virtual Reality Exposure Training for social skills. Virtual actors in such systems have to show appropriate social behavior including emotions, gaze, and keeping distance. The behavior must be realistic and real-time.
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Its All on the Square- The Importance of the Sum of Squares and Making the General Linear Model Simple [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Statistics is one of the most valuable of disciplines. Science is based on proof and it alone produces results, other approaches are not, and do not. Statistics is the only acceptable language of proof in science. Yet statistics is difficult to understand for a large percentage of those who will be evaluating and even doing research.
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