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Generalization across Modalities of Expressive and Receptive Language Acquisition through the Use of Multiple Exemplar Training and Errorless Teaching
(2016-06)Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to display deficits with language acquisition and generalization of language skills after acquisition. Discrete trial teaching (DTT) includes general procedures used to ... -
"Get on the Line": Improving Pass-Naming in Collegiate Women's Lacrosse Using Negative Reinforcement and Signaling
(2018-07)This study examined the separate and combined effects of negative reinforcement and signaling to improve the athletic performance of college athletes. Eleven female varsity lacrosse players who attended a private college ... -
Give and Take: Validity, Personality Profiling, and Individual Success
(2017-06)This research addresses two critical aspects of organizational performance: (1) identification of individuals who have the potential to become the organization’s greatest assets and (2) identification of individuals who ... -
Global Mindset: Examining the critical components for successful global leadership decision-making
(2016-11)While global leadership is not very well defined, it is well accepted that working in a global environment is complex and fraught with difficulty. The complexity of the global environment presents unique challenges for ... -
The Gritty Black Single Mother: Protective Factors and the Influence of Black Single Mother's Grit on Young Adult Outcomes
(2017-12)Over the span of decades, literature has highlighted that offspring from Black Single Maternal Caregiver Households (BSMCH) will experience negative outcomes, including academic deficits and psychological distress, as a ... -
Health Behaviors Contributing to Overall Perceived Health, Mental and Physical Health Status, and Functional Impairment in Psychologists and Trainees
(2017-01)This study investigated the health behaviors and overall perceived health among psychologists and psychology trainees. Results revealed significant correlations between overall perceived health and physical activity, ... -
Health Risk Perceptions Regarding Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) and Secondhand Exposure Behaviors Among U.S. Student Military Veterans
(2020-03)Student veterans are at high risk for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use and for exposing others to secondhand vape. This study examined student veterans’ health risk perceptions of ENDS use and their ... -
How Shared Leadership Improves Team Performance: Exploring the Role of Team Knowledge and Team Learning
(2016-08)Team-structured work is prevalent in organizations and the effectiveness of teams greatly depends on the leadership enacted. Ample studies have supported the utility of a more fluid team structure where leadership is the ... -
Identifying as Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual at Work: Implications of Disclosure Within Work Teams
(2018-07)As is the case for members of any stigmatized minority group, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals face heightened adversity within the workplace (Herek, 2009). However, unlike employees with stigmatized identities ... -
Illegitimate Tasks and Employee Silence: A Moderated Mediation Model
(2018-07)This study investigated the relationship between illegitimate tasks and employee silence and examined the mediating role of job engagement and the moderating effect of agreeableness and conscientiousness. Grounded in justice ... -
The Impact of Alcohol-Related Consequences on Alcohol Use Behaviors
(2019-10)Objectives: Primary objectives of the present study include (1) exploring the impact of alcohol-related consequences on current drinking behaviors, and (2) examining perceptions of consequences and their relationship to ... -
The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Adulthood Eating Disorders: When Healthy Eating Becomes Unhealthy
(2020-11)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; 2020c) estimated that approximately 3.7 million children experience childhood sexual abuse (CSA) every year in the United States. CSA is a significant issue associated ... -
The Impact of Culturally Different Types of Faking on Test Properties
(2019-12)Personality measures have become a key component of the human capital strategies of organizations (Hough & Oswald, 2008). Multinationals often conduct employee selection across countries, and opportunities have expanded ... -
The Impact of Relational Training of Preferred Food and Non-Preferred Food to Arbitrary Symbols on Implicit Relational Tasks
(2015-05)The Mixed-Trial Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (MT-IRAP) is a tool for measuring implicit behavior (i.e., biases or beliefs the individual is unaware of or intends to conceal from the public) among individuals. ... -
The Impact of Social Desirability on an Individual's Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP) Score
(2018-10)The Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction (SAPP), developed by Miller (2000), was derived from the 16PF and purports to measure an individual’s ability to accurately assess his or her own self-knowledge. The scores ... -
Implementation of Behavior Skills Training via Telehealth to Teach Pre-Session Pairing to Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2021-07)This study aimed to extend the literature on training procedures used in telehealth and extend the literature on caregiver training. This study utilized a multiple-baseline design to implement behavior skills training to ... -
Implementing an Abbreviated Assessment to Compare Error-Correction Procedures for Teaching Intraverbal Behavior to Children
(2019-12)Young children with Autism (ASD) often have difficulty responding appropriately to questions asked by their peers, parents, or teachers. Teaching intraverbal behavior using Discrete Trial Instruction (DTI) has shown ... -
Increasing Employee-Guest Interactions using a Guest-Delivered Token Economy at a Zoological Facility
(2018-04)Token economies have been used for many years to improve a multitude of behaviors in a variety of settings. However, research on token economies as an intervention to improve customer service-related behaviors of employees ... -
Increasing Transgender-Inclusive Behaviors Via Self-Monitoring
(2021-05)Within behavior analysis there is an increasing demand for research to create inclusive organizational cultures. To create a culture of inclusion, it is necessary to engage in inclusive behaviors towards individuals of ... -
Individual and Social Factors Related to Perceptions of Rape
(2018-03)Ninety-two men, including twenty pairs of male friends, completed a series of self-report measures that sought to measure their levels of rape myth acceptance and asked men to estimate their friend’s level of rape myth ...