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Psychology is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in psychology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for doctors and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in psychology related problems. All manuscripts must be prepare…
Maria Sinatra, Antonietta Curci, Valeria de Palo, Lucia Monacis, Giancarlo Tanucci
Depression is an independent risk factor of poor outcomes for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients. Perceived social support and alexithymia are psychosocial variables identified by previous studies as predictive of depression in normal controls and CKD pati…
Ofra Anson, Jenny Shteingrad, Ester Paran
The association between self-rated health and mortality has been well documented, but not completely understood. The purpose of this study was to search for the components of self-rated health among the elderly, drawing on the framework recently proposed by J…
Annette S. Kluck, Tracy O’Connor Pennuto, Kathrin Hartmann
Understanding the professional development needs of psychology interns is essential to maximize the utility of predoctoral internship training; yet, little research has explored the professional development training experiences interns receive. In Study 1, 27…
Takashi Mizuguchi, Ryoko Sugimura, Ryujiro Suzuki, Toshisada Deguchi
It has been proposed that imitation in children is strongly affected by goals extracted from others’ movements. More specifically, imitation-specific goal selection, or a tendency that movement outcomes, rather than means, are more likely to be selected as go…
Riichiro Ishida
Every person has a will to achieve meaning and purpose in life (PIL)/ikigai. According to previous studies, PIL/ikigai provides people with the ability to integrate stressful psychological events from the past, present, and future with less conflict or confus…
Wangbing Shen, Chang Liu, Yuan Yuan
As a direct part of these disciplines which focuses on human’s soul and mind, psychology has a history of more than one hundred years. However, there are still many people who have lots of doubts for psychology, especially on the division and integration of p…
Ana Isabel Masedo Gutiérrez, María Rosa Esteve Zarazaga, Stefaan Van Damme
The aim of this study was to investigate whether distraction is less effective when pain is perceived as threatening. Forty-one female undergraduate participants were assigned to distraction and not distraction conditions that consisted in performing a distra…
Richard Stephens, Nicola M. J. Edelstyn
Recent experiments investigating whether chewing gum enhances cognitive performance have shown mixed results and a recent replication failed to reproduce earlier findings. The present experiment aimed to investigate whether participant individual differences…
Scott Perkins, H. Russell Searight, Susan Ratwik
Previous research has suggested that exposure to outdoor surroundings is associated with improved attention and concentration among children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). This effect has been attributed to the impact of exposure to “g…
Mauro Maldonato, Silvia Dell’ Orco
Without human beings’ ability to choose – and in such a way give order to a universe which, in the beginning, must have presented itself as a chaotic mass of data without clear structures and regularity – evolution would have been unthinkable, even more incon…
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Psychology is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in psychology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for doctors and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in psychology related problems. All manuscripts must be prepare… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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