Studies have shown that individuals’ choice of a life partner predicts their life outcomes, from their relationship satisfaction to their career success. The present study examined whether the reach of one’s spouse extends even further, to the ultimate life outcome: mortality. A dyadic survival analysis using a representative sample of elderly couples (N = 4,374)…
We used latent growth curve modeling to examine the effectiveness of a relationship education intervention (Relationship U, or RU) on rates of extradyadic involvement in a sample of 380 college students in committed romantic relationships. RU is designed to be integrated into existing college courses; it educates students about partner selection, making healthy relationship transitions,…
When lifting an object, it takes time to decide how heavy it is. How does this weight judgment develop? To answer this question, we examined when visual size information has to be present to induce a size-weight illusion. We found that a short glimpse (200 ms) of size information is sufficient to induce a size-weight…
Communion and agency are often described as core human values. In adults, these values predict gendered role preferences. Yet little work has examined the extent to which young boys and girls explicitly endorse communal and agentic values and whether early gender differences in values predict boys’ and girls’ different role expectations. In a sample of…
Examine adolescent mental health disorders related to substance abuse.
Explore relationship changes that occur in adolescence (parental, friendships and romantic) and which of these are occurring for the fictitious adolescent in the scenario you have developed Assess the influence of social environments relevant to adolescence to include the role of family, peers, culture, school, work, media, and community. Discuss the connection between physical well…
Classical conditioning refers to a system of learning by which a conditional stimulus is associated with an unrelated unconditioned stimulus for the intention of producing a behavioral response called a conditioned response (McSweeney & Murphy, 2014). Eyephone has facets that encourage attention, effective response, and behavioral approaches simultaneously, hence very influential to consumers’ buying attitude…
Attitude consists of the non-observable components of why people engage in given behaviors. Primarily, the psychological characteristics define what people are (Aronson et al., 2019). For instance, in the case of Julie, she is addicted to smoking. Besides, she has also formed a positive attitude towards running to be in shape. Thus, she is experiencing…
Describe the applications of psychology
Write an essay of at least 500 words discussing how database auditing and monitoring fit within a SOX compliance framework.