University Author Recognition Bibliography: 2010 - 2011 Copyright (c) 2013 Boise State University All rights reserved. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/uar2010_2011 Recent documents in University Author Recognition Bibliography: 2010 - 2011 en-us Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:44:51 PST 3600 Does Emotional Disclosure About Stress Improve Health in Rheumatoid Arthritis? Randomized, Controlled Trials of Written and Spoken Disclosure http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/uar2010_2011/4 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/uar2010_2011/4 Wed, 02 May 2012 15:49:44 PDT Studies of the effects of disclosing stressful experiences among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have yielded inconsistent findings, perhaps due to different disclosure methods—writing or speaking—and various methodological limitations. We randomized adults with RA to a writing (n = 88) or speaking (to a recorder) sample (n = 93), and within each sample, to either disclosure or one of two control groups (positive or neutral events), which conducted 4, 20-minute, at-home sessions. Follow-up evaluations at 1, 3, and 6 months included self-reported, behavioral, physiological, and blinded physician-assessed outcomes. In both writing and speaking samples, the disclosure and control groups were comparably credible, and the linguistic content differed as expected. Covariance analyses at each follow-up point indicated that written disclosure had minimal effects compared to combined controls—only pain was reduced at 1 and 6 months, but no other outcomes improved. Spoken disclosure led to faster walking speed at 3 months, and reduced pain, swollen joints, and physician-rated disease activity at 6 months, but there were no effects on other outcomes. Latent growth curve modeling examined differences in the trajectory of change over follow-ups. Written disclosure improved affective pain and walking speed; spoken disclosure showed only a marginal benefit on sensory pain. In both analyses, disclosure’s few benefits occurred relative to both positive and neutral control groups. We conclude that both written and spoken disclosure have modest benefits for patients with RA, particularly at 6 months, but these effects are limited in scope and consistency.

]]> Alison M. Radcliffe Humans and Monkeys Exert Metacognitive Control Based on Learning Difficulty in a Perceptual Categorization Task http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/uar2010_2011/3 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/uar2010_2011/3 Wed, 02 May 2012 15:44:43 PDT Recently, Redford (2010) found that monkeys seemed to exert metacognitive control in a category-learning paradigm. Specifically, they selected more trials to view as the difficulty of the category-learning task increased. However, category-learning difficulty was determined by manipulating the family resemblance across the to-be-learned exemplars. Although this effectively influenced the learning difficulty, difficulty was confounded with novelty. For instance, a weak family resemblance made category learning difficult, but also increased the amount of perceptual change from trial to trial. The current research rules out novelty in favor of difficulty by manipulating the number of dots involved in the dot distortions while controlling the amount of perceptual change.

]]> Joshua Redford An Eclectic Collage - Volume 2: Relationships of Life http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/uar2010_2011/1 http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/uar2010_2011/1 Wed, 02 May 2012 15:32:51 PDT "An Eclectic Collage Volume 2: Relationships of Life" is the second collection written by the women of the Pixie Chicks Writers' Group.

Poems by Sharon Brown:

  • Beware the Gilded Arrow
  • I Would if I Could
  • Maybe Tomorrow
  • Memories of a Mermaid
  • Swimming in Azure Skies
  • This Time I Want More

Short essay by Susan Emerson:

  • A Foreign Encounter

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