A5004950557- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mind wandering and attention
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
University of Waterloo
2015-2023
Centre for Mental Health
2015
University of Oxford
2012
Researchers of mind wandering frequently assume that (a) participants are motivated to do well on the tasks they given, and (b) task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs) occur during task performance reflect unintentional, unwanted despite participants' best intentions maintain task-focus. Given relatively boring tedious nature most mind-wandering tasks, however, there is possibility some have little motivation such this lack might in turn result increases specifically intentional TUTs. In present...
Common and persistent fears may emerge through learning mechanisms such as fear conditioning generalisation. Although there have been extensive studies of these processes in healthy but also psychiatric samples, many the tasks used to produce assess generalisation either use painful aversive stimuli unconditioned (UCS), or suffer from poor belongingness between conditioned UCS. Here, we present novel data a paradigm designed examine individuals. Two female faces served threat cue (CS+)...
High-quality research in clinical psychology often depends on recruiting adequate samples of participants with formally diagnosed difficulties. This challenge is readily met within the context a large treatment center, but many researchers work academic settings that do not feature medical school, hospital connections, or an in-house clinic. article describes model we developed at University Waterloo Centre for Mental Health Research identifying and people from local communities diagnosable...