Sentences with phrase «psychological mechanisms underlying»

This paper reviews the literature on psychological mechanisms underlying human fertility.

Understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying human fertility may illuminate the final processes by which some of these known predictors have their influence.

Cultural, ecological, familial and physiological factors consistently influence fertility behaviours, however, the proximate psychological mechanisms underlying fertility decisions in humans are poorly understood.

To date, research into the psychological mechanisms underlying fertility has been fragmented.

However, the relationship between PPFDM and fear did not vary in relation to risk situation, perpetrator gender, or crime type, suggesting that the psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between perceived risk of victimisation and PPFDM are general in nature.

Researchers generally posit two psychological mechanisms underlying conformity: (1) people's desire to adopt the majority position so as to feel liked and accepted or believe they share the prevailing opinions of their community (i.e., social acceptance); and (2) people learn from the «wisdom of crowds,» or assume that other people did the research so their collective wisdom indicates something about the quality of the candidate or platform (i.e., social learning).

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Among the key topics are research on the underlying mechanisms and etiologies of psychological health and dysfunction; basic and applied work on the diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and prevention of mental illness; service delivery; and promotion of well - being.

That, in turn, reduces our cognitive capacity («the psychological mechanisms that underlie our ability to solve problems, retain information, engage in logical reasoning, and so on») and our executive control («our ability to manage our cognitive activities, including planning, attention, initiating, and inhibiting actions, and controlling impulses».

As these alleles have been associated with differences in psychological functioning, it suggests that incorporation of genetic variability into models of cross-cultural psychological differences may help elucidate the mechanisms underlying these differences.

Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased stress directly related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.

The promise of a new generation of therapies targeted to address neurobiological mechanisms thought to underlie psychological disorders, particularly depression, using cognitive and behavioral techniques is discussed.

However, in natural experiments, multiple environmental factors tend to change simultaneously (e.g. mortality, morbidity, resource scarcity and distribution of kin), making it difficult to isolate causal relationships, or describe the underlying psychological mechanisms.

These studies are useful in highlighting factors that may influence the underlying psychological mechanisms of human fertility; however, they can only hint at causal relationships.

In line with the RDoC framework, the goal of this review is to integrate recent findings on common underlying risk mechanisms that transcend across comorbid psychological disorders.