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Do Voters Reject Gay Candidates? Partisanship, the Far-Right, and the Electoral Effect of Candidate Sexual Orientation in Latin America
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In recent years, LGBT rights and candidacies have expanded in Latin America. Some argue such progress may provoke a conservative reaction. Do voters punish gay candidates? To answer this, we conducted survey experiments in Argentina, Chi...
Publication · June 26, 2026
Novelty-facilitated extinction: Providing a novel outcome in place of an expected threat diminishes recovery of defensive responses
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Background Experimental extinction serves as a model for psychiatric treatments based on associative learning. However, the effects of extinction are often transient, as evidenced by post-extinction return of defensive behaviors. From a...
Publication · June 26, 2026
Investigating well-learned habits and their disruption as a function of ADHD symptom severity
Publication · June 26, 2026
Habit Expression and Disruption as a Function of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptomology
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with neurobehavioral reward system dysfunctions that pose debilitating impairments in adaptive decision-making. A candidate mechanism for such anomalies in ADHD may be a comp...
Publication · June 26, 2026
Effects of Expressive Writing on Neural Processing During Learning
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Expressive writing about past negative events has been shown to lead to a slew of positive outcomes. However, little is known about why writing about something negative would have positive effects. While some have posited that telling a...
Publication · June 26, 2026
The neurobehavioral mechanisms of motivational control in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) poses debilitating impairments in the neurobehavioral systems governing reward-related processes-key to the control of motivated behaviors. Individuals with ADHD may rely on a motivational...
Publication · June 26, 2026
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