Research showing that activation of negative stereotypes can impair the performance of
stigmatized individuals on a wide variety of tasks has proliferated. However, a complete …

The Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA) provides a
psychophysiological framework for how athletes anticipate motivated performance …

Does the language people use to refer to the self during introspection influence how they
think, feel, and behave under social stress? If so, do these effects extend to socially anxious …

Members of high-status groups may perceive pro-diversity messages from organizations as
threatening to their group's status. Two initial studies (N= 322) demonstrate that when …

Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide
learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world." Serious games" is …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

Emotion modeling and recognition has drawn extensive attention from disciplines such as
psychology, cognitive science, and, lately, engineering. Although a significant amount of …

We propose a Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA) which is an
amalgamation and extension of the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat, the …

The biopsychosocial model (BPSM) of challenge and threat has evolved over the last
decade or so, becoming increasingly more complex as more evidence has accumulated …

Despite common findings suggesting that lack of negative life events should be optimal,
recent work has revealed a curvilinear pattern, such that some cumulative lifetime adversity …