The present study investigated how trait intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and individual task appraisal relate to the stress and performance of law enforcement students. Participants were recruited from Royal Canadian Mounted ...

People’s memory for faces varies greatly. Emotions and facial appearance are two factors that influence memory for faces. When emotions are associated with a face, that face is more memorable. However, the literature on ...

A region of the hippocampus—the subiculum—is involved in stress response regulation through indirectly inhibiting cortisol release; it has also been shown to play a role in perceptual discrimination, with greater amounts ...

Past research that has examined adult’s attention and memory for the animate/inanimate distinction has supported the animate monitoring hypothesis: that humans are predisposed to attend to and remember animate objects ...

Mindfulness theory focuses on purposefully acknowledging present mental and physical experiences with openness and acceptance. As such, mindfulness interventions have been effective in alleviating symptoms of anxiety and ...

It has been estimated that Indigenous people of all ages are more than twice as likely than those in the general population to commit suicide and these rates only seem to be steadily rising. There are numerous theories ...

Research examining moral decision making has found that stress increases altruistic decisions. Further, it has been shown that psychopathic personality traits are inversely associated with altruistic decisions, while also ...

When a motor and cognitive task are performed simultaneously, the brain and the muscles must compete for the same resources (e.g., energy, etc.) which is known as interference. The selfish brain hypothesis (Peters et al., ...

Exercise has many established benefits for psychological wellbeing (Asmundson et al., 2013). Researchers have found that a single session of moderate intensity continuous training (MICT) can decrease anxiety sensitivity ...

In a face-matching task, subjects compare photos of a target person to different photos of the target or to photos of similar-looking foils. People are highly accurate when matching familiar faces but considerably worse ...