Circuit dynamics of adaptive and maladaptive behaviour

Adaptive and Maladaptive Dynamics of Reward Learning and Mood

It has proved surprisingly hard to generalize from the rapid advances in our understanding of fundamental cognitive mechanisms to people’s real-life behavior. This is in part because the impact such mechanisms have in real life depends on how they dynamically interact with other aspects of our mental state and environmental circumstances. I will present recent work uncovering one such dynamical...

Adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism in depression: Preliminary evidence on the role of adaptive and maladaptive rumination

Perfectionism is a multidimensional construct, with some dimensions being adaptive (perfectionistic strivings) and others maladaptive (perfectionistic concerns). Evidence shows that perfectionistic concerns increase risk for depression because they foster rumination. In this paper two aspects of rumination are disentangled, i.e. abstract-analytical (AA) vs. concrete-experiential (CE), to show t...

The adaptive and maladaptive pathway of risky sexual behaviour of the population on Barbados

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Investigation of adaptive and maladaptive behaviour in people with Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome

Adaptive and Maladaptive Narcissism in Adolescent Development

Department of Psychology 118C Haggar Hall University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN 46556 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Narcissism is a complex construct with a long history. Its theoretical source is attributed to Freud’s (1914) influential essay “On Narcissism,” and it has figured prominently ever since in the literatures of psychoanalysis, object relations, self-psychology, psychopatho...